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Monthly Archives: June 2018
LFT&E
Live Fire Test and Evaluation, or simply LFT&E as it is called in the test and evaluation world. Any new weapons system needs to go through a testing program where it is subjected to a small sample of what an … Continue reading
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F-22 Weapons Bay
A nice close up of the combat business part of an F-22 Raptor fighter, the US Air Force’s premier 5th generation fighter jet. I took this at an air show at NAS Patuxent River a few years ago. Even though … Continue reading
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YOU ARE HERE
An aircraft carrier is a small (some would say not so small) city on the sea. Physically, the ship is over 1,000′ long, weighs close to 100,000 tons and has over 20 decks or levels, from the keel all the … Continue reading
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