Unofficial Military (and other cool) Stuff Thread
nivek
As Above So Below
Dejan Corovic
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A little bit of WW2 history:
An interview with Rudolph Hess' daughter who now lives in Virginia, US:
View: https://youtu.be/GlNhXiQ1ueQ
An interview with Rudolph Hess' daughter who now lives in Virginia, US:
View: https://youtu.be/GlNhXiQ1ueQ
Todd Feinman
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Ah, Nazis.. Endlessly fascinating.
Todd Feinman
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Jousting gone wrong (Gregor Baci):
https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.KZpClvF40oXl8fc2TGCJ_gHaFs?dpr=1.3&pid=ImgDetMain
https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.KZpClvF40oXl8fc2TGCJ_gHaFs?dpr=1.3&pid=ImgDetMain
pigfarmer
tall, thin, irritable
Hoss.
Hess was somebody else. "The Brown Mouse" Remember he flew to the UK, landed in Scotland and was locked up the rest of his life.
Rudolf Hess - Wikipedia
pigfarmer
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I love that stuff ! A trip to London is on my bucket list.
I've seen this and it's damned interesting: The Met Arms & Armor
If you really want to geek out have a look: FINE HISTORICAL ARMS
Todd Feinman
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Great site! Thanks.
pigfarmer
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Battleship New Jersey Leaves Her Pier For First Time In Over 30 Years
BYOLIVER PARKEN|PUBLISHED MAR 21, 2024 7:37 PM EDT
The decommissioned Iowa class battleship USS New Jersey (BB-62), the most decorated battleship in U.S. naval history and the second-built of four of her kind, left its dock for the first time in over 30 years earlier today for an extensive maintenance overhaul.
Imagery and videos of the historic warship — which has been permanently berthed as a museum ship at a ceremonial pier on the Camden waterfront in New Jersey since 2001 — have proliferated online this afternoon. These show it on its short journey down the Delaware River to the former Philadelphia Navy Yard, where essential maintenance work on the ship will take place.
A short departure ceremony was held for New Jersey on the Camden waterfront at 11.00 A.M. ET, attended by U.S. Navy personnel, veterans, and members of the public, as well as Phil Murphy (D), Governor of New Jersey, and Congressman Donald Norcross (D), South Jersey.
"There's no battleship in our history that comes close to the legacy [of New Jersey]," Murphy said at the ceremony.
From there, pulled by tugboats, it headed south under the Walt Whitman Bridge, seen in this article's feature image, before docking at the Paulsboro Marine Terminal in the afternoon. There, according to WPVI-TV in Philadelphia, it will be balanced for dry docking, before heading to the Naval Yard's dry dock number three in six days time.
That the dock maintenance will occur at this particular dry dock represents something of a homecoming for New Jersey; as it was there that the battleship was built during the late-1930s to early-1940s and launched on December 7, 1942, the first anniversary of Pearl Harbor. When the contract was awarded for the battleship in July 1939, Charles Edison, acting secretary of the Navy, chose to name the Philadelphia-built ship after his home state of New Jersey.
Overall, the maintenance is "vital for the Battleship’s longevity," New Jersey's museum website notes. The work is expected to take around two months in all to complete, which includes repainting the hull of the ship, mending its anti-corrosion system, and various inspections.
According to the battleship's curator, Ryan Szimanski, moving New Jersey might well be a "once in a generation occurrence" due to its age, WPVI-TV reported. Szimanski further told the outlet that the battleship represents "one of the most impressive man-made objects ever," displacing some 57,500 tons.
Iowa class USS New Jersey firing its nine 16-inch guns simultaneously during a demonstration in 1984. USN
Battleship New Jersey Leaves Her Pier For First Time In Over 30 Years
The move from the Camden waterfront to the Philadelphia Navy Yard is essential to begin critical renovations on the historic vessel.BYOLIVER PARKEN|PUBLISHED MAR 21, 2024 7:37 PM EDT
The decommissioned Iowa class battleship USS New Jersey (BB-62), the most decorated battleship in U.S. naval history and the second-built of four of her kind, left its dock for the first time in over 30 years earlier today for an extensive maintenance overhaul.
