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Aircraft involved in Operation Enduring Freedom
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| oct-24-2001
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Posted on 10/24/2001 11:11:01 PM PDT by green team 1999
Aircraft involved in Operation Enduring Freedom
24 October 2001
Four B-52H Stratofortress bombers taxi for take off on strike missions against al Qaeda terrorist training camps and military installations of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan on Oct. 7, 2001, during Operation Enduring Freedom. The carefully targeted actions are designed to disrupt the use of Afghanistan as a base for terrorist operations and to attack the military capability of the Taliban regime. (US Air Force photo by Senior Airman Rebeca M. Luquin)
B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber "Spirit of Alaska," 393rd Bomb Squadron, tail number 0040 of Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri, taxis out to take off. (US Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt Lance Cheung)
An F-18 takes off from the USS Carl Vinson in continuing operations against the Taleban
An F-14 Tomcat prepares for launch from the USS Theodore Roosevelt during Operation Enduring Freedom
A-10s like this one have been providing air-to-ground support for ground activities
The AC-130 Spectre gunship's primary missions are close air support, air interdiction and armed reconnaissance. They have been in action over Afghanistan the past several nights. These heavily armed aircraft incorporate side-firing weapons integrated with sophisticated sensor, navigation and fire control systems to provide surgical firepower or area saturation during extended periods, at night and in adverse weather. The sensor suite consists of a low-light-level television sensor and an infrared sensor. Radar and electronic sensors also give the gunship a method of positively identifying friendly ground forces as well as effective ordnance delivery during adverse weather conditions.
The EC-130 Commando Solo is a Psychological Operations platform that is being used to deliver coalition warnings and information over Afghanistan.
An MH-47 helicopter. These aircraft were used to insert special forces during the recent ground raids into Afghanistan. One hit an obstacle during its flight out and lost a wheel, giving rise to a Taleban claim that it had been shot down. The aircraft returned to its operating base. No one on board was injured in the incident.
A Canberra PR-9 takes off. These RAF photo-reconnaissance aircraft are flying missions over Afghanistan in support of Operation Veritas (the UK's codename for Enduring Thunder.
A US Navy F-14 Tomcat refuels from an RAF VC-10 tanker aircraft. The RAF is supporting the US Navy because of the compatibility of air-to-air refuelling systems.
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To: green team 1999
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posted on
10/24/2001 11:13:05 PM PDT
by
Boucheau
To: green team 1999
Good group of pictures. Thanks.
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posted on
10/24/2001 11:14:00 PM PDT
by
blam
To: Boucheau
Good one! ;^)
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posted on
10/25/2001 2:38:30 AM PDT
by
G.Mason
To: G.Mason
if i had one of those b-2's id write a caption under the wing that says "i have become death the destroyer of worlds" or the "if you can read this your f*cked" but its already be done (on a pic anyway)
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