Luke Diaz is a freelance military writer with experience on active duty with the US Navy as well as defense and industrial engineering. He is a former Naval Flight Officer who performed tactical air ...

The waves of the sea, the sand and the passage of time are capable of burying the most unexpected objects, even a fighter plane. On July 31, 2007, a resident of the county of Gwynedd, in Wales, found ...

We have only 15 seconds of a lovely Lightning, owned by the Fagen Fighters World War II Museum in Granite Falls, Minnesota, flying over a winter landscape. But during World War II, Japanese or German ...

The theft of more than $200,000 worth of antique guns has left the the Lithgow Small Arms Factory Museum on the brink of closure, raising concerns about the future of 35,000 UNESCO-listed documents ...

The Lithgow Small Arms Factory museum is facing the prospect of permanently closing. In August, three people allegedly broke into the exhibit and stole $200,000 worth of historical weapons. The theft ...

The KC-135 heritage jet will remain in service with its WWII-inspired paint scheme until 2025. The Nebraska Air National Guard’s 155th Air Refueling Wing (ARW) unveiled a historic KC-135R Stratotanker ...

They are two of the most famous and popular cartridges for personal defense and law enforcement, one in the wheelgun world and one in the semi-auto world. They are often compared because they both ...

The P-38 Lightning was highly successful and iconic in WWII combat. It was known as "Der Gabelshwanz Teufel" and operated in both the European and Pacific theaters. The P-38 shot down hundreds of ...

Police are investigating the alleged theft of dozens of weapons from a gun museum in the New South Wales Central West. Some of the handguns date back to the 1880s and their combined value is estimated ...

The jubilation the search team felt when it discovered "Ace of Aces" Richard Bong's downed P-38 Lightning fighter plane in a South Pacific jungle reverberated more than 8,000 miles away in northern ...