US Navy Arleigh Burke Flight IV
6 photos
This is a porposed 1/350 scale model of a US Navy Burke Flight IV destroyer. The US navy is contemplating building 20-40 Flight IV Burkes after they complete their run of Flight III Burke AEGIS...
South Korean 2 Carrier Strike Group
28 photos
Similar to the earlier album about the Japanese two carrier strike group since the Japanese decided to take on the F-35B for their Izumo class carrier, this album is about the South Korean 2 Carrier...
Rosa Trlica
1 photo
Genealogical Information about Rosa Trlica, married name Machu to Pavel Machu 1840-1920
Condor 83 SSG Folding Lockback by Seiko Malio
10 photos
This is a vintage knife I am trying to find out more about. It has the Condor name and 83 SSG on one side, and Seiko Malio's signature with A1-07458 on the other.
Seiko Malio was a master craftsman...
JMSDF Two Carrier Strike Group 1-700 Scale
64 photos
With the announcement that the JMSDF will buy F-35Bs and equip the Izumo class carriers with them, I began a projet a few months ago to build the carrier strike group that is likely to develop from...
US Navy FFG(X) in 1/350 Scale - Lockheed
79 photos
What is depicted in this album is the next true guided missile frigate of the US Navy, the FFG(X) program and the vessel I believe most likely to win the competition. I produced a model in 1/350...
Chinese PLAN Type 055 Large DDG (Cruiser)
15 photos
In 2017 the Chinese launched their first Type 055 large AEGIS-like destroyer, which is more on the order of a cruiser, displacing 12,000 tons full load.
It has 80 VLS cells, 48 forward and 32...
2018 PLAN Update
52 photos
2018 Pictorial update of the Chinese Navy Growth
Introduction:
For the last 14 years I have produced an annual review of the buildup and modernization of the Chinese Navy, the People's Liberation...
XB-70 Valkyrie USAF Bomber in 1/72 Scale
72 photos
This is a write up of my 1/72 scale XB-70 Valery model by Italeri.
It is a LARGE model, representing a large, high mach, high altitude pentration bomber designed by the United States in the late...
Jared Head and Ann Tiera Bardsley wedding Vows...
46 photos
A picture Album of the Rehersal, Rehersal Dinner, the Evening before, and the Wedding of Benjamin Jared Head and Ann Tiara Bardsley on Saturday, De ember 30, 2017 at the Chapel at Tamarack Resort...
PLAN Type 055 Large Destroyer in 1-350 scale
62 photos
This is an album documenting with pictures my build out of a Shapeways 3D Type 055 Model from Dutch Naval Miniatures.
The Type 055 is a 12,000 ton cruiser size vessel with 112 VLS tubes and a 24...
1/350 Scale USS Enterprise CVN-80, 3rd Ford Class...
171 photos
This album is my build of the 3rd Ford Class carrier, the USS Enterprise, CVN-80 whose first steel was cut in the summer of 2017.
Her sister, and 1st in class, the USS Gerald R. Ford, CVN-78, was...
2017-1017 Gowen Thunder Air Show
42 photos
My son Jeff and his family drove to the Gowen Air Show last Saturday. we were going to meet my other son Jared and his Fiancee, Ann (who is a EMT for the Idaho Air Guard and was working there that...
PLAN DDG-138 Ningo in 1/350 scale with new refit
76 photos
This is my 1/350 scale model of the Chinese destroyer, Ningbo, DDG-139. She is a Sovremenny class vessel purchased from the Russians. The Chinese bought four, two of the older variety in the late...
Genealogical Information
157 photos
This album includes lots of pictures regarding my, my fathers, my moms, and my wife's families. I am using them to document our family history.
PLAN Launches 1st Type 055 Large Destroyer
9 photos
On June 26, 2017, the Chinese Navy launched its first large, very capable and modern destroyer. Most nations would classify it as a cruiser.
12,000 ton full load, with 128 VLS cells and operating...
HMS Queen Elizabeth Sea Trials
30 photos
This album is dedicated to the sea trials of the new Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier, which started on June 25th, 2017.
She cleared the bridges out into the forth and then went out to sea.
Large,...
HMS Duncan, D37, Darin Class in 1/350 Scale
78 photos
The Type 45, Daring Class destroyers are the Royal Navy's newest and most potent surface combatants in history. They have the most modern and among (if not the) most capable radar and battle...
1/350 Scale Carrier strike Groups
8 photos
Pictures of several of my 1/350 Scale Carrier Strike Groups.
French aircraft Carrier Charles De Gaulle in...
54 photos
This is an album of my build of the French nulcear aircraft carrier, Charles De Gaulle fro Heller (the model maker).
It is the only large scale model availabl;e and I usually build 1/350 scale, but...
B-17 Aluminum Overcast in Nampa Idaho
19 photos
A vintage, but rebuilt and refurbished B-17, the Aluminum Overcast was in Nampa, Idaho from Friday May 26 through Monday, May 29, 2017, Memorial Day.
Nampa is about 25 miles from where we live so we...
Russian Admiral Gorshkov FFG in 1/350 Scale
54 photos
The new Admiral Gorshkov class frigates are the Russian Navy's newest and most capable frigates.
Displacing over 4,000 tons, they approach a destroyer in size and with 16 anti -surface missiles in...
USS Enterprise CV-6 in 1/350 Scale
167 photos
This is a 1/350 scale model build of the USS Enterprise. The write up of the build will be on my jeffhead.com 1/350 scale model shop site and on Fine Scale Modeler.
The USS Enterprise aircraft...
UH-60 Black-hawk at Idaho MIA get together
8 photos
Today, at a small Restaurant called the Triangle Restaurant near a town called Sweet, Idaho, about 15 miles from Emmett, Idaho they had a get together honoring the Missing in Action US personnel over...
USS Gerald R. Ford, CVN-78, 1st Sea Trials
61 photos
On April 6th, 2017, the USS Gerald R. Ford put to sea for the first time, conducting Builders sea trials. The engines, maneuvering, helicopter operations on deck, aircraft approaches (but no...
USS Vincennes CA-44 WWII Heavy Cruiser
68 photos
This is an album of a 1/350 scale model of the USS Vincennes, CA-44, a US Navy Heavy cruiser of the New Orleans Class,. Seven of these cruisers were built and launched between 1933 and 1936.
The...
