Ministry of Defense of Russian Federation, Southern Military District, video posted 12MAY2021, 152mm self propelled artillery in North Ossetia:
BMP-3 seen in this year’s Victory Day Parade.Since the beginning of the year, Russia has been upgrading its naval land forces (army corps-marines) with new armored vehicles, including the latest BMP-3. On […] Continue Reading…
On the 14th and 15th of October 1992, as the Soviet Union fell apart, two Kamov 27s (Red 46 and Red 53) made history by becoming the first Russian helicopters to land on not one, but two U.S. Navy (USN) ships.
Apparently the Mark VIII (aka Mark 8) was a joint effort by the United States and United Kingdom. It was referred to as the Liberty or The International, and was intended to fight in World War One (The Great War), but production delays prevented that.
U.S. Army Ordinance Department.Images are dated […] Continue Reading…
On 10MAY2021, a Liberty Mark VIII (8) tank returned to its birthplace; Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois: “Rock Island Arsenal was designated to produce one hundred of these tanks in January of 1919 at a cost of $35-thousand each. The first tank was completed on […] Continue Reading…
First flight of the YQF-100D over Tyndall Air Force Base (AFB), Florida, was in January 1981. In 1983, just over two hundred F-100 D & F model Super Sabers were pulled from the ‘boneyard’ at Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona, and converted to QF-100 target drones. The target drones […] Continue Reading…
In researching this helicopter on the inter-web I discovered many sites give conflicting information as to when this helicopter first flew, some say 1943, another says 1946, the Sikorsky S-51 Archives gives no dates. This U.S. Navy photo is dated 05DEC1945, Sikorsky S-51 lands on the deck of […] Continue Reading…
The U.S. Air Force’s (USAF) HH-60W is based on the U.S. Army’s UH-60M BlackHawk. In 2014, the USAF ordered ten HH-60Ws. Since then a total of 113 HH-60Ws are now on order.
U.S. Air Force photo by Samuel King Junior.On 06NOV2019, two of the three new […] Continue Reading…
XM196 and M134 (U.S. Army), GAU-2 and GAU-17 (U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy), all General Electric/Dillion Aero/Garwood Industries 7.62mm x 51mm (7.62-NATO, 308 Winchester) miniguns. Minigun pods M18 for U.S. Army(USA), and SUU-11 for U.S. Air Force(USAF), are essentially the same.
In 1964, the USAF units in Viet Nam began experimenting with C-47 Dakotas, […] Continue Reading…
In the past several years, versions of the OH-58 Kiowa have been retired from U.S. Army (USA) service.
U.S. Navy photo.The U.S. Navy plans on retiring their aged fleet of TH-57 Sea Rangers (Kiowas and Sea Rangers both based on the Bell 206 JetRanger) next year, but it turns out that […] Continue Reading…
One of the ‘robot’ ships at the U.S. Navy’s UxS IBP 21 looks like something ‘boat people’ from Cuba would make.
USN photo by Petty Officer Second Class Brandon T. Williams-Church.This floating target is based […] Continue Reading…