Imagery and videos of the historic warship — which has been permanently berthed as a museum ship at a ceremonial pier on the Camden waterfront in New Jersey since 2001 — have proliferated online this afternoon. These show it on its short journey down the Delaware River to the former Philadelphia Navy Yard, where essential maintenance work on the ship will take place.
A short departure ceremony was held for New Jersey on the Camden waterfront at 11.00 A.M. ET, attended by U.S. Navy personnel, veterans, and members of the public, as well as Phil Murphy (D), Governor of New Jersey, and Congressman Donald Norcross (D), South Jersey.
"There's no battleship in our history that comes close to the legacy [of New Jersey]," Murphy said at the ceremony.
From there, pulled by tugboats, it headed south under the Walt Whitman Bridge, seen in this article's feature image, before docking at the Paulsboro Marine Terminal in the afternoon. There, according to WPVI-TV in Philadelphia, it will be balanced for dry docking, before heading to the Naval Yard's dry dock number three in six days time.
That the dock maintenance will occur at this particular dry dock represents something of a homecoming for New Jersey; as it was there that the battleship was built during the late-1930s to early-1940s and launched on December 7, 1942, the first anniversary of Pearl Harbor. When the contract was awarded for the battleship in July 1939, Charles Edison, acting secretary of the Navy, chose to name the Philadelphia-built ship after his home state of New Jersey.
Overall, the maintenance is "vital for the Battleship’s longevity," New Jersey's museum website notes. The work is expected to take around two months in all to complete, which includes repainting the hull of the ship, mending its anti-corrosion system, and various inspections.
According to the battleship's curator, Ryan Szimanski, moving New Jersey might well be a "once in a generation occurrence" due to its age, WPVI-TV reported. Szimanski further told the outlet that the battleship represents "one of the most impressive man-made objects ever," displacing some 57,500 tons.
Iowa class USS New Jersey firing its nine 16-inch guns simultaneously during a demonstration in 1984. USN
J Randall Murphy
Trying To Stay Awake
Note there that the Ukrainian coat of arms, a trident, is an official symbol of the country that dates back over a thousand years. It is NOT a symbol of NAZI affiliation.
Dejan Corovic
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US Navy ships have one logistic weakness, after just one fight they need minimum one month to just reload empty magazine and come back.
View: https://youtu.be/yjIe4haGfAg
View: https://youtu.be/yjIe4haGfAg
pigfarmer
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Dejan Corovic
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pigfarmer
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Check Out This Marine CH-53K Carrying An F-35C While Refueling From A KC-130T
BYJOSEPH TREVITHICK|PUBLISHED APR 25, 2024 9:36 PM EDT
U.S. Marine Corps CH-53K King Stallion helicopter with a stripped-down hulk of an F-35C slung underneath refueling in mid-air from a KC-130T Hercules tanker/transport aircraft is a window into what the service's distributed aviation operations might look like in the future.
A Marine CH-53K with a pilot from Marine Test and Evaluation Squadron 1 (VMX-1) at the controls recently did all of this while helping move the remains of the first F-35C test jet, also known as CF-1, from one base to another on April 24. The King Stallion carried the "inoperable airframe, which was without mission and propulsion systems, outer wings, or additional equipment" from Naval Air Station Patuxent River in Maryland to Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD) Lakehurst some 160 miles to the northeast, according to a caption accompanying the picture seen at the top of this story, which was released yesterday. NAWCAD Lakehurst is situated within Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst. What's left of CF-1 will be used for "future emergency recovery systems testing" at its new home in New Jersey, the Navy says.
Additional pictures the Navy has released showing the movement of CF-1 from Patuxent River to Lakehurst are seen below.
