#us airforce

[kropotkindersurprise]

April 12, 2026 - A man breached security at Shannon Airport in Ireland, and climbed onto an American military C-130 aircraft and started hacking at it with an axe, causing extensive damage. The man, who is in his 40s, was arrested. [video]

[beccawise7]

R.E.D. Fridays... until they all come home.

🇺🇸❤️🤍💙🇺🇸

[vexwerewolf]

Soooooo an F-22 Raptor just got its entire product line's first confirmed air-to-air kill... against that Chinese weather balloon the news was freaking out about

The F-22 Raptor program began in the early 90s and has cost a total of, according to one source, $32.4 billion dollars. It has been by most metrics a complete failure which has failed to produce a viable multirole air superiority fighter. It has - by the act of replacing certain obsolete aircraft but then being cancelled after the aircraft it replaced were retired - punched holes in the USAF's lineup that the F-35, its successor, cannot fill. It also has the dubious distinction of its production process being so monstrously fucked that it would, at this point, cost less money to invent a new aircraft than to restart F-22 production.

Until today, it had zero confirmed kills. It now has one - an unarmed, unmanned balloon.

In a very real way, the United States just paid $32.4 billion to pop a balloon.

[krumpkin]

Republic P-47D Thunderbolt, Produced ( 1941- 1945 ) 😊😊

[karagin22]

[theworldatwar]

A USAAF B24 Liberator takes a hit over Vienna, Austria - 16th June 1944

[walkingthroughthisworld]

REMEMBER EVERYONE DEPLOYED

[monkeyssalad-blog]

Cosford Airshow 2026 by john Grew Via Flickr: Mustang P-51D built by Commonwealth under licence as CA-18 Mk21 .Not built until after the War and subsequently fitted with dual controls it isn`t really a true War Bird , but it sure looks like one .