A Peterbilt tractor decided to take part in the auto-show on 23 September 2023, in Pocatello, Idaho. Video by me.
Night rollout:
Day & Night:
23SEP2023: OLDS 442 CUTLASS
A Peterbilt tractor decided to take part in the auto-show on 23 September 2023, in Pocatello, Idaho. Video by me.
Night rollout:
Day & Night:
23SEP2023: OLDS 442 CUTLASS
Cold War: Approximately 1947 (due to U.S. President Harry Truman’s Truman Doctrine) to 1991 (Operation Desert Storm, collapse of Soviet Union).
During the Cold War it was known as Mikoyan & Gurevich (Микоян и Гуревич), hence MiG (МиГ). The MiG-29 began military service in 1983. NATO reporting name Fulcrum.
From 1983 to 1985 the MiG-29 was kept out of public sight, then the leadership of the Soviet Union changed, adopting a concept called Glasnost which resulted in public demonstrations of the MiG-29 all over the world.
In 1989, the Soviet Union was trying so hard to be ‘open’ that they sent one of their new MiG-29s to an airshow in NATO-Canada.
(See more in Desert Storm: AIRCRAFT GRAVEYARD)
Post Cold War, Balkan Wars, War on Terror, Battle for Ukraine, 1992 to present. Since the end of the Cold War the company is known as Mikoyan and is now part of the United Aircraft Corporation (UAC), but the aircraft are still referred to as MiGs.
In the late 1980s, MiG developed a ‘K’ navalized version of the MiG-29 (first flight 23JUL1988), but there were no takers. In 2004, India decided they wanted the MiG-29K for their small aircraft carrier fleet. The training version MiG-29KUB first flew in 2007. The KUB version can also act as an electronic warfare aircraft.
Apparently, the fact that India liked the MiG-29K influenced the Russian Military Maritime Fleet to buy their own MiG-29Ks in 2009.
In 2011, California Air National Guard F-16s flew to Ukraine to take part in wargame Safe Skies. This video, by Senior Master Sergeant Christopher Drudge, shows a Ukrainian MiG-29UB taxiing past the California F-16s:
In 2016, UAC-Mikoyan introduced a new ‘MiG-29’ called the MiG-35 (which looks a lot like the navalized MiG-29K). NATO calls it the Fulcrum-F.
This is from a NATO promotional video about Poland’s MiG-29 (edited by me), released in Spring 2018:
U.S. Department of Defense video claiming to show Russian MiG-29s operating over war-torn Libya, 05JUN2020:
Indian Air Power, 2021: Includes the MiG-29KUB
NATO-Bulgaria MiG-29 escorting U.S. Air Force B-52H, 24MAY2021, video (no audio) by Senior Airman Daniel Hernandez:
Ukraine Crisis, 2022: SLOVAKIA SUDDENLY RETIRES THEIR MiG-29 FULCRUM, AT NATO’S BEHEST
NATO video, 21MAR2023, NATO-Poland’s MiG-29UB launching from Malbork Air Base in Poland, and flying over the Baltic Sea:
On 16SEP2023, for the first time Republic of Serbia MiG-29s took part in an airshow in Skopje, Republic of North Macedonia. Serbian Air Force-Air Defense video:
Post Cold War: NATO’s MiG-21s
Oldsmobile seen at the 23SEP2023 auto-show in Pocatello, Idaho. Video by me:
Olds 442 on the move:
September 2023: 1937 PLYMOUTH DELIVERY WEBCO CUSTOM
Seen at the 23SEP2023, auto-show in Pocatello, Idaho. Video by me:
September 2023: OLD FORD Cab-Over-Engine U.S. POSTAL SERVICE, Pocatello
Chubbuck Days, Idaho: CARS & CANDY, August 2023!
This former USPS Ford 1960s though 1980s C (Cargo) series Cab Over Engine (COE) truck has been in use as a static billboard for more than 30 years, by a re-sale store in Pocatello called Westwood Discount. I do not know the exact year of this truck. In Canada, this truck was known as the ‘M’ series because Ford trucks were sold under the Mercury brand-name in Canada.
Chubbuck Days, Idaho: CARS & CANDY, August 2023!
Cold War: Approximately 1947 (due to U.S. President Harry Truman’s Truman Doctrine) to 1991 (Operation Desert Storm, collapse of Soviet Union).
NATO reporting name Hip. The Михаил Мил Ми-8 (Mikhail Mil Mi-8) rotary wing began military service in 1968, with the Soviet Union. First production was done in the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic. The Mi-17 Hip has more powerful turbines than the Mi-8 Hip, also, the position of the tail rotor is different.
