“It died; I say died because that’s how it feels.”-Master Sergeant Charles Fleek, Oregon Air National Guard, talking about tail number 78-0511, one of the lucky F-15Cs that actually flew under its own power to The Boneyard, in April 2022
Oregon Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sergeant Jennifer Shirar, 01APR2022.
Just a few months before the 50th Anniversary of the first flight what is probably the best combat aircraft ever employed by the U.S. Air Force, the state of Oregon decided to cannibalize one of its F-15Cs.
Oregon Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sergeant Jennifer Shirar, 01APR2022.
It is no April Fool’s Joke, after stripping the F-15C of usable parts, on 01APR2022, personnel with Oregon Air National Guard’s 173rd Fighter Wing loaded the worn out Eagle onto a flatbed trailer, to be hauled-off to the ‘Boneyard’ of Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, in Arizona.
Oregon Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sergeant Jennifer Shirar, 01APR2022.
Oregon Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sergeant Jennifer Shirar, 01APR2022.
Oregon Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sergeant Jennifer Shirar, 01APR2022.
Oregon Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sergeant Jennifer Shirar, 01APR2022.
On 13SEP2022, the Oregon Air National Guard revealed that, after 24 years of service, all its F-15C Eagles were on the chopping block! Not all of them; on 11SEP2022, eight Oregon Eagles were transferred to the Israeli air force, under the guise of Foreign Military Sales (which are usually taxpayer subsidized).
173rd Fighter Wing at Kingsley Field, Klamath Falls, Oregon. Oregon Air National Guard photo via Master Sergeant Jefferson Thompson, 19JUN2018.
In July 2022, tail number 78-0515 was sent to work for NASA (National Aeronautics Space Administration). It is hoped that most of the Eagles will end up with the National Museum of the United States Air Force, for public displays, however, the reality is most will end up in the Boneyard.
David R. Kingsley Memorial, an F-15A is displayed by the 173rd Fighter Wing at Kingsley Field. Oregon Air National Guard photo Master Sergeant Jefferson Thompson, 13APR2018.
Oregon’s 173rd FW has operated the A, B, C and D version of the undefeated-in-combat Eagle. But wait, it’s not over for Oregon Eagles after all; the retiring F-15Cs are being replaced with the new build F-15EX.
The first combat use of the F-15 Eagle was by Israel in 1979, followed by Saudi Arabia in 1984. First combat use of the F-15 by the U.S. Air Force was during Operation Desert Storm, in 1991.
Five months before Desert Storm, the build-up was called Desert Shield. These F-15C Eagles are patrolling the sky over Saudi Arabian oil operations. U.S. Air Force/33rd Tactical Fighter Wing photo.
Desert Shield: 02AUG1990 to 16JAN1991
Somewhere in Saudi Arabia, a 1st Tactical Fighter Wing (out of Virginia) F-15D Eagle waits for a mission during Desert Storm, 23JAN1991. Notice the Patriot missile batteries in the background.
F-15E Strike Eagles waiting for another mission during the last weeks of Desert Storm, 01FEB1991. U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Robert Jackson.
A Kuwaiti A-4KU Skyhawk and a USAF 1st Tactical Fighter Wing F-15C Eagle about to take off from an airfield in Saudi Arabia, during the last weeks of Desert Storm, 02FEB1991.
Desert Storm: 17JAN1991 to 28FEB1991
Notice the kill marking on this 58th Tactical Fighter Squadron F-15C. The USAF info says this photo was made during Desert Storm, yet the official date of the photo is December 1991! Photo by Technical Sergeant Fernando Serna.
An F-15C Eagle over the desert during the cease-fire between coalition and Iraqi forces, March 1991. USAF photo.
The USAF info that came with this photo is highly dubious. 1st, it states the photo was made in May 1992, more than a year after Desert Storm, yet claims this F-15C is being prepped for a mission during Desert Storm. 2nd, as you will see in the photo below, this Gulf Spirit does not have the kill markings that were applied after Desert Storm. Possibly this photo was made during Desert Storm, but not released until May 1992? Photo by Senior Airman Chris Putnam.
Kill markings on a F-15C Eagle named Gulf Spirit. The Gulf Spirit had just returned to the U.S. from Desert Storm, May 1991. USAF photo by Don S. Montgomery.
USAF photo by Don S. Montgomery.
