Landing Vehicle Tank Personnel 5 (LVTP-5) was the fifth in a series of ‘amtracks’ (amphibious tracked vehicles) first developed during World War Two. The LVTP-5 began its life in 1956. It used a V12 gasoline motor and could run at an amazing 30 miles per hour on dry land, faster than any NATO main […] Continue Reading…
At the beginning of February 2021, a company called Lift Aircraft unveiled a helicopter-car called HEXA. While it seems HEXA is being targeted to the silly-vilian market it turns out that the taxpayer funded U.S. Air Force (USAF) is directly involved with its development.
Official HEXA promotional video:
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U.S. Marine Corps photo by Corporal Jamin M. Powell.07APR2021, Marines ‘ingress’ a new ACV during MOUT (military operations urban terrain) on Twentynine Palms, California.
USMC photo by Corporal Jamin M. Powell.05APR2021, the MOUT training […] Continue Reading…
Divestiture, disposition, or whatever is the latest official term for retiring a U.S. military aircraft, the end of the life of the CH-46 Sea Knight was a slow death, taking almost a decade.
U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Corporal Jason Jimenez.An HH-46D Phrog, officially named Pedro, joins other rescue Phrogs […] Continue Reading…
“It’s unfortunately deteriorated to a condition that if we don’t do something now we’re going to lose her, and being that it’s so rare it’s important that we preserve it.”-Steve Faccial, Flakpanzer Restoration Project, March 2017 interview with CTV
Canadian Forces photo by Ordinary Seaman Justin Spinello.In October 2016, a World […] Continue Reading…
Today’s fifty-cal door gunners now use the M3 .50 caliber, a lighter weight version of the ‘old-but-gold’ M2HB (HB for Heavy Barrel), but in the door gunner configuration it’s officially called GAU-21 (GAU stands for Gun Aircraft Unit).
Via M. Pignede.Apparently the French were the first to mount .50 caliber machine […] Continue Reading…
Not one of the so-called CoViD vaccines in use in the United States have been approved as a vaccine under the USFDA! All the propaganda by government officials and main-stream news media is hyperbole, the USFDA has only “authorized for emergency use only”, which is technically and legally not the same as ‘approving’ as a […] Continue Reading…
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U.S. Army/WRAIR Photo by Mike Walters. This image shows retired Colonel Francis Holinaty, the first person to take the U.S. Army’s nanoparticle vaccine, 06APR2021.For proof the “authorized for emergency use only” (they are not USFDA ‘approved’, there is […] Continue Reading…
Italian C1 Ariete playing the bad guy OpFor (Opposition Forces) during Dragoon Ready ’21, Hohenfels Training Area, 20APR2021.
U.S. Army photo by Sergeant Julian Padua.These photos show Italian C1 Arietes during the U.S. Army’s (USA) Combined Resolve XV wargame, in Hohenfels, […] Continue Reading…
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Notice the ladder looking antenna coming off the bustle rack. Idaho National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Becky Vanshur, 04MAR2021.The vastness of the Steppes of South Western Idaho. Back when I was ‘in’ we called it Orchard Training […] Continue Reading…