Great pic of really well-maintained K-8 of the Silver Stars aerobatic demonstration team. Maybe someday they'll fly F-16s and really put on an even better show.
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Members of the Navy SOF during a tactical firearms training exercise.
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ENS Taba and its very cool insignia.
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This is pretty cool; we've seen the 203rd Tactical Fighter Wing Storm patch, but this is the first time seeing the Rafale SQ34 Wild Wolves patch.
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Sa'ka squad performing salaat prior to heading out on a training mission.
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@The SC , I stumbled on this rarity here from 2003 taken from the USS Destroyer Deyo as it was transiting the Suez Canal and in the background, one of the very few left-over water-cannon flushed penetrations of the "vaunted" bar lev line lol. Not sure how many are left as of today, if anyone knows please tell us I'd love to know how many they've preserved along with one or two of the enemy fortresses that they've turned into museums. You can actually take tours and see how they lived in these fortresses and bunkers and these water cannon flushed out sections are right adjacent to those fortresses as Shazly planned the penetrating locations purposely so that once they got through, they would be close to them and could raid the fortresses and seize them quickly. The constant artillery pounding from the west bank by the artillery battalions did a number on many of those forts and flattened the majority of them out. But I do believe that 2 or more survived mostly undamaged and are very cool museum attractions now.
But to see this here is just as neat, for it certainly serves as a reminder of how high and steep that POS sand wall was that cost them $1 million to erect at the time and they thought it would take Egyptian soldiers 3 days to cut or bomb their way through it while they burned any soldiers attempting to cross the canal on rubber dinghies with their underwater flammable pipes! But again, Shazly outsmarted them and had the navy special forces block all the outlets with cement under the cloak of darkness. Some great planning by that military genius and what a shame that Sadat had to butt heads with him and relieve him at the worst possible time of the war. Subject for another day, but Sadat made HUGE blunders in that war and had his ego not gotten the best of him, it would've been an even more decisive victory with the Israelis suffering a lot more casualties than they did. It certainly wouldn't have ended the way it did, that's for sure.
I hope a few of these penetrations are still there today.
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