From a Cold War U.S. Army vehicle I-D poster. The U.S./NATO liked to call the 2S1 the M-1974.
To make things more confusing, U.S./NATO also called the 2S1 the SAU-122.
It has a 122mm gun.
Photo from a 1978 Soviet wargame.
Photo dated May 1985. No other information given. East Germany (DDR)?
U.S. Army vehicle I-D video from the last decade of the Cold War:
A 2S1 122mm self-propelled howitzer. Photo was officially released in the United States in late 1986 or early 1987, actual date and location photo was made is not known.
From U.S. Army Graphic Training Aid, Armored Vehicle Recognition, 1987.
From U.S. Army Graphic Training Aid, Armored Vehicle Recognition, 1987.
This is a U.S. Army M551 Sheridan ‘fake news’ 2S1, on Fort Irwin, California, January 1991.
What is left of an Iraqi M-1974 (2S1), February 1991.
By 1991, the U.S. military was still calling the 2S1 the ‘M-1974’. This is an abandoned Iraqi 2S1. U.S. Department of Defense photo by Staff Sergeant Robert Reeve, March 1991.
A Croat 2S1 (captured from the Serbs) paraded in Dusine, Bosnia & Herzegovina, 26FEB1996. U.S. Army photo by Specialist Alejandro Cabello.
U.S. Army photo by Specialist Alejandro Cabello, 26FEB1996.
The info that came with this June 1999 photo of a Serb 2S1 withdrawing from Kosovo, said it was a SAU-122.
2014 video, Donetsk People’s Republic forces fired on Ukrainian forces with their 2S1 Gvozdikas:
Syrian 2S1s, possibly in 2017.
According to the info that came with this photo, this is a 2S1 being used by one of the rebel groups in Syria, 2017.
Oklahoma Army National Guard video by First Lieutenant Kayla Christopher, 2S1 Gvozdika live fire near Yavoriv, March 2017:
Is this a 2S1? Modified in Ukraine, the gun is not the 122mm artillery piece. Photo possibly made in 2018.
Self propelled artillery 2S1 Karamfil (Russian name Gvozdika, Гвоздика, carnation) Novo Selo Training Area, Bulgaria. Michigan Army National Guard photo by Specialist Alan Prince, 18JUN2019.
Syrian insurgency, 2012 to present. A 2S1 rolls through a Syrian town.
Russian Eastern Military District photo.
Russian Southern Military District photo.
Russian Southern Military District photo.
Russian Northern Region (Severomorsk) photo.
Russian 2S1, Sambuli Mountains, Tajikistan. Russian Central Military District photo, May 2020.
Pilots from South American countries get a tour of the Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, ‘enemy’ tanks display, 03NOV2020. Notice the 2S1 behind them. U.S. Air Force photo by Airman First Class Zachary Rufus.
Finland calls their former East German 2S1s the 122 PSH 74. The unification of East and West Germany, and end of the unofficial Cold War, allowed the Finns to get them cheap. Puolustusvoimat / Finnish Defense Forces photo.
Russian 2S1s in the Sambuli Mountains of Tajikistan. Russian Central Military District photo, July 2021.
Since 19JAN2022, Russian ground forces (Eastern Military District units and Pacific Fleet marine units) began arriving in the Republic of Belarus, which is just north of Ukraine. The official reason is to ‘inspect’ Belarusian forces for readiness, which is expected to take until the end of February. It is in compliance with the Vienna Document of 2011. This is Russian Defense Ministry video, recorded on 25JAN2022, showing the arrival of the 2S1 (it is very quick edit, as the majority of the vehicles were 2S3 which you can see in 2S3 Akatsiya [2C3 Акация], Cold War to Ukraine Border Crisis!):
The Rheinland-Pfalz Impfbus (immunization bus) at U.S. Army Rhine Ordnance Barracks 10DEC2021. Photo by Gina Hutchins-Inman.
On 10DEC2021, the State of Rhienland-Pfalz sent their Impfbus (immunization bus) to the U.S. Army’s Rhine Ordnance Barracks, despite the fact that the Barracks has a 96% vaccination rate: “I really appreciate the German Red Cross and the 21st TSC [Theater Sustainment Command] helping us with this second iteration of the corona vaccination. The garrison has a 96% vaccination rate including service members.”-Daniel Nagel, Garrison Works Council Chairman
U.S. Army photo by Eleanor Prohaska.
On 08DEC2021, U.S. Army and Air Force medical personnel conducted a Booster Rodeo in the city of Kaiserslautern. The so called Victory Medics helped spend U.S. funding to vaccinate approximately 1-thousand-6-hundred people! On top of that, Lieutenant Colonel William Murray reports that the U.S. Army’s Landstuhl Regional Medical Center is vaccinating as many as 1260 people per day!
U.S. Army photo by Corporal Froylan Grimaldo, 13DEC2021.
U.S. Army medics are working in Beaumont Hospital, Dearborn.
The U.S. Army’s Detroit Arsenal began Rapid CoViD-19 Testing on 10DEC2021.
