World Armed Forces Pictures & Videos

A challenging photo shoot no doubt.

A formation flight with No 1 Squadron (1SQN) F/A-18F Super Hornets and a Bristol F2B Fighter (aircraft flown by 1SQN in World War 1) commemorates the SQN’s Centenary and marked 1SQN's first operational sorties on 12 June 1916. The Bristol F2B Fighter was provided by TAVAS (WWI vintage aircraft society) and flown by Jack McDonald. The Bristol was painted in WWI-era 1SQN colours and had the tail number B1229. The tail number was flown by Ross McPherson Smith who achieved 10 of his 11 victories in this aircraft.

Arrival at the Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam different ships will take part of the exercise Rim of the Pacific / RIMPAC 2016. In total, 26 nations will participate by providing 40 ships and submarines, 200 aircraft and more than 25,000 men.

In the images the frigate HMNZS Te Kaha FFH 155 (New Zealand), the destroyer helicopter carrier JS Hyuga DDH-181 (Japan), the frigate RSS Steadfast FFG 70 (Singapore) and the frigate surveillance FS Prairial F 731 ( France).









Images: U.S. Navy / Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Phillip Pavlovich.

Royal Australian Navy arrives in Hawaii for RIMPAC 2016.

I was taking a look the other day at the TR-85M1 Bison tank manufactured in Romania. I is a Romanian T-55 tank with a lengthened hull, redesigned running gear with six dual rubber-tired road wheels and four return rollers per side, with the idler wheel at the front and drive sprocket at the reareight telescopic hydro-gas shock-absorbers to increase the overall speed and aMTU 800 hp engine of the Leopard 1.


The tank also has ammunition storage outside the turret with blast doors. Curious that it still maintains the 100mm copy of the D-10T


Does anyone have any thoughts about this vehicle and its performance compared to other upgraded tanks such as the M-48/60, Leopard 1, and AMX 30 etc?

What an incredible job!

Great eye-candy of the Japanese X-2 demonstrator. Gotta give 'em credit.

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Great video of Australia's 1st Air Defence Destroyer, the Hobart, DDG-39:

Jeff Head said:

Great video of Australia's 1st Air Defence Destroyer, the Hobart, DDG-39:

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Does it have the missile system as the US Navy's AEGIS destroyer? Oh by the way the video is currently down.

Equation said:

Does it have the missile system as the US Navy's AEGIS destroyer?

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Yes.

It is AEGIS, with a 48 cell VLS capable of shooting Standard missiles or quad-packed ESSMs.

...and as you can see from these pictures, the second one is well along in construction in the background. They are going to build three of them: