31 March 2021 /23:33-UTC-07 Tango 06 (12 Farvardin 1400/18 Sha’ban 1442/20 Ren-Chen 4719)
U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer Third Class Isaak Martinez.Quietly, around the 15th of March, 2021, the crew aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Essex-LHD 2 placed shiny black rings on their fingers. The rings came from the […] Continue Reading…
31 March 2021 (00:00-UTC-07 Tango 06) 11 Farvardin 1400/17 Sha’ban 1442/19 Xin-Mao(2nd month) 4719
U.S. Army photo by Sergeant Torrance Saunders.Before El Presidente Biden’s Secretary of State went to the United Nations, demanding that Syria open up its borders with unfriendly neighbors in the name of humanitarian aid, U.S. Army mechanized […] Continue Reading…
“During Fiscal Year 2019, more than 71% of migrants apprehended at the U.S. Southwest border came from El Salvador, Guatemala, or Honduras….”-U.S. Department of Homeland Security, December 2020
“Over 4-thousand migrants crowded into Texas facility”-Associated Press, 30MAR2021
U.S. Customs and Border Protection photo by Jaime Rodriguez Senior. Children are dropped-off at a […] Continue Reading…
Just a few years before the official end to the unofficial Cold War, Poland’s military decided to modify its license built T-72M1s. The idea was to incorporate as many locally produced upgrades as possible. So many items were changed that the PT-91 Twardy (tough, strong) is almost a totally different tank from the T-72; […] Continue Reading…
“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.