In April2022, CCTV-10 aired a two part Innovation and Progress report, showing the development of the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) cargo plane, Feihong FH-98. Part 1:
Part 2:
“The exercise met our expected objective. It is very significant for our unmanned logistics chain in future warfare.”-Bi Guangyuan, executive director in charge of recent testing, June 2019
In June 2019, China’s National Defense University of People’s Liberation Army (PLA), and the state-owned China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, put to the final tests a new robot cargo aircraft.
Photo via CGTN, 23JUN2019.
The aircraft is unmistakable, it is the only type of its kind, a bi-plane cargo/agricultural aircraft, designed and built in the Soviet Union just after The Great Patriotic War (World War Two). In 1957, during the non-declared Cold War, Communist China got a license to build the Antonov An-2 Maize (NATO reporting name Colt) as the Yunshu (Yunshuji, later becoming Shifei) Y-5, but this modern version of the Maize has no crew. The new crewless version of the Maize is called Feihong-98 (FH-98).
In Zhangye, northwestern Gansu Province, the robot An-2/FH-98 had to complete three final tests; fast load 5-hundred kilograms of cargo, a short range airdrop mission, and a long range air drop mission. The tests were declared successful, and China’s PLA now has a viable robot cargo aircraft.
Another CCTV report:
CGTN video report of first test of Feihong-98 (FH-98) cargo UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle), October 2018:
The very next day, WKBN went on the air to call the MyID a ‘crazy conspiracy theory’, claim that it cannot be tracked, have yet to even arrive for issue:
On 22FEB2023, a plane carrying employees of CTEH, an Arkansas based environmental consultancy firm, crashed killing everybody on the plane. In this THV11 video a reporter asks why so many government agencies from other jurisdictions showed up to the plane crash, the flimsy answer is that “it’s within a hundred yards of the city”:
Here’s eight hours (looped) of CNN-News18 video of the Cleveland explosion aftermath from 21FEB2023. The report reveals that the alloy factory had recently passed a safety inspection:
Ohio Army National Guard Military Police and Ohio State Highway Patrol (Trooper), work checkpoints around East Palestine, 08FEB2023. Ohio National Guard photo by Airman First Class Ivy Thomas.
On 24FEB2023, a cattle rancher located north of East Palestine says he had to “talk my way past the Army National Guard and the State Troopers” just to get to his property (about 1:40 into the interview), he is being followed by the local sheriff:
True life victim of disaster cover-ups, Erin Brockovich, calls it ‘gaslighting’, reveals that school drinking fountains are turned off, private water wells have been ‘locked’, 26FEB2023:
On 27FEB2023, Ohio Representative Steve Demetriou says federal and state officials are ignoring the human victims of the crash, calls for independent field hearings. Interviewer reveals that people are returning bottled water because they don’t trust the source of the bottled water:
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On 25FEB2023, the Aviation Industry Corporation (AvIC) of China reported that they sold an undisclosed number of its latest 4th/5th generation training aircraft to a U.S. ally; the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Model of L-15 trainer at the 16th IDEX in UAE. Photo via AvIC.
The deal was apparently made during the recent 16th International Defense Exhibition and Conference (IDEX) in Abu Dhabi. The L-15 looks very similar to the Russian Yak-130 and NATO-Italy’s Aermacchi M-346. Apparently, the L-15 is the nomenclature assigned by the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) for the export version of the JL-10 trainer.
JL-10, photo by Li Ning, 20JUL2020.
According to the PLA, the turbines powering the L-15/JL-10 are made in Ukraine; Ivchenko-Progress AI-222-25F turbofans!
PLA video, twin engined JL-10 flies alongside older training aircraft of the Harbin Flight Academy, April 2022:
In 2021, Chinese military sales reps said the toughest market to sell weapons in is in The Middle East (South West Asia), and that the L-15 can compete with Western systems: “After the Airshow China in Zhuhai in October, China brought it to Dubai, reflecting the importance it attaches to the Middle East arms trade market. Now, the L-15 is at the same level of the products of these developed countries, and offers more advantages in terms of price.”-Wang Yanan, aerospace science and technology analyst
PLA video of Shijiazhuang Flight Academy’s JL-10, 10FEB2021:
06AUG2018.
