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F-35 Shot Down an Iranian Drone and Revisiting the Battle for Iwo Jima
Iwo Jima shows what it costs to break into a defended zone. The Arabian Sea incident shows how modern fleets try to keep that zone from closing…
Midweek Sortie 14: The Quiet Cold War Mohawk—Border Surveillance and Army Aviation Reconnaissance
Sweeping low along the Iron Curtain, the OV-1 Mohawk prowled NATO’s frontlines— delivering rapid-fire reconnaissance to commanders standing guard at the…
Exporting Airpower through Training the Allied Cockpit and Looking Back at USMC's First Combat Mission
From VMF-124 proving the Corsair under fire to today’s contractor-built pipelines, airpower keeps teaching the same lesson: aircraft are hardware—combat…
The Navy’s Newest Kennedy Carrier Sets Sail and Remembering the Time when USS Cusk Fires the Loon
From launching the first sea-based guided missiles to launching the next generation of sea-based airpower — the U.S. keeps reinventing how it projects…
Midweek Sortie 13: S-3 Viking—The Sea’s Silent Hunter
Born to guard carrier groups from Cold War submarines, the S-3 Viking evolved into a multi-mission workhorse—tracking, refueling, and striking—proving…
US Approves the Poseidon Sale to Singapore and Looking Back at the Boeing 747’s First Flight
From the jumbo jet that made the world easier to cross to the Poseidon that helps keep key sea lanes secure, airpower’s biggest moments are the ones…
Rafale F5—The Next French Standard for a Connected Sky and Reminiscing on the Tomcat’s Origin Story
From Fleet Defense to Combat Cloud: the fighter’s job keeps shifting from pulling Gs to orchestrating information.
Midweek Sortie 12: A Century of Air Dominance—The 27th Fighter Squadron
From WWI pursuit flights to today’s F-22, the 27th Fighter Squadron’s century-long lineage tracks how America learned to fight and keep winning, in the…
Aging Aircraft Fleet amidst Modern Threats and Looking Back at the Order Before the Storm in 1941
Both stories show adaptation in power projection: in 1941 via agile mission task groupings, today via difficult modernization as aging platforms drain…

January 2026

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