In early May 2011, one of the U.S. taxpayer funded Russian built Afghan Mil 17B(V)-5 crashed in Nuristan Province, Afghanistan. Nine people onboard were slightly injured.
The Hip was part of the first deliveries of U.S. taxpayer funded Russian made helicopters between 2009 and 2010. NATO/ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) reported the Mil-17s sent to […] Continue Reading…
The Lighter Amphibious Resupply Cargo-5 tons capacity (LARC-V) was developed by the U.S. Army in the 1950s. Just short of 1-thousand of the aluminum hulled boat-trucks were made, almost half being intentionally destroyed as the United States ended its occupation of Vietnam. About 1-hundred are now privately owned. Perhaps in response to concerns about […] Continue Reading…
According to NASA, it was in 1973 that one of its employees became intrigued with how high speed tractor-trailer rigs created massive ‘suction’ as they drove-by slower moving vehicles. In 1975 a study showed that big-rig trucks moving at 55 miles per hour (the national speed limit at that time) displaced as much as […] Continue Reading…
What does it take to keep what the Afghan’s call Satan’s Chariot in the air?
U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Angelita Lawrence, 02OCT2009.Video from September 2009, live fire prep, 12.7mm chin-gun and 57mm rockets:
The Sukhoi 22M4 is the export version of the Sukhoi 17M4. The NATO reporting name for both is Fitter-K. Poland began using Su-22s in August 1984, when it was a member of the Cold War era Warsaw Pact. Poland joined NATO in 1997. Polish officials want to phase-out the Su-22 by 2026.
The first time the Afghan military used the NATO-reporting-name Hind was during the Soviet occupation (1979-1989). It was during that occupation that Mujaheddin on the receiving end of the Mi-24D nicknamed it Satan’s Chariot. After the Soviets left, Afghanistan managed to operate a few Mi-24s (NATO reporting-name Hind-D), some sources say right up until […] Continue Reading…
Polish modified ZSU-23-4, known as ZSU-23-4MP Biała, July 2016.
Very quick video of Polish ZSU-23-4MP, a mine throwing TRI-Kroton (aka Opal, modified MTLB) and some 2S1 SP guns, in Romania for NATO wargames in 2017:
USA photo by […] Continue Reading…
Since the end of March 2020, the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has been conducting a taxpayer funded global ‘Project Air Bridge’ in response to pathogen CoViD-19.
FEMA photo by Alexis Hall, 29APR2020.China Cargo’s Boeing 777F arrives at Chicago O’Hare International Airport, 29APR2020.
FEMA photo, 28APR2020.U.S. Customs […] Continue Reading…
30 April 2020 / 04:28 (UTC-07 Tango 06) 11 Ordibehesht 1399/07 Ramadan 1441/08 Geng-Chen(4th) 4718
FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) ordered Engineers from U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-Honolulu District, Naval Facilities Engineering Command-Marianas, Homeland Security, the territorial government of Guam, Guam Air National Guard and Guam Fire Department to find suitable locations for ‘Alternate Care […] Continue Reading…
30 April 2020 / 02:30 (UTC-07 Tango 06) 11 Ordibehesht 1399/07 Ramadan 1441/08 Geng-Chen(4th) 4718
“The hospitals are packed. We still have flu season, we still have everyone else that goes to a hospital with a medical or an emergency surgical problem. That doesn’t go away during a crisis.”-Judith Persichilli, New Jersey Department of Health […] Continue Reading…