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Re: Art & Image Thread
Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2022 3:34 am
by Matt Wiser
OOC: One of the A-6 groups on Facebook.
Re: Art & Image Thread
Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2022 3:35 am
by Poohbah
Matt Wiser wrote: ↑Wed Nov 30, 2022 2:30 am
1988: the Raid on Kamchatka. A VA-155 A-6 prepares to launch from U.S.S.
Ranger (CV-61) on a mission to lay mines between the Kamchatka Peninsula and the Northernmost of the Kuriles.
Wasn't that
Raid On Kamchatka III: Kill A Commie For Mommy?
(So named because the big effort was on Mother's Day)
Re: Art & Image Thread
Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2022 3:40 am
by Matt Wiser
A Cuban MiG-23ML in the sights of a VF-32 F-14, just south of Cienfeugos, May, 1989.
Re: Art & Image Thread
Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2022 3:45 am
by Poohbah
Matt Wiser wrote: ↑Wed Nov 30, 2022 3:40 am
A Cuban MiG-23ML in the sights of a VF-32 F-14, just south of Cienfeugos, May, 1989.
Someone's about to get an AIM-9L enema...
Re: Art & Image Thread
Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2022 1:56 pm
by Wolfman
Matt Wiser wrote: ↑Wed Nov 30, 2022 3:34 am
OOC: One of the A-6 groups on Facebook.
OOC: Good to know, but I was talking in-character.
Re: Art & Image Thread
Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2022 7:23 am
by Matt Wiser
VS-29 S-3A Vikings over San Nicholas Island, 1988. When not embarked on the Big E, VS-29 flew local ASW patrols in the SoCal Op Area.
Re: Art & Image Thread
Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2022 9:20 pm
by Wolfman
Here's a profile of one of the ZSU-30-2 Tunguskas captured at Wichita during its evaluation.
Re: Art & Image Thread
Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2022 3:11 am
by Matt Wiser
Looks good... Just wish the data from those tests had reached us before the RAF got burned on their first day.
Re: Art & Image Thread
Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2022 3:13 am
by Matt Wiser
Day One, Mission One, PRAIRIE FIRE. That's 512 as we were forming up on the tankers, and Kara took the photo.
Re: Art & Image Thread
Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2022 3:22 am
by Wolfman
Matt Wiser wrote: ↑Thu Dec 08, 2022 3:13 am
Day One, Mission One, PRAIRIE FIRE. That's 512 as we were forming up on the tankers, and Kara took the photo.
Nice shot.
Re: Art & Image Thread
Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2023 5:59 am
by Matt Wiser
U.S.S. Inchon off the Texas Coast during Operation GULF HAMMER, May, 1988.
Re: Art & Image Thread
Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2023 4:07 pm
by Wolfman
OOC: Isn’t that one of the images I got off of NavSource?
Re: Art & Image Thread
Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2023 2:36 am
by Matt Wiser
OOC: No, this one came from Facebook.
Re: Art & Image Thread
Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2023 3:01 pm
by Wolfman
Re: Art & Image Thread
Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2023 3:23 pm
by Wolfman
Matt Wiser wrote: ↑Sat Jan 07, 2023 5:59 am
U.S.S.
Inchon off the Texas Coast during Operation GULF HAMMER, May, 1988.
That’s actually USS
Iwo Jima (LPH-2).
Inchon was there, though she was further north.
Re: Art & Image Thread
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2023 8:52 pm
by Wolfman
My Intruder during the Baja War.
Re: Art & Image Thread
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2023 9:28 pm
by Wolfman
A member of the Reparations Fleet, an Aero Union Il-14 "CRATE".
Re: Art & Image Thread
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2023 9:29 pm
by Wolfman
An F-14D Tomcat is directed onto the catapult aboard USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) prior to launch during the Baja War.
Re: Art & Image Thread
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2023 9:48 pm
by Sukhoiman
Artwork by Japanese twitter handle "@haneto" to commemorate the first (currently ongoing) Indo-Japanese air exercise (Veer Guardian '23).
There is an incredible amount of excitement and coverage of the air exercise by Japanese aviation folks on twitter in general.
A selection of them:
https://twitter.com/japan_radar
https://twitter.com/jasdf_hyakuri
https://twitter.com/shidenkai301
https://twitter.com/INHI_UV2B
Re: Art & Image Thread
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2023 10:25 pm
by Wolfman
OOC: Sukhoiman, I’m not sure that India flies any FLANKER derivatives ITTL.
