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  1. Navy Tests Enhanced JDAM with Jet-Powered Propulsion

    Imagine a guided bomb with a built-in engine, capable of transforming the face of modern warfare - that's exactly what the Navy recently tested with its enhanced JDAM, powered by a jet propulsion system. This game-changing technology could revolutionize affordable standoff strike capabilities.

    osintsights.com/navy-tests-enh

    #Jdamlr #JetpoweredJdam #NavalAviation #PrecisionStrike #StandoffStrike

  2. Justice will be coming to #Muscovy 🇷🇺 from the sky 🌌 .

    Long live #NATO-1 the future of pan European defense!
    #SlavaNATO 🇪🇺2.0 #SlavaUkraine 💪🇺🇦

    Repost from @ksea.ba

    Nothing like some sunset touch n goes 🤙
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    Taken 11/8/23
    EA-18G Growler
    Coupeville, Whidbey Island
    #whidbey #whidbeyisland #Coupeville #naswhidbeyisland #growler #ea18growler #f18 #f18superhornet #military #militaryaviation #militaryjets #navy #flynavy #navalaviation #Boeing

  3. Curtiss Model D Pusher, 1912 (replica). Glenn Curtiss was engaged, sometimes in a legal sense, in a fight with the Wright Brothers for dominance in the world of early aviation - Curtiss machines had ailerons, rather than the Wright-designed wing warping, for roll control. Although the Model D suffered, as did most of the early pusher designs, from higher drag due to the wide-spaced rear fuselage frame members, it was still a useful machine, performing both the first take-off from a vessel (Nov. 1910) and the first landing (Jan. 1911). This replica is of a 'headless pusher', so called by Curtiss because the earlier forward mounted canard control surfaces were omitted in this model #earlyaviation #biplane #GlennCurtiss #Curtiss #aeroplane #pusher #aircraft #navalaviation #USA #WrightBrothers #avgeek #aviationlovers #CurtissModelD #museum #replica

  4. Fairey Firefly Mk I (TT.I) Seen here in the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm Museum at Yeovliton, the Firefly was the last time the Royal Navy shoehorned a navigator into one of their carrier fighters! Theythought that the pilot needed a navigator to stop him getting lost at sea! Needless to say, this increased the size and weight of the aircraft, and reduced performance. Despite being powered by a Rolls-Griffon IIB engine of 1,735hp, the Firefly I could only manage 319 mph - this was 5 mph slower than a Merlin-powered Hawker Hurricane Mk I of 1940! This Firefly was sold to Svensk Flygtjänst AB of Sweden after conversion to a target tug, eventually being restored as an aircraft which took part on attacks on the Japanese Home Islands in 1945. #FaireyFirefly #FleetAirArm #RN #RoyalNavy #Pacific #Japan #HomeIslands #WW2 #history #photography #museum #aviation #avgeek #targettug #Sweden #yeovilton #FleetAirArmMuseum #navalaviation #fighter #aircraft #rollsroyce #rrgriffon

  5. Supermarine Walrus I, Fleet Air Arm Museum, Yeovilton. The Walrus was designed to be an aircraft that could be catapulted from capital ships of the Royal Navy, but ended up being a most useful amphibian. As well as spotting naval gunfire, the Walrus provided excellent air/sea rescue service around the coast of Britain and in other areas. Some were supplied to the Republic of Ireland, and this preserved example is one of these. #amphibian #WW2 #royalnavy #aircraft #capitalship #navalhistory #navalaviation #naval #avgeek #FleetAirArm #FleetAirArmMuseum #yeovilton #supermarine #walrus #aviation #aviationgeek

  6. RT @[email protected]

    1/ Today, the Naval Academy Women's Network hosted a panel of alumni who are female pilots (“Moms in Flight Suits”) who spoke to an auditorium full of midshipmen (standing room only) about how they balance pregnancy, family, and an aviation career,
    #navalaviation #flynavy #pilot

    🐦🔗: twitter.com/SistersofB/status/