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I am back on Twitter after a much needed holiday in London. I spent one day to visit
@RoyalNavy
base in Portsmouth and it is my first time to see an aircraft carrier in person. Luckily both
@HMSPWLS
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@HMSQNLZ
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US Transportation Command is delivering the first shipment of Bradley Fighting Vehicles to Ukraine. The shipment — containing more than 60 Bradleys — left the shores of North Charleston, South Carolina, Jan. 25.
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11 Mi-17 helicopters from US Air Force 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group are placed on the flight line in preparation for transport at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona, April 22. They are delivered to Ukraine.
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Taiwanese Air Force Indigenous Defense Fighter pilot's patch: Formosan black bear punching Winnie-the-Pooh.
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US Marines flying a CH-53K King Stallion transported an F-35C Lightning II from F-35 Integrated Test Force at Patuxent River in Maryland to a US Navy unit located at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey on April 24.
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Lockheed Martin Darkstar is at Edwards Air Force Base and will have its world debut at the 2022 Aerospace Valley Open House, Air Show, & STEM Expo this weekend.
Photos from Edwards Air Force Base Facebook page
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Ukrainian artillerymen load an M109 self-propelled howitzer during training at Grafenwoehr Training Area, Germany, May 12. Soldiers from US and Norway trained Armed Forces of Ukraine artillerymen on the howitzers.
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Royal Danish Navy frigate HDMS Esbern Snare escorts two DFDS Seaways cargo ships carring material, vehicles and armor from Denmark to Latvia.
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A US Air Force F-15EX Eagle II with a loadout of 12 AIM-120s, a Sniper targeting pod & two AGM-158s is shown at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. It has completed 1st phase of operational test and evaluation by launching three AGM-158s on one sortie.
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Photos from MacDill Air Force Base Facebook page.
Is that Florida-style wheel chock? 🐊
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Maintainers at Hill Air Force Base in Utah stitch two damaged aircraft into a fully operational F-35A Lighting II. Nose section of AF-211 (had a nose landing-gear separation) is being replaced with undamaged nose from AF-27 (had a severe engine fire).
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The first of fourteen Australian Army M113AS4 Armoured Personnel Carriers bound for Ukraine being prepared at Joint Logistics Unit–South East Queensland, Royal Australian Air Force Base Amberley. They are fitted with .50 calibre heavy machine guns.
Photos from
@DefenceAust
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A Russian military bomber engineer drove up to US Southwest border in late December, asking for asylum and offering to reveal some of Russia’s most closely guarded military secrets. He claimed his past employment had included in the making of Tu-160.
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US Air Force Strategic Development, Planning and Experimentation and 40th Flight Test Squadron Autonomous Aircraft Experimentation team conducted an operational experimentation test flight of XQ-58A at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, Dec. 15, 2022.
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Five Russian ships including frigates are turning elsewhere for replenishment after being denied entry into Limassol of Republic of Cyprus, with the island’s foreign ministry scrapping a previous agreement citing the ongoing war in Ukraine.
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US Army decided to give itself a present on its 248th birthday, announcing the Mobile Protected Firepower (MPF) “light tank” has been rebranded the M10 Booker combat vehicle, named after two fallen soldiers who died 60 years apart.
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The Biden administration is considering a plan to jointly produce weapons with Taiwan. It aims to increase production capacity for US-designed arms, speed their transfer and strengthen deterrence toward China.
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US Marines 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) departed early from a scheduled exercise with Kuwait due to emerging events. It received orders to get back on amphibious assault ship USS Bataan and USS dock landing ship Carter Hall.
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A group of US Marine Corps Marine Air Defense Integrated Systems are set for testing during a system integration test at Yuma Proving Grounds in Yuma, Arizona, Sept. 27.
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WATCH: US Navy divers conduct an underwater survey of a P-8A Poseidon in Kaneohe Bay in Hawaii on Nov. 28. The aircraft overshot runway at Marine Corps Base Kaneohe on Nov. 20, and all nine crewmembers safely evacuated.
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Royal Air Force Typhoons and P-8A Poseidon worked with Royal Navy Type 45 Destroyer HMS Defender to monitor Russian vessels exercising close to UK territorial waters, which included frigate Admiral Grigorovich, and two Stereguschiy II-class corvettes.
