Random photo montage of enjoyment......

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Ah, the Thud. Never got to see one flying, they were withdrawn from ANG service in 1984!

I found these pics recently, I've always wanted to find out more about this. These are pics of the 1921 aerial bombing tests conducted by General Billy Mitchell, to illustrate his belief that the Battleship and other surface warships were vulnerable to air attack. These tests were, shall we say, slightly rigged. All ships were immobile or moving very slowly under radio control, and had no crews to help with damage control. Not terribly "realistic", but it made for some amazing photographs! Visage and behold.....





The ex-USS Virginia, BB-13. The damage inflicted on this ship before she sank is nothing short of spectacular.





USS New Jersey, BB-16.




USS Alabama. BB-8.




USS Iowa, BB-4. She was taken out with shellfire from a battleship, but still cool pictures! Fin!

YES! The F-100...the "lead sled." We had a few of them at RAF Lakenheath England when I joined the AF in 1980. My squadron never got to work with them however.

A question mark?

Mommy?
My god, I never realized the size difference was that huge! Unless that's an extreme telephoto artifact.

The C-5 is a big airplane.

If anything, the Hercules' size is somewhat distorted to the larger side because it's just a bit closer to the camera.

C-5s look big on the ground but to me they look even bigger when they're in the air, especially when they're on approach and you get some perspective compared to objects on the ground.

It looks like a building is flying around.

Not a photo, but a damned impressive video.



Just imagine if they were using live ordnance and not inert bombs.

Oooohhhh. We need more of those.

12 pages, bitches!

I only show 8 pages.

......On the mobile app. Shit.

Ah. I don't use that, even on my phone.

Arclight, BITCHES!! Woo-hoo!

Spotted in a vacant lot in Corpus Christi, Texas.








They're for sale.

I'd be very interested to find out what those came off of! I gotta get down to Corpus Christi, the Lexington awaits!

Real, miniature jet engines. Not the ducted fan motors that r/c "jets" used to use.



It's a shame this guy didn't have a longer lens or that he apparently couldn't move much closer.

La Mesa is in San Diego County. :b:

The Oberon class diesel electric attack submarine HMAS Otway.

The last Project 675 "Echo" class nuclear powered cruise missile submarine.

The Convair F-106 Delta Dart.

Fletcher class USS Stoddard, DD-566, in mothballs in the 1970's.

Gleaves class USS Thorn, DD-647 during her Sinkex in 1974.

The Fletcher class ex USS Taylor, ex NMM Lanciere in Liguria awaiting the scrappers torch, 1977.


The Cruiser Giuseppe Garibaldi while being scrapped in the early 1970's. Commissioned in 1936, she was converted to a guided missile cruiser in the 1960's. She came equipped with a twin armed Terrier missile system aft, along with the only Polaris ballistic missiles ever carried by a surface ship(not actually carried on deployments).

This is the Roland Morillot, formerly the Type XXI Uboat U-2518 awaiting scrapping in 1970. She was the only Type XXI U boat that was taken into regular front line service by the western powers after WWII.

According to Google those survival capsules were originally used on off shore oil platforms.

That figures, they looked a bit too large to be submarine or shipboard mounted.

Shit Hot:

70s film of Vickers 38cm guns firing at La Coruña.

Fantastic! Apparently, the Spaniards purchased 4 of these guns to be mounted in single turrets. The BL 15in Mk I is probably one of the best naval guns ever manufactured.