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A special operations forces team is tasked to intercept a convoy heading to a terrorist cell. The convoy is carrying a crate containing VX nerve gas. The team's objective is to ambush the convoy and retrieve the crate of VX gas.
The team reached the ambush site. Snipers setup an overwatch.
Part three of Operation Alcatraz.
Rail Operations Group (ROG) 37884 'Cepheus' drags Ex-Greater Anglia Class 317s 317343 and 317508 north past Waterbeach, working the 5G46 1410 Cambridge T.&R.S.M.D. to Ely Mlf Papworth Sidings storage move. This pair of 317s worked the farewell tour / runs 10 days prior. Furthermore, this leaves only 2 more Class 317s left not in storage; 317337 and 317338.
Shhhh
I'm performing surgery
Close your mouth, close your eyes
He has a ticking part
That may pop out
And cause someone surprise
Don't worry
There won't be much blood
It will be quick, he'll never know
That his ticking part
His missing part
Is something that has to go
Intelligence obtained from Operation Blue Moon indicated that an exchange of radioactive material will be taking place in the Middle East in an area within the Russian sphere of influence. Additionally, intelligence suggested that the Russian arms dealer, codename Panther, will be personally at the exchange.
To capture the radioactive material and the High Value Individual Panther, a Victorian special operations task force was assigned with the operation. As soon as the task force arrived at the forward operating base Camp Oasis, they immediately made preparations for the upcoming operation.
To be continued...
Note: The story, all names, characters, and incidents are fictitious.
[Helicopter news footage from the CLB invasion of France]
["We managed to get this footage... looks like a civilian sports car was destroyed, no driver visible; two dead NATO soldiers, however-- one being dragged into an alley, the other in front of the car and... and a third soldier, ankles and arms broken, on his knees with a gun to the back of his head, dear god, this is terrible!"]
-News clip, translated from french
Borders are just lines on paper. Viva la Uprising!
NASA's Operation IceBridge is flying its summer Arctic land ice campaign in Greenland, continuing its measurements of the Greenland Ice Sheet and its outlet glaciers. For the next four weeks, IceBridge will be flying the Land, Vegetation, and Ice Sensor (LVIS) on board Dynamic Aviation’s B-200T King Air aircraft, first out of Thule Air Base, and then Kangerlussuaq, Greenland. This photograph from the mission was taken on Aug. 29, 2017, from 28,000 feet, looking north while surveying Nioghalvfjerdsbrae (79 N) Glacier in northeast Greenland.
Using a fleet of research aircraft, Operation IceBridge images Earth's polar ice to better understand connections between polar regions and the global climate system. IceBridge studies annual changes in thickness of sea ice, glaciers and ice sheets. IceBridge bridges the gap in polar observations between NASA's Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) -- which began data collection in 2003 and was de-orbited in 2010 -- and ICESat-2, planned for 2018.
Image Credit: NASA/Bryan Blair
A surveillance team from the Combined Anti-Terrorism Task Force continued to surveil an insurgent lieutenant and a courier of a known arms dealer. The team followed them to a shipping container port.
The team witnessed a briefcase being exchanged and a container being loaded onto a container truck. Afterwards, the insurgent lieutenant drove off with the container truck.
The forward deployed team was put on stand-by to intercept the container truck. The surveillance team continued to follow the courier while a UAV was dispatched and followed the container truck.
To be continued...
A special operations forces team is tasked to intercept a convoy heading to a terrorist cell. The convoy is carrying a crate containing VX nerve gas. The team's objective is to ambush the convoy and retrieve the crate of VX gas.
The team reached the ambush site. Snipers setup an overwatch.
Part three of Operation Alcatraz.
And BAM! Three days before Brickcon. Excuse the indecent photo; I've been butchering my time into education, building, packing, writing, and food. Moving left to right, we have a mutated survivor, a typical farmer who had the time to make it into the city before everything went awry, a stay-at-home dad, hazardous environment officer, and the Medici brothers. Onto vehicles, we have a billboard (which will have an image on it, just wait a few days,) a small buggy, which is a personal favorite toy among my collection, and an anti-aircraft cannon. Why a cannon? Well why not?
