Cold War: Approximately 1947 (due to U.S. President Harry Truman’s Truman Doctrine) to 1991 (Operation Desert Storm, collapse of Soviet Union).
The Avro Vulcan was a Cold war era NATO-United Kingdom nuclear bomber, first flying in 1952 (70 years ago).
Avro Vulcan B.1A, flying over Las Vegas, Nevada, during the World Congress of Flight air show, April 1959. XH502 started service with the Royal Air Force (RAF) in 1958, and was scrapped ten years later.
Vulcan B.2 XH535 over Edwards Air Force Base (AFB), California, 10JUL1961. XH535 would crash on 11MAY1964, in the United Kingdom, four of the six crew were killed.
No information accompanied this U.S. Air Force (USAF) photo.
By 1968, the Royal Air Force (RAF) realized the bomber, intended to carry nuclear bombs, was not able to reach targets inside the Soviet Union as a ‘strategic bomber’. In the 1970s it acted as a tactical nuclear bomber. By the 1980s it switched to carrying conventional bombs and missiles.
XM650 taking part in the USAF Strategic Air Command’s Giant Voice ’71, in Florida in December 1971.
Buzzing a cottage near RAF Alconbury. USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Jose Lopez Junior, 15JUN1982.
This Vulcan B.2 is flying over Castle AFB, California, 01JAN1983. According to the USAF, it was scheduled to be donated to a museum.
XL428 on the RAF Mildenhall flight line, 09JUN1984. USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Jose Lopez Junior.
Vulcan B.2 XL426, 25MAY1985. XL426 is one of three surviving Vulcan bombers. USAF photo by Sergeant David S. Nolan.
XL426 on RAF Mildenhall, 25MAY1985. USAF photo by Sergeant David S. Nolan.
Vulcan B.2 XH558 retired from military service in 1992, marking the end of the undeclared Cold War. It was operated by a private organization for air shows, until 2015.
Farnborough International Air Show, United Kingdom, 14JUL2012. USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Lee Osberry.
U.S. Air Force photo by Technical Sergeant Chrissy Powers/Best, 18JUL2015.
Avro Vulcan XH558 preforms for crowds at the Royal International Air Tattoo over RAF Fairford, United Kingdom, 19JUL2015. This Vulcan retired from air show duty in October 2015. USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Chrissy Powers/Best.
Avro Vulcan XH558 flies toward Royal Air Force Lakenheath, England, 27AUG2015. USAF photo by Senior Airman Trevor T. McBride.
XH558 was the final B.2 Vulcan to be delivered to the Royal Air Force and the last complete flying Vulcan in the world. USAF photo by Senior Airman Trevor T. McBride, 27AUG2015.
XH558 was escorted by two USAF F-15C Eagles. USAF photo by Senior Airman Trevor T. McBride, 27AUG2015.
U.S. Air Force video report on how the F-15C Eagles used the Vulcan to conduct interception training:
USAF photo by Senior Airman Trevor T. McBride, 27AUG2015.
USAF photo by Senior Airman Trevor T. McBride, 27AUG2015.
USAF photo by Senior Airman Trevor T. McBride, 27AUG2015.
Canada began using the original M113A1 (Diesel powered version) in the late 1960s, it is not to be confused with the earlier M113 Command & Recon Lynx, which was a shortened, lightweight version of the gasoline powered M113.
A derelict M113C&R Lynx is used for vehicle recovery training, in Valcartier, Québec, 20OCT2021. Canadian Forces photo by Corporal Hugo Montpetit.
The original M113 was developed by the United States based FMC, then continued under United Defense, then taken over by the British empire’s BAE Systems. The BAE upgraded M113s are known as Mobile Tactical Vehicle Light (MTVL), or also as Tracked Light Armoured Vehicle (TLAV). And to confuse you even more, each ‘fit-out’ (version) of the MTVL/TLAV has its own special acronym.
An MTVL during NATO wargame Trident Juncture, in Portugal, 02NOV2015. Canadian Forces photo by Corporal Jordan Legree.
Very quick Canadian Forces video of MTVL ‘Medic Track’ off-load from cargo ship in Setubal, Portugal, for NATO wargame, 07OCT2015:
MTVL on Garrison Wainwright, Alberta, 30APR2015. Canadian Forces photo by Corporal Nédia Coutinho.
