AFT: Master of the Globe Senior Airman Sara Marinelli, a loadmaster with the 21st Airlift Squadron, stands in front of a C-17 Globemaster III July 6 at Travis Air Force Base, California. The 21st AS conducted a training mission that enabled qualification currency for seven crew members. (Senior Airman Jonathon Carnell/Air Force) (Senior Airman Jonathon Carnell/60th Air Mobility Wing Public Af)
For those of you, like me, who believed that America's "Trillion dollar mistake," the F-35 fighter jet fiasco, was just a money pit plagued by technical
Amphibious armored infantry fighting vehicles (IFV) attached to a brigade under the PLA 72nd Group Army drive into the waters during an amphibious training exercise focused on subjects of basic driving, landing craft ferrying and assault wave formation, etc. on May 21, 2021.Photo:China Military
AFT: Teak Peek U.S. and Royal Australian Air Force airmen observe an MC-130J Air Commando II flying in formation off the coast of New South Wales, Australia, during exercise Teak Action 21 July 3. (1st Lt. Joshua Thompson/Air Force) (1st Lt. Joshua Thompson/353rd Special Operations Group P)
AFT: Gunslingers Up F/A-18E Super Hornet fighter jets attached to the "Gunslingers" of Strike Fighter Squadron 105 fly in formation over the aircraft carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower in the Atlantic Ocean July 13. The Ike returned to its homeport of Norfolk, Virginia, July 18 after completing a "double pump" deployment to U.S. 2nd, 5th and 6th Fleets. (MC3 Brianna T. Thompson-Lee/Navy) (MC3 Brianna T. Thompson-Lee/U.S. Navy)
The Russian Knights aerobatic demonstration team performs during the opening day of the International Aviation and Space Salon (MAKS)-2021 in a Moscow suburb, Russia, on July 20, 2021. MAKS-2021 kicked off in a Moscow suburb on Tuesday. (Xinhua/Evgeny Sinitsyn)
It doesn't really matter if you like the look of the new RN carriers or not, you have to admit the designers certainly started with a clean sheet of paper.