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China has developed and deployed a high altitude lightweight Type 15 (aka ZTQ-15, VT5) tank to dominate its Tibetan and Uyghur regions.

People’s Liberation Army-Nanjiang Military Command photo by Gao Yang, 09FEB2022.

The Type 15 is equipped with an oxygen generator to prevent crews from developing altitude sickness.

PLA-Nanjiang Military Command photo by Gao Yang, 09FEB2022.

PLA-Nanjiang Military Command photo, October 2021.

It uses an upgraded version of the 105mm L7 gun, originally designed in NATO United Kingdom during the Cold War.

Reportedly, this new 105mm gun is much better than the 105mm gun used on the Type 59 and Type 88 tanks.

Notice the U.S. style antenna/antenna mounts. PLA-Nanjiang Military Command photo by Chen Ming, 27SEP2021.

PLA-Nanjiang Military Command photo by Chen Ming, 27SEP2021.

PLA-Xinjiang Military Command photo by Tang Yayun, 26JUL2021.

PLA-Xinjiang Military Command photo by Tang Yayun, 24MAY2021.

This PLA-Xinjiang Military Command video is about the first deployment of the Type 15 to areas above 4-thousand-3-hundred meters, sometime between 2018 and 2021:

The ZTQ-15/VT5/Type 15 was publicly unveiled during a parade in Tiananmen Square on 01OCT2019.

Vehicle I-D: CHINA STILL USES THE NATO GUNNED TYPE 88 WARSAW PACT BASED TANK

Zombie Tank: CHINA’S TYPE 59D, UPDATED COLD WAR T-54/55, TO LIVE-ON AS A ROBOT TANK?

World War 3: CHINA DEVELOPS/DEPLOYS MILITARY SYSTEMS SPECIFICALLY FOR UYGHUR AUTONOMOUS REGION!

Technology

Vehicle I-D: How does the National Guard go hunting for recruits in Alaska?

Image March 14, 2022 Hutchins AAron

Photo by Benjamin Wilson, 13MAR2022.

The U.S. Army/Marine Corps calls it the Small Unit Support Vehicle (SUSV), an all-terrain Arctic vehicle. It is a NATO Norway made Bandvagn (Bv) 206. Here in the U.S. any tracked vehicle designed for snow is commonly referred to as a Snow Cat (there is even a brand called Sno-Cat).

U.S. Army photo by Major Jason Welch, 13MAR2022.

In March 2022, the U.S. Army’s 1st Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division, borrowed an Alaskan Army National Guard recruiter’s SUSV.

USA photo by Major Jason Welch, 13MAR2022.

Fort Greeley, Alaska, is conducting a multi-national combat readiness wargame called Joint Pacific Readiness Multinational Readiness Center (JPMRC) rotation 22-02.

USA photo by Major Jason Welch, 13MAR2022.

Another Alaskan Army National Guard Bv 206, I mean SUSV, this time in normal colors.

Vehicle I-D: USMC SNO-CATS FLEE California’s SLINK FIRE

Technology

Vehicle I-D: M109, Cold War and beyond

Video March 13, 2022 Hutchins AAron

Cold War: Approximately 1947 (due to U.S. President Harry Truman’s Truman Doctrine) to 1991 (Operation Desert Storm, collapse of Soviet Union).

U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) M109 with short M126 155mm gun, Viet Nam, July 1966. Photo by Captain Edwin W. Besch.

A USMC Major General has the ‘honor’ of launching the 30-thousandth round from a 4th Battalion, 11th Marines, M126 155mm gunned M109, in Viet Nam. USMC photo by Sergeant Upton, 25JUN1967.

Video I edited from the late 1960s U.S. Army’s The Big Picture film to focus on the M109, and a sneak peak at what was then the experimental M109A1 (complete with fake artillery sound effects):

Another video I edited from The Big Picture about the USA 3rd Armored Division in NATO Germany, late 1960s, showing the short barreled M109 (there was no nat-sound, and the narration is terrible so I edited it out):

Silent USA film by ‘Jensen’, M109 action Khe Sanh area, Viet Nam, August 1970:

With the M109A1, the short M126 barrel was replaced with the long M185 cannon. From A1 through A4 series there is no visual difference, the upgrades being internal. If you’ll notice, some photos show a protruding panoramic periscope, while others do not, and it does not matter if it is an A1, A2, A3 or A4. The A5 variant got a more powerful motor, and a new M284 gun of apparently the same length as the M185, visually similar to its predecessors.

