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World War 3: Iran’s ‘Kamikaze’ Drones?

01 November 2022 (01:19-UTC-07 Tango 06) 10 Aban 1401/06 Rabi ‘ath-Thani 1444/08 Xin-Hai 4720/01 ноября 2022 года

This year there is a lot of talk in the Western-NATO news media about Iranian ‘Kamikaze’ drones (UAV, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) being used by Russia.  Maybe it is because in March of this year, Iran actually revealed what their own news media calls Kamikaze drones.

Photo via Tasnim News Agency, 06MAR2022.

The actual official name of these UAVs is Me’raj-504.  Me’raj means ‘ascension’, not Kamikaze.  It was designed for the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), it is considered an upgrade of the Me’raj-214 UAV.  They are used specifically to target air defense systems.  The Me’raj-504 can carry a bomb with up to an equivalent explosive force of 2.5kg of TNT over a 100-kilometers flightpath.

The biggest advancements in the new design is a great reduction in cost, and time, to build.

The problem I have with the use of the word Kamikaze is that it is totally psychological on both the Western-NATO governments/news media, and Iran’s news media.  The official meaning of Kamikaze is ‘Divine Wind’, coming from two failed attempts by the Mongol Empire to invade Japan.  Both times a typhoon struck just as the Mongol ships arrived off Japan, destroying them. Thus it was divine intervention using the wind.

However, ever since the end of World War Two, the Western world associates Kamikaze with suicide.  In desperation, during the last couple years of the war, Japan formed a suicide squadron; pilots who were trained to deliberately use their aircraft as bombs. They were officially called Kamikaze as in a Divine Wind to save Japan, but the victorious Western allies took it to mean suicide.

U.S. Navy (USN) silent film, made between 1944 and 1945, shows a Kamikaze just missing a U.S. battleship, and then striking the side of an aircraft carrier. The USN likes to boast that no Kamikaze succeeded in sinking a ‘major’ U.S. ship:

Perhaps the Iranian news media is using Kamikaze in the Divine Wind sense? The Western-NATO news media is certainly using it in the suicide-terrorist sense.

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Florida Talons over Idaho Mountains

U.S. Air Force photo by Technical Sergeant Betty R. Chevalier, 14SEP2022.

Is Winter coming early in the Northern Hemisphere? In September 2022, Talons from Atlantic Southeast Florida decided to migrate to Pacific Northwest Idaho.

U.S. Air Force photo by Technical Sergeant Betty R. Chevalier, 12SEP2022.

The U.S. Air Force’s (USAF) 2d Fighter Training Squadron is based on Tyndall Air Force Base (AFB), in Florida.  From the 12th through to the 23rd, of September, the 3rd Generation T-38 Talons flew around Idaho, helping the USAF teach its youngest bird, the 5th Generation F-35A Lightning-2 (which had also flown north from Luke AFB, Arizona), how to fly.

USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Betty R. Chevalier, 12SEP2022.

The airspace over Mountain Home AFB, Idaho, is known as Gunfighter Country. USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Betty R. Chevalier, 16SEP2022.

USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Betty R. Chevalier, 14SEP2022.

According to Captain Ryan ‘Joker’ McCooey, of the 61st Fighter Squadron’s B-Flight, the training over Mountain Home AFB is the final schooling of a long F-35 program taught mainly on Luke AFB: “At the end of their six-to-eight month basic course, students put together all the building blocks we have taught them throughout the course into these Capstone rides where they do both air-to-air and air-to-ground [tactics] during the same sortie. They get to practice all the things we taught them in a large force exercise, integrating with different assets that we don’t always have the ability to do at Luke.”

USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Betty R. Chevalier, 16SEP2022.

Final F-35 training is usually done over Mountain Home AFB, against the F-15E Strike Eagle, but I believe this is the first time the T-38 Talon was involved.

USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Betty R. Chevalier, 12SEP2022.

While over Idaho, the Florida Talons play the ‘bad guy’ (Red Air) against the Arizona Lightning-2s.  Playing the bad guy has been the forte of the T-38 trainer for decades, all the way back to the days of the non-declared, non-official, Cold War.

USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Betty R. Chevalier, 12SEP2022.

USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Betty R. Chevalier, 13SEP2022.

While launching from Mountain Home AFB, Idaho, the T-38 Talons helped qualify six F-35A pilots, and help upgrade the qualifications of four other pilots to instructor status.

3rd generation T-38 and a 5th Generation F-35A. USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Betty R. Chevalier, 16SEP2022.

USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Betty R. Chevalier, 13SEP2022.

The concept of aircraft generations was started by U.S. air historian Richard P. Hallion, back in the 1990s, but it wasn’t until Russia adopted the concept that it became standard in the United States (apparently it was Russia who first referred to the USAF F-22 Raptor as a 5th Generation fighter).

USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Betty R. Chevalier, 12SEP2022.

In April 2019, the Northrop T-38 Talon celebrated 60 years of service!

USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Betty R. Chevalier, 13SEP2022.

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Cold War to Ukraine Crisis & Beyond: Antonov 2 Biplane, the most practical aircraft ever?

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.

It was Oleg Konstantinovich Antonov’s first aircraft design through his new independent Antonov Design Bureau.  It is a utility aircraft, originally meant as a crop duster/agricultural aircraft, and originally known as Sel’sko−Hoziaystvenniy samoliot (literally Agricultural Aircraft).  Mass production of the An-2 Maize actually began in a factory in Ukraine, in 1948.  In 1952, O.K. Antonov moved his design bureau operations/headquarters from Russia to Ukraine, where it is now known as 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?: 

USMC photo by Corporal Nathan Wicks, 02AUG2016.

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WW3 Vehicle I-D: Su-75, The Checkmate, will they or won’t they?

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.

Rostec photo, 2021.

World War Three, Vehicle I-D: SUKHOI 57/T-50 PAK, PRODUCTION OF THE CONVICT (FELON) RAMPS UP!

World War 3 Vehicle I-D: Sukhoi 57/T-50 PAK, production of The Convict (Felon) ramps up!

Su-57 (Су-57), NATO reporting name Felon.

United Aircraft Corporation photo.

KnAAZ photo.

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).

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Тема моего выступления – ситуация на Донбассе и ход специальной военной операции по его освобождению от неонацистского режима, захватившего власть на Украине в 2014 году в результате вооружённого государственного переворота.

Обращаюсь сегодня к вам, ко всем гражданам нашей страны, к людям разных поколений, возраста и национальности, к народу нашей великой Родины, ко всем, кого объединяет большая историческая Россия, к солдатам и офицерам, добровольцам, которые сейчас сражаются на передовой, находятся на боевом посту, к нашим братьям и сёстрам – жителям Донецкой и Луганской народных республик, Херсонской и Запорожской областей, других освобождённых от неонацистского режима районов.

Речь пойдёт о необходимых, неотложных шагах по защите суверенитета, безопасности и территориальной целостности России, о поддержке стремления и воли наших соотечественников самим определять своё будущее и об агрессивной политике части западных элит, которые всеми силами стремятся сохранить своё господство, а для этого пытаются блокировать, подавить любые суверенные самостоятельные центры развития, чтобы и дальше грубо навязывать другим странам и народам свою волю, насаждать свои псевдоценности.

Цель этого Запада – ослабить, разобщить и уничтожить в конечном итоге нашу страну. Они уже прямо говорят о том, что в 1991 году смогли расколоть Советский Союз, а сейчас пришло время и самой России, что она должна распасться на множество смертельно враждующих между собой регионов и областей.

И такие планы они вынашивают давно. Они поощряли банды международных террористов на Кавказе, продвигали наступательную инфраструктуру НАТО вплотную к нашим границам. Они сделали своим оружием тотальную русофобию, в том числе десятилетиями целенаправленно взращивали ненависть к России, прежде всего на Украине, которой они готовили участь антироссийского плацдарма, а сам украинский народ превратили в пушечное мясо и толкнули на войну с нашей страной, развязав её, эту войну, ещё в 2014 году, используя вооружённые силы против гражданского населения, организовав геноцид, блокаду, террор в отношении людей, которые отказались признать власть, возникшую на Украине в результате госпереворота.

