On 27th January 1969 during flight evaluation trials at Dunsfold, Surrey, England, Major C. Rosburg USAF lost lateral control of the MK1 XV743 Harrier while in an accelerating transition and crashed. He ejected horizontally and did not survive.1yr ⋅ Better__Off_Dead ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
Testing your pepper spray by spraying it in the direction you're walking1yr ⋅ Better__Off_Dead ⋅ r/instant_regret
Beautiful pink-skinned (not albino) water buffalo (carabao) in the Philippines.1yr ⋅ Better__Off_Dead ⋅ r/AbsoluteUnits
Tool to put on/take off clips to hold baseboard corner pieces on before nailing them in place4yr ⋅ Better__Off_Dead ⋅ r/specializedtools
F-104 Starfighter demonstrating the toss bombing technique that allows the aircraft to escape the effects of a nuclear bomb or where it is not desirable to overfly the target. [Video]1yr ⋅ Better__Off_Dead ⋅ r/WarplanePorn
Firefighting plane almost crashes into a hill after going extremely low to drop retardant3yr ⋅ Better__Off_Dead ⋅ r/watchpeoplesurvive
An F-35A Lightning II dropping an inert B61-12 Mod 11 Earth Penetrating Nuclear Gravity Bomb. [Video]1yr ⋅ Better__Off_Dead ⋅ r/WarplanePorn
Man attempts first motorcycle-parachute jump off a 61m (200 ft) cliff in 1926.3yr ⋅ Better__Off_Dead ⋅ r/WTF
Rungis, the largest fresh produce market in to world, located near Paris, caught fire on 25 September 2022. No injuries reported.1yr ⋅ Better__Off_Dead ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
Demonstration of the Kickless Army gun developed during WWII. The M18 Recoilless Rifle.1yr ⋅ Better__Off_Dead ⋅ r/MilitaryGfys
B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber drops the GBU-57A/B Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP)2yr ⋅ Better__Off_Dead ⋅ r/MilitaryGfys
The Snatch Method was used by the Allies of World War II. It allowed military gliders to be launched from a stationary position on the ground by a low-flying powered aircraft flying low overhead, which did not have to land.2yr ⋅ Better__Off_Dead ⋅ r/MilitaryGfys
The 10-inch M1895 Disappearing Gun and its variants the M1888 and M1900 were large coastal artillery pieces installed to defend major American seaports between 1895 and 1945.3yr ⋅ Better__Off_Dead ⋅ r/MilitaryGfys
Hidden Guns near the American Atlantic coast during WII. Houses, a barn, a hay bail and a rooftop tennis court are used to hide anti-aircraft guns.1yr ⋅ Better__Off_Dead ⋅ r/MilitaryGfys
Injured wardog and his handler of the 3rd BN 1st Marines on Okinawa display a captured Japanese flag on 5 May 1945.1yr ⋅ Better__Off_Dead ⋅ r/MilitaryGfys
Two Soviet MiG-29 aircraft en route to an air show in Canada are intercepted by F-15 Eagles of the 21st Tactical Fighter Wing out of Elmendorf AFB, AK. The MiG-29s were, for the first time, traveling to the 1989 Abbotsford, BC Canada International Airshow. [1052x1080]1yr ⋅ Better__Off_Dead ⋅ r/WarplanePorn
AH-1G firing 2.75 FFAR (Folding-Fin Aerial Rocket) from its 19 tube XM-159 launchers.1yr ⋅ Better__Off_Dead ⋅ r/MilitaryGfys
The 10-inch (254mm) Gun M1895 and its variants the M1888 and M1900 were large coastal artillery pieces. Most were installed on disappearing carriages, with early installations on barbette mountings.1yr ⋅ Better__Off_Dead ⋅ r/MilitaryGfys
The M16 Multiple Gun Motor Carriage firing its four .50 caliber M2 Browning machine guns in an M45 Quadmount.2yr ⋅ Better__Off_Dead ⋅ r/MilitaryGfys
Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar dropping bridge parts to Marines encircled near the Chosen Reservoir in Korea, December 1950.2yr ⋅ Better__Off_Dead ⋅ r/MilitaryGfys
The British solution to the problem of fog covering military airfields during WWII was to light a big fire, and it actually worked. It was called FIDO (Fog Intense Dispersal Operation).1yr ⋅ Better__Off_Dead ⋅ r/MilitaryGfys
Hawker Typhoon pilot scores perfect hits on a railroad firing RP-3 60-pound rockets near Normandy in 1944.3yr ⋅ Better__Off_Dead ⋅ r/MilitaryGfys
A DH.110 is launched off the only land-based steam catapult in Europe at the time.2yr ⋅ Better__Off_Dead ⋅ r/MilitaryGfys
The XM800 Armored Reconnaissance Scout Vehicle, or ARSV, was an experimental scout vehicle developed by the US Army in the 1970s to replace their existing armored personnel carriers, M113 and M114, with vehicles with greatly improved fighting capabilies.2yr ⋅ Better__Off_Dead ⋅ r/MilitaryGfys
An XP-39B Airacobra firing its Oldsmobile T9 37mm autocannon, two 0.30 in (7.62 mm) machine guns and two 0.50 in (12.7 mm) machine guns, all in the nose. The Russians put this plane to good use and had many kills against the Luftwaffe with it.3yr ⋅ Better__Off_Dead ⋅ r/MilitaryGfys