A U.S. Army (USA) M109A1 is loaded onto the U.S. Air Force’s (USAF) YC-15, on Yuma Army Proving Grounds, Arizona. The experimental YC-15 helped develop the C-17. Photo by Charles P. Connally, 17DEC1975.

Photo attributed to Bernd Hartmann, Germany 1978.

In the mid-1970s, the U.S. Army (USA) turned a M108/109 into a fake-news ZSU-23-4 for use in the testing of a U.S. Air Force (USAF) ground vehicle identification/targeting program. It was seen again, very briefly, in a ReForGer (Return of Forces to Germany) wargame, where European tank-o-philes speculated that the USA had created a new anti-aircraft tank.

USMC M109s displayed for U.S. Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger, 27JUL1981. USMC photo by Corporal Jarman.

USMC M109, Twentynine Palms, California, November 1981. USMC photo by Sergeant D.D. Smith.

USMC M109 on Twentynine Palms, California, 28APR1982. USMC photo by Staff Sergeant Parker.

A little confused about the location of this photo, the info says it is a ReForGer exercise yet also says it is Fort Riley, Kansas, 1982. USA photo by Sergeant First Class Mcbride.

USMC 2nd Tank Battalion M109 self-propelled artillery in NATO Norway, March 1983. USMC photo by Corporal M.H. Coffey.

NATO Canada M109A1. USA photo by Specialist-5 (aka Spec-5 or Specialist Second Class) Vince E. Warner, 14MAY1983.

In 1984, the U.S. Army (USA) announced it was considering an ‘A5’ upgrade to its M109s, and the creation of a specialized ammo carrier based on the M109’s chassis. There is very little visual difference between the earlier long barreled M109s and the ‘A5’ M109.

Pulling the powerpack from a M109A1, Egypt, 1985. Photo by Dan Mock.

NATO Norway M109 with M126 155mm gun, February 1987. USMC photo by Corporal J.D. Gonzales.

Two M109A1s on a U.S. Navy (USN) landing craft, May 1987. USN photo by Photographer’s Mate Ed Bailey.

The information that came with this photo says it is a USA M109A1, Fort Irwin National Training Center, California, March 1988.

A USA M109 155mm self-propelled artillery gun is offloaded for Operation Desert Shield, sometime in the last quarter of 1990. USA photo by Staff Sergeant Ruark.

Egyptian M109s taking part in Operation Desert Shield, moving through NBC decontamination training lanes, December 1990. U.S. Air Force photo credited to Technical Sergeant H. H. Deffner.

USA M109A2, Fort Huachuca, Arizona. The odd shaped thing on the bow of the M109A2 is an experimental anti-tank-mine device. Photo by Lynn S. Beltran, January 1991.

Post Cold War, 1992 to present:

USA M109 of C Battery, 1st Battalion, 41st Field Artillery, in Somalia as part of a UN peacekeeping mission. USA photo by Specialist Gary A. Bryant, 27DEC1993.

USA M109A3 (according to the info that came with the photo) live-fire training in Kuwait, 25OCT1994. USA photo by Specialist Moses M. Mlasko.

M109 based in Butzbach, Germany, loaded onto rail flat-cars (railhead operation), 28DEC1995. USA photo by Staff Sergeant Arthur Mitchum.

Supposedly the first A6 Paladin upgrades entered service with the USA starting in 1994. The Paladin has noticeable visual differences regarding the turret, gun mantlet and gun travel-lock.

USA M992 ammo carrier reloads a M109, Bosnia and Herzegovina. USA photo by Sergeant Alejandro Francisco, 06APR1996.

A muddy USA M109A2 (according to the info that came with the photo), Bosnia and Herzegovina, 22APR1996. USA photo by Specialist Glenn W. Suggs.

