I always thought that sonobuoys were just "simple" metal cylinders packed with microphones and a radio, that were dropped by ASW aircraft to find submarines by their sound. While the idea is generally correct, these sonobuoys are anything but "simple" metal cylinders. Watch this video of how sonobuoys deploy underwater - this blew me away when I first saw it.
The RAF and RoNAF blanket-bombed the Atlantic with such sonobuoys last month to drive off a trio of snooping Russian subs (see my previous tweet).
Some thing for the weekend - https://t.co/l1EkGwYzI5 this weekend if you need a Lightning fix head to Gatwick museum where Milton and his team will be firing up the F53
Japanese Soldier Gets a Smoke After Surrendering on Iwo Jima 🇯🇵🇺🇸
After weeks of hell, this Japanese defender finally gives up… and a U.S. Marine casually lights a cigarette for him.
War is brutal, but this moment was pretty cool.
The coffin of 7. Panzer-Division commander Generalmajor Adelbert Schulz is carried on a Panzer III Ausf. M as he is laid to rest after being fatally wounded in action at Shepetivka in Ukraine on January 28th 1944
Footage of the mid air collision between a pair of Navy Super Hornets/Growlers during the Gunfighter Skies Air Show at Mountain Home Air Force Base moments ago.