In 2018, the PLA Navy got a navalized version called JL-10H.
06AUG2018.
The People’s Republic of China makes the same claim about its military industrial complex that the United States does; that it is about building global peace and security.
The last RC-26B made its final flight on 16FEB2023. For more than 30 years, beginning in 1991 (tail end of the Cold War), the RC-26B Condor not only worked anti-drug missions, but international warzone counter-insurgency flights, domestic homeland security missions, wild-fire fighting and disaster relief efforts: “This aircraft is kind of like a chameleon. It could morph in to just about anything you could imagine, as far as hurricane support, counter-drug, the border or wildfire support. It was like a Swiss Air National Guard Knife.”-Major Luis Flores, RC-26 pilot, Texas Air National Guard
The RC-26B is a modified C-26B, which began service in the last decade of the non-declared Cold War as the C-26A. At one point it was known as the ISR (Intelligence Surveillance Reconnaissance).
National Guard report about combat use of RC-26B, somewhere in South West Asia (Middle East), 18JUL2013:
During those 30 plus years the Condor (modified Fairchild Metro 23) was flown by units in Alabama, Arizona, California, Florida, Iowa, Mississippi, New Mexico, Texas, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Washington.
CALIFORNIA:
California Air National Guard photo, 30JUL2014.
FLORIDA:
Florida Air National Guard photo by Sergeant Lalita Laksbergs, 22FEB2011.
Florida Air National Guard photo by Sergeant Lalita Laksbergs, 22FEB2011.
Florida Air National Guard photo by Sergeant Lalita Laksbergs, 22FEB2011.
Video by Master Sergeant Megan Hunter, 22FEB2011:
IOWA:
Iowa Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sergeant Robert Shepherd, 27JAN2023.
On 27JAN2023, the Iowa Air National Guard conducted its final flight of the RC-26B. The Condor began operations at the Des Moines Airbase only recently, in 2015, providing counter-narcotics, and domestic natural disaster support, for law enforcement and emergency management.
Iowa Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sergeant Robert Shepherd, 27JAN2023.
MISSISSIPPI: USAF video (by Staff Sergeant Aaron Richardson) RC-26B during exercise Southern Strike, October 2015:
TEXAS:
RC-26 cockpit view of New York City, on its way to its final resting place in Maryland. Texas Air National Guard photo by Sean Cowher, 16FEB2023.
Delivering the 147th Attack Wing’s RC-26 to Hagerstown Aviation Museum, Maryland. Texas Air National Guard photo by Sean Cowher, 16FEB2023.
On 15FEB2023, the 147th Attack Wing of the Texas Air National Guard retired its RC-26 Condor, but the final flight was when the aircraft was put out to pasture at the Hagerstown Aviation Museum, in Maryland, on 16FEB2023.
An early Condor of the Texas Air National Guard, with a surveillance pod, 13SEP2005. Photo by Staff Sergeant Cheryl Hackley.
The first Texas Air National Guard RC-26 crew, in 1991!
WEST VIRGINIA:
West Virginia National Guard photo by Edwin L. Wriston, 06JAN2023.
On 06JAN2023, the West Virginia National Guard retired their RC-26 Condor (# 94-0260). RC-26 #94-0260 was one of the last of 11 such aircraft operated by the U.S. Air Force and National Guard.
Final crew for the Final Flight. West Virginia National Guard photo by Edwin L. Wriston, 06JAN2023.
WASHINGTON:
Final start-up of an RC-26, for its final flight from Fairchild Air Force Base, Washington, 06JAN2023. Washington Air National Guard photo by Technical Sergeant Kayleigh Phillips.
On 06JAN2023, Washington joined West Virginia in retiring its Condor. Evergreen State C-26B operations began from Fairchild Air Force Base in 1991, then in 1995 the Condor was reconfigured as an RC-26B.
Washington Air National Guard photo by Technical Sergeant Kayleigh Phillips, 06JAN2023.
