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USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77)

Nimitz Class Aircraft Carrier ~ USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77)
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USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77) is the tenth and final Nimitz class supercarrier of the United States Navy.

She is named for the 41st President of the United States George H. W. Bush, who was a naval aviator during World War II. Bush's callsign is Avenger, after the TBM Avenger aircraft flown by then-Lieutenant George Bush in WWII.

Construction began in 2001 by the Northrop Grumman Newport News shipyard, at a cost of $6.2 billion USD and was completed in 2009.

She is homeported at Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia.

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City of Bangkok : กรุงเทพฯ

กรุงเทพฯ
กรุงเทพฯ ใน เวลา กลางคืน เห็น ได้ จาก ด้าน บน ของ ไทร Tree Hotel.
Bangkok at night, seen from top of Banyan Tree Hotel.
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This Amazing Photo by: Benh LIEU SONG
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USS Hue City (CG 66)

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The guided-missile cruiser USS Hue City (CG 66) prepares for a replenishment at sea while an MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter assigned to the Chargers of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 26 performs a vertical replenishment between the Military Sealift Command fast combat support ship USNS Supply (T-AOE 6) and the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69).

Canadian Warships head to Haiti

Canadian Frigate HMCS Halifax steams to Haiti
to help in relief efforts after the devastating earthquake.

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HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, Jan. 19 (UPI) -- Two Canadian warships arrived off the north and south coasts of Haiti early Tuesday and began sending crews of 100 ashore to collect bodies and clear roads.

The HMCS Athabaskan was off shore from Leogane, a devastated town west of Port-au-Prince on the north coast, while the HMCS Halifax dropped anchor off Jacmel, a town of 40,000 on the earthquake-ravaged Caribbean island's southern coast.

The two ships left port in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Thursday with "limited amounts" of relief supplies aboard, but both will go to Kingston, Jamaica, every six days to resupply, Capt. Art McDonald told an embedded reporter with The (Halifax) Chronicle-Herald... Read more from, API >>

U.S. Air Force C-130 Hercules

U.S. Air Force C-130 Hercules
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Although they are everywhere and very common throughout military forces the world over, I still love the Hercules and this particular shot with the reflection really caught my eye!

A U.S. Air Force C-130 Hercules aircraft arrives at West Fruegh Airfield, Scotland, after severe thunderstorms May 18, 2009, in support of an operational readiness exercise held between Royal Air Force Fairford, England, and West Fruegh Airfield, Scotland. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Kenny Holston/Released)

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Photographer's Name: SrA Kenny HolstonLocation: West Freugh Airfield
Date Shot: 5/18/2009

SAAB Gripen Fighter Jet

I have always loved this little Swedish Fighter Jet, it looks sleek and deadly and I have always admired the fact that this relatively small Scandinavian country can design and build its own indigenous military jets with huge success!

SAAB Jas 39 Gripen
Gripen Demo with Iris-T, Meteor and GBU10
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The Saab JAS 39 Gripen (English: Griffin) is a lightweight fighter aircraft manufactured by the Swedish aerospace company Saab. Gripen International acts as a prime contracting organisation and is responsible for marketing, selling and supporting the Gripen fighter around the world.

The aircraft is in service with the Swedish Air Force, the Czech Air Force, the Hungarian Air Force and the South African Air Force, and has been ordered by the Royal Thai Air Force. A total of 236 Gripens have been ordered as of 2008.

General characteristics

Crew: 1 (2 for JAS 39B/D)
Length: 14.1 m (46 ft 3 in)
Wingspan: 8.4 m (27 ft 7 in)
Height: 4.5 m (14 ft 9 in)
Wing area: 30.0 m² (323 ft²)
Empty weight: 5,700 kg (14,600 lb)
Loaded weight: 8,500 kg (18,700 lb)
Max takeoff weight: 14,000 kg (31,000 lb)
Powerplant: 1× Volvo Aero RM12 afterburning turbofan
Dry thrust: 54 kN (12,100 lbf)
Thrust with afterburner: 80.5 kN (18,100 lbf)
Wheel track: 2.4 m (7 ft 10 in)
Length (two-seater): 14.8 m (48 ft 5 in)

Performance

Maximum speed:
At altitude: Mach 2 (2,470 km/h, 1,372 mph)
Combat radius: 800 km (500 mi, 432 nmi)
Ferry range: 3,200 km (2,000 mi) with drop tanks
Service ceiling: 15,240 m (50,000 ft)
Wing loading: 336 kg/m² (68.8 lb/ft²)
Thrust/weight: 0.97

Armament

1 × 27 mm Mauser BK-27 cannon 120 rounds
6 × Rb.74 (AIM-9) or Rb 98 (IRIS-T)
4 ×Rb.99 (AIM-120) or MICA4 x Rb.71 (Skyflash) or Meteor
4 x Rb.75
2 x KEPD.350
4 x GBU-12 Paveway II laser-guided bomb
4 x rocket pods 13.5 cm rockets
2 x Rbs.15F anti-ship missile
2 x Bk.90 cluster bomb
8 x Mark 82 bombs
1 x ALQ-TLS ECM pod

C-141B Starlifter

A C-141B Starlifter aircraft leaves four plumes of exhaust behind it as it prepares for an airdrop during Operation Deep Freeze.

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The Lockheed C-141 Starlifter was a military strategic airlifter in service with the Air Mobility Command (AMC) of the United States Air Force. The aircraft also served with AMC-gained airlift wings and air mobility wings of the Air Force Reserve Command (AFRC) and the Air National Guard (ANG) and, in later years, one air mobility wing of the Air Education and Training Command (AETC) dedicated to C-141, C-5, C-17 and KC-135 training.

Introduced to replace slower piston-engined cargo planes such as the C-124 Globemaster II, the C-141 was designed to requirements set in 1960 and first flew in 1963. Production deliveries of an eventual 285 planes began in 1965: 284 for the Air Force, and one for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for use as an airborne observatory. The aircraft remained in service for almost 40 years until the USAF withdrew the C-141 from service on 5 May 2006, replacing the aircraft with the C-17 Globemaster III.