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Mil Mi-24 Superhind Mk5 "Krokodil" Heavy Helicopter Gunship (Krokodil = Crocodile, Russian)
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An even more massive and destructive beast than the previous variant. A beast of a helicopter, it is equipped with engines twice as powerful as it's predecessor, enormous turboshaft engines used to turn the two contra-rotational rotors, and two more on the sides are used as backup, more power, and speed making this newer variant good even when fully loaded with people and munitions. Their exhaust is also used for the NOTAR system built into this huge bird.
It is equipped with new equipment ranging from imaging and sensors to radar and weapons. A new camera system is attached to the nose for more accurate gunning, along with eye tracking equipment so that the user can aim simply by pointing their eyes. The new, durable, gatling cannon is now equipped with more than four times the ammunition than it's predecessor.
It can still transport 10 people, not including the pilots, but it can do so at a speed more than two times faster than the previous variant due to it's new engines. It is now considered one of the fastest transport helicopters in the world, setting aside the fact that it can both transport and gunship at the same time.
It isn't that much of a stealthy helicopter, however, but it does feature a slightly reduced RCS. It features two wings with 4 pylons each, and 2 pylons on the bottom of the body. It's wings can give the helo around 15% of it's lift. The outermost pylons can only be equipped with air-to-air missiles, and it's underbody pylons only with either remote controlled autocannons or free-fall bombs. The 6 free pylons underneath the wings can be outfitted with rocket pods, guided missiles, autocannons, bombs, air-to-air missiles, sensor equipment, and more.
It is able to deliver long range missile strikes if a friendly unit in the area guides it (infantrymen can use their on-chest computers.)
As a latest addition, they are equipped with a powerful anti-missile laser equipped in the nose along with imaging suite and a detachable TLS built under the cockpit area aside from other weapon systems.
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Riverfront Park floodplain. Meridian Township, MI
Another invasive species that is lovely to observe, but destructive.
Mount Vesuvius overlooks the city of Naples. The destructive potential of its fiery clouds is proven: the remains of Pompeii and Herculaneum still remind us today … But the city of Naples continues to expand on the flanks all around this active volcano. Why do town planners allow Neapolitans to expand in the face of such potentially destructive forces?
More than 3 million people live within a twenty mile radius of the volcano.
Naples under Vesuvius Italy_w_0713
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Destructive emotion is one of the many emotions we have. Human being is biological machine which has a computer and produces a lot of different emotions and feelings. We may not consciously feel each our emotion, they may hide in our subcontious. Feelings and emotions run us, dominating our life. We are humans because of a lot of different emotions and feelings. Thinking and memory processes function within feeling and emotion processes. How severely they effect us is depend on a lot of factors.
Our emotions and feelings create for us very happy and very bad moments. Some of us may not able to control our bad feelings when our emotions become conscious. Some of the negative feelings may be very strong, which can be very harmful ( very destructive) for other human beings and / or ourselves.
We have to be aware of who we are and use some remedies before it's too late. At the end, we are responsible from each our action.
Trees on a trail at a small creek in Darlington Provincial park , Martin’s photographs , Courtice , Ontario , Canada , July 14. 2022
American Larch trees with beautiful small cones
Tamarack trees with beautiful small cones
Cones
Blooming Dogwood
flowering white dead nettles
Looking down at the front end of my bicycle
Bicycle
Four days after the destructive storm of 21 May 2022
old apple trees with beautiful blossoms
old orchard on the waterfront trail of Lake Ontario
blue sky in Squires beach
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old orchard on the waterfront trail
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the large stone block walls
system to keep the Carp from entering Duffins marsh and creek system
viewed from the bridge across the marsh in Squires beach
Having a nice walk with granny in the woods
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I shot this beetle on a trip to the Catskill Mountains last year. Too bad they're so destructive, as they are striking insects! I cropped this from the original image.
July 5, 2018 - Kearney Nebraska US
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The month of July in Nebraska is mostly just outflow storms from about mid June on. Meaning extremely strong outflow winds in front of this storm. Destructive that evening with winds over 60+ mph.
Once the storm base moved closer I was able to get some incredible cloud to ground strikes that would make for some of the best lighting captures of 2018. Like clock work I expected a late night storm with some phenomenal definition.
Beautiful crystal blue lightning illuminated the night as the arcus (shelf cloud) approached from the due west. Severe warnings were in place & right in my direction. Got to my location, set up the gear and went to town... Nothing but Crystal Blue Thunderstorm Eye Candy!!!
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Despite the destructive and ugly forces of "Burgweid", the winter storm had also its beautiful side. For example the flooded marsh along a river that created nice reflections in the morning fog.