See you guys there!
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Colonel Robert Olds' F-4C following a North Vietnamese MiG-21 Fishbed during Operation Bolo. This month is the 50th anniversary of that famous air battle.
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Still testing out Blender, so I thought I'd pit my F-4C against its nemesis; the MiG-21. Awe was kind enough to donate his stellar MiG-21, 'cuz he's a boss.
Majesty’s Canadian Ship (HMCS) CALGARY conducts Officer of the Watch maneuvers during Operation PROJECTION on October 16, 2018.
Photo: LS Zachariah Stopa, Canadian Forces Combat Camera
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Once this was the biggest airfield in Eastern Germany with thousands of Soviet soldiers living here - but when the Iron Curtain was lifted, they left. For 30 years now, this has been a ghost town. This time, we set out to explore a Soviet wasteland! Learn the full story in this episode on YouTube: youtu.be/t-pYZenXMyk
Hard to tell here, but the light is extremely low in this very cool old stone recreation center, so hard to get descent photos for me.
Annual Operation Wildlife Eagle Days at Wyandotte County Park. Wonderful organization that takes in injured and abandoned wildlife and nurses them back to health then releases back into the wild. Some that can't be released participate as educational ambassadors for their species.
The 2017 field season was record-breaking for Operation IceBridge, NASA’s aerial survey of the state of polar ice. For the first time in its nine-year history, the mission, which aims to close the gap between two NASA satellite campaigns that study changes in the height of polar ice, carried out seven field campaigns in the Arctic and Antarctic in a single year. In total, the IceBridge scientists and instruments flew over 214,000 miles, the equivalent of orbiting the Earth 8.6 times at the equator.
The mission of Operation IceBridge, NASA’s longest-running airborne mission to monitor polar ice, is to collect data on changing polar land and sea ice and maintain continuity of measurements between ICESat missions. The original ICESat mission launched in 2003 and ended in 2009, and its successor, ICESat-2, is scheduled for launch in the fall of 2018. Operation IceBridge began in 2009 and is currently funded until 2020. The planned overlap with ICESat-2 will help scientists connect with the satellite’s measurements.
Read more: www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/big-year-for-icebridge
For more about Operation IceBridge and to follow future campaigns, visit: www.nasa.gov/icebridge
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission.
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A Victorian special operations task force was assigned to ambush an exchange of radioactive material and capture a high value individual (HVI) codename Panther, a Russian arms dealer.
The tasks were assigned to the TF through drawing straws. The assault team consisted of Team 8, the Squadron Master Chief (Callsign Orca-minor), and two machine gunners from Team 7. The extraction team consisted of Team 55 with Squadron Commander (Callsign Orca-actual), and a fire support section from the Special Operations Regiment. The extraction team are mounted in two GMV, one LAV-FSV, one LAV-ICV, and one HMWV Cargo. The remaining operators from Team 7 in two HH-60 Pave Hawks would be the QRF and positioned at FOB Spade. Video links with the Task Force's TOC, Victoria’s National Command Centre (NCC), United States’ Situation Room and United Kingdom’s COBRA were also setup to monitor the mission on the day of the exchange.
As the assault team patrol to the exchange site after being inserted into the AO by high altitude high opening (HAHO) insertion, the extraction team departed the staging base and arrived at a rendezvous point.
To be continued...
Note: The story, all names, characters, and incidents are fictitious.
A door gunner with the Tactical Aviation Detachment watches out of a CH-146 Griffon helicopter during Operation IMPACT on September 27, 2017.
Photo: Op IMPACT, DND
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Un mitrailleur de porte du détachement d’aviation tactique à bord d’un hélicoptère CH-146 Griffon assure la surveillance au cours de l’opération IMPACT, le 27 septembre 2017.
