Wonders of Destruction 2

[CJ_Backfire]

Cant you post THe swedish stealth corvett visby. The first and only stealth ship in the world so far..

 

[Mikoyan]

There are some on the top of the last page.

 

[TrailblazingScot]

During the war, one of my grandfathers was onboard HMS Ark Royal. He served as a navigator in a Swordfish Torpedo bomber.

He was involved in the sinking of the Bismarck, but later in the war got lost over German territory and he and his pilot were forced to land and become POWs.


Lovely pictures of an important vessel...

Originally posted by MadScot
Yet more pictures of HMS Ark Royal.

The first two are of the WW2 fleet carrier - the picture under attack is dated Nov 27, 1940, which makes this during Operation Collar, and the bombs are in all likelihood from an Italian bombing run.
The second photo, of a Swordfish turning over Ark Royal, is from the same period.

The final photo is of the post-war Ark during a 'tropical storm in the Indian Ocean', which almost certainly makes this a mid 60s Beira patrol photo. The planes on deck appear to be Sea Vixens.

 

[MadScot]

Pleased to have been of service.

And now for Ark's less famous, but no less important, stablemate: HMS Eagle...

 

[Suki]

1 AC-47 gunship over vietnam, 3 side mounted miniguns, 100 rounds per second each, 1 round in 5 a tracer....

http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/8758/

and you see why it's called "Puff the Magic Dragon"

I found something else I think you will all enjoy,
especially Darkshade.

http://g2mil.com/battleships.htm

 

[G-Force Junkie]

A Nimitz-Class aircraft carrier
USS Nimitz CVN-89 shown below

 

[G-Force Junkie]

Also probably what I want to fly when I join the Air Force, the F-22 Raptor.

 

[MadScot]

Originally posted by CadetEmperor
A Nimitz-Class aircraft carrier
USS Nimitz CVN-89 shown below

The USN hasn't quite got to it's 89th carrier yet.

I think you'll find that the numbers read from the aft of the ship, looking forwards (the way a pilot would see them, and the same way RN carrier ID letters are painted).

Which makes this CVN-68, which is USS Nimitz.

 

[Turner]

This could be interesting if it pans out. . . kinetic energy here outta be high enough to take out just about anything, if it gets out of development.

Scramjet round:

Related Link, with other links at the site:

http://www.arnold.af.mil/aedc/scramjet.htm

 

[Drewcifer]

I guess I am a traditionalist.

 

[Drewcifer]

Here is a good one of an FW 190 starting it's attack run on a squadron of B-17s.

 

[CurtSibling]

Oho!
Somone has been trawling the digital aviation site!

Good to see this thread back, now I will look through my archives!

 

[CurtSibling]

My first image is of a human wonder of destruction, Adolf Galland.
The epitome of the 'gentleman pilot', he shielded RAF pilot Douglas Bader from th SS while taking him 'prisoner' in France.
He once said that the Luftwaffe and RAF were the same kind of men, only made different by language and uniform.
Galland also famously removed nazi propaganda records from his base and played popular jazz music over the loudspeakers.

He was a great supporter of the power of fighter planes, becoming a general of fighters during the war.

Galland formulated many great strategies to blunt the Allied bomber campaign, but was duly ignored by the nazi commanders,
whom he had fallen out of favour with, because of his individuality.

He also was in command of the world's first jet fighter unit.

In the late 1940's, Galland, along with many other German aviation experts,
went to Argentina to help Juan Perón build up and train his air force.
He enjoyed his stay in Argentina, but in 1955 returned to Germany.
For the next forty years he was a 'regular' on the aviation circuit,
and won wide respect from his former opponents.

His kill score was 104 aircraft.

 

[CurtSibling]

A nice study of the famed PzKw VI Tiger...

 

[CurtSibling]

Vision of the future...

A mustang buzzes a launching V2 missile.

 

[Sh3kel]

Multiple Launch Rocket System.
Deadliest artillery piece ever built. On terms of sheer power, the only thing that rivals with a full salvo of one of these is a Dasiy-Cutter Fuel-Air explosion bomb.

 

[Mikoyan]

Chinese stuff!

Type 98 MBT (blinding lasers )

Su-30MKK

Chengdu J-10

DF-31 ICBM

Type 83, 273mm MLR

 

[CurtSibling]

Originally posted by Sh3kel

Multiple Launch Rocket System.
Deadliest artillery piece ever built. On terms of sheer power, the only thing that rivals with a full salvo of one of these is a Dasiy-Cutter Fuel-Air explosion bomb.

A fiesty little machine, and no mistake!

 

[CurtSibling]

Another of my favouite WW2 vintage aircraft, the famed He111 medium bomber.

 

[CurtSibling]

The giant Junkers 290 Zeelander.