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Visual pollution of the landscape on a huge scale.
Cyprus for many years now embraced the power of the Sun and harnessed it with very inexpensive solutions for getting domestic hot water. Instead of continuing these pioneering works, the government succumbed to external pressures and ruined the landscape with inefficient (German) wind turbines everywhere.
Brexit is beginning to sound quite liberating.
Piece on display at Corning Museum of Glass by Ginny Ruffner depicts lightening as a "creative, rather than a, destructive force."
The rabbits have been terribly destructive to my perennial garden through the years, but we haven't had as many in our backyard as previously. This little bunny has spent the summer here, though, and I have to admit he's pretty cute!
These little fellows are very destructive to you home and other wooden structures... They don't eat the wood but they cut it out and make their nest there and it weakens the boards, etc... I have to have my house treated 4 times a year to keep them out now that I have gotten rid of them...
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Christchurch is the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand.
The city suffered a series of earthquakes between September 2010 and January 2012, with the most destructive of them occurring on 22 February 2011, in which 185 people were killed and thousands of buildings across the city collapsed or suffered severe damage. By late 2013, 1,500 buildings in the city had been demolished, leading to ongoing recovery and rebuilding projects across the city.
One of the many Parakeets we have locally, this one was living in this tree, whereas a lot of his mates live in peoples roof spaces, and can be quite destructive.
Taken in Ellington Park Ramsgate in 2015, there is now talk of a cull because of their destructiveness and the fact that local birds, apart from seagulls are being driven out.
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Remembrance Sunday is gone, but the insignia of remembering the war dead are still up. When I came to Britain in 1990, male soldiers only were remembered (and, usually, Brits only, not the millions of soldiers Africa and India had provided). Things have changed since then, and now, there are also silhouettes of female soldiers. For somebody like me, coming from "Europe", it is strange that in the UK the memory is clearly privileging the military. Modern war, however, is equally destructive in the civilian world. Leica M Mono, Voigtlander CS 2.2/50 wide-open.
You are working so hard, in so many ways, to keep fighting for life. On this day seven years ago, you chose death…and somehow you lived through your own destructive actions. Contrary to what many people may think, and perhaps even fewer may say aloud, maybe this didn’t indicate you were selfish or a failure. Maybe this was the only way you knew to escape the indescribable pain you felt completely trapped within. Maybe you were not the failure—it’s amazing that somehow you managed to succeed at staying alive this long—maybe you were so deeply failed by individuals who should have cared about you, protected you, seen the signs and your pain and taken action to help you when you didn’t have the resources, understanding or knowledge to help yourself. Maybe you believed the message that had been deeply drilled into you: that you would be doing others and the whole world a favor if you were not here. Now you are trying your best to do the incredibly difficult work—which seems unexplainable with words—to keep fighting for life, every moment of each day and each night and in ways that are often “invisible” to others. Now you are fighting—even though you feel you don’t have any strength left for this—to let the light of hope shine upon all your scars. The scars of the places where you have hurt yourself because you believed the messages that you were worthless and in desperation you tried to do something to help numb the pain of the intense, never-ending, life-altering, life-threatening wounds that were mercilessly inflicted on you by others, which left other types of, even deeper, figurative scars within you. There are no words that seem adequate to describe or explain your experience. And while engaging in the healing process, it can feel as though the life-long pain is even deeper and wider than ever before as you do the necessary work—at a pace that is appropriate for you—of uncovering the truth of your experiences, which had to be pushed as far from your memory as possible for the sake of your survival, though these memories are never fully forgotten…the mind, spirit and body do remember. Though you often feel like a complete failure, it truly is amazing how far you have come from where you once used to be. You did the best you could for your whole life, with what resources you had available to you and within you. And in many ways it is so incredible to see the changes within you that have come through the God-given resources, support, work and wisdom of your mind and body. Though it feels impossible and like too much to handle, please do your best to keep fighting for life.
This Groundhog or Woodchuck if you prefer has not put himself to bed for the winter yet! The days are still pretty warm, in the low 70's F but the nights are getting pretty chilly in the 40's and 50's. I am pretty sure he lives up under my evergreen bushes as I see where he comes in and out.
2021 was another year of above average forest fires. Surprisingly in Vancouver we only experienced one week when smoke drifting in from the interior of the province impacted the local air quality.
3 shots of the filtered sun effect. First, smoky sun reflection on East False Creek water.
Tp date, 2021 is the third most destructive wildfire season on record in the province, after updated statistics showed more than 8,580 square kilometres of land has been burned so far..
British Columbia appears on track for another potentially record-setting wildfire season.