А после того, как сегодняшний киевский режим фактически публично отказался от мирного решения проблемы Донбасса и, более того, заявил о своих притязаниях на ядерное оружие, стало абсолютно ясно, что новое, очередное, как это уже было прежде дважды, крупномасштабное наступление на Донбасс неизбежно. А затем так же неизбежно последовала бы и атака на российский Крым – на Россию.

В этой связи решение об упреждающей военной операции было абсолютно необходимым и единственно возможным. Её главные цели – освобождение всей территории Донбасса – были и остаются неизменными.

Луганская Народная Республика уже практически полностью очищена от неонацистов. Бои в Донецкой Народной Республике продолжаются. Здесь за восемь лет киевский оккупационный режим создал глубоко эшелонированную линию долговременных укреплений. Их штурм в лоб обернулся бы тяжёлыми потерями, поэтому наши части, а также воинские подразделения республик Донбасса действуют планомерно, грамотно, используют технику, берегут личный состав и шаг за шагом освобождают донецкую землю, очищают от неонацистов города и посёлки, оказывают помощь людям, которых киевский режим превратил в заложников, в живой щит.

Как вы знаете, в специальной военной операции принимают участие профессиональные военнослужащие, проходящие службу по контракту. Плечом к плечу вместе с ними сражаются и добровольческие формирования: люди разных национальностей, профессий, возрастов – настоящие патриоты. Они по зову сердца встали на защиту России и Донбасса.

В связи с этим Правительству, Министерству обороны мною уже были даны поручения в полном объёме и в кратчайший срок определить правовой статус добровольцев, а также бойцов подразделений Донецкой и Луганской народных республик. Он должен быть таким же, как и у кадровых военнослужащих российской армии, включая материальное, медицинское обеспечение, социальные гарантии. Особое внимание должно быть уделено организации снабжения добровольческих формирований и отрядов народной милиции Донбасса техникой и снаряжением.

В ходе решения главных задач по защите Донбасса наши войска, исходя из планов и решений Министерства обороны и Генерального штаба по общей стратегии действий, освободили от неонацистов и значительные территории Херсонской и Запорожской областей, ряд некоторых других районов. В результате чего образовалась протяжённая линия боевого соприкосновения, которая составляет свыше тысячи километров.

О чём хочу сегодня впервые сказать публично? Уже после начала специальной военной операции, в том числе переговоров в Стамбуле, представители Киева реагировали на наши предложения весьма позитивно, и эти предложения прежде всего касались обеспечения безопасности России, наших интересов. Но очевидно, что мирное решение не устраивало Запад, поэтому после достижения определённых компромиссов Киеву фактически было дано прямое указание сорвать все договорённости.

Украину стали ещё больше накачивать оружием. Киевский режим пустил в ход новые банды иностранных наёмников и националистов, воинские части, обученные по стандартам НАТО и под фактическим командованием западных советников.

Одновременно самым жёстким образом был усилен режим репрессий по всей Украине в отношении своих собственных граждан, установленный сразу после вооружённого переворота 2014 года. Политика запугивания, террора, насилия принимает всё более массовые, страшные, варварские формы.

Хочу подчеркнуть: мы знаем, что большинство людей, живущих на освобождённых от неонацистов территориях, а это прежде всего исторические земли Новороссии, не хотят оказаться под игом неонацистского режима. В Запорожье, на Херсонщине, в Луганске и Донецке видели и видят те зверства, которые творят неонацисты в захваченных районах Харьковской области. Наследники бандеровцев и нацистских карателей убивают людей, пытают, бросают в тюрьмы, сводят счёты, расправляются, измываются над мирными гражданами.

В Донецкой и Луганской народных республиках, Запорожской и Херсонской областях до начала боевых действий проживало более семи с половиной миллионов человек. Многие из них вынуждены были стать беженцами, покинуть родной дом. А те, кто остался, – это порядка пяти миллионов человек – сегодня подвергаются постоянным артиллерийским и ракетным обстрелам со стороны неонацистских боевиков. Они бьют по больницам и школам, устраивают террористические акты против мирных жителей.

Мы не можем, не имеем никакого морального права отдать близких нам людей на растерзание палачам, не можем не откликнуться на их искреннее стремление самим определять свою судьбу. Парламенты народных республик Донбасса, а также военно-гражданские администрации Херсонской и Запорожской областей приняли решение о проведении референдумов о будущем этих территорий и обратились к нам, к России, с просьбой поддержать такой шаг.

Подчеркну: мы сделаем всё, чтобы обеспечить безопасные условия для проведения референдумов, для того чтобы люди могли выразить свою волю. И то решение о своём будущем, которое примет большинство жителей Донецкой и Луганской народных республик, Запорожской и Херсонской областей, мы поддержим.

Уважаемые друзья!

Сегодня наши Вооружённые Силы, как уже говорил, действуют на линии боевого соприкосновения, которая превышает тысячу километров, противостоят не только неонацистским формированиям, а фактически всей военной машине коллективного Запада.  (Today, our Armed Forces, as I have already said, are operating on the line of contact, which exceeds a thousand kilometers, they are confronting not only neo-Nazi formations [Ukrainian], but in fact the entire military machine of the collective West [NATO].)

В этой ситуации считаю необходимым принять следующее решение – оно в полной мере адекватно угрозам, с которыми мы сталкиваемся, – а именно: для защиты нашей Родины, её суверенитета и территориальной целостности, для обеспечения безопасности нашего народа и людей на освобождённых территориях считаю необходимым поддержать предложение Министерства обороны и Генерального штаба о проведении в Российской Федерации частичной мобилизации.  (In this situation, I consider it necessary to make the following decision – it is fully adequate to the threats we face – namely: to protect our Motherland, its sovereignty and territorial integrity, to ensure the security of our people and people in the liberated territories, I consider it necessary to support the proposal Ministry of Defense and the General Staff on the conduct of partial mobilization in the Russian Federation.)

Повторю, речь идёт именно о частичной мобилизации, то есть призыву на военную службу будут подлежать только граждане, которые в настоящий момент состоят в запасе, и прежде всего те, кто проходил службу в рядах Вооружённых Сил, имеет определённые военно-учётные специальности и соответствующий опыт.

Призванные на военную службу перед отправкой в части в обязательном порядке будут проходить дополнительную военную подготовку с учётом опыта специальной военной операции.

Указ о частичной мобилизации подписан.

В соответствии с законодательством об этом официально письмами будут сегодня проинформированы палаты Федерального Собрания – Совет Федерации и Государственная Дума.

Мобилизационные мероприятия начнутся сегодня, с 21 сентября. Поручаю главам регионов оказать всё необходимое содействие работе военных комиссариатов.  (Mobilization activities will begin today, from 21 September. I instruct the heads of regions to provide all necessary assistance to the work of military commissariats.)

Особо подчеркну, что граждане России, призванные на военную службу по мобилизации, получат статус, выплаты и все социальные гарантии военнослужащих, проходящих военную службу по контракту.

Добавлю, что Указ о частичной мобилизации также предусматривает дополнительные меры по выполнению государственного оборонного заказа. На руководителях предприятий ОПК лежит прямая ответственность за решение задач по наращиванию выпуска вооружений и военной техники, по развёртыванию дополнительных производственных мощностей. В свою очередь все вопросы материального, ресурсного и финансового обеспечения оборонных предприятий должны быть решены Правительством незамедлительно.  (I will add that the Decree on partial mobilization also provides for additional measures to fulfill the state defense order. The heads of defense industry enterprises are directly responsible for solving the tasks of increasing the production of weapons and military equipment, and deploying additional production capacities. In turn, all issues of material, resource and financial support for defense enterprises must be resolved by the Government immediately.)

Уважаемые друзья!

В своей агрессивной антироссийской политике Запад перешёл всякую грань. Мы постоянно слышим угрозы в адрес нашей страны, нашего народа. Некоторые безответственные политики на Западе не только говорят о планах по организации поставок Украине дальнобойных наступательных вооружений – систем, которые позволят наносить удары по Крыму, другим регионам России.  (In its aggressive anti-Russian policy, the West [NATO] has crossed every line. We constantly hear threats against our country, our people. Some irresponsible politicians in the West not only talk about plans to organize the supply of long-range offensive weapons to Ukraine – systems that will allow strikes against the Crimea and other regions of Russia.)