MTVL in Wainwright, Alberta, 03JUN2016. Canadian Forces photo by Master Corporal Jonathan Barrette.
A major visual difference between a new NATO-Canadian M113 and the old NATO-U.S. M113 can be seen in the types of tracks and drive sprockets used, and the fact that they have six roadwheels as opposed to the U.S. M113s with five roadwheels!
Mobile Tactical Vehicle Fitter (MTVF):
Kandahar Air Field, Afghanistan, 06JUN2007. Canadian Forces photo by Sergeant Craig Fiander.
This M113 MTV-Fitter helped move a World War Two Flakpanzer on Canadian Forces Base Borden, 24OCT2016. Canadian Forces photo by Ordinary Seaman Justin Spinello.
Photo via International Movies Services Limited.
Photo via International Movies Services Limited.
Photo via International Movies Services Limited.
Mobile Tactical Vehicle Engineer (MTVE):
Photo via International Movies Services Limited.
NATO-Denmark uses Canadian/BAE style drive sprockets and Band-Tracks on their five road-wheeled M113s:
BAE ‘Band-Tracks’ on a Danish M113 during a NATO wargame on Hohenfels, Germany, 03NOV2014. U.S. Army photo by Private First Class Shardesia Washington.
A Danish M113 crewman shows-off the Canadian style track system to a U.S. recovery vehicle crewman, 27MAY2015. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sergeant Carol A. Lehman.
Denmark M113 during NATO wargame in Latvia, 27SEP2015. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sergeant Brooks Fletcher.
Mobile Tactical Vehicle Recovery (MTVR):
20APR2018.
MTVR on Wainwright Training Area, Alberta, 23SEP2020. Canadian Forces photo by Corporal Djalma Vuong-De Ramos.
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The ‘B3M’ upgrades to the Cold War/Soviet era T-72 include new 125mm gun, new power-pack (motor/transmission), new armor, new digital ballistic computer for the gunner, and a new panoramic sight for the TC (tank commander).
The ‘3M’ is an upgrade of the T-72B series.
Russian news report about deliveries of upgraded T-72B3Ms, from the Uralvagonzavod factory, 16DEC2022 (video originally released on 07DEC2022):
Video interview of T-72B3M TC, claims the crew destroyed 11 tanks, four pickup trucks, one enemy armored personnel carrier, in Ukraine, released 17SEP2022: https://vk.com/video-133441491_456266813
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Armenia joined NATO’s North Atlantic Cooperation Council in 1992, joining NATO’s Partnership for Peace program in 1994. But, it was not until 2015 that Armenia was officially certified to take part in NATO ‘peacekeeping’ operations.
Incomplete list of armored ground vehicles.
BMP-1:
Armenia Defense Ministry photo, 03APR2020.
BMP-2:
Armenia Defense Ministry photo, 24SEP2020.
Armenia Defense Ministry photo, 24SEP2020.
M939, 5-tons truck with armored cab:
Mostly silent U.S. Army video from May 2006, Armenian military Engineers operating out of Camp Delta, Iraq, using armored cab M939s:
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Is this the real reason they didn’t want to cancel the Olympics? Yet more proof The Olympics is nothing more than a scam-job to steal from taxpayers: Government cost of Tokyo Olympics proven to be several billions of U.S. dollars more than officially reported!
The accounting ‘error’ was discovered by Japan’s Board of Audit, which concluded that the government of Japan spent US$3.5-billion on the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, about two-and-a-half times more than what the Tokyo Games Committee reported in June.
And that was for the national government’s costs, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government itself spent US$4.5 billion! Japan’s Board of Audit says total overall cost to conduct the Tokyo (Pandemic) Olympics is currently at US$12.9 billion!
The Japan Sports Agency claims it is working with the national government to come up with a better way of reporting event expenses!
Probably the most prolific combat helicopter ever made, incomplete list of current users:
Afghan Mi-24 Hind-D.
Algerian Super Hind (modified in South Africa).
Angolan Hind.
Armenian Hinds.
Belarussian Mi-24.
NATO-Belgium operated Mi-24P helicopters during NATO wargame Saber Junction, in Vilseck, Germany, 10OCT2012. U.S. Army photo by Specialist Evangelia Grigiss.
Brazilian AH-2 Saber (Mi-35M).