The worst wildfire seasons in B.C.'s history were 2018 (nearly 13,550 square kilometres burned) and 2017 (more than 12,160 square kilometres).
The rabbits have been terribly destructive to my perennial garden through the years, but we haven't had as many in our backyard as previously. This little bunny has spent the summer here, though, and I have to admit he's pretty cute!
Njord – god of the sea. Storm and calm as one, life-giving and destructive like the waves themselves.
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Aftermath of the terrible destructive force of the tornados on April 27, 2011 ~ Tanner AL- we were away in Orlando FL but our storage unit was hit. All we could think was "Thank GOD our family and friends are okay!" All the rest- just stuff!
And how in the WORLD our family and friends got anything salvageable out for us- beyond me! Forever in their debt.
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It seems the love I've known
Has always been the most destructive kind
I guess that's why now
I feel so old
Before my time
Yesterday, when I was young
The taste of life was sweet as rain upon my tongue
I teased at life as if it were a foolish game
The way the evening breeze may tease a candle flame
The thousand dreams I dreamed, the splendid things I planned
I always built to last on weak and shifting sand
I lived by night and shunned the naked light of the day
And only now I see how the years ran away
Yesterday, when I was young
So many happy songs were waiting to be sung
So many wild pleasures lay in store for me
And so much pain my dazzled eyes refused to see
I ran so fast that time and youth at last ran out
I never stopped to think what life was all about
And every conversation I can now recall
Concerned itself with me and nothing else at all
Yesterday the moon was blue
And every crazy day brought something new to do
I used my magic age as if it were a wand
And never saw the waste and emptiness beyond
The game of love I played with arrogance and pride
And every flame I lit too quickly, quickly died
The friends I made all seemed somehow to drift away
And only I am left on stage to end the play
There are so many songs in me that won't be sung
I feel the bitter taste of tears upon my tongue
The time has come for me to pay for
Yesterday, when I was young
Songwriters: Charles Aznavour / Fred Ebb
Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.
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"At times so self destructive
With no intent on moulding
But behind this emotion
My sensible heart
My sensible heart"
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As horrible and destructive as fire is, it sometimes leaves in its wake something interesting or striking. I found this charred tree trunk to fit that description. Paramount Ranch, after the Woolsey Fire.
The human capacity for destructiveness is a dangerous zone to wander. Finding oneself in awe of watching the world crumble beneath ones feet as the path on which one walks comes to a closing halt. At the end of the road, pure darkness lies ahead and it could overtake one's assumptions. Although one is to face forward, staring into the future, a continual pattern that is read too deeply to which a falsified scenario can conjure feelings of frustration and emptiness of the past. A feeling that can dwell, swelling the mind with discomfort, like good intentions overtaken by a rainy day. An entity that feeds on our dispositions, growing in time only to explode into a raging mess of emotional pain and anguish; yet accompanied by the warmth and compassionate nature of innocent attentiveness.
"Hope is a disposition of the soul to persuade itself that what it desires will come to pass, which is caused by a particular movement of the spirits; namely, by that of mingled joy and desire. Fear is another disposition of the soul, which persuades it that the thing will not come to pass. And it is to be noted that, although these two passions are contrary, one may nonetheless have them both together, that is, when one considers different reasons at the same time, some of which cause one to judge that the fulfillment of one’s desires is a straightforward matter, while others make it seem difficult.
And neither of these passions ever accompanies desire without leaving some room for the other."
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The Hiroshima Peace Memorial (広島平和記念碑, Hiroshima Heiwa Kinenhi), originally the Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall, and now commonly called the Genbaku Dome, Atomic Bomb Dome or A-Bomb Dome (原爆ドーム, Genbaku Dōmu), is part of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, Japan and was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1996.
The building was the only structure that remained standing in the area around the atomic bombing of Hiroshima at the end of World War II. The ruin of the hall serves as a memorial to the over 140,000 people who were killed in the bombing. It is permanently kept in a state of preserved ruin as a reminder of the destructive effects of nuclear warfare.
Or Woodchuck depending on what part of the country you're from I think. They are very destructive and I remember well the year I spent the whole summer trying to figure different ways to keep one out of the garden! This one, though obviously young was very busy trying to enlarge the opening in my plastic drain spout which is buried in the ground. I actually stepped outside onto the patio to enlighten him how I felt about those proceedings which put me within five feet of the little beastie. He froze for several seconds, long enough for me to click several times and then turned and with a bound of his fat little self he hightailed it back up into the woods. :) In answer to the question "how much wood could a woodchuck chuck"? I don't know because he was chucking plastic!