As a result of a hard landing a Kriegsmarine Arado Ar 196 Seaplane loses its engine while taxiing and burns. Crew manages to escape.1yr ⋅ Better__Off_Dead ⋅ r/MilitaryGfys
A B-52 dropping an inert Boeing AGM-69 SRAM (Short-Range nuclear air-to-surface missile).1yr ⋅ Better__Off_Dead ⋅ r/MilitaryGfys
Boeing B-50 fitted with tractor-type landing gear for landing in fields and on other rough terrain.2yr ⋅ Better__Off_Dead ⋅ r/MilitaryGfys
Tank race between an American M3A3 Stuart and a Japanese Type 95 Ha-Go.1yr ⋅ Better__Off_Dead ⋅ r/MilitaryGfys
Thousands of Afghan citizens rushed a C-17 trying to take off from Kabul to escape the country. UH-64 Apaches had to use their rotor wash to clear the runway, but people still clung on and fell from thousands of feet (neither on this .gif).2yr ⋅ Better__Off_Dead ⋅ r/MilitaryGfys
A Bristol Beaufort Mk I, serial number EK997 demonstrating Aeroflame Firebombing in April 19442yr ⋅ Better__Off_Dead ⋅ r/MilitaryGfys
Swans (amphibian DUKWs fitted with 100 ft extensible ladders topped with triple Vickers K machine guns) meant to provide easy access for troops of the second wave. Troops training for the assault on Pointe du Hoc, Normandy.2yr ⋅ Better__Off_Dead ⋅ r/MilitaryGfys
A British tank crew mounts a PzKpfw V Panther remarked with Allied markings and painted white with winter camouflage.1yr ⋅ Better__Off_Dead ⋅ r/MilitaryGfys
3.5 bazooka pod on top of a Mark 48 Mod 2 Gun Mount on an ASPB (Assault Support Patrol Boat) in Vietnam 1969.2yr ⋅ Better__Off_Dead ⋅ r/MilitaryGfys
British SAS sporting dual Vickers K .303 calibre machine guns on their jeeps. In North Africa some would have 5 of these mounted around the vehicle, and a .50 cal for good measure, for attacking German aerodromes from the ground.2yr ⋅ Better__Off_Dead ⋅ r/MilitaryGfys
A French prototype lightweight fighter using a wheeled trolley and JATO for take-off and three retractable skids to land for operating on rough terrain.2yr ⋅ Better__Off_Dead ⋅ r/MilitaryGfys
Rows of American M4 Shermans being used for indirect fire near Mulhausen (Mulhouse) France on 17 November 1944.1yr ⋅ Better__Off_Dead ⋅ r/MilitaryGfys
The Royal Navy test their newest steam catapult on HMS Perseus using dummy bundles and aircraft including two short-winged radio controlled Supermarine Seafires, a de Havilland Mosquito, and a de Havilland Vampire.2yr ⋅ Better__Off_Dead ⋅ r/MilitaryGfys
French soldiers setup and fire a Canon d'Infanterie (Infantry Cannon) de 37 modele 1916 TRP. The breech-block of the gun was essentially a smaller version of that fitted to the well-known French 75 gun.1yr ⋅ Better__Off_Dead ⋅ r/MilitaryGfys
A Mount 52 Mk 2 Mod 1 over/under Browning M2 .50 cal machinegun/81mm mortar aboard a USN PCF (Patrol Craft Fast) Mk 2 about 1967-68. Unlike other mortars it could be used in direct or indirect fire and fired by DROPFIRE or TRIGGERFIRE mode.2yr ⋅ Better__Off_Dead ⋅ r/MilitaryGfys
The 6th Tank Battalion and 22nd Marine Regiment fire at Japanese falling back at Naha, Okinawa, 12 May 1945.1yr ⋅ Better__Off_Dead ⋅ r/MilitaryGfys
French fuze setter for use with the French 75mm mle/97 gun. It is made to set the time fuses for two shells at a time. The setter can be used for both the 22/31 and 24/31 fuses for the 75mm.2yr ⋅ Better__Off_Dead ⋅ r/MilitaryGfys
King Neptune and his court oversee a Line-crossing Ceremony on the USS Indianapolis (CA-35) while crossing the equator in November 1936, as then US President Franklin D. Roosevelt looks on.1yr ⋅ Better__Off_Dead ⋅ r/MilitaryGfys
Convair YB-60 Prototype (S/N 49-2676) taxiing and flying. The YB-60 was a proposed upgrade of the B-36, but it was beaten by the Boeing B-52 for the USAF strategic bomber contract.1yr ⋅ Better__Off_Dead ⋅ r/WeirdWings
King Neptune and his court oversee a Line-crossing Ceremony on the USS Indianapolis (CA-35) while crossing the equator in November 1936, as then US President Franklin D. Roosevelt looks on.1yr ⋅ Better__Off_Dead ⋅ r/navy
The Yakovlev Yak-25 (NATO designation Flashlight-A/Mandrake) was a swept wing, turbojet-powered interceptor and reconnaissance aircraft used by the Soviet Union.1yr ⋅ Better__Off_Dead ⋅ r/WeirdWings
Sturmpanzer IV Brummbar (Grouch) of the 216th assault tank battalion (Sturmpanzer-Abteilung 216) of the Wehrmacht, knocked out in the area of the Ponyri railway station. Kursk region, Sept. 1943.3yr ⋅ Better__Off_Dead ⋅ r/DestroyedTanks
Specialized tools to open and hold an oyster and then to remove a pearl3yr ⋅ Better__Off_Dead ⋅ r/specializedtools
BLM Chicago organizer thinks looting is okay because it is reparations.3yr ⋅ Better__Off_Dead ⋅ r/iamatotalpieceofshit
