Wasp from No. 3 Squadron RNZAF hovers above the sail of USS Queenfish (SSN-651), likely in Waitematā Harbour, circa 1984.

 

Big Brother is Watching!

 A British RC-135 surveillance aircraft has completed a deployment monitoring Russian forces in Kaliningrad on the Baltic Sea, Belarus north of Ukraine as well as Russian forces in and around Crimea on the Black Sea.

The RC-135W Rivet Joint and its sensors are designed to undertake ‘signals intelligence’ missions, in other words they ‘soak up’ electronic emissions from communications, radars and other systems.

North American T-28C.

 

No smoking!

 

1970's Ark Royal.

HMS Ark Royal R09, with Phantom FG.1s of No.892 SQ and Buccaneer S.2B of No.809 SQ and a Fairey Gannet AEW.3 plus a Westland WS-61 Sea King.

PACIFIC OCEAN (Jan. 19, 2022)

 A P-8A Poseidon from Patrol Squadron (VP) 47 conducts midair refueling with the U.S. Air Force 506th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron during exercise Sea Dragon 2022. Sea Dragon is a U.S.-led, multi-national exercise designed to practice and discuss Anti-submarine Warfare tactics to operate together in response to traditional and non-traditional maritime security challenges in the Indo-Pacific region. VP-47 conducts maritime patrol and reconnaissance as well as theater outreach operations as part of a rotational deployment to the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations.  

Bound for Guam.

 USAAF Republic P-47N Thunderbolt fighters on the flight deck of USS Casablanca (CVE-55), 16 July 1945. The planes were loaded at Naval Air Station Alameda, California (USA) and were bound for Guam.

New Apahe attack helicopter.

The British Army’s new attack helicopter, the Apache AH-64E, has been brought into frontline service.

Fifty Apache AH-64E Version 6 aircraft (rebuilt from the British Army’s pre-existing Apache AH1 fleet) have been purchased from the United States with 14 of them having been delivered to the British Army so far.

Royal Air Force - ML796 Short - S.25 Sunderland 5. Duxford Museum.

 

RAF Airbus A400M Atlas.

 

SB2C Helldiver of Bombing Squadron VB-7 coming aboard USS Hancock off the United States east coast, mid-1944.

 

RAF Marham.

RAF Marham in Norfolk has received a new gate guardian – a Tornado GR4.The Tornado fighter jet has been given a new coat of paint and a unique design on its tail and spine to commemorate the RAF Marham squadrons that flew the iconic jet between 1982 and 2019.

 

The E-3 Sentry aircraft, the fleet of which were retired from Royal Air Force service last year.

British transport aircraft are currently moving "light anti-armour" weapons into Ukraine in light of "increasingly threatening" behaviour from Russia.

 

Calling in the military to monitor migrants in the English Channel.

For the second time in 18 months, the Home Secretary formally requested assistance from the MoD to deal with migrants crossing the English Channel in small boats.

 

USAAF Lockheed P-38 Lightning fighters stop at Iceland for refueling on their way to Britain. Iceland, 1942.

 

F4U Corsair.

 

A Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force SH-60J Sea Hawk, left, and an MH-60S Sea Hawk, assigned to the “Black Knights” of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 4, sit on the flight deck of Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) as a part of MALABAR 2021.

 

Scrapped!

The Victor jet outside RAF Marham was offered for free to anyone who could remove and restore it, but was scrapped after no-one with the means to do so came forward.

Sea Vixen FAW.2 XN686 of 899 NAS on HMS Eagle.

 

Flying in a 100 Squadron Hawk T1, the jet flew alongside one of the iconic US airforce B-52H Stratofortress bombers.

 

Preparing to launch an A-6E Intruder on USS Coral Sea (CV-43) 1987.

 

RAF C-130J Hercules.

 

HMS Vanguard flight.

 Exercise Mariner 3, 1953. And HMS Vanguard would go on to operate both RN FAA Westland WS-51 Dragonflies and USN Piasecki HUP-2s on occasion in the 1950s.

Lockheed S-3A Viking shadowing a Kilo-class submarine.

 

CMV-22B Osprey prepares to land on the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70), Dec. 31, 2021.

 

Brazilian Air Force KC-390 FAB2855

 

An aerial view of an SB2C approaching the USS Yorktown (CV-10) below, July 1944.

 

RNZAF Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawks at Kukum Field, Guadalcanal. On this day in 1942 Japanese Emperor Hirohito gave Japanese commanders permission to withdraw their forces from Guadalcanal.

One of the seven General Dynamics-Grumman F-111B test aircraft built for the US Navy is catapulted off the USS Coral Sea (CV-43) during sea trials in 1968