Operation Desert Shield/Storm can be considered the last battle of the undeclared Cold War. It was totally one sided, and can’t be considered a ‘war’. The battle annihilated the Iraqi air force.
U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) photo.What’s left of a Sukhoi 25, NATO reporting name Frogfoot.
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These U.S. Army Air Force (USAAF) photos were not released for publication until the middle of 1946, a year after the war in Europe officially ended. One reason for the late release of the photos is that many did not begin arriving ‘state side’ until the end of 1945, remaining with their respective units […] Continue Reading…
Iraqi MTLB destroyed, 22MAR2003.
DoD photo.Destroyed Iraqi MTLB armed with ZU-23-2 gun system, 22MAR2003.
DoD photo.Destroyed Iraqi T-62 along Highway 6, notice the hull bottom has been blown out and the turret is no longer centered, 04APR2003.
Believe it or not, prior to The Wall being built by East Germany (Deutsche Demokratische Republik, D.D.R.) people could pass between the ‘communist’ and ‘capitalist’ zones of Berlin relatively easily (at least compared to what was coming), although periodic ‘Shadow Blockades’ (as the U.S. Department of Defense called them) of capitalist West Berlin were […] Continue Reading…
Landing Vehicle Tank Personnel 5 (LVTP-5) was the fifth in a series of ‘amtracks’ (amphibious tracked vehicles) first developed during World War Two. The LVTP-5 began its life in 1956. It used a V12 gasoline motor and could run at an amazing 30 miles per hour on dry land, faster than any NATO main […] Continue Reading…
At the beginning of February 2021, a company called Lift Aircraft unveiled a helicopter-car called HEXA. While it seems HEXA is being targeted to the silly-vilian market it turns out that the taxpayer funded U.S. Air Force (USAF) is directly involved with its development.
Official HEXA promotional video:
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U.S. Marine Corps photo by Corporal Jamin M. Powell.07APR2021, Marines ‘ingress’ a new ACV during MOUT (military operations urban terrain) on Twentynine Palms, California.
USMC photo by Corporal Jamin M. Powell.05APR2021, the MOUT training […] Continue Reading…
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…