To many people, the Antonov 2 is something that harkens back to the First World War’s biplanes, but it was developed after the Second World War (first flight 31AUG1947), soldiered on through the undeclared Cold War and continues flying for militaries on both sides of the Ukraine Crisis.
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U.S. Coast Guard personnel from Air Station Clearwater search for survivors in Fort Myers Beach, Florida, 29SEP2022. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer Third Class […] Continue Reading…
On 28SEP2022, the Arkansas Army National Guard’s 39th Infantry Brigade Combat Team had to deliver 2-thousand gallons of potable (think of it as water clean enough you can put in a pot for cooking and eating, pot-able) water to the Bald Knob School District in White County, Arkansas.
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Russia’s Sukhoi 75 ‘The Checkmate’ is a single engined ‘low cost’ 6th Gen fighter. It uses the AL-41F1 ‘project 117’ engine, a development of the engine used on the twin engined 5th Gen fighter […] Continue Reading…
T-38 with 80th Anniversary logo on its tail, Laughlin Air Force Base (AFB), Texas, 05MAY2022.
USAF photo by Senior Airman Nicholas Larsen, 05MAY2022. USAF photo by Airman Kailee Reynolds, 03FEB2022.87th Flying Training Squadron (FTS) heritage […] Continue Reading…
Su-57 (Су-57), NATO reporting name Felon.
United Aircraft Corporation photo. KnAAZ photo.On 22SEP2022, after the partial mobilization of Russia’s reserve military units against a perceived invasion by NATO, Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aviation Factory (KnAAZ) announced it is ramping up production of the Sukhoi 57: “We understand how important this work […] Continue Reading…
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В.Путин: Уважаемые друзья!
Тема моего выступления – ситуация на Донбассе и ход специальной военной операции по его освобождению от неонацистского режима, захватившего власть на Украине в 2014 году в результате вооружённого государственного переворота.
Обращаюсь сегодня к вам, ко всем гражданам нашей страны, к людям разных поколений, возраста и национальности, […] Continue Reading…
In August 2022, there were reports that Iran is supplying Russia with a stealth Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV, also known as a ‘drone’). This is feasible because, during the U.S. President Barack Obama regime, Iran was able to capture a U.S. stealth drone in 2011, and they successfully reverse engineered it.
MiG-29, NATO reporting name Fulcrum.
Photo via Ministry of Defence of the Slovak Republic, August 2022.Towards the end of August 2022, Slovak MiG-29s made their final military flights during the Slovak International Air Fest over Malacky-Kuchyňa Air Base. Although they had been recently upgraded with NATO standard equipment, and were expected […] Continue Reading…
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After the First World War, several countries formed a new international military organization called International Committee of Military Medicine (ICMM). From the 5th to the 9th of September 2022, the ICMM held a conference in Brussels, Belgium (which also happens to be the […] Continue Reading…