Такие террористические удары, в том числе с использованием западного оружия, уже наносятся по приграничным населённым пунктам Белгородской, Курской областей. В режиме реального времени с использованием современных систем, самолётов, кораблей, спутников, стратегических беспилотников НАТО осуществляет разведку по всему югу России.  (Such terrorist strikes, including with the use of Western weapons, are already being carried out on the border settlements of the Belgorod and Kursk regions [Vladimir Putin stated months ago that if NATO weapons were used against Russia it would be considered an act of war by NATO]. In real time, using modern systems, aircraft, ships, satellites, strategic drones, NATO carries out reconnaissance throughout southern Russia.)

В Вашингтоне, Лондоне, Брюсселе прямо подталкивают Киев к переносу военных действий на нашу территорию. Уже не таясь, говорят о том, что Россия должна быть всеми средствами разгромлена на поле боя с последующим лишением политического, экономического, культурного, вообще всякого суверенитета, с полным разграблением нашей страны.  (In Washington, London, Brussels, they are directly pushing Kyiv to transfer military operations to our territory. No longer hiding, they say that Russia should be defeated by all means on the battlefield, followed by the deprivation of political, economic, cultural, in general, any sovereignty, with the complete plunder of our country.)

В ход пошёл и ядерный шантаж. Речь идёт не только о поощряемых Западом обстрелах Запорожской атомной электростанции, что грозит атомной катастрофой, но и о высказываниях некоторых высокопоставленных представителей ведущих государств НАТО о возможности и допустимости применения против России оружия массового поражения – ядерного оружия.  (Nuclear blackmail was also launched. We are talking not only about the [Ukrainian] shelling of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, which is encouraged by the West, which threatens a nuclear catastrophe, but also about the statements of some high-ranking representatives of the leading NATO states about the possibility and admissibility of using weapons of mass destruction against Russia – nuclear weapons.)

Тем, кто позволяет себе такие заявления в отношении России, хочу напомнить, что наша страна также располагает различными средствами поражения, а по отдельным компонентам – и более современными, чем у стран НАТО. И при угрозе территориальной целостности нашей страны, для защиты России и нашего народа мы, безусловно, используем все имеющиеся в нашем распоряжении средства. Это не блеф.  (To those who allow themselves to make such statements about Russia, I would like to remind you that our country also has various means of destruction, and for some components – even more modern than those of the NATO countries. And when the territorial integrity of our country is threatened, we will certainly use all the means at our disposal to protect Russia and our people. It’s not a bluff.)

Граждане России могут быть уверены: территориальная целостность нашей Родины, наша независимость и свобода будут обеспечены, подчеркну это ещё раз, всеми имеющимися у нас средствами. А те, кто пытается шантажировать нас ядерным оружием, должны знать, что роза ветров может развернуться и в их сторону.

В нашей исторической традиции, в судьбе нашего народа – останавливать тех, кто рвётся к мировому господству, кто грозит расчленением и порабощением нашей Родины, нашему Отечеству. Мы и сейчас это сделаем, так и будет.  (It is in our historical tradition, in the destiny of our people, to stop those who strive for world domination, who threaten with the dismemberment and enslavement of our Motherland, our Fatherland. We will do it now, and so it will be.)

Верю в вашу поддержку.

Also: Text of “partial mobilization in the Russian Federation”

Ukraine Crisis: IRAN SENDS RUSSIA COPIES OF U.S. STEALTH DRONES?

SLOVAKIA SUDDENLY RETIRES THE FULCRUM, AT NATO’S BEHEST

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PUTIN vs OBAMA

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CRIMEAN TROOPS STOP UKRAINIAN INVASION!

NATO THREATENS WAR WITH RUSSIA!

CRIMEA DECLARES DIRECT RULE BY THE PEOPLE! RESISTANCE TO OBAMA REGIME & THE TRILATERAL COMMISSION BUILDING!

World War 3: Iran sends Russia copies of U.S. stealth drones?

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.