F/A-18F Advanced Super Hornet US Navy 1/72 Model
62 photos
This album is about the 1/72 scale model build of the Hasegawa model of the new US Navy Advanced Super Hornet.
The Advanced super Hornet has new engines, new AESA radar, more advanced...
German Navy S184 Type 212 SSK 1:350 Scale
43 photos
This is my model of the newest German Air-Independant Propulstion (AIP) conventional submarines, the Type 212 submarines of which the Germans have built six and will build two more, and the Italians...
French Lafayette, F713 Aconit 1/400 Scale model
8 photos
A few pictures of the Heller 1/400 scale model of the LAfyette Frigate, F713 Aconit. I also shos some pictures of a small French grouping including their nuclear carrier, the Charles de Gaulle, two...
USS Grayson, DD-435, Gleaves Class Destroyer
73 photos
This is my build, in 1/350 scale, of the Gleaves class destroyer, USS Grayson, DD-435.
She was launched in 1940 and then took part in escorting transports and convoys to England until after Pearl...
German Type 125 Baden-Württemberg Frigate, 1/350...
83 photos
This is a photo album of a 3D Printed, 1/350 scale German Type 125 Baden-Württemberg Frigate by Dutch 3D Naval Miniatures.
I will paint it and add all the details, (including railing, detailed...
USS Hornet, CV-8, 1/350 Scale Doolittle Model
86 photos
This is the review and build of the USS Hornet as it appeared in April 1942 when conducting the Doolittle Raidd on Japan with B-25 bombers.
These were land based bombers that were modified to do...
German Type 122 Frigate Karlsruhe
76 photos
These are the 1/300 scale pictures from my build of the F122, Bremen Class Frigate, Karlsruhe, F212.
The model is by Revell, and I added a number of enhancements to the model.
These eight vessels...
2017 Annual Chinese Navy (PLAN) Review
138 photos
The PLAN has continued its many year advance and naval buildup in numerous areas.
This is not new, in fact the news is that they sustain this naval growth and modernization as a very high rate of...
JMSDF P-1 MPA-ASW Aircraft
11 photos
This album is about the JMSDF maritaim patrol aicraft (MPA), the P-1 built by Kawasaki.
This is a four engined indigenous aircraft that Japan is using to replace its large fleet of US designed P-3C...
JMSDF Akizuki Class (19DD) Destroyer
16 photos
This album is about one of Japan's newest destroyer class, the Akizuki class.
Although it does not have the US Navy AEGIS system, it does have a very modern and capale intergrated defense/armament...
JMSDF Asahi (25DD) Class
9 photos
This album is about the new class of general purpose destroyers, the Asahi Class (25DD) which are being built in Japan.
They are a stronger ASW variant of the Akizuki class of which four were...
1/350 Scale USS Enterprise, CVN-65, model build
204 photos
The pictures of my build of the Tamiya, 1/350 scale USS Enterprise, CVN-65.
I depicted it after its latest upgrades in early 2000s before its decommissioning in 2012.
I did the build in in 2012...
1/350 scale USS Ronald Reagan model Build
415 photos
These are pictures from my 1/350 scale USS Ronald Reagan, CVN-76, nuclear aircraft carrier model build, transforming the Trumpeter kit of the 1975 USS Nimitz.
This requires a big build to which I...
2016-2017 More Snow in Emmett, ID
99 photos
SW Idaho, starting in early December 2016, and continuing to now, January 5, 2017, has been in a weather pattern that is bringing snow storms to Emmett, ID every 3-5 days.
We have had probably...
Japan JASDF X-2 Stealth Aircraft
14 photos
The Japanese are buying the US F-35 stealth strike aircraft...but they really wanted to buy the US F-22 stealth superiority fighter. But this was denied, not only Japan, but to any nation.
So Japan...
PLAN-CV-16 Live fire Bohai Sea
26 photos
The Chinese carrier, Liaoning, CV-16, conducted extensive live-fire exercises in the Bohai Sea in late December 2016.
These are some pictures from those exercises which saw as many as 13 J-15s...
French Navy Charles de Gaulle Carrier, R91
25 photos
The French have built and operated fixed wing, catapult driven aircraft carriers for decades. Outside of the United States (who now has eleven of them) they are the only other country to every build...
US Navy ARG in 1:350 Scale
20 photos
The United States Navy regularly embarks Amphibious Ready Groups to exercises around the world. Both Joint exercises with other nations, and US training exercises to ensure that its amphibious...
2016 Late summer SW Idaho with Lady
20 photos
I mid September I took our Black Lab, German Short-hair Mix, Lady, out. I take her each week to let her run and sniff around at things out in the country and hills surrounding our small town of...
F-35As at Mountain Home AFB, Idaho Training
18 photos
We've been excited to have seven F-35A at Mountain Home AFB here in Idaho from the 61st Fighter Squadron from Luke Air Force Base near Phoenix Arizona.
The main objective of the training has been...
PLAN 2016 Exercises
162 photos
Many varied pictures of the Chinese Navy (PLAN - People's Liberation Army Navy) conducting a myriad of exercises, principally in the South China sea and in the East China Sea.
These exercises are...
US Navy F-35C DT III Testing
47 photos
The US Navy conducted its third and final Developmental Testing (DT) at sea aboard the USS George Washington,, CVN-73. Earlier tests over the last two years were conducted on the USS Nimitz, and the...
PLAN 1st Indigenous Carrier, CV-17, Shandong
64 photos
The Chinese Navy (PLAN) is building its first indigenous aircraft carrier at the Dalian shipyards. The vessel was laid down in early 2015 and is making rapid progress, with the ski-jump lifted in...
RIMPAC 2016
81 photos
Rim of the Pacific is a bi-annual (every two years) naval exercise held at Pearl Harbor and off of Hawaii. It is the largest Naval Exercise on earth and it is sponsored by the United States Navy. ...
Big Thicket National Preserve
27 photos
My wife and I visited the Big Thicket National Preserve on July 17, 2016.
We traveled up to Cleveland. TX from Houston (about 50 or 55 miles) on US 59/I-69. The left Cleveland on FM 787, to FM...
NASA Space Center Houston
25 photos
We visited NASA Space Center in Houston in July 2016. Really nice Center with LOTS to do.
Be forewarned, it is not cheap to get in...about $25 per person and you need to go when you can spend...
USS Lexington, CV-16, Museum Ship
22 photos
Our visit to the USS Lexington Museum Ship on June 4, 2016, in Corpus Christie, TX.
