Idaho’s Thunderbolts and Bold Tigers routinely take part in Checkered Flag training over Florida: “They’re able to put together a bigger airspace for us than is available in the Nellis Test and Training Range, which means you can bring together more effectively much larger numbers of aircraft.”-Lieutenant Colonel Mark Nyberg, 389th Fighter Squadron ‘Thunderbolts’, […] Continue Reading…
The military calls it ‘divestiture’, when they retire a major piece of military equipment. Under the National Defense Authorization Act, the U.S. Air Force (USAF) is required to divest 17 B-1B Lancers (aka Bones) in order to justify buying the […] Continue Reading…
Republic of Singapore’s F-15SG Strike Eagles of the 428th Fighter Squadron ‘Buccaneers’ are based on Mountain Home Air Force Base (AFB), in Southern Idaho. But at the beginning of March 2021, they attacked the air space over Las Vegas, Nevada!
The United Arab Emirates (The Emirates al-ʾImārāt الإمارات) uses a variety of armored vehicles, here’s just a few:
U.S. Marine Corps photo by Corporal Hannah Perkins.United Arab Emirates’ French made Leclerc battle tank during ‘Iron Magic’, a Combined Arms Live Fire Exercise (CALFEX) with the U.S. Marine Corps, 31OCT2017.
Self propelled artillery 2S1 Karamfil (Russian name Gvozdika, Гвоздика, carnation) Novo Selo Training Area, June 2019.
U.S. Army photo by Captain Erica Mitchell.The 2S1 has a 122mm howitzer. It is based on a stretched MTLB hull.
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Here’s an incomplete list of links to news media reports on the latest pandemic panic-attack shenanigans, as of 14MAR2021:
Hotel tries to attract tourists by offering free CoViD testing across Caribbean and Mexico.
Why has Covid’s toll been surprisingly low across much of Africa and Asia?
AUSTRALIA: Supposedly the residents of Western Australia re-elected their state government, […] Continue Reading…
The following are U.S. Air Force (USAF) photos of 451st Expeditionary Maintenance Squadron’s phase inspection (inspection based on flight hours) of A-10C Thunderbolt-2 at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, December 2009, model kit builders notice the plethora of raised rivets on the fuselage of the A-10C:
USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Francisco V. […] Continue Reading…
Welcome to borderland hell under the new U.S. President, incomplete list of links to news/government agency reports as of 12 March 2021:
Canada says it will not open border with U.S. until pandemic cases go down!
CNN admits some illegals will get pandemic panic-attack taxpayer funding!
Residents of Kentucky and Tennessee arrested for smuggling humans!
ARIZONA: Republicans approve […] Continue Reading…
On 11MAR2021, Boeing delivered the first production F-15EX to Eglin Air Force Base (AFB), Florida, for testing and evaluation.
USAF photo by Technical Sergeant John McRell.The 96th Operations Group 40th Flight Test Squadron, and 53rd Wing 85th Test & […] Continue Reading…
On 02FEB2021, the North Dakota National Guard announced that its 835th Engineer Utilities Detachment is deploying to somewhere in The Middle East during Summer 2021.
It is the first overseas mobilization for the 835th Engineer Utilities Detachment. But it’s not the first time North Dakota engineers were given deployment notification. In November 2010 they were […] Continue Reading…