#Air-to-Air Missile

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1974：U.S. Balloons Invaded PRC Airspace, Zhou Enlai Furious Orders Destroy It At All Costs

Three notes relating to U.S. Spy Balloons Overflying Soviet and Chinese Territory During the 1970s. The U.S. also overflew the Soviet Union during the 1950s with both balloons and aircraft. Some of the balloons and aircraft were shot down. The 1950s flights are well known, there may not be as much information in the public domain about the 1970s balloon overflights. Here are three articles from…

[girlactionfigure]

People assume that because Israel's air defense system is best in class, we are safe when enemies shoot missiles at us, that we are safe.

They don't think about the fact that the missiles are shot down using other missiles and things that explode in the sky end up in peices that need to fall to the ground.

This is PART of a missile that the Houtis just shot at us.

Forest Rain Marcia

[ghostwarriorrrr]

Full load of six AIM-54 Phoenix Missiles on an F-14A in flight

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NA-3A Skywarrior fitted with an AWG-9 radar launches an XAIM-54A Phoenix air-to-air missile. 1966.

➤➤ VIDEO: https://youtu.be/ZsR19m2udXE

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Lined Chiton (Tonicella Lineata)

Such pretty colors! It's incredible how vivid they are.

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At least 492 have been killed so far in Lebanon

[crstormzy]

gods i've been thinking so hard about pjo and, yk, eyes... about different points of views — different views of life, even.

about aphrodite kids who need only a single glance to see every single connection you've ever maintained in your life. who look at you and see who your heart belongs to, what it longs for. who see the world in these rose colored lenses they don't even know they're wearing, because seeing the world in shades of other people's love just feels so right.

about zeus kids who can see the sparks flying in the air seconds before lightning strikes. who hear the buzz of domestic appliances because what is electricity if not the modern form of lighting? who see the markings on other people's bodies, declaring where bolts — even the small ones, even the ones we don't feel — have ever touched them.

about ares kids and how they gave life to seeing red; eyes always clouded in all shades of burgundy and maroon and strawberry red under the sun. who look at someone and can immediately tell what angers them, what pushes the wrong buttons, and then do it anyways. who can see weapons before they can see the enemy, who are never caught by surprise in a fight.

anyways i could go on for days but i just... i can't stop thinking about them.

[cheesehambu]

"Okhmatdyt" Children's Hospital in Kyiv today

Russians want death and only death of the Ukrainian nation!

Donate to the Okhmatdyt Foundation

These children need our help!

[enriquemzn262]

Local authorities in Venezuela have discovered a Vympel R-73 short range air-to-air missile, used by the Sukhoi Su-30 fleet serving the country, inside a house in Palo Seco, Guárico State, leading to the arrest of the owner of the house.

The missile was apparently recovered after a 2019 crash of an Su-30 in the area.

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The U.S. Navy hasreleased its first official images of one of its F/A-18F Super Hornets with a very heavy air-to-air missile loadout that includes four of its new AIM-174Bs.

A U.S. Navy F/A-18F and F-35, both assigned to Air Test and Evaluation Squadron (VX) 9, fly over the Point Mugu Sea Range in Southern California with a U.S. Air Force F-15 during Gray Flag 2024 on Sept. 24, 2024.

(U.S. Navy photo by Lt. Cmdr. Kory Hughs)

[anastasiamaru]

At night while everyone is asleep nasty vile enemy launched missiles at residential buildings

ruzzian"soldiers"struck critical infrastructure in Lviv early in the morning on July 6

36 people injured 5 dead

russia is a terrorist state

[folklorespring]

Will they or won't they trope but it's about whether russian missile will murder me tonight in my sleep or not ✌️

[psychologeek]

I'm fine.

(I washed my hair in the sink the other day, waiting for the sirens that never turned on)

I'm fine.

(I stopped sleeping at night, because that way I know someone's always awake in the house. I take naps at noon and wake up to bad news.)

I'm okay.

(I haven't left the house in days.)

It's not that bad.

(I use my inhaler, but breathing is still hard.)

It doesn't matter.

(after the third time I was pulled out of the shower, I'm a little stressed about it. It's already been a struggle.)

I'm okay.

(I can say, only by hearing, if the current missiles were countered midair or rather hit the ground. I can say where it was by direction of the explosion, or the distant smoke in the sky.)

But it's okay.

It's not so close.

The windows didn't even slam this time.

I'm fine.

(There's no other choice).

(I wish I didn't have to.)

[ghostwarriorrrr]

How to check weapons after they are loaded on a fighter jet?

[usafphantom2]

Great size comparison between Raytheon's portfolio of air launched missiles. AIM-9 > Aim-120 > AIM-174.

@RealAirPower1 via X

[awesome-casuallyfamouscollector]

Destroyed Russian 9A331M TLAR (Transporter Launcher and Radar) for 9K332 Tor-M2 surface-to-air defence missile system, Donetsk region, Ukraine, November 16, 2023. Source: ukr.warspotting.net

P.S. Very expensive thing was lost by Russian war criminals...