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WOW, great pics of the venerable old Buff!!! What a BIG lumbering plane! Reminds me of the great Vulcans of the RAF!!

 

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Alaska Air National Guard Master Sgt. Brandon Sipes, an aircraft armament systems specialist assigned to the 176th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, installs a GAU-2 7.62 mm minigun on a HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, March 19, 2019. Alaska Air National Guardsmen armed two HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopters each with two GAU-2 7.62 mm miniguns in preparation for aerial live-fire gunnery training. (U.S. Air Force photo by Alejandro Peña)



Alaska Air National Guard Staff Sgt. David Dunning, an aircraft armament systems specialist assigned to the 210th Rescue Squadron out of Eielson Air Force Base, installs a GAU-2 7.62 mm minigun on a HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, March 19, 2019. (U.S. Air Force photo by Alejandro Peña)



Alaska Air National Guard special missions aviators with the 210th Rescue Squadron load ammunition for a GAU-2 7.62 mm minigun at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, March 19, 2019. (U.S. Air Force photo by Alejandro Peña)



Alaska Air National Guard Master Sgt. Brandon Sipes, foreground, an aircraft armament systems specialist assigned to the 176th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, ground guides a HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, March 19, 2019. (U.S. Air Force photo by Alejandro Peña)



Alaska Air National Guardsmen with the 210th Rescue Squadron perform pre-flight procedures while preparing to take off for aerial live-fire gunnery training at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, March 19, 2019. (U.S. Air Force photo by Alejandro Peña)

Many more photos & HI-RES here >>>Alaska Air National Guard

 

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PORT HUENEME, Calif. (Mar. 13, 2019) Seabees from Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 5 and Marines from I Marine Expeditionary Force direct an AAV-7A1 amphibious assault vehicle off the ramp of Military Sealift Command vessel USNS SGT William R. Button (T-AK 3012) in a maritime prepositioning force training evolution in Port Hueneme, California during Exercise Pacific Blitz 2019 (PacBlitz19). The inherently dynamic, scalable, and combined-arms capability of MAGTFs joined with mobility and sustainability provided by amphibious ships gives us an asymmetric advantage over adversaries. PacBlitz19 increases the ability of all participants to plan, communicate and conduct complex amphibious operations. (U.S. Navy Photo by Engineering Aid 1st Class Heather Salzman).





PORT HUENEME, Calif. (Mar. 13, 2019) Seabees from Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 5 and Marines from I Marine Expeditionary Force direct the offload different road graders from the Military Sealift Command vessel USNS SGT William R. Button (T-AK 3012) during maritime prepositioning force training in support of Pacific Blitz 2019 (PacBlitz19). (U.S. Navy Photos by Engineering Aid 1st Class Heather Salzman).



PORT HUENEME, Calif. (Mar. 13, 2019) Three amphibious assault vehicles (AAV-7A1) are offloaded from Military Sealift Command vessel USNS SGT William R. Button (T-AK 3012) in a maritime prepositioning force training evolution in Port Hueneme, California during Exercise Pacific Blitz 2019 (PacBlitz19). (U.S. Navy Photo by Engineering Aid 1st Class Heather Salzman).



PORT HUENEME, Calif. (Mar. 13, 2019). Seabees and Marines load an assault amphibious vehicle onto a lowboy tractor trailer attached to a medium tactical replacement vehicle during a maritime prepositioning force evolution in Port Hueneme, California during Pacific Blitz 2019 (PacBlitz19).(U.S. Navy Photo by Engineering Aid 1st Class Heather Salzman).

Many more Photos are here >>>>Pacific Blitz 2019

 

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Marines with Battalion Landing Team 1/4 at work

 

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USMC back in the ground based air defense business

 

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What equipment is in the polaris, is it a sonic device or some kind of antenna?

 

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A friend of mine in the US Army send me this pictures of his deployment in Kuwait

 

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What equipment is in the polaris, is it a sonic device or some kind of antenna?

This is the USMC new Ground-Based Air Defense (GBAD) Counter-UAS system that's been developed over the last two years to detect, identify, track and defeat drones.
GBAD combines systems like the existing RADA RPS-42 S-band radar, the Sierra Nevada Modi electronic warfare system, Lockheed Martin visual sensors and the Raytheon Coyote anti-drone UAV to allow air defense Marines to detect, track and destroy hostile drones.

 

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This is the USMC new Ground-Based Air Defense (GBAD) Counter-UAS system that's been developed over the last two years to detect, identify, track and defeat drones.
GBAD combines systems like the existing RADA RPS-42 S-band radar, the Sierra Nevada Modi electronic warfare system, Lockheed Martin visual sensors and the Raytheon Coyote anti-drone UAV to allow air defense Marines to detect, track and destroy hostile drones.

I know quite a few places where it can be tested against competent opposition.

 

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PACIFIC OCEAN (March 28, 2019) Marine Sgt. Cade Allen, from Bartlesville, Okla., fires a GAU-17 minigun at a fast inshore attack craft during a live-fire exercise on board a UH-1Y Huey, assigned to Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (VMM) 163 (Reinforced). John P. Murtha is underway conducting routine operations as a part of USS Boxer Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) in the eastern Pacific Ocean. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Kyle Carlstrom)



PACIFIC OCEAN (March 28, 2019) Marine Sgt. Cade Allen, from Bartlesville, Okla., mans a GAU-17 minigun during a live-fire exercise aboard a UH-1Y Huey, assigned to Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (VMM) 163 (Reinforced). (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Kyle Carlstrom)



PACIFIC OCEAN (March 28, 2019) Marine Sgt. Cade Allen, right, from Bartlesville, Okla., signals to Chief Engineman Michael Guysinger, from Chillicothe, Ohio, to hold-fire as he mans a GAU-17 minigun during a live-fire exercise on board a UH-1Y Huey, assigned to Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (VMM) 163 (Reinforced). (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Kyle Carlstrom)



PACIFIC OCEAN (March 28, 2019) An AH-1Z Cobra, assigned to Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (VMM) 163 (Reinforced), flies over the Pacific Ocean during a live-fire exercise. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Kyle Carlstrom)



PACIFIC OCEAN (March 28, 2019) Marine Sgt. Cade Allen, from Bartlesville, Okla., sits in the gunner's seat of a UH-1Y Huey, assigned to Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (VMM) 163 (Reinforced) in preparation for a live-fire exercise. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Kyle Carlstrom)

Air to Surface Live Fire Exercise

 

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EA-18G's about to do work

 

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Blast from the past...A-6E Intruder

 

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A 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne) Soldier maneuvers around a car during an indoor live-fire training range in Fort Carson, Colorado, February 14, 2019. The indoor range tests the operators’ ability to move and communicate in an urban environment, suppressing enemy small-arms fire while quickly rescuing incapacitated teammates in an ambush. (Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Matthew Klene)

 

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Exercise Eagle Sokol is a bilateral training exercise with the Slovenian Armed Forces focused on the rapid deployment and assembly of forces and team cohesion with weapon systems tactics and procedures. Exercises such as this build a foundation of teamwork and readiness between allied NATO countries. The 173rd Airborne Brigade is the U.S. Army Contingency Response Force in Europe, capable of projecting ready forces anywhere in the U.S. European, Africa or Central Commands' areas of responsibility. (U.S. Army Photos by Paolo Bovo)

 

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I see six B-52s



Five B-52 Stratofortresses deployed from Barksdale Air Force Base, La., taxi the flight line at RAF Fairford, England, March 28, 2019. The five bombers took off together, the most so far during BTF operations. (U.S. Air Force photos by Staff Sgt. Philip Bryant)





A B-52 Stratofortress deployed from Barksdale Air Force Base, La., takes off in support of U.S. Strategic Command’s Bomber Task Force in Europe at RAF Fairford, England, March 28, 2019. Five bombers took off together, the most so far during BTF operations. (U.S. Air Force photos by Staff Sgt. Philip Bryant)

B-52 Stratofortress

 

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Airmen from the 451st Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron perform routine maintenance on A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, April 4, 2019. The A-10, nicknamed the "warthog," provides close air support for joint and coalition ground forces in Afghanistan. (U.S. Air Force photos by Capt. Anna-Marie Wyant)

 

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U.S. Soldiers of Bravo Company assigned to the 143rd Infantry (Airborne) (Texas National Guard) returns fire with the Squad Automatic Weapon (SAW) during The Joint Forcible Entry Exercise at Kelly Drop Zone, San Antonio, Texas on Mar. 23, 2019. The Joint Forcible Entry Exercise is an annual large scale Airborne drop and mobility mission that simulates a contested battlefield scenario as a way of training units for dangerous situations that occur while deployed. (US Army Reserve Photo by Spc. Jeffery Harris)

 

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SB1 Defiant