Divestiture, disposition, or whatever is the latest official term for retiring a U.S. military aircraft, the end of the life of the CH-46 Sea Knight was a slow death, taking almost a decade.
U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Corporal Jason Jimenez.An HH-46D Phrog, officially named Pedro, joins other rescue Phrogs […] Continue Reading…
“It’s unfortunately deteriorated to a condition that if we don’t do something now we’re going to lose her, and being that it’s so rare it’s important that we preserve it.”-Steve Faccial, Flakpanzer Restoration Project, March 2017 interview with CTV
Canadian Forces photo by Ordinary Seaman Justin Spinello.In October 2016, a World […] Continue Reading…
Today’s fifty-cal door gunners now use the M3 .50 caliber, a lighter weight version of the ‘old-but-gold’ M2HB (HB for Heavy Barrel), but in the door gunner configuration it’s officially called GAU-21 (GAU stands for Gun Aircraft Unit).
Via M. Pignede.Apparently the French were the first to mount .50 caliber machine […] Continue Reading…
Not one of the so-called CoViD vaccines in use in the United States have been approved as a vaccine under the USFDA! All the propaganda by government officials and main-stream news media is hyperbole, the USFDA has only “authorized for emergency use only”, which is technically and legally not the same as ‘approving’ as a […] Continue Reading…
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U.S. Army/WRAIR Photo by Mike Walters. This image shows retired Colonel Francis Holinaty, the first person to take the U.S. Army’s nanoparticle vaccine, 06APR2021.For proof the “authorized for emergency use only” (they are not USFDA ‘approved’, there is […] Continue Reading…
Italian C1 Ariete playing the bad guy OpFor (Opposition Forces) during Dragoon Ready ’21, Hohenfels Training Area, 20APR2021.
U.S. Army photo by Sergeant Julian Padua.These photos show Italian C1 Arietes during the U.S. Army’s (USA) Combined Resolve XV wargame, in Hohenfels, […] Continue Reading…
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Notice the ladder looking antenna coming off the bustle rack. Idaho National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Becky Vanshur, 04MAR2021.The vastness of the Steppes of South Western Idaho. Back when I was ‘in’ we called it Orchard Training […] Continue Reading…
19MAY2021, Slovenian M84 fires a shot in the rain during NATO wargame Adriatic Strike-21.
U.S. Army photo by Paolo Bovo18MAY2021, Slovenian M84 fires a shot during NATO wargame Adriatic Strike-21.
USA photo by Paolo Bovo, 18MAY2021.
In 2019, several A-10Cs underwent wing replacement, which included new paint, by the Ogden Air Logistics Complex on Hill Air Force Base (AFB), Utah.
USAF photo by Alex R. Lloyd.They were the last of 173 A-10s to get the new […] Continue Reading…
On 22MAR2021, a patina camo-ed F-16 took to the sky over Hill Air Force Base, Utah. Whoops, perhaps the pilot was a little to anxious to get airborne as the F-16 was in need of new clothes after undergoing depot level rebuild.