Photo : Op IMPACT, MDN
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Rail Operation Group Class 47 No 47848 "Titan Star" passes Washwood Heath West Jn with a Stoke Works Jn to Burton Ot Wetmore Sidings move on 24th June 2016.
To mark the end of crew operations (driver and conductor) at Catford garage, the powers that be very generously let this RM and preserved RT1702 out on a variety of routes for the final few days. RM2046 and RT1702 were both used in service on Route 75 (9th), 47 (10th), 185 (11th), 54 (12th) and the 36B on the 13th March - the final day of crew operations.
As I took time out at Shoreditch for photographs of star player RM2046 working for one day only on Route 47, the driver of RT1702 obliged by offering me a side-by-side comparison view of the 1930s/40s RT design and the 'futuristic' 1950s Routemaster :)
I had travelled up from Catford on RM2046 on the outward journey, and was looking forward to the return ride back to Lewisham. The Routemaster was looking very smart on the day, and became SELKENT's last operational Routemaster.
RT1702 was looking quite immaculate considering its 40+ years on the road! Interestingly, the bus was allocated to Catford (TL) garage from 1966 to its withdrawal in 1972. It was also one of the buses that took part in a pre-Festival of Britain tour of Europe.
RM2046 (ALM 46B)
new: 2/5RM9, AEC AV690
10/64 new to Aldenham
11/64 N into service
65-6 N
11/67 N to Aldenham repaint, and return
1968 N
from last bodyswap with B2008
PD w/d from service
1980s-90s TL allocated?
6/94 exported to Argentina
RT1702 (KYY 529) 4/50
new, body 3675: Park Royal 3RT8
upper window surrounds repainted cream, fitted with GB plate
7/50 embarked on SS Embio from Hull for visit to Europe
8/50 Tour of Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg, West Germany, France
10/50 return to UK
1/51 AV into normal service (Mortlake)
*/51 P used on Circular Tour of London during Festival of Britain
1953 J used on 134
1957 GM (Victoria)
5/58 GM to Aldenham overhaul
5/58 GM from o/h, unlicensed, still body 3675
8/58 GM relicensed
8/59 SW transfer into store..
8/59 AP ..change store, ..and out (Seven Kings)
8/59 used on 169A
60-1 AP
7/62 AP to Aldenham overhaul
7/62 AP from o/h, unlicensed
10/62 RD transfer (Hornchurch)
63-5 RD
8/66 RD to Aldenham overhaul
8/66 TL from o/h, unlicensed (Catford), still body 3675
9/66 TL relicensed
67-8 TL
11/69 TL to Aldenham repaint, and return
1970 TL
7/71 TL into store, and out again
7/72 BX into store (Bexleyheath)
8/72 bought by R.Denton, Orpington
preserved by RT1702 Preservation Society
And more on Route 47 here: www.londonbuses.co.uk/_routes/current/047.html
As an aside, Catford garage (TL) was one of the original garages operated by Thomas Tilling:
TL - Tilling Lewisham, TC - Tilling Croydon, TB - Tilling Bromley survived into London Transport days.
Catford garage was opened on 11th May 1914 and was not very old when requisitioned for the war effort. It did not re-open until 1920 when Thomas Tilling's Lewisham operation moved there due to space constraints at his other garage.
Thomas Tilling gained an agreement in 1923 to double the size of Catford and in addition the roof has been raised twice, first in 1930 to enable double deck buses to use the garage and again in 1948 to accommodate AEC Regent III RTs. The garage was modernised again in 1970.
Taken with a Nikon F-501 SLR and 75-200mm zoom lens [Scanned from an original Kodachrome slide with no digital restoration]
You can see a random selection of my bus photographs here on Flickriver: www.flickriver.com/photos/southallroutemaster/random/
CSX's Operation Lifesaver 50th Anniversary unit rolls CSX train I015 (Chambersburg, PA to Bedford Park, IL, stacks) by the old Acme steel mill, now under the banner of Cleveland-Cliffs in Riverdale, Illinois on CSX's former B&OCT Barr Sub.
CSXT 4568 is a SD70MAC and was built by EMD for CSX as CSXT 768 in March of 2000.
ESA engineers test and debug ground control software and equipment, identifying and solving problems before a current or future mission can be affected.
They work close to real mission conditions to verify new software and hardware in a complete chain.
This runs from the flight controllers who sit at workstations through the complex and sophisticated mission control systems and ground tracking stations used to transmit commands right up to the satellite. And it’s all simulated in a safe, effective and rigorous way, helping to ensure the success of ESA missions.
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ESA ground systems engineering
Credit: ESA/J.Mai
A Sunwing passenger jet (SW703) traveling from Barkley Island to Victoria was hijacked by two gunmen from the Samedi Gang.
After two weeks of neogiation, an exchange of food and water for hostages, and the indication that the gunmen had a remote control, possibly a trigger for a bomb onboard, the Government of Victoria approved a hostage rescue and Team 7 of the National Mission Unit was deployed.
Just at dawn, snipers from Team 7 established an over-watch. Approaching from the plane's blind spot, the assault team also moved into position.
To be continued...
Note: The story, all names, characters, and incidents are fictitious.
One of the former operation rooms in Pripyat hospital. Operating lights and medication are all that remain here....Did the workers and firemen after the Chernobyl Disaster pass through here those fateful hours and days after the explosion?
A task force was assaulting a cave complex and just as the operators made entry, a loud burst of machine gun fire came from a bunker inside the cave. The operators immediately got to cover. As a steady sound of gunfire streamed from the cave, the task force commander radioed the SBF position for support.
The SBF fired a bunker defeat munition and quickly destroyed the machine gun emplacement, clearing the way for the assault team to make entry.
To be continued...
Note: The story, all names, characters, and incidents are fictitious.
HMCS MONTREAL and its embarked CH-148 Cyclone helicopter, call sign Strider, patrol the Mediterranean Sea to help build maritime situational awareness in associated support of NATO’s Operation SEA GUARDIAN on April 11, 2022.
Please credit: Corporal Braden Trudeau, Canadian Armed Forces photo
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Le NCSM MONTREAL et son hélicoptère embarqué CH-148 Cyclone, dont l’indicatif d’appel est Strider, patrouillent les eaux de la Méditerranée afin de contribuer à l’amélioration de la connaissance de la situation maritime en appui à l’opération SEA GUARDIAN de l’OTAN, le 11 avril 2022.
Photo : Caporal Braden Trudeau, Forces armées canadiennes
PACIFIC OCEAN (July 20, 2021) Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Higgins (DDG 76) steers away from Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) following a replenishment-at-sea. Vinson is underway conducting routine operations in U.S. Third Fleet. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Sophia Simons)
During Operation Blue Moon www.flickr.com/photos/8212187@N05/49182441817/in/datepost..., the Combined Anti-Terrorism Task Force (CATF) captured an Al-Asad financier. Interrogation of the financier revealed that they were in the process of purchasing radioactive material from Panther (a Russian arms dealer name Ulysses Klaue) as the terror group planned to build several dirty bombs to target Victoria, United States and the United Kingdom. He could not provide further details on the location of Panther, but the TF believed the plan was derailed with his capture. The financier, however, did revealed the location of several high value individuals in the network. The CATF began to surveil these individuals.
Several months later, the CATF captured a high value individual through the intelligence obtained from the financier. The HVI confirmed that Al-Asad did indeed had plans to obtain radioactive materials to build several dirty bombs and the plans became dormant since the capture of the financier. However, the plot had recently been revived. Further, the HVI provided the TF with the location where the terror group will be receiving the materials from Panther. The exchange would occur in an area within the Russian sphere of influence and Panther himself would be at the exchange. However, according to the HVI, security would be light since they wanted to avoid drawing any attention at the exchange. It was expected that they would be traveling in civilian vehicles.
The intelligence was shared among allied nations. After a discussion at the highest Government level, it was decided that CATF would be assigned to capture both the radioactive material and the HVT Panther.