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Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy support ship Shahid Baziar is towing US Navy Saildrone Explorer unmanned surface vessel international waters of Arabian Gulf as US Navy patrol coastal ship USS Thunderbolt (PC-12) approaches in response, Aug. 30.
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An USAF F-117 flies over E. Dakota Ave. in Fresno Calif. and lands at Fresno Yosemite International Airport on Sep. 15, after completing training with F-15s. Two F-117s are participating in dissimilar air combat training missions.
Video from 144th Fighter Wing Facebook page
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Whiteman Air Force Base executes B-2 Spirit Elephant Walk and Fly-off as the grand finale of the base's annual Spirit Vigilance exercise. This routine training ensures US Air Force airmen are always ready to execute nuclear operations and global strike.
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US Coast Guard cutter USCGC Kimball (WMSL-756) encountered three Chinese and four Russian naval vessels in Bering Sea, 75 nautical miles north of Kiska Island, Alaska, Sep. 19, inside US Exclusive Economic Zone.
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US Air Force B-1B Lancers and F-22 Raptors conduct air drills with South Korean F-35A Lightning IIs over Yellow Sea on Feb. 1.
Photos from South Korea Ministry of National Defense.
USAF B-1Bs BULB11 & 12 departed Ellsworth AFB, South Dakota yesterday (January 31) and participated in a joint US-ROK air exercise over the Yellow Sea, before arriving into Andersen AFB, Guam for the first Bomber Task Force deployment of 2023.
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Australian landing helicopter dock ship HMAS Adelaide sails with US amphibious assault carrier USS America (LHA-6), Japanese helicopter destroyer JS Izumo and South Korean Navy amphibious assault ship ROKS Marado during Exercise Talisman Sabre in Coral Sea on July 29.
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Forty-nine F-16 Vipers and MQ-9 Reapers assigned to US Air Force 49th Wing line up on runway during an elephant walk at Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico, April 21.
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Su-34 is a very capable ground-attack aircraft - same as F-15E. Losing two in a single day is a really bad sign.
Looking like 2 Su-34s have gone down today, Red 24 in a relatively urban setting another unknown s/n in a much more rural area
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The stern of Taiwan’s first domestically developed submarine.
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US Navy ships assigned to Gerald R. Ford and Dwight D. Eisenhower Carrier Strike Groups, US Sixth Fleet command ship USS Mount Whitney (LCC-20), and Italian Navy frigates Carlo Margottini and Virginio Fasan sail in formation in Mediterranean Sea, Nov. 3.
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On July 26, Taiwan Air Force conducted weapons loading operations at Chiashan Air Force Base during 2nd day of Han Kuang Exercise.
This air base is known for its extensive underground hangars. And it is rare for the military to release photos showing the interior of the hangars.
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An Afghan child sleeps on cargo floor of an US Air Force C-17 and kept warm by the uniform of an US airman during an evacuation flight from Kabul, Afghanistan on Aug. 18.
📸
@DVIDSHub
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Is it a rare configuration for Growler to load with six air-to-air missiles?
Royal Australian Air Force EA-18G (A46-305) from No. 6 Squadron conducts air-to-air formation flying off the coast of South East Queensland on Dec. 7, 2021.
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US Navy sailors Jinchao Wei and Wenheng Zhao arrested on charges related to allegedly spying for China. They passed along sensitive information to Chinese intelligence officials related to technologies they worked with and upcoming US Navy operations.
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Private industry diving and salvage experts working alongside US Navy sailors use inflatable salvage roller bags to extract P-8A Poseidon from waters just off the runway at Marine Corps Air Station Kaneohe Bay, Marine Corps Base Hawaii, Dec. 2.
WATCH: US Navy divers conduct an underwater survey of a P-8A Poseidon in Kaneohe Bay in Hawaii on Nov. 28. The aircraft overshot runway at Marine Corps Base Kaneohe on Nov. 20, and all nine crewmembers safely evacuated.
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Estonian special operation force riding motorcycles in Mali.
Photo credit: Estonian Special Ooperations Forces Facebook page
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Four USAF MC-130J Command IIs fly in formation off the coast of Okinawa, Japan, Jan. 6, 2021.