After Desert Storm, France, the United States, and United Kingdom, imposed a ‘no fly zone’ over Iraq. This Operation Southern Watch would last more than a decade, and help the U.S./NATO invade Iraq in 2003. Even though the invasion was rationalized by the claim of weapons of mass destruction (WMD), which would later be proven false, the invasion of Iraq was dubbed Operation Iraqi Freedom (a major clue that it was not about WMDs). This was followed by Operation Inherent Resolve in 2014, supposedly to fight religious extremism that had taken over Iraq as a result of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Even though Operation Inherent Resolve was declared a success in Iraq, in 2019, U.S./NATO forces continue to operate in Iraq. This means the taxpayers of U.S./NATO have been funding direct military involvement in Iraqi affairs for more than three decades, and the result the leaders of the so called free world promised has yet to materialize.
For many decades after Desert Storm was declared finished, Eagles would continue to patrol over, and even bomb, Iraq. The relatively new F-15E Strike Eagle somewhere in Saudi Arabia, 20MAY1992. USAF photo.
Southern Watch: 27AUG1992 to 19MAR2003
An F-15C Eagle, normally based in NATO Germany, takes off from Incirlik Air Base in NATO Turkey, for a no-fly-zone mission over Northern Iraq, under the guise of protecting Kurds. USAF photo by Senior Airman Gudrun Cook, May 1995.
Two F-15C Eagles patrol the no fly zone over Southern Iraq, in support of Operation Southern Watch, 14JAN2002. USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Jack Braden.
Iraqi Freedom: 20MAR2003 to 15DEC2011
A Washington based KC-135 refuels an Idaho based ‘Bold Tiger’ F-15E for its deployment to Iraq during the first months of Operation Iraqi Freedom, 29DEC2003. USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Suzanne M. Jenkins.
A ‘Bold Tiger’ F-15E Strike Eagle (from Mountain Home, Idaho) was one of many Eagles deployed for Operation Iraqi Freedom. USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Suzanne M. Jenkins, 29DEC2003.
Inherent Resolve: 15JUN2014 to present day
On 23SEP2014, F-15E Strike Eagles used Iraqi airspace to conduct a dawn airstrike on Syria. USAF photo by Senior Airman Matthew Bruch.
USAF video report by Senior Airman Daniel Asselta, explaining the rational behind deploying F-15s to NATO Turkey to bomb Iraq and Syria, November 2015:
Video by Staff Sergeant Michelle Di Ciolli, of fully armed Idaho based ‘Bold Tiger’ F-15Es, getting refueled over Iraq during Operation Inherent Resolve, 17MAR2016:
An F-15E Strike Eagle somewhere over Iraq 06SEP2017. USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Trevor T. McBride.
Night vision video, by Senior Airman Nathaniel Stout, of KC-10 Extender refueling F-15E Strike Eagles over Iraq, December 2017:
An F-15E Strike Eagle gets refueled by a KC-135 Stratotanker, somewhere over Iraq, in support of Operation Inherent Resolve, 05OCT2018. USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Keith James.
On Al Dhafra Air Base, United Arab Emirates, a USAF F-15E gets ‘bombed-up’ with GBU-31 bombs, for an air strike on the Salah ad Din Province of Iraq, 10SEP2019. USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Chris Thornbury.
Yet again, another F-15E Strike Eagle gets refueled over Iraq, and even The Pandemic has no affect on military operations. USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Taylor Harrison, 09FEB2021.
To many people, the Antonov 2 is something that harkens back to the First World War’s biplanes, but it was developed after the Second World War (first flight 31AUG1947), soldiered on through the undeclared Cold War and continues flying for militaries on both sides of the Ukraine Crisis.
A proud Oleg Antonov stands between the crew that flew the An-2 on its first flight. Photo via Antonov Company.
The crop duster was a top loader. Photo via Antonov Company.
Photo via Antonov Company.
Round them doggies up! There’s almost as many ‘Colts’ as there are cows! Photo via Antonov Company.
Silly music video by Antonov Company:
Photo via Antonov Company.
Since 1948, the ‘Maize’ has been produced in several dozens of factories in dozens of countries, with at least six official modifications resulting in dozens of silly-vilian (civilian) and military variants. The NATO reporting name is Colt. Colt = An-2, 3, 4, 6, plus many other variants. In China it is known as Y-5, and they even built a pilotless/robot version called Feihong 98.
An-2CX, photo via Antonov Company.
Even Santa Claus uses the Maize/Colt to transport his reindeer! Photo via Antonov Company.
