These are contracted, rather than military owned, but certainly qualify as the smallest jets in US Military service. Probably smallest in any military.
The BD-5J SMART aircraft (Small Manned Aerial Radar Target) is used to simulate cruise missiles in air defense testing and training.
There were quite a few times when I was climbing into the jet, getting ready to launch off the pointy end, when the chief would tug on my…
A question barely answerable. Well, if a US Navy carrier battle group cannot defeat the Houthis in Yemen, how is it going to defeat, what, oh, Cuba in…
I served on two nuclear submarines during the Cold War. We did carry gold, firearm, and antibiotics. They weren’t in a vault, though. The gold was carried, or…
I see no evidence that Trump has said anything about the Falklands lately, let alone the laughable claim in the question. As it is, the US is not…
Any ballistic missile fired from the DPRK would be detected almost immediately by either US radar systems in South Korea, naval vessels in the Sea of Japan or…
There are F-16, F-15 and F-35 fighter jets sitting alert 24/7 guarding all the borders of the US. And yes alert jets are near Washington D.C. They don’t…