Anita and I are off adventuring for the first time in weeks and I can't wait to see what there is to see! Have a fabulous rest of the weekend everyone! :)
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Kea, rated as one of the most intelligent of all birds, is an alpine parrot that is both playful and destructive, their inquisitive nature often making them unwelcome at alpine huts, car parks, and ski-field. Farmers are also on the alert for kea that are known to sometimes injure their sheep. The kea is essentially a ground bird, but when airborne they are magnificient fliers who love to roll and tumble. The male can be distinguished from the female by his larger and longer curving upper mandible. Their beautiful scarlet underwings are rump are revealed when in flight.
Birds of the Southern Alps, they are found at carparks and rest areas waiting for an opportunity to search your vehicle for food or to just clown around removing window rubbers or other accessories that may take their fancy. (Sourced from "BIRDS New Zealand beauty like no other" by Paul Gibson.
This was taken through the windscreen while our coach is waiting for passage at the entrance of Homer Tunnel, coming from Milford Sound back to Queenstown. Finding no fun nor food, this bird is just about to fly off.
Apparatus for Non-Destructive Transmission of Biological Visualisation (ANTBV)
art work on the Esplanade in Redcliffe by artist Russell Anderson.
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As I faced (and continue to face) very intense, life-long mental health struggles that can be very disabling, challenging and disturbing for me, I remember spending many evenings outside at home just watching and photographing the sky as a way to try to help myself stay alive and survive. Seeing, watching, taking note of, and eventually capturing the clouds I saw seemed to naturally become one of the many ways I coped with my own intense, heartbreaking and disturbing reality. I appreciated the beauty, the colors, the variety and uniqueness of what I saw in the clouds, and how the clouds seemed to tell a story—and sometimes I could relate to the story I saw in them.
Through multiple devastating and traumatic experiences, the Bible had been misused and God misrepresented as I was treated in unhealthy, harmful and destructive ways by others. This resulted in my time spent reading the Bible (something I’d faithfully done for multiple decades that—in the past—had been safe and uplifting) becoming an extremely overwhelming, very difficult encounter which caused me to engage in intense self-criticism, self-condemnation and self-harm. But I wouldn’t give up on God—deep down I trusted His faithfulness and goodness rather than the human harm I’d experienced (though this harm was extremely wrong, intensely painful and deeply devastating). I’m thankful God didn’t give up on me and continued to communicate His care for me, perfect love for me and His understanding through His creation by showing me stories in the clouds.
The clouds seemed to tell a story I could relate to—in a way I could visualize my own experiences in the formations, light, darkness and colors I saw. It was like being able to relate to the story I saw portrayed in the clouds was a way God showed me He sees me, the brutal truth of my devastating experiences, my understandable thoughts and behaviors due to my traumatic and harmful personal experiences and that He still cares for me when I feel abandoned, used and misunderstood by some people that I once trusted who were no longer trustworthy.
We all have a story. Perhaps you can relate to parts of my personal story. And it is my hope that somehow, sometime, in some way, maybe you can find some hope in your story.
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Typhoon koppu was the most destructive ever. It has caused 58 lives, not much, but the damage to agricultural land and harvest and landslides were too much for everybody.. Vast towns were flooded and up to now, there are a few towns under water. Today, the sun came up the very first time. I made the shot with my macro lens at Sidcor. Market. My wife could not walk because of her sore right knee.. Thanks to those who view, comment and fave my photo.
The ruins of Christchurch Cathedral .
Christchurch is the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand.
The city suffered a series of earthquakes between September 2010 and January 2012, with the most destructive of them occurring on 22 February 2011, in which 185 people were killed and thousands of buildings across the city collapsed or suffered severe damage. By late 2013, 1,500 buildings in the city had been demolished, leading to ongoing recovery and rebuilding projects across the city.
The February 2011 Christchurch earthquake destroyed the spire and the upper portion of the tower, and severely damaged the rest of the building. The badly damaged west wall, which contained the rose window, partially collapsed in the June 2011 and suffered further damage in the December 2011 earthquakes.
The Anglican Church decided to demolish the building and replace it with a new structure, but various groups opposed the church's intentions, with actions including taking a case to court. In September 2017, the Christchurch Diocesan Synod announced that the cathedral will be reinstated after promises of extra grants and loans from local and central government.
By mid-2019 early design and stabilisation work had begun.
Precious, sweet, loving, friendly, bouncy, entitled, stubborn, mischievous, destructive, curious, funny, beautiful, maddening, disobedient, warm, happy, snuggly, large, furry, endlessly fascinating friend.
My surprise gift one year ago.
I wouldn’t trade him for anything.
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