Marines over Helmand...

[TonyO]

In May, Neil Dunridge and I were lucky to hit the deserts of Afghanistan for some time with the ISAF forces there. Now some of our articles have been published I thought I would a few images from our time with the US Marine Corps. Neil's article on fixed-wing ops can be found in the latest edition of Combat Aircraft. I will update this thread with images from the rotary-wing operations once the second half of his stuff has been published!

AV-8s









Trash-haulers and Harvest Hawk!









UAV Action!

[Epic Formacion]

Finally!

[hedgerowops]

Nice very nice excuse my ignorance but what are the thing's on the outer pylon's on the Herk?
Chris

[TonyO]

Nice very nice excuse my ignorance but what are the thing's on the outer pylon's on the Herk?
Chris

Hellfire missiles!

[shaggie]

very,very nice Mr O ,love the Harriers

[Mr Flibble]

Great stuff Mr O!

Rather interested in those gunship grey Harriers.

Will be starting a 1/48 version soon - interested in the loadouts they had.

Thanks for posting!

[BatmanIX]

Jubberly!! as one would say.

Look forward to some more.

Cheers,
Paul

[hedgerowops]

Thank's for the reply Tony i thought they looked offensive.
Chris

[PeterR]

Those Harvest-Hawks are an awesome piece of kit. Good shooting!

[Davef68]

Very nice, especially the Harriers - and good shoot on the Harvest Hawk!!

Great stuff Mr O!

Rather interested in those gunship grey Harriers.

The underside of the new scheme is FS35237

One of the reasons for the new scheme is to darken the aircraft to reduce the frequency they need to be cleaned!!

[RichPittman]

Very nice Tony
Especially the Av8s!

[jwarnerxh558]

I didnt realise what the Harvest Hawks were for!
Great set!

[lozza]

Great set of shots thanks for sharing

[andyxh558]

Great pictures Mr O, must have been some experience.

[Ian A.S.]

Terrific set of photos Tony, the cockpit shot on finals is really impressive thanks for sharing

Ian A.S.

[IanH]

Harriers look superb Tony. Cracking set.

Regards, Ian

[danoz]

Fantastic stuff Tony! Love those AV8'S.

[SHARFA2]

Great to see the Flying Nightmares!!

[habu21]

WOW!......

[Mark K]

Was worth waiting for these Mr O. Cracking set! Those AV8's look very nice as does that C-130 cockpit shot.

Mark

[Kenny]

Super pics again Tony

Gotta love those AV-8s!

Whenever I sit in the flight deck for landing (often), the pilots always tell me not to use the flash. That's for scheduled flights which they do often, you've used a flash on a non standard op flight. Looks much better

[Stu]

Very nice indeed

[Koen L]

Harvest Hawk is excellent and good to see some Harriers as well Tony!

[Chris G]

Wow, never even knew that version of the C-130 existed, looks awesome. Great set of pics btw.

[Crossbow]

Hey Tony,

Nice work mate.I am impressed!!!



Hans