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Indian Air Power, 2021

Video April 15, 2020 Hutchins AAron

Incomplete images of India’s current state of Air Power.

Indian C-17 on Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, 20NOV2020. U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Christopher Quail.

Indian Air Force promo:

Indian Navy Harrier

U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Matthew Hannen, 30JUL2007.

Jaguar/Shamsher

U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Matthew Hannen, 30JUL2007.

USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Shawn Nickel, 29APR2016.

USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Joshua Turner, 02MAY2016.

(INDIA DEVELOPS RARE EARTH ALLOY TO EXTEND LIFE OF COLD WAR STRIKE AIRCRAFT!)

Radar equipped Shamsher leads U.S. Super Hornets and Indian Su-30MKIs. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Second Class Brandie Nuzzi, 28MAR2021.

Shamsher, MiG-29KUB and Su-30MKI, 23JUN2021, USN photo.

In the above photo notice the Indian two seat MiG-29KUBs are not simple trainers, but have full combat radar system and a different cockpit area.

Link to video of MiG-29K and Harrier fly by:

https://youtu.be/nHI0blqggFI

2010, Indian Naval Station Hansa in Goa, India.

MiG-29K overflies USS Nimitz (CVN 68) in the Bay of Bengal during Exercise Malabar 2017.

Flying with U.S. Navy Super Hornets, 2017.

Indian Navy Aérospatiale Alouette-3 (Chetak) over Goa, August 2017.

Chetak (Aérospatiale Alouette-3). USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Second Class Brandie Nuzzi, 28MAR2021.

Onboard USS Pearl Harbor (LSD 52).

Indian CH-47F, first flight July 2018:

(INDIAN HERCULES APPEARS IN NORTH DAKOTA, 2018)

In 2018, Indian P-8A Poseidon (militarized Boeing 737) took part in Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) Exercise on Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii.

HAL license built Dornier 228 and Hawk-i, and HAL HTT-40, airshow Aero India 2019.

Video, HAL Tejas:

Su-30MKI and HAL (Hindustan Aeronautics Limited) Tejas, airshow Aero India 2019.

Su-30MKI, RED FLAG-Alaska, May 2016.

Video, Su-30 leads integrated flight of Jaguar, Mirage 2000 and U.S. F-15s:

Video, Su-30MKI bombing run:

(VEHICLE I-D: SUKHOI 27/30)

HAL (Hindustan Aeronautics Limited) attack helicopter, airshow Aero India 2019.

HAL Dhruv helicopter demo team, airshow Aero India 2019.

Mil 8, airshow Aero India 2019, Air Force Station Yelahanka, Bengaluru.

(CH-47 CHINOOK COLLECTS MIL 8 ‘HIP’ BONES)

Indian Navy Mil 17(171), November 2019, exercise Tiger TRIUMPH in Kakinada.

Indian Navy Sikorsky UH-3H Sea King, November 2019, exercise Tiger TRIUMPH in Kakinada.

Video, Sea King Helicopter lands on the flight deck of the USS Germantown (LSD 42), exercise Tiger TRIUMPH:

MiG-21, Defense Expo 2020.

Video, MiG-21 ‘Night Fighter’:

Video, Alouette ‘Cheetah’ part-1:

Video, Cheetah part-2:

Video promo, IAF Mirage 2000 fighters:

Technology

CH-47 Chinook collects Mil 8 ‘Hip’ bones

Video April 15, 2020 Hutchins AAron

U.S. Army photo by Sergeant Patrick Jubrey, 06AUG2019.

Surrounded, finders keepers! NATO reporting name for the Soviet era Mil 8 is Hip.

USA photo by Sergeant Patrick Jubrey, 06AUG2019.

CH-47 anticipating sling loading Mil 8, Hohenfels Training Area, Germany, August 2019.

Video explainer, CH-47 sling loads Hip bones in Germany, June 2019:

USA photo by Charles Rosemond, 12MAR2019.

Note that the tail boom, main rotors, landing gear and other loose ‘Hip’ bones are shoved into the fuselage. Storck Barracks, Illesheim, Germany, 12MAR2019.

USA photo by Charles Rosemond, 12MAR2019.

Video explainer, using Hip bones for sling load training in Germany:

Prepping a Mil 8 for use as a sling load trainer, Hohenfels, Germany, 12MAR2019.

USA photo by Charles Rosemond, 12MAR2019.

Video, CH-47 Chinook recovers junk Mil 8 in Afghanistan, November 2017:

USMC photo by Corporal Ursula V. Smith, 25SEP2019.

RECOVERING UH-1 SKELETONS

VEHICLE I-D: MIL 24 HIND ‘SATAN’S CHARIOTS’

Technology

Recovering UH-1 skeletons

Video April 14, 2020 Hutchins AAron

U.S. Marine Corps photo by Corporal Ursula V. Smith, 25SEP2019.

In September 2019, U.S. Marines used what remained of a UH-1 to conduct fire fighting and recovery training at U.S. Army’s Yuma Proving Grounds (YPG), Arizona.

USMC photo by Corporal Ursula V. Smith, 25SEP2019.

Video, Weapons and Tactics Instructor (WTI) course 1-20 at Site 2, YPG, 25SEP2019:

USMC photo by Lance Corporal Claudia Nix, 28MAR2019.

They did the same thing earlier, in March 2019.

USMC photo by Lance Corporal Claudia Nix, 28MAR2019.

From 2017, “Just what I need for my collection.”

This pic of the tail section recovery was taken in March 2015.

Video from 2015:

From September 2014.

Also from September 2014.

U.S. Army’s Company D, 2nd General Support Aviation Battalion, 227th Aviation Regiment, 1st Air Cavalry Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, conduct Downed Aircraft Recovery Team (DART) training on Hohenfels, Germany, January 2018.

April 2017, U.S. Army’s B Company, 277th Aviation Support Battalion, 10th Combat Aviation Brigade, conduct DART training on Oberdachstetten Training Area, Germany.

U.S. Army’s 16th Combat Aviation Brigade, 7th Infantry Division on Yakima Training Center, Washington June 2016.

Video from the Huey’s tail rotor as it’s taken for a ride by a UH-60M Black Hawk:

Fort Stewart, Georgia, 2014.

RECOVERY OPS: DKM PRINZ EUGEN

VEHICLE I-D: MIL 24 HIND ‘SATAN’S CHARIOTS’

Technology

Vehicle I-D: Russian/Ukrainian Aircraft in U.S. service?

Video April 12, 2020 Hutchins AAron

The Antonov Design Bureau (founded by Oleg Konstantinovich Antonov in 1946) was originally based in Russia, but officially moved to Ukraine in 1952.

June 2022, photo via Antonov Company.

In 2022, a Ukrainian Ruslan was used to transport NATO Turkey’s Turksat 5B from NATO France to NATO United States, for launch on the controversial SpaceX platform.

Photo via Antonov Company.

In June 2021, a Ukrainian An-124 Ruslan transported several Black Hawk helicopters from NATO Poland to The Philippines.

U.S. Army photo by Richard Bumgardner, 26APR2019.

Two UH-60 Black Hawks bound for Afghanistan about to be eaten by a Russian An-124 in Huntsville, Alabama, 26APR2019.

USA photo by Richard Bumgardner, 26APR2019.

U.S. Air Force video, by Staff Sergeant Bethany La Ville, November 2018 Super Typhoon Yutu relief in Saipan, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (the Ukrainian operated An-124 was contracted by U.S. Air Force):

Video, October 2017, Russian operated An-124 delivers disaster relief equipment to Puerto Rico, paid for by U.S. taxpayers:

U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Corporal Brooke Deiters, 01AUG2016.

U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, Japan, August 2016.

USMC photo by Lance Corporal Brooke Deiters, 02AUG2016.

Russian operated An-124 takes-off from U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, Japan, August 2016.

USA photo by Staff Sergeant Richard Andrade, 22OCT2013.

October 2013, Russian operated An-124 delivers U.S. taxpayer funded Russian made Mil-17V-5 Hip helicopter to the Afghan military, in Kabul.

