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Vehicle I-D: Marina Armada de México Mil 17

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Mil 17=NATO reporting name ‘Hip’.

Marina=Marine, as in ocean/sea/water.

Armada=Fleet of ocean going military vehicles, or navy.

U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer Second Class John Stratton, 31JAN2010.

Mexican Mil 17-V5 delivers aid to Haiti, 31JAN2010.

USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Second Class Eric T. Crosby, 20JUL2012.

Mexican Navy Mi-17 Hip lands behind a U.S. Marine CH-53E Sea Stallion on the flight deck of the amphibious assault ship USS Essex (LHD 2).

USN photo by Petty Officer First Class Paul Seeber, 13JUL2012.

Mil 17-1V flying off ARM Usumacinta A412 (ex-U.S. Navy USS Frederick LST1184 tank landing ship) during Rim of the Pacific war games (RimPac), 13JUL2012.

USN photo by Petty Officer First Class Paul Seeber, 14JUL2012.

Maintenance on an Mi-17-1V, July 2012.

USN photo by Petty Officer First Class Paul Seeber, 11JUL2012.

U.S. Navy video by Petty Officer First Class Paul Seeber, fast roping from a Mexican Hip, during RimPac, 15JUL2012:

U.S. Marine Corps photo by Captain Naomi Dorren, 16AUG2014.

Infanteria de Marina (Infantry of the Ocean) board a Mil 17-1V during exercise Partnership of the Americas, in Chile, August 2014.

USMC photo by Private First Class Devan Gowans, 06SEP2015.

Mil 17-1V lands on ARM Usumacinta A412 during Exercise Dawn Blitz, 06SEP2015.

U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Corporal Frank Cordoba.

During 2016’s RimPac wargames, Mexican navy Mi-17-V5 were used in training operations on Hawaii and California.  This is a medevac operation on San Clemente Island, California, 28JUL2016.

U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Corporal Jason Estevez.

Mexican Marina Mil 17-V5 arrives on U.S. Marine Corps Air Station New River, North Carolina, 23OCT2017, for exercise Bold Alligator.

USMC photo by Corporal Jason Estevez, 23OCT2017.

U.S. Marine Corps video by Chief Warrant Officer Izzel Sanchez, 23OCT2017:

USMC photo by Corporal Jason Estevez, 23OCT2017.

USMC photo by Lance Corporal Cody J. Ohira.

Mi-17-V5 parked near a CH-53E Super Stallion, MCAS New River, North Carolina, 23OCT2017.

Vehicle I-D: UH-60 FOR AFGHANISTAN, KILLED-OFF BY THE MIL 17?

International, Technology

Vehicle I-D: Afghan 8/17 Mils

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NATO reporting name Hip.

The primary identifying feature between Mil 8 and 17 versions is; the Mil 8 has the tail rotor on the pilot’s right side, the Mil 17 has the tail rotor on the pilot’s left side.  All other details are subject to change.

Video by Bob Ditchey, Hip door gunner live-fire, 13MAY2018:

2014 video, Mil 17B(V)-5 helicopters inflight over Afghanistan:

2014 video, by Senior Airman Brandi Hansen, of NATO member Czech Republic advisers on a training flight, with live-fire door gunning, in an Afghan Mil 17B(V)-5 helicopter.  Czech Republic has a long history of using Mil helicopters and was sent to help train Afghans:

2013 NATO video report; Uruzgan based 4th Brigade of the Afghan National Army conducted resupply and casualty evacuations:

Forward Operating Base Shank in Logar province, 04AUG2012. U.S. Army photo by Specialist Austin Berner.

Photo by Technical Sergeant Dennis Henry.

In 2012, NATO member Czech Republic deployed air-crews to Afghanistan.  They got acquainted with the terrain by taking rides in Afghan Mil 17B(V)-5.

Photo by Technical Sergeant Dennis Henry.

Photo by Technical Sergeant Dennis Henry.

Photo by Technical Sergeant Dennis Henry

U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer Second Class Jonathan David Chandler. Sun rises on a Mil-8 helicopter on Camp Bastion, Helmand province, 23OCT2011.

Photo by Staff Sergeant Matthew Smith.

Photo by Staff Sergeant Matthew Smith.

Forward Operating Base (FOB) Bostick, 09OCT2011.

Photo by Staff Sergeant Matthew Smith.

FOB Fenty, Jalalabad, 09OCT2011.

Photo by Staff Sergeant Matthew Smith.

Mil 17B(V)-5 over FOB Fenty, 08OCT2011.

Photo by Staff Sergeant Matthew Smith.

Photo by Staff Sergeant Matthew Smith.

May 2011: Mil 17B(V)-5 crash & burn.

Photo by Petty Officer Third Class Jared Walker.

Video, February 2011, rocket training:

Video by Sergeant Bryan Spradlin, October 2010, showing U.S. and Afghan forces refueling and rearming a Hip:

During Afghan national elections Hip helicopters are used to deliver empty ballot boxes, and then retrieve full ballot boxes after voting.  These pics are from September 2010.

Maybe it’s time the United States use its military to control ballots during national level elections?

Photo by Petty Officer Second Class Ernesto Hernandez Fonte.

August 2010, U.S. advisers fire the rockets of a Mil 17.  U.S. advisers were prepping to train-up Afghan aircrews in using the Hip as a gunship.

Photo by Staff Sergeant Teddy Wade.
Contracted Mil Mi-8 helicopter lands at FOB Airborne, 25NOV2009.

Hip door gunners, 03OCT2009. U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Angelita Lawrence.

By November 2008, Afghanistan had received three new U.S. taxpayer funded Mi-17 Hips. U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sergeant Keith Brown, 25NOV2008.

Vehicle I-D: UH-60 FOR AFGHANISTAN, KILLED-OFF BY THE MIL 17?

Afghan Mi-24 Hind-D.

MAINTAINING SATAN’S CHARIOT

See how the CH-47 loves to collect ‘Hip’ bones

Technology

Helicopters: Egypt مصر

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Mil 24V (Mi-35), January 2020.  Apparently purchased from Ukraine.

Egyptian Ministry of Defense promotional video in which you can see AH-64 Apaches, Kamov 52 Nile Crocodile, Hips, Gazelles, Super Sea Sprites, CH-47 Chinooks and Mi-35 Hinds:

Ka-52 Nile Crocodile.

U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Justin Warren.

Egyptian and Jordanian soldiers secure an urban training area after repelling out of an Egyptian Commando (Sea King), U.S. led Exercise Bright Star, September 2018.

USAF photo by Senior Airman Dawn M. Weber.

U.S. Army photo by Sergeant James Lefty Larimer.

A ‘hip’ Egyptian helicopter (Mil 17V-5) conducting med-evac (medical evacuation) training during Bright Star 2018.

USA photo by Sergeant James Lefty Larimer.

U.S. Department of Defense photo by Tom Gagnier.

Mi-17 V5 from Bright Star 2017.

U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Michael Battles.

U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Third Class Jonathan Clay.

Egyptian navy Kaman Super Sea Sprite lands on USS Jason Dunham (DDG 109) during exercise Eagle Salute, July 2018.

USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Third Class Jonathan Clay/Released)

U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Michael Battles.

Egyptian Civil Police Gazelles get training in anti-tank operations, U.S. led Exercise Bright Star, September 2017.

USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Michael Battles.

Video, Egyptian Gazelles, 2017:

Photo via U.S. Navy.

This is a VH-3A Sea King ‘presidential helicopter’ after rebuild in the United States in 2009.  This helicopter was originally given to Egypt’s President Anwar Sadat in 1974, by the U.S. taxpayers (presented by U.S. President Richard Nixon).

Egyptian SH-3 Sea King during Bright Star 82, November 1981.

Silent U.S. Army video, by Sergeant First Class Jacobs, showing Sea King during the first Bright Star 81 (for fiscal year 1981) wargame, November 1980:

Quick video, Hip and Gazelles from Bright Star 2009:

Egyptian Mi-8 Hip during multi-national wargame Bright Star, October 2001. USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Cherie A. Thurlby.

Wargame Bright Star 82, a USAF C-5A Galaxy about to touch-down in Egypt, an Mi-8 is parked in the foreground, November 1981.

Silent U.S. Army video, by Sergeant First Class Jacobs, showing Mi-8 Hips during the first Bright Star 81 (for fiscal year 1981) wargame, November 1980:

May 2020: 126 rebels killed in Sinai

April 2020: 10 Egyptian soldiers killed

February 2020: Egypt’s military is now the 9th strongest in the world

September 2019: Israeli news media accuses Egyptian military of profit-making off Sinai rebellion

Vehicle I-D: IRAQI HUEY

MIL 17 CRASH & BURN

MAINTAINING SATAN’S CHARIOT

Technology

Mil 17 crash & burn

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In early May 2011, one of the U.S. taxpayer funded Russian built Afghan Mil 17B(V)-5 crashed in Nuristan Province, Afghanistan.  Nine people onboard were slightly injured.

The Hip was part of the first deliveries of U.S. taxpayer funded Russian made helicopters between 2009 and 2010.  NATO/ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) reported the Mil-17s sent to Afghanistan cost about $15-million each!  Dozens more were given to Afghanistan in the years after this crash, in fact the United States signed a new delivery contract with Russia about a week after this crash.

U.S. Army Pathfinders were ordered to remove ‘sensitive’ equipment from the  NATO reporting-name Hip, and then dismantle and burn it to the ground.

USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Brian Christiansen, 12MAY2011.

Parts of the Mi-17, that could be reused, were sling loaded away by CH-47 Chinook.

USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Brian Christiansen, 12MAY2011.

The fire was started using phosphorus grenades.  When aluminum gets hot enough it burns like paper, almost nothing is left but ash.

This was not the first time a U.S. taxpayer funded ‘Hip’ was blown-up by U.S. forces.

U.S. Army photo by Corporal Patrick Gleason, 23DEC2010.

On 23DEC2010, a contracted Mi-17 was blown-up by U.S. forces on Combat Out-Post (COP) Spera in Khowst Province.  The Hip actually crashed on COP Spera several years earlier.

The result of packing an Mi-17 with excess ammo, and then blowing it up. USA photo by Corporal Patrick Gleason, 23DEC2010.

The Hip was packed with ‘left-over’ munitions, which were detonated.  The destruction of the derelict Hip was an excuse to get rid of excess ammo, as COP Spera was being shut-down.

CH-47 CHINOOK LOVES COLLECTING MIL 8 ‘HIP’ BONES

MAINTAINING SATAN’S CHARIOT (Afghan Mi-24V)

AFGHANISTAN GETS MORE U.S. TAXPAYER FUNDED HELICOPTERS & GUNS!

TAXPAYER FUNDED AIRCRAFT ABANDONED THEN TURNED INTO SCRAP METAL! 

U.S. TAXPAYERS TO RESCUE “DONATED” C-130

U.S. TAXPAYERS DELIVER MD-530F CAYUSE WARRIOR TO KENYA

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

U.S. TAXPAYERS FUND POLICE TRAINING & CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS IN VIETNAM!

Technology

CH-47 Chinook collects Mil 8 ‘Hip’ bones

Video

U.S. Army photo by Sergeant Patrick Jubrey, 06AUG2019.

Surrounded, finders keepers! NATO reporting name for the Soviet era Mil 8 is Hip.

USA photo by Sergeant Patrick Jubrey, 06AUG2019.

USA photo by Sergeant Patrick Jubrey, 06AUG2019.

USA photo by Sergeant Patrick Jubrey, 06AUG2019.

USA photo by Sergeant Patrick Jubrey, 06AUG2019.

CH-47 anticipating sling loading Mil 8, Hohenfels Training Area, Germany, August 2019.

Video explainer, CH-47 sling loads Hip bones in Germany, June 2019:

USA photo by Charles Rosemond, 12MAR2019.

Note that the tail boom, main rotors, landing gear and other loose ‘Hip’ bones are shoved into the fuselage.  Storck Barracks, Illesheim, Germany, 12MAR2019.

USA photo by Charles Rosemond, 12MAR2019.

USA photo by Charles Rosemond, 12MAR2019.

Video explainer, using Hip bones for sling load training in Germany:

Prepping a Mil 8 for use as a sling load trainer, Hohenfels, Germany, 12MAR2019.

USA photo by Charles Rosemond, 12MAR2019.

USA photo by Charles Rosemond, 12MAR2019.

Video, CH-47 Chinook recovers junk Mil 8 in Afghanistan, November 2017:

 

USMC photo by Corporal Ursula V. Smith, 25SEP2019.

RECOVERING UH-1 SKELETONS

VEHICLE I-D: MIL 24 HIND ‘SATAN’S CHARIOTS’