The Avro Vulcan was an RAF delta wing subsonic bomber which operated from 1953 until 1984. The Vulcan was part of the RAF's V bomber force, which fulfilled the role of nuclear deterrence during the Cold War. It was also capable of a conventional bombing role. Music: "Thunderbirds" Theme & Leftfield - "Song of Life".
Some loonatic doing a parachute jump from a glider.
Mexico city, a tanker carrying 3000 gallons of petrol collides with a passenger train and ignites. The ensuing fire causes a massive BLEVE.
The A-10 was designed for high-survivability with a titanium cover surrounding both the cockpit, ammunition and fuel tank. Placement of the engines decreases the infrared signature lowering it's vulnerablity to heatseeking missiles and ground fire.
The Lightning was an all-British Mach 2 capable supersonic Cold War fighter/interceptor. RAF pilots described it as "being saddled to a skyrocket". Designed as an air superiority fighter, it's role was to defend mainland Britain against bomber attacks. The Lightning served RAF and the Royal Saudi Air Force between 1957 and 1988.
Footage of the BLU-82B "daisy cutter" bomb in 1970. Designed to create an instant clearing in the jungles of Vietnam, it has also been used an anti-personnel weapon because of its very large lethal radius (280m). The BLU-82 uses conventional explosive incorporating both agent and oxidizer. In contrast, fuel-air explosives (FAE) consist only of an agent and a dispersing mechanism, and take their oxidizers from the oxygen in the air. The minimum altitude for release due to blast effects of the weapon is 1,800 m above ground level. The warhead contains 5,700 kg of low-cost GSX slurry (ammonium nitrate, aluminium powder and polystyrene) and is detonated just above ground level by a 965 mm fuse extender, optimized for destruction at ground level without digging a crater. The weapon produces an overpressure of 1000 psi near ground zero.
A liquid gas station in Seoul catches fire,causing a refueling tanker to explode in a massive BLEVE (boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion)
Sourced the film Gula Divisionen, a Swedish "Top Gun" from 1954. The J29 Tunnan (The Barrel) was built by Saab 1950-1956. In the fifties the Swedish Air Force was the fourth largest in the world and Tunnan was as good as the best US (Sabre) and Soviet (Mig15) fighters. Tunnan held for a time the world speed record at the distance of 500 km.
An archive informational film about the Lockheed C-130 Hercules and it's versatility, including aircraft carrier operations.
Apache training video
World War I was the first modern global military conflict which took place in Europe between 1914 to 1918. Archaic military tactics met modern industrialised warfare for the first time, resulting casualties on a previously unimaginable scale. Men rotted in the mud, then were sent to face massed machine gun fire, modern artillary, tanks and chemical weapons. Over 40 million soldiers and civilians died and countless others were physically maimed or mentally scarred by the horrors of trench warfare.
On 20/07/69, the human race accomplished its single greatest technological achievement of all time when a human first set foot on another celestial body. This is a collection of the very best footage I could find of the complete journey to the moon and back.
The current dogma is that anthropogenic Global Warming is a fact. I believe that there is more to the story, and that this may be the greatest scam of modern history.
Compilation of various Soviet coldwar missile systems set to music.
The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress was a 4-engine American bomber, primarily employed in the daylight precision strategic bombing campaign of World War II against German industrial and military targets. In the Pacific, the planes earned a deadly reputation with the Japanese, who dubbed them "four-engine fighters." The Fortresses were also legendary for their ability to stay in the air after taking brutal poundings. They sometimes limped back to their bases with large chunks of the fuselage shot off.
The RAF's V-bomber force consisted of three high peformance strategic bombers, the Valient, Victor and Vulcan forming the United Kingdom's strategic nuclear strike force duing the 1950s and 1960s. Under the Quick Reaction Alert (QRA) system, the aircraft could be scrambled in under 2 minutes in response to an attack. This was made possible using a system called "Mass Rapid Startup" which allowed the entire aircraft and all 4 engines to be started with one button. The Vulcan was armed first with the fission weapon Blue Danube, superseded by the thermonuclear Yellow Sun.
In strategic nuclear parlance, the Nuclear Triad refers to the three tiers of a country's nuclear arsenal. Composed of land-based ICBMs, ballistic missile submarines armed with SLBMs, and strategic bombers armed with bombs or cruise missiles. This reduces the possibility that an enemy could destroy all of a country's nuclear forces in a first strike attack. This ensures a credible threat of a second strike, and is the cornerstone of the doctrine of Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD).
14/10/1947, Captain Charles "Chuck" Yeager becomes the first person to fly faster than sound. Yeager breaks the sound barrier in the Bell X-1 "Glamorous Glennis", named after his wife. He was able to reach 670-mph or Mach 1.015 at Muroc Dry Lake, California.
Formed in 1946 under the directive of Admiral Chester Nimitz, the Blue Angels are the US Navy's Flight Demonstration Squadron. In the course of their history they have used the F6F Hellcat, F8F Bearcat, F9F Panther(first jet), F9F-8 Cougar, F11 Tiger, F-4 Phantom, A-4 Skyhawk and shown here the F/A-18. Hornet.
Today marks the 62nd anniversary of the first atomic weapon used in war, dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on this day, 6th of August 1945. It exploded 600m above the city at 08:15 local time with the approximate force of 15,000 tons of TNT, destroying the entire city in an instant.
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