“We provide the necessary information to the USDA FS and NWICC, such as, where is the fire? In one instance with the Crescent Mountain fire, the fire behavior and visibility had been erratic. We showed up at 0700, had the RC-26 overhead at 0800, and by 0930 evacuation orders were sent out based on the video feed provided to the incident commander.”-Lieutenant Colonel Rich Cullen, October 2018
Washington National Guard video, RC-26B surveillance of wildfire in Oregon, August 2018:
Inside an RC-26 assigned to the141st Operations Group, Washington Air National Guard, mapping the Chetco Bar fire in southern Oregon 02SEP2017. USAF photo by Senior Airman Sean Campbell.
WISCONSIN: The RC-26B began service with the Air National Guard in January 1992, assigned anti-drugs duty in 1996, final flight 28DEC2022.
Wisconsin Air National Guard’s RC-26B reconnaissance aircraft after its final flight 28DEC2022. Wisconsin Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sergeant Paul Gorman.
Wisconsin Air National Guard’s RC-26B reconnaissance aircraft after its final flight 28DEC2022. Wisconsin Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sergeant Paul Gorman.
Type 96A, People’s Liberation Army 77th Group Army photo, 04DEC2022.
Sometimes a fuel/oil tank is carried on the top of the left rear hull/fender. It can also carry long range fuel drums on its rear.
Type 96A, PLA 77th Group Army photo, 04DEC2022.
Type 96A, PLA 77th Group Army photo, 04DEC2022.
The tow hooks are mounted on the lower front slope, inboard of the headlights.
Type 96A with manually operated 12.7mm machine gun mounted on turret. Photo by Liu Zhiyong, 13SEP2022.
Type 96B, with remote controlled 12.7mm on turret roof. Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko Junior, 27AUG2022.
Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko Junior, 21AUG2022.
In August 2022, China took second place in the Tank Biathlon and Masters of Armored Vehicles, during Russia’s International Army Games, using their Type 96B. The International Army Games were held on the territories of 12 countries, including China, Russia and Iran, with more than 270 teams from 37 countries competing.
Photo by Yu Ziheng, 14AUG2022.
The Type 96B has a remote controlled 12.7mm heavy machine gun on top of the turret, which is not always mounted. The Type 96A is up-armored with armor blocks, and upgraded gun sights. The Type 96 series uses a 125mm main gun. The ‘skirt’ gets shorter with each new generation of Type 96, the Type 96B being the shortest (sometimes they go ‘naked’).
Type 96Bs leaving China controlled Inner Mongolia for the International Army Games in Russia, July 2022. Photo via CCTV-7.
CGTN video, first round of Tank Biathlon, 15AUG2022, revealing that the remote controlled 12.7mm can also be fired manually:
The Type 96A/B has a turret very similar to the VT4, VT5, and Type 99 tanks. The hull evolved from the Soviet/Russian T-54/55. The roadwheels are uniquely Chinese, and unlike the T-54/55 the track is supported. The Type 96B has more streamlined looking fenders, than the Type 96A, the two exhaust ports are closer together as well and not as obvious as on the Type 96A.
From U.S. Army Graphic Training Aid, Armored Vehicle Recognition, 1987.
From a distance the Type 96A/B looks much like the old Cold War era NATO-West German Leopard 1A4.
People’s Liberation Army 77th Group Army video showing Type 96A during live-fire training, May 2022:
PLA 73rd Group Army photo by Liu Zhiyong, 27APR2022.
PLA 73rd Group Army photo by Liu Zhiyong, 27APR2022.
PLA 73rd Group Army photo by Liu Zhiyong, 27APR2022.
PLA 71st Group Army photo by Bai Junfeng, 15APR2022.
The Type 96 has two exhaust holes on the same side of the hull, the right side, as opposed to the T-54/55 or T-72 single exhaust on the left side.
PLA 71st Group Army photo by Bai Junfeng, 15APR2022.
PLA 71st Group Army photo by Bai Junfeng, 15APR2022.
PLA 73rd Group Army photo by Liu Zhiyong, 15JAN2021.
The Type 96A appears to be connected to a generator on the ground. PLA 81st Group Army photo by Yang Jian, November 2020.
The front of the Type 96A/B turret is different from the older Type 96, also, the bustle racks have armor(?) plates attached.
PLA 72nd Group Army photo by Xiao Yuxuan, 11MAY2020.
