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Weapon I-D: Cold War Copperhead, still in use

Copperhead snake

The North American Copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix) pit-viper.

The laser guided artillery round called M712 Copperhead, was the result of an early 1970s concept, tested by the early 1980s, and first used in combat during Operation Desert Storm despite the fact that production ceased in 1990 (according to Lockheed Martin). It can be launched by several 155mm artillery systems that use NATO standardized ammo.

An M712 Copperhead cannon-launched laser-guided projectile is fired from a modified M198 155mm howitzer, 27FEB1984. White Sands Missile Test Range, New Mexico, photo by Tom Moore.

White Sands Missile Test Range, 27FEB1984, photo by Tom Moore.

White Sands Missile Range photo by Warren Weaver.

WSMR photo by Tom Moore.

WSMR photo by Tom Moore.

U.S. Army & Marine Corps Inventory and Requirements for Artillery Projectiles, March 1995.

3-112th Field Artillery, New Jersey Army National Guard, unload M712 Copperhead cannon launched guided projectiles at Fort Drum, New York, 08JUN2000. New Jersey National Guard photo.

In the 1980s, it was estimated that each copperhead round cost U.S. taxpayers $22-thousand, and the U.S. Army wanted more than 44-thousand of them!

Idaho National Guard COLT of the 1-148 FA (HQ in Pocatello), identified by the AN/TVQ-2 Ground/Vehicular Laser Locator Designator (GVLLD, usually called a ‘glid’) mounted next to the .50 cal machine gun on this HMMWV, in 2016.

The GVLLD (‘glid’) used by artillery forward observers can be used to guide the Copperhead on-target.

U.S. Marine Corps Field Manual 6-40 discusses the use of M712 Copperhead.

In 2017, United Kingdom based BAE Systems was hired to build a new Bradley based M109A7, which will carry at least three M712 Copperhead rounds.

Vehicle I-D, March 2021: U.S. M109A7 PALADIN, ANOTHER ‘TOOL’ OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE!

In March 2021, the U.S. Army presented to the U.S .Congress its reasons for why it needs new, better, longer range artillery systems.

White Sands Missile Range Museum

Weapon I-D: THE HAPPY MINIGUNNER

Vehicle I-D Cold War M47: DUMMIES, ORPHANS, TARGETS & GATE GUARDS

Operation Jupiter: Doctors behind two new U.S. Army vaccines admit they knew the Pandemic was coming!

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“The accelerating emergence of human coronaviruses throughout the past two decades and the rise of SARS-CoV-2 variants, including most recently Omicron, underscore the continued need for next-generation preemptive vaccines that confer broad protection against coronavirus diseases. Our strategy has been to develop a ‘pan-coronavirus’ vaccine technology that could potentially offer safe, effective and durable protection against multiple coronavirus strains and species.”-Doctor Kayvon Modjarrad, Director of the Emerging Infectious Diseases Branch at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research

Back in April 2021, I wrote about a new U.S. Army sponsored vaccine called Spike Ferritin Nanoparticle (SpFN, aka spiff-in), ‘boosted’ with Army Liposome Formulation Q (ALF Q). Now, researchers at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) are boasting that recent data shows it works: “This vaccine stands out in the COVID-19 vaccine landscape. The repetitive and ordered display of the coronavirus spike protein on a multi-faced nanoparticle may stimulate immunity in such a way as to translate into significantly broader protection.”-Dr. Kayvon Modjarrad, Director of the Emerging Infectious Diseases Branch at WRAIR

U.S. Army/WRAIR photo by Mike Walters, 14DEC2021.

But it turns out that the U.S. Army doctors also developed a second vaccine, a SARS-CoV-2 Spike Receptor-Binding Domain Ferritin Nanoparticle (aka RFN) vaccine, which targets a smaller part of the coronavirus Spike protein than the SpFN vaccine: “The RFN vaccine candidate is more compact and has some natural advantages as we try to increase the immune response against multiple coronaviruses using a single vaccine platform, so it is still under consideration as part of our pan-coronavirus vaccine development pipeline.”-Dr. Gordon Joyce, co-creator of the RFN vaccine

The doctors at WRAIR admitted they saw this pandemic coming, what they call ‘pan-SARS’ or ‘pan-coronavirus’, and that they knew it would be never ending: “The threat from COVID-19 continues as it evolves, and eventually there will be other emerging disease threats. Our investment in developing a next generation vaccine is an important step towards getting ahead of COVID-19 and future disease threats.”-Dr. Nelson Michael, Director of the Center for Infectious Diseases Research at WRAIR

WRAIR graphic by Christopher Nititham.

In September 2021, WRAIR issued a graphic indicating that SARS-Coronavirus was a “military relevant” disease.

Here is a list of links to the most recent SpFN studies:

SARS-COV-2-Spike-Ferritin-Nanoparticle (SpFN) Vaccine With ALFQ Adjuvant for Prevention of COVID-19 in Healthy Adults

SARS-CoV-2 ferritin nanoparticle vaccines elicit broad SARS coronavirus immunogenicity

A SARS-CoV-2 spike ferritin nanoparticle vaccine protects against Alpha & Beta variants in hamsters

SARS-CoV-2 ferritin nanoparticle vaccine induces robust innate immune activity driving polyfunctional spike-specific T cell responses

Efficacy and breadth of adjuvanted SARS-CoV-2 receptor-binding domain nanoparticle vaccine in monkeys

A SARS-CoV-2 Ferritin Nanoparticle Vaccine Elicits Protective Immune Responses in Nonhuman Primates

Operation Jupiter/Vaccine Fail: NEXT-GEN M-R-N-A VAXES TO USE TROJAN HORSE FLU VIRUS TO INVADE YOUR CELLS! ADMITS CURRENT VAXES DON’T WORK!

Operation Jupiter: U.S. ARMY USING PANDEMIC AS EXCUSE TO INJECT YOU WITH NANO ‘TAR BABIES’? 

Pandēmus Totalitarian:  U.S. MILITARY TAKES OVER CIVILIAN HOSPITALS, BEGINS VAX MEGA-SITES & BOOSTER RODEOS?! GERMANY SAYS EVEN THE ‘FULLY’ VACCINATED MUST PROVE THEY ARE NOT INFECTED!

Vehicle I-D: Cold War era BAT-2 now a Kosovo car-basher

Iowa Army National Guard photo by Sergeant Zachary M. Zippe, 16DEC2020.

While doing time with NATO’s Kosovo peace enforcing operation (KFOR), some Ukrainian troops decided to bring a little friend to some crowd/riot control training on Camp Marechal de Lattre De Tassigny.

Iowa Army National Guard photo by Sergeant Zachary M. Zippe, 16DEC2020.

The training took place on 16DEC2020, and include the Iowa Army National Guard (Troop B, 1st Squadron, 113th Cavalry Regiment).

Iowa Army National Guard photo by Sergeant Jonathan Perdelwitz, 16DEC2020.

It is called BAT-2 путепрокладчик, it is a heavy tracked engineer vehicle equipped with a crane, a ground/road ‘ripper’, a 25 metric tons winch, and a multi-angle dozer blade. The Ukrainian/Russian word путепрокладчик translates to ‘tracklayer’ in English, even though it has nothing to do with laying track (perhaps something lost in translation as the English word ‘track’ has multiple meanings).

Iowa Army National Guard photo by Sergeant Jonathan Perdelwitz, 16DEC2020.

Bash! The old Cold War era engineer vehicle bashes not one but two small SUVs, that were being used as an impromptu road block during the riot control training.

BAT-2 was designed and built in the Soviet Union, specifically for creating and removing obstacles, entering service in 1988.  Apparently the word BAT (Бат) is a reference to engineering vehicles. The full Russian word is Батмастер, which translates to English, probably incorrectly, to BAT-master. Another name for BAT-2 (Бат-2) is Батмастер-Истра (BAT-master[?] Istra).

U.S. Army photo by Staff Sergeant Cody Harding, 11SEP2013.

This isn’t the first time a Ukrainian BAT was doing time in Kosovo, in September 2013 the Ukrainian BAT-2 was used to clear a landslide on a road outside Zubin Potok.

See more Ukrainian BAT-2s, including a video, in UKRAINIAN ARMOR 2020.

U.S. Army photo by Sergeant Kyle Larsen, 20SEP2019.

Pandēmus Totalitarian: U.S. military takes over civilian hospitals, begins vax Mega-Sites & Booster Rodeos?! Germany says even the ‘fully’ vaccinated must prove they are not infected!

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Incomplete list of links and videos to the latest Pandemic mandates in the U.S. and Germany (Germany because the U.S. military is directly involved):

GERMANY: Starting on 15DEC2021, the City of Wiesbaden asks all fully vaccinated or recovered people to wear wristbands (Bändchenlösung), this way anybody not wearing a wrist ban can be targeted for leaving their homes!

On 14DEC2021, the State of Hessen ramped up its Pandemic lockdown to ‘3G’ status.

On 13DEC2021, the City of Wiesbaden admitted there is a problem with its daily Pandemic reporting, which it calls Überhänge (overhangs), or excess reporting which made things look worse than they are.  It is blamed on an increase in new cases and a lack of Health Department employees.

The Rheinland-Pfalz Impfbus (immunization bus) at U.S. Army Rhine Ordnance Barracks 10DEC2021. Photo by Gina Hutchins-Inman.

On 10DEC2021, the State of Rhienland-Pfalz sent their Impfbus (immunization bus) to the U.S. Army’s Rhine Ordnance Barracks, despite the fact that the Barracks has a 96% vaccination rate: “I really appreciate the German Red Cross and the 21st TSC [Theater Sustainment Command] helping us with this second iteration of the corona vaccination. The garrison has a 96% vaccination rate including service members.”-Daniel Nagel, Garrison Works Council Chairman

U.S. Army photo by Eleanor Prohaska.

On 08DEC2021, U.S. Army and Air Force medical personnel conducted a Booster Rodeo in the city of Kaiserslautern.  The so called Victory Medics helped spend U.S. funding to vaccinate approximately 1-thousand-6-hundred people! On top of that, Lieutenant Colonel William Murray reports that the U.S. Army’s Landstuhl Regional Medical Center is vaccinating as many as 1260 people per day!

On 02DEC2021, the federal government issued new Pandemic rules, such as banning New Year celebration gatherings, imposing “strict contact restrictions for the unvaccinated” essentially banishing people who are not vaccinated to their homes, admitting there are not enough qualified people to give you a shot so thereby they’ve expanded who is now acceptable to give you a shot, and setting stricter standards for shutting down public/private venues. The new federal Pandemic rules are considered the bare minimum and each German state can add to it.

On 03DEC2021, despite officials stating they want to stop the fourth wave of Pandemic, the State of Rhienland-Pfalz exempted people who got the booster shot from the ‘2G’ Pandemic restrictions!

On 30NOV2021, the State of Hessen issued its own stricter Pandemic rules, vaccinated (yes, vaccinated) people should be tested once per week, prohibiting people who are not vaccinated from meeting with more than one person even in a private setting like their own house, banning booze sales/use in a public setting, and the “…complete prohibition of folk festivals, parades, Christmas markets or sports (large) events for spectators or the closure of leisure facilities, such as zoos and animals parks, amusement parks, indoor playgrounds, fun pools, saunas, thermal baths, clubs, discotheques, and prostitution venues or cultural institutions such as museums, theaters or movie theaters.”

UNITED STATES:

Alaska:

U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Emily Farnsworth.

On 30NOV2021, Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson’s Joint Venture Hospital held a ceremony to officially recognize its 30SEP2021 transition from a military medical treatment facility into a ‘military medical market’.  According to Defense Health Agency, a military medical market is a group of hospitals and clinics in one geographic area working together.

Colorado:

U.S. Army photo by Specialist Richard Barnes, 29NOV2021.

U.S. Air Force medics are working in UCHealth Poudre Valley Hospital in Fort Collins.

Idaho: U.S. Department of Defense threatens to take the paychecks Idaho’s state militia personnel:

The Idaho National Guard ended its second deployment to multiple Primary Health Medical Group clinics across the state, on 16DEC2021.

Maryland: The U.S. military’s Uniformed Services University issued guidelines about arguments between pro-vaxers and those who do not want to be vaccinated; bottom line the advise says don’t do it, literally saying “change the subject”, “talk with someone else” and “have an exit plan”!

Michigan:

U.S. Army photo by Corporal Froylan Grimaldo, 13DEC2021.

U.S. Army medics are working in Beaumont Hospital, Dearborn.

The U.S. Army’s Detroit Arsenal began Rapid CoViD-19 Testing on 10DEC2021.

U.S. Army photo by Specialist Ty Baggerly, 09DEC2021.

FEMA deployed the U.S. Army’s 214th Medical Detachment (based on Fort Bliss, Texas) to Covenant Healthcare in Saginaw.

U.S. Army photo by Specialist Ty Baggerly, 06DEC2021.

U.S. Army medics are working at Spectrum Health Blodgett Hospital in Grand Rapids.

Minnesota:

U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Michael H. Lehman, 07DEC2021.

U.S. Air Force medics are working at Hennepin Healthcare, in Minneapolis.

U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Michael H. Lehman, 27NOV2021.

U.S. Air Force medics (wearing non-protective surgical masks, meaning not N95 masks, see more below under New Mexico) arrive at CentraCare St. Cloud Hospital, in Saint Cloud.

Montana:

U.S. Army photo by Sergeant Andre Taylor, 09DEC2021.

U.S. Air Force medics working at Benefis Health System in Great Falls.

U.S. Army photo by Sergeant Andre Taylor, 06DEC2021.

U.S. Navy medics are also deployed to the Billings Clinic Hospital, in Billings.

Montana National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Michael Touchette.

National Guard/U.S. Army Dual Status Commander inspects Providence Saint Patrick’s Hospital in Missoula , 02DEC2021.

New Jersey: On 09DEC2021, the new(?) Burlington County COVID-19 Vaccine Mega-Site was opened, being operated by New Jersey Army National Guard, U.S. Army and Burlington County.  Interestingly the military press release states it is a “newly opened” facility, while Burlington County’s website says it is a “reopened” facility.  Notice in the photo above that in the widow they’ve posted the phrase “here for good”!

New Mexico:

U.S. Army photo by Specialist Nicholas Goodman, 14DEC2021.

U.S. Navy medical personnel from San Diego, California, are working at San Juan Regional Medical Center in Farmington.

U.S. Army photo by Specialist Nicholas Goodman, 09DEC2021.

And here’s proof the flimsy masks silly-vilians (civilians), and even most military personnel, are wearing do not work: When U.S. Navy medics arrived at San Juan Regional Medical Center they underwent complex ‘test fitting’ in order to use N95 masks, which is the bare minimum type of mask allowed to be worn by hospital staff!  (in April 2020, I warned that the N95 mask was the only mask that might work against coronavirus, based on military studies conducted during SARS)

Texas:

An Afghan child refugee gets vaccinated at the Brooke Army Medical Center COVID-19 Vaccine Site, on 03DEC2021, three days before the site was shut down due to lack of demand! U.S. Army photo by Jason W. Edwards.

Despite government/news media ramping up fear mongering over Omicron, on Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston Brooke Army Medical Center switched to vaccinations by appointment only on 06DEC2021.  Hospital administrators admitted that the reason for ending the mass-vax operation was due to lack of demand by military personnel, despite being mandated to get the shot!

Also on Joint Base San Antonio, the U.S. Air  Force not only ordered the return of mask wearing, but inadvertently revealed that mask wearing is now permanent by issuing guidelines on which color mask to wear with which uniform!

Utah:

U.S. Army photo by Specialist Richard Barnes, 03DEC2021.

The Utah Air National Guard has taken over monoclonal antibody infusions at a Utah Department of Health site in Saint George.  Previously, the U.S. Air Force was administering the monoclonal treatments.

Virginia:

U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Corporal Jessica J. Mazzamuto, 09DEC2021.

U.S. Marine Corps Base Quantico continues vaccinating Afghan child refugees.

Washington:

Photo by Sergeant Yesenia Barajas.

On 21NOV2021, the U.S. Navy’s Surgeon General, and other Navy officials, inspected Confluence Health’s Central Washington Hospital in Wenatchee. Navy medical personnel from Florida and Virginia are working in the hospital.

Wisconsin:

U.S. Army photo by Private First Class Caitlin Wilkins.

An Afghan child refugee gets a Pandemic shot on Fort McCoy, 08DEC2021.

Pandēmus Totalitarian, 24NOV2021: TECH WORKERS WRITE ANTI-VAX MANIFESTO! THOUSANDS OF SOLDIERS ABOUT TO BE ‘FLAGGED’! OKLAHOMA CLAIMS TITLE 32 PROTECTION FROM D-O-D!

Pandemic Perfidy: WHAT HAPPENED TO ‘DEADLIER THAN DELTA’? SAUDI OIL BOSS CLAIMS PANDEMIC IS A FALSE FLAG TO CONTROL MARKET PRICES!

MILITARY MEDICAL TEAMS DEPLOY TO FEMA REGIONS 4, 6, 8 & 10! BLAME PRE-PANDEMIC NURSING SHORTAGE, caused by ObamaCare/ACA, THAT WILL LAST UNTIL 2025!

Operation Jupiter/Vaccine Fail: NEXT-GEN M-R-N-A VAXES TO USE TROJAN HORSE FLU VIRUS TO INVADE YOUR CELLS! ADMITS CURRENT VAXES DON’T WORK!

Going Viral, 2020: NEGATIVE PRESSURE FLYING HOSPITALS?

FEMA BUILDING MASSIVE ISLAND HOSPITAL?

THE National Guard’s NEW Pandemic TASK FORCE 31

Biden’s Borderland: More Drugs, more Boats, 2600% increase in more Illegals!

Welcome to borderland hell under the new U.S. President, highly incomplete (just the tip of the iceberg) list of videos and links to news/government agency reports as of 17 December 2021:

The International Organization for Migration has published 2020 data on just where illegals are coming from, and where they are going.

Yet another migrant caravan is on its way from Central America to Mexico City:

Truck filled with illegals crashes in Mexico, kills 55:

U.S. courts force Biden to renew Trump’s anti-immigrant deal with Mexico:

U.S. Navy photo.

On 15DEC2021, while sailing the Gulf of Oman, the U.S. Navy was tracking a fishing boat from Iran, which was suspected of smuggling illegal drugs. At the end of the video, suddenly the boat burst into flames, five suspected smugglers were rescued, one is missing:

U.S. Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine Operations photo.

On 05DEC2021, U.S. Customs and Border Protection captured a suspected human smuggling boat, approximately 20 miles west of Anguilla Cay, Bahamas. One person is being held in Border Patrol custody.

Photo via USCG District 7 PADET Jacksonville.

On 05DEC2021, the U.S. Coast Guard captured a ‘low profile drug boat’, it was one of five such captures conducted in international water off the coasts of Mexico, Central and South America.

ARIZONA: Border near Yuma now experiencing “highly unusual” number of illegals!

Mayor of Yuma declares state of emergency due to 2-thousand-6-hundred% increase in illegals:

CALIFORNIA: United Farm Workers union demands that millions of illegals be legalized:

Russian news media reports that U.S. Border Patrol shoots at two vehicles filled with illegals from Russia, at the San Ysidro Port of Entry, also reports ten fold increase in illegals from Russia trying to get into California!

Very interestingly, California news media made no mention of illegals from Russia when they reported the San Ysidro Port of Entry shooting:

FLORIDA:

USCG photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Ryan Estrada.

On 15DEC2021, the USCG offloaded yet more illegal drugs, this time at Port Everglades, worth an estimated $236-million: “The successful interdiction of over 17-thousand pounds of illegal narcotics and the apprehension of 17 suspected traffickers are the result of tremendous teamwork. We are thankful for coordinated efforts across the U.S. Coast Guard, the Department of Defense, Customs and Border Protection, as well as our international partners from Canada and throughout Central and South America.”-Jay Guyer, Commander of USCGC Vigilant (WMEC 617)

Illegal immigrant arrested for domestic violence against woman and child!

USCG video of 13DEC2021 capture of human smuggling boat, off Pompano. At least one smuggler and 28 illegals were captured:

U.S. Border Patrol photo.

On 12DEC2021, this abandoned boat was found on Jupiter Beach, it is suspected of being used to smuggle illegals.

WPTV reports that witnesses saw the human smuggling boat, found on Jupiter Beach, off-loading as many as 50 illegals during the day:

U.S. Coast Guard District 7 photo.

The USCG captured a total of 30 illegals from Cuba, approximately 40 miles south of Key West, on 09DEC2021. They were sent back to Cuba on 14DEC2021.

USCG photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Brian Zimmerman.

On 07DEC2021, the USCG offloaded yet more illegal drugs at Base Miami Beach, an estimated $148-million worth captured during three separate interdictions in the Caribbean Sea, in the past two weeks.

U.S. Coast Guard District 7 photo.

On 04DEC2021, the USCG captured a U.S. registered fishing vessel, illegally fishing inside the Dry Tortugas Shrimp Sanctuary.

GEORGIA: 24 people charged with forcing illegals into slavery!

IDAHO: Refugees from Afghanistan to be settled in Pocatello.

Idaho senators push bill to block settlement funding for illegal immigrant families.

ILLINOIS: Ignorant students walk out of class to support illegals!

IOWA: Illegals are demanding that the city of Des Moines support them with tax payer funding!

NEW JERSEY: Two woman face federal trial for enticing foreigners to come to the U.S. illegally, with the promise of being married-off to a citizen!

The corrupt state of New Jersey announced it will send even more tax dollars on supporting illegals!

NEW YORK: NYC allows 800-thousand illegals to vote!

Growing movement to make tax payer funded monthly Pandemic funding for jobless illegals a permanent monthly payment, of $1,200 per month! (I, as a naturalized citizen, am pissed-off a this because I’ve applied for unemployment assistance several times in my long life and have always been denied for some piddly technicality, and even if I was approved it would have been for only a few hundred per month!)

OREGON: A month after it was revealed that Mexican drug deals were smuggling illegals into The Beaver State (MEXICAN DRUG DEALERS TAKE CONTROL OF CALIFORNIA, OREGON!), in order to maintain illegal marijuana farms, the pro-marijuana state government will now spend 25-million tax dollars to fight the competition, I mean invasion by Mexican drug dealers!

https://youtu.be/B9XO5TT8xWs

PUERTO RICO:

Photo via USCG District 7 PADET San Juan.

On 04DEC2021, the USCG captured a total of 62 illegals from Dominican Republic, all packed onto a relatively small boat. They were sent back to Dominican Republic.

TEXAS: Pawn shop owner arrested for knowingly selling ammo to illegals!

Eagle Pass getting hit by masses of illegals, destroying farmer’s crops in the process:

Comanche County Sheriff’s Office reports capturing an illegal who is suspected of smuggling more than 1-thousand people into the U.S.!

Guatemalan woman allowed to ‘legally’ cross into the U.S., for medical reasons:

Washington DC: 10 months after the order was given, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is still not able to halt the use of the word -alien- when referring to immigrants.

Biden halts negotiations to provide illegals with taxpayer compensation!

Revealed, Biden orders release of illegal immigrant families from detention centers, using electronic tracking instead!

Biden actually ramps up Trump’s ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy:

Biden’s Borderland, as of 01 December 2021: HYPOCRISY OF ‘PRO-ILLEGAL’ LIBERAL STATES REVEALED, YEARS OF TAX FUNDING FOR ILLEGALS ‘DISAPPEARED’!

Vehicle I-D: Mil 26 Halo, Cold War helicopter with no plans to retire!

Mil (мил) 26, NATO reporting name Halo.

The Mil 26 Halo was developed in the 1970s, to replace the older Mil 6 Hook. Mil is now part of the larger Russian Helicopters (JCS Russian Helicopters) ‘holding company’.

Video report, Mi-26 lifts its predecessor the Mi-6:

On 22NOV2021, Russian Helicopters-Rostec announced a deal for mass production of the new Mi-26T2V, for the Russian Ministry of Defense.

United Kingdom based Air Charter Service explains why their favorite helicopter is the Mil 26:

In 2020, Peru sold off its aged Mi-26Ts to a Cyprus-based aviation junk yard company for the price of scrap.  Peru bought the Halos as used from the airline Aeroflot. They only operated in Peru for a few years before sitting abandoned for more than a decade.

Poor quality video of an Abakan Avia operated Mi-26 (Ми-26) crashing in April 2020, Novy Urengoy – Vankor field, Yamal Peninsula, Russia. Three crew wounded. It looks like the pilot came in too fast with the nose too high causing the tail to hit the ground:

At the end of 2019, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation/Russian Helicopters announced a year of testing for its new Mi-26T2V.

2019 video, lifting a An-74:

In 2019, reportedly India finally made a deal with Russia to rebuild their surviving three Mi-26 Halos. The hope is that the aged beyond their life span Mi-26s will get another 10 to 15 years of life. India was one of the first foreign buyers of the Mi-26, during the Cold War.

In January 2019, a Mi-26 transported many materials to the Bureysky reservoir, which had been blocked by a landslide in December 2018 creating a flood threat, Russian Defense Ministry video:

TASS video of UTair Mi-26 moving an old Tu-134 ‘gate guard’ in Tyumen, Russia, 2019:

Russian Defense Ministry video of load-up of Mi-26 during Vostock 2018 war games, September 2018:

TASS video of Russian military Mi-26 practicing to fight fires, May 2018:

Photo via Russian Helicopters.

In October 2017, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced the Mi-26 would be modernized to ‘T2V’ standard, allowing it to operate in bad weather, at night, and will have a self defense system against guided anti-aircraft missiles.

Photo via Russian Helicopters.

Photo via Russian Helicopters.

Also in October 2017, Russian Helicopters-Rostec announced their plans to begin helicopter maintenance operations in Mexico, to service the growing number of Russian helicopters in Mexico, including at least two Mi-26T.

Photo via Russian Defense Ministry.

VGTRK-T24 detailed video report about the Mi-26, 28APR2017:

By 2015, the Indian Air Force was down to just one operable Mi-26, with only 1-hundred hours of life left in it. India first bought the Mi-26 Halo in the 1980s, during the undeclared/unofficial global Cold War, acquiring a total of four. Apparently the Indian government thinks it is too costly to rebuild/replace the Mi-26.

2013(?) video report, checking out a new build Mi-26:

Australian Department of Defence photo, March 2011.

In early 2011, the Australian Department of Defence hired Russian contractor Vertical T to fly Mi-26 Halo transport missions in Afghanistan, specifically in Uruzgan Province.

Australian and U.S. military personnel check out the huge ass of the Mi-26. Australian Department of Defence photo, March 2011.

Mi-26 Halo helicopter delivers a battle damaged Mi-17 Hip to Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, 13JUL2011. Photo via U.S. Army’s 16th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment.

13JUL2011, Kandahar, Afghanistan. Photo via U.S. Army’s 16th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment.

13JUL2011, Kandahar, Afghanistan. Photo via U.S. Army’s 16th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment.

13JUL2011, Kandahar, Afghanistan. Photo via U.S. Army’s 16th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment.

Associated Press photo.

In December 2010, an Indian Air Force Mi-26 crashed at Jammu Airport/Air Force Station. The crew of seven were wounded, technical problems are suspected as the cause.

A Russian Mi-26 Halo lands at Belet Weyne (Beledweyne), Somalia, December 1993. U.S. Department of Defense photo by Sergeant G. D. Robinson.

In 1993, the Mi-26 Halo was used to shuttle supplies and personnel to areas outside Mogadishu, Somalia, during the United States led United Nation’s Operation Continue Hope.

Mi-26 Halo on the shores of Kismayo, Somalia, November 1993. U.S. Department of Defense photo by Sergeant G. D. Robinson.

November 1993, U.S. Department of Defense photo by Sergeant G. D. Robinson.

Image taken from 1986 video, showing a Soviet Mi-26 attempting to reduce radiation levels around the exploded Chernobyl nuclear reactor.

Soviet era video report, one of the first production Mi-26 arrives at Vystavka Dostizheniy Narodnovo Khozyaystva (VDNKh, ВДНХ), Moscow, 1985:

Soviet silly-vilian (civilian) airliner version of the Mi-26 in 1983.

Early 1980s Soviet AviaExport promotional film about the then new Mi-26:

Cold War ‘Fake News’ Helicopter:

UH-1H ‘HUEY-HIND’

Cold War Helicopters: KAMOV 25 ‘HORMONE’

Mother of all Money Pits: U.S. Combat Ops officially end, Biden’s million $ giveaways continue, NATO Turkey continues offensive!

Reuters, 10DEC2021: Iraqi Kurdistan halts oil production sharing contracts, pisses-off British oil company!

Rudaw, 09DEC2021: Iraqi Kurdistan troops kill at least three NATO Turkey soldiers, as NATO Turkey continues ‘Claw Lightning’ operations in Northern Iraq!

09DEC2021, Turkish report:

K24, 09DEC2021: Iraqi Kurdistan builds Iraq’s largest steel foundry, 750-thousand tons per year!

Video report using English text, claiming ‘Coalition’ combat operations in Iraq to be ended ahead of schedule, 09DEC2021:

Same video report, but in Arabic:

Multiple pallets of munitions, including these M549A1 RA (rocket assisted) artillery rounds, were ‘divested’ (given away) to Iraqi forces at Al Asad Air Base, 06DEC2021. U.S. Army photo by Major Alexa Carlo-Hickman.

Multiple pallets of supplies at Al Asad Air Base, 06DEC2021. USA photo by Major Alexa Carlo-Hickman.

USA photo by Major Alexa Carlo-Hickman.

Iraqi officers sign for approximately 18 pallets of supplies distributed on Al Asad Air Base, 04DEC2021. USA photo by Major Alexa Carlo-Hickman.

04DEC2021, USA photo by Major Alexa Carlo-Hickman.

03DEC2021, the people of Lheban Village, in Erbil, defend themselves against a nighttime raid by so-called Islamic State:

Mother of all Money Pits, 13NOV2021: WHY IS BIDEN INCREASING MILITARY OPERATIONS IN NORTHERN IRAQ?

Pandemic Perfidy: What happened to ‘deadlier than Delta’? Saudi oil boss claims Pandemic is a False Flag to control market prices!

Anybody remember the very recent main stream news media mantra of ‘Deadlier than Delta’? Anybody remember the ancient Greek fable about The Boy Who Cried Wolf?

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InfectionControlToday, 03DEC2021: Omicron May Be More Infectious, Deadlier Than Delta

DNAIndia, 29NOV2021: Omicron more transmissible and deadlier than Delta

ABC News, 26NOV2021:

NationalGeographic, 17SEP2021: Is a variant worse than Delta on the way?

JoyNews, 02SEP2021:

Cedars-Sinai/Newsweek, 24AUG2021: A Doomsday COVID Variant Worse Than Delta 

KanakNews, 07AUG2021:

MSNBC, 05AUG2021:

Keep in mind that almost every new variant of coronavirus had initially been labeled as deadlier than the previous variants!

Reuters, 04DEC2021: South African official says Omicron infection is mild, symptoms are flu-like, so far no deaths 

The latest data (as of 03DEC2021) out of South Africa is that so far nobody has died from Omicron, and that most people who were hospitalized, were hospitalized for a different medical condition and that it was after hospitalization that they tested positive for Omicron! This is called being “COVID incidental”; you being hospitalized for a non-Pandemic problem and you just happen to be also infected with the Pandemic.

Omicron is more infectious than Delta, but at this point the data shows it is in no way more deadly than Delta!  What seems to be the biggest impact of continued news media/government fear mongering over the Pandemic, is economic, and apparently that is the true motive.

France24, 30NOV2021: Omicron variant raises new fears for pandemic-hit world economy

Reportedly, Amin Nasser, Chief Executive Officer of Saudi Arabia’s Aramaco, intimated that the Pandemic news media fear mongering is all about controlling market prices of natural resources! It should be noted that on 06DEC2021, Saudi Arabia used the recent Omicron fear mongering as an excuse to raise their oil prices for January 2021 deliveries!

There are now concerns that one barrel of oil could hit U.S. $150 for 2023!

Reuters, 07DEC2021: Pandemic fear mongering makes the super rich wealthier!

Business Standard, 07DEC2021: International Monetary Fund uses Omicron fear mongering to call for tighter control of world economies!

SouthChinaMorningPost, 07DEC2021: Communist China backs Switzerland based World Trade Organization for the creation of a ‘post-pandemic’ world economy!

Pandemic Perfidy: PRE-PANDEMIC NURSING SHORTAGE WILL LAST UNTIL 2025!

Pandemic Logistics Perfidy: SKYROCKETING USED CAR PRICES & INSURANCE RATES STARTED YEARS BEFORE THE Pandemic SHORTAGES!

 

Vehicle I-D: Egyptian Armor درع المصري

Egyptian Ministry of Defense video report from October 2021, showing M60A3, BTR-50, ZSU-23-4, and other weapon systems:

Egyptian Ministry of Defense promotional video showing artillery systems, including the M109, MLRS and ZSU-23-4, October 2021:

In 2020, Egypt agreed to buy 5-hundred of the Russian T-90MS.

Music video report, wargame Qadir 2020:

Fahd armored car, June 2019.

Egyptian Ministry of Defense video report from November 2019, air defense artillery (ADA), including ZSU-23-4 and other tracked ADA vehicles:

Exercise Bright Star 2018, U.S. Army photo by Staff Sergeant Matthew Keeler.

Egyptian Army M1A1 Abrams during Exercise Bright Star 2018, Mississippi National Guard photo by Specialist Jovi Prevot.

M113, U.S. Army photo by Staff Sergeant Matthew Keeler, 13SEP2018.

USAF video by Staff Sergeant John Raven, Egyptian M1A1 live fire at the end of Bright Star 2017:

YPR-765 used during the anti-terrorist action on the Sinai Peninsula, 2013.

YPR-765 guarding the border with Gaza, August 2012.

M60A1 during 2012 uprisings.

Egyptian BTR-50, 12OCT2009. Photo by U.S. Marine Corps Staff Sergeant Matt Epright.

Egyptian M109 Self Propelled Howitzer, 15SEP2005, photo by U.S. Army Sergeant Alejandro Licea.

An M113 ‘medic track’, 15SEP2005, photo by U.S. Army Sergeant Alejandro Licea.

An Egyptian Fahd with a BMP-2 turret (Fahd 240), late 1990s, NATO SFOR (Stabilization Force) in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Fahd armored car about to be sent to Liberia for ‘peacekeeping’ duty. U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Paul R. Caron, 23FEB1997.

Egyptian Army M60A1, USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Jeffrey T. Brady, 18NOV1993.

The 105mm main gun of this M60A1 has been blown out-of-battery. Notice the damage at the end of the barrel, the missing search light, and the position of the bore evacuator! USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Jeffrey T. Brady, 18NOV1993.

Photo by Staff Sergeant Greg Suhay, 01NOV1993.

This is a U.S. Air Force photo by Technical Sergeant H. H. Deffner, showing Egyptian 3rd Armored Brigade’s M60s demonstrating their smoke grenade launchers, apparently in Saudi Arabia. The problem with the rest of the info is that it says it is during Operation Desert Shield, but gives the date as May 1992. Desert Shield ended on 17JAN1991!

Another USAF photo by Technical Sergeant H. H. Deffner, with another incorrect date for Desert Shield; ‘September 1991’. Desert Shield was from August 1990 to 17JAN1991.

Decontaminating an Egyptian M109 155mm self-propelled howitzer, December 1990, Operation Desert Shield. USAF photo credited to Technical Sergeant H. H. Deffner.

Silent U.S. Army video, by Sergeant First Class Jacobs, of U.S. troops checking out an Egyptian BTR-50, during the first Bright Star wargame, November 1980:

Helicopters: EGYPT مصر

Idaho housing costs “literally mathematically impossible”! Killing Idaho’s economy! Get ready for the crash-n-burn!

“About six months ago, we were recruiting for a very high-level position in our company, we were recruiting somebody from California. They said, ‘You know what? Meridian, Idaho, is too expensive for me to live. It’s better for me to stay in California.’ Now how many of us have ever heard that? We never have.”-Garrett Lofto, President and CEO of JR Simplot, during the Associated Taxpayers of Idaho meeting on 01DEC2021

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A spat of news media reports offer overwhelming proof that a major housing price crash is coming for The Gem State of Idaho, and this comes just as many home owners just got another big county assessed increase in their property tax/fee schedules!

The Federal Housing Finance Agency warned that loan limits for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac mortgages will hit record levels due to insane spikes in home prices in Idaho and Utah!

Biden’s Build Back Better bill’s low income housing vouchers will benefit only about 1-thousand-3-hundred Idahoans!

A Zions Bank economist recently stated to the Associated Taxpayers of Idaho: “I know that this level of housing price appreciation is unsustainable. It is, like, literally mathematically impossible for us to continue to have this level of housing price appreciation. My fear, of course, is that we see what we saw in 2009, where that big jump turns into big drops in housing prices.”-Robert Spendlove, Zions Bank Chief Economist, 01DEC2021

At the same Associated Taxpayers of Idaho meeting, gov’na Brad Little promised he would do something about skyrocketing property taxes and fees: “Property taxes continue to be a priority and I will work with the Legislature and organizations like ATI to find solutions to offer real and immediate property tax relief.”-Brad Little, Governor of Idaho, 01DEC2021

Idaho’s gov’na was not granted an increase in his housing allowance!

On 01DEC2021, CBS News reported that Boise, Idaho, is now the least affordable place to live in the United States, thank ass-hole housing speculators using bidding wars to get a house:

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) U.S. House Price Index report of 30NOV2021.

Florida Atlantic University reports that homes in the Boise market are selling for an average of 80.5% more than what they are actually worth!

Florida Atlantic University also created a new ‘tool’ to help home sellers/buyers gage housing cycles, and predict the next crash!

Newspaper Idaho Statesman revealed that in November, Boise led the U.S. in crashing rents!

Coeur d’Alene/Post Falls Press stated: “1) Prices may come down on homes originally listed in the summer but didn’t sell for whatever reason. 2) Some sellers may be anxious to move properties before winter, especially if they’re also buying in a market with fewer listings. 3) A home may have been listed a little too high to begin with. 4) Some real estate agents purposefully list high to start, then gradually drop prices until that sweet spot buyer arrives.”

Despite main stream news sources, and housing developers/speculators, blaming Idaho’s high prices on lack of housing, this Good News Reality Group video report claims Boise’s housing inventory is actually up by 300%, as well as homes for sale are sitting on the market for longer, and that property tax/fee increases are driving locals out, warns that “even dual income families are gonna have a hard time qualifying”:

https://youtu.be/RXiOLm2qpN8

Zillow stops buying homes after losing $422-million, blaming volatile home prices, especially in the Boise area, for possibly rendering its Zestimate home pricing A-I tool ineffective!

KTVB news report about ‘luxury’ student apartments for Boise State University, replacing what were once affordable housing (this is called gentrification), warns it is a trend favoring out of state developers being allowed to happen by government officials:

Real estate researcher ATTOM recently revealed that home sellers in Boise were making an average of a 130.3% profit for the third quarter of 2021!

KREM reports housing costs in Northern Idaho drove a family to buy a boat for a home!

KREM reports that a Coeur d’Alene family now lives in North Carolina, due to lack of employment and outrageous housing costs in Idaho!

In July 2021, Local News 8 reported that the housing situation in Pocatello is being driven by housing developers seeking high profits, the situation in Idaho is so bad that low income workers must work an impossible 76 hours per week to afford a one bedroom apartment, Idaho is 5th ranked in the country for evictions & foreclosures:

Back in November, KIDO Talk Radio reported that rents were finally dropping in the Boise area.

Housing Crash Reality, 2021: FINALLY HITS BOISE-AREA REALTY MARKET WITH 920% CUTS!

My Immigrant Idaho, 2021: MEXICAN DRUG WAR TARGETS SOUTHEAST IDAHO, MORE THAN 200% INCREASE! CONNECTION TO PANDEMIC?

More Decline, 2019: POPEYES QUIETLY SHUTS DOWN FOUR IDAHO RESTAURANTS!

Idaho’s Continued Economic Destruction, 2018: “CLOSED INDEFINITELY”

More Decline 2017: NO MORE XMAS LIGHTS FOR CHUBBUCK? THE TRUTH ABOUT GENTRIFICATION (1066% increase in city services deposit, and 158% increase in monthly city services fees, since 1997!)

U.S. Job Losses, 2016: RURAL IDAHO KILLS THOUSANDS OF EQUINE JOBS & TENS OF MILLIONS IN REVENUES!

U.S. Job Losses, 2015: Taxpayer funded ‘BUY IDAHO’ program IS a BIG FAIL!

City of Boise launches surprise round up of homeless people, forced into concentration camp!

Government Incompetence, 2011: CONSTRUCTION COMPANIES SAY IDAHO CITY DRIVING DOWN THE ECONOMY WITH THEIR OUTRAGEOUS CONSTRUCTION FEES. IS POCATELLO VIOLATING STATE LAW?