Firtina = Tempest (most often loosely translated as storm, but a Tempest is an English word for a particularly violent storm, which artillery bombardments certainly are)
Also, note the large vent on the front left of the turret, to keep all those new electronics cool.
Photo via ASELSAN.
Photo via ASELSAN.
T-155 in the town of Binnish in Syria’s northwestern province of Idlib, 12FEB2020. Photo by Omar Haj Kadour, Agence France-Presse.
T-155 pounds targets in Northern Syria, October 2019.
Firtina pounding targets in Syria, January 2019.
Ammo-supply vehicle for T-155.
The T-155 has its ammunition delivered by the POYRAZ Ammunition Resupply Vehicle.
Photo via ASELSAN.
This 2018 Türk Silahlı Kuvvetleri (Turkish Armed Forces) promotional video has scenes of T-155:
2017 Türk Silahlı Kuvvetleri video mainly of the T-155:
In 2016, Turkish taxpayer owned MKEK (Makina ve Kimya Endüstrisi Kurumu, Mechanical and Chemical Industry Corporation) patented two new systems for controlling and loading of the main gun.
T-155 destroyed by Kurdish-YPG Russian made Konkurs anti-tank missile, somewhere in Syria. However, Islamic State has also been taking credit for destroying Turkish tanks inside Syria.
This 2015 Türk Silahlı Kuvvetleri promo-video has scenes of T-155, about 41 seconds in:
T-155s fire upon YPG targets north of Aleppo, Syria.
CGTN video report, CoViD evolved from several different animals, says endangered animals rescued from smugglers got sickafter they were rescued, says white tailed deer tested positive in 2019, claims these animals did not originate in China, they came into China already infected so therefore China is not the origin of CoViD-19:
Just over a week ago, Colonel Todd Burroughs, Deputy Director of U.S. Military Advisor Group-North (MAG-North), told Iraqi Peshmerga (Kurdish militia) “this is just the beginning” in regards to more U.S. military freebies. On 20SEP2021, another million dollar ‘divestment’ took place!
U.S. Army photo by Specialist Clara Soria-Hernandez, 20SEP2021.
This time it went to Iraqi airborne Special Forces Quwat Al Khasa (Qwat al-Khasah), at the usual location of Al Asad Air Base.
U.S. Army photo by Specialist Clara Soria-Hernandez, 20SEP2021.
But wait, there is more!
USA photo by Specialist Trevor Franklin, 16SEP2021.
On 16SEP2021, what is called a Class V (ammunition) Divestment, to Peshmerga, took place at Erbil.
But wait there’s more!
USA photo by Specialist Clara Soria-Hernandez, 15SEP2021.
On 15SEP2021, on Al Asad Air Base, approximately $6.6-million worth of U.S. made vehicles were given to Iraq’s Agency of Intelligence and Federal Investigations (AIFI)!
USA photo by Specialist Clara Soria-Hernandez, 15SEP2021.
But wait, there’s more!
USA photo by Specialist Clara Soria-Hernandez, 14SEP2021.
On 14SEP2021, three U.S. made diesel fuelers were given to Ninawa Operations Command’s 15th Division (joint Iraqi army, Peshmerga unit) on Al Asad Air Base.
But wait there’s more!
USA photo by Specialist Clara Soria-Hernandez, 13SEP2021.
On 13SEP2021, twenty armored cars, new tires, and an undisclosed amount of computers were given to the Iraq Counter Terrorism Service (ICTS) on Al Asad Air Base.
USA photo by Specialist Clara Soria-Hernandez, 13SEP2021.
All these ‘divestments’ come at the same time that Iraq has suddenly decided to build up its military, and Biden is deploying more U.S. personnel to Iraq:
Christian video report, DAIISH returns to power in Iraq:
Rudaw interview with NATO Netherlands General concerning the stagnating ‘Peshmerga Reforms’ by U.S. led forces, admits there is not enough “trust”, says a crucial political decision about the justification for the continued existence/goals of Peshmerga needs to be made soon:
U.S. Air Force photo by Airman First Class Michael S. Murphy.
US-2 gets fueled on Anderson Air Force Base, Guam, 20FEB2020.
Photo via ShinMaywa Industries.
First flight of the prototype PX-S was in October 1967. The production Patrol Seaplane-1 (PS-1, aka SS-2) flying boat is a anti-ship combat aircraft which does not have conventional landing gear, it is not amphibious as the ‘landing gear’ is actually beaching gear (with each main gear leg having one wheel/tire) and cannot withstand the impact of landing on a runway.
Photo via ShinMaywa Industries.
ShinMaywa flying boats incorporate a ‘spray suppressor’ around the forward hull, to allow rough seas handling.
U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Corporal Todd F. Michalek.
In October 1974, the prototype US-1 first flew.
Photo via ShinMaywa Industries.