She was an Essex class carrier which fought from 1943 through the end of war, from the Tarawa campaign to...
2016 Srping in SW Idaho
20 photos
Pictures from around the Payette River Valley in SW Idaho in April, 2016 as Spring reaches the valleys.
You can still see the snow in the mountains and we will see more frosts and maybe a freeze...
PLAN TYpe 052C Destroyer
6 photos
The Type 052C Luzhou destroyer were the first modern, wide area defense multi-purpose destroyers of the Chinese Navy.
They are similar in appearance and capability to the US Navy Arleigh Burke...
US Navy PT Boats (WW II)
14 photos
US Navy PT Boats (which stood for Patrol Torpedo Boats), were fast, agile and very maneuverable, small attack craft used by he US Navy in world War II.
Most were were 78 feet long and 23 feet wide...
US Navy Hospital Ship USNS Mercy, T-AH-19
36 photos
The US Navy operates two very large hospital ships. one from the west Coast of the US out of San Diego, the USNS Mery, T-AH-19, and the other from the east coast of the US Out of Norfolk, VA, the...
2016 Indian Navy Fleet Review
36 photos
India regularly holds an International Fleet Review (IFR) where they put on display the cream of the crop Indian Navy vessels and aircraft, as well as invite various international nations to also...
Death of Lavoy Finicum in Oregon
42 photos
These are 42 still photos from the FBI video of the apprehension of the Bundy brothers and the individuals with them in Oregon in the very early morning hours of January 27, 2016, where Lavoy...
French Aircraft Carrier at War against ISIS
45 photos
After the terrorist attacks in Paris by ISIS, the French government determined to wage war against ISIS in Syria and the mid-east.
They sent their aircraft carrier, the Charles de Gaulle, R91, and...
2016 January Washington DC Blizzard
49 photos
On January 22 and extending through January 24th, 2016, a blizzard hit the Eastern US seaboard., from Charlotte, NC, up past New York City, including the nation's capital. Washington, DC.
By Sunday...
PLAN 2016 Update
139 photos
These are the full resolution pictures for my annual PLAN Update about the Chinese Navy and its progress towards modernization and transforming itself into a blue water Navy.
I place these annual...
Life aboard the Chinese carrier, Liaoning, CV-16
50 photos
The Chinese Navy (PLAN) commissioned its first carrier in September 2012, the Liaoning, CV-16. It was the rebuilt and refit carrier Varyag that the Soviet Union built but was never able to put into...
2015 Chrstmas in SW Idaho
36 photos
Our 2015 Christmas in SW Idaho. Our son Jeff and his wife and three daughters, our son Jared, and Gail's folks were all here.
We also had a Face Time video call with our daughter Katie and her...
PLAN Type 901 Replenishment Vessel
32 photos
The Chinese Navy has completed and launched its first indigenous, very large Replenishment vessel (AOR).
It is the first Type 901 Replenishment ship and should displace approximately 50,000...
PLAN Zubr Landing Craft
34 photos
This album is dedicated to the large, Zubr class air-cushioned landing craft the Chinese Navy has purchased and is building.
The PLAN initially had two built in Ukraine for them that were...
US Navy Fleet Carrier History
55 photos
This album lists and shows all of the fleet carriers that the US Navy has built, from the USS Langley, CV-1, launched in 1912, to the USS Gerald R. Ford, CVN-78, launched in 2014.
Fifty-five fleet...
US Navy Virginia nuclear attack subs
26 photos
The Virginia class nuclear attack submarines (SSN) are the latest nuclear attack submarines being built by the US Navy. They are considered the most capable, quiet, and effect nuclear attack...
USAF F-15C/D Eagle
30 photos
The F-15 Eagle is the most successful (in terms of air to air combat) of any modern fighter that has engaged in modern air combat. It was introduced into US Air Force service in 1976. This is an...
Hurricane Patricia - Mexico 2015
18 photos
An album of pictures of Hurricane Patricia, the strongest hurricane ever recorded, with sustained winds of 200 MPH or more, which came ashore on Mexico's Pacific Coast on Friday, October 23,...
Iranian Navy Moudge Frigates
15 photos
The Iranian Navy has begun producing its largest and most advanced vessels. They call them the Moudge class destroyers, although by most of th world's standards, given their displacement and...
US Coast Guard Sentinel Class Cutter
21 photos
(NOTE: : See www.uscg.mil/history/articles/authors/flynn/Flynn_Sentine...) for many of these photos on the US Coast Guard Historians Photo Index by James Flynn, US Coast Guard Historian.)
The...
US Coast Guard Legend Class Cutter
17 photos
The Legend class, also known as the National Security Cutter, is a part of the U.S. Coast Guard recapitalization project. This is a project to modernize the principle US Coast Guard cutters and...
2015 JMSDF Fleet Review
40 photos
During the week of October 12th, 2015, the Japanese Maritime self defense Forces (JMSDF) held their Fleet Review.
This is an event where the Japanese show off their impressive naval...
Russian Navy Grigorovich Class FFG
20 photos
In the early 2000s, the Russians determined that they needed a new, more stealthy, and more modern frigate to replace many of their old Krivak frigates and particularly for the Black Sea Fleet.
The...
Egyptian Navy Domyat Class Frigates
4 photos
The Domyat class frigates within the Egyptian Navy are former US Navy Knox class frigates which have been refurbished and updated and inducted into Egyptian service.
There are two such frigates...
Egyptian Navy Vryda Cass Landing Craft
6 photos
The Vryda landing craft are a 600 ton LCU type landing craft built for the Egyptians by the Soviet Union in the 1970s and 1980s. Eight of the vessels are still in operation with the Egyptian...
Egyptian Navy Tahya Misr Frigate
10 photos
In 2015 the Egyptian navy acquired a brand new French FREMM frigate. The vessel had originally been built for the French Navy and was going through trials when the Egyptians identified a urgent...
Egyptian Navy Sharm El-Sheikh Frgiates
10 photos
Egypt has taken delivery of four former US Navy Oliver Hazard Perry Class guided missile frigates. All four were commissioned between 1981 and 1982 with the US Navy and then decommissioned in 1996...
Egyptian Navy MKIII Ezzat MIssile corvette
10 photos
The Egyptian Navy contracted the VT Halter-Marine Company and Lockheed Martin in the US to design and build four advanced guided missile corvettes for the Egyptian Navy.
The crews were trained in...
