The Here, Now (5 Viewers)

[michaelmaltby]

A U.S. Coast Guard cutter patrols the area of debris from a 737 cargo plane that crashed off Oahu, Friday, July 2, 2021, near Honolulu. (Craig T. Kojima/Honolulu Star-Advertiser via AP) (AP)

Coast Guard, fire department, rescue pilots after cargo jet crashes in ocean off Hawaii

Rescuers in a Coast Guard helicopter spotted the debris field and two people in the water.

www.airforcetimes.com

 

[michaelmaltby]

China's FC-31 stealth fighter on public display, 'indicates development milestone' - Global Times

www.globaltimes.cn

 

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[michaelmaltby]

A current NASA project, the X-59 QueSST, aims both to explore low-boom tech and to study community response to muffled sonic booms.Photograph courtesy Lockheed Martin / NASA

Will We Ever Fly Supersonically Over Land?

By turning sonic booms into sonic thumps, engineers hope to domesticate faster-than-sound transport.

www.newyorker.com

Let me help you with that headline, NYT, it should read : "in PEACETIME will we ever fly ...." cause in war there will be no reservations.

 

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[michaelmaltby]

AFT: Idaho Army National Guard An Idaho Army National Guard tank fires during training at the Orchard Combat Training Center in Boise, Idaho, May 17, 2021. (Thomas Alvarez/Idaho National Guard) (Thomas Alvarez/Idaho Army National Guard)

 

[michaelmaltby]

AFT: Pacific Pioneer 21 | NMCB-4 and 9th ESB conduct endurance course A sailor maneuvers through a course at the Jungle Warfare Training Center in Okinawa, Japan, April 15, 2021. (MC2 Douglas Parker/Navy) (Petty Officer 2nd Class Douglas Parker/U.S. Navy)

 

[michaelmaltby]

BBC: Ukraine plans for women to march in high heels spark outrage

 

[michaelmaltby]

The aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford completes the first scheduled explosive event of Full Ship Shock Trials while underway in the Atlantic Ocean, June 18, 2021. (U.S. Navy/Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Riley B. McDowell)

Meet the Team with an Unusual Task for the Newest Carrier’s Shock Trials - Preserving Marine Life | Military.com

www.military.com

 

[SaparotRob]

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The aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford completes the first scheduled explosive event of Full Ship Shock Trials while underway in the Atlantic Ocean, June 18, 2021. (U.S. Navy/Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Riley B. McDowell)

Meet the Team with an Unusual Task for the Newest Carrier’s Shock Trials - Preserving Marine Life | Military.com

www.military.com

Release the Kraken!

 

[Gnomey]

Good shots guys!

 

[Glider]

Does anyone know how big those explosions are?

 

[michaelmaltby]

AFT: USS O'Kane Sailors perform maintenance on a Mark 38 Gunner's Mate 2nd Class Elijah Reid performs maintenance on a Mark 38 machine gun system aboard Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS O'Kane (DDG 77), June 10, 2021, in the Pacific Ocean. (MC2 Jasen Moreno-Garcia/Navy) (Petty Officer 2nd Class Jasen Mo/Carrier Strike Group ONE - CSG 1)

 

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[michaelmaltby]

Israeli Sea Breaker missile touted for US Navy - Asia Times

Flying at high subsonic speeds and following terrain or skimming the water, Sea Breaker has a multi-directional, synchronized, full-sphere attack

asiatimes.com

 

[michaelmaltby]

Cleaning day Airman 1st Class Sarah Miller and Senior Airman Austin Dihn, 374th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, clean the windows of a C-130J Super Hercules during Red Flag-Alaska 21-2 at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, June 14. (Airman 1st Class Mario Calabro/Air Force) (Airman 1st Class Mario Calabro/Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson)

 

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[michaelmaltby]

China Is Preparing for Nuclear War

Recently released satellite imagery reveals that China has embarked on what the Washington Post termed “a building spree that could signal a major expansion of Beijing’s nuclear capabiliti

www.realcleardefense.com

 

[michaelmaltby]

Marine Corps' First Carrier-Capable F-35 Squadron Is Ready for Wartime Use | Military.com

www.military.com

 

[Gnomey]

Good shots guys!