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Alright! We are now getting a few pics of what types of testing they are doing. They are doing approaches to the carrier from F/A-18s, they are standing watches, doing security, they are doing boat handling. Landing helos on deck, doing maneuvering and standing watch/station on the bridge.
This is just for starters...but pretty neat to see. Here's another ten photos of her out to sea:
This is just for starters...but pretty neat to see. Here's another ten photos of her out to sea:
TerraN_EmpirE
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Well the F-35 is still the low of the Hi-Lo mix, its just been "re-mastered" to also perform at the HI end of the spectrum due to the cancellation of F-22 production at 187 aircraft, now 184 due to attrition. The Navy needs to buy the F-35 Charlie in significant number to man the Ford and her high tech sisters. In the long run the F-35 Charlie is not that much more expensive than the Super Hornet to purchase or operate once the production numbers come up and the cost drops to the 100 million or so a copy that is projected.
We are as close to a Top end conflict, possibly closer than we have been in the last 30 years, to not prepare is to invite further aggressive action on the part of Russia, possibly even China, throw North Korea into the mix, shake well with South Korea or Japan and you have a volatile mixture??
US weakness and lack of resolve and clarity under the Obama regime (yes they did use the US intelligence agencies as partisan hacks to undermine the Republican opposition), has left a power vacuum that others rush to fill, upsetting the balance of power and encouraging the Russians to support and use an evil dictator, who has been gasing his own people during the past 8 years?? Seems the Obama team saw their own political opposition as a more urgent threat than those who are daily working to increase the number of ICBMs pointed in our direction.....
So no the F-15C is still are very vital and viable platform, but it will require a very expensive SLEP as will the A-10, and while there was at least one inflight break-up of an F-15, that was traced back to the upper longerons being fabricated improperly, a serious manufacturing defect apparently on the St. Louis assembly line..
of all the F-15s inspected at the time 9 did have upper longeron cracks, and 40% did have at least one longeron out of blueprint specs
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TerraN_EmpirE
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guess i owe Forbin an Apology. it was however covered in a SAAB Barracuda wrap.Army tanks in Europe ditch the desert camo for woodland green
By: April 11, 2017 (Photo Credit: Christoph Koppers/Army)
Now that the 4th Infantry Division's 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team has settled into its rotation in eastern Europe, it's time to blend into the surroundings.
Soldiers are working to paint all 400 of their M1A2 Abrams tanks, Bradley Fighting Vehicles and M109A6 Paladin artillery vehicles, which are still sporting tan from their time in the Global War on Terror, a shade of woodland green to match their new terrain, according to information released Monday by the Army.
"A lot of the reasons why they weren't done before was because of our high operational tempo leading up to our deployment to Europe," said Capt. James England, commander of B Company, 1st Battalion, 66th Armor Regiment. "We basically had intense training event to intense training event, which led to little room for opportunities."
The brigade got word of its upcoming Europe deployment, the first in a planned series of back-to-back armor brigade rotations to Europe, a year ago, brigade commander Col. Christopher Norrie told Army Times in March.
To prepare for their January arrival, the unit spent much of the year training at home, followed by almost two months at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, California, according to the Army.
Once they arrived, they had to spread thousands of soldiers and thousands of pieces of equipment from a German port into several locations in eastern Europe, where they got current on their training and maintenance, then spread out to an area that ranges from Estonia to Bulgaria.
Early April, according to the Army, was the first time the soldiers had a moment to stop and consider the paint.
Soldiers from B Company, 1st Battalion, 66th Armor Regiment, 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, mix green paint on April 4, 2017, prior to applying it to the company's M1A2 Abrams tanks at Grafenwoehr Training Area, Germany.
Photo Credit: Chaplain (Capt.) Malcolm Rios/Army
"We've always camouflaged the tanks," said England. "We use our camouflage nets, and that does a pretty good job concealing the tanks. We've always done things to mitigate the tan color on the tanks. Now it just goes a step further with the paint on the tanks."
The process takes three days, the Army said, including power washing, 12 hours to dry, 12 hours to paint a tank, and another 12 hours to dry.
The brigade is scheduled to remain in Europe until September, at which point they'll bring their equipment home and strip the green.
"The paint is a temporary paint," England said. "Once we go back home, we can pressure wash it off."
Love the carrier pics, I'm just very impressed with how small they've made the tower.
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