Russian Navy Gepard Class FFG
6 photos
The Gepard class is a new light frigate of the Russian Navy. The type has been offe4red for export and the Vietnamese Navy has purchased four of them of which the first two are already completed...
Russian Navy Steregushchy Class FFG
15 photos
The Steregushchy class frigates are among the newest and most modern small frigates in the Russian Navy. The are very modern and very stealthy.
They are being built for the Russian Baltic and...
Russian Navy Buyan-M Corevettes
16 photos
The Buyan-M Class Corvette is a modern, advanced corvette for the Russian Navy. It is being built for their Caspian Sea Flotilla and their Black Sea Fleet. Six have been built, launched and...
2015 Trip to MD Anderson
94 photos
I was diagnosed with serious, malignant bone cancer in my lower back in December 2009. It was a very rare bone cancer, Sacral Chordoma.
I went to MD Anderson and underwent three major surgeries...
French Navy GABIAN Exercise 2015
20 photos
The French Navy holds annual exercises called GABIAN. In 2015 hey included all three of their Mistral class Amphibious Assault ships at once...a rare occasion.
The French Navy is modern and equipped...
PLAAF/PLAN H-6K Bomber
33 photos
The Chinese took delivery of their first long range bombers from the Soviet Union in 1958. These were the old twin-engine, TU-16 medium range bombers.
Soon, the Chinese signed a license build...
Life aboard the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78)
36 photos
The USS Gerald R. Ford, CVN-78, is the first in a new class of nuclear powered aircraft carriers for the US Navy. She was launched in November 2013, and is panned to go on sea trials in 2016 for...
AUSINDEX 2015
28 photos
In 2015 Australia and India held their first ever bi-lateral naval exercises called AUSINDEX 2015.
The exercises included three naval vessels from each nation's navy and Maritime Patrol/ASW aircraft...
USAF/NASA X-43 Aircraft
9 photos
In 2004 the US Air Force and NASA successfully tested the X-43 Hypersonic aircraft which was powered by a ramjet/scramjet combo engine.
The experimental aircraft was attached to a Pegasus booster...
US Navy Independence Class LCS (FF)
38 photos
This is a picture album of the Independence Class Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) and Fast Frigate (FF) program that they are developing into.
The US Navy sought a modular, networked, very fast and agile...
US Navy Freedom Class LCS/FF
50 photos
This is a picture album of the Freedom Class Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) and Fast Frigate (FF) program that they are developing into.
The US Navy sought a modular, networked, very fast and agile...
Northern Cal Wildfire Destroys 1200 homes
55 photos
This is a album of pictures from the Valley Fire in Northern California and other fires that have been burning in California in late summer of 2015.
The pictures are from friends and from google...
2015-0822 Shoreham Airshow Disaster
10 photos
Pictures of the Hawker Hunter T Mk7 crash into automobiles on the A27 highway during the Shoreham Airshow in West Sussex on Saturday, August 22, 2015. The aircraft was performing its routine and did...
2015-0812 Massive Tianjin Explosions
69 photos
Two massive explosions rocked the Chinese port city of Tianjin late on Wednesday, August 12, 2015. At least 158 people were killed and upwards of 1,000 injured, But as they continue to search the...
Magruder Corridor Trail - Idaho/Montana
69 photos
In the mid 1990s, while living in southwest Montana, I did a lot of hunting and exploring around the mountains in the area. This included the ranges bordering the Beaverhead, Ruby, Red Rock, and Big...
Exercise Indradhanush 2015 (IAF/RAF)
40 photos
The Indradhanush exercises are regular military exercises help by India. In 2015 they were held in England in conjunction with the Royal Air Force. The exercises lasted two-weeks, concluding on...
CARAT Singapore 2015
38 photos
Cooperative Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT) are exercises that the US Navy regularly holds with its allies in the western Pacific. Nations like Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei, the Philippines,...
Talisman Sabre 2015
82 photos
Talisman Sabre is a military exercise that is held every two years in and around Australia. Principally it is an exercise involving the United States military and the Australian military, but also...
PLAAF Divine Eagle HALE UAV
8 photos
The People's Republic of China (PRC) Air force (PLAAF) has recently produced a large, high altitude unmanned aerial vehicle of a unique design. This is the Chinese UAV Project 973, called the Shen...
Singapore Navy Formidable class FFG
10 photos
Singapore operates six highly capable and effective frigates, the Formidable class. They are variants of the French La Fayette class frigate that have been significantly modified and improved for...
Singapore Navy Acher class submarines
8 photos
Singapore operates two modern diesel/electric submarines of the Archer class. These are former Swedish Västergötland class submarines which were launched in 1987 and 1988. They were both sold to...
Singapore Navy Endurance Class LPD
5 photos
Singapore operates four Endurance class landing platform dock ships (LPD). They were designed and built in Singapore by Singapore Technologies (ST) Marine. They are the largest class of ships in the...
Singapore Navy Littoral Mission Vessel
9 photos
Singapore Navy Independence Class Littoral Mission Vessel (LMV)
Singapore's Independence class Littoral Mission Vessel (LMV) (not to be confused with the larger, US Navy Independence class Littoral...
Beartooth Scenic Byway, USA
71 photos, 1 video
A Flickr Album of the Beartooth Highway:
My Trip to Beartooth Scenic Byway
(On the Montana Wyoming border)
June 21-23, 2015
Photos and a video
My birthday was last Friday and Father's Day was...
US Navy US Desert Ship, LLS-1
10 photos
This is a photo album of USS Desert Ship, aka Landlocked Ship One (LLS-1)
In the New Mexico desert is a US Navy vessel that never leaves port, but is continually at work. It is the USS Desert Ship,...
US Navy Expeditionary Mobile Base
21 photos
This album regards the US Navy's purpose-built Expeditionary Mobile Base (ESD) formerly called the Afloat Forward Staging Base (AFSB) vessels.
These vessels are a subset of the US Navy's Mobile...
US Navy Cyclone Class Patrol Boats
12 photos
The US Navy Cyclone class Patrol vessels are class of fourteen large patrol craft designed for the US Navy in the early 1990s and delivered to the US navy between 1993 and 2000. Twelve were...
US Navy Mk VI Patrol Boats
14 photos
US Navy Mk VI Patrol Boats are the first class of fast patrol boats built for the US Navy since the 1980s. These boats were designed for brown water, littoral zone operations. They have been...
