Welcome to borderland hell under the new U.S. President, highly incomplete list of videos and links to news/government agency reports as of 23 November 2021:
U.S. Military Assistance Group photo by Captain Pawel Puczko.On 28OCT2021, the U.S. military (taxpayers) handed the Philippine Coast Guard Special Operations Force a training/storage facility valued […] Continue Reading…
The M551 Sheridan was not considered a main battle tank, it was officially a Armored Reconnaissance/Airborne Assault Vehicle, beginning service with the U.S. Army in 1967.
Before the U.S. Army could get its hands on a real Mil 24 Hind-D, it had to ‘fake it’ using the old UH-1H (improved D model) Iroquois (Huey). The Huey-Hind was also known as […] Continue Reading…
Contrary to what ‘western’/NATO military analysts try to promulgate, the Moskva/Leningrad were not attempts at building an aircraft carrier (Even several recent U.S. publications still call them failed attempts at building aircraft carriers!), and they were not strictly helicopter carriers, they were dedicated anti-submarine ships that carried a lot of anti-submarine helicopters. The official […] Continue Reading…
Kamov 25, NATO reporting name Hormone, was developed in the late 1950s, first flight in April 1963, production from 1965 to 1977, numerous variants with the main variant being anti-submarine.
February or March 1972, Ka-25 shows-off for the crew of the USS Springfield (CLG-7), Mediterranean Sea, silent U.S. Navy (USN) film:
February or […] Continue Reading…
United States Ship Avenger (MCM-1) was the lead ship in a class of ‘mine sweepers’, the MCM stood for Mine Counter-Measure. Built and launched at Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, construction began 03JUN1983, commissioned on 12SEP1987.
A total of 14 MCMs were built between the mid-1980s and mid-1990s. Apparently, as […] Continue Reading…
The UH-1N ‘Twin Huey’ is an evolution of the UH-1 Iroquois (nicknamed Huey). The UH-1 first flew in 1956, while its descendant first flew in 1969.
In 2021, a UH-1N still operated by the United States Air Force’s (USAF) 54th Helicopter Squadron ‘Rough Riders’ got a new paint job in an old scheme known as […] Continue Reading…
An 11NOV2021 Kurdistan24 news report reveals that the United States, United Kingdom, Netherlands and Germany have created a Multinational Advisory Group separate from the usual coalition operations. This is an attempt to de-politicize the leadership of Peshmerga forces. There are different organizations within Kurdish society vying for power, and this is directly affecting Peshmerga […] Continue Reading…
From February 1986 to February 1987, the U.S. Navy’s Memorial Museum (now National Museum of the U.S. Navy) celebrated the 75th Anniversary of Naval Aviation with airshows around the United States. Of course, the British Empire had to get involved and the Royal Navy sent at least one FRS Mark 1 (FRS.1) Sea Harriers […] Continue Reading…
“Ultimately, his role is to facilitate the unity of state and federal forces in achieving dominance of justice in disaster response.”-Major General Giselle Wilz, National Guard Bureau, a comment apparently made in 2018 during discussions concerning hurricane disaster response
12 November 2021 (19:02-UTC-07 Tango 06) 21 Aban 1400/06 Rabi ‘ath-Thani 1443/08 Ji-Hai (10th month) 4719
It […] Continue Reading…