U.S. Army photo by Specialist Ty Baggerly, 09DEC2021.
FEMA deployed the U.S. Army’s 214th Medical Detachment (based on Fort Bliss, Texas) to Covenant Healthcare in Saginaw.
U.S. Army photo by Specialist Ty Baggerly, 06DEC2021.
U.S. Army medics are working at Spectrum Health Blodgett Hospital in Grand Rapids.
Minnesota:
U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Michael H. Lehman, 07DEC2021.
U.S. Air Force medics are working at Hennepin Healthcare, in Minneapolis.
U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Michael H. Lehman, 27NOV2021.
U.S. Air Force medics (wearing non-protective surgical masks, meaning not N95 masks, see more below under New Mexico) arrive at CentraCare St. Cloud Hospital, in Saint Cloud.
Montana:
U.S. Army photo by Sergeant Andre Taylor, 09DEC2021.
U.S. Air Force medics working at Benefis Health System in Great Falls.
U.S. Army photo by Sergeant Andre Taylor, 06DEC2021.
U.S. Navy medics are also deployed to the Billings Clinic Hospital, in Billings.
Montana National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Michael Touchette.
National Guard/U.S. Army Dual Status Commander inspects Providence Saint Patrick’s Hospital in Missoula , 02DEC2021.
New Jersey: On 09DEC2021, the new(?) Burlington County COVID-19 Vaccine Mega-Site was opened, being operated by New Jersey Army National Guard, U.S. Army and Burlington County. Interestingly the military press release states it is a “newly opened” facility, while Burlington County’s website says it is a “reopened” facility. Notice in the photo above that in the widow they’ve posted the phrase “here for good”!
New Mexico:
U.S. Army photo by Specialist Nicholas Goodman, 14DEC2021.
U.S. Navy medical personnel from San Diego, California, are working at San Juan Regional Medical Center in Farmington.
U.S. Army photo by Specialist Nicholas Goodman, 09DEC2021.
An Afghan child refugee gets vaccinated at the Brooke Army Medical Center COVID-19 Vaccine Site, on 03DEC2021, three days before the site was shut down due to lack of demand! U.S. Army photo by Jason W. Edwards.
Despite government/news media ramping up fear mongering over Omicron, on Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston Brooke Army Medical Center switched to vaccinations by appointment only on 06DEC2021. Hospital administrators admitted that the reason for ending the mass-vax operation was due to lack of demand by military personnel, despite being mandated to get the shot!
Also on Joint Base San Antonio, the U.S. Air Force not only ordered the return of mask wearing, but inadvertently revealed that mask wearing is now permanent by issuing guidelines on which color mask to wear with which uniform!
Utah:
U.S. Army photo by Specialist Richard Barnes, 03DEC2021.
The Utah Air National Guard has taken over monoclonal antibody infusions at a Utah Department of Health site in Saint George. Previously, the U.S. Air Force was administering the monoclonal treatments.
Virginia:
U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Corporal Jessica J. Mazzamuto, 09DEC2021.
U.S. Marine Corps Base Quantico continues vaccinating Afghan child refugees.
Washington:
Photo by Sergeant Yesenia Barajas.
On 21NOV2021, the U.S. Navy’s Surgeon General, and other Navy officials, inspected Confluence Health’s Central Washington Hospital in Wenatchee. Navy medical personnel from Florida and Virginia are working in the hospital.
Wisconsin:
U.S. Army photo by Private First Class Caitlin Wilkins.
An Afghan child refugee gets a Pandemic shot on Fort McCoy, 08DEC2021.
I recently got a notice from the car insurance company I use (which is the cheapest I could find) and it stated that my eleven years old used car (I’m the second owner) is now “undervalued” and to meet its new valuation would require an increase to my insurance rate.
I have not been able to afford a new car since 1990, not just because of my income, but because of outrageous insurance rates for new vehicles (Anybody in the U.S. as old as me should remember when industry and government officials promised that making vehicle insurance mandatory would make it cheaper!). The news media wants you to believe that used vehicle prices are skyrocketing because of Pandemic shortages affecting the new vehicle manufacturers, my research shows used car prices started going up years before the Pandemic hit, and insurance rates are more about the switch to artificial intelligence than consumer ‘demand’.
An article published today, by The New Yorker, refers to insurance company Hagerty as reporting that second-hand pickup truck prices have gone up by 50% over the last four years. This is partly because people in the United States can actually make money ‘flipping’ a used pickup truck. Another reason is that old pickup trucks are seen as being easier for the owner to work on, compared to new vehicles which almost require you to take them to an expensive mechanic (some countries, like Germany, made it illegal for you to work on your own vehicle, unless you become a government licensed mechanic with a government inspected shop). This might seem logical for people with limited money who can’t afford to pay a mechanic, but the article makes an ironic point by blaming high-paid computer savvy tech workers for driving the demand for used pickups precisely because they don’t like the new computerized pickups!