US Navy CSEDS Facilty
10 photos
"Cruiser in a Cornfield"
The Vice Admiral James H. Doyle Combat Systems Engineering Development Site (CSEDS) is a US Navy AEGIS system testing facility located near Moorestown, New Jersey,...
US World War II Aircraft (Air Shows)
15 photos
This will be an album of pictures of US World War II aircraft that can be seen still flying at air shows around America today. (There are a few other World War II aircraft mixed in).
These aircraft...
HMAS Hobart Class AEGIS Destroyer
24 photos
This is an album about the Australian Hobart Class Air Warfare Destroyer (AWD), which is an AEGIS equipped destroyer for the Australian Navy. Three will be built, the Hobart, D29, the Brisbane, D40,...
Indian Navy Vikrant Aircraft Carrier
28 photos
This is a photo album of the Indian Navy's new indigenous aircraft carrier (IAC) INS Vikrant.
Her hull was initially launched, incomplete, in 2013. She was fully launched/undocked on June 10, ...
PRC Reclamation: South China Sea
60 photos
This album documents the recent, phenomenal land reclamation efforts by the People's Republic of China in the contested South China Sea. Seven Reefs are shown where the Chinese have historically had...
USAF RQ-4 Global Hawk
12 photos
The RQ-4 Global Hawk is a US Air Force Unmanned Ariel Vehicle (UAV) designed to provides a broad area intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance for US or allied forces using high-resolution...
US Navy MQ-4C Triton
12 photos
This is a photo album of the US Navy MQ-4C TRiton aircraft.
The MQ-4C Triton is the US Navy's new Broad-Area Maritime Surveillance (BAMS) aircraft. It is an unmanned air vehicle (UAV) that is based...
US Navy Blue Ridge Class Command Vessels
18 photos
This is an album of pictures of the two, purpose built US Navy Command Ships, the USS Blue Ridge, LCC-19, and the USS Mount Whitney, LCC-20.
Blue Ridge serves as the command flagship of the US 7th...
ROCN Chi Yang Class FFG
4 photos
This album is about the Republic of China's (Taiwan's) Chi Yang class frigates.
These are older Knox class frigates that have been transferred to Taiwan for use by their Navy. They have been...
ROCN Kung Hua VI Missile Boat
4 photos
This album is about the Republic of China (Taiwan) Navy Kung Hua VI missile boats.
These vessels are designed and built in Taiwan and are missile attack craft.
Taiwan built 30 of these vessels and...
ROCN Ching Chaing FAC
4 photos
This is an album for the Repubvlic of China's (Taiwan's) Ching Chiang class missile attack craft.
These vessels were all designed and built in Taiwan and displace 580 tons. They are armed with four...
MS Anthem of the Seas
18 photos
Anthem of the Seas is the 2nd mega-cruise liner of the Quantum class built for Royal Caribbean cruise lines.
She was built by Meyer Werft of Papenburg, Germany, being laid down in 2013 and launched...
German Navy F124 FFG
10 photos
This album is of pictures of the F124, Sachsen Class frigates for the German Navy.
There are three of these vessels, all commissioned between 2003 and 2006.
F219 Sachsen
F220 Hamburg
F221 Hessen...
German Navy F125 FFG
10 photos
This album is of pictures of the new F125, Baden-Württemberg Class frigates for the German Navy.
There will be four. Two have been launched as of April 2015.
They displace 7,200 tons and are...
Brazil Air Force F-5EM/FM
12 photos
These are photos of Brazil's F-5EM and F-5FM Freedom fighters that they have modernized, upgraded, and updated to keep them very competitive in today's world.
The F-5M aircraft is a the most...
2015 SW Idaho Spring
24 photos
Pictures of various vistas, homesteads, and views along the Payette River in the early Spring of 2015.
Tilt-Rotor Aircraft since 1955
8 photos
This photo album gives a brief history of some of the more successfully flown Tilt-rotor VTOL aircraft (not pure VTOL aircraft) over the last 60 years with their manufacturer and the year of their...
USAF 1942 Doolittle Tokyo Raid
38 photos
In April 2015, it will be the 73rd anniversary of the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo.
The men who took part in that raid were among the most universally admired and revered men in the United States....
USS Missouri, BB-63
43 photos
This photo album is dedicated to the USS Missouri, BB-63, specifically, and to the Iowa Class battleships in general.
The Iowa class battleships were the last US Navy designed battleships built and...
2015 Jan: Free Climb El Capitan
12 photos
(Text from National Geographic)
Nineteen days after they set out to achieve one of climbing's most difficult challenges, Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson reached the summit of the 3,000-foot rock...
PLAN 2015 Update
84 photos
This is a photo album of the pictures I am using this year for my Annual "Rising Sea Dragon in Asia," 2015 update on the Chinese Navy, the PLAN.
It shows the continued, unprecedented...
2014 White Christmas
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It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas here in Emmett! We got our White Christmas on Christmas Eve...and just in time too.
There was a little wet snow earlier in the day, which changed to...
2014 August trip to MD ANderson
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Picture album of our trip to MD Anderson in Houston TX for my latest cancer check-up, our attendance at the Spine and Brain Tumor conference, our visits with relatives, and then my radiation...
Indian Navy INS Arihant SSBN
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These are pictures of the INS Arihant nuclear ballistic missile submarine (SSBN).The Indian Navy has long desired to help complete the nation of India's nuclear triad, adding a submerged nuclear...
Missions to Mars - Full Disc Images
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This is an album of full-disc images of the Planet Mars as seen by various US/NASA and other missions, including the recent Indian mission to Mars.
PLAN JH-7A Strike Aircraft
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This is a photo album of the People's Republic of China Xian JH-7A Flying Leopard.
The Xian Aircraft Industry Corporation JH-7A is a 4+ generation Chinese tandem two-seat, twin-engine...
Indonesia Navy Bung Tomo Class FFG
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This is a phot album of the Indonesian Navy Bong Tomo Class Frgate/Corvette.
These three vessels were originally built for the Royal Brunai Navy and launched in 2001 and 2002. When completed Brunai...
ROKN Cheon Wang Bong Class LST
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This is a photo album of the new Republick of Korean Navy Cheonwangbong Class LST.
The first of class, new, indegenous, next generation Landing Ship Tank (LST), Cheon Wang Bong, LST-680, was...