An-6 fire fighter, photo via Antonov Company.
This odd looking Maize/Colt is the An-6 Meteo, high altitude weather tracker. Notice the cockpit in the tail, and the supercharged radial engine. Photo via Antonov Company.
Mount McCauley, Antarctica, 1973. Photo via John Sheraton.
A Warsaw Pact Polska (Poland) built PZL Maize/Colt floatplane, known as An-2M or An-2W in Poland (in the Soviet Union it is An-2V). What is realy interesting is that the NATO info published with this photo (in 1978) actually stated that the floatplane version was “rather rare”.
Sometime during the Cold War, in Warsaw Pact Deutsche Demokratische Republik (aka East Germany) fighter pilots were required to learn how to jump from a Colt.
In Warsaw Pact Československo (Czech-o-Slovakia), silly-vilian (civilian) parachute clubs were the rage, and the Colt was a major player. Photo made sometime in 1979.
SlovAir operated Colts were used by silly-vilian parachute clubs in Warsaw Pact Czech-o-Slovakia. Photo made sometime in 1980.
Czech-o-Slovaks loved parachuting so much they even jumped during Winter. Photo from Winter of 1979/80.
A Soviet agriculture Maize gets dusted. Photos by V. Jukl, sometime in 1980.
Ready for dusting. Photo by V. Jukl, sometime in 1980.
Antonov Company video, sometime towards the end of the undeclared Cold War, a mini-documentary was made about O. K. Antonov’s love of designing aircraft (in his own words), including his Maize:
Cold War: Approximately 1947 (due to U.S. President Harry Truman’s Truman Doctrine) to 1991 (Operation Desert Storm, collapse of Soviet Union). The Western NATO (North Atlantic treaty Organization) must not have considered the Colt a significant aircraft, I have several books concerning Soviet aircraft, published in the United States and United Kingdom in the 1970s, only two slightly mention the An-2 and only one has a photo of it.
Last days of a former Warsaw Pact-East German Colt. In 1990, East & West Germany officially became one, but many East German aircraft continued to carry their Cold War insignia. East German An-2s were quietly retired.
Colt cargo aircraft on display U.S. Air Mobility Command Museum on Dover Air Force Base, Delaware. U.S. Air Force photo by Airman First Class Zachary Cacicia, 15NOV2014.
Video report from 2016, about conversion of old Russian Colt/Maize to U.S. turbo-prop engines (made by Honeywell) and redesigned wings:
The composite winged TVS-2DT, Rostec photo.
Video report from 2016, about the new build TVS-2DT, an attempt to modernize the An-2:
Antonov Company video, An-2-100 turbo-prop sets lift record, April 2017:
Antonov Company video, celebrating 70 years of An-2, September 2017:
This Russian civilian Maize crashed in the Nenets Autonomous Okrug, December 2017. It was loaded with 13 crew and passengers, three of which did not survive.
CGTN video report of Feihong-98 (FH-98) cargo UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle), October 2018:
In 2018, Russia’s Rostec State Corporation for Assistance to Development, Production and Export of Advanced Technology, announced production of a new ‘An-2’, called the TVS-2DTS. First deliveries were expected in 2021, but oh that darn Pandemic lockdown.
Composite wing and fuselage TVS-2DTS, Rostec photo 2018.
The difference between the TVS-2DT and the TVS-2DTS is that the 2DTS has all composite wings and fuselage, whereas the 2DT has composite wings.
A Colt makes an ‘after hours’ drop to U.S. and Latvian Special Forces units during a wargame. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sergeant Garrett L. Dipuma, 22NOV2020.
Latvian Defence Ministry photo by Gatis Dieziņš, 05MAR2021.
Serbian paratroops make their first jump from a Colt, February 2022. Photo via Serbian Defence Ministry.
NATO Latvian An-2, notice the large muffler on the exhaust. Latvian Defence Ministry photo by Gatis Dieziņš, 03MAY2022.
Latvian Defence Ministry photo by Gatis Dieziņš, 03MAY2022.
Latvian Defence Ministry photo by Gatis Dieziņš, 03MAY2022.
Latvian Defence Ministry photo by Gatis Dieziņš, 03MAY2022.
Latvian Defence Ministry photo by Gatis Dieziņš, 03MAY2022.
A privately owned An-2 performs during the Sivrihisar Airshow in NATO Turkey, 17SEP2022. Photo by Mustafa Kaya via Xinhua News.
