11 April 2022 (10:30-UTC-07 Tango 06) 22 Farvardin 1401/09 Ramadan 1443/11 Jia Chen 4720
Paratroopers jump from a perfectly good Y20, 17FEB2022. People’s Liberation Army photo by Liu Bingbing.Video report, dated 03MAR2022, showing Y-20 airborne operations:
South China Morning Post/Associated Press reports that on 10APR2022, the People’s Liberation Army-Air […] Continue Reading…
10 April 2022 (22:53-UTC-07 Tango 06) 21 Farvardin 1401/08 Ramadan 1443/10 Jia Chen 4720
During World War Two, the United States government commissioned the creation of an anti-German/Japanese documentary called Why We Fight, supervised by Hollywood legend Frank Capra. The first episode focused on explaining the military history of Russia leading up to the Second […] Continue Reading…
Cold War, approximately 1947 (due to U.S. President Harry Truman’s Truman Doctrine) to 1991 (Operation Desert Storm, collapse of Soviet Union):
Shenyang J-8, NATO reporting name Finback. The ‘J’ means Jianjiji, which is the equivalent of the word fighter in English.
People’s Liberation Army-Eastern Theater Command photo, 30AUG2020.PLA-Eastern […] Continue Reading…
09 April 2022 (15:08-UTC-07 Tango 06) 20 Farvardin 1401/07 Ramadan 1443/09 Jia Chen 4720
Just in time for another early/busy hurricane season?
U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Master Sergeant Jessica Kendziorek, 05APR2022.The Hurricane Hunters (53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron) based on Keesler Air Force Base, in Mississippi, decided to ‘go back to […] Continue Reading…
My daughter Aryssa made this ‘cold start’ video of my 1989 International Harvester powered 7.3IDI diesel ambulance.
For most of the 1990s it was used by at least two ambulance services in the Salt Lake City area of Utah.
You can barely see the residue from the Idaho State University logo on […] Continue Reading…
Incomplete list of photos and videos of the latest U.S. military operations inside private sector hospitals, under the guise of fighting the Pandemic (so called Whole-of-Government Covid Response, run by U.S. Army Northern Command, beginning on August 2021), for March 2022:
U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Second Class Jan David De Luna […] Continue Reading…
05 April 2022 (15:22-UTC-07 Tango 06) 16 Farvardin 1401/03 Ramadan 1443/05 Jia Chen 4720
Idaho’s 116th Cavalry Brigade Combat Team/2nd of the 116th Combined Arms Battalion training on the Orchard Combat Training Center, 30MAR2022. Idaho National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Becky Vanshur.On 05NOV2021 KLIX News Radio reported that even more […] Continue Reading…
Update 2022: Poland’s 2nd Battalion, 5th Artillery Brigade, conduct live-fire on Grafenwoehr Training Area, Germany, 20JUL2022. U.S. Army video by Markus Rauchenberger:
USA photo by Markus Rauchenberger, 20JUL2022.Quick U.S. Army video by Christoph Koppers, 19JUL2022:
Why are oil prices so high? Iraq claims its oil exports are at 50 year-highs, the most oil exported since 1972!
There are claims that Iranian backed attacks, on a NATO Turkey base inside Iraq, are escalating!
There are now claims that Iran is attacking Kurdish areas of Iraq, apparently because Iraqi Kurds have made a […] Continue Reading…
Cold War: Approximately 1947 (due to U.S. President Harry Truman’s Truman Doctrine) to 1991 (Operation Desert Storm, collapse of Soviet Union).
Warsaw Pact Czechoslovak ShKH vz. 77. Photo via Czech Ministry of Defense.The ShKH vz. 77 DANA began service with Warsaw Pact Czechoslovakia in 1981. New versions are continually being created, […] Continue Reading…