US Navy F/A-XX 6th Generation Fighter
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This is a photo album about the upcoming 6th generation fighter for the US Navy currently termed the F/A-XX. It also includes concepts for the F-X US Air Force 6th generation fighter.
Both Boeing...
USAF U-2S Spy plane
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This is an album of pictures of the US Air Force U-2S Spy plane, including a couple of pictures of the TU-2S trainer
The U2 was built by Lockheed and is nicknamed the Dragon Lady. It is a...
2014 Nov Ferguson Riots
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These are pictures from Ferguson, MO, beginning the night of November 24th and continuing through the week. Violence erupted after the Grand Jury, following weeks of hearing witnesses and looking at...
Indian Navy P-8I Neptune
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This is an album of pictures of the new Indian Navy P-8I Neptune maritime patrol aircraft.
India, in modernizing its maritime patrol capabilities and long range ant-submarine capabilities chose the...
US Navy P-8A Poseidon
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This albums has pictures of the new US Navy P-8A Poseidon Maritime Patrol and Anti-submarine Warfare aircraft.
The P-8A is replacing the venerable P-3C Orion ASW aircraft for conducting long range,...
ROCN Kang Ding FFGs
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This album includes photos of the Republic of China Navy (ROCN) Kang ding class guided missile frigtes. There are six of these vessels in Taiwan's naval fleet.
The six include:
1202 Kang ding
1203...
ROCN Chengkung FFG
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This is an album of pictures of the Republic of China Navy (ROCN) Cheng Kung class guided missile frigates. The ROCN currenly has eight of these vessels which were license built by the ROC in...
ROCN Keelung Class DDG
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This is an album of pictures of the Republic of China Navy (ROCN) Keelung class of guided-missile destroyers.
This class of vessel are the largest, most powerful combatant vessels in the ROCN. The...
ROCN Tuo Jiang Missile Corvettes
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This album includes pictures of the ROCN Tuo Jiang Class missile corvettes.
The Republic of China (Taiwan) Navy (ROCN) is modernizing and trying to remain abreast of and a credible deterrent to the...
Brazil Navy Barroso Corvette
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This is a photro Album of the Brazil Navy, BNS, Barroso, V34 corvette.
This vessel was built as a modernized, larger class corvette after the Ihauma class corvettes were built be Brazil.
Only one...
Brazil Navy Inhauma Class Corvettes
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This album includes picture of the Brazilian Navy Inhauma class corvettes.
This is a class of five general purpose excort corvettes built by Brazil in Brazilian shipyards.
All five were built and...
Brazil Navy Niteroi Class Frigates
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This album contains pictures of the Niteroi class frigates built for the Brazilian Navy.
A total of six combatant frigates were built. Four were built to an Anti-submarine warfare (ASW) role in...
Brazil Navy Greenhalgh Class Frigtaes
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These re pictures of Brazil's three Greenhalgh guided-missile frigtaes.
The Greenhalgh class consist of former Type 22, Broadsword class firgates from the Royal Navy. All four of the Batch 1...
Brazil Navy Sao Paulo Aircraft Carrier
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These are pictures of the Brazilian aircraft carrier Sao Paulo.
Brazil is the only nation in South or Central America that posses an active aircraft carrier. In fact, it is the only nation in the...
US Navy Expeditionary Transfer Dock
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The US Navy has been building new Amphibious/Air Assault support and staging vessels for the last few years. These are a part of the US Navy's strategic initiative that calls for...
US Navy Laser Weapon System (LaWS)
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Pictures of the deployment and testing of the US Navy Laser Weapon System (LaWS).
An initial demonstrator was deployed in 2013 aboard the USS Dewey, DDG-105, Arleigh Burke guided-missile destroyer. ...
2014-15 Winter in SW Idaho
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I thought I would document in pictures what is looking to be a real record setting winter in SW Idaho for 2014-2015.
It started with a record breaking and very early snow storm on NOvember 13th and...
Mountain Panoramas
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Photogrpahs I have taken of mountain panoramas in the Western United States over the years.
Idaho, Oregon, Washington, Nevada, California, Wyoming, Utah, Montana, New Mexico, and Colorado.
Enjoy!
Extreme Outtdoors
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Photos of extreme outdoor adventures. Climbing, skiing, boarding, mountaineering, etc.
Russian Navy Gorshkov Class FFG
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The Admiral Gorshkov class of guided missile frigate is the Russian Navy newest and most advanced frigate design. It is made of heavy quantities of Carbon Fiber to help vastly reduce its radar...
Russian Navy Ivan Gren LST
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This is a new, modern class of LST for the Russian Navy. It has had a protracted development and build schedule, but the first in class, after almost ten years, is now slated to be commissioned in...
US Navy San Antonio Class LPD
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These are the US Navy's new Landing Platform Dock (LPD) class. Each displaces 25,000 tons and have a well deck, a large flight deck, and a large hanger. They can conduct both air assault and...
Chinese Coast Guard
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Picturess of various Chinese Coast Guard cutters and equipment.
The Chinese Coast Guard is growing rapidly, like the Chinese Navy (PLAN), adding significant numbers of new vessels.
Their two new...
Attack on ISIS
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In September 2014, the US and a coalition of nations detemrined to military attack the Islamic Terrorist group ISIS who had been making hug enroads into Syria and IRaq, capturing scoires of cities...
French Navy Floreal Class Frigates
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This is a class of light, observation frigates for the french Navy that were built in the 1990s.
The displace 2.600 tons, have a 100mm main gun and two 20mm secondary gins, carry two Exocet surface...
PLAN Type 055 Large Destroyer
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The Chinese have designed and now launched a new large destroyer/ Cruiser, called the Type 055. It displaces 12,000 tons, is armed with 112-128 VLS cells for various types of missiles, has a 130mm...
Australian Air Force F-35 JSF
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The Australian Air Force will be receiving the F-35A (and perhaps one day, the F-35B) for its 5th generation, stealth, joint strike fighters.
This album will show photos of the aircraft as they are...
US Navy Joint High speed Vessel (JHSV)
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These are the US Navy's new high speed, inter-theater transports.
They are desinged for RORO operations for over 100 troops and their equipment and vehicles, or up to 315 troops and their...
USAF A-29 Super Tucano
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The A-29 Super Tucano is a Light Attack aircraft that the USAF is buing for the Afghanistan Air Force to be used for close air support, light attack, surveillance, and counter Insrugency (COIN)...
