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Photo: United States Army, General Colin L. Powell, Commanding General, United States 3rd Army, addresses crew members gathered on the No. 1 and No. 2 gun turrets aboard the battleship USS Wisconsin (BB-64) thanking them for the fire support during Operation BORDER FURY, 1989. https://pbs.twimg.com/...

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Chapters of the Last War

Photo: a Former Mexican operated F-5 Tiger undergoing technical analysis in the Soviet Union. The Soviets received several aircraft which compare with the ex-VNAF examples the North Vietnamese gave them after Saigon fell, and found little or no differences. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G_5owfvWsAAomC...

Photo: Tiger-class cruiser, HMS Blake (C99) leaving Portsmouth Harbour to take part in the Liberation of Iceland.

Photo: Two Dassault Super Étendard of the Argentine Naval Aviation on the flight deck of the Argentinian Navy carrier ARA Veinticinco de Mayo (V-2) during a exercises in 1986. This exercises happen before the planned second invasion of the Falklands by Argentina, as ARA Veinticinco de Mayo (V-2) was...

Photo: With the destruction of the Argentine Navy main naval base by a Royal Navy fired Polaris SLBM on Puerto Belgrano Naval Base and an adjacent Argentine city and the Chilean-Argentine War of 1986 when Chile took advantages and successfully invaded the Picton, Lennox and Nueva islands a Argentine...

Matt Wiser wrote: ↑Thu Jan 22, 2026 4:12 am There's some writing on one mine that looks like Farsi. That would betray the source of the mines as Iranian.

Did they supply more ore even as of today to the Mexicans.

Photo: Camouflaged Mexican mines hidden inside oil barrels on a shipping barge Baja War, 2010. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/US_Navy_030321-N-4655M-029_Coalition_Navy_Explosive_Ordnance_Disposal_%28EOD%29_team_members_inspect_camouflaged_mines_hidden_inside_oil_barrels_on...

From the last months of peace: VF-51 intercepts a Bear near Carl Vinson ; June, 1985: Photo: not all Bears are hostile, a Indian 'Bear F' (Tu-142MZ Long Range Maritime Patrol/Anti-Submarine Warfare variant) operated by the Indian Navy service is escorted by an United States Navy F-14 Tomcat of VF-1...

Question, notice that Chapter 362 is on D+24 but then Chapter 363 is on D+26, did we miss a day.

Our characters could certainly mention that things are heating up with regards to what’s left of the Middle Eastern Coalition (also known as Iran’s Caliphate), but no specifics… Well have to think about something, soon Iran might also be of the table leaving Mexico, maybe a total collapse and the U...

So going to ask the question, what are the plans for 2026 in the Red Dawn verse, retirement parties and being grandparents ore are we going to use the events what have happen in Syria, Israel ore what are now happening in Venezuela and Iran, i know we can not post them over at AH.com as they would b...

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Photo: F-4 Phantoms of No. 228 Operational Conversion Unit RAF joined by a No. 29 Squadron RAF machine at RAF Coningsby, taking time of from intercepting Soviet bombers, 1986.

Photo: U.S. Navy SEAL during a search and seizure on a replenishment oiler heading from Mexico to Cuba, 1995.

Photo: Visibly worn from her deployment to the Caribbean Sea as part of the Canadian contribution to the Cuba Blockade, HMCS Athabaskan returns to Halifax, 1990.

Matt Wiser wrote: ↑Sun Dec 28, 2025 2:46 am Yes, but they arrived only in time for strikes into Cuba, 1989 and early 1990.

Thanks, then i will use that.

Did the B-52 use AGM-142 Have Nap/Popeye cruise missiles during the war.

Photo: Mexican trench line abandoned during the Baja War, 2010. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/An_aerial_view_of_a_section_of_Iraqi_trench_line_abandoned_during_Operation_Desert_Storm_-_DPLA_-_2c0da16e2ecd333299b9436f54176f86.jpeg/1280px-An_aerial_view_of_a_section_of_Iraq...

jemhouston wrote: ↑Thu Dec 18, 2025 3:07 pm The photographer was praying, "Don't drop it and don't land here."

Well they also where used to drop Canadian infantry as this photo shows then rappelling from a British Puma, 1988.