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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #5100 on: September 26, 2022, 02:16:47 AM »


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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #5101 on: September 26, 2022, 09:14:50 AM »
Not Russian because it's floating.

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« Reply #5102 on: September 26, 2022, 09:24:43 AM »
Not Russian because it's floating.

RAN ANZAC-class frigate.
"This is the Captain. We have a little problem with our engine sequence, so we may experience some slight turbulence and, ah, explode."

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« Reply #5103 on: September 27, 2022, 12:50:29 AM »
HMAS Perth (III) to be exact.
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« Reply #5104 on: September 28, 2022, 02:37:45 AM »
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« Reply #5105 on: September 28, 2022, 02:41:23 AM »
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« Reply #5106 on: September 28, 2022, 08:16:33 AM »
Not a view you often get of a Viggen. :smiley:
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« Reply #5107 on: September 29, 2022, 02:49:10 AM »
The "Mercury 4".

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« Reply #5108 on: September 29, 2022, 03:08:30 AM »
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« Reply #5109 on: September 29, 2022, 03:15:48 AM »
Removing no.3 gun from a 14 inch quadruple gun mounting in 24 Shop, Elswick Works, Newcastle upon Tyne, 30 April 1940. Note the worker standing inside the turret. Pic from Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums.

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« Reply #5110 on: September 29, 2022, 03:17:50 AM »
Lightning shot from Harrier facing aft camera, over RAF Binbrook. They don’t get much better than this.
Credit the late great Richard Cooke.

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« Reply #5111 on: October 02, 2022, 12:49:52 AM »


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« Reply #5112 on: October 02, 2022, 12:50:35 AM »


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« Reply #5113 on: October 02, 2022, 12:52:34 AM »
The RAAF finally operated A-37s...well one...see here:  No. 100 Squadron RAAF




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« Reply #5114 on: October 02, 2022, 08:39:25 PM »
Denmark, Germany and Norway will finance the production of 16 new 155-mm self-propelled guns Zuzana-2 in Slovakia, which will be delivered to Ukraine.



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« Reply #5115 on: October 02, 2022, 10:21:34 PM »
Zuzana seems to be a close relative of Dana;

DANA M2
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« Reply #5116 on: October 02, 2022, 11:25:05 PM »




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« Reply #5117 on: October 02, 2022, 11:48:55 PM »
FAA VOUGHT CORSAIR BEING FERRIED TO/FROM RN CARRIER At Colombo Ceylon sitting on a RN Lighter....photo Peter Huson..

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« Reply #5118 on: October 03, 2022, 06:46:33 AM »
Zuzana seems to be a close relative of Dana;

DANA M2


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« Reply #5119 on: October 03, 2022, 06:50:02 AM »
Via Twitter.
This Booster 1077.1 is being prepared to launch Crew 5 on October 5.  Nice and shiny booster.

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« Reply #5120 on: October 07, 2022, 03:24:52 AM »
This is for Bill:

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« Reply #5121 on: October 07, 2022, 05:34:06 AM »
 ;D
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« Reply #5122 on: October 07, 2022, 12:42:55 PM »

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« Reply #5123 on: October 07, 2022, 02:18:58 PM »
Wow guys -- those two capture 1950s spirit so well  :smiley:

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« Reply #5124 on: October 07, 2022, 09:52:14 PM »
Avro Vulcan XH558 jet bomber on landing approach, #Farnborough FIA2012, UK, 15 July 2012.

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