USAF Gunfighter Skies 2014
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Pictures about and of the US Air Force Gunfighter Skies 2014 Air Show at Mountain Hoome Air Base in Idaho, September 20-21, 2014.
The US Air Force Thunderbirds demonstration team, the US Air Force...
NASA CCTC
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NASA Commercial Crew Transportation Capability.
These are pictures of the two Speacecraft chosen by NASA in September 2014 to provide commercial crew transportation to and from the International...
US Navy Patrol Frigate Concept
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The US Navy ha cut back the number of Littoral Combat ships to be built in favor f a multi-mission frigate, without mission modules, which will be more heavily armed.
Several companies are putting...
2014 Aug: Ferguson riots
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Pictures from the Ferguson,, MO riots.
Some of the pictures are from friends in the area that they took, some are from friends who are sending pictures to me from their own sources which I am not...
PLAN Z-18 Helicopters
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The Chinese navy (PLAN) is developing three new helicopters designated as Z-18 which are modernized Z-8 frames. These will operate off of their larger naval vessels, like their carriers (Liaoning,...
USS Texas BB-35
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Pictures of the USS Texas Battleship museum ship, at the USS Texas Park near Pasadena, TX,
We visited there on August 12, 2014, my first visit since 1967 as a child.
The USS Texas, BB-35, is a New...
Malabar 2014
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Malabar is a multi-national naval exercise involving the United States and India. Participation has been expanded to include Japan, Australia and/or Singapore as conditions and schedule permit. The...
Indian Navy Chakra, Akula II SSN
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The INS Chakra is a 8,140-tonne Akula II-class nuclear-powered attack submarine. It was laid down in 1993, but work was suspended due to lack of funding after the fall of the Soviet Union. The Indian...
HMS Daring Class Destroyers
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The Daring, or Type 45, Class destroyers are the strongest surface combatant of the Royal Navy. They are extremely strong anti-air warfare destroyers and are meant to protect the United Kingdom's...
Indian Navy Talwar Class Frigate
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These were the first truly modern Indian Navy firgates, with stealth characteristics. They were built by Russia for the Indian Navy according to Indian design specifications.
These frigates are a...
Indian Navy Kamorta Class ASW Corvette
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The Koamorta Class is the Indian Navy's new stealth ASW Corvette.
Though called a corvette, with a displacement in excess of 3,400 tons and with a length in excess of 340 feet, these vessels would...
Indian Navy Shivalik Class Frigate
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The Shivalik Class frigate is the Indian Navy's first, large, modern, indegenous guided-missile frigate incorporating significant stealth features.
These are large frigates which are over 450 feet...
Indian Navy Kolkata Class Destroyer
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The Kolkata is India's first, large, modern indegenous destroyer. They are over 500 ft long, have a 57 foot beam, and displace over 7,000 tons.
They include significant anti-air warfare capability...
US Navy E-2D Advanced Hawkeye
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This the US Navy's new Airborne Early Warning (AEW) aircraft, by Northrup Gruman. They are replacing the older E-2C Hawkeyes in the fleet.
This is a new build aircraft, with newer, much more...
US Navy EA-18G Growler
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The US Navy Electronic Warfare Aircraft, the EA-18G Growler, by Boeing.
The Grwoler is a derivitive of the F/A-18F Super Horntet, and is replacing the EA-6B Prowler Electronic Warfare aircraft in...
World News
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Pictures of breaking world news of interest
Political Satire
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Satirical art aimed at liberal progressives
PLAN Type 052D Destroyer
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The new Chinese Navy (PLAN) Type 052D Kunming Class destroyer, is a very much improved AEGIS-like Type 052C Luzhou destroyer.
To date, we know of twelve vessels that have been ordered, and the...
RIMPAC 2014
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Rim of the Pacific is a bi-annual (every two years) naval exercise held at Pearl Harbor and off of Hawaii. It is the largest Naval Exercise on earth and it is sponsored by the United States Navy. ...
Jeff Head Family Album
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This is a family album of my family.
Jeff Head (me) and Gail Head (my wonderful wife) and our kids.
We were married in 1978, had three daughters and two sons, and now have nine grandchildren with a...
Pakistan Navy Azmat Class FAC
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Pictures of the Azmat Class FAC of the Pakistan Navy. First of Class, PNS Azmat, 1013, built in China.
Second in class, PNS Dehshat, 1014 was built in Pakistan.
All follow-on vessels will also...
Large, prop-driven military aircraft
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These are pictures of the principle, four engine military combat aircraft from World War II on. They do not include the USAF B-36 Peacemaker or the Russian TU-95MS Bear...they have their own albums.
USAF B-36 Peacemaker
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Pictures of the US Air Froce B-36 Peacemaker. The B-36 was the largest bomber aircraft ever built. Initially built with six large prop driven radial engines, later four jet engines were added for...
Russian Tu-95MS Bear Bomber
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Pictures of the Tu-95MS Russian, long range, turpoprop bomber. This is the "Bear" bomber most associated woith Russian surveillance and probing missions against the US and Europe. A very...
PLAN J-15 Flying Shark
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Pictures of the Chinese Navy's (PLAN) J-15 Strike fighter for their aircraft carrier(s). Showing both the prototype and production aircraft.
The J-15 Flying Shark, is a heavy strike fighter that...
April 2014 Jackson Lake, WY and Island Park, ID
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Facility/Site survery trip in the early spring of 2014 to Jackson Dam, WYoming (in Yellowstone NAtional Park) and Island Park Dam, Idaho.
This photo set also includes Bison that were seen while...
US NASA JPL Mars Curiosity Rover
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Pictures from the US NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) Mars Curiosity Rover. It's about the size of a small SUV (weighing about 2,000 lbs.)
It was launched November 26, 2011 and landed on August...
April 2014 Pickup Truck Ride
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Pickup truck ride with the wife and three granddaughters in April 2014, beautiful spring time weather in the Rocky Mountains of SW Idaho.
US Navy Zumwalt Class Destroyer
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The US Navy Zumwalt class destroyers are new, extremely advanced, multi-role destroyers that are very large and extremely powerful.
The 1st in class, USS Zumwalt, DDG-1000, began conducting its...
JMSDF Atago Class AEGIS Destroyer
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The Atago Class AEGIS destroyers are similar to, but heavier than, the US Navy Arleigh Burke Flight IIA destroyers. They too carry 96 VLS cells, but also retain their two quad cannsiter Harpoon...
JMSDF Hyuga Class Carrier
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These two carriers are 20,000 ton helicopter carriers that the Japanese built to greatly enhance their anti-submarine warfare and humanitarian relief capabilities.
They are clearly "flt...
ROKN - Se Jong the Great Class AEGIS destroyer
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The Se Jong the Great AEGIS destroyers are the largest, most powerful AEGIS destroyers in the world. They were built with the assistance of the United States and Lockheed Martin and each displace...
US Navy Burke Class Destroyers
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The Arleigh Burke class destroyers are the longest running major combatant construction project in US Navy history.
Sixty two of the vessels have been commissioned into the United States Navy in...
ROKN Dokdo Class LHD
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The south Korean Dokdo class LHD is a large, modern, mulit-role amphibious assault ship with a large well deck and hanger deck for helicopters and/or vehicle storage.
South Korea has launched one of...
Russian Navy Kuznetsov Aircraft Carrier
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The Russian Navy Aircraft Carrier Kuznetsov, 063, is a 65,000 ton carrier capable of deploying over 40 aircraft, consisting of SU-33 Strike Fighters, SU-25 Attack aircraft, Ka-31 AEW helicopters, and...
Egyptian Navy Mistral Class LHD
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These vessels were originally built as the Vladivostok Class of Russian LHDs based on a modified French Mistral Class design. Modifications included a different bridge layout, a strengthened...
US Navy Nimitz Class Carriers
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US Navy nulcear powered aircraft carriers, the Nimitz class. Ten vessels strong. Each almost 1,100 feet long, over 250 ft. wide, and displacing over 100,000 tons.
Each carrier can accomodate up to...
JMSDF Shirane Class Helicopter Destroyer
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The Shriane class DDH Helicopter Destroyers were both built in the late 1970s and are full destroyers with a very large helicopter pad and hanger capable of carrying three full sized naval...
ROKN Gumdoksuri Patrol Boats
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The Gumdoksuri Class 570 ton patrol vessels are new guided missile patrol craft for the South Korean Navy.
Fifteen vessels have been built and commissioned as of March 2014. Twnety-four vessels...
PLAN Type 071 LPD
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The People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) Type 071 large Landing Platform Docks (LPD). The PLA has built seven of these 22,500 ton vessels, with the 7th being launched in Dec 2018. An eigth is...
US Navy SSGN Submarines
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Ohio Class US Navy Guided missile submarines (SSGN). Will be augmented later with the later Virginia Class submarines after they add the Virginia Payload Module (VPM) adding 28 more tomohawk cruise...
US F-35 Joint Strike Fighter
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The F-35 Joint Strike fighter will ultimately number over 2,500 aircraft in the US inventory.
This will include over 1,800 Air Force F-35A models, 340 US Marine, STOVL models, and 360 US Navy F-35C...
US Navy proposed EV-22 AEW&C Aircraft
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A critical proposal for an AEWC (Airborne Early Warning and Control) aircraft derived from the V-22 Osprey VTOL aircraft.
For US Navy LHA and LHD vessels and for US allies STOBAR aircraft carriers...
US Navy America class LHA
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The USS America is the first of class new Amphibious Assault ships of the US Navy.
The first two in Class, America and Tripoli, are aircraft-centric vessels with no well deck. They can conduct...
Russian PAK FA Stealth Fighter
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The Sukhoi PAK FA Stealth fighter is the new 5th generation aircraft that the Russians intend to use to begin to replace their SU-27 and Mig-29 legacy aircraft.
The prototypes are designated...
USAF YF-23 Black Widow II
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The YF-23 Black Widow II, by Northrop, lost the Advanced Tactical Fighter competititon to the F-22 Lighting II.
The YF-23 had was condierably more stealthy than the F-22, but was also not as...
Italian Cavour Aircraft Carrier
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Pictures of the Italian aircraft carrier, Cavour, 550. Including her carrier group, her air wing, weapons systems, aircraft operations, take-offs and landings.
Loss of Flight MH370
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All contact with Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 was loss early Saturday morning over the South China Sea. The aircraft was two hours into a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing at the time all...
US Navy Ford Class Carrier
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The new US Navy, Gerald Ford Class nuclear powered aricraft carrier.
Currently this includes the USS Gerald R. Ford, CVN-78, the USS John F. Kennedy, CVN-79, and the USS Enterprise, CVN-80 as they...
PLAN CV-16, Liaoning, Aircraft Carrier
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Pictures of CV-16, Liaoning, the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) first aircraft carrier. Including launch and take off of her J-15 strike fighters.
This aircraft carrier is the newer, sister...
Indian Vikramaditya Aircraft Carrier
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This album is of the INS Virkamaditya Indian aircraft carrier, R33.
The Indian Navy hired the Russian to completely refit and refurbish the Gorshkov of the old Soviet Navy into a STOBAR aircraft...
HMS Queen Elizabeth, R08, Class Carrier
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Pictures of the Queen Elizabeth Class aircraft carreirs as they are constructed, launched, and put in service. Including HMS Queen Elizabeth, R08, and HMS Prince of Wales, R09.
She was Christened...
JMSDF Izumo Class Carrier
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The Izumo, DDH-183, is the first of the 22DDH class carriers built for the Japanese Maritime Self Defence Force (JMSDF).
They are the larger (30,000 tons full load), follow on to the two Hyuga...
HMAS Canberra L02 Class LHD
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Pictures of the new Australian Class LHDs, Canberra, LH-02, and Adelaide, LH-01, their building, launching, and in service.
The first, HMAS Canberra, LHD-02, was laid down on September, 23 2009,...
USAF F-22A Raptor
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The first operational 5th Generation Stealth Fighter in the world.
The US Air Focre first flew the airctraft in 1997. It became fully operational in 2005. The US built 187 aircraft of which 183...
PLAAF J-20 Stealth Fighter
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The Chinese are now flying Low rate Initial Production aircraft for their 5th generation stealth aircraft which have been turned over to their air force for final testing and induction,.
The first ...
USAF Aurora Project
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Pictures of alleged US Air Force Aurora aircraft. and their unique - doughnuts on a rope - contrails from alleged Pulse Wave Detonation engines.
Known alternatively as the SR-75 Penetrator (aka...
US Army UH-72 Lakota Helicopter
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The US Army UH-72 ia the American Eurocopter winner of the US Army Light Utility Helicopter (LUH) competition in 2006.
There are 290 of them that have been built and supplied to the US Army and...