U.S. Marine Corps photo by Corporal Kevin Jones, 09JUL2013.

A large U.S. Marine CH-53E Super Stallion inside the belly of the An-124 beast, July 2013.

USMC video, by Corporal Jeffrey Scarmazzi, 11JUL2013, U.S. Marines on Marine Corps Air Station Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii, load UH-1Y Venoms into a contracted An-124:

USMC photo by Lance Corporal Natalie M. Rostran, 17JUN2013.

U.S. Marines CH-46E Sea Knight off-load at Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, Japan, June 2013.

USA photo by Sergeant D. Brennan, 07FEB2013.

February 2013, U.S. Army OH-58D Kiowa Warrior helicopter is fed into the An-124 Condor at Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan.

At least three OH-58Ds. USA photo by Sergeant D. Brennan, 07FEB2013.

U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Krystal Wright, 30JUN2012.

Russian operated An-124 gets an MRAP suppository at Shaw Air Force Base (AFB), South Carolina, June 2012.

USAF photo by Airman 1st Class Krystal Wright, 30JUN2012.

Now a satellite up-link suppository, all destined for U.S. Forces Korea.

USMC photo by Mitch Moore, 05OCT2011.

Joint Operating Base Bastion, Afghanistan, An-124 delivers mobile medical Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machine, October 2011.

USAF photo by Sergeant Anderson J. Grant, 21MAY2011.

The U.S. Air Force even showed-off the Ruslan at a public air show on Shaw AFB, May 2011.

USAF photo by Captain Erick Saks, 06MAY2011.

May 2011, An-124 delivers Rough Terrain Container Handler (RTCH) to Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan.

Photo by Jerome Bishop, 01DEC2005.

Pope Air Force Base , North Carolina, December 2005. Russian contracted An-124 eats a UH-60 Black Hawk, for delivery to Egypt.

At least four UH-60s. Photo by Jerome Bishop, 01DEC2005.

Operation CoViD-19: Video of An-124 used for NATO CoViD supply operations in Slovakia

2016:

USMC photo by Corporal Nathan Wicks, 02AUG2016.

Russian An-124 DELIVERS KC-130J SIMULATOR TO U.S. MARINES IN JAPAN!

International, Technology

Ingenious or desperate?

Image April 11, 2020 Hutchins AAron

A big water/fuel tank turned into a boat. Intercepted in 1999.

For more than five decades Cubans who don’t like living on their island country have sailed, some even tried swimming, to the United States. This is partly because the U.S. Cuban Adjustment Act (CAA) of 1966 ‘fast tracks’ citizenship for any Cuban who can make it to U.S. territory.

U.S. policy is to sink all intercepted migrant boats.

Looks like simple 2×4 construction. Intercepted in 2016.

Even since the year 2000, Cubans still come up with ingenious, or maybe desperate, ways of getting to the United States.

Not sure what this is. Intercepted in 2016.

Wood planks strapped to 55 gallon drums. Intercepted in 2015.

My favorite. A 1951 Chevy truck mounted on empty 55 gallon drums. The riders actually attempted to drive it to the U.S. The U.S. Coast Guard intercepted the boat-truck in July 2003.

The truck-boat plugged along at eight miles per hour and made it just 40 miles from U.S. shores before sinking.

You might have seen one driving around Miami, but it’s not the one that sank. A Florida Chevy dealer was so inspired by the effort of the Cubans that he made a much better-working replica. As of May 2019, the dealer was trying to sell it for just under $40-thousand!

But wait! In 2004 two Cuban families tried to drive to Florida in their 1959 Buick. The families had tried to do the same thing in the 1990s but their Buick developed electrical problems and they turned back. The U.S. Coast Guard ended their 2004 attempt, catching them before they could reach the shore, sending them back to Cuba, and their classic car to the bottom of the ocean.

But two failed attempts didn’t stop the people in the Buick, they tried again in 2005, this time in a floating 1948 Mercury stretched taxi.

As is U.S. Coast Guard policy, and despite the boat being a classic car, the Cuban taxi-raft was sunk.

VEHICLE I-D: JOIN THE U.S. MILITARY GET A CLASSIC CAR?

