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1/6 Cesar “Rico” Rodriguez was flying his F-15C over Iraq during Desert Storm when everything went sideways. An Iraqi MiG-29 had him locked up and was closing in fast. No time to think. No room for error. This was about to turn into a real knife fight in the sky.

Goodnight, gang. Sleep well, dream big, and hold your loved ones tight. Say your prayers, count your blessings, and let’s all wake up ready to fight the good fight tomorrow. God bless you and God bless America. ❤️✝️🇺🇸 See you in the morning!​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ x.com/F111Driver/status/2065…

That famous F-35A high-alpha pass never gets old. After practice, U.S. Air Force F-35 Demo Team pilot RAMBO mentioned he was flying at less than 100 knots during this maneuver. Watching a fifth-generation fighter hang in the sky at those speeds is simply incredible. 📸 Hill AFB 🇺🇸 🗓️ 09JUN26

Swing Wing Saturday B-1 F-14 FB-111 Luftwaffe Tornado IDS

Here you can see the USMC F-18 right before it impacted terrain and crashed near Rimrock Lake. It looks like it was smoking prior to the pilot ejecting.

Out of the Shadows #DreamMachine😎 📹 flydude_aviation

The Heat is ON🔥🔥🚀 #StillUndefeated🦅 📹 warye_33 photography

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Matt Younkin Twin Beech 18 Approach & Bird Strike Everyone seemed to really enjoy my photo of Matt Younkin in his Twin Beech 18 at the Spirit of St. Louis Air Show & STEM Expo. I also captured some videos of similar approaches.

Dutch F-35 through the Sidewinder this week

A US Navy F/A-18 crashed near Rimrock Lake, pilot ejected and walked out with medics according to reports. This is along the famous VR-1355 low level route in Washington State. 🎥509Media

Aussies trying Chipotle for the first time. Little do they know what happens 12 hours later. 🤣

RT @avphotos05: Look mom I’m on the news

Plugged into a Victor - Op Jural/Southern Watch Dec '92

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Have an awesome weekend!

Elon Musk earns a trillion dollars, the Left has a meltdown, The government steals half your paycheck for trillions of dollars a year, the Left cheers.

How many other plans can claim dropping a bogi by simply out maneuvering it flying shotgun for F-117s more ground kills in the Gulf war than an A-10 & having an entire capsule to safely eject if needed plus can deliver tactical nukes?

Eyes to the skies over London from 1300 today. 🇬🇧 #RedArrows | #RAF | #London

On the morning of June 6, 1944, Lt. Dick Winters had already survived one disaster before the sun came up. His C-47 roared over Normandy through a wall of flak, flying too fast and too low. He jumped anyway. The prop blast ripped his leg bag clean off, taking his rifle, his ammo, and most of his gear. He hit the ground in occupied France armed with a knife in his boot. Most men in that situation hide. Winters started walking toward the sound of the war. By dawn he had scavenged a rifle, collected a handful of scattered paratroopers, and learned that his company commander's plane had gone down with everyone aboard. Just like that, a quiet lieutenant from Pennsylvania who didn't drink, didn't curse, and wrote letters home about wanting to find a peaceful farm someday was in command of Easy Company. A few hours later a battalion officer gave him one of the great understated orders in military history. German fire was coming from a farm called Brecourt Manor, hammering the troops coming off Utah Beach. The order was basically: there's fire along that hedgerow, take care of it. What was actually there: four 105mm howitzers dug into a hedgerow network, connected by zigzag trenches, covered by machine guns, and defended by roughly 60 German troops. The guns were dropping shells directly on causeway exit 2, where thousands of Americans were trying to get off the beach. Every minute those guns fired, men died in the sand. Winters had 12. He did not charge. He crawled forward alone to study the position, then briefed his men like he had all the time in the world. Machine guns here to pin the defenders. Compton, Guarnere, and Malarkey crawling along the flank. Hit the first gun with grenades and speed from a direction the Germans never expected. It worked almost exactly as drawn. The first gun fell in minutes. Then his men used the German trenches as a highway, rolling up the battery one gun at a time, beating back counterattacks, and dropping blocks of TNT down the barrels to destroy them for good. In the middle of the firefight, Don Malarkey spotted what he thought was a Luger on a dead German and sprinted into open ground to grab it. The German machine gunners held their fire, apparently deciding that anyone that reckless had to be a medic. He made it back alive. It wasn't even a Luger. At the second gun, Winters found something better than a pistol: a German map showing every artillery and machine gun position covering Utah Beach. He sent it up the chain immediately. On the most important morning of the war, a 26-year-old lieutenant had just handed the Allies the enemy's entire defensive layout for the sector. When reinforcements under Lt. Ronald Speirs arrived, they stormed the fourth and final gun. About three hours after it started, the battery was silent and the exits off Utah Beach were open for thousands of men who will never know his name. The cost: one American killed, a few wounded. The Germans lost around 15 dead and a dozen captured. Winters received the Distinguished Service Cross and later said the best decoration he ever got was a sergeant telling him years later that his men trusted him with their lives. The assault on Brecourt Manor is still studied at West Point as a textbook example of a small unit destroying a fixed position. Around 60 defenders. Four guns. Twelve paratroopers and a lieutenant who started D-Day with nothing but a knife. If it sounds familiar, it should. This is the same Easy Company from Band of Brothers. The difference is that none of it was fiction. And when Winters was asked decades later if he was a hero, he gave the answer that still gets quoted at his statue in Normandy: "No. But I served in a company of heroes."