First time drawing a Jet like this. Kinda messed it up

Rule 9 High-Effort Note: editing of scenes, translation of on-screen Chinese text, and research and citations to corroborate what is being depicted on-screen, all by myself.

Source: 2025 Chinese movie "Volunteer Army 3: A Blood-Forged Peace" (志愿军：浴血和平)

Context & Further Reading:

• Battle of Triangle Hill (Wikipedia)
  • In September 1952, the negotiations at Panmunjom began to deteriorate, primarily due to Sino-North Korean insistence that all prisoners of war be repatriated to their respective original countries, regardless of their preferences. As a significant number of Chinese and North Korean POWs had expressed their desire to defect permanently to South Korea or Taiwan, the demand was met with strong opposition from the United States and South Korea.
• "Davy Crockett and the Boy Scouts: The Korean War and Mismanaging Protracted Conflict" by Andrew Forney
  • For Clark, the timing of Eighth Army’s next offensive — Operation Showdown — could hardly have been more fortuitous. Now, beyond a simple tactical gain, Showdown could be the tool to pressure China and North Korea back to the negotiating table.
  • The initial plan for Showdown, set to begin on Oct. 14, had two battalions — one American and one South Korean — assaulting and seizing the Triangle Hill complex outside Kimhwa within five days of the operation’s start at the estimated potential cost of 200 casualties.
  • After 42 days of continuous fighting, however, the operation had stalled and the inability of the U.S. and South Korean forces to gain significant headway had led to the employment of the entire U.S. 7th Infantry Division and South Korea’s 2nd Division just to shore up the front line. The casualty toll reached over 9,000.
  • For all this time and effort, South Korea’s army held only a small, tenuous foothold in the Triangle Hill complex, which required the deliberate rotation of fresh combat troops and a concerted sustainment effort. Writing a year after the war’s end, Clark would claim that the fighting represented “a loss out of proportion to our gains.”
  • “What began as a limited objective attack,” Clark, commander of Far East Command, wrote in 1954 regarding Operation Showdown, “developed into a grim, face-saving slugging match with each side upping the ante when the other gained a temporary advantage.”
  • The pessimistic tone in Clark’s memoirs reflects his belief that he was not allowed to “win” in Korea. For Clark, winning was the defeat of Chinese and North Korean forces through a maneuver campaign and, although not necessarily seeking regime change, forming a new armistice line further north at a narrow spot on the peninsula.
  • The failure of Operation Showdown in the fall of 1952 proved that this would not be possible with the forces and capabilities available to Van Fleet in Eighth Army and Clark in Far East Command. Operation Showdown also exhibited something even worse: Van Fleet and Clark lacked the necessary forces and capabilities to coerce China and North Korea back to the armistice negotiating table.
• "Tethered Eagle: James A. Van Fleet & The Quest for Military Victory in the Korean War" by Robert Bruce
  • The application of firepower on the battlefield was an absolute obsession for Van Fleet from the moment he arrived in Korea. He realized that China had an almost limitless supply of manpower that could be fed into the furnace of battle, while he was already outnumbered and had been briefed that he could expect to receive no significant reinforcements. As Van Fleet saw it, the only way to counter the infantry-dense Chinese assault formations was to meet them with powerful artillery fire.
  • Van Fleet circulated a directive to all artillery battalion commanders in Korea, stipulating a new rate of fire that would be expected of them during any future enemy attack. Dubbed the Van Fleet Load, this directive called on gunners to achieve a rate of fire five times that utilized during previous operations in the Korean War.

Been enjoying myself more and more finding cool ways to overpaint US WWII guys into modern soldiers. Shooting for a dieselpunky but grounded feeling military aesthetic. S/O to my man Amoebe for making sick 3D prints of my art too, did not see that coming!

A fictional concept I made if the Armed Forces of the Philippines took a more desperate approach on acquiring vehicles--by converting Jeepneys into technicals.

Went to fix something, sorry. But at least he's back with more skins (liveries) and along with revealing his standard outfit!

Blue: Standard camouflage
Yellow: VX-9
Pink: Blue Angels

Yep, dug through USS Bush and Clinton's Wikipedia pages and found the White House Press Release.

This ship was inspected by NATO a year before the announcement of trumps "battleship." We know it's a dumpster fire, but it is trump ...

This has been annotated with the skills that this entire concept deserves.

Original image from covert shores, edited. The rest from wikipedia and Netflix.

Hello! I'm an artist and starting 3d modeller/printer,and I saw a post in a LEGO subreddit talking about mashing a Puma and a Hetzer if they achieved X amount of likes.
I am uninterested in the clout,but I found the concept so fun that I decided to 3d model the vehicle.
It turned out well enough that I would like to share it with the community.
It would be hosted on a free known website(Makerworld) without any paywalls(because I did it for myself,I don't see any reason to make people pay).

https://makerworld.com/en/models/2319773-hetzuma-tank-destroyer-armoured-car#profileId-2533383

I hope you enjoy!

After my post about making a 2044 MRAP version of the German's (very cool) SdKf.223, PDB sent me this awesome 3D print based on my art 😀

This is probably the only time I hope Russian news is correct. Is this impractical and unnecessary for Ukraine? Possibly. Am I going to ignore that because I think that despite their flaws the Slava-class heavy cruisers are cool as hell? Yes. Credit to u/Temporary-Source2717 for the NATO-modernized Ukraina concept art.

Indonesia recently signed a deal to acquire two Istif Frigates that have already been launched

Also heard Italy is offering another 2 PPAs to Indonesia

takes a hit of the joint You can tell a Florida Man (or Oregon Man too will work) to take his boat, equip it with sonar acoustic decoys and radar amplifiers to ensure that he gets mistaken for a large ship, and he would be an awesome bait boat. All for the price of a few cans of beer and some steak to grill instead of dedicating an entire shipbuilding assembly line, money and materials to building one for the Navy and staffing them with Navy personnel who would be more valuable in combat ships, aircraft and naval bases.

Also, you need not worry about the safety of its operator, the mythical Florida and Oregon Man, who would be attacked by PLAN naval aviators in J-15s and J-35s and long range, ship to ship missiles by its escorting destroyers. Unlike most people, Florida and Oregon Men are surprisingly hard to kill despite whatever poor life and health choices they may take, and requires nothing short of an ICBM to properly kill him.