Re: Art & Image Thread
Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2025 1:33 pm
I'm surprised that much is still standing.
You and me both, Jem…
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Art & Image Thread
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Re: Art & Image Thread
Posted: Thu Dec 25, 2025 12:13 am
Re: Art & Image Thread
Posted: Thu Dec 25, 2025 3:34 pm
Photo: Mexican trench line abandoned during the Baja War, 2010.
Re: Art & Image Thread
Posted: Sun Dec 28, 2025 1:15 pm
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.
Re: Art & Image Thread
Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2025 1:39 pm
Photo: U.S. Navy SEAL during a search and seizure on a replenishment oiler heading from Mexico to Cuba, 1995.
Re: Art & Image Thread
Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2026 1:14 pm
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.
Re: Art & Image Thread
Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2026 5:51 am
From the last months of peace: VF-51 intercepts a Bear near Carl Vinson; June, 1985:
Re: Art & Image Thread
Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2026 8:33 pm
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-111 Sundowners operating from USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70), 1988.Matt Wiser wrote: ↑Thu Jan 08, 2026 5:51 am From the last months of peace: VF-51 intercepts a Bear near Carl Vinson; June, 1985:
Re: Art & Image Thread
Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2026 12:12 am
That BEAR had better be squawking modes and codes…
Re: Art & Image Thread
Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2026 3:14 am
I would figure they radio on Guard they were coming. I don't know if they arranged with the embassy for authentic codes or not.
Keeping India neutral was important to the US.
Keeping India neutral was important to the US.
Re: Art & Image Thread
Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2026 8:01 am
One of the antiarmor loads that the 335th carried: this one doesn't have AIM-9 on the inboard pylon missile rails, but I have seen loads that do have the 6x Mark-20 Rockeye (or other CBUs) and the Sidewinders. This bird does have the ECM pod and should have the two AIM-7s in the aft missile wells.
Re: Art & Image Thread
Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2026 1:37 am
Wouldn't there be another AIM-7 on the forward missile well opposite the ECM pod?Matt Wiser wrote: ↑Sun Jan 18, 2026 8:01 am One of the antiarmor loads that the 335th carried: this one doesn't have AIM-9 on the inboard pylon missile rails, but I have seen loads that do have the 6x Mark-20 Rockeye (or other CBUs) and the Sidewinders. This bird does have the ECM pod and should have the two AIM-7s in the aft missile wells.
Re: Art & Image Thread
Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2026 3:20 am
No. If launched, the missile exhaust might interfere with the pod's electronics.
Re: Art & Image Thread
Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2026 6:50 am
One of four VA-155 A-6s from USS Ranger (CV-61) launched on a Mining Mission near Kamchatka, during First Kamchatka, 1987
Re: Art & Image Thread
Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2026 8:53 am
One of 74 Squadron's F-4Js on a maintenance check flight after both engines were changed, late 1987; Flight Lts. Karen McKay (PLT) and "Razor" Wilkinson (RIO) are at the controls.
Re: Art & Image Thread
Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2026 5:50 pm
Photo: Camouflaged Mexican mines hidden inside oil barrels on a shipping barge Baja War, 2010.
Re: Art & Image Thread
Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2026 1:31 am
I fèel sorry for the boarding party. I have zero confidence in the Mexican ability I'm making minds. If not home grown, how old were they?
Re: Art & Image Thread
Posted: 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.
Re: Art & Image Thread
Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2026 3:04 pm
Did they supply more ore even as of today to the Mexicans.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.
Re: Art & Image Thread
Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2026 3:29 pm
Would any one else put Farsi on the mind to confuse the source?