VEHICLE ID: ARMORED DRUG SMUGGLING BOATS

Technology

Vehicle I-D: Sukhoi 24

Video April 11, 2020 Hutchins AAron

U.S. Navy photo, 12APR2016.

Buzzing the USS Donald Cook (DDG 75), Baltic Sea, 12APR2016.

USN photo, 12APR2016.

Video, Su-24 “Over the bow!”:

USN photo, 12APR2016.

Video, Su-24 “on the deck!”:

USN photo, 12APR2016.

Video, Su-24 “across the flight deck”:

Russian Su-24s on Khmeimim Air Base, Latakia Governorate in Syria, 2017.

Video, ground ops, Latakia, Syria, 2016:

Video, point-of-view cams showing take-off, bomb dropping, and landing of Su-24 in Syria:

Video, USS Ross (DDG 71) gets buzzed, June 2015, Black Sea:

On 24NOV2015, a NATO Turkey F-16 shot down a Russian Su-24 over Syria.

Video, take-offs and landings, Latakia, Syria, 2015:

Video from 2015, Russian Su-24 dropping ‘dumb’ bombs on insurgents in Syria:

Video, aerial refueling 2015:

Video, afterburners lit, Syria:

Algerian Su-24.

Iranian Su-24

U.S. MARINES USE ‘FAKE NEWS’ MIG-23

VEHICLE I-D: MIL 24 HIND ‘SATAN’S CHARIOTS’

VEHICLE I-D: SUKHOI 27/30

Technology

Vehicle I-D: Mil 24 Hind ‘Satan’s Chariots’, Cold War and beyond

Video April 9, 2020 Hutchins AAron

Mil Mi-24/25/35, NATO reporting name Hind.

From a U.S. Army vehicle identification poster, September 1981.

Russian news media propaganda report on Mi-24P (30mm guns) and Ka-52 action in Ukraine, October 2022:

This is a Ukrainian Mi-24V, supposedly of those donated by NATO Czech Republic.

In August 2022, Russia revoked licensed Mil helicopter operations for NATO-Czech Republic and NATO-Bulgaria, after they donated Hinds to Ukraine.

In August 2022, Brazil flew its 12 Mi-35M4s for the last time, officially. Brazil calls its Hinds the AH-2 Saber. Brazil has been operating Saber-Hinds since at least 2011. Local news media reports say the high cost of maintaining them was exacerbated by recent U.S./NATO sanctions on Russia.

Video from June 2022, Russian ‘Z’ Hinds (Mi-35M, with 23mm guns in the chin-turret), somewhere over Ukraine:

In May 2022, NATO Czech republic claims to have given Ukraine some of their Mi-24Vs.

March 2022: Hinds with invasion stripes?

In December 2021, a video appeared claiming to show rebels in Yemen now have a usable Hind helicopter:

#مأرب
فيديو متدوال عن مشاركة طائرات هيلوكبتر عمودية تابعة لقوات صنعاء في معارك جنوب #مأرب. pic.twitter.com/XWMmogXOsT

— ساعة الصفر (@zero_hour2020) December 7, 2021

In August 2021, Taliban took control of donated Mi-35 helicopters, after the sudden withdrawal of U.S./NATO forces from Afghanistan. See more about the more than four decades long love affair the Afghans have for ‘Satan’s Chariot’ in ZOMBIE ‘COPTER: HOW THE HIND RETURNED TO AFGHANISTAN (with the help of NATO), AND WHY IT WON’T DIE.

U.S. Army photo by Major Robert Fellingham.

In June 2021, U.S. Army AH-64 Apaches and NATO-Bulgarian Hinds took part in a joint Apache-Hind wargame, supposedly for the first time.

In August 2020, Rostec State Corporation’s Russian Helicopters division announced it will begin mass-production of its new export Hind, the Mi-35P.

Belarussian Mi-24.

At the beginning of August 2020, Belarus claimed that NATO-Lithuania invaded its territory. The ‘invasion’ was stopped with the help of Belarusian Mi-24s.

Kazakhstan Mi-35M, June 2020.

