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.
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Photo: USAF