Recent NATO reaction to Russia-Ukraine Crisis, from 01MAR2022 to 17MAR2022:
The first ever deployment of the NATO Response Force has just been assigned a year to its title: NATO Response Force 2022, indicating there will be more deployments past the Gregorian year 2022.
U.S. Air Force photo by Airman First Class Kendall […] Continue Reading…
“We thank you for everything you’re doing for our staff and residents. Before the Idaho National Guard arrived, at one point we were down to 48% staffing. We realize this is a unique and uncertain environment, but you’ve provided a solid cadre of troops and we couldn’t ask for a better group at such […] Continue Reading…
Many people don’t know that Japan and the Soviet Union never made peace with each other after the Second World War (which Japan started years before Germany fired a shot). Even after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991/92, Russian and Japanese officials could not bring themselves to settle their differences regarding the […] Continue Reading…
16 March 2022 (15:08-UTC-07 Tango 06) 25 Esfand 1400/12 Sha’ban 1443/14 Gui Mao 4720
“A severe interruption to a regional telecommunication link in King Salmon has resulted in the loss of data flow from seismic stations at nine volcanoes in the Katmai region and northern Alaska Peninsula over the past weeks. As a result, AVO […] Continue Reading…
16 March 2022 (12:11-UTC-07 Tango 06) 25 Esfand 1400/12 Sha’ban 1443/14 Gui Mao 4720
The first quake (at about 08:00 Mountain Time North America) maxed out Japan’s magnitude scale, which tops out at 7. First quake was felt Fukushima Prefecture’s Sōma City, at a depth of 63km (USGS data). Second quake of less than 6 […] Continue Reading…
The U.S. Army’s 3rd Battalion, 67th Armor Regiment, 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, based on Fort Stewart, Georgia, is playing with new M1A2 SEPv3 Abrams and new M2A4 Bradley Fighting Vehicles.
U.S. Army photo by Sergeant Trenton Lowery, 01FEB2022.On 01FEB2022, the ‘Hound Battalion’ of the ‘Spartan Brigade’ got […] Continue Reading…
Cold War, approximately 1947 (due to U.S. President Harry Truman’s Truman Doctrine) to 1991 (Operation Desert Storm, collapse of Soviet Union):
JH-7 (aka FBC-1 Flying Leopard, NATO reporting name Flounder) first flew in 1988, but entered service after the Cold War, in 1992.
People’s Liberation Army- Eastern Theater Command photo by Ge […] Continue Reading…
China has developed and deployed a high altitude lightweight Type 15 (aka ZTQ-15, VT5) tank to dominate its Tibetan and Uyghur regions.
People’s Liberation Army-Nanjiang Military Command photo by Gao Yang, 09FEB2022.The Type 15 is equipped with an oxygen generator to prevent crews from developing altitude sickness.
PLA-Nanjiang […] Continue Reading…
The U.S. Army/Marine Corps calls it the Small Unit Support Vehicle (SUSV), an all-terrain Arctic vehicle. It is a NATO Norway made Bandvagn (Bv) 206. Here in the U.S. any tracked vehicle designed for snow is commonly referred to as a Snow Cat (there is even […] Continue Reading…
Cold War: Approximately 1947 (due to U.S. President Harry Truman’s Truman Doctrine) to 1991 (Operation Desert Storm, collapse of Soviet Union).
U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) M109 with short M126 155mm gun, Viet Nam, July 1966. Photo by Captain Edwin W. Besch.A USMC Major General has the ‘honor’ […] Continue Reading…