NATO Italy’s M109L in Bosnia and Herzegovina, June 1996. Notice the rear view mirrors for the driver. USA photo by Sergeant Brian Gavin.

The M109L also has a barrel sleeve between the bore evacuator and the mantlet. The M109L gun is designed and built in Italy, with different shaped muzzle brake and bore evacuator. USA photo by Sergeant Brian Gavin, June 1996.

The M109L also has NATO European smoke grenade launchers. USA photo by Sergeant Brian Gavin, June 1996.

USA’s Alpha Battery, 1st Battalion, 6th Field Artillery, 1st Infantry Division (Mechanized), change track on their M109, in Bosnia and Herzegovina. USA photo by Private First Class Michelle Labriel, 31JUL1997.

Checking out the 1-148 FA’s boom-boom, Summer 1997. Photo by Sergeant AAron B. Hutchins.

My children checking out the 1-148 Field Artillery’s M109, Pocatello, Idaho.

In the late 1990s, I was a 13F for Idaho Army National Guard’s 1-148 FA.

‘My’ M981A3 FiSTV (artillery forward observer M113), on Idaho’s Orchard Training Area (now called Orchard Combat Training Center), Summer 1997.

M109A6 Paladin, Fort Stewart, Georgia, November 1997. Photo by Don Teft.

M109 of Bravo Battery, 2d Battalion, 3d Field Artillery Regiment, USA, in Bosnia and Herzegovina. USA photo by Private First Class Joel C. Miller, 27MAR1998.

Amazingly, this obvious M109A6 Paladin was listed by ‘officials’ as an M109A2!!! In fact, a whole series of photos showing Fort Carson, Colorado, M109A6 Paladins are listed as M109A2s! Also, notice this Paladin has a Mark-19 40mm grenade launcher in place of the usual M2 HB .50-cal machine gun. The A6 has a new turret, gun mantlet and even new style gun travel lock. Photo by Michael Knapik, 22JUN1999.

M109A6 Paladin, Fort McCoy, Wisconsin, April 2001. Photo by Anita Johnson.

NATO Spain M109A5, El Omayed, Egypt. USAF photo by Senior Airman D. Myles Cullen, 20OCT2001.

Global War on Terror, approximately September 2001 (based on speeches by U.S. President Bush) to 23MAY2013 (based on speech by U.S. President Obama).

USA M109A6 Paladin heading towards the Euphrates River, Iraq. USMC photo by Lance Corporal Andrew P. Roufs, 23MAR2003.

Utah Army National Guard’s 2nd Battalion, 222nd Field Artillery M109A6 Paladin, Dugway Proving Grounds, Utah. USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Michael Rice, 12JUN2004.

USA M109A6 Paladin, launches rounds with its turret facing to the rear, in Balad, Iraq. An M992 is standing by with more food. USA photo by Matt Acosta, 28AUG2005.

Egyptian M109. USMC photo by Corporal Chad H. Leddy, 13SEP2005.

Egyptian M109 Self Propelled Howitzer, September 2005, photo by U.S. Army Sergeant Alejandro Licea.

Near Peer Threats and Russo-Ukraine War, 2014 to present.

Idaho Army National Guard 1-148 Field Artillery’s M109A6 Paladin, Pocatello Airport air show. Photo by AAron B. Hutchins, 2014.

POKEY AIRPORT, IDAHO ARMY NATIONAL GUARD M109A6

New Jersey Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Andrew J. Moseley, 02MAR2017.

In 2017, the New Jersey Air National Guard used the U.S. Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Reutilization Transfer Donation program to get this M109 for its Warren Grove Bombing Range.

NATO video of NATO Norway M109A6 Paladins conducting fire mission training, video posted 26OCT2018 (no audio with the drone video, but audio with the cool close-up/crew compartment video):

Latvian National Armed Forces M109A5. Canadian Armed Forces photo by Aviator Jérôme Lessard, 15NOV2018.

