That time an Israeli F-15 landed without a wing

The recommended airspeed for landing an F-15 was around 150 mph. He brought it down around 300 mph. | Continue reading


@taskandpurpose.com | 1 year ago

The Army is officially adopting a ‘guaranteed hit’ smart scope

One shot, one kill — every time. | Continue reading


@taskandpurpose.com | 1 year ago

Counterargument: Experts doubt China is gearing up to invade Taiwan

China has not taken preparations needed to invade Taiwan, but it still might seize one of Taiwan’s offshore islands. | Continue reading


@taskandpurpose.com | 1 year ago

War on Terrorism is officially over, as far as your ribbon rack is concerned

If you’ve served in the military for the past 20 years, you likely received a Global War on Terrorism Service Medal. That is changing. | Continue reading


@taskandpurpose.com | 1 year ago

Florida man breaks into Space Force base to warn of alien-dragon space war

A man tried to enter Patrick Space Force Base in Florida to warn America’s space guardians of a battle between aliens and dragons. | Continue reading


@taskandpurpose.com | 1 year ago

Navy Blue Angels had to change their show after $180k in damages to building

The Navy Blue Angels modified their routine after a Super Hornet shook up a building last year at Naval Air Facility El Centro, California. | Continue reading


@taskandpurpose.com | 1 year ago

Why ‘Rogue One’ is the best Star Wars movie for military veterans

I saw Rogue One for the first of many times, walked out of the theater, and declared to my teenage son, “That’s the best Star Wars movie ever made!” | Continue reading


@taskandpurpose.com | 1 year ago

Journalists: Stop referring to all veterans as former snipers, Special Forces

"Sharpshooter" doesn't mean what you think it means. | Continue reading


@taskandpurpose.com | 1 year ago

Someone leaked classified Chinese tank schematics to win an online argument

This is the third time that 'War Thunder' players have leaked classified tank specs online. | Continue reading


@taskandpurpose.com | 1 year ago

A Brief History of the Military’s Unsightly ‘Birth Control Glasses’

Anyone who served in the U.S. armed forces in the last half-century or so is likely familiar with the standard-issue 'Birth Control Glasses.' | Continue reading


@taskandpurpose.com | 2 years ago

Air Force pilots are watching Ukrainian friends fight for their lives

When Ukraine's Air Force held its ground against Russia, the California Air National Guard's 144th Fighter Wing was hardly surprised. | Continue reading


@taskandpurpose.com | 2 years ago

The Pentagon wants to get rid of 24 ships and more than 150 aircraft

Bold strategy. | Continue reading


@taskandpurpose.com | 2 years ago

Legion of the damned: Ukraine’s army of misfits, veterans, and war tourists

The recruits of Ukraine Foreign Legion has been a mixed bag – with a swarm of Fantasists for every one candidate with combat experience. | Continue reading


@taskandpurpose.com | 2 years ago

‘The Ghost of Kyiv’ is the first urban legend of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

They call him ‘the Ghost of Kyiv’ — and despite thousands of digital prayers to the contrary, he is in all likelihood a work of fiction. | Continue reading


@taskandpurpose.com | 2 years ago

Google Earth snaps photo of $2bln Air Force B-2 stealth bomber in flight

The cutting-edge Air Force B-2 Spirit bomber was captured flying over Missouri, 20 miles north of its home at Whiteman Air Force Base. | Continue reading


@taskandpurpose.com | 2 years ago

The Navy is testing a GPS-like device that doesn’t require satellites

The Navy is studying muons, a natural source of radiation that, unlike GPS, can be used deep underground or in the Arctic. | Continue reading


@taskandpurpose.com | 2 years ago

Hijacked a Navy warship’s FB account so they could livestream ‘Age of Empires’

In all fairness, it is a great game. | Continue reading


@taskandpurpose.com | 2 years ago

Lt. Col. Scheller, is in the brig

“All our son did is ask the questions that everybody was asking themselves, but they were too scared to speak out loud.” | Continue reading


@taskandpurpose.com | 2 years ago

Air Force software is so bad the guy in charge of it all is about to quit

The Air Force's first chief software officer announced his resignation over what he described as an intransigent military bureaucracy. | Continue reading


@taskandpurpose.com | 2 years ago

The Army's first laser weapon is almost ready for a fight

Pew pew pew! | Continue reading


@taskandpurpose.com | 2 years ago

The Navy’s electromagnetic railgun is officially dead

The United States has lost the railgun wars. | Continue reading


@taskandpurpose.com | 2 years ago

Traumatic Brain Injury: A Marine reveals what it's like and what comes after

Traumatic brain injury hasn't changed much in 100 years, except our knowledge of it. | Continue reading


@taskandpurpose.com | 3 years ago

These are the movie scenes that get war and military service right

We asked, you answered. | Continue reading


@taskandpurpose.com | 3 years ago

Who is to blame for the Marine Corps’ deadliest training accident in decades

'The solution is to fire the generals.' | Continue reading


@taskandpurpose.com | 3 years ago

Navy tried to cast Capt. Brett Crozier as a villain. New emails reveal

'You are a great leader and Naval Officer.' | Continue reading


@taskandpurpose.com | 3 years ago

The hilarious list of rejected names for Space Force personnel

"Homo Spaciens," "Orbitons," "Novanauts," "Rocketeers," and "Startans" are just a few of the rejected names for Space Force personnel. | Continue reading


@taskandpurpose.com | 3 years ago

A harness-wearing whale that keeps head-butting ships in the Arctic Circle[,,,]

