Marine Corps Mass Flight

National Review ^ | June 12, 2019 | Anon

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Marine Aircraft Group 16 recently staged a mass-flight exercise involving more than 40 aircraft at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego, Calif. The exercise included 27 MV-22B Ospreys and 16 CH-53E Super Stallion helicopters. Here’s a look at the display of Marine Corps combat power.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I was unable to view the slide show in Safari on my MacBook Pro, but I was able to view it in Google Chrome on the same computer. Weird.

There are captions for each individual picture on the National Review site.

[CJ Wolf]

Wow! They look like huge drones.

[Celtic Conservative]

How could any enemy of the U.S. look on that and not know they are totally screwed?

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[laplata]

That is very impressive. Thanks for posting.

[Rebelbase]

Potential troop movement of close to 2,100 marines.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I suspect that is one of the reasons for the exercise.

[jonno]

When I was getting out in the early 90s they were having a lot of trouble with the Ospreys.

Looks like they’ve got the kinks worked out...

[octex]

I’ve got to send this to some of my fellow retirees from Bell. Most of us had a hand in the development and production of the various versions of the V-22.

[Dogbert41]

My sister-in-law was flown all over Afghanistan for years in one of those.

[5th MEB]

That’s one hell of a lot of “VERTICAL ENVELOPMENT”, especially considering the fire power it puts on the ground.

[AFreeBird]

It’s an “Elephant Walk”.

Very impressive.

[LouAvul]

I look at them and see transportation for large numbers of congolese, venezualans, messycans............ all within the United States. Under cover of darkness. With no advance warning.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

What a fun job! Looks like you did good work.

[dp0622]

I could take em.

Gotta get that old Cessna in the backyard working this weekend..

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[doorgunner69]

Few weeks back, had my first sighting of MV-22s going south along the coast from my house. H-60s are fairly common when an exercise is happening at Pōhakuloa.

[knarf]

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[Turbo Pig]

How could any enemy of the U.S. look on that and not know they are totally screwed?

Because they know our politicians are corrupt and/or anti-American and that the people, as a whole, are weak willed and soft. All the military might in the world is useless if a country does not have the fortitutde to use it in a forceful and moral manner.

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[BwanaNdege]

I look at them and see ...

You might want to visit your optometrist and ophthalmologist.