NATO Vehicle I-D: LATVISKI M109A5Ö (THE Ö IS FOR ÖSTERREICH)

By 2019, a new, so called, M109 began arriving for duty with the U.S. Army (USA). In 2021, Army National Guard units began getting their new ‘M109s’. Many military armchair ‘experts’ who get paid to write articles for military themed journals call the ‘A7’ an “upgrade” of the A6. I do not consider the new M109A7 Paladin to be an ‘upgrade’, nor do I consider it to be a true M109 as it uses a completely new hull/chassis that is based on the M2 Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicle, as well as a completely new gun system.

Even in 2021, U.S. Department of Defense media personnel still get it wrong! This video, posted on 09JUN2021, shows Royal Moroccan M109s, obviously the A1 through A5 type, yet it was labeled as “Royal Moroccan Armed Forces Paladin” (the A6 is the true Paladin). U.S. Army video by Second Lieutenant Catherine Framstad:

USA’s 1st Battalion, 82nd Field Artillery Regiment, launching rounds with their M109A6 Paladin in NATO Poland, 20MAY2021. Video by Master Sergeant Ryan Matson:

Pennsylvania Army National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant Zane Craig, 10MAY2022.

Pennsylvania Army National Guard drive away from a Army Prepositioned Stock (APS) in Europe, heading to Lithuania in M109A6 Paladins, M992A2 Field Artillery Ammunition Supply Vehicles, and M572 Armored Mortar Carriers, 10MAY2022.

Biden’s War 2021: IDAHO’s 1-148 FA GETS ‘SMART’ ARTILLERY ROUNDS, REVEALS “UPCOMING MOBILIZATIONS”

A 1-148th FA M109A6 Paladin self propelled artillery system freezing to death in Pocatello, Idaho.

Cold War era M109A5 SP-gun. 1-148th FA, Pocatello, Idaho.

TANKS FOR THE MEMORIES

NATO Vehicle I-D:

Turkey’s T-155 Firtina (Tempest)

Vehicle I-D: FINLAND’S SP GUNS 155 PSH K9 & 122 PSH 74

2S1, FROM COLD WAR TO UKRAINIAN BORDER CRISIS!

2S3 AKATSIYA (2C3 АКАЦИЯ), COLD WAR TO UKRAINE BORDER CRISIS!

Idaho, International, Technology

Cyber-Dome: Idaho joins Israel in new global cyber dominance operation?

March 11, 2022 Hutchins AAron

11 March 2022 (16:05-UTC-07 Tango 06) 20 Esfand 1400/07 Sha’ban 1443/09 Gui Mao 4720

“The cybersecurity market has evolved rapidly since the beginning of the pandemic, especially when it comes to identifying and developing talented cybersecurity personnel, and providing them an environment where they can make an impact, be challenged and feel successful.”-Edward Vasko, Boise State University’s Institute for Pervasive Cybersecurity

On 02MAR2022, Idaho’s Boise State University (BSU) announced their Cyberdome program was up and running. BSU’s Institute for Pervasive Cybersecurity is using the Open XDR Platform created by a company called Stellar Cyber (interview with co-founder of Steller Cyber, who blames Pandemic fearmongering mandates for the sudden skyrocketing use of Cyber Domes). The official reason for this Cyberdome program is to provide rural areas with cyber security, but the program will also offer ‘free’ (state taxpayer funded) cyber security to more than 750 state taxpayer funded agencies (Idaho instituted a federal taxpayer funded Department of Defense cybersecurity operation through its National Guard several years ago and it does not have a good track record of halting cyber crimes).

(Boise State welcomes local governments to the ‘Cyberdome’)

BSU’s Cyberdome operation will be staffed by students, and supposedly is funded by grant money, at least until 2024 or 2025. In July 2021, the Idaho Global Entrepreneurial Mission’s Higher Education Research Council granted BSU $700-thousand per year for at least three years, to create and operate a Cyberdome program. Idaho Global Entrepreneurial Mission is part of the Higher Education Research Council, which in turn is part of the state taxpayer funded Idaho Board of Education. The ‘grant money’ comes from taxpayers.