Scientists in Norway say that a harness-wearing beluga whale found harassing fishermen off the northern coast of Norway is likely a tool of the Russian military | Continue reading


@taskandpurpose.com | 3 years ago

The Army just released footage of its next-generation squad weapon prototypes

The Army has published footage of soldiers giving the service's much-hyped Next Generation Squad Weapon prototypes a workout on a military range | Continue reading


@taskandpurpose.com | 3 years ago

Airmen bid adieu to decrepit aircraft dubbed ‘Lucifer’s Chariot’

"I had some great memories, but most of them involved getting off the aircraft and sprinting away from you.” | Continue reading


@taskandpurpose.com | 3 years ago

Pentagon funnels $7.4B in surplus military gear to police

Since 1990, the Defense Department has funneled more than $7.4 billion in excess military gear to nearly 8,000 federal and state law enforcement agencies across the United States | Continue reading


@taskandpurpose.com | 3 years ago

Military is killing terrorist leaders with its secret missile packed with swords

The U.S. military has been quietly taking out terrorist leaders in Syria with a modified Hellfire missile packed full of swords | Continue reading


@taskandpurpose.com | 3 years ago

The first and only Air Force pilot to shoot down a satellite

"Things in orbit around the Earth have to move at very high velocities, and hitting something at very high velocity is very difficult." | Continue reading


@taskandpurpose.com | 3 years ago

'Our fellow citizens are not the enemy, and must never become so'

Former Chairman of the Joints Adm. Michael Mullen has written a forceful op-ed in The Atlantic magazine | Continue reading


@taskandpurpose.com | 3 years ago

SB-1 Defiant could be Army's next Black Hawk replacement and test pilots love it

Test pilots who fly the SB-1 Defiant claim that the futuristic helicopter could get its tail shot off in combat and still fly faster than an undamaged UH-60 Black Hawk | Continue reading


@taskandpurpose.com | 4 years ago

A broken computer system is costing F-35 maintainers 45,000 hours a year

ALIS was blamed for delaying aircraft maintenance, one of the very things it was meant to facilitate. | Continue reading


@taskandpurpose.com | 4 years ago

Squid-like drone an underwater bomb made to attack warships, alone or in a swarm

The device, named the Sea Hunting Autonomous Reconnaissance Drone (SHARD), is being marketed by the Australian arms manufacturer DefendTex | Continue reading


@taskandpurpose.com | 4 years ago

Navy Asked Carnival Cruises for Help with Its Carrier Issues

Navy officials reportedly enlisted the help of executives with the Florida-based Carnival Cruise Line to find solutions for its ongoing maintenance and readiness issues that have stranded a majority fo the service's aircraft carriers in non-deployable status | Continue reading


@taskandpurpose.com | 4 years ago

Why I Think Lt Clint Lorance Is a Murderer (2017)

For a soldier deployed to a place where suicide bombings are a routine threat, as they were in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan, back in 2010, the sound of an approaching vehicle can be enough to make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up. So when, in the fall of that year, d … | Continue reading


@taskandpurpose.com | 4 years ago

Most veterans believe the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan weren’t worth fighting

The majority of U.S. military veterans say America's most recent wars were not worth fighting, according to the results of a recent Pew Research Center survey published ahead of Veterans Day | Continue reading


@taskandpurpose.com | 4 years ago

The Air Force Gets New Airplanes

After years of uncertainty, the Air Force has finally decided to add two new light attack aircraft to its inventory | Continue reading


@taskandpurpose.com | 4 years ago

Bits from the book James Mattis doesn’t want you to read

"I was standing in the secretary's action group office as each tweet appeared on our screens," Snodgrass writes, quoting a colleague, shaking his head in disbelief and saying "you've got to be kidding me."There in a Twitter post on July 26, 2017 was Trump, saying that the governm … | Continue reading


@taskandpurpose.com | 4 years ago

11 of the best bits from the book James Mattis doesn't want you to read

There's a new book detailing the inside story of what it was like during James Mattis' tenure as defense secretary, and it's safe to say that he'd prefer you not read it | Continue reading


@taskandpurpose.com | 4 years ago

US Army Psyops specialist mass promotion

PSYOP Specialists are described as "influence experts." | Continue reading


@taskandpurpose.com | 4 years ago

Top Navy admiral fires entire leadership team of SEAL Team 7

The relief was carried out by Rear Adm. Colin Green, the commanding officer of NSW. | Continue reading


@taskandpurpose.com | 4 years ago

Children of US troops born overseas will no longer get automatic American citizenship, Trump administration says

Children born to U.S. service members and government employees overseas will no longer be automatically considered citizens of the United States, according to policy alert issued by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) on Wednesday. | Continue reading


@taskandpurpose.com | 4 years ago

The Army biowar lab that tests pathogens like Ebola failed a safety inspection

Research at an Army lab that tests infectious diseases like the Ebola virus has been temporarily shut down after a government agency found safety concerns within the lab, so that's exciting to think about | Continue reading


@taskandpurpose.com | 4 years ago

A look inside the narco sub from that viral Coast Guard video

But the story of how Coasties took down the so-called "narco sub" began about 12 hours before the video took place, according to Capt. James Estramonte, the commanding officer of U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Munro, the high endurance vessel credited with its seizure | Continue reading


@taskandpurpose.com | 4 years ago

The US Army Is Going All in on a High Powered Laser Weapon

After years of testing out a low-energy Stryker-mounted directed energy system, the Army is formally pushing for a combat-ready laser weapon to blast enemy drones and ordnance out of the sky in the next four years | Continue reading


@taskandpurpose.com | 4 years ago