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09/11/2020

09/11/2020

09/10/2020

North American X-15A-2 shown with two external fuel tanks. (U.S. Air Force photo)

09/08/2020

Convair XB-58 Hustler

Convair XB-58 Hustler during takeoff. Note the landing gear is just beginning to retract. (U.S. Air Force photo)

09/07/2020

An overhead aerial view of an RA-5C Vigilante aircraft, Reconnaissance Attack Squadron 7 (RVAH-7) known as the "Peacemakers of the Fleet" and was assigned to the USS RANGER (CV 61) from February 21 to September 22, 1979. This photograph may show the Vigilante's last flight, since all Vigilante aircraft were officially retired in September 1979 and the RVAH-7 was officially decommissioned in October 1979. The exact date photo taken is unknown USN Photo

09/06/2020

DAYTON, Ohio -- McDonnell Douglas RF-4C Phantom II at the National Museum of the United States Air Force. (U.S. Air Force photo)

09/05/2020

DAYTON, Ohio -- McDonnell RF-101C Voodoo at the National Museum of the United States Air Force. (U.S. Air Force photo)

09/04/2020

Boeing B-29 "Superfortress" bomber

Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber (USAAF serial # 44-69703) After crash-landing on Motoyama Airfield, Iwo Jima. It had encountered trouble on a mission over Tokyo, 10 March 1945. This B-29 is from the 497th Bomb Group. Note holes in the ground, apparently in the roof of an underground structure. A P-51 Mustang fighter is taxiing by in the background. Photograph from the Army Signal Corps

09/04/2020

Airship Reliance

World’s largest airship the US Navy’s “Reliance” backs from its mooring prior to take-off from the world’s only military operational lighter-than-air base, Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey, circa 1960.USN Photo

09/03/2020

Pentagon says China has ‘largest navy in the world’ after buildup

Pentagon says China has ‘largest navy in the world’ after buildup

The Defense Department says in a new report to Congress that China now has the world’s largest navy, at least in number of battle-ready ships. “[China] has the largest navy in the world…

09/02/2020

USS Missouri (BB-63)

In port, circa 1948, with a motor launch full of U.S. Naval Academy Midshipmen passing by in the foreground. U.S. Navy Photograph

09/02/2020

USS Buck (DD-761), USS Wisconsin (BB-64) and USS Saint Paul (CA-73) Steaming in close formation during operations off the Korean coast. Photo is dated 22 February 1952. Official U.S. Navy Photograph,

08/31/2020

The U.S. Navy battleship USS New Jersey (BB-62) fires a nine gun salvo of 40.6 cm into a target Kaesong, Korea on 1 January 1953 USN Photo

08/31/2020

USS Iowa (BB-61) Fires a full broadside of nine 16/50 and six 5/38 guns during a target exercise near Vieques Island, Puerto Rico, 1 July 1984. Photographed by PHAN J. Alan Elliott. Note concussion effects on the water surface, and 16-inch gun barrels in varying degrees of recoil. Official U.S Navy Photograph

08/30/2020

U.S. Army Alaska airborne artillery Soldiers work to get an M777-A2 155mm howitzer ready for action as more Soldiers descend into Malamute Drop Zone, Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, July 14, 2020.(U.S. Army photo by John Pennell)

08/29/2020

McDonnell F-101

Formation of two F-101s of the 18th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron, Grand Forks Air Force Base, N.D. F-101F-111-MC (S/N 58-0338) is in the foreground. (U.S. Air Force photo)

08/26/2020

An F-35A Lightning II piloted by Lt. Col. Yosef Morris, a 388th Fighter Wing pilot, taxis during Red Flag 17-1 at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., Feb. 3, 2017. Morris flew the 2,000th sortie during the Air Force's premier air-to-air combat training exercise. This is the first deployment of the F-35A to a Red Flag. Maintainers and pilots from the 388th and 419th Fighter Wings from Hill Air Force Base, Utah, deployed the fifth-generation fighter to Nellis AFB Jan. 20, 2017. (U.S. Air Force photo/R. Nial Bradshaw)

08/24/2020

Three aircraft from the U.S. Air Force in Europe in flight on 6 April 1987 near Ramstein Air Base, Germany. These aircraft were part of a larger, 15-aircraft formation taking part in an aerial review for departing General Charles L. Donnelly Jr., commander in chief, U.S. Air Force Europe and commander, Allied Air Forces Central Europe. The visible aircraft are (front to back):
McDonnell Douglas F-4G Phantom II (s/n 69-0237), 81st Tactical Fighter Squadron, 52nd Tactical Fighter Wing, Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany;
Fairchild Republic A-10A Thunderbolt II (s/n 81-0995), 510th TFS, 81st TFW, RAF Bentwaters, Suffolk (UK);
McDonnell Douglas RF-4C-39-MC Phantom II (s/n 68-0583), 1st Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron, 10th Tactical Reconnaissance Wing, RAF Alconbury, Cambridgeshire (UK).USAF Photo SSgt. David Nolan, USAF

08/23/2020

B-1B Lancer assigned to the 28th Bomb Wing is taxied to its parking spot at Ellsworth Air Force Base, S.D., April 30, 2020. The B-1 returned to base after supporting a Bomber Task Force mission in the Indo-Pacific region. This operation demonstrated the Air Force’s dynamic force employment model in line with the National Defense Strategy’s objectives of strategic predictability and operational unpredictability. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Jette Carr)

