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Is that Mount Suribachi in the background?View attachment 624944
The aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan steams off the coast of Iwo To, formerly known as Iwo Jima, May 22. The carrier, homeported in Yokosuka, Japan, will head to U.S. 5th Fleet early this summer to provide security during the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. (MC2 Jason Tarleton/Navy)
Navy to send Ronald Reagan to 5th Fleet amid Afghanistan troop withdrawal: report
Since not everyone is aware, let me explain. That IS-3 was a WWII monument in Ukraine (village Aleksandro-Kalinovo, Donetsk Region), stolen by separatists in July 2014 who tried to use it in combat. The main gun was unusable but a new machine gun was installed on the top. Abandoned and found by government forces in town Konstantinovka. One fuel tank had an "On to the Kyiv" sign, another one "On to the Lviv(Lvov)". Repainted, repaired, and after several exhibitions in Kyiv and elsewhere moved to the permanent exhibition in a military museum in Mykolaiv Region.
Just out of curiosity, how can a land-based fighter do that? Or are these being assigned for air combat training?