Great anecdote. 🔗📷 archive.org/details/air-...

🧵 A typical DEW Line Auxiliary radar station. "View of DEW Line radar station BAR-3, Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories, Canada" Circa 1960 📷📑 www.cca.qc.ca/en/search/de...

Lockheed RC-121D Standard Aircraft Characteristics 🔗📷 archive.org/details/CCM-...

My new article is up: thespacereview.com/article/5169/1

"A KC-135 Stratotanker from the 92nd Air Refueling Wing at Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash. refuels an F-22A Raptor from the 49th Fighter Wing from Holloman Air Force Base, N.M., in midair during a Combat Hammer mission during a two-week large-scale evaluation. …" 📷📑 www.acc.af.mil/News/Photos/...

1st Cavalry Division soldiers posing with T148E1 (3-round magazine, semi-automatic) and M79 (single-shot, break-action) grenade launchers at Fort Benning, Georgia, 1965. 📷 www.alamy.com/these-tough-...

Photos from 2017 PDU-5/B leaflet bomb air drops designed to test, among other things, safe separation from the external Heavy Stores Adapter Beam of the B-52 Stratofortress. Each such bomb carries about 60,000 leaflets. 🔗📷 www.af.mil/News/Article...

Oldie (2021) but goodie. "Behold The Naked Warplanes Of Tinker Air Force Base / With the depot maintenance mission for a number of big jets, Tinker AFB offers rare glimpses of what these planes look like without their paint." www.twz.com/43677/behold...

Christie's M1928

Two members of the Women's Voluntary Service make camouflage netting by tying strips of material to a large net, suspended from the ceiling in an old school building in London, 1943. IWM (D 17198), MoI Photo Division photographer

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What the heck is this? OK, its a DHC-2ZB Twin Beaver., but my question would be.. Why?

"Project Free Fall - United States Naval Ordnance Test Station Report On Tactical Air Weapons 1963" m.youtube.com/watch?v=gpPv...

"Shooting at SFENA 14 and SECAPEM S-90B targets" 📷 www.ebay.ie/itm/30090700...

Pratt & Whitney XA103 engine promotional material. 🎞️ www.rtx.com/news/2026/02...

Good reading. www.historynet.com/charlie-holl...

A 1983 article commenting on how the then-recent rebranding of the tri-service 2.75 Inch Rocket to 'HYDRA 70' (as in 70mm diameter) was an effort to differentiate the improved weapon from previous versions that had a reputation for » 🔗📷 www.google.gr/books/editio...

🧵 A General Electric Corporation two-million-volt X-Ray machine for testing Naval ammunition, reactor castings on atomic-powered naval vessels, etc at Naval Magazine, Port Chicago. 1957. 📷 www.ebay.com/itm/36412016...

🧵 In 1970, the US began low-rate production of the XM684 40mm HE grenade with XM596 VT (proximity) fuse. Pulling this off with a projected cost of then ~$5 per fuze for mass production was quite a technical achievement. 📷1 ia800408.us.archive.org/25/items/def... 📷2 books.google.gr/books?id=_10...

Latest 30x113mm Proximity Fused ammo: - Percussion-primed. XM914 / M914 (M230LF) · XM1211 High Explosive Proximity (HEP) · XM1223 Multi-Mode Proximity Airburst (MMPA) - Electrically-primed. M230 · XM1225 Aviation Proximity Explosive (APEX)

Many interesting details on RIM-116B Block 1 Rolling Airframe Missile guidance. For example, the body-fixed, single-plane RF interferometer has two forward-facing antennas (for target detection) and two rear-facing antennas (for rejecting launching-ship emissions). 🔗 apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/A...

🧵 The Vought F7U-3 Cutlass carried air-to-air 'Mighty Mouse' 2.75” Folding Fin Aircraft Rockets in a conformal metal rocket pack (an easily attachable ventral container) mounted beneath the fuselage. 📷 www.google.gr/books/editio...

Northrop Grumman AN/ZPY-1 STARLite (Small Tactical Radar - Lightweight) Ku band, moving target indicator (MTI), and synthetic aperture radar (SAR). L-R: Antenna, LN-251 INS/GPS System, Electronics Assembly, Power Supply. 🔗 www.northropgrumman.com/what-we-do/m... 📷 www.dvidshub.net/image/947742...

"KADENA AB, JAPAN […] the radar dome of an E-3 Sentry Airborne Warning and Control System during a visit to Kadena Air Base, Japan, Jan. 13, 2026. […] (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman James Johnson)" 📷📑 www.dvidshub.net/image/948566...

"EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE […] 08.07.2025 / A B-52H Stratofortress assigned to the 419th Flight Test Squadron at Edwards Air Force Base, California, departs for an evening test mission over the Mojave Desert. […] (Air Force photo by Todd Schannuth)" www.dvidshub.net/image/950573...

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself! bluesky-map.theo.io I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

Vought Cutlass F7U-3, BuNo 129566, fitted with two large vertical fins/vanes/canards along the vertical plane in front of the cockpit during post-stall gyration investigation by the Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory, circa 1957. 🔗📷 archive.org/details/chan... 🔗 www.historynet.com/voughts-visi...

One of the Bellingcat Discord members has made Wordle, but for identifying warships keel-fawn.vercel.app

Exclusive: Budanov gave me a few insights into his new role at Zelensky's chief of staff.

Oleksa comes up with some really interesting photos every day. Today's shots of target tugs are very welcome, and rarely seen. Great follow.

Merry Christmas!

"Tsgt. Charles A. Barbier Of Wallace, La., Checking Gun Mount Bolt On A B-17, Waves To Msgt. George Grose Of Tallahassee, Fla., As He Rides By On A Unicycle. England. (U.S. Air Force Number K2400)" 📷📑 catalog.archives.gov/id/205002431...

Impressive images. "Interferometric synthetic aperture sonar images of the seafloor. (a) Wreck of a barge on a sediment substrate with boulders. (b) Offshore energy production infrastructure. » 🔗📷📑 tos.org/oceanography...

🧵 An MNV (Mine Neutralization Vehicle) of the AN/SLQ-48 MNS (Mine Neutralization System) on USS Avenger (MCM-1). 1988. 📷 commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mi...

Recently digitised - Op Dracula, May 1945; an amphibious landing against Rangoon in Burma. Troops and vehicles struggle with the muddy conditions, and engineers demolish an obstacle. Filmed by Mohammed Afzal Khan. #filmcataloguing #history #ww2 Full film: IWM JIN 50 www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...

Zumwalt-class guided missile destroyer USS Michael Monsoor (DDG 1001). Notice how the halyard for the signal flags is set up, with three ropes holding the halyard block in place. 📷 www.dvidshub.net/image/938640...

🧵 An interesting idea: "THE HIP SLING STRETCHER / Original wartime caption: This picture shows the method of slinging the stretcher from a belt worn round the waist." 1941 📷📑 www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...

🧵 The 'bar torpedo sight' / 'torpedo sighting bar'. "Flight deck duty squad member hanging on to the wing of a Fairey Albacore that has just landed from anti-submarine patrol. The precaution was needed because gale force winds were blowing at the time." 📷📑 www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...

"Demonstration of a method to extricate a casualty from the turret of a Matilda tank using slings and a hoist, 7 August 1941." 📷📑 www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...

"Signals Display Team (1953)" 🎞️📑 www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxK3...

"Empire Celtic was a ferry which was built in 1945 as Landing Ship, Tank LST 3512 for the Royal Navy. In 1946 she was chartered by the Atlantic Steam Navigation Company Ltd, converted to a ferry and renamed Empire Celtic." 🔗📑 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Empi... 🎞️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFSf...

"1946 Curtiss Wright Aircraft Ad Navy SC-2 Seahawk Airplane Rescue Reconnaissance" 📷📑 www.ebay.com/itm/23392797...

How many engines did you want? Yes.

Canadian Army engineering unit recovering damaged Landing craft during Operation Overlord on Juno Beach 1944

🧵 The Mk 41 VLS (Vertical Launching System Modular: Launcher → Modules → Canisters → Missiles - Each launcher is a collection of modules. - Each module contains cells (rails). - Each cell houses one canister. - Each canister houses one or more missiles. 🔗📷 apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/A...

🧵 Unusual carrier elevator. "A U.S. Navy Vought SB2U-2 Vindicator (BuNo 1376) from scouting squadron VS-72 pictured on the deck edge elevator of the aircraft carrier USS Wasp (CV-7) at Quincy, Massachusetts (USA), in June 1940. » 📷📑 commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US...

Jet-Assisted Take-Off (JATO ) units on B-25, F4U, PBM, and TBM. 1945 📷 archive.org/details/USAN...

"SCOTT 486 cc twin cylinder motor cycle with its two man crew, troops of the Motor Machine Gun Corps unit, aiming their Vickers gun skywards at enemy aeroplanes, 1915." 📷📑 www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...