The island’s air force scrambles jets to shadow 11 aircraft which included fighters, bombers and surveillance planes One Y-8 electric warfare aircraft is said to have entered the firing target zone, ignoring warnings that a military exercise was about to begin Topic | Taiwan Lawrence Chung + FOLLOW Published: 12:18pm, 18 Aug, 2021 Why you can trustContinue reading “PLA warplane enters Taiwanese military target zone minutes before drill begins”
Monthly Archives: August 2021
HMS Leander NZ Div of the RN – Date 22 Jul 1941
80 years ago HMS Leander was at anchor in Alexandria, Egypt sporting her dazzle paint job #Dazzle was used during both World Wars to make it difficult for enemy ships to estimate a target’s range, speed, and heading . https://natlib.govt.nz/records/23062334?hcb=1 In 1941 the New Zealand Division became the Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN) and she was commissionedContinue reading “HMS Leander NZ Div of the RN – Date 22 Jul 1941”
USS Enterprise 14 Jan 1969 after fire.
The 1969 USS Enterprise fire was a major fire and series of explosions that broke out aboard USS Enterprise on January 14, 1969, off the coast of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The fire started when a Zuni rocket detonated under a plane’s wing. It spread as more munitions exploded, blowing holes in the flight deck that allowed burning jet fuel to enter the ship. 28 sailors were killed, 314Continue reading “USS Enterprise 14 Jan 1969 after fire.”
Battleship USS Idaho fitting out at New York Ship Building Corporation, June 23rd 1919. Note the lack of hull-mounted secondary armament. According to navsource.org, she was the first battleship to be completed without such guns as their ports were plated over before her commissioning; however, the emplacements remained as her hull was otherwise like that of her sister ships.
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Off the coast of Kagoshima, Japan on May 14, 2021.
San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock USS New Orleans (LPD-18), joined by the Royal Australian Navy’s Anzac-class frigate HMAS Parramatta (FFH-154), the French Navy’s amphibious assault helicopter carrier FS Tonnerre (L9014), and Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force’s Ōsumi class tank landing ship JS Ōsumi, transit together during exercise Jeanne D’Arc 21 (ARC-21), off the coast ofContinue reading “Off the coast of Kagoshima, Japan on May 14, 2021.”
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