It was the current regime of U.S. President Joseph Robinette Biden Junior that made the claim that Iran was supplying Russia with the UAVs.  It should be noted that the Biden regime got its information from the Washington Post.  Russian official Dmitry Sergeyevich Peskov says the Washington Post is well known for “information stuffing”.

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.

Iran claims all of its UAVs can carry weapons.

Washington Post 13SEP2022: Ukraine’s military claims downing Iran drone

Washington Post 07SEP2022: Iran’s Drone Pirates

BlindBatNews August 2014: IRAN SHOOTS DOWN ISRAELI DRONE! PALISTINIANS SHOOT DOWN ISRAELI DRONE!  MUJAHIDEEN SHOOT DOWN ISRAELI DRONE! 

BlindBatNews November 2013: CHINA BUILDS COPY OF U.S. RQ-170 SENTINEL, THAT WAS SHOT DOWN BY IRAN!

BlindBatNews December 2012: IRAN DECODES ALL DATA FROM CAPTURED STEALTH DRONE!

IRAN DISPLAYS CAPTURED DRONE THAT U.S. NEWS MEDIA SAYS ISN’T MISSING. U.S. NAVY (U-S-N) DID NOT SAY IT ISN’T MISSING, U-S-N SAID “ALL ACCOUNTED FOR” WHICH IS NOT THE SAME THING.

IRAN USES ELECTRONIC WARFARE TO CAPTURE YET ANOTHER U.S. DRONE!

BlindBatNews April 2012: IRAN COPIES CAPTURED STEALTH DRONE, SHARES INFO WITH RUSSIA & CHINA.

BlindBatNews February 2012: 

IRAN TO DISPLAY LIFE SIZE MODEL OF U.S. STEALTH DRONE, SENDS OBAMA A TOY HOT PINK VERSION

BlindBatNews December 2011:  IRAN REVEALS CAPTURED U.S. STEALTH DRONE, SHOT DOWN BY ‘CYBER BULLETS’. 

Ukraine Crisis: Slovakia suddenly retires the Fulcrum, at NATO’s behest

MiG-29, NATO reporting name Fulcrum.

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:

Soviet era Aircraft used by NATO:  POLAND SUKHOI 22

MiG-21

Soviet era Weapons in use by NATO: Czech-o-Slovakia’s DANA

Indian Air Power:

….including the MiG 29 

Ukraine Crisis? NATO Poland’s new U.S. Army tank academy & more proof U.S. taxpayers controlled by foreigners!

28 August 2022  (13:04-UTC-07 Tango 06) 06 Shahrivar 1401/30 Muharram 1444/02 Wu Shen(8th month) 4720

The newly opened U.S. Army tank academy in NATO Poland is part of Poland’s agreement to purchase (? actually beg, borrow and possibly steal from U.S. taxpayers) the new M1A2 Abrams SEPv3 Battle Tank, and the M1074 Joint Assault Bridge (JAB) bridge-layer version (the M1074 actually being a NATO Italian & Israeli design).  Since the beginning of 2022, news outlets and government officials have repeated stated that the deal is all about confronting Russia in Ukraine, however, Poland’s U.S. directed military expansion officially began in October 2019!

On 25AUG2022, it was revealed that it will cost $1.148-billion just to deliver the tanks to Poland, it is part of the U.S. taxpayer funded Foreign Military Sales program!

The U.S. Defense Security Cooperation Agency specifically states that Foreign Military Sales “May be funded by country national funds or U.S. Government funds.”

Poland’s Deputy Prime Minister/Minister of National Defense, Mariusz Blaszczak, 15AUG2022. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sergeant Alvin Reeves.

The U.S. Army does not use the M1074 JAB operationally (the first JABs were used for testing/evaluation), a version called M1110 JAB is expected to eventually go into service with U.S. forces (production delayed by government Pandemic Panic attack mandates/lockdowns).  NATO Italy’s Leonardo, through its Saint Louis, Missouri, based DRS division, has a contract with Anniston Army Depot, in Alabama, to convert old M1 Abrams tanks to the JAB configuration.  Leonardo is the same company that makes U.S. Air Force’s new Grey Wolf helicopter (it is not made by Boeing, despite industry reports!).  DRS used to be a U.S. owned company, but in 2008 was sold to Italian company Finmeccanica.  Finmeccanica changed its name to Leonardo DRS. In June 2022, Leonardo DRS merged with Israel’s RADA Electronics Industries.

NATO-U.S. Army Abrams Partnership Program promotional video, 10AUG2022, announcing the tank academy:

On 15JUL2022, Poland announced plans to buy (just where is Poland getting this money from?) 116 former U.S. Marine Corps M1A1 tanks.  (See LAST RIDE FOR 1ST, 2ND & 4TH TANK)

In July 2022, the U.S. Department of Commerce-International Trade Administration revealed that NATO Poland’s military expansion began in October 2019.  The U.S. Department of Commerce admits to encouraging the government of Poland to buy equipment specifically from the United States, being funded in part with the increased use of massive debt financing.

In May 2022, U.S. Congress members, and U.S. Army officials, expressed a desire to use the new Ukraine Democracy Defense Lend-Lease Act to effectively give Poland the tanks, placing the cost burden on U.S. taxpayers.

This U.S. Army (USA) video, by Specialist Javen Owens, shows M1074 bridge-layer already in action (U.S. personnel operating) in NATO Poland on 28APR2022, just weeks after the M1A2 agreement:

More JAB action, 28APR2022, USA video by Specialist Ellison Schuman:

USA video report, dated 27APR2022, revealing that training of NATO Poland tankers on Abrams tanks began immediately:

U.S. Army video dated 26APR2022, by Specialist Hassani Ribera Soto, shows M1A2-SEP already operating (U.S. personnel at the controls) in NATO Poland:

Bucierz Range, Poland. Puerto Rico Army National Guard photo by Specialist Hedil Hernández, 22APR2022.

U.S. Army Security Assistance Command video, dated 01APR2022, announcing M1A2 agreement with NATO Poland:

The $6-billion 01APR2022 agreement will result in NATO Poland getting 250 M1A2-SEPv3 main battle tanks, 26 M88A2 Hercules recovery vehicles and 17 M1074 JABs.  Does anybody believe that Poland has $6-billion?

The United States military has been increasing its presence in NATO Poland ever since the 15AUG2020 signing of the Poland – United States Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement.

Biden’s War, July 2022: FIRST PERMANENT U.S. BASE IN NATO POLAND!

NATO Vehicle I-D, April 2022: POLAND’S KRAB (HALF BRITISH, HALF KOREAN?)

March 2022, Vehicle I-D: U.S. ARMY GETS NEW VERSIONS OF ABRAMS AND BRADLEY (U.S. taxpayer funding benefits British company)

Cold War to Ukraine Crisis: Kamov 27 Helix

The first look for NATO of a Ka-27, aboard Soviet destroyer Udaloy, somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean, September 1982.

The first Kamov 27 flew in 1973, beginning naval service by 1982, today at least a dozen countries still use it. NATO calls it the Ka-27 Helix. China and India use the export version known as Ka-28. It is primarily used as an anti-ship weapons platform, but is also used for things like transport and fire fighting. The silly-vilian (civilian) version is Ka-32.

A Soviet Kamov 27 flying alongside a USN SH-3 Sea King. Location, date and photographer unknown.

Video of Cold War era film of Ka-27 action:

 

Somewhere in the Mediterranean Sea, Ka-27 Helix helicopters aboard Soviet aircraft carrier Baku (CVHG 103). USN photo by Lieutenant P.J. Azzolina, June 1988.

A Soviet Ka-32 Helix during Airshow Canada ’89 (Abbotsford Air Show), in British Columbia. Photo by Pat Nugent, August 1989.

Helix hangers on a Soviet Udaloy class guided missile destroyer. U.S. Navy photo dated October 1990.

In October of 1992, as the Soviet Union fell apart, a Kamov 27 (Red 46) made history by becoming the first Russian helicopter to land on not one, but two U.S. Navy (USN) ships.

Three Russian Ka-32 Helix-C in Bahrain, 16MAY1993. U.S. Navy photo by Lieutenant Junior Grade John Bouvia.

