Random Military Photos

They stood 5 stories high 20 ft wide 140 ft long and Yes it weighed 1200205 kgs Only.....Calling them Big would be an UNDERSTATEMENT, They were a Mountain of steel, it had 7 tonnes Shells which were 17 ft long, Its Barrels was worn out only after 50 shots, It had Range of 45 km (designed and build in 1934 and 1941 respectively)

It took one whole regiment of 2000 men and a total of 6 weeks to assemble the gun it was assembled on double row on special rail Track....Yes They Were the World Biggest Guns/Railguns DORA and Gustav

 

Rare photo of a Soviet MiG-25 covered with sheets after its pilot, Victor Belenko, landed at Hakodate Airport in Japan in a successful bid to defect to the US. USA thought the MiG-25 was an agile air-combat fighter rather than an interceptor. In response, the United States started a new program which resulted in the McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle.

 

Extremely Rare photo of Indian Navy's Tu-142 which was derived from the Tu-95 with MMRCA deal victor Rafale of Armée de l'Air somewhere over the Indian Ocean.

 

This Mirage-2000 fighter of the Hellenic Air Force (Greece) which was rescued after it crashed into the Aegean Sea.



F-16
USN had rejected the option to use F-16 as a carrier borne fighter due to its narrow landing gear and single engine config, although for many years they used them for DACT training

 

Rare photo of India's First Fighter, Marut which means "Spirit of the Tempest". This twin-seat Marut was the first aircraft type developed in Asia, to be able to fly supersonic and the aircraft despite having features comparable to its contemporaries worldwide had an under-powered engine which was the main reason for early demise of the aircraft.



This is the World's biggest hovercraft Zubr-class LCAC which was made by USSR and can carry 3 MBT around 150 tonnes or 10 armored vehicles with 140 troops or 8 amphibious tanks or up to 500 troops and Recently China bought 4 such hovercrafts in which 2 will be built in China.

 

PLAAF

 

I wonder why IN doesn't go for such stuff. We have hundreds of islands in and around IOR which we may have
to defend/attack in future.

 

Rare photo of Kiev Class, even INS Vikramaditya is a Kiev Class Vessel. Something for Yak jump jets to call home, like the famous British Sea Harrier, the Ruskies also developed their VTOL aircraft called Yakovlev Yak-38. This is Kiev, in 1996 she was sold to a Chinese company, and was a military theme park in Tianjin 2004. In August 2011, the ex-Kiev began taking guests as its new role as a luxury hotel after a refit costing £9.6 million.

 

USS George H W Bush CVN-77
It is the last ship of the Nimitz class of super carriers.

 

This is a pilot's worst nightmare, landing On One Wing! The pilot managed to land however instead of ejecting, this Israeli Pilot and a F-15 belonging to the IAF (Israeli Air Force) managed to land.

Video link:
F-15 One Wing Miracle Landing | Military.com

 

Soviet Union....

 

This is a very rare and beautiful photo of French's Nuclear Submarine, the Triomphant-Class Submarine with its long range missile M51 SLBM being transported which weighs around 52 tonne and has a range of around 10,000kms with speeds of Mach 25.

 

Italian Navy's McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier II+ getting vertical and the weapons load and the photo was taken from another plane which flew side-by-side until it reached 20,000ft.

 

An amazing picture of the Tupolev Tu-160 . A heavy , intercontinental range , super-sonic , variable-sweep wing strategic bomber . One of the biggest bomber in service.



A French wonder - the ACMA Troupes Aeról Portées Mle. 56. Deployed with French airborne forces, this was a militarized Vespa scooter outfitted with a 75mm recoilless rifle
they deployed it to a great effect in Algeria and Indochina .