A child of California seems excited to in the cockpit of an old Colt/Maize, part of the air show on Edwards Air Force Base. USAF photo by Lisa Dixon, 15OCT2022.
On 14NOV2022, a Cold War era Cuban An-2 crashed while taking off from Florida, U.S. It was later discovered that the same Antonov had arrived in Florida the prior month, possibly the pilot was trying to defect to the U.S.:
A bigger Antonov, this time in use by the United States?:
Full scale model of Su-75, at one of the many international air shows for manufacturers, in 2021.
Russia’s Sukhoi 75 ‘The Checkmate’ is a single engined ‘low cost’ 6th Gen fighter. It uses the AL-41F1 ‘project 117’ engine, a development of the engine used on the twin engined 5th Gen fighter Su-57, as well as the Su-35.
Full scale model, sometime in 2021.
First flight is expected sometime in 2023. After a few years of testing, Rostec (aka State Corporation for Assistance to Development, Production and Export of Advanced Technology) hopes that production can commence in 2026-27.
Rostec claims the 6th Gen fighter will cost about 30-million U.S. dollars. A two seat trainer is planned, as well as an pilotless robot version.
Artist’s concept of robot version.
The Su-75 is intended to work in conjunction with the Su-57 Felon and the S-70 Hunter drone.
Overhead view of Su-75 and Su-57, Rostec photo 2021.
Russian news reports are confusing, some claim Russian officials are considering it for the Russian Aerospace Forces, while others say the Russian military has yet to express interest in the 6th Gen fighter.
Rostec photo, 2021.
Rostec representatives admit they are hoping that potential foreign buyers will result in at least 3-hundred foreign orders, which could spur interest by the Russian military.
On 22SEP2022, after the partial mobilization of Russia’s reserve military units against a perceived invasion by NATO, Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aviation Factory (KnAAZ) announced it is ramping up production of the Sukhoi 57: “We understand how important this work is, so the plant is actively expanding and modernizing to increase production of the Su-57. At the moment, KnAAZ is loaded with orders until 2028.”-Sergey Chemezov, State Corporation for Assistance to Development, Production and Export of Advanced Technology (aka Rostec)
Sukhoi 57 (Сухой 57), the version offered for international sales is known as the PAK T-50 (ПАК ФА T-50). Weapons are stored internally, the Felon is able to interact electronically with other Su-57s:“Repeatedly involved, and single sorties, and several aircraft in coordination, in information interaction used aviation weapons, very effectively. Reviews are very good. Intra-fuselage armament worked flawlessly.”-Yuri Borisov, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation
“As part of the state contract with the Russian Ministry of Defense for the mass production of the Su-57, four aircraft have been built to date. This year it is planned to deliver the next batch of aircraft. UAC with allied enterprises performs work in accordance with the concluded state contract.“-Yuri Slyusar, United Aircraft Corporation (UAC), 16AUG2022
The first mass production (specifically for Russia) Su-57 crashed during a test flight in 2019. The second production Su-57 is being used as a test vehicle. Before the partial mobilization of reserve forces was ordered, it was planned for 76 Felons to be delivered to Russian Aerospace Forces by 2027.
The new helmet to be worn by Russian Su-57 pilots.
This Su-57 pilot is wearing the old Cold War era helmet.
The proposed two seat Su-57E, with insignia for Indian Defense Forces.
Since 2019, flights were conducted with a Su-57 ‘drone controller’ and the S-70 Hunter drone. It is planed that a single Su-57 can control several of the new combat UAVs in one flight.
Video showing a Su-57 flying with a Russian Sukhoi stealth UAV (unmanned Aerial Vehicle), which looks very similar to a U.S. stealth drone:
China has considered testing the PAK T-50 (export Su-57) as a pilotless combat drone.
According to unnamed Russian sources, the prototype T-50 UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) will still have a pilot, but only as a back-up. The T-50 UAV is part of experiments to create a 6th Gen fighter aircraft.
Promotional video from March 2020:
First mass production Felon, November 2019.
In August 2019, Russia’s Vladimir Putin showed-off the Su-57/T-50 to NATO Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
Su-57 preproduction/prototype at an airshow with old World War Two aircraft. Development of the Felon began in 1999, first flight in January 2010 (was to be in 2007, but was delayed due to ‘technical’ problems).
In August 2022, there were reports that Iran is supplying Russia with a stealth Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV, also known as a ‘drone’). This is feasible because, during the U.S. President Barack Obama regime, Iran was able to capture a U.S. stealth drone in 2011, and they successfully reverse engineered it.