Israeli Maj. Gen. Lior Carmeli, (left) chief Joint Cyber Defense Directorate (JCDD), Israel Defense Forces, shakes hands with U.S. Army Maj. Gen. William J. Hartman (right), commander, Cyber National Mission Force. U.S. Cyber Command photo by Chief Petty Officer Jon Dasbach, 16DEC2021.

Maybe it is a coincidence, but in December 2021 the U.S. Cyber Command, and Israel’s Joint Cyber Defense Division, conducted joint CyberDome operations within the U.S., for the sixth time! According to The Times of Israel, just weeks before the 2021 joint operation with the U.S., Israel’s Joint Cyber Defense Division also conducted a CyberDome operation that involved ‘simulated’ cyber attacks against the financial institutions of ten countries!

It turns out there are Cyberdome operations everywhere, some presented as government operations, some as private sector operations, there’s even a non-profit Cyberdome led by former U.S. Department of Homeland Security officials that helps ‘protect’ politicians in the United States (it’s called US CyberDome)!

United Arab Emirates based ISnSC claims to have an autonomous Cyber Dome, which can integrate with XDR.

Finland based Nokia has an 5G XDR they call NetGuard Cybersecurity Dome.

There is a CyberDome operation in the African country of Nigeria, and it turns out it is the same CyberDome operation based in Israel!

Bynet Communications in Israel, claims it designed CyberDome. But as you’ll see below, another Israeli company also makes that claim.

In the country of India, the Kerala Police have their own ‘joint’ private/public funded Cyberdome operation.

Israeli Cyber-Dome is the developer of the security add-on Magen. Magen is a security layer that claims to lower the risk of being spied on or having personal data stolen.

Jewish Press 2019: Israel and US Prepare to Combat Hackers

Rafael Advanced Defense Systems 2017: Israeli defense company Rafael is directly involved with helping create CyberDome.

Financial Martial Law: BIDEN ISSUES ORDER TO SHUTDOWN ‘FOREIGN’ CRYPTOCURRENCIES, PROTECT TOP CURRENCY STATUS FOR UNITED STATES!

2021: ISRAELI IRON DOME MISSILE SYSTEM DEPLOYED WITHIN UNITED STATES!

U.S. immigrant invasion 2019: HUMAN TRAFFICKING ISRAELIS CAUGHT SCAMMING U.S. TAXPAYERS!

2015: BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY WELCOMES BRAVE NEW WORLD ORDER WITH NEO-FASCIST-NAZI MAKEOVER! COME BURN BOOKS AT THE FEET OF THE ALL POWERFUL -B- MEGALITH!

Business/Economics, Technology, U.S.

Financial Martial Law: Biden issues Order to shutdown ‘foreign’ cryptocurrencies, protect top currency status for United States!

March 11, 2022 Hutchins AAron

11 March 2022 (09:52-UTC-07 Tango 06) 20 Esfand 1400/07 Sha’ban 1443/09 Gui Mao 4720

I’m amazed how many lovers of cryptocurrencies, and ignorant main stream news sources, are applauding U.S. President Joe Biden’s latest executive order. The Devil is in the details, and the details do not say the U.S. is going to accept privately generated cryptocurrencies!

To make it quick, Biden’s order gives numerous government officials 180 days to present him with what they think will benefit the U.S., and what is a threat to the U.S. The focus of the order is on all aspects of U.S. National Security. Primarily it is about stopping “…foreign CBDCs…” from usurping “…existing currencies and alter the payment system in ways that could undermine United States financial centrality…”

If there is going to be any U.S. backed cryptocurrency it is going to be one that is created by the U.S. government: “….to develop a strategic plan for Federal Reserve and broader United States Government action, as appropriate, that evaluates the necessary steps and requirements for the potential implementation and launch of a United States CBDC.”

Read the complicated Executive Order for yourself: Executive Order on Ensuring Responsible Development of Digital Assets

Financial Martial Law: Canada seizes assets of protesters, including cryptocurrencies!!!

U.S. ARMY’S ‘NEW’ COUNTER THREAT FINANCE OPERATIONS! NO MORE SPECIAL FORCES? They’re coming for your bitcoin!

