Replenishment At Sea: even Nuclear-powered Aircraft Carriers need fuel and supplies
The following picture shows Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) as it steams aside the Military Sealift Command fleet replenishment oiler USNS Pecos (T-AO 197) during a…
From Russia with Love: more pictures from the Russian Air Force centenary airshow
On Aug. 11 and 12, where the Russian Air Force celebrated its 100th anniversary with a pyrotechnic airshow that featured mass flybys, heavy formations of Tu-95 and Tu-160 strategic bombers,…
All you need to know about arrested landings on U.S. aircraft carriers
From the last three quarters of a mile all the way to touchdown the pilot approaching a U.S. aircraft carrier can rely on LSO (Landing Signal Officers - radio callsign…
This is what taking part to a U.S. Special Forces raid on board a 160th SOAR MH-60 Black Hawk looks like
The above picture provides an interesting point of view: that of U.S. Special Forces (USSF) soldiers scanning the ground below for threats while flying on a 160th Special Operations Aviation…
Photo: U.S. Marine Corps’ rotary wing escort during Helicopter Air-to-Air Refueling ops
Taken during the 2012 Kaneohe Bay Airshow at Marine Corps Air Station, Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii, on Sept. 30, 2012, the following picture shows a U. S. Marine Corps AH-1W Super…
U.S. Marine Corps EA-6B Prowlers on the move: “Death Jesters” returning to CONUS
On Oct. 3, three EA-6B Prowler jets of the Marine Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron 2 (VMAQ-2) "Death Jester" landed at Moron airbase, in Spain, for a stopover of their return…