Photo showing mass production of Iranian drones, copied from a captured U.S. stealth drone.
The Washington Post also claims that Iran sent Russia its Shahed-191 Stealth drone. Video purporting to show Iranian copies of U.S. stealth UAVs in flight:
However, the Biden regime specifically mentioned two Iranian drones; the Mohajer-6 and the Shahed-129, neither of which are considered stealth and they are not copies of the U.S. stealth UAV.
Mohajer (Migrant)-6
The Mohajer (Migrant)-6 is an evolution of a family of UAVs developed specifically by the Revolutionary Guards. Apparently the Iranian Army has only three of them, while the Revolutionary Guards has at least 50. It looks like a reduced scale version of the old U.S. OV-10 Bronco observation/close support aircraft. Reportedly, Venezuela made a deal to build this drone itself.
Shahed (Witness)-129 Second Generation
There are several generations of the Shahed (Witness)-129, and the most recent version looks similar to the U.S. MQ-9 Reaper and the Israeli Hermes 900.
Shahed (Witness)-129 First Generation
The Shahed-129 prototype (and first generation Shaheds) look to be reverse engineered/direct copied from an Israeli Hermes 450 UAV that crashed and was acquired by Iran. Iran has already exported the Hermes 450 version of their Shahed to Syria, to help fight the Western/NATO instigated Civil War.
Video from 2014, showing first generation Iranian Shahed-129 flying over Syria:
The U.S. stealth drone copy is known as the Saegheh (Thunderbolt). The U.S. version is the RQ-170 Sentinel. Iran has already evolved their Saegheh into several versions and claims they will be operating at least 50 of them by 2025. Iran sent Saeghehs to Syria, and Israel claims to have shot one down in 2018. There is confusion as the Saegheh has also been referred to as the Shahed.
Saegheh (Thunderbolt) Shahed-191
The Shahed-191 is the armed version (two internal weapon bays) of the Saegheh, which can be launched from the back of Toyota pickups.
NATO Italian IVECO based drone control vehicle, used by Iran.
Photo via Ministry of Defence of the Slovak Republic, August 2022.
Towards the end of August 2022, Slovak MiG-29s made their final military flights during the Slovak International Air Fest over Malacky-Kuchyňa Air Base. Although they had been recently upgraded with NATO standard equipment, and were expected to be in use until 2035, the Ukraine Crisis resulted in the sudden/hasty retirement of the MiG 29s.
Photo via Ministry of Defence of the Slovak Republic, August 2022.
Photo via Ministry of Defence of the Slovak Republic, August 2022.
A recent U.S./NATO sponsored air defense agreement between Czech Republic (now known by the wimpy name of Czechia), Poland and Republic of Slovakia, will have Slovak air space defended by Czechia’s Swedish made JAS-39 Gripens and Poland’s U.S. made F-16s, until Slovakia is equipped with U.S. made F-16s (in 2018 Slovakia agreed to buy 14 F-16 Block 70/72 from NATO-United States).
Military personnel of Slovakia and the United States pose in front of a Cold War MiG 29 ‘Gate Guard’ on Sliač Air Base, Slovakia, 28JUL2020. U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Savannah L. Waters.
Photo via Ministry of Defence of the Slovak Republic.
For more proof that the MiG 29 was to be in use for at least another decade, in November 2018 the Slovak government decided to continue operating the MiG 29 until all the expected F-16 Block 70/72s were delivered. But now, Slovkia’s eleven recently NATO upgraded MiG-29s are just hanging around, waiting for so-called NATO guidance on their fate.
MiG-29UB trainer. Photo via Ministry of Defence of the Slovak Republic.
It should be realized that the Czech-o-Slovakia was an artificial country created by the British empire led victors of World War One. During the lead-up to World War Two, Germany became the so called protectorate of the area of Czechia, while an independent Slovak State was declared. After that war, the victorious Soviet Union forced the two back together as the Czech-o-Slovakia.
Photo via Ministry of Defence of the Slovak Republic.
Cold War: Approximately 1947 (due to U.S. President Harry Truman’s Truman Doctrine) to 1991 (Operation Desert Storm, collapse of Soviet Union).
Photo via Ministry of Defence of the Slovak Republic.
