US Marines from the 364th Medium Naval Helicopter Squadron, 39th Marine aviation Camp Pendleton’s 3rd Marine Air Wing Group, provides air support to extinguish fires in San Marcos, California on May 15, 2014. The 3rd Marine Air Wing, in partnership with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Department, is carrying out fire extinguishing from several foci of flames burning in San Diego County. (Photo by Corporal Tyler C. Gregory, United States Marine Corps)
2. F-35B takeoff takeoff
A pair of F-35B test aircraft for the first time makes a short take-off in the closed formation of February 12 of the 2014. Test flight made at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland
3. Raptor
Colonel Terry Scott (Terry Scott) takes off during a training flight on the F-22 Raptor 9 on May 2014 on the combined base of Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii. Scott performs his ceremonial extreme flight. Scott retires after 33's years of service. (Photo by Staff Sergeant Alexander Martinez, USAF)
4. Indago's Quadrocopter from Lockheed Martin
This small unmanned vertical take-off and landing of the Lockheed Martin company is able to provide the soldiers in difficult conditions, cluttered surroundings and in urban environments with reliable eyes in the sky in minutes. Indago has enhanced surveillance capabilities, providing valuable information to military, civilian and commercial customers in need of aerial reconnaissance locations of large concentrations of people inaccessible to stationary unmanned aircraft systems. The vertical take-off and landing payload includes electro-optical and infrared sensors and a laser designator, providing continuous 360-degree pan capabilities
5. Loaded to the eyeballs
Pacific Ocean (12 May 2014 of the year) The Super Hornet F / A-18E fighter from the Sunliners 81 th Fighter Squadron takes off from the deck of the Carl Vinson aircraft carrier (CVN 70). Carl Vinson is in the process of qualification testing off the coast of Southern California. (Photo of 2 Mass Communications Specialist John Philip Wagner, United States Navy)
6. Dancing in the sky
The US Air Force Thunderbirds Aerobatics Group (Petrels) is gaining altitude during the open-day demonstration flights of the joint McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst 11-th May 2014-th base. (Photo by Sergeant Larry E. Reed, Jr. (Larry E. Reid Jr.), USAF)
7. Raptor in the Arabian Sea
F-22 Raptor maneuvers in the area of responsibility of the US Central Command after refueling from the KC-135 Flying Tanker 25 of April 2014 of the year. F-22 has advanced capabilities capable of providing the United Air Force command with additional opportunities to maintain stability and security in the region. Beginning with 2009, the Air Force often deployed F-22 in the Pacific Ocean and several times in South-West Asia. (Photo by Staff Sergeant Vernon Young Jr. (Vernon Young Jr.), US Air Force)
8. Emerald Warrior
A U.S. Air Force tiltrotor CV-22 Osprey lands during the Emerald Warrior (Emerald Warrior) exercise in Hurlbert Field, Florida, on March 8, 2012. The main objective of the Emerald Warrior exercises is to develop the skills of combatant commanders of special operations in urban environments and irregular military operations. The Emerald Warrior exercises take into account the lessons of the operation to liberate Iraq, Operation Enduring Freedom, and others historical lessons to better educate and train commanders for special operations forces
9. Fire flight
A pair of M142 highly mobile artillery artillery systems assigned to the 41st artillery support brigade, Fort Hood, Texas, fire rockets during firing at Udairi Range, Camp Buehring, Kuwait, on March 13, 2014. Battery Headquarters 3rd Battalion, 16th Field Artillery Regiment, 2nd Tactical Group tank brigade, 4th Infantry Division provides radar support for company C, while the 2nd battalion, 8th Infantry Regiment, 2nd tactical group of the tank brigade is adjusting fire. (Photo by Sergeant Marcus Fichtl, U.S. Army)
10. Pack of Harriers
Pacific Ocean, April 23 2014 year. A group of aircraft AV-8B Harrier II flies over the landing ship USS Boxer (LHD 4). The boxer with the 13 Marine Expeditionary Force (13 MEU) stationed on it returns to San Diego's home port after eight months of deployment in the western Pacific and US Central Command areas of responsibility. (Photo of 2 Mass Communications Specialist Kenan O'Connor, United States Navy)