NATO-Bulgaria Mi-24 Hind-D. U.S. Army photo by Sergeant Robert Douglas, 11JUN2019.
Cuban Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias Mi-24 Hind-D, not known when photo was made.
NATO-Czech Republic (Czechia) Mi-24V.
Egyptian Mi-35M.
NATO ‘partner’ Georgia’s Hind-D, 30APR2022. Photo via Georgian Ministry of Defense.
Ministry of Defense of Georgia video showing new facility where Hinds, and other aircraft, can be re-built, released October 2020:
NATO Hungary Mi-24 Hind-D, 03JUN2021. U.S. Army photo by Major Robert Fellingham.
U.S. Army video showing Indonesian Mi-35P, September 2014:
Iraq’s new Mi-35M Hind.
Brand new Mi-35M for Kazakhstan, still wearing Russian flag on tail.
A recent, but not clear, photo of a Kyrgyz Republic (Kyrgyzstan) Hind. They still use the Red Star of the old Soviet Union.
Libyan ‘Haftar’ Mi-35.
Macedonian Mi-25(24) Hind-D. U.S. Air Force photo by Technical Sergeant John M. Foster, 04SEP2003.
Mozambican Mi-25(24).
Myanmarese Mi-35P.
Nigerian Mi-35.
Peru’s Hind-D, March 2018.
NATO-Poland Mi-24 Hind-D, 13OCT2022. Hawaii Army National Guard photo by Specialist Kevin T. Brown Junior.
Serbian Defense Ministry video, arrival of new Mi-35Ms dubbed Vučić’s Flying Tanks, 16AUG2019:
Syrian Hind-Ds.
Turkmenistan’s Mi-24P.
NATO-United States, Mi-24 Hind-D, Yuma Marine Corps Air Station-Weapons and Tactics Instructor Course, 09OCT2015. U.S. Marine Corps photograph by Staff Sergeant Artur Shvartsberg.
A NATO-United States Mi-24 Hind-D on Lancaster Airport, Texas, 29JUN2022. It is painted in the Cold War era style of Warsaw Pact Bulgaria. U.S. Air Force photo by Airman First Class Courtney Sebastianelli.
Uzbek Army ‘live-fire’ video posted July 2022, Uzbekistan tries out its new Mi-35M:
Welcome to borderland hell under U.S. President Joseph Robinette Biden Junior, incomplete (just the tip of the iceberg) list of videos and reports from the United States Coast Guard (USCG) about the increasing flood of boat people from Bahamas, Cuba, and Haiti, for November 2022:
The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) District 7 reported that on 03DEC2022, they returned 79 illegals, captured in November, to their home country of The Bahamas.
The USCG District 7 reported that on 01DEC2022, they returned 118 illegals to their home country of Cuba. The illegals had been captured during six interceptions during the month of November.
The USCG District 7 reported that, on 30NOV2022, 192 illegals were sent back to their home country of Cuba. The USCG reported that the 192 illegals had been captured in 13 separate incidents during November.
The USCG District 7 reported that they had returned 180 illegals to their home country of Haiti, on 25NOV2022.
65 illegals were sent back to Cuba, on 24NOV2022.
185 illegals were sent back to Cuba, on 22NOV2022.
217 illegals from Haiti were transferred to The Bahamas, on 19NOV2022.
The USCG reported that they had returned 95 illegals back to their home country of Cuba, on 17NOV2022.
74 illegals were sent back to Cuba, on 16NOV2022.
U.S. Coast Guard District 7 photo, 09NOV2022.
A boat full of illegals from Cuba, captured near Elbow Cay, Bahamas, 09NOV2022. The USCG returned 91 illegals to Cuba on 14NOV2022.
A USCGC Atlanitc Area photo by Petty Officer Third Class Bethany Squires, 13NOV2022.
USCG crew captures illegals from Cuba, somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean, 13NOV2022.
83 illegals were sent back to Cuba, on 12NOV2022.
67 illegals were sent back to Cuba, on 07NOV2022.
68 illegals were sent back to Cuba, on 04NOV2022.
FLORIDA: According to data collated by World Population Review, ‘Boat People’ and other illegals entering through the state of Florida cost taxpayers $5.46-billion between 2020 and 2022!
USCG District 7 photo, 28NOV2022.