In June 2020, Kazakhstan received four new-build Mi-35Ms. Kazakhstan now has 12 Mi-35Ms.

Kazakhstan Mi-35M, June 2020.

Libyan ‘Haftar’ Mi-35.

In April 2020, it was reported that an Mi-35, used by the ‘Haftar’ forces in Libya, was shot down, the crew was killed. It should be noted that the Haftar forces (aka Libyan National Forces) are supported by both Russia and NATO-France! The 2011 NATO instigated civil war in Libya never ended!

Ukrainian Mi-24P, with 30mm side mounted guns.

U.S. Air Force photo by Airman First Class Jacob T. Stephens, 20NOV2019.

Mil (Mil Moscow Helicopter Plant) 24 gunship flies over Ryan Airfield, Arizona, 20NOV2019.

USAF photo by Airman First Class Jacob T. Stephens, 20NOV2019.

The U.S. Air Force claims it is using the Mil 24 to teach basic helicopter maneuver training to SAR (Search And Rescue) HH-60G Pave Hawk crews.

USAF photo by Airman First Class Jacob T. Stephens, 18NOV2019.

Mil 24 parked next to HH-60G Pave Hawk, Davis Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona.

International Aviation and Space Salon MAKS-2019.

In August 2019, Russia announced it is upgrading its Mi-24Ps to Mi-24P1M standards.

International Aviation and Space Salon MAKS-2019.

The Mi-24P1M will have the latest electronics, including an anti-aircraft missile launch warning system. The ‘1M’ version will also be several hundred kilograms lighter in weight.

International Aviation and Space Salon MAKS-2019.

In the NATO ‘west’, export versions of Mil 24 are also known as Mil 25 or 35, depending on the accessories (or who is writing the report).

NATO photo, 15MAR2018.

Polish Mil 24 picks up NATO troops during Frozen Fury wargame, March 2018.

U.S. Army photo by Captain Gary Loten-Beckford, 30JAN2018.

Polish Mil 24s swarm a NATO battlefield, January 2018.

Russian Mi-24 flying over Roman era ruins in Syria, possibly 2017.

Russia flies Mi-24s in the NATO-instigated-civil-war-torn country of Syria.

U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist First Class Justin Stumberg, 14JUL2017.

Ukrainian Mil 24, over Kulbakino Air Base in Mykolaiv, during NATO/U.S. Sea Breeze wargame, July 2017.

U.S. Army video by Sergeant Timothy Pike, soldier’s view of Mi-24 Hind-D during NATO wargame on Hohenfels, Germany, March 2017:

U.S. Army photo by Sergeant Matthew Hulett, 24MAR2017.

Maintenance on Czech Mil 24 on Hohenfels, Germany, for Exercise Allied Spirit, March 2017.

U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Corporal Zachary M. Ford, 11APR2016.

Mil 24 over Chocolate Mountain Aerial Gunnery Range, California, April 2016, in support of U.S. Marine Aviation Weapons and Tactics Squadron One (MAWTS-1) during Weapons and Tactics Instructor (WTI) training.

Video, Mil 24 Hinds in action, Syria, October 2015:

#RuAF Mi-24 Hind gunships providing CAS to #Syria regime troops #Sahl_al_Ghab #Latakia #RussianAirStrikes pic.twitter.com/mUfPnfmyia

— Independist-R2D2 (@Independist) October 12, 2015

Mi-24 Hind-D onboard Yuma Marine Corps Air Station, Arizona. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Staff Sergeant Artur Shvartsberg, 09OCT2015.

U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Arizona, October 2015.

USMC photo by Staff Sergeant Artur Shvartsberg, 09OCT2015.

NATO video from 2014, Afghans deploy their Mil 24 and Mil 17 (171):

The Mil 24 is called Hind by NATO, there is no official name in Russia but crews have used many nicknames for it. In Afghanistan it’s known as Satan’s Chariot. NATO video report from 2012:

U.S. Army Photo by Specialist Alan Moos, 21JAN2008.

NATO-Poland Mil 24 in Iraq, Camp Echo, January 2008.

