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Technology

Cold War Vehicle I-D: Vulcan, 70 years later!

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Cold War: Approximately 1947 (due to U.S. President Harry Truman’s Truman Doctrine) to 1991 (Operation Desert Storm, collapse of Soviet Union).

The Avro Vulcan was a Cold war era NATO-United Kingdom nuclear bomber, first flying in 1952 (70 years ago).

Avro Vulcan B.1A, flying over Las Vegas, Nevada, during the World Congress of Flight air show, April 1959. XH502 started service with the Royal Air Force (RAF) in 1958, and was scrapped ten years later.

Vulcan B.2 XH535 over Edwards Air Force Base (AFB), California, 10JUL1961. XH535 would crash on 11MAY1964, in the United Kingdom, four of the six crew were killed.

Vulcan B.2 XH535 flies alongside B-52 00006, over Edwards AFB, California, 10JUL1961.

No information accompanied this U.S. Air Force (USAF) photo.

By 1968, the Royal Air Force (RAF) realized the bomber, intended to carry nuclear bombs, was not able to reach targets inside the Soviet Union as a ‘strategic bomber’.  In the 1970s it acted as a tactical nuclear bomber.  By the 1980s it switched to carrying conventional bombs and missiles.

XM650 taking part in the USAF Strategic Air Command’s Giant Voice ’71, in Florida in December 1971.

Buzzing a cottage near RAF Alconbury. USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Jose Lopez Junior, 15JUN1982.

In 1982, the Vulcan was finally used in combat, during the Falkland/Malvinas War (40 years ago).

This Vulcan B.2 is flying over Castle AFB, California, 01JAN1983. According to the USAF, it was scheduled to be donated to a museum.

XL428 on the RAF Mildenhall flight line, 09JUN1984. USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Jose Lopez Junior.

Vulcan B.2 XL426, 25MAY1985. XL426 is one of three surviving Vulcan bombers. USAF photo by Sergeant David S. Nolan.

XL426 on RAF Mildenhall, 25MAY1985. USAF photo by Sergeant David S. Nolan.

Vulcan B.2 XH558 retired from military service in 1992, marking the end of the undeclared Cold War.  It was operated by a private organization for air shows, until 2015.

Farnborough International Air Show, United Kingdom, 14JUL2012. USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Lee Osberry.

U.S. Air Force photo by Technical Sergeant Chrissy Powers/Best, 18JUL2015.

Avro Vulcan XH558 preforms for crowds at the Royal International Air Tattoo over RAF Fairford, United Kingdom, 19JUL2015. This Vulcan retired from air show duty in October 2015. USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Chrissy Powers/Best.

Avro Vulcan XH558 flies toward Royal Air Force Lakenheath, England, 27AUG2015. USAF photo by Senior Airman Trevor T. McBride.

XH558 was the final B.2 Vulcan to be delivered to the Royal Air Force and the last complete flying Vulcan in the world. USAF photo by Senior Airman Trevor T. McBride, 27AUG2015.

XH558 was escorted by two USAF F-15C Eagles. USAF photo by Senior Airman Trevor T. McBride, 27AUG2015.

U.S. Air Force video report on how the F-15C Eagles used the Vulcan to conduct interception training:

USAF photo by Senior Airman Trevor T. McBride, 27AUG2015.

USAF photo by Senior Airman Trevor T. McBride, 27AUG2015.

USAF photo by Senior Airman Trevor T. McBride, 27AUG2015.

F-15 Eagle 50th Anniversary, 2022: EAGLES HIT 10-THOUSAND HOURS, WAY PAST THEIR ‘PLANNED OBSOLESCENCE’!

Influenza, Technology

Pandemic OverFlight: B-52, bomb the virus back to the stoneage!

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Salute to Heroes, Operation American Resolve, America Strong, or whatever is the latest Defense Department name for it, apparently massive flights of military aircraft flying over metro areas makes people feel more secure about fighting the “invisible enemy” of a Pandemic.

U.S. Air Force photo by Giancarlo Casem, 14MAY2020.

B-52 Stratofortress from the 412th Test Wing, Edwards Air Force Base, California, flies over Lancaster and Palmdale, 14MAY2020.

USAF photo by Giancarlo Casem, 14MAY2020.

From the ground video, USAF 2nd Bomb Wing and 307th Bomb Wing B-52s, and Louisiana Air National Guard 159th Fighter Wing F-15 Eagles, over New Orleans:

From the air video of same aircraft over Louisiana, 05MAY2020:

USAF photo by Senior Airman Lillian Miller, 01MAY2020.

