USS Midway

A South Vietnamese Air Force Officer Was Responsible for One of the Craziest Carrier Landings of All Time

August 20, 2015 // 25 Comments

The early weeks of April, 1975 found the USS Midway steaming towards the coast of South Vietnam to link up with a number of other warships including the USS Coral Sea and [read more...]

Check out This Awesome Newly-Released Footage of Russian MiG-29SMTs in Action

by Ian D'Costa in The Ready Room

This fantastic video gives you a brief glimpse of what the view is like from inside the cockpit of a Russian MiG-29SMT while the pilot fires the Fulcrum’s 30 mm Gryazev-Shipunov GSh-30-1 autocannon (at the 0:07 and 0:14 marks), and what seem to be unguided rockets at the very beginning of the video. The cannon’s muzzle is positioned [read more...]