USA photo by Specialist Alan Moos, 21JAN2008.

NATO-Poland’s old Hind-D over Ad Diwaniyah, Iraq, January 2008.

Iraq, May 2006, USA photo.

NATO-Poland Mil 24 and U.S. Apache AH-64 working together, somewhere in Iraq, May 2006.

U.S. Air Force photo by Technical Sergeant Hill-Wales, 03JUL1996.

The above photo shows three Mi-24 Hind-Ds, of the newly independent Czech Republic (now known as Czechia), attending an air show in NATO-Italy, July 1996. The Czech Republic joined NATO in 1999.

The U.S. Army captured an almost intact Iraqi Hind-D, during Desert Storm, January 1991.

The U.S. Army first started flying the Mil 24 in the early 1990s, after French and Chadian forces seized an abandoned Libyan Mil 25 Hind-D in 1987. The helicopter was flown to the U.S. onboard a C-5 Galaxy in 1988.

The Hind-D was based at Fort Bliss, Texas. It was routinely deployed to Fork Polk, Louisiana, to play the part of the enemy, or Opposition Force (OpFor) in wargames.

This 1995 U.S. Army photo shows the Hind-D equipped with Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement Systems (MILES) ‘laser-tag’ wargame device on the chin-gun. It has Tasmanian Devil nose art.

From U.S. Army FM 44-80, Visual Aircraft Recognition, July 1993 edition.

Beginning in the early 1980s, the U.S. Army used Huey helicopters to represent Hinds!

U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency photo, released 27APR1989.

The above photo was made in July 1988, but was not released to the U.S. public until 27APR1989.

Photo released by U.S./NATO, March 1985.

Photo released by U.S./NATO, August 1982.

These Hinds had a four-barreled 12.7mm gun in a chin-turret.

Photo released by U.S./NATO, August 1982.

Mil Mi-24 Hind-A. Photo released by U.S./NATO, 01AUG1982.

Czech-o-Slovak Mi-24D, photo by Eduard Karkan, published in 1980.

TASS photo of Soviet Mi-24D, published in late 1970s.

The Hind-A had a single-barreled 12.7mm heavy machine gun in the nose.

The first production version of the Hind, sometimes called the Drinking Glass, Mi-24A Hind-A. Riga Airport Latvia Russian Aircraft Museum, in NATO-Latvia.

Prototype Mil V-24.

In 1968 the Soviet Union ordered a new helicopter, combining transport and gunship capabilities. By June 1970, what would become the Mil 24 was accepted for testing. The Mil 24A officially began service in 1972.

VEHICLE I-D: MD-530F CAYUSE WARRIOR, AFGHANISTAN

HOW TO USE C-4 & THERMITE TO KILL A ZOMBIE TANK

Influenza, Technology

Operation CoViD-19: Project Air Bridge, 747s, MD-11s, breaking airlift records!

Video April 9, 2020 Hutchins AAron

According to some sources, the largest military airlift to aid silly-vilians (civilians) was the Berlin Airlift from 1948 to 1949. The largest silly-vilian operated airlift was known as Joint Church Aid (unofficially Jesus Christ Airlines), also known as Biafrian Airlift, from 1967 to 1970. Launched towards the end of March, Project Air Bridge, in the United States, using both military and civilian aircraft, in my opinion might set a new airlift record.

Pics and video from FEMA.

U.S. based (Florida) SkyLease Cargo’s 747-428ERF #N904AR arrived at Chicago O’Hare International Airport on 06APR2020, packed full of N-95 respirators, surgical masks, gloves and gowns.

On 07APR2020, U.S. based (Florida) SkyLease Cargo’s 747-428ERF flew all the way from Malaysia, delivering more than 20-million surgical gloves to Chicago O’Hare Airport.

This is what the other side of SkyLease Cargo’s 747 # N903AR looks like.

Luxembourg based Cargolux 747-8F, O’Hare International Airport, 07APR2020.

Video, off-load of Cargolux and SkyLease Cargo 747s, 07APR2020:

Federal Emergency Management Agency says that just on the 7th of April more than 45-million surgical masks, as well as other medical PPE (Personal Protective Equipment), were delivered to Chicago O’Hare International Airport, to be distributed across the U.S.!