About 15-miles southwest of Marquesas Key, yet another boat full of illegals from Cuba is captured, 28NOV2022.
Near Upper Matecumbre Key, the USCG District 7 intercepted a boat full of illegals from Cuba. Video by Petty Officer Second Class Jose Hernandez, 26NOV2022:
On 25NOV2022, the Palm Beach Sheriffs Office notified the USCG of illegals approaching east of Lake Worth Inlet. USCG District 7 video of captured boat:
USCG District 7 video (by Petty Officer Second Class by Michael Himes), capture of illegals from Cuba near Alligator Reef, on 24NOV2022:
USCG District 7 video (by Petty Officer Second Class Jose Hernandez), boat overloaded with illegals from Haiti, near Rodriguez Key, 22NOV2022:
USCG District 7 video (by Petty Officer Third Class Ryan Estrada) of capture of illegals, approximately 9-miles off Islamorada, 14NOV2022:
PUERTO RICO:
USCG District 7 PADET San Juan photo by Ricardo Castrodad, 10NOV2022.
On 10NOV2022, the USCG captured 43 Dominican Republic nationals, and six Haitians, approximately 36-nautical miles northwest of Aguadilla.
USCG District 8 photo, 28NOV2022.
TEXAS: The World Population Review says illegal immigrants in Texas cost taxpayers $8.88-billion from 2020-2022!
On 28NOV2022, the USCG caught four Mexican fishermen with 330-pounds of illegally caught fish, approximately 55-miles north of the Maritime Boundary Line.
USCG District 8 photo, 10NOV2022.
12-miles north of the Maritime Boundary Line, the USCG captured five fishermen from Mexico, illegally fishing in U.S. territory, on 10NOV2022.
On 12DEC2022, a mathematician did an hour long interview (amazingly on YouTube) with a respected doctor in the United Kingdom, explaining the difference between Absolute Risk Reduction (ARR) and Relative Risk Reduction (RRR). Proves that the pharmaceutical industry’s (and their lackeys) use of RRR is because it greatly/hugely/falsely exaggerates in favor of the vaccines. Mathematician Norman Fenton, Professor of Risk Information Management at Queen Mary University of London:
Image via Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.
If you live in the United States did you miss ‘Antibiotic Awareness Week’? It was the week of November 18th. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) claims that 2.8-million antimicrobial (antibiotic)-resistant infections occur each year in the United States, and more than 35-thousand people die because of antibiotic resistance. Part of the problem is that many people, including doctors, are not using antibiotics correctly: “Antibiotics are drugs that are specifically used to fight bacterial infections and do not work on viruses such as colds and flu.”-Lieutenant Commander Sara Robinson, Chair of Infection Prevention and Control at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center
Brooke Army Medical Center video (Fort Sam Houston, Texas), boring U.S. Army doctors talk about the incorrect uses of antibiotics, 18NOV2022:
Madigan Army Medical Center video (Fort Lewis-McChord, Washington), U.S. Army doctors give warning about rising cases of RSV, and of course pushes the use of lockdowns and vaccines, 17NOV2022:
U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Taylor Hunter, 16NOV2022.
On 16NOV2022, the U.S. Air Force’s 4th Operational Medical Readiness Squadron taught preschoolers about Flu and RSV, on Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina.
COPD=Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
“COPD makes breathing difficult for the 16 million Americans who have this disease. Millions more people suffer from COPD but have not been diagnosed and are not being treated. Although there is no cure for COPD, it can be treated.”-U.S. Army Major (Doctor) Nikhil Huprikar, chief of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Service at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, 28NOV2022
Cameroon: Personnel with the U. S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), and the U.S. CDC, traveled all the way to Cameroon on the west-central coast of Africa, to attend the fourth annual International Forum on Public Health Emergency Operations (November 9th-11th), and this year they were talking about “strengthening public health emergency management systems and surveillance” in the shadow of the CoViD-19 Pandemic. For some reason, the U.S. DTRA has been focusing on epidemiology training in Cameroon, since at least 2015: “Together, we build capabilities and create effective networks that enable reporting of biological threats. International partner success is success for global health and for the protection of all the African people.”-Hayley Aron, DTRA Biological Threat Cameroon Country Manager, 15NOV2022
“I looked and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth.”-Revelation 6:8, New International Bible
Cold War: Approximately 1947 (due to U.S. President Harry Truman’s Truman Doctrine) to 1991 (Operation Desert Storm, collapse of Soviet Union).
Raytheon began developing what would become the MIM (Mobile Interceptor Missile)-23 HAWK (Homing All-the Way Killer) in the early 1950s. Northrop developed the launcher system. The U.S. Army (USA) began using it in 1959, the U.S. Marine Crops (USMC) in 1960.
First-gen HAWK being launched by U.S. Marines from Chu Lai, Viet Nam, 1965.
Between 1971 and 1978, HAWK missiles got improved radar systems, so that they could engage low-altitude aircraft. But that was just the beginning, there were many other HAWK improvement projects that continued up until 1996.
U.S. Army (USA) M727 self-propelled HAWK surface-to-air missile system, somewhere in NATO-West Germany. USA photo, 1973.
A HAWK missile launcher, on Cherry Point, North Carolina. USMC photo by Sergeant Rozalyn Dorsey, 20JUN1979.
A HAWK transporter-loader, on Cherry Point, North Carolina. USMC photo by Sergeant Rozalyn Dorsey, 20JUN1979.
A HAWK High-Power Illuminating Radar (HPIR) unit, on Cherry Point, North Carolina. USMC photo by Sergeant Rozalyn Dorsey, 20JUN1979.
Inside a HAWK Battery Control Central (BCC) unit, a Joint Tactical Information Distribution System (JTIDS). USA photo by Staff Sergeant William B. Belcher, 04AUG1980.
A HAWK battery control console, on Fort Bliss, Texas. USA photo by Staff Sergeant Robert C. Simons, 10NOV1982.
HAWK BCC units (containing the JTIDS), Onslow Beach, North Carolina. USMC photo by Corporal C. Cope, 22FEB1986.
BCC units also contain the Information Control Center (ICC) and the Platoon Command Post (PCP), all using the same trailered containers making them visually identical.
HAWK BCC units can be loaded onto 5-ton trucks, creating mobile control vans. USMC photo by Corporal C. Cope, 22FEB1986.
Operation Desert Storm, 17JAN1991–28FEB1991.
According to the information released with this photo, these U.S. HAWKs are based in Al Salman, Iraq, shortly after the end of Desert Storm. USA photo by Staff Sergeant Dean Wagner, 03MAR1991.
In 1994, the USA decided to replace their HAWKS with Patriot missiles, due to the success of the Patriots during Desert Storm. In 2002, the USMC decided to replace their HAWKS with the FIM-92 Stinger.
Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF) soldiers prep their Hawk for launch over the McGregor Range Complex, New Mexico, 17NOV2012. USA photo by Specialist Adam Garlington.
JGSDF HAWK PAR. USA photo by Specialist Adam Garlington, 17NOV2012.
JGSDF HAWK launch. USA photo by Specialist Adam Garlington, 17NOV2012.
Ukraine Crisis, February 2014 (NATO backed coup) to present.
USA video report, 15OCT2015, South Korean HAWK launches during wargame:
NATO Romania launches HAWK missiles towards the Black Sea, 19JUL2017. USA photo by Private First Class Nicholas Vidro.
USA video by Sergeant Mark Brejcha, NATO-Romania HAWK launch, 19JUL2017:
On 20OCT2018, Japanese army personnel launched ‘Improved’ HAWK missiles from Fort Bliss, Texas. USA-Reserve photo by Sergeant Christopher A. Hernandez.
AN/MPQ-50 Pulse Acquisition Radar (PAR) for the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force’s (JGSDF) ‘Improved’ HAWK. USA-Reserve photo by Sergeant Christopher A. Hernandez, 20OCT2018.
NATO-Spain HAWK HIPR unit during war game held in NATO-Norway, 02NOV2018. USMC photo by Lance Corporal Menelik Collins.
Loading NATO-Spain HAWKs during war game held in NATO-Norway, 02NOV2018. USMC photo by Lance Corporal Menelik Collins.
The Iranians call their reversed engineered HAWK PAR system the Kavosh.
In 2019, photos published by the Iranian news media revealed that Iran was still using the AN/MPQ-50 Pulse Acquisition Radar originally designed for the HAWK, but this time Iran is using it for their own homemade anti-aircraft missile known as the Sayyad-2.
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