The Here, Now (5 Viewers)

[ARTESH]

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AFT: formation Friends Royal Saudi Air Force F-15s, left, and U.S. Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcons, right, fly beside U.S. Air Force B-1B Lancers above the Red Sea in U.S. Central Command Nov. 11, 2021. (Tech. Sgt. Christopher Ruano/Air Force)

صورة رائعة. احترام إخواننا العاملين في القوات الجوية الملكية السعودية.

مرحباً عبدول ، كيف هو يومك يا أخي؟

English:

Nice photo. Respect for our brothers serving with the Royal Saudi Air Force.

Hey Abdul, How's your day, bro?

 

[michaelmaltby]

AFT: Falcon Sunset An F-16C Fighting Falcon with the 187th Fighter Wing stages in Mobile, Ala., Nov. 3, 2021, during Southern Lightning Strike, an agile combat employment exercise throughout the southeastern U.S.. (Tech. Sgt. William Blankenship/Air Force)

 

[michaelmaltby]

US and Japan carry out anti-submarine drills in South China Sea | Taiwan News | 2021-11-17 15:21:00

Exercises involve anti-submarine training, including tracking submerged submarine | 2021-11-17 15:21:00

www.taiwannews.com.tw

 

[Wurger]

 

[michaelmaltby]

Photos: The catastrophic damage that severed B.C. from the rest of Canada

Critical highways may not be reopened until well into 2022

nationalpost.com

 

[Wurger]

 

[SaparotRob]

Wow.

 

[Gnomey]

Good shots guys!

 

[michaelmaltby]

F-16 Fighting Falcons await final end-of-runway inspections at Kunsan Air Base, South Korea, Sept. 21, 2021. (Mya Crosby/U.S. Air Force)

Military Daily News, Military Headlines | Military.com

www.military.com

 

[michaelmaltby]

AFT: Starry Night A Navy MH-60S Sea Hawk attached to Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 21 sits on the flight deck of the amphibious assault ship Essex in the Gulf of Oman Nov. 3. (MC2 John McGovern/Navy)

 

[michaelmaltby]

Skin tones ....

airforce.ru

 

[Wurger]

 

[michaelmaltby]

Mig Alley

Russian, Chinese warplanes enter South Korean air buffer zone: Seoul

China later told South Korea through a military communication channel that the flights were part of its routine military exercises with Russia.

www.airforcetimes.com

 

[ARTESH]

And one of their missiles just sank a fishing boat ... Accidentally!!!

 

[michaelmaltby]

Three helicopters, 311 stranded people, 26 dogs and one cat: How Operation Lentus pulled off a tricky rescue mission on Highway 7

Cormorant pilot touches down with a broken hydro pole less than a metre from one side of the spinning main rotor, and trees no further away on the other

www.theglobeandmail.com

"... Capt. Groten moved his big Cormorant carefully up and down the slide area, looking for a possible "LZ" – a landing zone. Finally, with one of his search and rescue technicians dangling upside down from a side door and using his headset to guide Capt. Groten down atop a slab of mud riddled with debris, the helicopter, buffeted by wind, touched down.

A broken hydro pole sat less than a metre from one side of the spinning main rotor, and trees were no further away on the other. "It was probably the tightest confined area I ever landed in," Capt. Groten said.

 

[michaelmaltby]

Philippine Coast Guard personnel on rubber boats patrol past Chinese vessels on the waters of Whitsun Reef, in the Spratly Islands. Photo: EPA-EFE

 

[michaelmaltby]

Airmen load a Rapid Dragon palletized munition system with an unarmed cruise missile onto an MC-130J aircraft to prepare for an airdrop test at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. (U.S. Air Force)

Got cruise missile-armed cargo planes? The US Air Force is nearly there.

The Air Force hopes to one day be able to launch a barrage of cruise missiles or other weapons out of the back of airlift planes.

www.airforcetimes.com

 

[michaelmaltby]

Calls for war with Taiwan grow louder online among radical Chinese

Talk of an attempt to take control of the self-ruled island has grown louder. Some say that having fuelled the discussion, Beijing must continue to manage it.

www.scmp.com

The 'money quote' ...
".. Liu Junchuan, deputy head of Beijing's Taiwan Affairs Office, said last month that after reunification, Taiwan's government revenue would be spent mostly on social welfare."
IOW Taiwan is a cash grab .... for the 1.4B. Revealing ... on the state of the ccp economy.

 

[Gnomey]

Nice shots guys!

 

[michaelmaltby]

Russian military armored vehicles roll into landing vessels after drills in Crimea on April 23, 2021. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)

Russia preparing to attack Ukraine by late January: Ukraine defense intelligence agency chief

Russia is building toward the ability to carry out an attack on Ukraine, the head of it's defense intelligence agency told Military Times.

www.airforcetimes.com