In June 1994, U.S. military personnel took part in a disaster response exercise on Vladivostok, Russia. USN photo by Photographer’s Mate First Class Charles W. Alley.

U.S. ally Republic of Korea (South Korea) uses the Ka-32C for Maritime Police actions. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Corporal Grenda, 19JUL1999.

Ka-27 on the fantail of the Russian Frigate Neustrashimy (712). U.S. Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate Second Class George Sisting, 07JUN2004.

Kamov 27 Helix landing on the Ticonderoga Class Cruiser USS San Jacinto (CG 56), somewhere in the Baltic Sea, 07JUN2004. USN photo by Photographer’s Mate Second Class George Sisting.

A Russian Ka-27 Helix takes part in a USN disaster response exercise on Santa Rita Naval Base, Guam, 31MAR2006. USN photo by Photographer’s Mate Second Class Edward N. Vasquez.

A Russian Navy Ka-27 during anti-piracy operations in the Gulf of Aden, 09FEB2009. USN photo by Petty Officer Second Class Jason Zalasky.

Kamov on the fantail of destroyer Admiral Vinogradov, Gulf of Aden. USN photo by Petty Officer Second Class Jason Zalasky, 09FEB2009.

USN photo by Petty Officer Second Class Jason Zalasky, 09FEB2009.

Ukrainian Ka-27 Helix aboard USS Taylor during NATO wargame Sea Breeze, 20JUL2010. USN photo by Petty Officer First Class Edward Kessler.

A NATO Portugal Ka-32A11BC fighting a wildfire.

14AUG2012 video of NATO Portuguese Ka-32A11BC fighting fires:

Indian Navy Ka-28 Helix lands on the flight deck of USS McCampbell (DDG 85), 07NOV2013. USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Third Class Paul Kelly.

Ukrainian Helix aboard USS Ross (DDG 71) during a wargame, 02JUN2015. USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Third Class Robert S. Price.

Ukrainian Ka-27 Helix during NATO’s Sea Breeze wargame, 22JUL2016. USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist First Class Justin Stumberg.

USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist First Class Justin Stumberg, 22JUL2016.

Ka-28’s forward landing gear. PLA-Navy photo by Li Hengjiang, 24FEB2018.

PLA-Navy photo by Li Hengjiang, 24FEB2018.

PLA-Navy photo by Li Hengjiang, 24FEB2018.

NATO wargame Sea Breeze, in The Black Sea, July 2018. A Ukrainian Kamov aboard the USS Mount Whitney (LCC 20). USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist First Class Justin Stumberg.

In September 2018, Russian Helicopters (which now includes Kamov) announced it had received more orders to build its latest version of the Helix, the Ka-32A11BC Heavy Utility Helicopter.

In December 2018, a Korean Ka-32T crashed into the Han River while fighting a wildfire. Two of the three crewmembers survived. The photo purports to show the same Ka-32T before the crash. Photo via Yonhap News Agency.

The Ka-32A11BC not only uses a bucket for fighting fires, it also uses a giant spray gun:

Russian Ministry of Defense video of the Ka-27 dropping bombs from its internal bomb bay, February 2020:

SWISSPOWERJET video of Ka-32 in action, April 2021:

Russian Navy Ka-27 during joint China-Russia wargames in the Peter The Great Gulf, Sea of Japan, 15OCT2021. PLA-Navy photo by Sun Jingang.

China uses the new Ka-32A11BC for fire fighting.

PLA Eastern Command Ka-28, photographed by Xu Ziyang, 21JAN2022.

HeliSwiss Ka-32. Since March 2022, and because of the Ukraine Crisis, the European Union has suspended certificate approval for Kamov helicopters operated by EU members.

In this People’s Liberation Army (PLA)-Navy video, about bad weather helicopter training, you can see a Ka-28 Helix, 31MAY2022:

Photo via Russian Helicopters.

Photo via Russian Helicopters.

Photo via Russian Helicopters.

In November 2021, Rostec (aka State Corporation for Assistance to Development, Production and Export of Advanced Technology), revealed that flight testing for the latest fire-fighting version began.  It is called the Ka-32A11M.

Photo via Russia Helicopters/Rostec, November 2021.

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