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For completeness sake the clip has been reuploaded in the correct orientation, thank you all for chiming in :)

T-171E-3 20mm rotary cannon in the tail of a Convair B-58 Hustler Defensive armament consisted of a single 20 mm T-171E-3 rotary cannon with 1,200 rounds of ammunition in a radar-aimed tail barbette. It was remotely controlled through the Emerson MD-7 automated radar fire-control system, only...

de Havilland Mosquito FB Mk VI flying from Banff showers his wingman with spent casings while diving on the quaysides at Porsgrunn in Norway on March 30th 1945, 80 years ago today

Excellent observations, and even without being well versed in Spitfire minutiae the writing 12 seconds in is clearly reversed.

Here's another IS-2 shot through the front and blown up: https://x.com/i/status/1902014630979100929

I've always admired Masao Satake's work for Dragon:

There were certainly still a few Panthers about in early 1945, here are some in action circa January 1945: https://rumble.com/v6r6xiw-rare-flak-41-and-panther-tanks-engage-a-soviet-armored-thrust-during-the-vi.html

It's not specified but that particular plate on the Comet is 64mm thick and only slightly sloped, this means that even the L/56 88mm Flak or Tiger I gun could punch through it comfortably from beyond 2 kilometers firing APCBC.

https://rumble.com/v6rbkou-early-aim-9-sidewinder-inert-missile-tests-targeting-qb-17-drones-in-1954.html After the end of World War II, a large number of B-17G Flying Fortress bombers became surplus to USAAF (and later USAF) requirements. Some of these were converted to unmanned QB-17...

Stacked dead Thunderjets:

There is the famous "Cologne Tank Duel" where a Pershing knocked out a Panther with three shots after it took out a Sherman: Pershing knocked out by a Nashorn: Pershing knocked out by a Tiger I: As to the Comet, there are a few recorded losses but none that I could ascertain were from...

https://rumble.com/v6qx2vc-pilotless-f6f-hellcat-drone-barely-claws-into-the-air-before-coming-to-grie.html

Well spotted, the squadron code is AU and not UA

I found it in some national archive but I don't remember exactly, possibly Dutch. Here is another one also from the Aviation Militaire Belge in 1916: