The Committee to Nuke Elysium

danhon:

blech:

Eyewitness in The Guardian, via mappeal:

A Royal Navy Lynx helicopter from the destroyer HMS Dragon fires infrared missile defence flares above the ship during an exercise in the eastern Mediterranean

Photograph: Dave Jenkins/MoD/PA

There’s always a terrible tension between the awful purpose of these weapons and the beauty of some of their images.

Gandalf’s Dragon fireworks have improved over the years.

Earth bound wowz