Friday, 28 October 2022
Two U.S. Navy McDonnell F-4B Phantom Il from Fighter Squadron VF-114 Aardvarks escort a Soviet Tupolev Tu-16 "Badger" bomber as it passes over the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CVA-63) in January 1963. VF-114 was assigned to Carrier Air Group 11 (CVG-11) aboard the Kitty Hawk for a deployment to the Western Pacific from 13 September 1962 to 2 April 1963.
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7,500 horsepower per engine, times three; this helicopter is a three-engine beast. When the USMC needs to haul ass and haul it fast, be it armoured vehicles, artillery, or tens of thousands of pounds of gear straight from a ship to a hot LZ, they call in the CH-53K, the King Stallion.
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