Terminator: NATO GOES TO WAR, CYBER ATTACKS JUSTIFY ARTICLE 5!

BRITISH EMPIRE & U.S. SPACE FORCE, ‘ALLIED BY DESIGN’?

Destroy U.S. Dollar, 2017: U.S. PUPPET MASTER ISRAEL TO CREATE DIGITAL MONEY!

Obama Legacy: ILLEGAL CYBER-POLICE OPS SKYROCKET!

IDAHO JOINS Department of Defense’s CYBER SQUADRON OF THE FUTURE

UNITED STATES EXPANDING CYBER ATTACK OPERATIONS

LESSONS FOR THE OCCUPY MOVEMENT FROM THE EGYPTIAN JANUARY 2011 REVOLUTION: #2 CYBERSPACE DOES NOT WIN REVOLUTIONS!

International

World War 3: Russia digs in, flies old Soviet flag! Deploying its newest weapon systems into Donbas/Kiev Ukraine!

Video March 9, 2022 Hutchins AAron

T-72B3 flying the old flag of the U.S.S.R.! Near the village of Rybinskoye. Notice this vehicle is marked with an ‘O’.

Perhaps because of the capture of documents revealing a massive offensive against Russia, Russia is now flooding the Donbas and Kiev Areas of Operations (AO) with more and newer military equipment. What I found interesting is that one of the videos shows Russian BMP-2s carrying old Soviet Union flags!

This ‘V’ marked tank is the latest T-90M.

I think the ‘V’ indicates Kiev AO. Posted 09MAR2022, masses of BMP-2s, T-72B3s, BM-21 Grads, 2S3s:

‘V’ marked T-72B3.

Posted 07MAR2022, ‘V’ marked support vehicles pour into Kiev AO, Ukraine:

Posted on 06MAR2022, ‘V’ marked BMD-2s, T-72s, MTLBs:

‘V’ marked T-90M and BMP-2:

In the Donbas AO, ‘Z’ marked newer military gear is coming in. I think the ‘Z’ is from a new Russo-Ukrainian word ZaНАШИХ, or За НАШИХ (ZaNASHIKH), which means For Ours. This is a way of saying the Donbas area is Russian. It could also mean For Victory, which is Зa ПОБЕДУ, or ZaПОБЕДУ (ZaPOBEDU).

Armored train.

An Armored train was used to evacuate foreign civilians from Kherson Oblast of Ukraine to the city of Armyansk of the Republic of Crimea. The ‘silly-vilians’ are from Turkey, Ukraine, Egypt, Azerbaijan, Pakistan, Sweden, Italy, Brazil, Morocco and India.

BM-27 rocket launcher.

Donbas AO. Posted 08MAR2022, 2S19-M2 Msta-S and 2B26 (‘grad’ rockets on a Kamaz 5350 truck?):

‘Z’ marked Kamov 52 double rotary wing gunship in action, posted 09MAR2022:

World War 3: RUSSIA HAS PROOF BIDEN/NATO/UKRAINE PLANS TO ATTACK RUSSIA! PLANS ARE DATED JANUARY 2022!

WAR IN UKRAINE TO START IN MARCH? U.S. ARMY OFFERS BIG BONUS TO RECRUITS WHO CAN SHIP-OUT QUICK! IT’S ALL ABOUT THE GAS!

International

Russia has proof Biden/NATO/Ukraine plans to attack Russia! Plans are dated January 2022!

March 9, 2022 Hutchins AAron

Back in February I warned that there was evidence that Biden/NATO/Ukraine was going to start a full-on war with Russia in March. On 09MAR2022, Russia announced that its soldiers captured Ukrainian National Guard documents that revealed that there is a massive offensive planned against Russia, to start in March! The plans are dated 22JAN2022!

Biden’s War, February 2022: WAR IN UKRAINE TO START IN MARCH? U.S. ARMY OFFERS BIG BONUS TO RECRUITS WHO CAN SHIP-OUT QUICK! IT’S ALL ABOUT THE GAS!