A Victorian special operations task force was assigned with the operation. To keep the operation a secret, a task force out of rotation was assigned. After receiving their orders from the Squadron HQ's SCIF, the team commanders immediately gave Warning Orders to their team members and made preparations to depart for Camp Oasis.
To be continued...
Note: The story, all names, characters, and incidents are fictitious.
A Victorian special operations task force was assigned to ambush an exchange of radioactive material and capture a high value individual (HVI) codename Panther, a Russian arms dealer. Although Team 8 form the task force has setup an ambush to intercept the radioactive material and capture Panther, the arms dealer arrived at the exchange in a BTR armored personnel carrier along with a Russian Spetsnaz unit. A strategic decision was made for Team 8 to stand down, fearing a direct engagement with Russian troops.
Although Panther was allowed to escape, the task force had a "bump plan" to intercept the radioactive material. The Advanced Force Operations teams continued to track the vehicles carrying the radioactive material. As the vehicles entered the Great Desert, Team 7 performed a heliborne interception.
Did Team 7 capture the radioactive material? To be continued...
Note: The story, all names, characters, and incidents are fictitious.
Operation AVRO is a forcewide initiative that delivers a surge of extra resources and specialist officers to a different district within Greater Manchester each month.
This month (June 2022) saw the operation take place in Bolton.
The operation targets crimes that members of the public in that district have told us give them the most concern.
Members of the press and key partners, including local representatives, are invited to attend Operation AVRO deployments to see results first-hand and conduct important multi-agency work, such as welfare visits.
More details on AVRO can be found by visiting gmp.police.uk and following us on social media.
You should call 101, the national non-emergency number, to report crime and other concerns that do not require an emergency response.
Always call 999 in an emergency, such as when a crime is in progress, violence is being used or threatened or where there is danger to life.
You can also call anonymously with information about crime to Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111. Crimestoppers is an independent charity who will not want your name, just your information. Your call will not be traced or recorded and you do not have to go to court or give a statement.
You can access many of our services online at www.gmp.police.uk
A Victorian special operations task force was assigned to ambush an exchange of radioactive material and capture a high value individual (HVI) codename Panther, a Russian arms dealer. Although Team 8 form the task force has setup an ambush to intercept the radioactive material and capture Panther, the arms dealer arrived at the exchange in a BTR armored personnel carrier along with a Russian Spetsnaz unit. A strategic decision was made for Team 8 to stand down, fearing a direct engagement with Russian troops.
Although Panther was allowed to escape, the task force had a "bump plan" to intercept the radioactive material. The Advanced Force Operations teams continued to track the vehicles carrying the radioactive material. As the vehicles entered the Great Desert, Team 7 performed a heliborne interception.
Did Team 7 capture the radioactive material? To be continued...
Note: The story, all names, characters, and incidents are fictitious.
A Victorian special operations task force was assigned to ambush an exchange of radioactive material and capture a high value individual (HVI) codename Panther, a Russian arms dealer.
The teams in the TF were assigned with different tasks. Team 8: the assault team, Team 55: the extraction team, and Team 7: the Quick Reaction Force (QRF). Video links with the Task Force's TOC, Victoria’s National Command Centre (NCC), United States’ Situation Room and United Kingdom’s COBRA were also setup to monitor the mission on the day of the exchange.
As the assault team patrol to the exchange site after being inserted into the AO by high altitude high opening (HAHO) insertion and the extraction team arrived at the rendezvous point, the QRF pre-positioned at FOB Spade ready to react.
To be continued...
Note: The story, all names, characters, and incidents are fictitious.
Operations image of the week:
On 21 October 1974, the new European Space Operations Centre, or ESOC, for the first time invited the public inside to see first-hand what was happening at Darmstadt’s mission control centre.
At the time, the centre was part of the European Space Research Organisation, which would, in 1975, be combined with the European Launcher Development Organisation to form ESA.
