This looks like it should be airbrushed onto the side of a really tacky t-shirt, but it’s actually quite real! An Air Force F-15E near Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan, illuminated by apocalyptic lightning.
It must be nerve-fraying enough to drop JDAMs on Taliban without, y’know, hitting the wrong thing. But skies like that? I’d be happy to be the photographer that day.
Photo: USAF
James Mac
Tuesday, November 8, 2011 at 9:15 AMI thought the F-15s had all been retired?
JonBOY
Tuesday, November 8, 2011 at 10:26 AMIt’s a Demolition man thing; sometimes you need an old school fighter jet to bomb an old school enemy. lol.
S Kumar
Tuesday, November 8, 2011 at 12:51 PMF-14s have been retired, not the F-15s