Bare Metal:

USAF photo by Greg L. Davis.

B-1B & B-52H

MINI B-52H LANDS AT BARKSDALE

Technology

Vehicle I-D: Sukhoi 27/30

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Venezuelan Sukhoi 30 shadowing a U.S. Navy EP-3, July 2019.

Thermal camera video of Venezuelan Su-30:

Ukrainian Su-27/30, Starokostiantyniv Air Base during NATO wargame Clear Sky 2018.

F-15 Eagle taxis past Sukhoi 27s.

Video, Russian Su-27s sneak a look at U.S. Navy EP-3E, January 2018:

Su-30, the main difference between the Su-27UB and Su-30 is that the Su-30 is a fully combat capable multi-role aircraft, while the Su-27UB is a trainer.

Video, Russian Su-27 streaks past U.S. Navy EP-3E, January 2018:

The Su-30 is slightly longer and taller than the Su-27UB, and  can also be equipped with canards and thrust vectoring afterburners.

Video, U.S. F-15s mingle with Russian Su-30s over the Baltic Sea, November-December 2017:

Su-27 v B-52H, Baltic Sea, June 2017.

Su-27 v B-1B, Baltic Sea, June 2017.

Su-27 v RC-135U, Baltic Sea, June 2017.

Video, Russian Knights 2016:

Indian Su-30MKI on Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, May 2016.  Good size comparison with the much smaller F-16.

Malaysian Su-30MKM, Singapore International Airshow, 21FEB2016.

Russian Su-27 takes part in U.S. Vigilant Eagle-13, over Alaska, August 2013.

Su-27, Canadian F-18 (CF-18) and an Ilyushin 62 over Cold Lake, Canada, August 2013.   The Il-62 played the role of hi-jacked airliner, while the Su-27s and CF-18s played escorts.

Malaysian Su-30 fly with F/A-18E, South China Sea, October 2012.

NATO Safe Skies 2011, in Ukraine.

Video, Ukraine SU-27/30  2011:

 

VEHICLE I-D: MIG-31 SPACE BOUND DOGFIGHTER?

Kit Bashing, Technology

Bare Metal Bombers: B-1B & B-52H

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Quick look at naked B-1Bs at Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex, on 29APR2020, U.S. Air Force video by Second Lieutenant Danny Rangel:

U.S. Air Force photo by Greg L. Davis, 14FEB2018.

Waiting for new clothes at Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex, Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma.

USAF photo by Greg L. Davis.

18MAY2017, Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma.  Lightning strikes in the background, as a naked B-1B undergoes depot level maintenance.

USAF photo by Greg L. Davis, 20JUN2017.

Post maintenance check flight.  Next is some new clothes.

Quick video explainer of what they do with B-1Bs at Tinker:

USAF photo by Kelly White, 29JAN2016.

Ghost Rider was saved from the Davis Monthan graveyard, sent to Tinker AFB for resurrection in December 2015.

This is actually the tall tail, removed for rebuild. USAF photo by Kelly White, 25MAR2016.

March 2016.

USAF photo by Kelly White, 25MAR2016.

USAF photo by Kelly White, 25MAR2016.

Somewhere in the bowels.

USAF photo by Mark Hybers.

Re-attaching the tail, July 2016.

USAF photo by Mark Hybers.

USAF photo by Mark Hybers.

USAF photo by Greg L. Davis.

Ghost Rider naked, 29AUG2016, Tinker AFB.

USAF photo by Greg L. Davis.

Run….faster!

USAF photo by Greg L. Davis.

USAF photo by Greg L. Davis.

USAF photo by Greg L. Davis, 21SEP2016.

New clothes.

USAF photo by Greg L. Davis.

Reborn Ghost Rider, 22SEP2016.   It took 19 months to rebuild the 55 years old B-52H.

USAF photo by Kelly White, 27SEP2016.

It’s new home is with the 5th Bomb Wing at Minot AFB, North Dakota.

USAF photo by Kelly White, 27SEP2016.

USAF photo by Senior Airman J.T. Armstrong, 08AUG2017.

Lightning welcomes Ghost Rider to its new home.

B-52H STRATOFORTRESS NOSE ART

VEHICLE ID: B-1, B-2 & B-52 NEW ‘INTEGRATED BOMBER FORCE’, B-B-B-BAAD TO THE BONE!

VEHICLE ID: B-1B LANCER, ANDERSEN AFB GUAM

Kit Bashing

B-52H Stratofortress Nose Art

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B-52H Stratofortress deployed from Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana, lands on the flight line in support of U.S. Strategic Command’s Bomber Task Force (BTF) in Europe at RAF Fairford, British empire England, 14MAR2019.

B-52 from the 5th Bomb Wing at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, sits on the flightline at Andersen AFB, Guam, 15JAN2019.

External fuel tank art.

B-52H Stratofortress assigned to the 96th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron, deployed from Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana, sits on the flightline after arriving for exercise Lightning Focus at Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) Base Darwin, British empire Australia, 29NOV2018.

Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, 02JUN2016.

 

Video: USAF B-52 TAKES PART IN AUSTRALIA’S CELEBRATION OF THE VIETNAM OCCUPATION!

 

U.S.

Great Reneger: Louisiana Bombers deploy to England

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“The task force will operate across the USAFE-AFAFRICA theater from the Arctic to the Sahara Desert, demonstrating how the U.S., with our allies and partners, can quickly amass at a time and location of our choosing to deter and defend against any possible aggression.”-Lieutenant General Jeffrey Harrigian, U.S. Air Forces in Europe and Air Forces Africa

“We are going to have to stop being the policemen of the world.”-Donald Trump, August 2015 interview with Hugh Hewitt

USAF Bomber Task Force (BTF) personnel (at least 450) from Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana, arrive at the British empire’s Royal Air Force base Fairford, 11MAR2019.  BTF missions have been conducted across the globe since April 2014, and this BTF rotation is the largest deployment of a single bomber platform since 2003 for Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Barksdake B-52 nuclear bomber lands at RAF Fairford, 20MAR2019.  RAF Fairford is now the United States Air Forces in Europe’s ‘forward operating location’ for strategic bombers.

Video, air-refuel of B-52 over England, 13MAR2019:

Video, B-52s arrive at RAF Fairford, KC-135R takes off (ignore the voices):

M777 : PROOF THE UNITED STATES IS THE TOOL OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE!

OBAMA TURNS BENEDICT ARNOLD, IS TOOL OF PRINCE OF EVIL BRITISH EMPIRE

USAF REMINDS YOU THAT OUR MORTAL ENEMY IS THE BRITISH EMPIRE!

TO DESTROY U.S. DOLLAR: BRITISH EMPIRE WELCOMES CHINESE CASH IN HAND! QUEEN TREATS XI FAR BETTER THAN ANY U.S. PRESIDENT!

BRITISH EMPIRE, LET SLIP THE DOGS OF WAR: ISLAMIC STATE DAIISH

International

USAF B-52 takes part in Australia’s celebration of the Vietnam occupation!

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20 August 2016 (15:27 UTC-07 Tango 01) 30 Mordad 1395/16 Dhu I-Qa’da 1437/18 Bing-Shen 4714

“You do not forget this sound, ever! North Vietnamese people, we know what is B-52.”-Vu Duy Thanh, survivor of B-52 strikes in Vietnam, and witness to B-52 strikes on Iraq during Operation Desert Storm

Delamere Training Range in Northern Australia

On 18 August 2016, U.S. Air Force B-52H bombers taking part in exercise Pitch Black were diverted to the British empire country of Australia, to take part in Australia’s Vietnam Remembrance Day.

Video fo B-52s being diverted over Australia: 

Australia’s Vietnam Rememberance Day is set on the date of the Battle of Long Tan, which took place in 1966.  Supposedly 1-hundred Diggers (Aussie soldiers) and three Kiwis (New Zealanders) were surrounded by 2-thousand Vietnamese.  According to Australian news sources, without explanation the Vietnamese halted their assaults after three-and-a-half hours.    18 Diggers killed, 21 wounded.  The Australians claim they killed 245 Vietnamese druing the battle.

Royal Australian Regiment (the ‘Royal’ means they’re still under controll of the British monarchy) following the sudden end of the Battle of Long Tan

It should be noted that veteran Digger commander Harry Smith, who took part in the Battle of Long Tan, openly criticizes Australia’s Vietnam Rememberance Day pointing out that Australians would be “up in arms” if Japan had an national holiday celebrating it’s bombing of the Aussie port of Darwin (Japan conducted air raids on Australia from 1942-43).

Amazingly there are news reports saying Vietnam actually gave the Aussie government the go-ahead to celebrate the U.S. led occupation of Vietnam, in Vietnam!  More than 1-thousand Australians went to Vietnam for Vietnam Rememberance Day, that’s ten times the number of Diggers surrounded at the Battle of Long Tan!