The official report in the Bulletin magazine for November 1974 noted:
“The interest shown greatly exceeded expectations, as evidenced by the fact that more than 10 000 visitors were catered for between 10.00 and 17.00 hours. With competent staff members acting as guides, tours were arranged through the Operation Control Centre, including the Real-Time and Conversion areas, the Computer Building, and a 210 m2 hall housing life-size models of some of the ESRO satellites and a photo exhibition.”
Writing in How to Survive in Space some 20 years later, author Madeleine Schäfer, who worked at the centre until the 1990s, gave the background to what happened:
“… over 10 000 visitors from Darmstadt and surroundings descended upon ESOC like a cloud of locusts, avidly devouring everything in their path and leaving a trail of waste and destruction in their wake.
“Distracted secretaries arriving the following Monday found cupboards, which had been inadvertently left ajar, deplete of everything bearing the ESOC insignia; programmers, who had been foolish enough to leave their programs to run overnight, dejectedly collected the remnants together (the visitors – not satisfied with the standard PR material – had selected punch cards at random as souvenirs).
“Despite competitions, a space quiz, a balloon contest, special playrooms for the children and cinema shows, the Darmstädter visitors still found ample opportunity to display a healthy curiosity in all facets of space technology – by pressing all available knobs and buttons and effectively halting the mainframe computer and all on-going operations.”
“All in all, the first Open Day was pronounced by all participants to be a wonderful success.”
The next open day at ESOC, “Long Night of the Stars”, is set for 8 September 2017, to celebrate the centre's 50th anniversary.
Credit: ESA
A CC-130 Hercules carrying supplies for Operation PRESENCE - Mali lands at the airfield in Gao, Mali on July 10, 2018.
Photo: MCpl Jennifer Kusche
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Criminals travelling across the border between Greater Manchester and Cheshire were greeted with more than a surprise on Thursday 26 June 2014, as officers from Greater
Manchester Police and Cheshire Police and took part in Operation Crossbow.
The overall aim of the joint operation was to disrupt illegal activity between the two counties and deny criminals the use of the roads.
By using Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) cameras officers were able to monitor virtually every vehicle that crossed between the two counties, stopping all vehicles that were on the roads illegally or were linked to criminal activity.
Cheshire Police Assistant Chief Constable Mark Roberts said: "We know that criminals don′t simply stop when they reach the border, and we also know that there is as strong link between illegal vehicles and other types of serious crime.
"Uninsured drivers are more likely to commit other offences and many of their vehicles are unroadworthy and pose as real danger to other road users.
"Using technology, such as ANPR cameras, we are able to use the intelligence available to us to identify offenders and bring them to justice."
Greater Manchester Police Inspector Matt Bailey-Smith said: "We will not allow the safety of our roads to be compromised by criminals and operations like today will help us achieve our overall aim of keeping criminals off our roads.
"However, offenders across Cheshire and Greater Manchester can be assured that this is not a one-off operation. Our officers patrol the roads 365 days a year and will continue to target criminals."
Operation Crossbow involved more than 200 officers from Cheshire Police and GMP, as well as staff from partner agencies such as the UK Border Agency, Department of Work and Pensions, Her Majesties Revenue and Customs and the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency.
ANPR cameras are able to monitor more than 3000 number plates every hour and alert officers if a vehicle is linked to known criminals. The cameras also inform officers whether or not the vehicle is taxed & insured.
Both Greater Manchester Police and Cheshire Police and are keen to remind members of the public that they too can help make our roads safer by reporting illegal use of vehicles to the police on 101. Alternatively information can be reported anonymously through Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.
To find out more about Greater Manchester Police please visit our website.
You should call 101, the new national non-emergency number, to report crime and other concerns that do not require an emergency response.
Always call 999 in an emergency, such as when a crime is in progress, violence is being used or threatened or where there is danger to life.
You can also call anonymously with information about crime to Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.
Crimestoppers is an independent charity who will not want your name, just your information. Your call will not be traced or recorded and you do not have to go to court or give a statement.