Operation Jupiter: EVIDENCE CAPTURED IN UKRAINE REVEALS MASSIVE U.S. LED GLOBAL BIOLOGICAL WARFARE OP! I’VE BEEN WARNING ABOUT THIS SINCE 2015!

Technology

Cold War to Ukraine Crisis, Vehicle I-D: MTLB, used by U.S., NATO, and still used by Russia!

Image March 9, 2022 Hutchins AAron

Cold War: Approximately 1947 (due to U.S. President Harry Truman’s Truman Doctrine) to 1991 (Operation Desert Storm, collapse of Soviet Union).

The MTLB is a direct descendant of the PT-76 amphibious tank, as is the BTR-50, ASU-85, ZSU-23-4, and the 1S91 SURN-2K12 Kub antiaircraft missile system. However, all those other PT-76 relatives are rear engine/rear drive, the MTLB is mid-engine/front drive.

Photo dated March 1983, no other information.

The later MTLBu (also called M1976 by U.S./NATO) artillery command tank (mid-engine/front drive), 2S1 SP gun (front engine/front drive), and UR-77 (2S1 chassis) are based on a stretched MTLB chassis (with seven roadwheels instead of six, per side). The even later BMP-23 is based on the 2S1 chassis.

Photo I took one California National Guard drill weekend on NTC, California, in 1984. There were about a dozen MTLBs working with OpFor.

For some reason, NATO likes to add a dash between MT and LB, I have not found this to be the case with Russian sources. The MTLB comes from the Latinized Russian nomenclature; Mnogotselevoy Tyagach Legky Bronirovanny. In Russian Cyrillic it is Многоцелевой Тягач Легкий Бронированный, МТЛБ which is MTLB. In English it means Multipurpose Tractor Light Armored (MTLA). Light armored is for sure, I’ve checked out the MTLBs on Fort Irwin and the armor is so thin that I would not be surprised if 12.7mm (.50 cal) ball ammo could make Swiss cheese out of it.

Photo my father took of MTLB engineer vehicle at USAF air show in California, Summer 1986.

One of my Cold War era books on Soviet vehicles claims the MTLB was an armored version of the MTL (this claim is currently also being made by a internet ‘encyclopedia’). I haven’t found anything about an MTL, what I found is that the predecessor of the MTLB was the ATP, which has no relation to the PT-76 or MTLB. It’s not the first time NATO/U.S. was wrong about anything Soviet (COLD WAR BOATS: MOSKVA CLASS SUBMARINE HUNTERS, STOP CALLING THEM AIRCRAFT CARRIERS!).

During the Cold War, the U.S. Air Force managed to get their own Soviet MTLB. This one was seen on Bolling Air Force Base (now Joint Base Anacostia–Bolling), Washington DC. Photo by Don S. Montgomery, October 1986.

Photo by Don S. Montgomery, October 1986.

U.S. Army Opposition Forces (OpFor) MTLB on Fort Irwin National Training Center (NTC), California, 31MAR1988.

Anti-aircraft MTLB Strela from one of the last parades under the Soviet Union, November 1989.

An Iraqi MTLB damaged during the last battle of the Cold War; Desert Storm, March 1991. Photo by Staff Sergeant Dean W. Wagner.

U.S. Marines test drive a captured Iraqi MTLB during Desert Storm. Photo by Chief Warrant Officer-4 J.M. Rodriguez, February 1991.

Since the end of the unofficial Cold War, the MTLB has been continually modified by the many countries that still use it.

Several years after the end of the unofficial Cold War, the U.S. Marine Corps was using MTLBs in wargame Kernel Blitz ’97. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Corporal Timothy J. Reynolds, 21JUN1997.

USMC MTLBs, June 1997. USMC photo by Gunnery Sergeant Daniel Mobley.

See more here: SOVIET ARMOR OF THE U.S. MARINE CORPS

A USA (U.S. Army) AH-64 Apache versus a USA MTLB armed with Strela antiaircraft missiles (NATO reporting name Gopher missiles) during an All Service Combat Identification Evaluation Test (ASCIET), on Fort Stewart, Georgia, March 1999.

