On 07FEB2022, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported that its Sukhoi 30SMs are now patrolling the sky over Belarus.
Russian Defense Ministry video released on 07FEB2022:
The Su-30SM ‘Irkutsk’ is a two seat multi-role combat aircraft that can trace its lineage back to the older single seat Su-27.
On 02FEB2022, it […] Continue Reading…
USN SeAL Team 5’s three seat Scorpion Fast Attack Vehicle (FAV), Naval Amphibious Base […] Continue Reading…
In June 2020, it was revealed that among the many armored vehicles stashed on the Marine Corps Logistics Base Barstow (one of the many duty assignments of my hardcore Marine Grandfather), California, was a very rare Japanese Type 4 Ka-Tsus amphibious tank.
U.S. Marine Corps photo by Robert Jackson, 10JUN2020.Apparently only […] Continue Reading…
“This year, we conducted 11 joint exercises through the Collective Security Treaty Organization and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.”-Colonel General (U.S. equivalent Lieutenant General) Alexander Lapin, Central Military District, December 2021
In Russia’s Central Military District there were 11 wargames held in 2021. They spread across Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. The wargames also included […] Continue Reading…
In April 2016, U.S. President Obama ‘secretly’ deployed (the deployment was secretly planned in 2015) the Idaho Air National Guard’s A-10Cs to NATO Turkey (even though he hated the A-10 and […] Continue Reading…
On 02FEB2022, Colonel-General Alexander Lapin, Commander of Russia’s Central Military District, reported that “Since the beginning of the year, 76 company tactical exercises have been conducted with the part of motorized rifle and tank units, including 11 ostentatious ones, during which the number of practical tasks performed […] Continue Reading…
Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reports that S-400 Triumph anti-aircraft units are now in Belarus, as of 03FEB2022. They were deployed from Russia’s Eastern Military District on 21JAN2022.
Russian Ministry of Defense video of arrival of some of the S-400 vehicles:
The S-400 Triumph units will be based in the Brest […] Continue Reading…
The XA series of armored vehicles first came alive back in 1980, during the unofficial Cold War, when Finland was part of the Soviet ‘Eastern Bloc’. They were made by a company called Suomen Autoteollisuus, which became Sisu Auto in 1981, which then became Sisu Defense in 1995, which then became Patria in 1997. […] Continue Reading…
In February 2017, Finland agreed to buy 48 used K9 self propelled artillery guns from the Republic of Korea (South Korea).
Puolustusvoimat / Finnish Defense Forces photo.They began arriving in 2017, with the final delivery expected by 2024.
Puolustusvoimat / Finnish Defense Forces photo.The Finns call it the […] Continue Reading…
In 2017, the small NATO member Latvia purchase 47 Austrian (Österreichisch) rebuilt M109A5s. The M109A5s were formerly owned by the United Kingdom’s Royal Army. By October 2018, Austria delivered all 47 rebuilt M109A5s.
Latvians try out their ‘new to them’ M109A5Ö, November 2018. Canadian Forces photo by Aviator Jérôme Lessard.Since NATO-Canada […] Continue Reading…