#air forces

[mapsontheweb]

Countries in Asia by airforce sizes

The map showcased here shows the countries of Asia based on the range of total aircraft they possess within their militaries. Asia holds some of the world’s most powerful countries and militaries, thus many of the countries within this continent would have some of the world’s largest airforces. Out of the world’s top 10 largest airforces, 7 of them are within the Asian continent! Two of the top 10 being transcontinental nations (Russia and Turkey). Russia currently maintains the largest airforce in Asia, with a total of 4,255 aircraft within their military. If we were to exclude transcontinental countries then China would have the largest in Asia with 3,304. Current the United States has the world’s largest aircraft fleet, with a total of 13,209.

by powerfulcountries

[turkish-armed-forces]

[b-tonyukuk]

"Phantoms Phorever!" Turkish Air Force celebrating 50th anniversary of F-4 Phantom II jet.

[batmanbeyondrocks]

Nike Air Force 1 Low 'Chinese New Year'

Credit: Complex Sneakers@complexsneakers via Kicks From The +86@shanghaisole

[kingshook1]

[darkhorse-javert]

On Ground-Crew

@flashfictionfridayofficial

They wait, in the Messes, in the mechanic sheds, out on the feild, keep busy so the blur of waiting is less. One, sentry, calls a dark spot on the sky. The purr rising to a growl of engines as the speck, no specks, come closer, and form into the great winged shapes of their charges. One two, close in, drop their wheels and run in bumping to a stop on the ground, . Three by three, the waiters run forward to their own one. Yet more men stare, in their trios, up at the sky, waiting, watching, straining their eyes and ears, one or another turning to check another direction than the other planes have come from. No more shadows appear, no more growling in the air. They could the seconds, the minutes and wait it out, until 'overdue' becomes 'absent.'

Word comes in from the debreifing of the officers, those two went down, they won't be appearing on a van, bicycle or lorry, having scared everyone still Two planes, two men, are not to be found. Raise a toast to them in the Mess later.

[alien-g1rl]

Miami, FL

[airforce1]

[mansorus]

AF1 ARMY LOL

[fakeguys]

[mapsontheweb]

Coat of arms/emblems of European air forces.

by u/ErZicky

Iceland coast guard does have a very small air component with a couple of helicopter and turboprop but it doesn't have its own coa so the coast guard  one will be used in the navy

Kosovo only have about 50 unmanned small aircraft so I decided to not use the defense forces coa who use them.

Luxembourg also doesn't have an air wing but has the armed forces coat of arms since it operate a couple of big transport plane

And (despite what some angry comments said in the last post) I'm aware of the existence of northern Cyprus I just decided to not include it

[mayvibee]

Real calm

[b-tonyukuk]

“golden ratio” 

[melodramaforevr]

the progression of

[kingshook1]

[somewhereincairparavel]

percy had an 'im a big three son' moment when he choked a goddess with her own saliva (controlling a fluid that was INSIDE her body) annabeth was terrified.

nico had an 'im a big three son' moment when he disembodied bryce lawrence (quite literally dissipating and shrinking his LIVING soul into a spirit) and threw him to the underworld, smashing his zombie warriors. reyna was terrified.

yet we were robbed of jason's 'im a big three son' moment where he sucks the air out of someone's lungs and makes them stop breathing, or damaging a person's nervous system with his lightning control, and literally cause internal bleeding, or a damaged/fried skull if he electrocuted hard enough (look up the effects of lightning damage on body y'all will get a whole list, tbh he doesn't even need lightning to do any of this, air control is more than enough since air takes charge of everything going inside the body, but this is just an added effect.) he could give people STROKES if he wanted to. he's the literal definition of burnt out kid who was suppressed from discovering the magnitude of his abilities, because one, his dad's ego wouldn't be able to handle it, two, because he, for some reason, can't be allowed to do anything other than get knocked out :/

also adding on, hardcore pjo fans know that after the ending page of boo, there's this fan story that rick chose to publish in the last few pages of the book where a fan reimagines the ending of hoo, in that work, annabeth collapses from an attack and percy sobs clutching her body. jason calmly asks him to step aside, and kneels before annabeth, jason regulates her breathing using his wind/lightning powers and brings annabeth back fully from her cardiac arrest, causing percy to be relieved. (I wanted to link the pics of the pages here so bad but I didn't have the hard copy of the book with me, and this isn't available anywhere online either, only in the original covers of boo uk and us version, so I edited this post and asked people to reblog this post w the pics if they have the hardcopy, and a kind blogger found the story I'm talking about and reblogged the pictures of the pages, you can check my reblogs of this post for the pictures of the almost all the pages after this scene) considering rick approved and even liked the fan's work well enough to publish it in the official boo book, I'd say rick was aware and never completely ruled out expanding jason's abilities and had them in mind, he simply didn't incorporate it into the books. (also W fan for giving jason the rep he deserves, I will always remember you, you saw the VISION before any of us did, the story was very well written, with great dialogue.)