The Mi-8 is also used by silly-vilian (civilian) transport companies. I have several Western/NATO publications from the 1970s that speculate that the Mi-8 started military service prior to 1967. The earliest photos I’ve found of the Hip are from the early 1970s.
Post Cold War, Balkan Wars, War on Terror, Battle for Ukraine, 1992 to present:
In 2005, a new Hip was created with improved turbines, larger cargo door, it was called the Mi-8AMT, but the export version is known as the Mi-171.
U.S. Air Force video (by Technical Sergeant Scott Wilcox), Afghans prep their new U.S. taxpayer funded Hip for take-off, 10NOV2009:
Vehicle I-D, 2009-2018:
Vehicle I-D, 2010-2017:
MARINA ARMADA DE MÉXICO MIL 17
Croat Mi-171 Hip, 29MAY2012, U.S. Army video by Staff Sergeant Jose Ibarra:
Мил Ми-8MTV5 (Mil Mi-8MTV5, export version Mi-17V5) during Russia’s Vostock wargame in the Eastern Military District, 11-17SEP2018:
(See more Egyptian helicopters.)
Sling Load 2019: CH-47 CHINOOK COLLECTS MIL 8 ‘HIP’ BONES
Government Shenanigans 2020: UH-60 FOR AFGHANISTAN, KILLED-OFF BY THE MIL 17, U.S. TAXPAYERS RAPED TWICE?
NATO wargame Rapid Trident 2021: UKRAINE’s MIL 8MT/MSB-V
June 2022: Ukraine now using the Hips they were supposed to repair for Afghanistan
January 2023: Nigér loses Mi-17Sh helicopter during training
February 2023: Iraq gives up it fleet of Hips due to lack of spare parts
July 2023: The Kyrgyz Air Force Receives A New MI-17V-5 Helicopter From Russia
August 2023: Russian pilot defects to Ukraine with an Mi-8 assault helicopter
NATO-Poland to replace its Hip helicopters
Cold War & Beyond: MIL 26 HALO, COLD WAR HELICOPTER WITH NO PLANS TO RETIRE!
Vehicle I-D: T-34-85, FROM PATRIOTIC WAR TO COLD WAR AND BEYOND?
As of 11SEP2023, NATO-Slovakia now has six NATO-Germany supplied Leopard 2A4 battle tanks.
The taxpayers of NATO-Germany should be proud that they are funding 15 rebuilt Cold War era Leopard 2A4 battle tanks for NATO-Slovakia! It is part of a deal Slovakia made to give 30 Cold War era BVP-1 (BMP-1) Infantry Fighting Vehicles to Ukraine.
Official Armed Forces of the Slovak Republic video of the first live-fire training of the Leo-2A4 for Slovak tank crews, in August 2023:
Forever Wars: UKRAINE DEAL GETS NATO-CZECH REPUBLIC ‘NEW’ taxpayer funded LEO 2A4
“In September 2008, building on the experience of over a decade of working together, the Secretaries General of both NATO and the United Nations (UN) agreed to establish a framework for expanded consultation and cooperation….
The UN is frequently invited to attend NATO ministerial meetings and summits; the NATO Secretary General participates in the UN General Assembly; and staff level meetings, covering the broad range of cooperation and dialogue, take place on an annual basis between the secretariats of NATO and the UN.”–Relations with the United Nations, NATO, 25JUL2023
On 19SEP2023, the taxpayer funded North Atlantic Treaty Organization released a promotional video boasting that both NATO and the United Nations were created after the Second World War to impose the Western elites’ version of ‘peace & security’:
At the July 2023 Vilnius Summit, NATO issued a detailed statement revealing that after 1992 (the end of the Cold War/fall of the Soviet Union) the Balkans Wars were used to justify the expansion of NATO and integration into UN ‘peacekeeping’/globalist operations. The title of the NATO statement is Relations with the United Nations, read it for yourself (and notice they use British empire English grammar and spelling, they do not use U.S. English).
Forever Wars, July 2023: JAPAN #1, GLOBAL TAKEOVER, NATO WAR WITH CHINA?
Forever Wars, December 2022: UKRAINE DEAL GETS NATO-CZECH REPUBLIC ‘NEW’ taxpayer funded LEO 2A4
This is just the tip of the spear of the long life of what is now the world’s most prolific and oldest battle tank still in use!
This is about the T-34 series battle tank specifically armed with the 85mm gun. The main gun was a modification of the high velocity 85mm anti-aircraft gun. At first the D-5T version of the 85mm was used, but was quickly replaced by the slightly more compact Zis-S-53 gun.
Great Patriotic War (World War Two): June 1941 to May 1945.
