“Make sure a few KC-10s miss their slots as well as we have a pegasus to purchase”
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Hope that no one has posted this yet. Search yeilded nadda.
It has a good outcome.
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That looked exciting. What an awesome job by the deck crew. Looks like it had two external wing tanks on it maybe. Can’t see what else. I’m guessing that was an uncontained failure of either the big compressor fan on the front or one of the turbine disks in the middle of the engine. Wow.
Guess it was an RAF pilot…!
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Nice skills by the crew. It took them just a minute or so between the start of the fire and it being extinguished.
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Actually, it was 36 seconds from explosion to first water (actually water and AFFF) on the fire. The hose team aft and starboard (on the left in the rear facing PLAT) beat the fire truck by a second or so.
On a ship, and especially on the flight deck, every sailor is a fire fighter.
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Interesting video. I was aware of the abortive airstrike of the 25 de Mayo. If the wind would have been stronger on that day, the world would have seen the first carrier battle since WWII. But I wasn’t aware how close the British subs actually got hunting for the carrier.
And that story of the Argentine Sea Kings torpedoing an unknown sub contact. I guess somewhere a couple US of Russian submariners must have a hair raising sea story to tell.
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In the “Words-with-Friends” camouflage nonetheless! 
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I kinda like that digital style of camouflage. Looks pretty cool.
You’d have to go far to be beat the Ukrainian Su-27 blue scheme though
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I missed this news last month:
As much as I like the Super Hornet, I think they should probably just have done one of the things below.
A: ditched the damn gravity nukes. Useless crap (both politically and tactically)
B: certified the Eurofighter to carry them.
Edit: especially if you consider that the Super Hornet isn’t certified to carry the B61 either. It will cost an unknown amount of money to get that capability.
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On this day in 1986: Operation El Dorado Canyon:
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We relieved CV-66 later that year and I met a couple of guys that flew in that raid.
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I spy with my little eye…A USMC F-18C with a cheek mounted Litening Pod. 
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That has got to be one of the coolest op names ever…
When Mrs. Microbiology went to Berlin for a year, to be called Frau Doktor Mikrobiologi, she lived a couple of stone throws from where the Disco that was bombed, and triggered the Libya bombings, was. Walked past the building many times.
If you’re in the Toronto area tomorrow April 27 between 1000 and 1130, keep your head on a swivel. 
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Yeah…we used to have cool OP names. They were supposedly chosen at random as an adjective-noun combination…although “El Dorado” is a noun so…. For security reasons it was specifically not supposed to have any relation to the subject/objective of the operation. No “El Dorado Canyons” in Libya so, we’re good.
The invasion of Grenada was Operation Urgent Fury (definitely cool). The attempted Iran hostage mission was Operation Eagle Claw (eheh…not so much cool); the 1988 strikes against the Iranian oil platforms and Navy was Operation Praying Mantis (cool in an entomological sense).
And then we invaded Panama and somebody decided that it needed a name that somehow gave gravitas to our righteous endeavor. So they came up with Operation Just Cause–still the adjective-noun combo but definitely weak. For those of us involved in it, it quickly became known as Operation Just Because…yeah.
Then there was Operation Desert Shield, then Operation Desert Storm…pretty unambiguous objective there–kind of just gives away the objective and just not that cool.
After that, those of us that had to deal with these things sort of stopped paying attention. Although Operation Allied Force was semi-cool since it was NATO and adjective-noun.
Operation Iraqi Freedom…really? seriously? Most of us just went with the second Iraqi War.
Operation Enduring Freedom (the anti Taliban effort in Afghanistan) - semi cool but the everything became some version of Operation Enduring Freedom. You want to do some anti-terrorist ops in the Philippines? Lets go with Operation Enduring Freedom–Philippines (OEF-P)…I think I’ve even seen OEF-A for Afghanistan…which was just plain old OEF…confusing.
At least the post-911 air defense of the US and Canada, Operation Noble Eagle has a semi-cool acronym - ONE…kind of brings in a whole Matrix vibe.
The raid to get Osama bin Laden was technically Operation Neptune Spear - cool enough; the Neptune part was probably an homage the SEALs - but a noun-noun…
…anyway…
I’m not sure exactly who gets to bestow Operation names. At various times over my career, when I was involved in planning an Operation, I’ve tried to put forward Operation Anxious Python …
…to no success.
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It’s a program…LOL…try this one…be sure to tick the “Generate Negative Names” box…haha…
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