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South Korea on Friday unveiled a prototype of the country's first indigenous fighter jet.
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After concluding its visit to Oman, the 44th Chinese naval escort taskforce arrived at Shuwaikh Port in Kuwait on Oct. 18 for a five-day goodwill visit. The taskforce includes Type 052D destroyer Zibo, Type 054A frigate Jingzhou, and Type 903 replenishment ship Qiandaohu.
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South Korea began assembling a prototype of what would be the country's first indigenously developed fighter jet Thursday.
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GBU-57A/B Massive Ordnance Penetrator (Trainer version).
US Air Force B-2 Spirit stealth bomber is presently the only aircraft capable of and clear to employ this 30,000-pound bunker buster bomb.
Photo from 131st Bomb Wing Missouri Air National Guard Facebook page.
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ABILENE, Texas — The largest formation of C-130Js in USAF history flew over Abilene on Tuesday. The formation included 24 C-130Js from Dyess Air Force Base and 14 C-130Js from Little Rock AFB.
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NEW: The President of the United States selected the livery design for the “Next Air Force One,” VC-25B, a design that will closely resemble the livery of the current Air Force One, VC-25A, while also modernizing for the 21st century. (Courtesy rendering)
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Microvanes for US Air Force C-17 Globemaster III are in the process of airworthiness certification. They help redirect airflow in this higher drag area, streamlining the aerodynamics and reducing overall fuel demand by approximately 1%.
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Short thread: US Navy 7th Fleet just posted some interesting photos of its cruisers transiting Taiwan Strait on Aug. 28. There are several PLA Navy and Taiwan Navy vessels operating nearby. Can you identify them?
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BREAKING: Chinese PLAN's Liaoning aircraft carrier passed through the Miyako Strait between Okinawa and Miyako Island on Saturday, with five accompanying vessels.
Source:
@jointstaffpa
H/T
@jljzen
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US Navy demonstrated re-arming vertical launch system aboard destroyer USS Spruance (DDG-111) in San Diego from Oct. 4-7. It is the first time US Navy has tested VLS reloading from offshore support vessel, using Military Sealift Command fleet experimentation ship MV Ocean Valor.
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A US Marine Corps XQ-58A Valkyrie conducts its second test flight with two US Air Force F-35A Lightning IIs at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida on Feb. 23.
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Photo from US Coast Guard Air Station Miami Facebook page.
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I have never seen a Seahawk in this camouflage.
Two US Navy MH-60S Seahawks, assigned to Naval Aviation Warfighting Development Center, takeoff during a Seahawk Weapons and Tactics Instructor Course as part of Exercise Resolute Hunter at Camp Pendleton, California, June 22.
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US Marines conduct an arrested landing of an F-18E after a simulated tactical ballistic missile strike on flight line during Exercise Active Shield at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan on Oct. 28.
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@DVIDSHub
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US Air Force EC-37B Compass Call arrives at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona, Aug. 17. The EC-130H Compass Call is scheduled to be replaced by the EC-37B, the first of its kind which has the enhanced flight performance of a commercial business jet airframe.
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US Army soldiers test the Mobile-Low, slow, small-unmanned aircraft Integrated Defeat System and its 30mm anti-drone turret at Udairi Range in Kuwait on July 30. The electromagnetic warfare system mounted on a mine-resistant, ambush-protected all-terrain vehicle.
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Once they receive their new F130 engines, US Air Force B-52Hs will become B-52Js. The designation resolves a question that had been debated for several years, as B-52 undergoes some of the most significant improvements in H model’s 61-year service life.
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US Army Bradley Fighting Vehicles from 1st Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, practice battle drills and cross through water in Drawsko Pomorskie Training Area, Poland, Feb. 20.
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US Air Force Lt. Col. Christopher Finkenstadt, 64th Aggressor Squadron commander, performs pre-flight inspections before launching out for a Red Flag-Nellis 23-2 mission at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, Mar. 15.
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16 GBU-39 Small Diameter Bombs hang from US Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II for a testing mission at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, April 20. This is the first time 422nd Test and Evaluation Squadron has carried and employed all four bomb racks of GBU-39s on a single jet.