The remains of another Iraqi MTLB, but this time it is 2003, and it is a ZSU-23-2 antiaircraft gun version. USMC photo by Lance Corporal Jennifer A. Krusen, 11APR2003.

An Iraqi MTLB, near that infamous prison, 11MAY2005. Notice the use of wide ‘snow’ tracks. U.S. Army photo by Specialist Ronald Shaw.

See more of Iraqi MTLB in IRAQI ARMOR, AFTER THE INVASION.

Ukrainian MTLB towing artillery into the disputed Donbas area, sometime in 2015.

Bulgarian MTLB mortar track. U.S. Marine Corps Photo by Corporal Justin T. Updegraff, 07JAN2016.

See video of Bulgarian MTLB mortar tracks launching rounds in SOVIET ERA ARMOR USED BY NATO: BULGARIA, PLUS THE BULGARIAN BMP-23.

Russian Northern Fleet photo of artic MTLB (notice wider snow tracks), dated March 2016.

Pink camo MTLB mortar carrier, during artillery competition in Kazakhstan. Photo dated April 2017.

Convoy of artillery towing Ukrainian MTLB, sometime in 2018.

April 2018, Ukraine shows off its new MTLB ambulances to the public.

Finnish MTLB during wargame Arrow 18, on Pohjankangas Training Area near Kankaanpaa, Finland, 18MAY2018. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sergeant Averi Coppa.

Polish MTLB, NATO’s Forward Presence Battle Group Latvia, during Operation Reassurance at Camp Ādaži, Latvia, 26JUL2018. Photo via Canadian Armed Forces.

Bulgarian Army MTLB during NATO Exercise Platinum Lion. North Carolina Army National Guard photo by Sergeant Jamar Marcel Pugh, 02AUG2018.

Video from Kazakhstan, 2021‘s International Army Games-Masters of Artillery Fire competition, showing the Russian team’s MTLB mortar carrier action:

September 2021, Russian Black Sea Fleet MTLB-9A35 launch their 9K35 Strela-10 (NATO reporting name SA-13 Gopher) missiles:

‘Z’ marked MTLB, Donbas AO, end of February 2022.

Russian MTLB in the Donbas Area of Operation, March 2022.

An abandoned/captured Ukrainian specialized MTLB, March 2022.

The 2S1 self propelled artillery gun is based on a stretched MTLB chassis:

2S1, FROM COLD WAR TO UKRAINIAN BORDER CRISIS!

NATO Bulgaria’s BMP-23 is based on the 2S1 chassis: BULGARIAN SOVIET ARMOR, PLUS THE BULGARIAN BMP-23

Cold War Vehicle I-D: BRDM-2, NOW BEING USED AS TAXIS?

IDAHO’S 1:1 SCALE FAKE NEWS RUSSIAN MTLB BASED 1S91 SURN TANK

RUSSIA INVADES FLORIDA with 2K12 KUB

Influenza

Operation Jupiter: Evidence captured in Ukraine reveals massive U.S. led global biological warfare op! I’ve been warning about this since 2015!

Video March 7, 2022 Hutchins AAron

07 March 2022 (14:48-UTC-07 Tango 06) 16 Esfand 1400/03 Sha’ban 1443/05 Gui Mao 4720

Russia claims to have damning evidence the U.S. was using Ukraine for biological warfare experiments in at least thirty Ukrainian biological laboratories. It is yet more evidence of a massive global biological warfare program commanded by the U.S. Army’s Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), that I’ve been reporting since 2015, when I discovered a U.S. military operation called JUPITR ATD. Russia also accuses NATO members like Germany and Poland, and the NATO protectorate Georgia, of being involved in Ukrainian biologic experiments.

In this Russian Ministry of the Defense of Russia video, posted 07MAR2022, it was also discovered that DTRA ops in Ukraine ramped up in 2014 (after the pro-NATO ‘revolution’) and that since then there have been outbreaks of numerous diseases in Ukraine, to the point the United Nations’ World Health Organization (UN-WHO) says you don’t want to go there. Russia says the U.S. biological experiments violates international law and is a war crime: