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Capitalism kills Recycling?: Climate Change 09-15 February 2020

Incomplete list of links to news articles concerning climate change events during the days of 09 to 15 of the Gregorian month of February 2020.

Climate change will expand farming opportunities

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Trash bag investors expect increase in demand for trash bags, blame India and China

Trash truck investors expect skyrocketing demand for trash trucks due to growing global waste caused more people moving to metro areas.

GREECE:  a ‘protection plan’ for possible volcano eruption in Santorini

ICELAND: Twin bomb cyclones to merge into one of strongest-ever storms hammering Iceland 

IRAN:  4.4 quake

SOUTH AFRICA:  Higher Antarctic Temperatures Bad News for South Africa

SWITZERLAND: Researchers say 3-thousand meter drill hole for thermal energy factory did not create earthquakes

TURKEY:  Bovine survivors of Elazığ earthquake find new home

UNITED KINGDOM:  hurricane-force winds, ‘life-threatening’ floods

UNITED STATES: Official 2020 flood prediction for Mississippi River is bad, just like last year’s prediction

Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas are rated as the worst states for recycling

Major recycling company jacks up fees to taxpayer funded municipalities, will invest in solar power, blames it on fee increases by taxpayer owned landfills and finicky capitalist commodity markets

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At Egg Harbor Township, state militia (National Guard) conducted natural disaster response training that included weapons of mass destruction (chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear) 11FEB2020.
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While public officials complain about the costs and supposed lack of manpower for recycling programs, an 11 years old girl started her own recycling program
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Climate Change 01-08 February 2020: “GLOBAL SYSTEMIC COLLAPSE”

Going Viral 14-15 February 2020:  VACCINE FAIL AS 14-THOUSAND IN THE U.S. DIE, INFECTIONS SKYROCKET!

Vehicle I-D: USN’s new Robot GunBoat, or CUSV

U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Second Class Grant G. Grady, 07FEB2020.

February 2020, demonstration of the latest Common Unmanned Surface Vehicle (CUSV),  Norfolk, Virginia.

USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Third Class Rebekah M. Rinckey, 10FEB2020.

USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Third Class Rebekah M. Rinckey, 10FEB2020.

Video explains the ‘potential’ use of CUSV:

USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Second Class Grant G. Grady, 10FEB2020.

USN photo by Seaman Andrenay Gorham, 12FEB2020.

USN photo by Seaman Andrenay Gorham, 12FEB2020.

CUSV control station on the dock.

USN photo by Seaman Scott Youngblood, 20JUL2011.

This is what the CUSV looked like in 2011.  Supposedly it can operate autonomously.

 

VEHICLE I-D: CVN-71

Vehicle I-D: LC-130H à La skis, can I get skis for my model C-130 kit?

A New York Air National Guard Crew Chief inspects the landing gear on a ‘Skibird’ LC-130H Hercules on Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, 06MAR2020. U.S. Air Force photo by Technical Sergeant Scott Fremming.

Video report from October 2019, first time LC-130H-upgrade is loaded with HIMARS:

A New York Air National Guard LC-130H arrives at the Paris Air Show, 16JUN2019.

This LC-130H has been updated with the NP2000 propellers, Paris Air Show, 19JUN2019.

Not all Skibird’s operate in snowy conditions. This upgraded LC-130H is ferrying New York Army National Guard Soldiers to Puerto Rico. New York Army National Guard photo by Sergeant Alexander Rector, 11APR2019.

New York Air Guard’s SkiBird helping Canadians build ‘SkiWay’ landing strip in the Arctic, 11APR2019.

New York Air National Guard’s 109th Airlift Wing offloads cargo in Greenland, on 26APR2019.

Video, Senior Master Sergeant explains the craziness of airfield ops in Antarctica:

Video from March 2019, explaining what a LC-130 Crew Chief does:

New York Air National Guard’s 109th Airlift Wing’s LC-130, McMurdo Station, Antarctica 15JAN2019.

New York Air National Guard’s 109th Airlift Wing LC-130 (upgraded with evil British empire Rolls-Royce T56 series 3.5/NP2000 props), McMurdo Station, Antarctica, 17DEC2018.

Grass field take-off?  No, it’s the camera angle.  NY National Guard’s LC-130 takes off for Antarctica, 06SEP2018.

LC-130(F-H?) in Antarctica, 23JUL2017.

The Common Science Support Pod, or IcePod, houses a variety of instruments to meausure changes in the Antarctic ice sheet.

Some ‘scientist’ from Colombia University explaining how the IcePod works.  To find out more go here:  https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/res/pi/icepod/

New York Air National Guard LC-130H Hercules-Skibird takes-off near the Canadian Task Force base camp on Little Cornwallis Island, Nunavut, during Operation NUNALIVUT, 10APR2016.
Canadian Armed Forces photo by Corporal Parks.

New York Air National Guard LC-130H Hercules-Skibird arrives on Cambridge Bay, Nunavut. Canadian Armed Forces photo by Petty Officer Second Class Belinda Jeromchuk, 10APR2016.

2016 video report on Canadian Forces Operation Nunalivut, note the wing flex on the older LC-130H as it lands:

Kangerlussuaq, Greenland, 27JUN2016.

January 2014, Pegasus Field, Antarctica, problems with landing gear being rectified.

Leaving Antarctica, 02FEB2011.

McMurdo Station, Antarctica, 2007.

Rocket assisted take-off from Greenland, 2003.  For some reason it’s officially called Jet Assisted Take Off (JATO) even though it’s actually rockets.  With the new Rolls-Royce T56 series 3.5 turbine/NP2000 props JATO is no longer needed.

Several of the New York Air National Guard’s LC-130Hs were former U.S. Navy LC-130Rs from VXE-6.

Airmodel makes a 1:72 scale conversion set that includes skis for LC-130.

Max Decals #7211

Out-of-print MicroScale #72-195

SNOWBLIND: C-130 OHIO C-17 PENNSYLVANIA

KODIAK MACE 2019: USMC KC-130J VID FEST!

MODEL KIT EC-130J GETS SPECIAL HANDLING BY NATIONAL GUARD!

VEHICLE I-D: NORMANDY PAINTED C-130 HERCULES

THAT’S NOT A C-130J, IT’S STILL THE OLD C-130H!

Massive one day spike in deaths & infections!: Going Viral, 12-13 February 2020

Incomplete list of links to news reports about viral outbreaks during the days of 12 to 13 of the Gregorian month of February 2020.

 Vietnam locks down city of ten thousand!

Pro-vaccine study says Japan’s halt of regular HPV vaccine to cause thousands of cancer deaths

Doctor in Illinois kills his-self, leaving a confession saying he falsified patients’ vaccination records!

Doctor gives reality check about flu vaccines: “…immunity, whether from natural infection….or from the influenza vaccine, is not always long-lasting.” 

11 flu deaths in Saskatchewan, infections ten times higher than last flu season, despite free vaccines

Additional 4-million U.S. influenza infections, more than 22-million cases!

One county in Nebraska reporting more than 4-hundred new flu cases, despite vaccinations: “We have passed 5,300 cases……….Looks like a second wave to the season.”

Arkansas reports ten influenza deaths in one week

College student in New York suddenly dies from flu

Why have Hubei’s coronavirus infections risen 10-fold, deaths doubled, in one day?

One Russian patient jumped out of a Chinese hospital window to escape her quarantine and another managed to break out by disabling an electronic lock.

Hubei leaders fired by national government!

Hong Kong schools closed until mid-March

China finally considers changes to open-air meat market system

UN’s WHO extends emergency declaration for ebola hit Democratic Republic of Congo

U.S. FDA approves first-ever vaccine for Ebola prevention

Nigeria lassa fever deaths suddenly jump to 70

Fox in Maryland has rabies

Coyote, which attacked people in Pennsylvania, tested positive for rabies, two people being treated

Utah’s public health system criticized over human death from rabies, because incompetent doctors misdiagnosed the illness!

Connecticut raccoons being tested for rabies

North Carolina raccoon tests positive for rabies

Yet another raccoon in Massachusetts tests positive for rabies

Going Viral, 09-11 February 2020: THE MILITARY KNOWS!

Immigrant Invasion U.S.A. 01-08 February 2020

Incomplete (tip-o-the iceberg) list of main-stream-news links about global immigrant/border operations affecting the United States taxpayers, days of 01 to 08 of Gregorian February 2020.

Canadians getting pissed at U.S. border crackdown against Iranians, even targeting Iranians who are Canadian or U.S. citizens

ICE being blamed for a boy’s fractured skull, even though the accident took place ONE MONTH BEFORE the family was detained by ICE!  Why did the family wait until after they were detained to ask for medical help for their injured son?

ARIZONA: Border Patrol captures illegal who is also a convicted child rapist

Border Patrol captures legal resident smuggling meth

Woman captured with 67 pounds of meth inside her vehicle’s speakers

CALIFORNIA:  Judge deals blow to ICE

Border Patrol captures U.S. family trying to smuggle 51 pounds of cocaine into the U.S.

Boat used to smuggle illegals capsizes, people die 

Sex criminal from Mexico captured after crossing border into U.S.

IDAHO: Homosexual refugee’s story becomes an Apple TV show

‘California refugees’ move to Idaho for lax vaccine laws. They want lawmakers to know why

ILLINOIS: City of Chicago released a known felon from Guatemala, ICE later captured the felon at Union Station

KANSAS: After being deported four times, illegal immigrant will now spend time in prison for drug crime 

Illegal immigrant pulls out in front of racing cop SUV, which had its lights and siren on, causing major accident, but the very same illegal immigrant is now suing the city of Topeka saying it was the cop’s fault for not paying attention!

MAINE: Border Patrol captures eight illegals after a tip from local police

Border Patrol checkpoint captures man wanted for crimes in several Maine counties

Vehicle stop results in capture of woman who’s been in-country illegally for 15 years

MICHIGAN: Michigan College Access Network gets grant money to help illegal students

Local cops help Border Patrol capture ten illegals

MINNESOTA: Anti-refugee meeting scheduled at tribal college

NEBRASKA:  By 2040 there will be no ‘majority’ in Nebraska

NEW JERSEY:  115 illegals captured!

NEW YORK: ICE says illegal attacked them, they shot him in the face

Effective immediately, residents of the State of New York will no longer be eligible to apply for or renew membership in U.S. Customs and Border Protection Trusted Traveler Programs!

NORTH DAKOTA:  Recall effort for politician over refugee vote

OHIO:  ICE to stop housing immigrant detainees at private Youngstown prison

OKLAHOMA: Norman City Council drops sanctuary city idea

OREGON: Portland Public Schools superintendent pledges to protect illegal students

PENNSYLVANIA: Amazon stops selling anti-immigrant sticker after threats from state officials

PUERTO RICO: Border Patrol continues to capture counterfeit products, including fake $100 bills

Illegal wanted for double murder captured

U.S. Coast Guard captured this human smuggling boat on 03FEB2020, then sent 64 illegals from Dominican Republic back home.

The U.S. Coast Guard, along with the British empire’s Royal Navy, claim the captured 3-thousand-86 pounds of cocaine, and nine smugglers.  The drug was off-loaded in San Juan on 04FEB2020.

RHODE ISLAND:  Allows illegals to appoint citizen guardians for their children

TEXAS:  ICE deports MS-13 gang member from El Salvador

Dallas DA Office gets $460-thousand for helping ICE shutdown an illegal gambling operation based in Costa Rica

Border Patrol captures U.S. citizen along with 13 illegals

Border Patrol captures 237 pounds of illegal marijuana

Three people captured in connection to weapons smuggling

Mexican caught trying to bring gun into U.S.

Two citizens and five illegals captured

36 illegals found inside dump truck

More than two-n-a-half-million dollars worth of illegal drugs captured at Laredo Port of Entry

WASHINGTON:  Seattle City Council tangles with Indian (as in India) politics

Washington DC: In co-operation with Health and Human Services, ICE now fingerprinting teenagers

ICE tracking your cell-phone data

Immigrant Invasion U.S.A., 26-31 January 2020: “HAVEN’T GOT ONE WRONG YET”

“There is no off season for us”: Pacific Ring of Fire, 01-08 February 2020

Incomplete list of links to seismic/natural disaster reports from around the Pacific Ring of Fire, days 01 to 08 of Gregorian February 2020.

JAPAN:  volcano erupts with pyroclastic flow

 Taiwan Red Cross (TRC) paid for 463 housing units for the areas heavily-hit by the strong March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. 

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MEXICO: Seismic signs may foretell the birth of a new volcano in Michoacán

Earthquake resistant 3D printed houses?

NEW ZEALAND: 5.5 quake

 Scientist warn of increasing pressure on ‘monster’ fault line

Whales unable to eat began after 2016 earthquake

PAPUA NEW GUINEA:  6.2 QUAKE

PERU:  5.1 quake

3.8 quake Peru-Ecuador border

PHILIPPINES: 6.0 quake Mindanao

CAMP2Ex (Cloud, Aerosol and Monsoon Processes Philippines Experiment) is a partnership with NASA, NRL, the Manila Observatory, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA), and various academic organizations. Researchers on the campaign seek to collect data to answer three key questions; – Do aerosol particles influence weather and precipitation in tropical environments?
– Do these influences feed back into the aerosol lifecycle?
– How do the aerosol and cloud influence the radiation energy of the region?

The more than 2-thousand people involved in CAMP2Ex are now collating the data they collected in 2019, and prepping for their 2020 mission.

RUSSIA:  Klyuchevsky volcano explosions and ash plumes

UNITED STATES: The Latest Atmospheric River (aka Pineapple Express) to Bring Flooding, Landslides 

The U.S. Air Force hurricane hunters have been flying through the Pineapple Express (one of the famous ‘atmospheric rivers’ that brings warm humid air to North America during Winter): “There is no off season for us, after the Hurricane season is done we roll into the Winter Storm season and part of that is providing support for atmospheric rivers off the West Coast. ARs [atmospheric river] are flowing columns of water vapor that produce vast amounts of precipitation when they make landfall. The heavy amounts of precipitation can turn into extreme rainfall and snow, which then can cause flooding and mudslides.”-Lieutenant Colonel Ryan Rickert, 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron

Alaska;  Construction industry becoming addicted to disaster rebuilding?

seismic activity decreasing?

California; communities suing oil companies over climate change

Hawaii; 4.2 quake

Oregon;  4.7 quake

 Portland teen starts business to get people prepared for Cascadia

Utah; Super volcano discovered, bigger than Yellowstone!

Washington;  Green River moves into flood phase 4

VANUATU:  4.7 quake

Pacific Ring of Fire, 26-31 January 2020: “THAT CASCADIAN EVENT’S GOING TO HAPPEN!”

Climate Change, 01-08 February 2020: “GLOBAL SYSTEMIC COLLAPSE”

The Military Knows!: Going Viral, 09-11 February 2020

Incomplete list of links to news reports about viral outbreaks during the days of 09 to 11 of the Gregorian month of February 2020.

At least 23 influenza deaths in pro-vaccine Alberta Province, Canada, more than 1-million doses of flu vaccine injected 

Michigan reports increase in flu-B infections

16 years old U.S. girl dies days after getting flu-B, despite treatment with tamiflu

Iowa reports children hit hard by influenza

Kentucky news media says focus on the killer virus that’s here and now; influenza

India reports new cases of chikungunya and dengue

Singapore reports spike in dengue infections, warns it is a new version of an old version (strain DenV-3)!

Sri Lanka dengue infections hit 11-thousand

Four more killed by lassa, in Kogi State

Adamawa State lassa outbreak update, more infections & deaths

Santa Clara County, California, declares coronavirus emergency 

Woman infected with coronavirus mistakenly released from California hospital!

Infected cruise ship denied docking by three countries, passengers now ‘adrift’!

  More proof of Operation Jupiter (or, The Military Knows What’s Coming): Since 2018 the U.S. Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine has been working with the University of Nebraska Medical Center to develop a training program prepare medical Airmen to respond to infectious disease outbreaks.  The USAF says the program is now ready to begin training this October: “As military personnel deploy to diverse geographic areas, they may encounter infectious disease threats. These hazardous and communicable threats can be naturally occurring or deliberate and have a significant impact to our operations. Military personnel that work with such patients must know the proper procedures to protect patients, themselves and the mission.”-Lieutenant Colonel Elizabeth Schnaubelt, Center for Sustainment of Trauma and Readiness Skills (CSTaRS)-Omaha

Washington State University scientists have developed a phone app that can tell if a dog has been vaccinated for rabies, just by looking at its face, they’re now testing it in Tanzania

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Orange County, North Carolina, reports second confirmed rabies case

Henrico County, Virginia, offering rabies shots for ten bucks. Rabies vaccinations for pets are mandatory in Virginia.

Saint Lawrence County, New York, offering free rabies shots

In Arizona, Luke Air Force Base veterinarian explains the military purpose of the job: “The primary mission is to take care of the military working dogs. The second mission is actually food for facilities on base. We inspect off-base facilities of commercial establishments to make sure they’re in compliance with our regulations. Our next mission is control of zoonotic diseases, which are diseases that can be transmitted from animals to humans. We take care of people’s pets, seeing more than 20 per day.”-Nicole Avci, Luke AFB Veterinary Services clinic officer

Going Viral, 07-08 February 2020: BLAME ANIMAL TRAFFICKING?

OPERATION JUPITER: MILITARY’S SECRET FLU IMITATING VIRUS EXPOSED, VACCINATIONS FOR MILITARY ONLY!

“global systemic collapse”: Climate Change, 01-08 February 2020

Incomplete list of links to news articles concerning climate change events during the days of 01 to 08 of the Gregorian month of February 2020.

Some scientists blame extreme temperature changes for the decline of the wooly bumblebee

Ocean currents getting faster, due to faster winds

Thawing permafrost will speed warming

ARGENTINA: Hottest day ever?

AUSTRALIA:  Charcoal and beef usually means BBQ, but something from 3-hundred BC might reduce methane produced by feeding cattle; Biochar

Despite regulations supposedly limiting industry pollution, it’s revealed the government actually approved increased industrial emissions!

BRAZIL: Discovered; the lumber industry is so aggressive it’s now cutting down trees during the rainy season!

CANADA: Quake strikes Atlantic coast

FRANCE: Cities are filling with trash

GREECE: 4.7 quake

INDIA:  5.1 quake

ISRAEL:  Earthquake near Haifa

ITALY:  Old solar panels meant to be recycled were instead shipped to parts of the Middle East and Africa

KOSOVO: European Union spends U.S.$83-million for filters to fight air pollution coming from electricity factory

SERBIA:  Considered Europe’s most polluted country

SOUTH AFRICA: Shrubs can stop climate change?

UNITED KINGDOM: British taxpayers funding African fossil fuel projects worth U.S.$750-million

UNITED STATES:

 So much for environment saving wind turbines, it’s estimated that this year alone at least 8-thousand wind turbine blades will be thrown into municipal trash dumps!   What’s more, the blades are supposed to last 20 years but most are thrown away after only ten!  They can’t be recycled!

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Kentucky; 
The final ‘shell’ emplacement had been delayed by unusually high water levels, but now that water levels have dropped the U.S.$1.22-billion Kentucky Lock Addition Project can continue.  Ten ‘shells’ were needed to build the new lock addition in dry conditions.  Reports say that since December 2019 the level of the Tennessee River was over-topping the nine shells already in place, each shell is 31-feet/9-meters high.
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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers spending at least U.S.$16-million to repair a breach in the Buffalo North Breakwater, which was caused by the Halloween Night Storm last year.
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Altus Air Force Base is experimenting with a new cheaper way to clean-up its ground water, called a ‘bio-wall’ (‘bioreactors’ filled with locally sourced micro-organisms): “The purpose of the bio wall is to degrade the manmade contaminates currently found in the groundwater and break them down into naturally found elements. The bio walls act like a big water filter that is 30 feet underground. As the water flows through the wall, we are purifying it from the potentially harmful chemicals that were put in the ground a long time ago.”-Mary Bitney, Altus AFB Remedial Project Manager
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Puerto Rico; 5.0 earthquake 
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Tennessee;  2.7 quake
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Virginia;  U.S. Army Corps of Engineers awarded a U.S.$23.7-million contract to Florida based contractor to rebuild the eroded beach at NASA’s Wallops Island Flight Facility on Virginia’s Eastern Shore, including construction of breakwaters using 1.3-million cubic yards of sand.
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Climate Change, 26-31 January 2020: OCEANS SINK AS THE LANDS FLOOD

Vehicle I-D: CVN-71, are there model kits of this?

Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt arrives in Guam, 07FEB202.

  CVN-71 on its way to Guam, 25JAN2020.

Leaving San Diego, 17JAN2020.

Scrubbing the deck in 2013.

Leaving Newport News Shipyard in 2013, after four years of overhaul.

The following pics are of CVN-71 at the end of a 39 month fuel complex overhaul, May 2011: 

2009, when CVN-71 began its overhaul.

U.S. TAXPAYERS SEND AUSSIE PRIME MINISTER A MODEL BOAT!

VEHICLE ID: ARMORED DRUG SMUGGLING BOATS

ITALERI 1:720 DEUTSCHLAND, LUTZOW, SCHEER & GRAF SPEE

1:600 MOSKVA: AURORA VS AIRFIX

1/600 USS IOWA CLASS KITS: AURORA, MONOGRAM, OTAKI, REVELL. AN APPEAL TO AIRFIX!

Weapon I-D: MARK 82

Weapon I-D: Mark 82, Cold War & beyond

Bombing-up an S-3A Viking with Mk82s. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate First Class Michael D.P. Flynn, 01FEB1988.

The Mark 82 (aka BDU) is a 5-hundred pound/227-kilogram unguided ‘vehicle’ (practice bombs about 400lbs/181kg) designed to hit your enemy with 192 pounds/87-kilograms of Tritonal high explosive. It was first used during the U.S. occupation of Vietnam.  It’s part of the Mark 80 series of low-drag bombs, from Mk81 to Mk84, of similar shape but increasing size.

Mark 82s on Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan. U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Stephen Schester, 27APR2010.

The shape and size of the standard fins have changed over the decades, and the type of fins used changes the nomenclature (the various fins/tail cones have their own nomenclatures as well).

They’ve even been fitted with nose fuse extensions.

This video is about the history of the F-4 Phantom-2, but it has a couple of scenes from Vietnam in which F-4s off-load massive amounts of Mk82s:

Most ‘live’ Mk82s are painted olive drab with yellow markings and trim.  Some are light grey with yellow trim.  Yellow indicates it is a ‘live’ bomb.

“Bombs can be filled by conventional explosive or other explosive compositions (TNT, Tritonal, Comp B) with a wide range of fuzes (M904-M905, FMU-139, FMU-152, FBM 21, ID 260).”

USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Ryan Callaghan, 25JAN2017.

This live Mk82 has a nose mounted M904 fuse.

USAF photo by Master Sergeant Don Sutherland, 01FEB1981.

USAF photo by Senior Airman Zachary Heal, 05FEB2020.

Many bombs have varying shades of paint from one to the other, depending on how they were stored, exposure to sunlight, etc.

USAF photo by Senior Airman Zachary Heal, 05FEB2020.

This live Mk82 has a rear mounted M905 fuse.

USAF photo by Senior Airman Jacob M. Thompson, 27JAN2021.

Some tail cones have ‘pinwheels’ (ATU-35A/B tail mounted fuse drive assemblies) that have an arming wire connected to the bomb release mechanism.  The ATU-35 is for both the M904 nose fuse and the M905 rear mounted fuse.

Pinwheels on the tail cones of these practice bombs, denoted by the blue stripe around the nose. USAF photo by Master Sergeant Ken Hammond, 27JUN1987.

These Mk82s have the M904 nose fuse with the ATU-35 tail drive. USAF photo by Master Sergeant Ken Hammond, 27JUN1987.

U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Corporal Steven Walls, 28JAN2020.

The live Mk82s (BSU-33s?) on this AV-8B Harrier are grey with yellow trim.  Note the USMC fins are the similar to the USAF fins.

USMC photo by Lance Corporal James Marchetti, 14JAN2014.

Mark 82s onboard aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72). USN photo by Photographer’s Mate Second Class Tracy Lee Didas, 01OCT1989.

Same aircraft carrier, but in 1993. Mark 82s onboard aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72). USN photo by Photographer’s Mate Second Class Hayhurst, 01OCT1993.

For those model builders who are worried that they’ve hit their Mark 82s/BDUs with a paint bomb, most U.S. Navy/USMC bombs have a thick stucco looking coating of paint.

USN photo by Photographer’s Mate Second Class Tracy Lee Didas, 04NOV1987.

Mark 82s being transferred from ship-to-ship during Desert Storm. USN photo by Photographer’s Mate Second Class Charles W. Moore, 01FEB1991.

Video, 726th EABS Munitions Systems team shows you how to build a Mk82, November 2019, Djibouti:

An F-4E Phantom II off-loads a bunch of blue bombs onto the Bardenas Bombing Range in Spain. USAF photo by Staff Sergeant David Nolan, 25MAR1986.

Practice bombs are painted blue, or O-D with blue trim and fins.  Some are so old the blue paint is extremely faded.  Some practice bombs have spotting charges in the fin section to make it easier to spot where it impacts on the target field.

BDU-45 mounted on P3C Orion. USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Second Class Harry J. Rucker the Third, 25OCT2009.

The U.S. Navy calls their practice Mk82 bomb the BDU-45.  Note there is a difference between USN fins and USAF fins.

BDU-45 mounted on P3C Orion. USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Second Class Harry J. Rucker the Third, 25OCT2009.

USAF photo by Staff Sgt. Jim Araos, 02JUL2012.

Blue bombs.

Georgia Air National Guard F-105G gets bombed-up with a cement filled Blue Bomb. Photo by Airman First Class Sheryl D. Barnett, 10APR1981.

Video, Davis Monthan, Arizona, Operation SnowBird 2013, Idaho National Guard bombs-up their A-10s with Maverick missiles and Mk82s:

An Iranian F-14 tomcat bombed-up with Iranian made Mk82s on Iranian designed bomb rack.

A-10A on Sembach Air Base, Germany, being bombed-up with a Mk82 Snake Eye. USAF photo by Sutherland, 22APR1982.

The Mk82 can be fitted with low-drag fins or the infamous high-drag fins called Snake Eye.  The Snake Eye, or Mark 14 Tail Retarding Device, was developed because aircraft making low-level bombing runs would get hit by the shrapnel from the low-drag Mk82s.

A-7 Corsair II releasing Mark 82 hi-drag (Snake Eye) bombs on bombing range in Florida. USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Frank Garzelnick, 01MAY1980.

The Iranians love the Snake Eye, using it during low-level high-speed bombing runs against invading Iraqi forces in the 1980s and still using it today.

Iranian Thunderbolts (twin tailed F-5s) dropping snake eyes.

U.S. Navy A-6 Intruders dropping snake eyes.

Snake Eye outside the U.S. Air Force 88th Operations Support Squadron, Munitions Flight, at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, 03MAR2021. USAF photo by Ty Greenlees.

USAF photo by Master Sergeant Dennis L. Carlson, 07DEC1978.

GBU-12 Paveway II is a ‘smart’ Mk82 with laser guidance system.

Canadian CF188 (F-18) being bombed-up with a Paveway in Kuwait, 13JAN2015.

This Mk82 is equipped with the Air Inflatable Retarder (AIR) tail.

FB-111A off-loads Mk82-AIR bombs, USAF photo by Master Sergeant Ken Hammond, 17NOV1990.

VEHICLE I-D: F-22 RAPTOR