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US Air Force forty-nine F-16 Vipers and MQ-9 Reapers line up on flight line April 21 at Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico. The elephant walk displayed the immense amount of air power generated by 49th Wing through its mission to build combat aircrew and lead and develop airmen.
Forty-nine F-16 Vipers and MQ-9 Reapers assigned to US Air Force 49th Wing line up on runway during an elephant walk at Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico, April 21.
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US Air Force 509th Munitions Squadron at Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri, added two GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrators to their arsenal, so they can test their performance.
Photos from Whiteman Air Force Base Facebook page
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DARPA selects General Atomics and Aurora Flight Sciences to develop designs for Liberty Lifter Seaplane Wing-in-Ground Effect full-scale demonstrator. It will be a large flying boat similar in size and capacity to the C-17 Globemaster III.
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Can someone identify that payload inside the internal bay?
Following a training mission with USAF F-15s from 144th Fighter Wing, air crew for F-117 recover the aircraft and prepare to exit the pilot in Fresno, Calif. on Sep. 15.
Video from 144th Fighter Wing Facebook page
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BREAKING: France tests its nuclear deterrent force on April 7, mobilizes as many as 50 planes including Rafales, WC-135s and A330 MRTTs, AWACS E-3s, and Mirage 2000s.
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US Navy NAVSEA’s Supervisor of Salvage and Diving (SUPSALV) recovered a downed Navy MH-60S helicopter from a depth of 19,075 feet off the coast of Okinawa, Japan Thursday.
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US Air Force Col. Jeffrey Anderson, 5th Maintenance Group commander, gives Staff Delegates for the House Armed Services Committee a tour of a weapons loader trainer at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, Mar. 15. Those are nuclear armed AGM-86B Air-Launched Cruise Missiles.
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US conducted a successful intercept of an intermediate range ballistic missile by an upgraded Ground-Based Interceptor with a Capability Enhanced-II Block 1 Exo-Atmospheric Kill Vehicle, launching from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, Dec. 11.
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US and Danish forces will conduct advanced convoy protection drills using modular SM-6 missile launcher beginning the week of Sept. 18 in Bornholm, Denmark. The missile's dual-capability design can engage of terrestrial targets and maritime adversaries.
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Taiwanese F-16V deployed at Hualien Air Force Base are equipped with two AIM-120s, two AIM-9s, two AGM-84s, and AN/ALQ-184.
Photos from Liberty Times
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JUST IN: US Coast Guard Cutter USCGC Bertholf (WMSL-750) closely monitors vessels from Chinese PLA Navy operating as part of a four-ship task force in international waters inside US Exclusive Economic Zone off Aleutian Island coast on Aug. 29.
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@DVIDSHub
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On Mar. 10, South Korea President Yoon Seok-yeol inspected submarine ROKS Dosan Ahn Changho. The submarine is eqipped with submarine-launched ballistic missiles.
CC
@CovertShores
@USN_Submariner
@Saturnax1
@xaviervav
@CavasShips
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Lockheed Martin has delivered first Precision Strike Missiles to US Army providing long-range precision fires capability, capable of neutralizing targets beyond 400 km.
US Army announced initial delivery of Precision Strike Missile Increment 1 Early Operational Capability missiles on Dec. 8. Launched from M142 HIMARS and M270A2 MLRS, it is capable of neutralizing targets at standoffs greater than 400 km.
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A Common Missile Compartment (CMC) module is underway from fabrication facility in UK to assembly facility, Dec. 14. The missile tubes are shared between US Columbia-class ballistic missile submarine and UK Dreadnought-class ballistic missile submarine under CMC program.
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Three Royal Australian Navy officers began US Navy’s Submarine Officer Basic Course (SOBC), known commonly as “Submarine School,” where they will learn to tactically employ nuclear-powered submarines (SSNs).
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More photos of US Transportation Command delivering the first shipment of Bradley Fighting Vehicles to Ukraine.
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On Mar. 9, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and his daughter watched a volley of at least six tactical nuclear missiles designed to destroy enemy airfields, according to state media.
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On Feb. 23, Royal Danish Navy frigate HDMS Esbern Snare's stern drifted across Frederikshavn Naval Base, and collided with sister ship HDMS Absalon.
