“This plane was built for the Cold War. It serves as the link between the national decision makers and the nuclear triad.”-Chief Petty Officer Jeffrey Penington, Task Force 124, July 2007
U.S. Air Force photo by Greg L. Davis, 23AUG2019.U.S. Navy E-6B from Tinker Air Force Base (AFB), Oklahoma, flies over […] Continue Reading…
In reality ‘drone’ technology is not new, it can be traced back to before the Second World War. So it’s not really a surprise to learn that the U.S. Air Force used a WW2 C-47/DC-3 Skytrain/Dakota to test the latest stuff for its MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle.
The C-54 was the militarized version of the DC-4 airliner, developed during the Second World War.
Photo via Tinker Air Force Base History Office.C-54s at the Douglas factory in Oklahoma, sometime in the 1940s.
Notice, three and four bladed propellers. Photo via Tinker Air Force Base History Office.
Two short lived C-27J Spartans sit mummified on Davis-Monthan Air Force Base (AFB), Arizona, 02JUN2016. Spartans were being interned at Davis-Monthan in 2013.
Video by Airman First Class Kelly Greenwell, Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (AMaRG) personnel mummifying an Ohio Air National Guard […] Continue Reading…
The C2 reportedly combines a C1 (Leopard 1A3) hull with Leopard 1A5 turret, then up-armouring with German designed Modular Expandable Armor System (MEXAS, by IBD Deisenroth Engineering, which was taken over by Rheinmetall in 2019. IBD Deisenroth ceased MEXAS production in 2006 in favor of AMAP.).
Canadian Forces photo by Sergeant […] Continue Reading…
In the land of the Canucks, a colorful Cormorant with rotary wings has refused to fly south for the Winter, and was recently seen flying the skies over Newfoundland and Labrador.
Photo by Can-NorAD-R. Photo by Can-NorAD-R.
Video by Sergeant Chloe Barns, C Troop, 1st Squadron, 17th Air Cavalry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division’s OH-58D final flight, Afghanistan, 22NOV2014:
Video report of last flight of OH-58D over Hawaii, January 2015:
By the end of November 2015, the Tennessee Army National Guard became the last state militia to operate […] Continue Reading…
Video by Lance Corporal Elias E. Pimentel the Third, CH-53K crew shows off for some Commandant of the Marine Corps guy during his visit to Camp Davis, North Carolina, 17MAR2021:
USMC photo by Sergeant Kathryn Adams.Commandant […] Continue Reading…
The above photo was reportedly taken in April 2005, at a former Iraqi Republican Guard base called Taji.
U.S. Army photo by Private First Class Lyndsey Prax.However, in 2008 personnel with the Combat Repair Team, Bravo Company, 225th Brigade Support Battalion, claimed they […] Continue Reading…
Isn’t it interesting that as the U.S. Air Force (USAF) retires its B-1B bombers (in favor of the new B-21) that the USAF also keeps resurrecting its old B-52s?
U.S. Air Force photo by Kelly White.In 2020, Wise Guy #6-0034 got […] Continue Reading…