fighter jets

Holy Moly, Check Out This Awesome F-18 Cockpit Video

I love the GoPros or whatever cameras the people at the Carrier Strike Group 8 used to make this awesome video. It shows the complete experience of flying a VFA-103 Boeing F/A-18F Super Hornet on the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Dwight D Eisenhower.


Iran Photoshops New Fighter Jet To Make It Look Like It’s Flying

Oh, Iran. Your Qaher 313 stealth fighter jet sure looks intimidating, but it will never get off the ground. So why do you insist on tricking everybody into thinking that the beast can fly? Iran has photoshopped the Qaher 313 onto a stock image of Mount Damavand to make it look like its flying.


These F-15 Eagles Can Transform Into A Robotech Mecha At Any Time

They are just fooling around in a local training mission over North Carolina, but these three F-15 Eagle fighters look as gorgeous and desktop picturesque as they come. So F-22 Raptors be damned; when it comes to Robotech-worth material, these mothers still win the race.


Watch A Fleet Of Red Arrows Fly Across London Spraying Colour To Celebrate The Olympics

The opening of the London 2012 Olympics went off with a figurative and a literal bang. You’ve probably seen countless videos of the fireworks going off over the London stadium, but I bet you haven’t seen three British fighter jets spray Union Jack-coloured cloud over the city.


The 10 Most Incredible British Military Machines

Once upon a time, the British armed forces ruled land, air and sea. That time might have been and gone, but British manufacturers big and small are still designing some of the most epic bits of kit for armies round the world. Forget London 2012, this is a collection of the top ten Made in Britain war machines.


These Kids Want To Blow Up The White House

Hordes of children ran around as wild as a locust swarm at the recent USA Science & Engineering Festival. The main attraction: the Lockheed Martin booth, with its faux F-22 cockpit and Orion spacecraft simulator.


Whoa, Huh, The F-22 Is Still Broken

I’m hoping you’re all planted deep in your seats with an oxygen mask strapped on, because the New York Times is reporting that the US Air Force still can’t fix the F-22, the most expensive fighter jet in history.


Is China Stealing America’s Top Stealth Fighter Jet Secrets?

This is going to make some people scream. On the right, the J-20 stealth fighter jet, made in China for the People’s Liberation Army Air Force. On the left, the F-22 stealth fighter jet, made in the America exclusively for the United States Air Force.


This Is What It Looks Like When Fighters Fly Directly At You In Anger

For much of the world, the Falklands War seems like a historical blip — but not if you were part of this insanely daring (or insane) attack against the HMS Broadsword, where two A-4 Skyhawks made a shockingly low run.


WWII Fighter Plane Found In The Sahara Desert After 70 Years

In what historians are calling the aviation equivalent to finding King Tut’s tomb, a World War II fighter plane has been found in the Sahara desert 70 years after it crashed. Even more impressive, the plane is perfectly preserved — it hasn’t been touched and hasn’t even been seen until now.