After the unofficial Cold War unofficially ended, former Warsaw Pact member Czech-o-Slovakia split up, into the Czech Republic and Republic of Slovakia. Slovakia took 24 MiG-29s as part of the divorce from Czechia and as part of payment of debt owed by the former Soviet Union.
Photo via Ministry of Defence of the Slovak Republic.
In the past few years, Slovakia embarked on a program to convert its military to NATO standards, one of those actions included sending four fighter pilots to the United States to train on F-16 Falcons, in 2020.
Slovak MiG 29 flies with two Indiana Air Guard ‘BlackSnakes’ A-10C Thunderbolt-2s, 27JUL2016. Indiana Air National Guard Photo by Staff Sergeant William Hopper.
A Slovak MiG 29 flies alongside a Czech JAS 39. Photo via Ministry of Defence of the Slovak Republic.
Nebraska Air National Guard video, September 2013; a Nebraska Air Guard KC-135 refuels a Czech JAS 39 Gripen over Slovakia, while a Slovak MiG 29 Fulcrum plays the bad guy and ‘intercepts’ the ‘invaders’:
Tiger Meet Mig 29UB. Photo via Ministerstvo obrany Slovenskej republiky, (Mo Sr).
Photo via Ministerstvo obrany Slovenskej republiky, (Mo Sr).
23mm gun-smoke. Photo via Ministerstvo obrany Slovenskej republiky, (Mo Sr).
2008 Ministerstvo obrany Slovenskej republiky (Mo Sr) video, pilot talks about flying the MiG 29:
Believe it or not, little Republic of Latvia doesn’t have any main battle tanks. The closest thing it has is the M109A5Ö self propelled artillery gun, and the Combat Reconnaissance Vehicle-Tracked FV107 Scimitar recon/scout tank. Latvia also uses the CVR-T FV104 Samaritan ambulance, the FV103 Spartan personnel carrier and several other versions of the CRV-T.
This May 2014 Latvijas Armija video explains the different CVR-Ts in use:
Latvian Minister of Defense gets taken for a ride in a British made FV107 Scimitar. Michigan Army National Guard photo by Sergeant First Class Helen Miller, 28APR2016.
Latvian Defence Ministry photo, 18NOV2017.
Latvijas Armija video about deployment to NATO United Kingdom for a ‘friendly’ (wargame), May 2018:
Latvian Defence Ministry photo by Gatis Dieziņš, 08NOV2019.
Latvian Defence Ministry photo by Armīns Janiks, 13JAN2020.
During a NATO wargame, 13JAN2020. Latvian Defence Ministry photo by Armīns Janiks.
Latvijas Armija video showing FV107 Scimitars and FV103 Spartan personnel carriers in action, June 2020:
FV107 on public display, 21AUG2021. Latvian Defence Ministry photo by Gatis Dieziņš.
FV104 Samaritan. Latvian Defence Ministry photo by Gatis Dieziņš, 26OCT2021.
Latvia relies on other NATO countries to bring in the big Main Battle Tanks, in case of invasion. NATO Canada commands NATO’s Enhanced Forward Presence Battle Group in Latvia (which might explain Latvia’s use of British empire English, instead of U.S. English). The CRV-T series is a British empire made vehicle, designed and built in the United Kingdom during the undeclared Cold War. Latvia continues to receive upgraded versions of the CRV-T.
Cold War: Approximately 1947 (due to U.S. President Harry Truman’s Truman Doctrine) to 1991 (Operation Desert Storm, collapse of Soviet Union).
The High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) first entered service in 1983. The Rome Air Development Center can trace its origins back to 1942, World War Two, when it was first used to test bomb sights for bombers.
Photo via Rome Air Development Center-Newport Research Site.
Rome Air Development Center-Newport Measurement Facility (New York), aka Rome Laboratory, aka USAF Super Lab, aka Newport Research Site-Griffiss Institute, aka Griffiss Air Force Base.
Photo via Rome Air Development Center-Newport Research Site.
Photo via Rome Air Development Center-Newport Research Site.
Photo via Rome Air Development Center-Newport Research Site.
Photo via Rome Air Development Center-Newport Research Site.
Photo via Rome Air Development Center-Newport Research Site.
The elaborate ‘Newport Antenna Measurement Facility’ uses several different height, 3-axis position, towers. The site tests new radars, electronic jamming and the effectiveness of experimental electronic countermeasures. Specifically, the size and shape of a vehicle directly affects electronic signals.
Photo via Rome Air Development Center-Newport Research Site.
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