The History Channel and film director Peter Berg – “Friday Night Lights,” “The Kingdom” – are calling lights, camera and action at Camp Pendleton, Calif., and Marine Corps Air Station Miramar as part of a documentary called “Superpower,” according to the Marine Corps. The two-hour documentary, intended as a pilot for a new series, “aims […]
From the monthly archives:
May 2011
So the Brits may have lost their ability to launch fighters from ships with the retirement of the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal but that hasn’t stopped the Royal Navy from finding a stopgap power projection system until the Queen Elizabeth class supercarriers are commissioned. Apparently, the Royal Navy and British Army have re-qualified the AH-64 Apache […]
Good morning, let’s start things off with this video of the F-35C carrier variant Joint Strike Fighter’s recent flyby at Joint Base Andrews’ air show last weekend. The flight marked the first-ever air show appearance by an F-35.
After almost five decades of service, the U.S. Coast Guard has started retiring its Hamilton class cutters this month and replacing them with the National Security Cutter class, sister site DoDBuzz pointed out today. As Buzz points out the Hamiltons have served the Coasties for a long time and were extremely tired, the arrival of […]
Happy Monday, to kick this week we thought we’d give you this great image of what might be the biggest close air support aircraft ever used by the Marine Corps. It’s a shot of four Hellfire anti-tank missiles mounted on the wing of one of the Corps’ KC-130J Hercules outfitted with the Harvest Hawk weapons […]