Photo from Søværnet Facebook page
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Bahraini, American and Lockheed Martin officials celebrated the first F-16 Block 70 for Royal Bahraini Air Force on Mar. 10 in Greenville, South Carolina. This F-16 Block 70 jet is the first of 16 jets for Bahrain, and took its first flight on Jan. 24.
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Several hundred American soldiers landed in Bardufoss, Norway on May 10. US Army Alaska, 4th Brigade Combat Team (Airborne) 25th Infantry Division, flew directly from Alaska with 8 C-17, and landed in Norway.
Photos from
@NorwegianArmy
CC
@nukestrat
@SpeckleBelly64
@GDarkconrad
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A sea lion sits atop of a Japan Ground Self-Defense Force assault amphibious vehicle after conducting waterborne operations during bilateral amphibious assault training as part of exercise Iron Fist 2022 at White Beach, Camp Pendleton, California on Feb. 1.
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US Air Force Global Strike Command launched an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile equipped with a test reentry vehicle at 11:01 P.M. Pacific Time Feb. 9 from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California.
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More photos of US Air Force stealth bomber B-21 Raider's first flight on Nov. 10.
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A Poseidon with four Harpoons.
A US Navy P-8A maritime patrol and reconnaissance aircraft, deployed with CTF 57, takes off from a runway for a maritime domain awareness mission in the 5th Fleet area of operations, Jan. 16.
📸
@DVIDSHub
Photos post on Mar. 7.
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US Navy said its actions in response resulted in Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy vessel disconnecting the towing line to Saildrone Explorer and departing the area approximately four hours later.
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US Air Force B-2 Spirit conducts a specialized fuel operation at Edwards Air Force Base, California, Dec. 1-2, marking the first time a C-17 Globemaster III refueled a B-2, increasing flexibility for bomber to conduct agile combat employment operations.
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An USAF A-10 Thunderbolt II from the Idaho Air National Guard’s 124th Fighter Wing is painted with a heritage WWII paint scheme at the Air National Guard paint facility in Sioux City, Iowa.
📸
@DVIDSHub
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US Navy littoral combat ship USS Savannah (LCS-28) conducts a live-fire demonstration on Oct. 24 in Eastern Pacific Ocean utilizing a containerized launching system that fired an SM-6 missile from the ship at a designated target.
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US Air Force 91st Missile Wing, stationed at Minot Air Force Base, kicked off Operation Bully Stick, July 10. It generated largest missile movement in 10 years and aims to load an intercontinental ballistic missile into launch facility as safely, efficiently, quickly as possible.
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A US Army MIM-104 Patriot surface-to-air missile system is fired for a littoral live fire event during Exercise Balikatan 23 at Naval Education, Training and Doctrine Command, Philippines, April 25.
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An F-35C Lightning II flown by test pilot US Marine Maj. Alex Horne flies for the first time with an inert GBU-53/B Small Diameter Bomb-II (SDB II) during weapon environment and loads testing at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md., Jan. 10.
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Looks like Ukraine is getting the upgraded M2A2-ODS SA version of the Bradley rather than the M2A2-ODS.
The Situation Awareness upgrade includes several improvements over the M2A2-ODS including the driver camera and upgraded sights.
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According to US Navy, Saildrone Explorer is equipped with sensors, radars and cameras for navigation and data collection. This technology is available commercially and does not store sensitive or classified information.
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US Navy first Flight III Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Jack H. Lucas (DDG-125) completed acceptance trials. It is equipped with AN/SPY-6(V)1 Air and Missile Defense Radar and Aegis Baseline 10 Combat System.
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美国国务院上周更新官网“美台关系”网页的“事实情况”描述，删除了旧版中关于美1979年联合公报中“台湾是中国一部分”等相关叙述，也不再提及“美国不支持台独”，并且在有关美国的“一个中国”政策阐述中将《台湾关系法》置于美中三个联合公报之前。
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North Korea ballistic missile launch on Oct. 4, 2022.
Launch time: 0722 am
Apogee: 1,000 km
Range: 4,600 km
Impact time: 0744 am
Map from Japan Ministry of Defense
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