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

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!

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

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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.

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

International, Technology

Ukraine Battle Damage 2022: Armor, abandoned or destroyed

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Armored vehicle destruction from the end of February 2022 to 06MAR2022.

An abandoned British made Saxon armored car, that was being used as an ambulance by Ukrainians.

Ukrainian Azov militia T-72.

T-64 or T-72?

BTR-3DA, Kharkov Oblast.

Abandoned BTR-70.

BTR-80.

Destroyed BRDM-2, abandoned BTR-80.

BRDM-2.

Video of destroyed Donbas militia (indicated by the ‘Z’ on the hull skirts) T-64BV (which was probably captured from Ukrainian forces):

T-64BV, the identifier is the small steel rimmed road wheels.

What’s left of two Ukrainian T-64BV, near Volnovakha.

T-64BV turret, near Volnovakha.

The T-64BV turret ring seems to be suspended in mid-air.

T-64BV burns in the city of Melitopol.

Smoldering BMP.

BMP-1.

Near Volnovakha, Ukrainian BMP-1Ksh.

What’s left of a BMP(?) in the Mykolaiv/Nikolaev Oblast.

Abandoned BMP-1 near the village of Bogdanovka.

Video of abandoned trucks near Kherson:

A dead Ural truck with likewise human cargo in the bed.

BTR-80, the ‘digital’ camo is typical of that used on Ukrainian vehicles.

Video, abandoned Ukrainian BMP-2 getting stripped of weapons by the Donbas militias:

Burning 9K33 (NATO reporting name Gekko) anti-aircraft missile launcher on Ukraine’s Korotych air base.

Ukrainian 9K33 (Gekko).

Near Severodonetsk, Ukrainian T-72.

Abandoned Ukrainian BTR-60.

Video, abandoned Ukrainian BRDM-2 in the city of Shchastya:

Near Volnovakha, Ukrainian BRDM with 9P148 antitank missile launchers, looks like they fired-off three of the missiles before abandoning the vehicle.

Video, burning Ukrainian BTR-4E:

Burned-out BTR-4E, abandoned Kozak-2 armored car.

World War 3: UKRAINE ABANDONS THEIR BTR-4ES WITHOUT A FIGHT!

Battle Damage: IRAQ 2003

Vehicle I-D: Ukraine’s BTR-3DA

International, Technology

Vehicle I-D: More abandoned vehicles, more ‘V’s & ‘Z’s, white/red arm bands, and Hinds with invasion stripes?

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Russian Defense Ministry video, posted 05MAR2022, showing an abandoned Ukrainian army camp near the village of Radensk, Kherson Oblast. The capturing force vehicles are marked with ‘Z‘ indicating Donbas Area of Operation (AO). The troops are wearing white arm bands on their left arms. The intact Ukrainian vehicles now in the hands of the Donbas are BMP-1s, BTRs, BRDMS and T-64BV, plus crates and crates of various ammo:

Video report posted on 05MAR2022, the liberation of the town of Trekhizbenka by Russians who are wearing white bands on their left arms and Russian ‘liberation’ armbands on their right shoulder. Some soldiers are wearing white bands around their right leg.  Video shows packages of 12.7mm ammo and RPG rounds left behind by Ukrainians. Villagers tell the reporter the Ukrainians took military control of their town in 2014.  It appears the Ukrainians gave-up the town without a fight:

Yet another abandoned Ukrainian BTR-4E, along the Kharkiv-Poltava highway, 04MAR2022.

Video posted 04MAR2022, Russian vehicles (BTRs, BMP-1, 2S3 SP guns) marked with ‘V‘ indicating Kiev AO (apparently near the cities of Bucha, Gostomel [Hostomel?] and Irpin’):

A Donetsk militiaman (indicated by his red arm band) with a NATO Javelin antitank missile, abandoned by retreating Ukrainians, 04MAR2022.

Video posted 03MAR2022, ‘Z‘ marked Donbas AO 2S1 self propelled artillery guns:

‘Z’ marked 2S1.