The first T-34-85s, with the D-5T gun, are sometimes called the Model 1943 even though their production was from January-March 1944.
Production of the T-34-85 with the better Zis-S-53 gun began in March 1944, and was called Model 1944. Improved versions were called Model 1945, Model 1946, etcetera, and these model designations did not necessarily refer to the year of production.
During the Great Patriotic War (World War Two), the shape of the turret of the T-34-85 varied depending on which Soviet factory made it. The turret had to be enlarged to accommodate a radio and another crewman. Also, the positions of the turret ventilators shifted. Early on, the fenders were rounded, by the end of the war they were squared-off.
Silent German film, destroyed T-34-85s, 1944:
More silent German film, lots of burning T-34-85s, makes you wonder how the Germans lost:
Torgau, Germany, April 1945, Soviets show-off their T-34-85 to a U.S. Major General Reinhardt, who is accompanied by Russian General Rossovsky (divisional general of the First Ukrainian Army):
Cold War: Approximately 1947 (due to U.S. President Harry Truman’s Truman Doctrine) to 1991 (Operation Desert Storm, collapse of Soviet Union).
After the Great Patriotic War, a standardized version of the T-34-85 was developed and several Eastern European countries got the job of upgrading and standardizing as many T-34-85s as they could. Some of the East German and Czechoslovakian upgrades could be identified by the use of the German Notec (Notek) light and different styles of headlight brush guard. Czechoslovakia also designed their own style of exhaust pipe covers, which reduced the amount of steel used to make them.
Silent Soviet film, Moscow Victory Day parade, 09MAY1949:
United Nations’ Korean Police Action, First Battle of the Naktong Bulge, August 1950. Silent U.S. Marine Corps film (dated 17AUG1950) of U.S. Marines and U.S. Army soldiers inspecting knocked-out North Korean T-34-85 in Yongsan Myon (aka Yeongsan-myeon):
Silent Soviet film, Soviet troops and their T-34-85s supposedly leave Berlin, Germany, early 1950s(?):
Silent film, T-34-85s parade in Budapest, Hungary, early 1950s(?)
Silent film, T-34-85s put down worker riots on Potsdamer Platz, in what would become East Berlin, East Germany, June 1953:
1953 was a bad year for the Soviet occupiers of what would become East Berlin.
The 1953 Berlin Crisis would not be the only time Germans rebelled against Soviet occupiers.
Film, D.D.R. (Deutsche Demokratische Republik, German Democratic Republic) NVA (Nationale Volks-Armee, National Folks’ Army aka East German army) shows-off their T-34-85s to the public, 1955-56(?):
The 1961 Berlin Crisis was the last straw, resulting in the division of Berlin and the building of the Berlin Wall. (Cold War 1961: BERLIN KRISE, ‘GAME OF CHICKEN’ M48A1 vs T-54/55!)
Post Cold War, Balkan Wars, War on Terror, Battle for Ukraine, 1992 to present:
September 2010 video of Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) T-34-85 museum exhibit:
In the ongoing civil war in Yemen, it is reported that both rebels and Kingdom of Saudi Arabia backed militias are using T-34-85s.
CGTN video, during a 2018 parade in Moscow the driver of a T-34-85 got antsy while loading onto a tractor-trailer, and drove off the trailer rolling the tank:
CGTN video, Laos returns 30 operable T-34-85 tanks to Russia in January 2019 (the video incorrectly shows T-34-76 during WW2):
Video of Yemen rebels destroying a government/Saudi militia T-34-85, sometime in 2022:
In 2022 and 2023, several news sources reported that both Ukraine and Russia were using T-34-85s in combat!
See more about T-34-85: Czech from Russia
India still uses the Cold War era Soviet BMP (Boyevaya Mashina Pekhoty-Боевая Машина Пехоты, literally Combat Vehicle Infantry), they have a license to build their own BMP-2s. In July 2023, it was reported that the Indian Army wants to upgrade their BMP-2s with modern anti-tank missiles.
BMP-2 Infantry Fighting Vehicle live-fire during U.S. co-sponsored wargame Yudh Abhyas, on Mahajan Field Firing Range in Rajasthan, India, 21FEB2021. U.S. Army video by Staff Sergeant Joseph Tolliver (edited by me):
Partial audio U.S. Army video (by Staff Sergeant Robert Ham) of Indian BMP-2 during wargame Yudh Abyhas, 15MAR2012. It should be noted that the U.S.-India wargame was held 70km (43 miles) from the border with Pakistan:
U.S. Army video, dated 22OCT2009, Indian BMP-2 during Yudh Abhyas:
Vehicle I-D: INDIAN AIR POWER
INDIAN HERCULES APPEARS IN NORTH DAKOTA