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On this day in 1991, four generations of American aircraft carriers from Battle Force Zulu steamed in formation following Operation Desert Storm.

USS Midway (CV-41) – Midway-class (commissioned 1945)

USS Ranger (CV-61) – Forrestal-class

USS America (CV-66) – Kitty Hawk-class

USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) – Nimitz-class

A rare sight...four eras of naval aviation history sailing together at the close of one conflict and on the edge of a new decade.

 

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Havnt been there in severalyears but i do remember these moorings. didnt realize they were original constructions, so 80 years in the water.

you can read the story, but basically governmentt worried they were disntegrating as the boat ages. (the plaforns were on the deck itself so they were worried they might pierce the deck of the aging ship). they were installed in 1942. Pearl Harbor is mostly saltwater and these platforms were mostly unerwater all that time.

https://www.war.gov/News/News-Stori...sfully-removes-uss-arizona-platform-concrete/

Navy divers remove significant portions of WWII platforms from USS Arizona | Maui Now

https://www.navy.mil/Press-Office/N...ins-removal-of-uss-arizona-mooring-platforms/

 

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The B-52s aren’t just getting engines, they get radars too. I believe that they are getting a modified version of the APG-79 that is in the F/A-18 Super Hornets (-E, -F, EA-18G).

 

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After WW2 Brazil found itself with a large stock of surplus M3 Stuart light tanks, which by the late 1960s and early 1970s were thoroughly outdated. Instead of purchasing costly foreign replacements, the Brazilian Army launched an ambitious modernization program that relied on domestic industry.

The effort was led by Bernardini S.A. Indústria e Comércio in partnership with the Army’s Instituto de Pesquisas e Desenvolvimento (IPD). The X1A emerged as an improved successor to the earlier X1 prototype, incorporating lessons from testing to create a more mobile, better-protected, and more combat-effective vehicle while extending the usefulness of the aging Stuart platform.

M3 Stuart - Wikipedia