Invasion stripes? This Hind rotary wing gunship is marked with a ‘Z’, indicating Donbas AO.

This video, posted 01MAR2022, shows Donetsk militia (Donbas AO) wearing red bands on their left arms, their vehicles are marked with ‘Z‘ and some have red cloth tied to them. They have just overran a Ukrainian checkpoint, which includes an abandoned T-64BV:

Vehicle I-D: WHAT HAPPENS WHEN BOTH SIDES USE THE SAME WEAPONS? Operational markings of Russia/Donbas militias.

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Vehicle I-D: What happens when both sides use the same weapons?

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Ukraine is the birthplace of Russia.  Today’s larger Russia expanded out of Ukraine.  In the 20th Century the new Union of Soviet Socialist Republics allowed the creation of a separate Soviet Republic of Ukraine. It was during the time of the Soviet Union that Ukraine became a major manufacturer of weapon systems for the U.S.S.R.  In 1991, Ukraine lead the collapse of the Soviet Union by declaring independence.  Then there was the creation of the European Union (EU).  Both the EU and NATO have been actively involved in ‘behind-the-scenes’ influence of the Ukrainian government, for decades now.  Despite that, even today Russia and Ukraine use the same type of major weapon systems.  How do you tell them apart during combat?

This T-64BV is not marked, but carries large Russian and Donbas militia flags.

Russia has obviously thought about that because their ground vehicles, along with the military ground vehicles of Donetsk Republic and Lugansk (Luhansk) Republic have been given unique operational markings.  They look like Latin alphabet letters but are not.  They also indicate the Area of Operation (AO); North in Kiev Oblast, or South in Donbas.

Video from the end of February 2022, Donbas-Lugansk Republic militia and their trucks, BMP-1s and 2S1 SP Guns, all marked with ‘Z’, waiting for orders to move-out:

Somewhere in Donbas.

In the Southern, Donbas area of operation (AO), Russian, Lugansk and Donetsk tracked and wheeled vehicles are marked with a ‘Z’.

Ukrainian made KrAZ armored car, in use by local Donbas forces.

Video of Russians meeting with Lugansk Republic troops, 03MAR2022:

T-64BV somewhere in Donbas.

Video report, posted on 03MAR2022, Ukrainian Ground Forces abandoned a T-64BV, Lugansk Republic forces quickly claimed it by spraying ‘Z‘ symbols on it, and working to repair it for their own use (it was one of two abandoned T-64BVs, the video also shows an abandoned BRDM-2):

Abandoned Ukrainian T-64BV, now in the hands of the Donbas militias as indicated by the ‘Z’ painted on the skirts.

In the Northern Kiev Oblast AO the vehicles are marked with a ‘V’. Video of ‘V‘ marked Russian BMPs, BRTs and T-72B3s entering the Kiev Oblast of Ukraine from Belarus, the road sign gives the location away as the Gomel (Homiel) Oblast, Belarus-Kiev Oblast, Ukraine border crossing (heading towards Chernobyl Exclusion Zone?), 03MAR2022:

When you see a Western news report about Russian activities, if they are talking about Kiev AO (Area of Operation), but the images show vehicles with ‘Z‘ on them then the images are actually from the Donbas AO.

New Cold War 2022: RUSSIAN T-72B3M LIVE FIRE CRIMEA!

UKRAINE ABANDONS THEIR BTR-4ES WITHOUT A FIGHT!

Vehicle I-D:

2S1, FROM COLD WAR TO UKRAINIAN BORDER CRISIS!

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Ukraine abandons their BTR-4Es without a fight!

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Photo via RusVesna-SU.

At the beginning of March 2022, Russian forces passed by a platoon sized element (4) of Ukrainian built BTR-4Es, all abandoned, with none showing signs of combat!

Photo via RusVesna-SU.

They carried the Red Cross insignia of the Ukrainian Ground Forces.  Going by the ‘Z’ symbol on the Russia vehicles this was in the Donbas Area of Operation.

Video, apparently the BTR-4Es can’t handle the mud:

Vehicle I-D:

Canadian Armed Forces photo by Corporal Andrew Kelly, 30NOV2017.

UKRAINE’S BTR-4E +

International, Technology

Vehicle I-D: New(?) Iraqi Sukhoi 25 KM & UBKM

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Su-25, U.S. Army photo by Major Alexa Carlo-Hickman, 07JAN2022.

What many people in the United States don’t know is that under President Barack Obama, Iraq was allowed to get weapons from countries considered ‘not friendly’ to the United States, like Iran and Russia.  In fact, Iranian Sukhoi 25 aircraft operated inside Iraq, from Iraqi air bases, to help Iraq fight the so-called Islamic State.  When Iran left they ‘gifted'(?) the Su-25s to Iraq.  These were in addition to the Russian Su-25s acquired by Iraq.  They are Su-25KM single seaters and Su-25UBKM two seaters.

Su-25KM, USA photo by Major Alexa Carlo-Hickman, 07JAN2022.

USA photo by Major Alexa Carlo-Hickman, 07JAN2022.

U.S. Army video, by Specialist Nathan Smith, maintaining an Iraqi Su-25KM on Al Asad Air Base, 10JAN2022:

Su-25UBKM, USA photo by Major Alexa Carlo-Hickman, 07JAN2022.

USA photo by Major Alexa Carlo-Hickman, 07JAN2022.

Su-25KM, Iraq Ministry of Defense photo, 2016.

Video report about Su-25s being used against so-called Islamic State:

Su-25KM, Iraq Ministry of Defense photo.

2014 video of Russian delivery of Su-25KM, no audio until interview with Iraqi pilot:

Desert Storm Battle Damage:

Iraqi Su-25, U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) photo.

Iraqi Aircraft Graveyard

Vehicle I-D: IRAQI HUEY

Mother of all Money Pits: KURDS TAKE THE FIGHT TO ‘ISLAMIC STATE’, WHILE U.S. TAXPAYERS FUND DINNER PARTIES!

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MiG 31 crashes in Novgorod

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Supposedly, on 29JAN2022 a MiG-31 (NATO reporting name Foxhound) crashed in Novgorod Oblast.

Unconfirmed reports say the plane was trying to take off but could not generate the speed necessary, running off the runway and bouncing off a snow drift.

Looking at the photos (source unknown) it is clear that there was a fire involving the rear cockpit, which caused the forward cockpit and fuselage to drop off.

It is common for MiG-31s to crash, usually blamed on “technical malfunction”.

Vehicle I-D:

MIG-31K HYPERSONIC KINZHAL LAUNCHER

Technology

Zombie Tank: China’s Type 59D, updated Cold War T-54/55, to live-on as a Robot Tank?

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

People’s Liberation Army 77th Group Army photo by Guo Yuhui, 26MAY2021.

China’s Type 59 (aka WZ-120) is a license built version of the Soviet T-54A.  Many were sold/given to Viet Nam during the U.S. occupation of that South East Asian country, it was the first time the Type 59 experienced actual combat.   In the last decade of the non-official Cold War (the 1980s) China upgraded its tanks with NATO’s 105mm L7 gun, designed in United Kingdom.

Type 59D of the PLA 77th Group Army, 20MAR2018. Photo by Yang Qishuai.

The latest version of the Type 59 is the Type 59D (WZ-120D) with explosive reactive armor and a longer barreled 105mm L7 main gun (which is now called the ZPL-94/Type 94 gun).  Apparently it is able to launch anti-tank guided missiles from the ZPL-94 gun.

Type 59D of the PLA 77th Group Army, 20MAR2018. Photo by Yang Qishuai.

Type 59D of the PLA 77th Group Army, 20MAR2018. Photo by Yang Qishuai.

Type 59D of the PLA 77th Group Army, 16MAR2018.

Type 59D of the PLA 77th Group Army, 16MAR2018.

Type 59D of the PLA 77th Group Army, 16MAR2018.

Video still from a China Central TV (CCTV) report about remote controlled Type 59 tanks.

In March 2018, the PLA announced that many of the retiring Type 59 tanks are being converted to be used as remote control tanks, or even robot tanks: “A large number of due-to-retire Type 59 tanks can be converted into unmanned vehicles if equipped with artificial intelligence.”-Liu Qingshan, chief editor of Tank and Armoured Vehicle

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

Zombie Tank: COLD WAR ZOMBIE TANK T-54/55, THEY’RE EVERYWHERE!

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

Terminator: U.S. ARMY TRIPLES INVENTORY OF COMBAT ROBOT TANKS!

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Zombie Tank: China still uses the NATO gunned Type 88 Warsaw Pact based tank

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Type 88A in the Gobi Desert, sometime in 2021. People’s Liberation Army-Xinjiang Military Command photo by Li Renxi.

During the last decade of the non-official Cold War, China began experimenting with the Soviet designed T-54/55 tank, and the NATO United Kingdom designed 105mm L7 main gun.  One of the results was the Type 88.

Type 88A conducts live-fire gunnery in the Gobi Desert, sometime in 2021. People’s Liberation Army-Xinjiang Military Command photo by Shi Jinguang.

In the 1990s, testing by South Africa revealed the NATO 105mm gun could not penetrate the armor of the upgraded Russian T-72, and that the Russian 125mm gun could easily destroy the Type 88.  This revelation killed export sales of the Chinese tank, but amazingly China still uses the Type 88A (with the long barreled version of the L7 gun known as ZPL-94/Type 94).

Type 88A in the Gobi Desert, sometime in 2021. PLA-Xinjiang Military Command photo by Li Renxi.

Type 88A in the Gobi Desert, sometime in 2021. PLA-Xinjiang Military Command photo by Li Renxi.

Type 88A in the Gobi Desert, sometime in 2021. PLA-Xinjiang Military Command photo by Li Renxi.

Gobi Desert sometime in 2021. PLA-Xinjiang Military Command photo by Shi Jinguang.

The old Type 88A is being replaced with the new Type 15 Light Tank (aka ZTQ-15), which is also armed with the 105mm gun.

PLA-Xinjiang Military Command live-fire gunnery, April 2020. Photo by Han Qiang.

PLA-Xinjiang Military Command live-fire gunnery, April 2020. Photo by Han Qiang.

Type 88A, Uyghur Autonomous Region on 30MAR2020. Photo by Yuan Kai.

Type 88A, Uyghur Autonomous Region on 30MAR2020. Photo by Yuan Kai.

These PLA-Xinjiang Military Command Type 88As are equipped with something similar to the U.S. MILES lazer-tag wargame system. Photo by Sun Bo, 19MAR2020.

Not only are these PLA-Xinjiang Military Command Type 88As equipped with something similar to the U.S. MILES lazer-tag wargame system, their main antenna looks very much like a U.S. antenna. Photo by Sun Bo, 19MAR2020.

Night maneuvers Uygur Autonomous Region, January 2020. PLA-Xinjiang Military Command photo by Yuan Kai.

Can you identify a Type 88A at night?

Night maneuvers Uygur Autonomous Region, January 2020. PLA-Xinjiang Military Command photo by Yuan Kai.

Night maneuvers Tianshan Mountains, October 2019. PLA-Xinjiang Military Command photo.

Uygur Autonomous Region, August 2018. PLA-Xinjiang Military Command photo by Yuan Kai.

The exhaust pipes of the Type 88A are on the opposite side of the Grandfather T-54/55, and they are two large round pipes.

Uygur Autonomous Region, January 2020. PLA-Xinjiang Military Command photo by Yuan Kai.

In the above photo you can see a Type 88A being hauled away by an old fashioned T-54/55 ARV, notice the standard T-54/55 single exhaust pipe.

Vehicle I-D: CHINA’S H-6K

Zombie Tank: U.S. BRINGS DEAD IRAQI T-54/55 BACK TO LIFE!