The Great, Constantly Changing Picture Gallery, Troisième partie: la vengeance!

[Griz882]

Arcadia?

No, that’s a national park way up north. I work at Odiorne (harbor entry to Portsmouth, NH) and a few affiliated sites like Wallis Sands and Jennis Beach.

 

[Flash]

Another wrinkle, for the JPME guys/gals in the room: If the A-10 is so crucial to the SSBN port escort mission, why has the USAF consistently tried to divest itself the aircraft dating back 10+ years? And, not once did the Navy offer to take it, or argue that it was needed by the Air Force for “SSBN stuff.”

Maybe somebody with an NC3 CONUS protection mission just has a bunch of A-10s and not much else, and therefore every task starts to look like a nail when all you’ve got are hammers lying around.

A single escort mission does not make it crucial, they were likely just the available aircraft that were assigned a mission. Simple as that.

We actually debated this pic around the office this afternoon - the conclusion, reached by folks who have lots of JPME and understand how this stuff works, that this "armed overwatch" is very likely a directly funded STRATCOM or NORTHCOM thing - or maybe a combination. But they explained that there are very real reasons why this mission is executed the way it is considering the players.

I'm like, "hey Navy submarine - it should be a grey Navy jet overhead"..

"Dude, that's not how it works". Boink.

I proceed to stick my head back in my cubicle.

You mean you're actually trainable?

 

[Hair Warrior]

A single escort mission does not make it crucial, they were likely just the available aircraft that were assigned a mission. Simple as that.

An earlier post by someone else made it seem like it was a recurring thing for A-10s? If a one-off, I stand corrected.

 

[Llarry]

Edo was a manufacturer of seaplane floats that in 1946 designed a floatplane. Bad timing, if you ask me: The Curtiss SC-1 floatplane was the standard (and relatively new) fleet floatplane on battleships and cruisers, but the whole concept was about to become obsolete with the widespread use of helicopters imminent. Needless to say, Edo did not get a big production contract.

 

[Uncle Fester]

One of the last operational C-47s of a regular Air Force in the world, a C-47TP Turbo Dakota of 35 Sqn South African AF. Been in service with the SAAF since 1943, got the turboprop conversion in the early 90s. Due for final decommissioning later this year.

 

[jmcquate]

F-16 Demo team goes retro: