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International, Kit Bashing, Technology, U.S.

Rivet Joint-Airseeker: RC-135V/W Patriot & Red Coat

Video December 31, 2020 Hutchins AAron

RC-135 Rivet Joint , Las Vegas, Nevada, 07DEC2021. U.S. Air Force photo by William R. Lewis.

Kadena Air Base, Japan, 12MAY2020. U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Benjamin Sutton.

Personnel wearing masks board RC-135V at Kadena Air Base, Japan, 05MAY2020. USAF photo by Senior Airman Rhett Isbell.

Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas, 21FEB2020. USAF photo by Manuel Garcia.

The Boeing RC-135V/W Rivet Joint reconnaissance aircraft are the most recent members of the RC-135 family, which can be traced back to 1964. The difference between the ‘V’ and ‘W’ variants depends upon which C-135 was upgraded/modified to Rivet Joint standard; RC-135Vs are upgraded RC-135Cs, while RC-135Ws are modified C-135Bs.

USAF photo by Manuel Garcia, 21FEB2020.

It provides near-real-time on-scene intelligence collection, primarily by detecting, identifying and geolocating signals throughout the electromagnetic spectrum.

Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, 28JUL2017. USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Amy Lovgren.

Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, 28JUL2017. Photo by Technical Sergeant Amy Lovgren.

It can carry a crew of more than 30 people, and is powered by four CFM-56 turbofans.

Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, 27JUL2017. USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Amy Lovgren.

Currently, U.S. Air Force Rivet Joints are flown by the 55th Wing, based out of Offutt Air Force Base (AFB), Nebraska.

Offutt AFB, Nebraska, 13MAR2012. USAF photo by Jeffrey Gates.

Time lapse video by Senior Airman Jacob Skovo-Lane, How to Wash your Rivet Joint, October 2018:

Video by Senior Airman Joshua Hoskins, Michigan Air National Guard re-fuels Rivet Joint over Afghanistan, January 2017:

Offutt AFB, 13MAR2012. USAF photo by Jeffrey Gates.

Over Afghanistan, 19JUN2011. USAF photo by Master Sergeant William Greer.

In August 2010, the USAF celebrated 20 years of Rivet Joint operations, with aircraft that are as much as 50 years old:

During the pandemic of 2020, believe it or not a mask was created for the nose of the RC-135. It is nicknamed The Mule Mask. Video interview of mask creator Technical Sergeant Kristen Horwith by Staff Sergeant Lexie West, 11AUG2020:

Video by (then) Senior Airmen Lexie West, USAF RC-135 at RAF Mildenhall, United Kingdom, November 2017:

RAF RC-135W Airseeker, Offutt AFB, Nebraska, 02MAY2018. USAF photo by Senior Airman Jacob Skovo-Lane.

For the Commonwealth of Nations (formerly British Commonwealth of Nations, formerly British Empire) member United Kingdom, in 2011 the RC-135W was chosen as the replacement for the Royal Air Force’s (RAF) BAe Nimrod R Mark 1. In November 2013 the RAF received it’s first RC-135W, flying it’s first mission in May 2014. The official British name for the RC-135W is Airseeker.

12FEB2017, Airseeker undergoing landing gear inspection, Offutt AFB. USAF photo by Delanie Stafford.

While taking part in Red Flag aerial wargames in February 2017, over Nevada, the RAF Airseeker developed main-landing gear problems and diverted to Offutt AFB in Nebraska.

12FEB2017, Airseeker undergoing landing gear inspection, Offutt AFB. USAF photo by Delanie Stafford.

It was determined that the Airseeker had a faulty main-landing gear sequence valve, which was preventing the gear from locking in the retracted position.

RAF Airseeker, Red Flag wargames, Nevada, 2017. Photo by Sergeant Neil Bryden.

Giant model of an RC-135, Lackland AFB, Texas. Photo by by Nadine Wiley De Moura.

The ancient Nova vacformed 1:72 scale KC-135 came with optional parts which you could use to make an RC version (but it has the older engines since it came out before the CFM-56 version, you could kit-bash using a newer CFM equipped AMT-ERTL KC-135R kit, which was also issued under the Airfix/Heller brands).

In the 1990s AMT-ERTL issued a 1:72 scale RC-135V, the version used during Desert Storm. Some kit bashers used the kit to model a RC-135W Airseeker.

An old photo of an RC-135, by Forrest Durham.

If you are a model builder, pay attention to the year of operation of the RC-135V/W you want to depict, because various antennae bumps and blades will appear and disappear depending on the latest electronic mission configuration. It seems the older the plane gets the more skin growths it develops.

Somewhere in The middle East (South West Asia), 04MAR2010. USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Michelle Larche.

Refueling during the invasion of Iraq. USAF photo by Master Sergeant Dave Ahlschwede, 09APR2003.

Over Nebraska, 01MAY2000. USAF photo by Master Sergeant Dave Nolan.

01MAY2000, USAF photo by Master Sergeant Dave Nolan.

Don’t forget the bottom.

Departing from a forward operating base during the invasion of Iraq. USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Robert J. Horstman, 28APR2003.

11DEC1991, USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Scott P. Stewart.

Don’t confuse with the RC-135S Cobra Ball:

Not all RC-135S are covered in bumps and antennae. USAF photo by Senior Airman Amy Younger, 23MAY2020.

Variations of bumps and windows on RC-135S. Notice that the upper part of starboard wing, as well as nacelles, on some Cobra Balls are painted matt-black. USAF photo by Senior Airman Jeremy Smith, September 2001.

C-130: ONCE A RED COAT, NOW A BLUE ANGEL

Pandemic Overflight: KC-135

EC-135E FIRE-BIRD: 10329 COMES BACK TO LIFE, AGAIN! OR, WHAT TO DO WITH YOUR EXTRA KC-135 KIT.

Vehicle I-D: MLRS, BRITISH RED COATS INVADE U.S. ARMY BASE IN GERMANY!

2018: M777 artillery proof the Red Coats have returned!

2017: U.S. ARMY COMMANDED BY RED COATS?

Canadian Red Coats control U.S. NORAD: SHHH, DON’T “CROSSTELL”, BUT U.S. AIR MILITIA UNITS & CANADA PREPPING FOR TFR EMERGENCY!

International, Technology

End of the Cold War to Ukraine Crisis: No more Open Skies, or whatever happened to the OC-135B?

Video November 30, 2020 Hutchins AAron

U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sergeant Keith Reed the Third, 17JUL1997.

On 24MAR1992, the Treaty on Open Skies was created as a way of being sure that countries that have military weapons (military-grade arms) control agreements are complying. However, it wouldn’t be until 01JAN2002 that Open Skies actually went into effect, with 34 countries signed-on (but only 20 ratified). Interestingly, the first OC-135B was ready to launch in June 1993!

Newly independent Ukrainian Air Force personnel get their photo taken in front of their Open Skies Antonov An-30. Photo by Technical Sergeant Brad Fallin, 14APR1997.

Russian Open Skies Antonov An-30, 25SEP2009. Photo by Alan Lebeda.

On 22NOV2020, the United States officially withdrew from the Treaty on Open Skies, so far the only country to do so. It’s interesting that the many countries who did not sign-on to Open Skies, like nuclear armed China, condemned the U.S. withdrawal.

Photo by Kelly White. 23APR2020, U.S. Air Force OC-135B (6-12670) stripped and awaiting what would become its final Open Skies livery.

But it is more complicated than U.S. President Donald Trump being a mean old ‘orange man’, it’s about other treaty signators not complying, and the fact that updating the now ‘ancient’ observation technology is just too cost prohibitive for taxpayers.

A naked OC-135B anticipates its final Open Skies paint job on Tinker AFB, Oklahoma. Photo by Kelly White, 23APR2020.

Here’s a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) video, 22MAY2020, in which NATO accuses Russia (Rossiyskaya Federatsiya) of violating the Open Skies agreement:

Photo by Charles Haymond. An OC-135B Open Skies (converted WC-135 weather research) aircraft takes off from Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska,14SEP2018.

Photo by Technical Sergeant Heather Salazar. Voyenno-Vozdushnye Sily Rossii (Military Air Forces of Russia) Open Skies Tupolev Tu-154M RF-85655, lands at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, 14AUG2019.

From 1992-93, three WC-135B aircraft were modified for the Open Skies mission, re-designated OC-135B. For some reason, after only a few years based at Offutt Air Force Base (AFB), Nebraska, the first OC-135B was sent straight to ‘moth-balls’ at Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona, in 1997.

Photo by Charles J. Haymond, 14SEP2018.

This OC-135B conducted observation flights over Haiti, after the 7.0 earthquake in 2010. Photo by Senior Airman Perry Aston, 16JAN2010.

Despite the OC-135Bs being used on other non-Open Skies observations, such as natural disasters, according to some reports the remaining two OC-135Bs are now available for sale as a result of the U.S. exit from Open Skies: “We’ve started liquidating the equipment. Other countries can come purchase or just take the airframes. They are really old and cost-prohibitive for us to maintain. We don’t have a use for them anymore.”

Photo by Staff Sergeant John Hillier. 01FEB2018, a Commonwealth of Nations (aka British Empire) Royal Canadian Air Force C-130J arrives at Rosecrans Memorial Airport, Missouri, joining units from France and Czech Republic for Open Skies training with the Missouri Air National Guard.

What many people might not know is that the Open Skies operation required the use of old school film technology. In this 2015 U.S. Air Force video report, by John Harrington, it’s revealed that the old technology was getting difficult to maintain due to no new parts:

Here is an October 2016 USAF video (by John Harrington) explaining how the imagery captured by the OC-135Bs are processed:

Photo by Delanie Stafford. Snow removal from Open Skies OC-135B, 03FEB2015, Offutt AFB.

Via Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe. Russian examine a U.S. OC-135B, 27FEB2007.

Via Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe. Italian C-130 with SAMSON observation pod.

23NOV2020: Russia warns remaining Open Skies members not to share data with United States

11NOV2020: French personnel to use Romanian An-30 for Open Skies flyover of Russia

Realize that the United States and Russia have always conducted observation flights of each other, Open Skies was just an attempt to make it more militarily non-threatening.

28NOV2020: Russian Sukhoi 27 scrambled to intercept U.S. RC-135 over Black Sea

27NOV2020: Russia accuses NATO of conducting more than 1300 non-Open Skies spy flights

There were rumors that the two remaining Open Skies OC-13Bs were up for sale in 2020, however, the aircraft were given a fresh ‘Open Skies’ paint job and sent to the ‘boneyard’ in Arizona. USAF video by David Farley, 13MAY2021:

OC-135B Open Skies on Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona, 09JUN2021. USAF photo by Senior Airman Alex Miller.

July 2022: NATO-Romania puts to use an ex-Open Skies Antonov 30.

U.S. taxpayer expense: NASA’S Russian Tupolev 144 SST

Pandemic Overflight: KC-135

Bare Metal: KC-135R GETS STRIPPED

EC-135E FIRE-BIRD, 10329 COMES BACK TO LIFE, AGAIN! OR, WHAT TO DO WITH YOUR EXTRA KC-135 KIT.

HOW TO MUMMIFY YOUR KC-10, OR, LAST FLIGHT OF 86-0036

Terminator: SpaceX satellites helping the new U.S. Space Force to target you from above

Kit Bashing, Technology

Model kit E-8 JSTARS gate guard

Image May 24, 2020 Hutchins AAron

Georgia Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Nancy Goldberger, 20MAY2020.

Personnel at Robins Air Force Base, Georgia, volunteer to assemble a giant model of the E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (JSTARS), 20MAY2020.

Georgia Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Nancy Goldberger, 20MAY2020.

The official reason for the giant model is “to inspire pride”.

Georgia Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Nancy Goldberger, 20MAY2020.

1:1 SCALE WIND TUNNEL MODELS?

U.S. MARINES USE ‘FAKE NEWS’ MIG-23

RETIRED USN CRAFTSMAN RECALLS DAYS OF BEING PAID TO BUILD GIANT MODEL PLANES!

Influenza, Technology

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

Video May 19, 2020 Hutchins AAron

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

Influenza, Technology

Pandemic OverFlight: KC-135

Video May 18, 2020 Hutchins AAron

A KC-135 leads a pack of F-16s and F-35s on a Air Force Salutes flight over Arizona, 01MAY2020. At least 15 aircraft were involved.

Video from the cockpit of a F-35 of a KC-135 over Phoenix, Arizona, 01MAY2020:

USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Chris Thornbury, 06MAY2020.

A KC-135R Stratotanker assigned to the 22nd Air Refueling Wing, McConnell Air Force Base, flies over Ascension Via Christi St. Francis Hospital, 06MAY2020, Wichita, Kansas.

USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Nick Kibbey, 14MAY2020.

452nd Air Mobility Wing KC-135 over Riverside University Health System Medical Center, California, 14MAY2020.

Hawaii Air National Guard photo by Technical Sergeant Alison Bruce-Maldonado, 14MAY2020.

Video, KC-135 flying over multiple hospitals through out the Hawaiian islands, 14MAY2020:

The crew of a Michigan Air National Guard 127th Wing KC-135 just before taking off for a Michigan Strong flyover, 13MAY2020.

Video, 108th Wing KC-135 with 177th Fighter Wing F-16s, Air Force Salutes flight over New Jersey, 12MAY2020:

KC-135R from the 914th Air Refueling Wing, Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station, in formation with F-35s from the 158th Fighter Wing, Vermont Air National Guard Base, 12MAY2020.

Ohio Air National Guard KC-135 flies with an F-16 during Operation American Resolve, 13MAY2020.

Tail boom of 134th Air Refueling Wing, Tennessee Air National Guard, 12MAY2020.

Nebraska Air National Guard photo by Major Scott Ingalsbe, 13MAY2020.

Nebraska Air National Guard Stratotanker, 13MAY2020.

USAF photo by Second Lieutenant Christopher Thibeaux-Moore, 15MAY2020.

Pandemic fighting KC-135R Stratotanker gets airborne over Florida, 15MAY2020.

Bare Metal: KC-135R GETS STRIPPED

KC-135 STRATOTANKER BATH

EC-135E FIRE-BIRD, 10329 COMES BACK TO LIFE, AGAIN! OR, WHAT TO DO WITH YOUR EXTRA KC-135 KIT.

Idaho, International, Technology, U.S.

Singapore Sky Pirates & Idaho Gunslingers

Video May 16, 2020 Hutchins AAron

In March 2022, Idaho’s Gov’na, Brad Little, poses with Singapore’s Buccaneers. U.S. Air Force Photo by Staff Sergeant Joshua Hoskins, 21MAR2022.

In December 2021, the Buccaneers flew from Idaho to Florida, to take part in the Weapons System Evaluation Program. U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Betty R. Chevalier, 08DEC2021.

The Buccaneers take part in Red Flag, in Nevada, March 2021.
USAF photo by Senior Airman JaNae Capuno.

Mountain Home Air Force Base (AFB), Idaho, is home to F-15SG Buccaneers (428th Fighter Squadron Republic of Singapore) and F-15E Gunfighters (U.S. Air Force 366th Fighter Wing). They fly their own colorfully painted ‘flagships’. The tiny Republic of Singapore is part of the British empire’s Commonwealth of Nations.

U.S. Air Force photo by Airman First Class Andrew Kobialka, 15MAY2020.

Buccaneers F-15SG flagship flying alongside an F-15E from a different squadron (Bold Tigers) of the same Fighter Wing, and Idaho National Guard A-10Cs, as part of CoViD-19 morale booster operations 15MAY2020. The Buccaneers are flown by the The Republic of Singapore Air Force, but are based at Mountain Home AFB, Idaho.

Idaho Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Becky Vanshur, 15MAY2020.

About to deploy from Idaho to Utah, for Combat Hammer. USAF photo by Airman First Class Jeremy D. Wolff, 02MAY2017.

Combat Hammer, 2017.

USAF photo by Senior Airman Jeremy L. Mosier, 02MAY2017.

Official USAF video report about Combat Hammer, Singapore bombs Utah:

USAF photo by Senior Airman Connor J. Marth, 27FEB2017.

Over Mountain Home AFB, February 2017.

USAF photo by Airman Alaysia Berry, 08APR2016.

Buccaneers bomb crew getting instructions at the start of weapons loading competition at Mountain Home AFB, April 2016.

Singaporean F-15SG crews competed against USAF F-15E crews for best weapons loading, on Mountain Home AFB, Idaho. USAF photo by Airman First Class Chester Mientkiewicz, 08APR2016.

USAF photo by Senior Airman James Hensley, 19NOV2015.

Landing at Luke AFB, Arizona, for exercise Forging Saber, November 2015.

USAF photo by Airman First Class Thomas Spangler, 11JUL2014.

Red Flag Nevada, July 2014.

Video, Red Flag Nevada night take-off, afterburners:

USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Jim Araos, 09OCT2012.

Idaho’s, I mean Singapore’s Buccaneers taking part in Red Flag Alaska, October 2012.

USAF photo by Senior Airman Benjamin Sutton, 16OCT2012.

Only one of the F-15SGs has fancy paint on its tails, the others are plain.

The Republic of Singapore began flying F-15SG Strike Eagles at Mountain Home AFB in 2009. The U.S. Air Force re-activated the 428th Fighter Squadron specifically for the RSAF (as part of the Peace Carvin V program). The 428th Fighter Squadron (FS) is officially part of the 366th Fighter Wing (FW).

(MATTIS DISCOVERS SINGAPORE’S INVASION OF IDAHO)

And now for Idaho’s Gunfighters:

USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Jeremy L. Mosier, 12JUN2019.

‘Flagship’ F-15E Strike Eagle of the 366th FW, Mountain Home AFB, Idaho.

Video, 2019 ‘elephant walk’ at Mountain Home AFB:

USAF photo by Todd Cromar, 15AUG2018.

Taking part in Combat Hammer at Hill AFB, Utah, 15AUG2018.

USAF photo by Airman First Class JaNae Capuno, 22MAY2018.

Gunfighter flagship over Mountain Home AFB, 22MAY2018.

USAF photo by Airman First Class JaNae Capuno, 23MAY2018.

The 366th FW ‘Gunfighters’ (represented by the 20mm Vulcan-gun carrying Spook) includes 389th FS ‘Thunderbolts’ (represented by the lightening bolt), 391st FS ‘Bold Tigers’ (represented by the orange field with black tiger stripes [like Idaho State University’s colors]) and 428th FS ‘Buccaneers’.

USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Javier Cruz, 13DEC2016.

A 391st Fighter Squadron Bold Tigers F-15E Strike Eagle over Saylor Creek bombing range, near Mountain Home AFB, Idaho. USAF photo by Master Sergeant Kevin Wallace, 16OCT2013.

NEW TAIL FEATHERS FOR OREGON EAGLE, B-17 BOMBER STYLE!

D-DAY F-15E STRIKE EAGLE

LOCATION OF MISSING IDAHO F-15E STRIKE EAGLES REVEALED? OR, WHY HI-TECH DOESN’T EQUAL FEWER HUMANS?

IDAHO F-15E WALK-AROUND

Influenza, U.S.

Record setting Pandemic AirBridge Continues

Video May 4, 2020 Hutchins AAron

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 and Border Protection (CBP) personnel waiting at Chicago O’Hare International Airport to inspect incoming medical supplies, 28APR2020. (CBP PANDEMIC inspections REVEALS U.S. DEPENDENCE UPON FOREIGN FOOD!)

U.S. Army photo by Specialist Tianna Isreal, 28APR2020.

Taiwan’s (Republic of China) EVA (Evergreen Airways) Air Cargo Boeing 777F unloads, 28APR2020.

FEMA photo by Alexis Hall, 28APR2020.

China Southern Boeing 777F, 28APR2020.

Video, off-loading United Arab Emirates (UAE) Etihad cargo plane at O’Hare International Airport, Illinois, 20APR2020:

FEMA photo by Alexis Hall, 19APR2020.

China Airlines’ Boeing 747-400(409F), 19APR2020.

FEMA photo by Alexis Hall, 18APR2020.

New York based Atlas Air Boeing 747-47U(F), Chicago O’Hare International Airport, Illinois, 18APR2020.

FEMA photo by Alexis Hall, 17APR2020.

FedEx MD-11 returns to Chicago with yet another load of medical supplies, 17APR2020.

FEMA photo by Dominick Del Vecchio, 14APR2020.

Ukraine’s Antonov 124 arrived at Rockford International Airport, Illinois, loaded with medical supplies, 14APR2020. (Antonov 124 in U.S. service)

FEMA photo by Alexis Hall, 11APR2020.

Florida based Western Global’s MD-11 unloading at Chicago O’Hare International Airport, 11APR2020.

FEMA photo by K.C Wilsey, 11APR2020.

From Taiwan to New York’s John F. Kennedy airport, EVA Boeing 777-300 (36N[ER]), 11APR2020.

AirCargoWorld: FEMA Airbridge expanded to Pennsylvania

Operation CoViD-19: PROJECT AIR-BRIDGE, 747S, MD-11S, BREAKING AIRLIFT RECORDS!

FEMA says worst is yet to come BUILDING MASSIVE ISLAND HOSPITAL?

HOSPITAL SHORTAGE? DON’T BLAME PANDEMIC, BLAME OBAMACARE!

CLIMATE CHANGE = COVID-19?

Technology

Indian Air Power, 2021

Video April 15, 2020 Hutchins AAron

Incomplete images of India’s current state of Air Power.

Indian C-17 on Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, 20NOV2020. U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Christopher Quail.

Indian Air Force promo:

Indian Navy Harrier

U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Matthew Hannen, 30JUL2007.

Jaguar/Shamsher

U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Matthew Hannen, 30JUL2007.

USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Shawn Nickel, 29APR2016.

USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Joshua Turner, 02MAY2016.

(INDIA DEVELOPS RARE EARTH ALLOY TO EXTEND LIFE OF COLD WAR STRIKE AIRCRAFT!)

Radar equipped Shamsher leads U.S. Super Hornets and Indian Su-30MKIs. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Second Class Brandie Nuzzi, 28MAR2021.

Shamsher, MiG-29KUB and Su-30MKI, 23JUN2021, USN photo.

In the above photo notice the Indian two seat MiG-29KUBs are not simple trainers, but have full combat radar system and a different cockpit area.

Link to video of MiG-29K and Harrier fly by:

https://youtu.be/nHI0blqggFI

2010, Indian Naval Station Hansa in Goa, India.

MiG-29K overflies USS Nimitz (CVN 68) in the Bay of Bengal during Exercise Malabar 2017.

Flying with U.S. Navy Super Hornets, 2017.

Indian Navy Aérospatiale Alouette-3 (Chetak) over Goa, August 2017.

Chetak (Aérospatiale Alouette-3). USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Second Class Brandie Nuzzi, 28MAR2021.

Onboard USS Pearl Harbor (LSD 52).

Indian CH-47F, first flight July 2018:

(INDIAN HERCULES APPEARS IN NORTH DAKOTA, 2018)

In 2018, Indian P-8A Poseidon (militarized Boeing 737) took part in Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) Exercise on Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii.

HAL license built Dornier 228 and Hawk-i, and HAL HTT-40, airshow Aero India 2019.

Video, HAL Tejas:

Su-30MKI and HAL (Hindustan Aeronautics Limited) Tejas, airshow Aero India 2019.

Su-30MKI, RED FLAG-Alaska, May 2016.

Video, Su-30 leads integrated flight of Jaguar, Mirage 2000 and U.S. F-15s:

Video, Su-30MKI bombing run:

(VEHICLE I-D: SUKHOI 27/30)

HAL (Hindustan Aeronautics Limited) attack helicopter, airshow Aero India 2019.

HAL Dhruv helicopter demo team, airshow Aero India 2019.

Mil 8, airshow Aero India 2019, Air Force Station Yelahanka, Bengaluru.

(CH-47 CHINOOK COLLECTS MIL 8 ‘HIP’ BONES)

Indian Navy Mil 17(171), November 2019, exercise Tiger TRIUMPH in Kakinada.

Indian Navy Sikorsky UH-3H Sea King, November 2019, exercise Tiger TRIUMPH in Kakinada.

Video, Sea King Helicopter lands on the flight deck of the USS Germantown (LSD 42), exercise Tiger TRIUMPH:

MiG-21, Defense Expo 2020.

Video, MiG-21 ‘Night Fighter’:

Video, Alouette ‘Cheetah’ part-1:

Video, Cheetah part-2:

Video promo, IAF Mirage 2000 fighters:

Technology

CH-47 Chinook collects Mil 8 ‘Hip’ bones

Video April 15, 2020 Hutchins AAron

U.S. Army photo by Sergeant Patrick Jubrey, 06AUG2019.

Surrounded, finders keepers! NATO reporting name for the Soviet era Mil 8 is Hip.

USA photo by Sergeant Patrick Jubrey, 06AUG2019.

CH-47 anticipating sling loading Mil 8, Hohenfels Training Area, Germany, August 2019.

Video explainer, CH-47 sling loads Hip bones in Germany, June 2019:

USA photo by Charles Rosemond, 12MAR2019.

Note that the tail boom, main rotors, landing gear and other loose ‘Hip’ bones are shoved into the fuselage. Storck Barracks, Illesheim, Germany, 12MAR2019.

USA photo by Charles Rosemond, 12MAR2019.

Video explainer, using Hip bones for sling load training in Germany:

Prepping a Mil 8 for use as a sling load trainer, Hohenfels, Germany, 12MAR2019.

USA photo by Charles Rosemond, 12MAR2019.

Video, CH-47 Chinook recovers junk Mil 8 in Afghanistan, November 2017:

USMC photo by Corporal Ursula V. Smith, 25SEP2019.

RECOVERING UH-1 SKELETONS

VEHICLE I-D: MIL 24 HIND ‘SATAN’S CHARIOTS’

Influenza, Technology

Operation CoViD-19: Project Air Bridge, 747s, MD-11s, breaking airlift records!

Video April 9, 2020 Hutchins AAron

According to some sources, the largest military airlift to aid silly-vilians (civilians) was the Berlin Airlift from 1948 to 1949. The largest silly-vilian operated airlift was known as Joint Church Aid (unofficially Jesus Christ Airlines), also known as Biafrian Airlift, from 1967 to 1970. Launched towards the end of March, Project Air Bridge, in the United States, using both military and civilian aircraft, in my opinion might set a new airlift record.

Pics and video from FEMA.

U.S. based (Florida) SkyLease Cargo’s 747-428ERF #N904AR arrived at Chicago O’Hare International Airport on 06APR2020, packed full of N-95 respirators, surgical masks, gloves and gowns.

On 07APR2020, U.S. based (Florida) SkyLease Cargo’s 747-428ERF flew all the way from Malaysia, delivering more than 20-million surgical gloves to Chicago O’Hare Airport.

This is what the other side of SkyLease Cargo’s 747 # N903AR looks like.

Luxembourg based Cargolux 747-8F, O’Hare International Airport, 07APR2020.

Video, off-load of Cargolux and SkyLease Cargo 747s, 07APR2020:

Federal Emergency Management Agency says that just on the 7th of April more than 45-million surgical masks, as well as other medical PPE (Personal Protective Equipment), were delivered to Chicago O’Hare International Airport, to be distributed across the U.S.!