The Awesome Military Photo Thread

[cobra commando]

U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Samuel Galan, a UH-1Y Venom crew chief assigned to Marine Light Helicopter Attack Squadron (HMLA) 169, opens fire while conducting an interdiction mission over Helmand province, Afghanistan.

 

[cobra commando]

Lance Cpl. Austin J. Lapierre fires an M777 A2 155 mm howitzer Jan. 30 during Exercise Fire Dragon 13-2 in the East Fuji Maneuver Area. The live-fire portion of Fire Dragon provides Marines the opportunity to enhance their mission capabilities in artillery operations. Lapierre is a field artillery cannoneer with 1st Battalion, 12th Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division, III Marine Expeditionary Force.

 

[cobra commando]

F-14 Tomcat

 

[cobra commando]

Grumman F14 Tomcat kicking in the afterburners.

 

[cobra commando]

U.S. soldiers and airmen offload a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter from a C-5 Galaxy aircraft on Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, 2 FEB 2013.

 

[cobra commando]

French Navy Destroyer Chevalier Paul (D621) attached to USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74)

 

[Akim]

U.S. soldiers and airmen offload a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter from a C-5 Galaxy aircraft on Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, 2 FEB 2013.

Ukrainian peacekeepers unloaded Mi-24V of the An-124 in Liberia.

 

[cobra commando]

An Afghan and coalition security force provide security during a mission that detained six Taliban insurgents in Nerkh district. The detained Taliban leader facilitated the movement of weapons and improvised explosive device materials to insurgents throughout Wardak province.

 

[cobra commando]

Off the waist catapult launches an F-14B Tomcat assigned to Fighter Squadron THREE TWO (VF-32), (Swordsmen,) during flight operations onboard USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75). Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 3 was embarked aboard Truman to provide close air support and conduct Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) missions over Iraq. The USS Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group and CVW-3 were on a regularly scheduled deployment in support of the war on terror.26 DEC 2004.

 

[cobra commando]

USS Tennessee (SSBN 734) returns to Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay.

 

[datguy79]

Injured Afghan commando:

 

[WMD]

 

[bhramos]

kindly name this beast please................

 

[W.G.Ewald]

kindly name this beast please................

F22 Raptor?

 

[Blackwater]

CONDOR

 

[SPIEZ]

F22 Raptor?

Or the one project that competed with F22 was it the f23 or F35?

 

[W.G.Ewald]

Or the one project that competed with F22 was it the f23 or F35?

Google image search yields result as Chengdu J-20!

 

[bhramos]

Original Lockheed Martin X-32 for the ASTOVL program. Yes, X-32. Long story but when CALF/JAST was merged the X-32 designation was reassigned to Boeing's JSF entry and LM's became X-35. Engine was a variant of the P&W F100

 

[abingdonboy]

My latest vid, please tell me what you think guys:

 

[asianobserve]

kindly name this beast please................

stovl strike fighter (ssf) 1987-1994 by Lockheed Skunk Works