The US-1A (aka PS-1 Kai, aka SS-2A) is a Search And Rescue (SAR) plane that has conventional landing gear (with each main gear leg having two wheels/tires) which allows the flying boat to land on a paved runway, making it a true amphibious aircraft. The visual difference between a PS-1 and US-1 is the bulge housing the conventional type landing gear on the US-1, the PS-1 has no side fuselage bulge.
Short USMC video, by Corporal Waiyan Tin, of US-1A taking off from U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, 2017:
Cockpit of US-2 (US-1A Kai). USMC photo by Lance Corporal Todd F. Michalek.
Typical interior of PS-1/US-1A. Photo via ShinMaywa Industries.
In the 1980s, Japan replaced its PS-1s with Lockheed designed P-3 Orions (Kawasaki began licensed building of P-3Cs in 1978).
USMC photo by Sergeant Chase Tillett, MCAS Iwakuni, 05MAY2017.
The US-1As were retired in 2017, replaced by the updated US-2 (prototype US-1A Kai which first flew in December 2003, and began operations as US-2 in March 2007).
U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Corporal Todd F. Michalek.
The visual identifier of the upgraded US-2 (US-1A Kai) are the propellers.
USMC photo by Lance Corporal Harrison Rakhshani.
US-2 (US-1A Kai), MCAS Iwakuni, May 2019. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Corporal Kenny Nunez.
USMC photo by Lance Corporal Kenny Nunez. US-2 (US-1A Kai), MCAS Iwakuni, May 2019.
USMC photo by Lance Corporal Nathan J. Maysonet. US-2 (US-1A Kai), MCAS Iwakuni, 2018.
MCAS Iwakuni, 09AUG2017. USMC photo by Lance Corporal Gabriela Garcia-Herrera.
MCAS Iwakuni, July 2017. USMC photo by Lance Corporal Jacob A. Farbo.
USMC video by Lance Corporal Cory Schubert, US-2 (US-1A Kai), January 2015:
Shin-Meiwa US-2 lifts off, 07JAN2015. USMC photo by Private First Class Carlos Cruz Jr.
USMC photo by Lance Corporal Todd F. Michalek.
Warming up the modern engines of the US-2, U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, 08JAN2013.
USMC photo by Lance Corporal Todd F. Michalek.
Starting the old-skool three-prop engines of the US-1A, U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, 08JAN2013.
USMC photo by Lance Corporal Todd F. Michalek.
ShinMaywa Industries reports that as of 2020: PS-1 ASW Flying Boat 23 aircraft in total (Completed production)
US-1A SAR Flying Boat 20 aircraft in total (Completed production)
US-2 SAR Flying Boat 7 aircraft in total (in production)
ShinMaywa video documentary, history of the company:
On 15SEP2021, the state of Washington posted a job listing for Isolation & Quarantine Strike Team Consultants. The job starts in October, is considered temporary but could last 12 months. Earlier this year the gov’na of Washington mandated that all state employed healthcare workers had to be fully vaccinated.
16SEP2021, the United States Secretary of Defense and Secretary of State meet for consultations, after the AUKUS announcement, with the Defence Minister and Foreign Minister of Australia (member of British Empire Commonwealth).
16SEP2021, Indian (India is a member of the British Empire Commonwealth) news commentator tries to explain the silliness of AUKUS, and why AUKUS does not include Canada and New Zealand (Commonwealth members and also Five Eyes members):
16SEP2021, German state run news outlet speculates that the true reason for AUKUS is to counter the economic sanctions that China placed against Australia:
AUKUS= Australia United Kingdom United States
“The first major initiative of AUKUS will be to deliver a nuclear-powered submarine fleet for Australia.”– Scott Morrison, Prime Minister of Australia
“…perhaps most significantly, the UK, Australia, and the U.S. will be joined even more closely together…”-Boris Johnson, Prime Minister of United Kingdom
“AUKUS will bring together our sailors, our scientists, and our industries to maintain and expand our edge in military capabilities and critical technologies, such as cyber, artificial intelligence, quantum technologies, and undersea domains.”-Joe Biden, President of the United States
Official Pro-British Empire White House video supporting the new alliance, comments by leaders of U.S., UK and Australia, 15SEP2021 (Australian PM mentions the evil British Empire led Five Eyes network, see more about Five Eyes below):
Official U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) John Francis Kirby statement on AUKUS, calling the U.S.-Australia alliance “unbreakable”, 15SEP2021:
On 02SEP2021, the Royal Australian Navy visited the U.S. Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) in Rhode Island: “Australia is unique in that they don’t just want to buy, they want to look under the hood.”-Trevor Kelly-Bissonnette, NUWC, commenting on the visit by Australian Navy officials, statement published on 14SEP2021
U.S. Navy photo by James Travassos, 02SEP2021.
