The Awesome Military Photo Thread

[Shaitan]

Australian F/A-18 Hornet and Indonesian Air Force Sukhoi Su-27 & Su-30 Flanker

 

[Zebra]

Looks like lipstick on lips.

 

[LurkerBaba]

Mi-35 Hind (Akbar) of the Indian Air Force

 

[LurkerBaba]

LCS-1 Freedom (Littoral Combat Ship)

 

[Scalieback]

 

[Oracle]

What does the bottle hold?

 

[Kunal Biswas]

What does the bottle hold?

Honey or Wine..

 

[Scalieback]

 

[kaustav2001]

PAK-FA in U.S. Air Force's Thunderbird colours...Hws That..

Totally awesome man... and for a moment I really woz thinking that it was a modified F-14

 

[kaustav2001]

That's one Badass fighter.. :thumb:

 

[kaustav2001]

B 52 stratofortress

Now that's what I call an Impressive weapons load.

 

[john70]

French 'Rafale' jets fly over the Arc de Triomphe and Champs Elysee in Paris

 

[john70]

The Patrouille de France military aerobaic team performs at the annual Bastille Day military parade in Paris, France, July 14, 2012.

A French Boeing C135, refueling tanker and fighters aircrafts fly over the Louvre museum during the Bastille Day military parade in Paris.


& some more.... too.

 

[john70]

A special photo by all means:

Tied to the piers at Alameda NAS, California, in November 1945, are ships of all four major fleet carrier classes of the Pacific War:
First ship, Saratoga, then Enterprise, Hornet, and San Jacinto.

What should be noted when discussing the subject of the Pacific War is, although the war's best known and most spectacular battles were fought by carriers, is that of the 36 most important battles, only five were purely carrier engagements which can be called battles (discarding in this context the Battle of Cape Engaño, which was by no means a fair fight). Four of these were fought in 1942, when offensive carrier strike power was overwhelming for the defensive tactics. Carrier tactics was, thus, he who struck first won. Of these, the battle of Midway was the most devestating carrier battle, with five carriers out of seven that actively participated in the battle sunk. A clear sign of the offensive/defensive ratio of carriers in 1942 is the fact that USS Enterprise was solely responsible for the destruction of Akagi, Kaga and Hiryu,while USS Yorktown of the same class was unable to defend itself against a single carrier's strike power, Hiryu's.

 

[Scalieback]

Abbot SPG, techically not a tank

 

[john70]

 

[Scalieback]

 

[john70]

Tribute to B 17 Flying fortress


B-17 group in formation.

Two B-17 Flying Fortresses' vapor trails light up the night sky over Eastern Europe

B-17 Historical Image

 

[Apollyon]

Fat Chick (that's what F-18E/F is called when configured as a Tanker) ...

 

[W.G.Ewald]

(discarding in this context the Battle of Cape Engaño, which was by no means a fair fight)

Don't know what a "fair fight" means.

"All's fair in love and war."

Battle of Cape Enga̱o РFinal Actions

Battle of Leyte Gulf - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

When Halsey turned TF 34 southwards at 11:15, he detached a task group of four of its cruisers and nine of its destroyers under Rear Admiral DuBose, and reassigned this group to TF 38. At 14:15, Mitscher ordered DuBose to pursue the remnants of the Japanese Northern Force. His cruisers finished off the light carrier Chiyoda at around 17:00, and at 20:59 his ships sank the destroyer Hatsuzuki after a very stubborn fight.[4]

When Admiral Ozawa learned of the deployment of DuBose's relatively weak task group, he ordered battleships Ise and Hyūga to turn southwards and attack it, but they failed to locate DuBose's group, which they heavily outgunned. Halsey's withdrawal of all six of Lee's battleships in his attempt to assist Seventh Fleet had now rendered TF 38 vulnerable to a surface counterattack by the decoy Northern Force.

At about 23:10, the American submarine Jallao torpedoed and sank the light cruiser Tama of Ozawa's force. This was the last act of the Battle of Cape Engaño, and—apart from some final air strikes on the retreating Japanese forces on 26 October—the conclusion of the Battle for Leyte Gulf.