Category Archives: International
Operation Rising Lion: Iran confirms a Member of Parliament, and a University administrator were killed by Israel.
Operation Rising Lion: TV news anchor reports that her daughter’s apartment was bombed by Israel! Confusion as some Iranian news outlets are claiming (without confirming) that Iranian aircraft and ballistic missiles are launching.
Operation Rising Lion: Iranian news media confirms IRGC commander killed.
Operation Rising Lion: Iran reports multiple cities bombed by Israel! Confirms that the commander of IRGC targeted!
Operation Rising Lion: U.S. politician Lindsey Graham says “game on!” Israel tells citizens to prep for “days of war.”
Operation Rising Lion! Iranian nuclear facilities targeted. U.S. officials say bombings will be ongoing!
Iran bombed multiple times by Israel!
Israel bombs Tehran multiple times! Residential apartment skyscrapers targeted, speculating they are the residences of Iranian military leaders. Israel declares state of emergency, bans gatherings, travel and university activities, names bombing Operation Rising Lion.

Red Coats invade Montana?
The United Kingdom’s Army is upgrading their Challenger-2 battle tanks with new armor and a new gun, the same gun used on the M1A1/2 Abrams; the German designed 120 millimeter (mm) Rheinmetall smoothbore, which launches various types of combustible cased rounds (various projectiles on a combustible plastic case with a metal base/’af-cap’).
The gun on the current Challenger-2 is also 120mm, but the British designed tube (barrel) is rifled and the ammo consists of a projectile which is loaded separately from the combustible case/bagged propellent.

A Royal Wessex Yeomanry Challenger-2 on Sennelager Training Area, Germany.
To prep the Royal Wessex Yeomanry on how to operate the Rheinmetall gun, Montana’s 1-163rd Combined Arms Battalion (part of the Idaho based 116th Cavalry Brigade Combat Team, aka Snake River Brigade) is training the Red Coat tankers by letting them shoot-up the Montana mountains.
Montana Army National Guard’s video report (recorded 16MAY2025 on the Limestone Hills Training Facility, released 17MAY2025):
The new upgraded Challenger is called the Challenger-3.

A Royal Wessex Yeomanry Challenger-2, on the Sennelager Training Area, Germany.
Cold War to Battle for Ukraine: Challenger, a child of Serendipity? (from the Iranian Shir-2 to the Challenger-3)

Like Riceburners? Join the U.S. Air Force, see Japan!
To boost lagging recruitment (and apparent lack of desire to deploy to Japan), the U.S. Air Force is promoting its Auto Hobby Shop on Yokota Air Base. It is open seven days per week, with six self-service lift bays, an oil-change pit, and they provide the tools!
U.S. Armed Forces Network video report released 17MAR2025:
Cold War to Near Peer Threats:Japan’s ‘lowrider’ Type 74, finally retired?
Idaho: British Austin + Japanese Suzuki = The Duke!?
Idaho’s Bold Tigers invade Japan?