The U.S. Military Thread

[Synapsid]

I was obssessed with the Vietnam War history when I was a kid. My father even bought me a M16 toy rifle lol

Same. Childhood spend reading about tet offensive in Hue city and the seige of Khe Sahn, North Vietnamese SA-2 and SA-6 in SAM valley, AC-47 Spooky interdiction missions in the Ho-Chi minh trail, Mig-21 vs F4 phantoms, Operation Linebacker in North Vietnam etc

[Daco Celtic]

[Smaland]

Rod Serling served in the 511th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 11th Airborne Division, which participated in the Battle of Manila. Perhaps this helped him to create The Twilight Zone.

[PaleoEuropean]

[PaleoEuropean]

[Ülev]

[Daco Celtic]

[Daco Celtic]

[Smaland]

A minimum interval takeoff (MITO) is a technique of the United States Air Force for scrambling all available bomber and tanker aircraft at twelve- and fifteen-second intervals, respectively. Before takeoff, the aircraft perform an elephant walk to the runway. (MITO) is designed to maximize the number of aircraft launched in the least amount of time possible before the base suffers a nuclear strike, which would obliterate all remaining aircraft.

From the Wiki article

Minot AFB, ND = Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota.

If you like non-stop engine noise from jet aircraft, and watching one bomber takeoff after another, then this is the video for you.

[Westbrook]

https://i.imgur.com/0OV6qys.gifv