In April2022, CCTV-10 aired a two part Innovation and Progress report, showing the development of the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) cargo plane, Feihong FH-98. Part 1:
Part 2:
“The exercise met our expected objective. It is very significant for our unmanned logistics chain in future warfare.”-Bi Guangyuan, executive director in charge of recent testing, June 2019
In June 2019, China’s National Defense University of People’s Liberation Army (PLA), and the state-owned China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, put to the final tests a new robot cargo aircraft.
Photo via CGTN, 23JUN2019.
The aircraft is unmistakable, it is the only type of its kind, a bi-plane cargo/agricultural aircraft, designed and built in the Soviet Union just after The Great Patriotic War (World War Two). In 1957, during the non-declared Cold War, Communist China got a license to build the Antonov An-2 Maize (NATO reporting name Colt) as the Yunshu (Yunshuji, later becoming Shifei) Y-5, but this modern version of the Maize has no crew. The new crewless version of the Maize is called Feihong-98 (FH-98).
In Zhangye, northwestern Gansu Province, the robot An-2/FH-98 had to complete three final tests; fast load 5-hundred kilograms of cargo, a short range airdrop mission, and a long range air drop mission. The tests were declared successful, and China’s PLA now has a viable robot cargo aircraft.
Another CCTV report:
CGTN video report of first test of Feihong-98 (FH-98) cargo UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle), October 2018:
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On 25FEB2023, the Aviation Industry Corporation (AvIC) of China reported that they sold an undisclosed number of its latest 4th/5th generation training aircraft to a U.S. ally; the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Model of L-15 trainer at the 16th IDEX in UAE. Photo via AvIC.
The deal was apparently made during the recent 16th International Defense Exhibition and Conference (IDEX) in Abu Dhabi. The L-15 looks very similar to the Russian Yak-130 and NATO-Italy’s Aermacchi M-346. Apparently, the L-15 is the nomenclature assigned by the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) for the export version of the JL-10 trainer.
JL-10, photo by Li Ning, 20JUL2020.
According to the PLA, the turbines powering the L-15/JL-10 are made in Ukraine; Ivchenko-Progress AI-222-25F turbofans!
PLA video, twin engined JL-10 flies alongside older training aircraft of the Harbin Flight Academy, April 2022:
In 2021, Chinese military sales reps said the toughest market to sell weapons in is in The Middle East (South West Asia), and that the L-15 can compete with Western systems: “After the Airshow China in Zhuhai in October, China brought it to Dubai, reflecting the importance it attaches to the Middle East arms trade market. Now, the L-15 is at the same level of the products of these developed countries, and offers more advantages in terms of price.”-Wang Yanan, aerospace science and technology analyst
PLA video of Shijiazhuang Flight Academy’s JL-10, 10FEB2021:
06AUG2018.
In 2018, the PLA Navy got a navalized version called JL-10H.
06AUG2018.
The People’s Republic of China makes the same claim about its military industrial complex that the United States does; that it is about building global peace and security.
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“It is the first time imports would be financed from China in yuan, as Iraqi imports from China have been financed in dollars only.”-Mudhir Salih, Iraqi government economic advisor
On 22FEB2023, Iraq announced it made a deal with China, to accept Chinese Yuan instead of the mandated U.S. petrodollar! The last time Iraq decided to take cash other than the U.S. petrodollar resulted in the invasion of Iraq in 2003 (the false flag Operation Iraqi Freedom).
Then ruler of Iraq, Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti, announced he would take Euros for Iraqi petroleum. However, this time the Iraqi government says the U.S. government actually blessed the oil for Yuan deal!
The deal also involves the British empire (Commonwealth of Nations) member Development Bank of Singapore, as well as the U.S. based JP Morgan, both of which would convert their U.S. dollar reserves to Yuan! But wait, there is more, at the end of last year oil giant Kingdom of Saudi Arabia said it might use the Yuan as well!
Type 96A, People’s Liberation Army 77th Group Army photo, 04DEC2022.
Sometimes a fuel/oil tank is carried on the top of the left rear hull/fender. It can also carry long range fuel drums on its rear.
Type 96A, PLA 77th Group Army photo, 04DEC2022.
Type 96A, PLA 77th Group Army photo, 04DEC2022.
The tow hooks are mounted on the lower front slope, inboard of the headlights.
Type 96A with manually operated 12.7mm machine gun mounted on turret. Photo by Liu Zhiyong, 13SEP2022.
Type 96B, with remote controlled 12.7mm on turret roof. Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko Junior, 27AUG2022.
Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko Junior, 21AUG2022.
In August 2022, China took second place in the Tank Biathlon and Masters of Armored Vehicles, during Russia’s International Army Games, using their Type 96B. The International Army Games were held on the territories of 12 countries, including China, Russia and Iran, with more than 270 teams from 37 countries competing.
Photo by Yu Ziheng, 14AUG2022.
The Type 96B has a remote controlled 12.7mm heavy machine gun on top of the turret, which is not always mounted. The Type 96A is up-armored with armor blocks, and upgraded gun sights. The Type 96 series uses a 125mm main gun. The ‘skirt’ gets shorter with each new generation of Type 96, the Type 96B being the shortest (sometimes they go ‘naked’).
Type 96Bs leaving China controlled Inner Mongolia for the International Army Games in Russia, July 2022. Photo via CCTV-7.
CGTN video, first round of Tank Biathlon, 15AUG2022, revealing that the remote controlled 12.7mm can also be fired manually:
The Type 96A/B has a turret very similar to the VT4, VT5, and Type 99 tanks. The hull evolved from the Soviet/Russian T-54/55. The roadwheels are uniquely Chinese, and unlike the T-54/55 the track is supported. The Type 96B has more streamlined looking fenders, than the Type 96A, the two exhaust ports are closer together as well and not as obvious as on the Type 96A.
From U.S. Army Graphic Training Aid, Armored Vehicle Recognition, 1987.
From a distance the Type 96A/B looks much like the old Cold War era NATO-West German Leopard 1A4.
People’s Liberation Army 77th Group Army video showing Type 96A during live-fire training, May 2022:
PLA 73rd Group Army photo by Liu Zhiyong, 27APR2022.
PLA 73rd Group Army photo by Liu Zhiyong, 27APR2022.
PLA 73rd Group Army photo by Liu Zhiyong, 27APR2022.
PLA 71st Group Army photo by Bai Junfeng, 15APR2022.
The Type 96 has two exhaust holes on the same side of the hull, the right side, as opposed to the T-54/55 or T-72 single exhaust on the left side.
PLA 71st Group Army photo by Bai Junfeng, 15APR2022.
PLA 71st Group Army photo by Bai Junfeng, 15APR2022.
PLA 73rd Group Army photo by Liu Zhiyong, 15JAN2021.
The Type 96A appears to be connected to a generator on the ground. PLA 81st Group Army photo by Yang Jian, November 2020.
The front of the Type 96A/B turret is different from the older Type 96, also, the bustle racks have armor(?) plates attached.
PLA 72nd Group Army photo by Xiao Yuxuan, 11MAY2020.
CGTN video, January 2020, female tank commander explain why she likes the Type 96A/B (because it makes her look “most beautiful”, typical!):
CGTN video, Type 96B during 2019 International Army Games:
CGTN video of Type 96 driver showing-off, December 2017 (I did the same thing in an M1 Abrams, it is actually easy to get a tank to drift or slide, if it has a powerful motor):
Type 96:
The older Type 96 has a splash guard on the front slope, and the turret bustle racks do not have armor plate covering them.
Skirtless Type 96. PLA 71st Group Army photo by Yao Zongkai, 17SEP2022.
PLA 82nd Group Army video from May 2022, Type 96 live-fire:
The Type 96 is also known as ZTZ-96.
PLA 71st Group Army photo by Zhu Baolong, 21MAY2022.
The Chinese started with the T-54/55 hull, then got radical by replacing the unsupported track system with a supported track (the track-links themselves are the same), and replacing the manually loaded main gun with the auto-loading 125mm from a T-72.
PLA 71st Group Army photo by Zhu Baolong, 21MAY2022.
The wire cage on the top rear of the turret is for catching the spent 125mm casings as they are ejected from the turret. PLA 71st Group Army photo by Yao Zongkai, 21MAY2022
The turret of the Type 96 is shaped different from that on the Type 96A/B, especially on the front.
PLA 71st Group Army photo by Lin Min, February 2022.
The Type 96 inherited the butt of the T-54/55.
Notice the spent 125mm casings on the ground behind the Type 96. PLA 71st Group Army photo by Lin Min, February 2022.
People’s Liberation Army photo by He Rui, late January 2023.
Track shoes/pads are removable, on the Type 99A. PLA photo by He Rui, late January 2023.
It has been confused with the export only tanks VT1 and VT4, and the lightweight high altitude tank VT5. Sometimes it is called ZTZ-99A. The Type 99A is an radical evolution of the Type 99. The Type 99 is based on the Soviet/Russian T-72, it began service in 2001.
T-72 style roadwheels and small exhaust ports on both sides of the Type 99A.
The Type 99A has the driver’s position slightly offset from center of the front of the hull, and has two periscopes, the Type 99 has only one T-72 style periscope for the driver and the position is centered. Other Chinese tanks with similar looking turrets (like the Type 96B) have driver’s positions that are offset from center, on the driver’s left side, revealing they were originally based on the T-54/55.
An 81st Group Army Type 99A with armored blocks, and without fender skirts. Notice the ‘Eiffel Tower’ in the background. PLA photo, 10JAN2023.
CGTN video explaining the Type 96A, from August 2020:
In 2011, China began slowly replacing the Type 99 with the Type 99A, however, it wasn’t publicly revealed until 2015.
CGTN video, Type 99A during parade in July 2017:
CGTN video, Type 96A during parade in October 2019:
Type 99:
The older Type 99. PLA 76th Group Army photo by Cao Xuguang, 14JUL2020.
The exhaust ports on the Type 99A are set further back than the Type 99, due to a new powerpack (motor/transmission). The powerpack for the older Type 99 was reportedly developed by NATO-Germany. The headlights on the Type 99 sit higher up on the front slope than the Type 99A. The front tow hooks on the Type 99 sit on the upper front slope, below the headlights, while the tow hooks of the Type 99A are mounted on the lower front slope, inline with the headlights.
The older Type 99. PLA 76th Group Army photo by Cao Xuguang, 14JUL2020.
PLA 76th Group Army photo 08JUL2020.
PLA 76th Group Army photo by Cao Xuguang, 18JUN2020.
PLA 76th Group Army photo by Cao Xuguang, 18JUN2020.
The VT4A1 has an onboard drone that extends the battlefield observation of the tank crew to 10 kilometers. It is vertically mounted, next to the wind sensor on top of the turret.
Image taken from CGTN video, 07NOV2022.
It also has anti-tank missile detectors on the sides of the turret. The 125mm gun is enhanced by the use of new types of rounds fired from the gun.
Hour long CGTN report, from 06NOV2022, which starts off explaining the new VT4A1:
I have not found any People’s Liberation Army videos or photos of any Chinese units actually using the VT4, it appears to be an export only tank, so far with Pakistan the only customer.
Pakistan received its first VT4s in 2020, then placed an order for more VT4s in 2022, and is considering license building them.
On 23JAN2023, about 4-hundred New York Army National Guard ‘Air-Cav’ Militia personnel deployed for Kuwait, however, their first stops will be Pennsylvania and Texas for additional training. Many of the Soldiers will be providing CH-47F Chinook helicopter support for the Mississippi Army National Guard, in South West Asia (The Middle East). According to the New York National Guard, there are already at least 1-thousand-8-hundred New York Army National Guard Soldiers deployed across the world, including assisting with training Ukrainian troops in NATO-Germany!
Pennsylvania National Guard photo by Captain Travis Mueller, 20JAN2023.
Illinois Army National Guard Specialist Xzavier Marte, 17JAN2023.
On 17JAN2023, the Illinois Army National Guard’s 933rd Military Police Battalion conducted a deployment ceremony, they are deploying to support U.S. Southern Command (SouthComm) operations.
Illinois Army National Guard Specialist Xzavier Marte, 17JAN2023.
On 11JAN2023, it was revealed that Michigan Army National Guard has Soldiers inside Syria! The National Guard Bureau’s photo-montage-video claims to show the militiamen conducting weapons qualifications inside Syria:
Utah National Guard photo by Ileen Kennedy, 09JAN2023.
The Michigan National Guard Family Programs Office provides support for families of the Michigan National Guard, they may be reached at 1-888-MICH-FAM. Multiple deployments to The Middle East were made in 2022.
Florida National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant Christopher Vann, 06JAN2023.
Incomplete (tip-o-the iceberg, seriously this isn’t the half-of-it!) list of video reports and links to United States (U.S.) drug related crimes and oddities for the month of November 2022:
Presidential candidate Donald Trump wants the death penalty for drug dealers:
U.S. Navy photo, 22NOV2022.
On 22NOV2022, the U.S. Navy reported capturing 2-thousand-2-hundred kilograms of hashish and 330 kilograms of methamphetamine, in the Gulf of Aden.
Image obsessed celebrities are trying a new diet fad to lose weight, except that it is causing an artificial drug shortage for those people who truly need the drug to survive:
A new epidemic; deaths of old people, from drugs/alcohol, skyrocketing:
U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer Second Class Matthew West, 29NOV2022.
On 29NOV2022, the crew of U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) Cutter Bertholf (WMSL 750) off-loaded more than 1-thousand-50 pounds of cocaine and other contraband, onto the port of San Diego.
On 11NOV2022, the U.S. Coast Guard off-loaded an estimated $101-million worth of cocaine at Port Everglades. The USCG says 11 smugglers were also captured.
Delta Airlines employees arrested for drug smuggling:
Convicted drug smuggler posts bail for murder suspect, who has a history of skipping town during previous bails, so even more amazing is that the judge allowed this:
Cold War: Approximately 1947 (due to U.S. President Harry Truman’s Truman Doctrine) to 1991 (Operation Desert Storm, collapse of Soviet Union).
Operation Desert Storm, 17JAN1991–28FEB1991
Just a smattering of armor destruction from Desert Storm:
A shot-up Iraqi Faun Herkules, hauling a ZSU-23-4, failed at trying to escape Kuwait via the Basra-Kuwait Highway. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate Holmes, 28JAN1991.
Iraq used a lot of Soviet and Chinese armored ground vehicles, including both the T-55 and Type 69-2. The Chinese Type 69 series is the result of combining hull parts of a T-62 and a T-54, then adding an infrared spotlight and laser range finder over the main gun mantlet, and headlight groups on the both fenders. The Type 69 retained the roof mounted ventilator of the T-54. Early versions of the Type 69 series did not have the turret mounted stowage racks, which were actually a stand-off armor design that doubled as stowage racks. The main gun of the Type 69-1 was a Chinese designed 100mm with smooth-bore (bore evacuators on the guns varied in their position), the Type 69-2 has a 100mm rifled bore. The Type 69-2 had fender skirts, but it seems that most of the Iraqi Type 69s did not use the skirts.
Destroyed Chinese made Iraqi Type 69 (indicated by the T-62 style rear end) inside Kuwait. Photographer unknown, photo dated 01FEB1991.
This shows the squared-off butt of a Soviet built T-55. Photographer unknown, dated 01FEB1991.
This appears to be a T-55 with skirts. No evidence of turret top ventilator, no laser ranger, no stand-off/stowage racks. The Iraqis did modify their vehicles. Photographer unknown, dated 01FEB1991.
A Chinese built Iraqi Type 69-2 (note ventilator on turret roof and remains of stowage rack/stand-off armor, barely visible is evidence of fender mounted light groups), charred by an air strike. U.S. Army photo by Specialist Elliot, 07FEB1991.
The remains of an MTLB(?) on a highway south of Kuwait City. U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sergeant Kit Thompson, 27FEB1991.
Photo dated 28FEB1991, an Iraqi tank explodes after an attack by the First United Kingdom Armoured Division. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate Holmes.
Photo dated 28FEB1991, a Type 69 burns after an attack by the First United Kingdom Armoured Division. Photographer unknown.
One tank was trying to tow the other out of Kuwait, when they were both hit. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sergeant Robert Reeve, 28FEB1991.
Same T-55 tanks, different angle. Turret has no roof ventilator, and has the single T-55 headlight group on the front slope. The ‘ring’ sticking out of the ground behind the T-55 is the mount for the 12.7mm heavy machine gun. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sergeant Robert Reeve, 28FEB1991.
Iraqi T-72 in Kuwait. Destroyed or abandoned? U.S. Marine Corps photo by Staff Sergeant J.R. Ruark, 01MAR1991.
Bullet hole to an Iraqi T-55, Jalibah Airfield, Kuwait. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sergeant Otero, 02MAR1991.
Type 69 destroyed by the French Sixth Light Armored Division. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sergeant Dean Wagner, 02MAR1991.
This T-55 died on Al Mutla Pass, north of Kuwait City. U.S. Air Force photo by Technical Sergeant Perry Heimer, 02MAR1991.
Same T-55 still on Al Mutla Pass, more than one month later, covered by graffiti. U.S. Air Force photo by Technical Sergeant Joe Coleman, 18APR1991.
Stopping to check out a burned-out T-72. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sergeant Dean Wagner, 03MAR1991.
Just outside Kuwait City, a T-55 failed to escape on the Basra-Kuwait Highway. U.S. Army photo by Specialist Bill Mohl, 04MAR1991.
Same tank, different angle. U.S. Army photo by Specialist Bill Mohl, 4MAR1991.
Same tank, different angle. U.S. Army photo by Specialist Bill Mohl, 4MAR1991.
A line of destroyed armor, Euphrates River Valley, Iraq. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sergeant Dean Wagner, 04MAR1991.
A destroyed BMP-1 and what is left of a T-72, Euphrates River Valley, Iraq. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sergeant Dean Wagner, 04MAR1991.
Chinese made YW-531 (Type 63 family) followed by a Soviet made MTLB, Euphrates River Valley. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sergeant Dean Wagner, 04MAR1991.
What happened to the main gun? U.S. Army photo by Staff Sergeant Robert Reeve, 04MAR1991
The rear end indicates this is a Chinese Type 69 flipped on top of a U.S. made Chevy van. U.S. Army photo by Sergeant Billings, 06MAR1991.
MTLB, U.S. Army photo by Sergeant Billings, 06MAR1991.
Iraqi T-55, indicated by single headlight group on front slope. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sergeant Robert Reeve, 27MAR1991.
A Chinese made Iraqi Type 69 (note laser ranger on the mantlet, turret-top ventilator, but no stand-off armor/stowage racks, has the fender mounted light groups) and a Chinese made YW-701 (Type 63 family) Command Post. The Type 69 was towing the YW-701 when they were both hit. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sergeant Robert Reeve, 27MAR1991
T-72 with dozer blade. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sergeant Robert Reeve, 27MAR1991.
Iraqi T-72 near Ali Al Salem Air Base. U.S. Air Force photo by Technical Sergeant Joe Coleman, 18APR1991.
A big bullet hole (probably a SABOT) in an Iraqi T-72. U.S. Air Force photo by Technical Sergeant Joe Coleman, 18APR1991.
Iraqi T-62 near Ali Al Salem Air Base. U.S. Air Force photo by Technical Sergeant Joe Coleman, 18APR1991.
Same T-62, from behind. U.S. Air Force photo by Technical Sergeant Joe Coleman, 18APR1991.
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During the most recent G20 meeting, global leaders ignorantly blamed labor problems on the “COVID-19 crisis” and climate change, when the reality is that the global labor problems are the direct result of G20 leaders implementing job killing Pandemic restrictions and climate policies!
G20, I.II.I Recover Together, Recover Stronger: Reaffirming Global Partnership and Reinvigorating Multilateralism in Fostering Recovery and 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development:“The Health Working Group (HWG) underscored the need for continued advanced collaboration in strengthening global health architecture with enhanced global health system resilience, aligned health protocols for seamless cross border mobility….”
II.II Progress Assessment of G20 Development Commitments, #5 G20 Rome Leaders’ Declaration, para 20:“We will support…. fostering empowerment and decent work for… migrants and refugees…”
The following links are just the tip of the iceberg of the globalist agenda regarding migrants and refugees:
G20 (Group of 20)=Argentina, Australia (Commonwealth of Nations, a NATO partner), Brazil, Canada (Commonwealth of Nations, NATO member), People’s Republic of China (Communist China), Japan (NATO partner), India, Indonesia, Republic of Korea (South Korea, a NATO partner), Mexico, Russia (formerly a NATO ‘Partnership for Peace’ participant, suspended as of 2021), South Africa (Commonwealth of Nations), Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Turkey (NATO member), United Kingdom (Commonwealth of Nations, NATO member), United States of America (NATO member), plus the leading member countries of the European Union (which are also NATO members)
ANTONOV 2 BIPLANE, THE MOST PRACTICAL AIRCRAFT EVER?
CHINA’S TYPE 59D, UPDATED COLD WAR T-54/55, TO LIVE-ON AS A ROBOT TANK?
CHINA TURNS TO ROBOTS & DRONES TO SUPPLY ITS MILITARY!
THAT’S NO F-L-I-R POD, THAT’S A ROBOT FLYING THAT HELICOPTER! OR, WHATEVER HAPPENED TO A-A-C-U-S?