It seems to me that this obsesion with the oil in The South China Sea has caused the current government of Vietnam to suffer some sort of amnesia! (U.S., AUSTRALIA & JAPAN INVADE VIETNAM, AGAIN! PREPS FOR WAR WITH CHINA!)

But to add even more insult to the Vietnamese veterans who fought against occupation, the U.S. Air Force diverted two B-52H bombers to Australia for the celibrations.  The B-52 bomber became an infamous icon of genocide during the Vietnam occuation after bombing “them into the Stone Age”.  In 1995, the Vietnamese government claimed that U.S. airstrikes (from 1965-74) caused most of the 2-million civilian causualties during the occupation!

The final, and ‘heaviest’ B-52 bombing missions over Vietnam were ordered by president Richard Nixon, about 20-thousand tons of bombs dropped in one week of December 1972!

Remains of B-52 still visible in Hanoi today. For a long time the USAF denied its B-52s were being shot down by the ‘stone aged’ Vietnamese

B-52 shoot down over Hanoi:

It was called Linebacker II, also known as Christmas Bombings (isn’t that nice of you ‘christians’?). Here’s audio of Nixon and Henry Kissinger talking about creating a False Flag excuse for launching the Christmas Bombings: 

They were bombed “back to the Stone Age”, the U.S. and Australia never lost a battle, but who won the war?

“The Americans are still relying on their large, sophisticated war machine with electronics and awesome carpet bombs. That’s their strong point. But they have always underestimated their enemy. That’s their weakness…”-Bui Tin, former Colonel in People’s Army of Viet-Nam (PAVN), February 1991

“No army has ever surrendered because they were subjected to heavy bombardment.”-Eugene J. Carroll Junior, retired USN Rear Admiral, February 1991

WORLD WAR 3, ASIA-PACIFIC FRONT: OBAMA INCREASING MILITARY PERSONNEL IN AUSTRALIA!

WORLD WAR 3: MILITARY PACT WITH AUSTRALIA “There will be hard days ahead…”-Obama

WORLD WAR 3: PEACEPRIZE WINNER, OBAMA, SENDING THOUSANDS OF U.S. MARINES TO AUSTRALIA “we are here to stay”-Obama

International, Technology, U.S.

World War Three, 2016: B-1, B-2 & B-52, the new ‘Integrated Bomber Force’, B-B-B-B-BAAD to the Bone!

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17 August 2016 (17:05 UTC-07 Tango 01) 27 Mordad 1395/13 Dhu I-Qa’da 1437/15 Bing-Shen 4714

Bomber Assurance And Deterrence = BAAD

As a show of force against ‘enemies’ in the oil rich South China Sea area (anybody remember the U.S. occupation of Vietnam?) The U.S. Air Force is conducting strategic bomber ops using all three of its strategic bombers for the first time.

“The unique thing about our opportunities here as part of the continuous bomber presence is we really have the chance to train across all of the mission sets that the B-1 is capable of. We will routinely, on a day-in and day-out basis, get to train with the land, air and naval forces of both the US and our allies and partners in the region. It’s really an unmatched training opportunity for our squadron.”-Lieutenant Colonel Seth Spanier, commnader 34th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron

B-1B Lancer (aka Bone) from South Dakota takes part in bomber operations at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam

“It also gives us the chance to work with other bomber aircraft we have inside Air Force Global Strike Command as well as some of our regional allies and partners for national security and deterrence in this part of the world.”-Lieutenant Colonel Keith Butler, 13th Bomb Squadron director of operations for the B-2

B-2 Spirit from Missouri taking part in bomber operations at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam

“We’ve been out here the past six months flying Pacific Power Projection sorties, so all over the Pacific area of responsibility doing assurance deterrence missions.”-Captain Kaitlin Tardieu, B-52 driver

B-52 Stratofortress from North Dakota takes part in bomber ops at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam

The B-1, B-2 and B-52 have been to the U.S. Territory of Guam before, but not as a combined bomber team.    The U.S. Pacific Command’s area of operation covers 52% of the world!

Video of B-1, B-2 & B-52 take-offs from Guam:

USAF news report on BAAD:

OPERATION PACIFIC PATHWAYS: OBAMA PREPS FOR WAR WITH CHINA, AT SAME TIME SELLS CHINA NUCLEAR MATERIALS!

U.S., AUSTRALIA & JAPAN INVADE VIETNAM, AGAIN! PREPS FOR WAR WITH CHINA!

OBAMA SENDING 60% OF NAVAL FLEET TO SOUTH CHINA SEA OIL FIELDS!