Video, off-load of FedEx MD-11 at O’Hare International Airport, Illinois, 08APR2020:

According to FEMA, the MD-11 arrived from China with more than 8-million surgical masks and more than 190-thousand surgical gowns!

Operation CoViD-19: FEMA’S EMERGENCY AIRLIFT REVEALED!

MAFFS BIRD FLIES COVID VENTILATORS TO NEW YORK AND ALL POINTS EAST

DOES THE ‘C’ IN C-130 STAND FOR COVID?

BARE METAL: NASA’S MD-11 EXPERIMENTAL

WILD FIRES 2019: DC-10, IDAHO’S 911

Kit Bashing, Technology

U.S. Army/Marines use ‘fake news’ MiG-23 BAT

Video April 8, 2020 Hutchins AAron

In 2005, the U.S. Marines, and other NATO members, launched what they called a MiG-23 Bandit, in Egypt. It was built as a target drone for man-portable Stinger anti-aircraft missile training.

According to the info that came with these pics, five MiG-23 Bandits were launched, and all five were shot down during Exercise Bright Star.

According to the information that was issued with these pics, the MiG-23 Bandits were actually made and operated by a U.S. military contractor; Advanced Composite Manufacturing. There are several companies and ‘research’ organizations that use the words Advanced Composite Manufacturing in their names. There is also a company calling itself ACM/Advanced Composite Manufacturing. None of them have any info about the MiG-23 Bandit.

Video, MiG-23 Bandit launch & shoot-down:

A ‘BAT’ being prepped for duty on Fort Campbell, Kentucky. U.S. Army photo by Marshall W. Woods, 20FEB2002.

The U.S. Army calls it the BAT (Ballistic Aerial Target).

USMC photo by Lance Corporal Constantine Sigelakis, 24AUG1999.

In August 1999, the U.S. Army used a MiG-23 BAT to demonstrate its vehicle mounted Stinger missile system, known as Avenger, on Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, in North Carolina.

USMC photo by Sergeant A. D. Gruart, March 1986.

This photo is dated March 1986. It shows a MiG-23/27 ‘BAT/Bandit’ drone along with two Mi-24 Hind drones, on Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia.

HOW TO BUILD A 1:1 SCALE U.S. ARMY ‘FAKE NEWS’ BMP-2

Technology

Vehicle I-D: Sukhoi 27/30

Video April 7, 2020 Hutchins AAron

Venezuelan Sukhoi 30 shadowing a U.S. Navy EP-3, July 2019.

Thermal camera video of Venezuelan Su-30:

Ukrainian Su-27/30, Starokostiantyniv Air Base during NATO wargame Clear Sky 2018.

F-15 Eagle taxis past Sukhoi 27s.

Video, Russian Su-27s sneak a look at U.S. Navy EP-3E, January 2018:

Su-30, the main difference between the Su-27UB and Su-30 is that the Su-30 is a fully combat capable multi-role aircraft, while the Su-27UB is a trainer.

Video, Russian Su-27 streaks past U.S. Navy EP-3E, January 2018:

The Su-30 is slightly longer and taller than the Su-27UB, and can also be equipped with canards and thrust vectoring afterburners.

Video, U.S. F-15s mingle with Russian Su-30s over the Baltic Sea, November-December 2017:

Su-27 v B-52H, Baltic Sea, June 2017.

Su-27 v B-1B, Baltic Sea, June 2017.

Su-27 v RC-135U, Baltic Sea, June 2017.

Video, Russian Knights 2016:

Indian Su-30MKI on Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, May 2016. Good size comparison with the much smaller F-16.

Malaysian Su-30MKM, Singapore International Airshow, 21FEB2016.

Russian Su-27 takes part in U.S. Vigilant Eagle-13, over Alaska, August 2013.

Su-27, Canadian F-18 (CF-18) and an Ilyushin 62 over Cold Lake, Canada, August 2013. The Il-62 played the role of hi-jacked airliner, while the Su-27s and CF-18s played escorts.