US Military Pictures & Videos

Here are some videos of the Thunderbirds from Gunfighter Skies 2014 air show that my wife and I and two grandsons attended yesterday:

First, he roll-out and taxi to the take-off location of all six Thunderbirds:

[video=youtube;vfXjeCnhXFY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfXjeCnhXFY[/video]

Then, the take-off of the first four:

[video=youtube;rwrp-NaXvAA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwrp-NaXvAA[/video]

Then a flyby of the first four together:

[video=youtube;6rODZaDzkwE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rODZaDzkwE[/video]

Finally, a flyby of the other two, one inverted, tail to tail:

[video=youtube;eZ8CwIi6tRs]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZ8CwIi6tRs[/video]

A few more Thunderbird pics I took at the air show on Saturday:

Ammunition Company AT4 Shoot

Here is a sequence of pictures showing a B-1B Lancer bomber getting refueled and then departing while conducting operations against ISIS:


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Lots of pictures there.

Efforts like this with PGMs can impeded and damage a force like ISIS...particularly if it is a heavy campaign...which to date this is not.

The US has run a few hundred sorties against ISIS in about 6 weeks. To really be effective and seriously degrade them, there needs to be a couple of hundred a day.

As it is, they are having to be much more careful in how they use their tanks, vehicles, and other assets, but they are still making progress near Baghdad and the Turkish border.

GREAT pic of th US Navy Nuclear Aircraft Carrier, USS George Bush, CVN-77, in the Gulf of Aden:


The aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) transits the Gulf of Aden. The George H.W. Bush Carrier Strike Group is returning to Naval Station Norfolk after supporting maritime security operations, strike operations in Iraq and Syria as directed, and theater security cooperation efforts in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility.

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Had to share it here.

E4B The Dooms Day plane
[video=youtube_share;meIuEVhyROQ]http://youtu.be/meIuEVhyROQ[/video]
[video=youtube_share;maZdUtB0ojs]http://youtu.be/maZdUtB0ojs[/video]
Crew: up to 112
Length: 231 ft 4 in (70.5 m)
Wingspan: 195 ft 8 in (59.7 m)
Height: 63 ft 5 in (19.3 m)
Wing area: 5,500 ft² (510 m²)
Empty weight: 410,000 lb (190,000 kg)
Loaded weight: 800,000 lb (360,000 kg)
Max. takeoff weight: 833,000 lb (374,850 kg)
Powerplant: 4 × General Electric CF6-50E2 turbofans, 52,500 lbf (234 kN) each
Performance

Maximum speed: 523 knots (602 mph, 969 km/h)
Cruise speed: Mach 0.84 (555 mph, 895 km/h)
Range: 6,200 nmi (7,100 mi, 11,000 km)
Endurance: 150+ hours [10]
Service ceiling: 45,000 ft (14,000 m)
Wing loading: 150 lb/ft² (730 kg/m²)
Thrust/weight: 0.26
These Advanced Airborne Command Post are built form commercial 747-200 which is the same airframe as the're far more prestigious Siblings, the Twin first flew in 1974. there mission is as a flying dooms day bunker. Although lately they have also been used as the personal SECDEF bird.