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During the USMF's return to power as a major faction in the galactic stage, the need for newer and better ships became more and more apparent. The fallout of the Dimension Wars left numerous unexplored pockets of space in its wake and the need to quickly scout these area was of keen importance to the USMF.
Hyperius Industries, a company who had never partnered with the USMF before, found itself in need of clients after their previous big buyers, (the mysterious "Continuum"), were eradicated in the Dimension Wars. The AV-002 was the first of two major contributions to the USMF's evolving fleet.
The "Aquila" is a a long range scout/fighter craft. Though it has very little in the way of shielding, it makes up for it in raw speed. It's light frame only adds to its agility. This is the most heavily armed you'll see an "Aquila" class ship; four light laser cannons. Though options for additional armaments exist, the USMF prefers to leave the role of interceptors, attack ships, and heavy fighters to other crafts in the fleet. The Av-002 is also sold in the civilian market as well, where it enjoys a high degree of notoriety in professional space racing venues.
The J-17c Terminator (NATO reporting name: Firefish) is a multirole fighter designed by Steitzer-Hattori Aviation. The Terminator was among the first weapon systems that South Mirthan produced indigenously, replacing soviet Mig-21,23,27 and 29 fighters as the go-to multirole platform for the South Mirthanese Air Force. The Terminator is capable of using nearly all weapons in the Air Force's inventory, including air-to-air missiles, anti-tank missiles and stand-off cruise missiles. as well as laser guided, GPS guided, and unguided bombs
Ever since I built a mini Y-Wing and A-Wing I wanted to take on the challenge to build the iconic TIE Fighter in mini-scale. And here it is!
This is my entry into category A of the Andromeda's Gates Challenge #2 over at Eurobricks.
Introducing the OF51 Dayhawk, the newest attack fighter in the Octan Corp fleet. With the rumors of invasion of the horizon, the Higher ups at the corporation sent down orders to design a new fleet that represents the history and future of Octan.
This fighter is designed for speed and agility without giving up any fire power. The two Ion cannons are accompanied by four neutron missiles, capable of destroying much larger ships from a safe distance.
The specially designed nosecone protects the most vital systems, including the latest in radar and jamming technology. We placed the pilot as close to the sensor systems as possible to cut down on relay time between decision and action.
A few notes: This is my first real spaceship, so please let me know what you think. I was inspired by the two of my favorite planes of all time, the P51 Mustang and the F117 Nighthawk Stealth fighter. I wanted to go in the opposite diection from greebling the entire machine, so i went with a stealth tech look, and i really like the look. The decals are custom made by me.
Enjoy!
Author: Satoshi Kamiya
-This is the Mitsubishi A6M Zero Fighter manufactured by the Japanese during ww2. It was used in kamikaze attacks in the Battle of the Pacific.
-Folded from 60x60cm Vog Crumpled Dark Green
-Time spent = Around 6 hours
-I love how this model was structured and it was very fun to fold :)
The Buffalo was one of the first U.S. monoplanes with an arrestor hook and other modifications for aircraft carriers. It won a competition against the Grumman F4F Wildcat in 1939 to become the U.S. Navy's first monoplane fighter aircraft.
(Source : Wikipedia)
LEGO MOC of Sukhoi Su-34 fighter-bomber in scale of 1:34
The Sukhoi Su-34 (Russian: Сухой Су-34; NATO reporting name: Fullback) is a Soviet-origin Russian twin-engine, twin-seat, all-weather supersonic medium-range fighter-bomber/strike aircraft. It first flew in 1990, intended for the Soviet Air Forces, and it entered service in 2014 with the Russian Air Force.
Fighter I made a while ago, surprisingly fiddly for something that looks so simple, unfortunately I didn't think to take any better shots of it before I took it apart.
Local MMA professional fighter Barry who was a fantastic subject to photograph putting in 100% effort during his shoot.
Old Soldiers
The woman in this photo I believe to be a Belgian Resistance fighter from World War II who moved to Nuneaton after the war. The face is one of bravery, loyalty with a never say die attitude that helped the British and American forces from behind enemy lines. People who faced death 24 hours a day 7 days a week and 52 weeks of the year throughout the war. Dedicated to the removal of occupied forces from their homeland. Taken in 2014 she still attends the 11th hour of the 11th Day of the 11th Month Remembrance March at Bedworth Annually. Various sites and groups asked for sexy and beautiful women, but here is a woman a real woman, a heroin, better than any model or babe, she has a face that demands respect, because here we have bravery before vanity a beauty in herself that will never die.
Two Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning II fighter jets have successfully landed on board HMS Queen Elizabeth for the first time, laying the foundations for the next 50 years of fixed wing aviation in support of the UK’s Carrier Strike Capability.
Royal Navy Commander, Nathan Gray, 41, made history by being the first to land on board HMS Queen Elizabeth, carefully maneuvering his stealth jet onto the thermal coated deck. He was followed by Royal Navy Squadron Leader Andy Edgell, RAF, both of whom are test pilots, operating with the Integrated Test Force (ITF) based at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland.
Shortly afterwards, once a deck inspection has been conducted and the all-clear given, Cmdr Gray became the first pilot to take off using the ship’s ski-ramp.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II is a family of single-seat, single-engine, all-weather, stealth, fifth-generation, multirole combat aircraft, designed for ground-attack and air-superiority missions. It is built by Lockheed Martin and many subcontractors, including Northrop Grumman, Pratt & Whitney, and BAE Systems.
The F-35 has three main models: the conventional takeoff and landing F-35A (CTOL), the short take-off and vertical-landing F-35B (STOVL), and the catapult-assisted take-off but arrested recovery, carrier-based F-35C (CATOBAR). The F-35 descends from the Lockheed Martin X-35, the design that was awarded the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program over the competing Boeing X-32. The official Lightning II name has proven deeply unpopular and USAF pilots have nicknamed it Panther, instead.
The United States principally funds F-35 development, with additional funding from other NATO members and close U.S. allies, including the United Kingdom, Italy, Australia, Canada, Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, and formerly Turkey. These funders generally receive subcontracts to manufacture components for the aircraft; for example, Turkey was the sole supplier of several F-35 parts until its removal from the program in July 2019. Several other countries have ordered, or are considering ordering, the aircraft.
As the largest and most expensive military program ever, the F-35 became the subject of much scrutiny and criticism in the U.S. and in other countries. In 2013 and 2014, critics argued that the plane was "plagued with design flaws", with many blaming the procurement process in which Lockheed was allowed "to design, test, and produce the F-35 all at the same time," instead of identifying and fixing "defects before firing up its production line". By 2014, the program was "$163 billion over budget [and] seven years behind schedule". Critics also contend that the program's high sunk costs and political momentum make it "too big to kill".
The F-35 first flew on 15 December 2006. In July 2015, the United States Marines declared its first squadron of F-35B fighters ready for deployment. However, the DOD-based durability testing indicated the service life of early-production F-35B aircraft is well under the expected 8,000 flight hours, and may be as low as 2,100 flight hours. Lot 9 and later aircraft include design changes but service life testing has yet to occur. The U.S. Air Force declared its first squadron of F-35As ready for deployment in August 2016. The U.S. Navy declared its first F-35Cs ready in February 2019. In 2018, the F-35 made its combat debut with the Israeli Air Force.
The U.S. stated plan is to buy 2,663 F-35s, which will provide the bulk of the crewed tactical airpower of the U.S. Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps in coming decades. Deliveries of the F-35 for the U.S. military are scheduled until 2037 with a projected service life up to 2070.
Development
F-35 development started in 1992 with the origins of the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program and was to culminate in full production by 2018. The X-35 first flew on 24 October 2000 and the F-35A on 15 December 2006.
The F-35 was developed to replace most US fighter jets with the variants of a single design that would be common to all branches of the military. It was developed in co-operation with a number of foreign partners, and, unlike the F-22 Raptor, intended to be available for export. Three variants were designed: the F-35A (CTOL), the F-35B (STOVL), and the F-35C (CATOBAR). Despite being intended to share most of their parts to reduce costs and improve maintenance logistics, by 2017, the effective commonality was only 20%. The program received considerable criticism for cost overruns during development and for the total projected cost of the program over the lifetime of the jets.
By 2017, the program was expected to cost $406.5 billion over its lifetime (i.e. until 2070) for acquisition of the jets, and an additional $1.1 trillion for operations and maintenance. A number of design deficiencies were alleged, such as: carrying a small internal payload; performance inferior to the aircraft being replaced, particularly the F-16; lack of safety in relying on a single engine; and flaws such as the vulnerability of the fuel tank to fire and the propensity for transonic roll-off (wing drop). The possible obsolescence of stealth technology was also criticized.
Design
Overview
Although several experimental designs have been developed since the 1960s, such as the unsuccessful Rockwell XFV-12, the F-35B is to be the first operational supersonic STOVL stealth fighter. The single-engine F-35 resembles the larger twin-engined Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor, drawing design elements from it. The exhaust duct design was inspired by the General Dynamics Model 200, proposed for a 1972 supersonic VTOL fighter requirement for the Sea Control Ship.
Lockheed Martin has suggested that the F-35 could replace the USAF's F-15C/D fighters in the air-superiority role and the F-15E Strike Eagle in the ground-attack role. It has also stated the F-35 is intended to have close- and long-range air-to-air capability second only to that of the F-22 Raptor, and that the F-35 has an advantage over the F-22 in basing flexibility and possesses "advanced sensors and information fusion".
Testifying before the House Appropriations Committee on 25 March 2009, acquisition deputy to the assistant secretary of the Air Force, Lt. Gen. Mark D. "Shack" Shackelford, stated that the F-35 is designed to be America's "premier surface-to-air missile killer, and is uniquely equipped for this mission with cutting-edge processing power, synthetic aperture radar integration techniques, and advanced target recognition".
Improvements
Ostensible improvements over past-generation fighter aircraft include:
Durable, low-maintenance stealth technology, using structural fiber mat instead of the high-maintenance coatings of legacy stealth platforms
Integrated avionics and sensor fusion that combine information from off- and on-board sensors to increase the pilot's situational awareness and improve target identification and weapon delivery, and to relay information quickly to other command and control (C2) nodes
High-speed data networking including IEEE 1394b and Fibre Channel (Fibre Channel is also used on Boeing's Super Hornet.
The Autonomic Logistics Global Sustainment, Autonomic Logistics Information System (ALIS), and Computerized maintenance management system to help ensure the aircraft can remain operational with minimal maintenance manpower The Pentagon has moved to open up the competitive bidding by other companies. This was after Lockheed Martin stated that instead of costing 20% less than the F-16 per flight hour, the F-35 would actually cost 12% more. Though the ALGS is intended to reduce maintenance costs, the company disagrees with including the cost of this system in the aircraft ownership calculations. The USMC has implemented a workaround for a cyber vulnerability in the system. The ALIS system currently requires a shipping-container load of servers to run, but Lockheed is working on a more portable version to support the Marines' expeditionary operations.
Electro-hydrostatic actuators run by a power-by-wire flight-control system
A modern and updated flight simulator, which may be used for a greater fraction of pilot training to reduce the costly flight hours of the actual aircraft
Lightweight, powerful lithium-ion batteries to provide power to run the control surfaces in an emergency
Structural composites in the F-35 are 35% of the airframe weight (up from 25% in the F-22). The majority of these are bismaleimide and composite epoxy materials. The F-35 will be the first mass-produced aircraft to include structural nanocomposites, namely carbon nanotube-reinforced epoxy. Experience of the F-22's problems with corrosion led to the F-35 using a gap filler that causes less galvanic corrosion to the airframe's skin, designed with fewer gaps requiring filler and implementing better drainage. The relatively short 35-foot wingspan of the A and B variants is set by the F-35B's requirement to fit inside the Navy's current amphibious assault ship parking area and elevators; the F-35C's longer wing is considered to be more fuel efficient.
Costs
A U.S. Navy study found that the F-35 will cost 30 to 40% more to maintain than current jet fighters, not accounting for inflation over the F-35's operational lifetime. A Pentagon study concluded a $1 trillion maintenance cost for the entire fleet over its lifespan, not accounting for inflation. The F-35 program office found that as of January 2014, costs for the F-35 fleet over a 53-year lifecycle was $857 billion. Costs for the fighter have been dropping and accounted for the 22 percent life cycle drop since 2010. Lockheed stated that by 2019, pricing for the fifth-generation aircraft will be less than fourth-generation fighters. An F-35A in 2019 is expected to cost $85 million per unit complete with engines and full mission systems, inflation adjusted from $75 million in December 2013.
An old Canberra aircraft at the side of the road at Willowbank, near RAAF base Amberley, Queensland, Australia. I know it's not a fighter jet, but I liked the title! The Canberra saw service with the RAAF from 1953 to 1982. My old neighbour was a RAAF pilot & flew these out of Amberley, crashing twice in his career, he will no doubt have flown this aircraft during his service. I'm guessing that it has a private owner now as it's not in great condition & serves more as a place for pigeons to roost!
..cause it makes me that much stronger
Makes me work a little bit harder
It makes me that much wiser
So thanks for making me a fighter
Made me learn a little bit faster
Made my skin a little bit thicker
Makes me that much smarter
So thanks for making me a fighter...
Perchè le esperienze ci fanno crescere, tirano fuori la forza che abbiamo dentro, ci mettono alla prova...
Ma poi l'importante è non diventare troppo duri, soprattutto con sè stessi...
Introducing the Iommian 7th iteration i-Fighter, codename: SPiNNER.
Features a control pod that rotates on the z-axis to keep the pilot stable while the fighter rolls or spins (pointless in space but it looks cool). The propulsion ring features almost 320 degrees of directional vectoring for extreme maneuverablity. Fighter operations controlled by two blue touch screens. Droid socket fits standard R2 unit (pictured here with R2-P3). Armaments include: 2 proton torpedo launchers (4 torpedoes each) and 4 laser cannons. The i-Fighter is not equipped with any kind of landing-gear, instead it relies on its repulsorlift generator to keep it hovering above the landing surface.
Built for the 2011 FBTB Alphabet Fighter Contest.
PLEASE TAKE A SECOND TO COMMENT IF YOU ADD TO FAVORITES! (i see already someone didn't listen lol)
As a photographer and an artist having the feeling of lack of creativity sometimes really sucks, as it has for me lately. Thankfully however all it takes is a single shock to your central creative system to jolt you back into reality and for me this image gave me that much needed jolt.
This was a spur of the moment edit and I absolutely love how it came out. Comments welcome, enjoy!
Strobist: 1 ab800 overhead in a 22'' ebay beauty dish, 2 ab800's back left and right gridded, triggered with PW.
Post: Basically consists of bumping the exposure in lightroom and clarity, then going into Photoshop and creating a dodge and burn layer for the highlights and shadows, from there a few high pass filters and my secret sauce, then back to lightroom where I turn down the saturation and bump the luminance in the oranges to make the highlights pop a bit more and a little bit more clarity and viola.
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Location: Paris, Parc des Expositions, France
Event: PARIS MANGA & SCI-FI SHOW
Camera: Nikon D700
Lens: AF-S VR Micro-Nikkor 105mm f/2.8G IF-ED | f/3.5 | ISO 800 | 1/10s
No HDR
Parisian Photowalk with viandoxine.
Balade parisienne avec viandoxine.
Breitling Fighters operated FG-1D Cosair G-BXUL painted as US Navy 92844/8 at Duxford in October 2003.
Wikipedia: The Lockheed Martin–Boeing F-22 Raptor is an American twin-engine, jet-powered, all-weather, supersonic stealth fighter aircraft. As a product of the United States Air Force's Advanced Tactical Fighter (ATF) program, the aircraft was designed as an air superiority fighter, but also incorporates ground attack, electronic warfare, and signals intelligence capabilities. The prime contractor, Lockheed Martin, built most of the F-22 airframe and weapons systems and conducted final assembly, while program partner Boeing provided the wings, aft fuselage, avionics integration, and training systems.
Camera: Canon EOS 5
Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF 70-210mm
Film: Kodak Gold 200 (exp. 08.2013)
Scanner: Pakon F235+
Photo taken: 06/09/2016
Pavilion №51 «Meat industry» («Glavmyaso»)
Built in 1954, architect: V. M. Lisitsyn, S. G. Chernobay.
The object of cultural heritage of Federal importance.
The portico is crowned with a high, decorated with a moulded pedestal on which stands the sculptural group «Fighter with a bull». "It is clearly drawn on the sky background, plastic, its strength is not lost even at a considerable distance — say in one of his speeches, doctor of arts, Professor V. P. Tolstoy.
The sculpture here is proportional to unity with the architecture, however, is shaped emblem of the pavilion. By the way, it is likely that the author of the famous «Fighter with a bull» N.A. Konviser for pavilion VSHV made a copy with his sculptures, crowning the main building of the slaughterhouse in Sochi (lost in 2004) and wrongly attributed to Vera Mukhina.
LEGO MOC of Sukhoi Su-34 fighter-bomber in scale of 1:34
The Sukhoi Su-34 (Russian: Сухой Су-34; NATO reporting name: Fullback) is a Soviet-origin Russian twin-engine, twin-seat, all-weather supersonic medium-range fighter-bomber/strike aircraft. It first flew in 1990, intended for the Soviet Air Forces, and it entered service in 2014 with the Russian Air Force.