CGTN video, January 2020, female tank commander explain why she likes the Type 96A/B (because it makes her look “most beautiful”, typical!):
CGTN video, Type 96B during 2019 International Army Games:
CGTN video of Type 96 driver showing-off, December 2017 (I did the same thing in an M1 Abrams, it is actually easy to get a tank to drift or slide, if it has a powerful motor):
Type 96:
The older Type 96 has a splash guard on the front slope, and the turret bustle racks do not have armor plate covering them.
Skirtless Type 96. PLA 71st Group Army photo by Yao Zongkai, 17SEP2022.
PLA 82nd Group Army video from May 2022, Type 96 live-fire:
The Type 96 is also known as ZTZ-96.
PLA 71st Group Army photo by Zhu Baolong, 21MAY2022.
The Chinese started with the T-54/55 hull, then got radical by replacing the unsupported track system with a supported track (the track-links themselves are the same), and replacing the manually loaded main gun with the auto-loading 125mm from a T-72.
PLA 71st Group Army photo by Zhu Baolong, 21MAY2022.
The wire cage on the top rear of the turret is for catching the spent 125mm casings as they are ejected from the turret. PLA 71st Group Army photo by Yao Zongkai, 21MAY2022
The turret of the Type 96 is shaped different from that on the Type 96A/B, especially on the front.
PLA 71st Group Army photo by Lin Min, February 2022.
The Type 96 inherited the butt of the T-54/55.
Notice the spent 125mm casings on the ground behind the Type 96. PLA 71st Group Army photo by Lin Min, February 2022.
People’s Liberation Army photo by He Rui, late January 2023.
Track shoes/pads are removable, on the Type 99A. PLA photo by He Rui, late January 2023.
It has been confused with the export only tanks VT1 and VT4, and the lightweight high altitude tank VT5. Sometimes it is called ZTZ-99A. The Type 99A is an radical evolution of the Type 99. The Type 99 is based on the Soviet/Russian T-72, it began service in 2001.
T-72 style roadwheels and small exhaust ports on both sides of the Type 99A.
The Type 99A has the driver’s position slightly offset from center of the front of the hull, and has two periscopes, the Type 99 has only one T-72 style periscope for the driver and the position is centered. Other Chinese tanks with similar looking turrets (like the Type 96B) have driver’s positions that are offset from center, on the driver’s left side, revealing they were originally based on the T-54/55.
An 81st Group Army Type 99A with armored blocks, and without fender skirts. Notice the ‘Eiffel Tower’ in the background. PLA photo, 10JAN2023.
CGTN video explaining the Type 96A, from August 2020:
In 2011, China began slowly replacing the Type 99 with the Type 99A, however, it wasn’t publicly revealed until 2015.
CGTN video, Type 99A during parade in July 2017:
CGTN video, Type 96A during parade in October 2019:
Type 99:
The older Type 99. PLA 76th Group Army photo by Cao Xuguang, 14JUL2020.
The exhaust ports on the Type 99A are set further back than the Type 99, due to a new powerpack (motor/transmission). The powerpack for the older Type 99 was reportedly developed by NATO-Germany. The headlights on the Type 99 sit higher up on the front slope than the Type 99A. The front tow hooks on the Type 99 sit on the upper front slope, below the headlights, while the tow hooks of the Type 99A are mounted on the lower front slope, inline with the headlights.
The older Type 99. PLA 76th Group Army photo by Cao Xuguang, 14JUL2020.
PLA 76th Group Army photo 08JUL2020.
PLA 76th Group Army photo by Cao Xuguang, 18JUN2020.
PLA 76th Group Army photo by Cao Xuguang, 18JUN2020.
The VT4A1 has an onboard drone that extends the battlefield observation of the tank crew to 10 kilometers. It is vertically mounted, next to the wind sensor on top of the turret.
Image taken from CGTN video, 07NOV2022.
It also has anti-tank missile detectors on the sides of the turret. The 125mm gun is enhanced by the use of new types of rounds fired from the gun.
Hour long CGTN report, from 06NOV2022, which starts off explaining the new VT4A1:
I have not found any People’s Liberation Army videos or photos of any Chinese units actually using the VT4, it appears to be an export only tank, so far with Pakistan the only customer.
