The Awesome Military Photo Thread

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Spice Missiles

Image Credits :: Ameena

 

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The sun sets behind the USS San Antonio (LPD 17)

 

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Russian airplanes were intercepted and inspected by French Air Force Mirage F1 CR planes on June 8th and 11th, as part of Baltic 2013, NATO's air-policing mission over the 3 Baltic states Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

On June 8th, two Mirage F1 CR took off from Å iauliai, Lithuania to identify 2 groups of airplanes. They first met up with a Russian VVS patrol composed of two Su-27 "Flanker" and two Su-24 "Fencer" above the Baltic Sea, near the Gulf of Riga. Two Swedish JAS-39 Grippen were already present in the area. After visual identification, they headed for a second group of airplanes composed of two Su-27 "Flanker" escorting one A-50 "Mainstay" surveillance aircraft. The French patrol escorted this group before breaking contact short of Kaliningrad's airspace.

On June 11th, a patrol of 2 Mirage F1 CR took off to inspect a group of airplanes above the Baltic Sea. They first identified an A50 "Mainstay" surveillance aircraft, before intercepting a Russian formation composed of two TU-22M3 "Backfire" bombers, escorted by 2 Su-27 "Flanker" interceptors. A few hours later, a Mirage F1 CR patrol was once again tasked with intercepting and inspecting an unidentified contact. This contact turned out to be an Il-20 COOT electronic surveillance aircraft flying over the Baltic Sea.

 

[cobra commando]

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Another pic of the TU-22M3 "Backfire" bombers, escorted by 2 Su-27 "Flanker"

 

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Dassault (F+W Emmen) Mirage IIIS of the Schweizer Luftwaffe - Swiss Air Force. What you see is the aircraft demonstrating a RATO (Rocket Assisted Take Off) take off. With the RATO bottles, the aircraft can take off extremely quickly.

 

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Tupolev Tu-22M-3M "Backfire"

 

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Tupolev Tu-95 "Bear"

 

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Tupolev Tu-95 "Bear"

 

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Tupolev Tu-95 "Bear"

 

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The guided missile submarine
USS Ohio is gently pushed to the
pier by a tugboat as it returns to
Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and
Intermediate Maintenance
Facility in Bremerton, Wash.,
Dec. 19, 2005.

 

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An A/V-8B Harrier lands on the flight deck of the amphibious assault ship USS Boxer in the Pacific Ocean, June 12, 2013.

 

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A British Soldier Wearing The S10 Respirator And Holding An SA80 Rifle

 

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GROTON, Conn (June 18, 2013) The Virginia-class attack submarine USS Missouri (SSN 780) passes under the Gold Star Bridge as it departs Naval Submarine Base New London for a scheduled deployment.

 

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An Australian Army Tiger ARH flies over the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.

 

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sub U-212a

 

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Italian navy - Horizon class Andrea Doria

 

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U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Barrett Helzer, front, with Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, kneels next to Canadian army Pvt. Alexandre Douville, assigned to the 5 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group, as he fires an 84 mm high explosive anti-tank round from a Carl Gustav man-portable reusable multi-role recoilless rifle while conducting live fire and maneuver drills during exercise Dawn Blitz 2013, June 15, 2013, at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif. Dawn Blitz is a multilateral amphibious exercise designed to strengthen the skills of the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps as well as several partner nations.

 

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An AH-1W Super Cobra helicopter and UH-1Y Huey helicopter fly off the coast of the island of Oahu, toward Marine Corps Base Hawaii during maintenance and readiness flights, June 13, 2013.

 

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Italian navy special force - "incursori di marina" with snake skin suit