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Of course, the bombers, if forward-deployed, themselves would be targets.

Were they helping to protect a vital supply convoy? Safeguard a base full of sleeping soldiers? Find and kill a dangerous insurgent leader? The drone crews didn’t really know, because no one told them.

Whatever they were doing, it got the attention of the Russian military.

The incident immediately was headline news in the United States.

Nothing can kill it. 

A LOCKHEED Martin boss has refused to explain a video splashed on social media showing a UFO saucer-like aircraft being wheeled into a top-secret US m

In the span of just a few years, the Air Force went from employing only a few hundred drone operators, analysts and maintainers to needing tens of thousands of them. There were some growing pains. 

Quantity, Not Quality: Why Iran Will Never Abandon Its Missile Forces Iran’s conventional weaponry is hopelessly out of date, and the country’s leaders know it, according to one expert. Heres What You Need to Remember: When the United States in early January 2020 assassinated Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, head of the Quds Force, Iran retaliated by firing scores of rockets at two bases in Iraq where U.S. forces reside. Dozens of Americans were injured. Iran’s conventional weaponry is hopele...

Expensive and just plain useless? Heres What You Need to Know: It took the Navy nearly two decades to realize the LCS program had failed. The sailing branch in 2014 cut LCS acquisition from 55 ships to 32. Congress eventually added three vessels, boosting the class to 35 ships. After spending $30 billion over a period of around two decades, the U.S. Navy has managed to acquire just 35 of the 3,000-ton-displacement vessels. Sixteen were in service as of late 2018. Of those 16, four are test shi...

Russia Could Give Chinese Aircraft Carriers the Power Boost They Need “While China has good experience in the development of nuclear reactors for use on land, it has yet to master the miniaturisation process that is needed to make a nuclear power unit suitable for an aircraft carrier,” South China Morning Post reported. Heres What You Need to Remember: “Russia has the technology but no money, China has the money, but doesn’t have the technology,” Zhou said. “By working together Ch...