Blue Year Band Wall Art

Blue Year Band — 3 museum-grade prints in this palette. The McDonnell Douglas F-4G Advanced Wild Weasel was the United States Air Force's final Phantom-based SEAD platform, converting surplus F-4E airframes at Hill Air Force Base with APR-38 Radar Homing and Warning System pods and ARN-101 digital modular avionics to locate and destroy enemy radar emitters. Paired with the Textron AGM-88 HARM, the F-4G devastated integrated air-defence networks during Operation Desert Storm — 561st TFS aircraft launched opening-night HARM salvos against Baghdad-area SAM sites. Brazil selected the Saab JAS 39E/F Gripen in 2014 to replace ageing Mirage 2000 and F-5 fleets, with local assembly and support through Embraer under the F-X2 fighter programme. The Força Aérea Brasileira designates the type F-39E, and initial operational capability arrived in the early 2020s with aircraft based at Anápolis Air Base in Goiás. The Mil Mi-24 Hind entered Soviet service in the early 1970s as the world's first purpose-built gunship helicopter with a troop cabin — NATO reporting name Hind, Russian nickname Krokodil for its armoured snout profile. It combined transport capacity for eight soldiers with wing-mounted rockets, anti-tank guided missiles, and a flexible nose gun system, making it the backbone of Soviet forward aviation through Afghanistan and beyond.

Updated 14 Jun 2026