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LANGLEY AIR FORCE BASE, Va. (AFNS) —   On June 17th, Gen. Ken Wilsbach thought he had successfully flown his last sortie in the F-22 Raptor, but on Nov. 24th, he returned to the cockpit in America’s premier air supremacy platform. “Every opportunity to step to the jet is a great privilege,” Wilsbach said. “For leaders of flying units, being current and qualified builds credibility and demonstrates leading from the front.” Hours after Wilsbach assumed the duties of Chief of Staff of the Air Force, he encouraged commanders and leaders of all flying units to maintain or regain active flying…

(Photo/Sean McCoy) Support us! GearJunkie may earn a small commission from affiliate links in this article. Learn More I’ll let you in on a little secret: If I had to choose between buying a ski jacket and ski pants, I’d pick the pants, hands down. While a good sweater or many other types of insulation can cut it for the upper body in a pinch, you do not want to skimp on pants when skiing or snowboarding because they provide critical protection against snow, wind, and even the cold of a chairlift. My fellow GearJunkie editor Will Brendza and I…

H. Clay Aalders is a lifelong edged tool user. He spent the past 20 years as a woodworker and fishing guide in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Idaho, and Tennessee. While guiding in Idaho, Clay worked part-time writing for a local newspaper, and upon moving to Tennessee began writing for the blog The Truth About Knives – spending his last 5 years there as Managing Editor. His background is in fixed-blade hunting and bushcraft knives, but has jumped into the world of vintage slipjoint collecting with both feet since coming to work at Knife Magazine. Clay’s primary role is as Digital…

There’s this one distinct section of my favorite touring zone that confounds most layering strategies. It’s about an hour into the tour and nearly 2,000 vertical feet into the climbing when the forest yields to an icy wind-battered ridgeline that bends up even steeper. The topography creates a frigid micro-climate of wind and tundra. Yet I consistently overheat in a hardshell as I trudge upward. As I approached it in Norrøna’s Lofoten Flex1 Jacket and Pants, I had the inkling that I might have found the solution — a softshell jacket and pants combo breathable enough for a steep skin…

DroneShield Secures $49.6M European Military Contract DroneShield has received a contract totaling $49.6m for a European end-customer A significant portion of this hardware is on-the-shelf with deliveries and payments expected to be completed in Q1 2026 16 December 2025 – DroneShield is pleased to announce it has received a contract for $49.6 million from an in-region European reseller that is contractually required to distribute the products to a European military end-customer. The contract is for handheld counter-drone systems, associated accessories, and software updates. DroneShield has a large portion of this stock on-the-shelf and expects to complete all deliveries in Q1…

Bernhard Braun makes it clear from the start: he has “nothing to tell.” He isn’t going to try to educate viewers with his ski movie or make them watch his emotional breakdowns on the skin track. Instead, the Rossignol athlete is content to crack a few jokes, shred sick lines, and stick big air landings. It’s what the people want when they turn on a ski movie, after all — and Braun delivers. In this hilarious (only slightly NSFW) Bavarian freeride film, Braun lays it on the line. He gives great ski advice, offers some glib commentary, and, of course, tears…

Crawling into a sleeping bag can sometimes feel more like mummification than rest. Most designs are narrow for efficiency as they are meant to conserve heat and compress into a backpack.  The REI Co-op Siesta Hooded 20 Sleeping Bag takes a different approach. Built wide, soft, and unapologetically comfortable, it’s as close to bringing your bed to the campsite as you’ll find. Probably the most spacious sleeping bag I’ve ever used, the Siesta brings all the comfort you miss from your bed at home, only in a stuff sack. For restless sleepers like me, or anyone who likes to sprawl…

Addition to the marketplace satisfies competition requirements and enables rapid acquisition of CHAOS systems across U.S. and NATO commands LOS ANGELES — CHAOS Industries, the defense technology company building Coherent Distributed Networks (CDN™) systems that give warfighters time to act against border and autonomous threats, today announced its addition to the U.S. Army’s Global Tactical Edge Acquisition Directorate (G-TEAD) Marketplace following its participation in Project Flytrap 4.5 in Putlos, Germany. The G-TEAD Marketplace enables any Army Service Component Command and NATO partners to rapidly acquire emerging technologies and capabilities. Project Flytrap 4.5 brought together U.S. soldiers and NATO partners in…

The earthquake that struck Myanmar in March 2025 left a huge impact on Yoon Myat Su Lin. The death, destruction, and fallout from that tragedy stuck with the 22-year-old Myanmar fashion student studying at Esmod Tokyo. So, Lin started thinking outside of the box — way outside of it — and began designing an outfit she’s calling the “Adaptable Shelterwear Collection.” “Seeing how suddenly people can lose their homes made me think about clothing not just as fashion, but as something that could protect and support people in emergency situations,” Lin told GearJunkie. “I wanted to imagine clothing as a portable shelter…

Support us! GearJunkie may earn a small commission from affiliate links in this article. Learn More If you ask him, James Nash says he’s just a normal American guy with an abnormally organized truckbed, thanks to DECKED’s drawer systems. He grew up on an Oregon ranch, trapping gophers and working as a pack horse hunting guide in high school. He also wrestled so well that he moved to Norway for a year to train professionally.  His career choices varied after that. He earned a college scholarship for riding rodeo broncos, and paid the rest of his tuition by working as…