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This is actually not the first time a CH-53K has carried this exact airframe slung underneath. The Marines did so as part of a demonstration of the King Stallion's load-carrying capabilities in support of "Helicopter Support Team operations" at Patuxent River in January 2023, as you can read more about here. That looked to be the first time a CH-53K, which has a maximum payload capacity of 36,000 pounds, had ever lifted any F-35 fighter variant, or parts thereof, but did not appear to also involve any mid-air refueling.
Check Out This Marine CH-53K Carrying An F-35C While Refueling From A KC-130T
The new CH-53K is the most powerful helicopter in the Pentagon’s inventory and it provides a critical long-range, heavy-lift capability.BYJOSEPH TREVITHICK|PUBLISHED APR 25, 2024 9:36 PM EDT
U.S. Marine Corps CH-53K King Stallion helicopter with a stripped-down hulk of an F-35C slung underneath refueling in mid-air from a KC-130T Hercules tanker/transport aircraft is a window into what the service's distributed aviation operations might look like in the future.
A Marine CH-53K with a pilot from Marine Test and Evaluation Squadron 1 (VMX-1) at the controls recently did all of this while helping move the remains of the first F-35C test jet, also known as CF-1, from one base to another on April 24. The King Stallion carried the "inoperable airframe, which was without mission and propulsion systems, outer wings, or additional equipment" from Naval Air Station Patuxent River in Maryland to Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD) Lakehurst some 160 miles to the northeast, according to a caption accompanying the picture seen at the top of this story, which was released yesterday. NAWCAD Lakehurst is situated within Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst. What's left of CF-1 will be used for "future emergency recovery systems testing" at its new home in New Jersey, the Navy says.
Additional pictures the Navy has released showing the movement of CF-1 from Patuxent River to Lakehurst are seen below.
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This is actually not the first time a CH-53K has carried this exact airframe slung underneath. The Marines did so as part of a demonstration of the King Stallion's load-carrying capabilities in support of "Helicopter Support Team operations" at Patuxent River in January 2023, as you can read more about here. That looked to be the first time a CH-53K, which has a maximum payload capacity of 36,000 pounds, had ever lifted any F-35 fighter variant, or parts thereof, but did not appear to also involve any mid-air refueling.
Dejan Corovic
As above, so bellow
Check Out This Marine CH-53K Carrying An F-35C While Refueling From A KC-130T
Check Out This Marine CH-53K Carrying An F-35C While Refueling From A KC-130T
The new CH-53K is the most powerful helicopter in the Pentagon’s inventory and it provides a critical long-range, heavy-lift capability.
BYJOSEPH TREVITHICK|PUBLISHED APR 25, 2024 9:36 PM EDT
U.S. Marine Corps CH-53K King Stallion helicopter with a stripped-down hulk of an F-35C slung underneath refueling in mid-air from a KC-130T Hercules tanker/transport aircraft is a window into what the service's distributed aviation operations might look like in the future.
A Marine CH-53K with a pilot from Marine Test and Evaluation Squadron 1 (VMX-1) at the controls recently did all of this while helping move the remains of the first F-35C test jet, also known as CF-1, from one base to another on April 24. The King Stallion carried the "inoperable airframe, which was without mission and propulsion systems, outer wings, or additional equipment" from Naval Air Station Patuxent River in Maryland to Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD) Lakehurst some 160 miles to the northeast, according to a caption accompanying the picture seen at the top of this story, which was released yesterday. NAWCAD Lakehurst is situated within Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst. What's left of CF-1 will be used for "future emergency recovery systems testing" at its new home in New Jersey, the Navy says.
Additional pictures the Navy has released showing the movement of CF-1 from Patuxent River to Lakehurst are seen below.
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This is actually not the first time a CH-53K has carried this exact airframe slung underneath. The Marines did so as part of a demonstration of the King Stallion's load-carrying capabilities in support of "Helicopter Support Team operations" at Patuxent River in January 2023, as you can read more about here. That looked to be the first time a CH-53K, which has a maximum payload capacity of 36,000 pounds, had ever lifted any F-35 fighter variant, or parts thereof, but did not appear to also involve any mid-air refueling.
It seems that that F-35 is missing it's jet engine, which would be the heaviest part.