08/22/2020

An F-15E Strike Eagle assigned to the 492nd Expeditionary Fighter Squadron takes off from Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan. The 492nd EFS is deployed from Royal Air Force Lakenheath, England. F-15Es fly close-air-support missions for Operation Enduring Freedom and contributed to 37 coalition sorties over Afghanistan Aug. 1. (Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Craig Seals)

08/21/2020

OVER THE GULF OF MEXICO -- Two F-15E from the 90th Fighter Squadron, Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska, fire a pair of AIM-7Ms during a training mission. The mission took place over the Gulf of Mexico just off the coast of Florida. (U.S. Air Force photo)

08/18/2020

USS Long Beach CGN-9. The U.S. Navy nuclear-powered guided missile cruiser USS Long Beach (CGN-9) under constuction at the Bethlehem Steel Coompany's Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts (USA), on 2 July 1959. The guided missile destroyer USS Macdonough (DLG-8) is visble on the right. Macdonough was launched on 9 July, Long Beach on 14 July 1959.Date2 July 1959 .NARA

08/17/2020

The 17,000 Ton Destroyers (Full Load) USS Zumwalt (DDG 1000) and USS Michael Monsoor (DDG 1001) sail together in the Pacific Photo: US Navy

08/17/2020

An F-22 Raptor takes off from Amari Air Base, Estonia, Sept. 4, 2015. The F-22s have previously deployed to both the Pacific and Southwest Asia for Airmen to train in a realistic environment while testing partner nations' ability to host advanced aircraft like the F-22. The F-22s are deployed from the 95th Fighter Squadron at Tyndall Air Force Base, Fla. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Ryan Crane)

08/16/2020

Battle cruiser USS Alaska CB-1

Photographed on 30 July 1944 off the Philadelphia Navy Yard. USN Photo

08/15/2020

: USS North Carolina .BB-55

Description: USS North Carolina (BB-55) Photographed during her shakedown cruise, May 1941. The battleship is framed by an escorting destroyer's deck, 5/38 gun barrel and a crewman. Official U.S. Navy Photograph

08/13/2020

Leap Frogs

Members of the Navy Parachute Team, the Leap Frogs, perform a tethered flag with smoke brackets during a demonstration in San Diego, July 4, 2020
Photo USN James Woods

08/12/2020

An HS-60B Sea Hawk helicopter takes off from the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise CVN-65

An HS-60B Sea Hawk helicopter assigned to Helicopter Anti-submarine Squadron 11, takes off from the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVN 65) as the ship transits the Gulf of Aden on June 7, 2011. The Enterprise is conducting maritime security operations in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility USN Photo

08/12/2020

F-22 Raptors from the 1st Fighter Wing and 192nd Fighter Wing taxi during a total force exercise at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Va., Feb. 28, 2018. Both wings partnered with 633rd Air Base Wing during the Phase 1 exercise to showcase their readiness and deployability of the F-22s. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Tech. Sgt. Carlin Leslie)

08/11/2020

USS Little Rock CLG-4

Underway on 8 November 1962. Official U.S. Navy Photograph.

08/11/2020

U.S. Air Force Republic F-105D Thunderchieffighters. refuel from a Boeing KC-135A Stratotanker en route to North Vietnam in 1966. The aircraft were from the 334th Tactical Fighter Squadron, deployed from the 4th Tactical Fighter Wing at Seymour Johnson AFB, North Carolina (USA) to Takli RTAFB. USAF Photo

08/09/2020

Republic F-105D-30-RE Thunderchief (SN 62-4234) in flight with a full bomb load of M117 750 lb bombs. Normally drop tanks were carried on the inboard wing pylons. This aircraft was shot down on 24 December 1968 over Laos while being assigned to the Wing Headquarters, 355th Tactical Fighter Wing, Takhli RTAFB. Major Charles R. "Dick" Brownlee was the pilot of the lead aircraft (s/n 62-4234, call sign "Panda 01") in a flight of four. The flight was conducting an afternoon strike mission against Route 911, between the Ban Karai Pass and the city of Ban Phaphilang, Khammouane Province, Laos. At 15:47h the aircraft attacked a truck moving along Route 911. 62-4234 was hit by anti-aircraft fire and caught fire. Major Brownlee's aircraft exploded at roughly the same time he ejected from his aircraft. The next day a rescue attempt of heavily injured or dead Brownlee failed, but a member of the rescue team, CMS Charles D. King, was captured, too. Both men are listed as missing in action. The location was on the northern edge of a large valley and just east of Route 911, approximately 16 km southwest of Ban Thapachon (location 170600N 1055600E) USAF Photo

08/08/2020

F-100 over Rogers Dry Lake USAF Photo

08/08/2020

An F-35A Lightning II from Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, maneuvers over Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, July 10, 2020, as part of JBER Salutes, a two-day event to show appreciation to service members and nearly 100 Anchorage-area “COVID Heroes” and their guests. The service members and COVID Heroes, nominated for their support to the community during the COVID-19 pandemic, toured various areas of the installation, viewed exhibits and static displays of aircraft, and watched demonstrations by explosive ordnance disposal, military working dog teams, and chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear experts. (U.S. Air Force photo by Alejandro Peña)

08/06/2020

USS Independence CV-62

Photographed in April 1959, during her shakedown cruise. Planes on deck include the following types: Douglas A3D Skywarrior (including Bu # 135420, an A3D-1); Douglas A4D-2 Skyhawk (including Bu #s 142708 and 142712); McDonnell F3H-2 Demon (including Bu #s 143434, 143447, 143448 and 143474); Vought F8U-1 Crusader (including Bu #s 145386 and 145429). Note paint pattern on the carrier's landing path. Official U.S. Navy Photograph