Pakistan received its first VT4s in 2020, then placed an order for more VT4s in 2022, and is considering license building them.
Serbia’s new armored reconnaissance vehicle BRDM-2MS is used for surveillance and intelligence gathering, as well as patrols and ambushes.
Photo via Ministry of Defense Republic of Serbia, January 2023.
The BRDM-2MS has the latest gun-sight systems, allowing it to fight at night and in bad weather. It has a 14.5mm KPVT heavy machine gun with a coaxial 7.62mm PKT light machine gun. They are stabilized and can hit targets while on-the-move.
Photo via Ministry of Defense Republic of Serbia, January 2023.
The BRDM-2MS is up-armored with side plates 6mm thick and rated to stops bullets up to 12.7mm (.50 caliber). The frontal plates are rated to stop 14.5mm bullets. Anti-mine armor has been added to the floor of the vehicle.
Photo via Ministry of Defense Republic of Serbia, January 2022.
The original BRDM used a gasoline fueled motor, the BRDM-2MS uses diesel, which doubles the range of the vehicle.
Photo via Ministry of Defense Republic of Serbia, September 2019.
In 2019, the first of 30 BRDM-2MS began arriving from Russia, as a donation.
Photo via Ministry of Defense Republic of Serbia, September 2019.
By early 2021, the final of the 30 donated BRDM-2MS arrived in Serbia.
Photo via Ministry of Defense Republic of Serbia, September 2019.
In May 2021, the donated BRDM-2MS were paraded in front of Defense Ministry officials:
Photo via Ministry of Defense Republic of Serbia, November 2020.
Photo via Ministry of Defense Republic of Serbia, November 2020.
Here is a Serbian Defense Ministry promotional video from August 2020, using videos made previously:
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation), September 2020:
However, to prove that the super computer can be wrong, Fugaku also stated that non-N95 cloth masks would work, or at least that is what your fear inducing leaders wanted you to think!
Then, in 2021, Fugaku issued a warning about mask wearing, that actually backed up the 2006 U.S. military study; wearing more layers of masks doesn’t work!
The point I’m trying to make is, even when using a super-computer, globalist-woke-progressive-leaders will still pick-and-choose, and even twist, the so-called evidence they use to support their Orwellian agenda.
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Towards the end of January 2023, the U.S. Navy’s (USN) 26th nuclear powered Virginia-class attack submarine was ‘floated’ in landlocked Idaho!
Idaho Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Becky Vanshur, 28JAN2023.
That is, a scale model of the submarine SSN-799 USS Idaho was paraded through downtown McCall, during the yearly Winter Carnival.
Idaho Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Becky Vanshur, 28JAN2023.
Most people don’t know that the birth place of the world’s first nuclear powered submarine was in landlocked Idaho (see more below under Cold War Boats: Nautilus).
Six of the future crew of USS Idaho attend an Idaho Steelheads hockey game, 25JAN2023. Idaho Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Becky Vanshur.
The visit of the miniature of the latest USS Idaho (several USN boats have been named after The Gem State) was instigated by the USS Idaho Commissioning Committee, which sent six of SSN-799’s future crew to Idaho, to learn just what-the-heck the state of Idaho is all about. They also spent some time on Idaho National Guard’s Gowen Field (which is also home to USN/USMC Reserve units); visited the Idaho State Veterans Cemetery; toured the Idaho Veterans Garden in Caldwell; spoke at school assemblies; attended the USS IDAHO Night at the Boise State University, among many other public relations events.
U.S. Navy photo by Chief Petty Officer Joshua Karsten, 25JAN2023.
SSN-799 is currently being completed by General Dynamics Electric Boat, in Connecticut, and is expected to be commissioned into the USN in the Autumn of 2024. Former Idaho governor Dirk Kempthorne revealed that the christening ceremony will use a bottle filled with water from Idaho lakes: “We went to the different lakes in Idaho gathering the water, which will all go into the champagne bottle, so that when Terry Stackley, our sponsor, christens the boat, the first water that will touch the bow of the USS Idaho will be the waters of Idaho.”
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