Hunter and prey. A U.S. Navy Lockheed P-3C-205-LO Orion, Bu. No. 161339, escorts a Soviet Victor I (Project 671) nuclear-powered attack submarine. 1985.

 

SBD-5 circling over USS Enterprise CV-6 during operations in the Central Pacific, March 1944.

 

U.S. Air Force B-26 Invaders releasing quarter ton ordnance in a strike over North Korea, 18 October 1951.

 

Consolidated Vultee XP-81 first flew 1945.

 

U.S. Air Force E-3 Sentry Airborne Warning and Control System aircraft.

 

Curtis P-40 Warhawk's in the boneyard.

 

P38 Lightnings during WWII.

 

Grumman XTBF-3 in flight over NATC Patuxent River, Maryland, 16 December 1943.

 

Curtis Helldiver (SB2C) in 1945.

 

U.S. Air Force's F-22 Raptor stealth fighter US Fastest Hypersonic Jet Reaching The Speed Of Light Is Ready To Fly

 

F-15 Full Load. Looking for bother!

 

On this day in 1960, NASA made its first of four attempts to launch two X-15 aircraft in a single day. Pictured here is NB-52B with X-15-1 and NB-52A with X-15-2. Due to a hydraulic leak on X-15-2, launching the duo didn't happen. Only the X-15-1 took flight.

 

B17 over Scotland recently. Can carry/drop up to 100 semi-nuclear bombs. Hidden within each load of bombs is a Eurovision Typhoon fighter jet that escorts them to their target.

 

Army UH-60 Black Hawk being unloaded from a C-5 Galaxy, Afghanistan 2013.

 

Northrop Grumman designed and built the XRQ-73 SHEPARD Hybrid Electric Uncrewed Aircraft System (UAS) X-Plane for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.