#airwarfare — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #airwarfare, aggregated by home.social.
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"If you cannot accept that what Trump has done over the last year and a half is starve Ukraine of air defense, and put off any new aid for as long as possible, so Putin can terrorize Ukraine from the air for as long as possible--you cannot accept reality."
- Phillips OBrien
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The Pentagon is testing a big idea: can orbit take over part of the airborne-tracking mission long handled by AWACS-type aircraft?
Our latest on space-based AMTI, the U.S. Space Force, and what this could mean for future air combat:
https://spacetech.industryexaminer.com/the-pentagons-next-airborne-tracking-system-may-be-in-orbit/#SpaceTech #DefenseTech #SpaceForce #Pentagon #AMTI #AWACS #EWedgetail #MilitarySatellites #AirWarfare #ISR #TechNews
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Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17F. The MiG-17 - NATO reporting name 'Fresco' - was the immediate successor to the Korean War era Mig-15 in Russian service. With a cleaner airframe and a crude but serviceable afterburner on the Klimov VK-1 engine, the MiG-17 was transonic in a dive (rather like the Hawker Hunter). Powerful gun armament (1 x 37mm and 2 x 23mm cannons) was optimised for bomber interception, but the aircraft proved a formidable opponent in Vietnam War dogfights against early F-4 Phantoms (which did not have a fixed gun armament) as they were far more agile. This preserved example is shown at the Rhode Island Air Show. #airshow #USA #RhodeIsland #aircraft #aviation #afterburner #fighter #avgeek #NATO #Russian #MiG #MiG17 #Fresco #KlimovVK1 #MikoyanGurevich #transonic #VietnamWar #airwarfare #F4Phantom #cannon #dogfight #photography #aviationphotography
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#MastodonMosquitoMoment Here we see a Royal Air Force Corporal #Armourer winching a 4,000lb HC bomb (a.k.a. a 'cookie') into the #bomb bay of a #Mosquito of the #LightNightStrikingForce of #BomberCommand, #RAF during #WW2 .The People's Mosquito are restoring one of these iconic #aircraft to flight status. For details, see www.peoplesmosquito.org.uk #airwarfare #history