In the United Kingdom, a recent article somehow connects the rising number of used car purchases to the rising number of accidents, at least that’s what one insurance company is claiming in order to justify jacking-up insurance rates. What the U.K.’s biggest vehicle insurance company claims is that when a used car gets into an accident it is most likely written-off, or what we call in the U.S. being totaled, due to the cost of repairs exceeding the value of the vehicle. Apparently a vehicle write-off is more expensive in the U.K. than in the U.S.? The insurance company also states that they’ve gone ahead and repaired some crashed vehicles, rather than write them off, because it was actually cheaper to do so. However, the Association of British Insurers claims that overall vehicle insurance rates have actually gone down precisely because there are fewer people driving due to Pandemic lockdowns!
Hind is Middle English for rear end (hind end, hind leg), originating with Old English/Old German. Hind is also the name for female Red Deer who are three years of age or older. Hind is also the name for a type of speckled serranid fish in the Western Atlantic Ocean. Hind is also a word for a peasant/lower class worker.
The crews/countries who operate the Mil 24 have given it their own nicknames, such as Flying Tank, Drinking Glass and Satan’s Chariot.
United States Department of Defense photo by Staff Sergeant Dean Wagner, March 1991.
March 1991, photo by Staff Sergeant Dean Wagner.
U.S. DoD photo by Staff Sergeant Dean Wagner, March 1991.
March 1991, photo by Staff Sergeant Dean Wagner.
March 1991, photo by Staff Sergeant Dean Wagner.
March 1991, photo by Staff Sergeant Dean Wagner.
General Norman Schwarzkopf uses his foot to check-out the pieces & parts of an abandoned Hind. U.S. DoD photo by Staff Sergeant Dean Wagner, March 1991.
The captured Hinds were brought to Rafha Domestic Airport in Saudi Arabia. The airport is near the border with Iraq. Photo by Staff Sergeant Dean Wagner, March 1991.
A different Iraqi Hind, photo by Staff Sergeant Dean Wagner, March 1991.
Retractable nose gear pointing to heaven, all that is left of an Iraqi Hind, March 1991, photo by Sergeant Kimberly Yearyearn.
14 October 2021 (14:10-UTC-07 Tango 06) 22 Mehr 1400/07 Rabi ‘al-Awwal 1443/09 Wu-Xu (9th month) 4719
Incomplete list of videos and links to reports proving your Queen’s English speaking Commonwealth of Nations officials either are idiots, or there is something sinister going on:
30% of pandemic infections involve fully vaccinated and even ‘double vaccinated’ people, vaccinated people are starting to ask why, news media downplays it, health officials are quietly worried that it is a bad sign yet continue to say vaccines are the best choice:
“If you refuse to be vaccinated you’re going to be fired.”-Muneeza Sheikh, employment lawyer
It is looking more and more like the pandemic is just a power grab by a global cabal of control freaks. Incomplete list of videos and links to news reports as of 11 October 2021:
SOUTH AFRICA: Amazingly, despite the pandemic, and the fact that South Africa requires 12 months of ‘community service’ for healthcare workers, thousands of doctors, nurses, and student hygienists, have not been allowed to work!
As of 07OCT2021, several countries have halted the use of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine (known as Spikevax outside the United States) or warned against its use, due to Myocarditis (swelling of the heart) and Pericarditis (swelling of the outer lining of the heart). Here’s a list of links:
In the United States, if you have had, or suspect you’ve had and adverse reaction to a vaccine it is up to you, not your healthcare provider, to report it. Contact the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS).
Incomplete list of links to news reports which should cause you to question the main stream excuse that automotive industry problems are due to pandemic caused computer chip shortages. The biggest proof that it isn’t computer chip shortages, is that electric car sales and production are at record levels, partly because of government mandates and partly because the car makers themselves are shifting to only electric vehicle production! Perhaps the shutdown of combustion engine vehicle production is just a false flag operation to re-tool factories for electric car production?
Electric Viking video report, 200% increase in e-car sales in European Union (EU) despite so called pandemic shortages, also explains how Toyotas’ booming e-car sales in Europe might be the true cause for its halt to combustion car production, also, the EU is banning non-electric cars:
KPIX video report, U.S. Labor Day combustion engine car sales crashed and burned in mandated electric car California, of course ignorantly blamed on computer chip shortage:
KVVU video report, fewer people are looking to buy new cars in Las Vegas, ignorantly blames lack of customers on lack of parts (maybe it’s actually about price?):
The never ending flood of global migrants and refugees, combined with pandemic and comedy-of-errors Afghanistan, has pushed many countries to the edge. Incomplete list of links to news reports as of 10 September 2021:
Data from Gallup proves most migrant workers don’t plan on returning to their country of origin!
WION video report, half-a-dozen countries already issuing ‘third’ doses (some made it mandatory), primarily because the first two doses aren’t working (and probably to make more money for the drug companies), and by the way North Korea rejected a shipment of vaccines saying give it to the poorer countries:
CNBC video interview, ‘booster’ versus ‘third dose’ rhetoric causing confusion even among healthcare workers, resulting in third doses already being issued:
BRDM-2, NOW BEING USED AS TAXIS?