“As Australia transitions to a new class of conventionally powered submarine in the early 2030s, it is important that Australia remains as interoperable with the U.S. as possible, leveraging their significantly larger industrial and technological base but providing support and unique, niche capabilities in return. In order to achieve this, it is important that we bring the Australian public support onside to support us in our endeavors. Given the often secretive nature of our line of work, visits like this are all the more important to educate our ministers and career politicians of the strength of our allied relationship. The last two visits to NUWC by Australian have been remarkably successful in this regard.”-Commander Neil Carson, Royal Australian Navy Joint Program Office for Australia and the U.S., statement published on 14SEP2021
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison talks about AUKUS and the nuclear sub deal, admits it is about controlling global trade, says it is a “forever partnership” that has been in the works since the 1950’s ANZUS (Australia New Zealand United States) alliance, reveals that Australia’s demands for its military “will only go up” in the near future:
Five Eyes spying operations can be traced back to the end of World War 2, when the leaders of the United States made a (then) secret alliance with the British empire (U.K., Canada, Australia, New Zealand) called the Five Eyes. Five Eyes is now controlling the U.S. NSA!
Wyoming Air National Guard photo by Jacqueline Marshall.
“This is an exercise evolution of the Rally in the Valley 2020 exercise conducted in West Virginia. Our efforts will prepare Reserve and National Guard units to execute at the speed and range required to take on near-peer adversaries. Additional training included combat airlift as well as multi-capable mobility Airmen who are able to refuel and re-arm aircraft in austere locations with minimal support.”-Major Christopher Acs, 327th Airlift Squadron, U.S. Air Force Reserve (USAFR)
WANG photo by Jacqueline Marshall, 13SEP2021.
U.S. Air Force Reserve photo by Major Ashely Walker, 13SEP2021.
13SEP2021 saw a dramatic opening to wargame Rally in the Rockies 2021; for the first time a C-130J Super Hercules intentionally landed on U.S. Route 287, in the middle of nowhere rural Wyoming (near Rawlings)!
U.S. Air Force Reserve video by Major Ashely Walker, 13SEP2021:
WANG photo by Jacqueline Marshall.
So far, all the news outlets reporting this landing are calling it Highway 287 which is incorrect. It is officially U.S. Route 287 (aka US287). It would be okay if they wrote highway with a lower case ‘h’, but they use an upper case ‘H’ which indicates an official title.
Cowboy State Daily’s quick slo-mo video of landing:
WANG photo by Jacqueline Marshall.
Anybody thinking about the Cold War era movie Red Dawn, supposedly taking place in next-door-from-Wyoming Colorado?
USAFR photo by Major Ashley Walker.
Rally in the Rockies is scheduled to run from September 13th through the 16th. It involves 12 military units from various state National Guards and the USAFR, as well as the Wyoming Department of Transportation. The wargame is preparation for combat operations within the United States, for ‘contested areas’!
USAF photo by Lieutenant Colonel Marnee A.C. Losurdo, 14SEP2021.
C-130H from Dobbins Air Reserve Base, Georgia, drops supplies near Rifle Garfield County Airport, Colorado.
USAF photo by Major Ashley Walker, 13SEP2021.
The first day of Rally in the Rockies also involved USAFR C-130Hs operating from a Landing Zone near Guernsey, Wyoming. The wargame simulating conflict inside the United States involved the states of Colorado, Utah and Wyoming.
USAF photo by Major Ashley Walker.
Cold War era (late 1960s) film of C-130 and C-160 landing on European highway:
On 08SEP2021, at Erbil, the U.S. military ‘divested’ yet another round of brand new ground vehicles to the Kurdish Peshmerga.
USA photo by Specialist Trevor Franklin.
This included front-end loaders, trucks made by Navistar-International, tankers made by German owned Freightliner, and of course, AM General‘s uparmored HMMWV.
USA photo by Specialist Trevor Franklin.
The Peshmerga is considered by the U.S. government to be an Iraqi government militia staffed by Kurds. NATO Turkey considers Iraqi Kurds to be largely Kurdistan Workers Party (aka PKK), and that the Syrian Kurds (People’s Protection Units, aka YPG) are simply the Syrian branch of PKK. This is troublesome for NATO, because ever since 1997 the U.S. Department of State itself considers the PKK to be a terrorist organization. This pro-Turkey news outlet video insinuates that the NATO United States support of Iraqi Kurds (Peshmerga) and Syrian YPG is being used against NATO Turkish forces:
Incomplete list of links to news reports which should cause you to question the main stream excuse that automotive industry problems are due to pandemic caused computer chip shortages. The biggest proof that it isn’t computer chip shortages, is that electric car sales and production are at record levels, partly because of government mandates and partly because the car makers themselves are shifting to only electric vehicle production! Perhaps the shutdown of combustion engine vehicle production is just a false flag operation to re-tool factories for electric car production?
Electric Viking video report, 200% increase in e-car sales in European Union (EU) despite so called pandemic shortages, also explains how Toyotas’ booming e-car sales in Europe might be the true cause for its halt to combustion car production, also, the EU is banning non-electric cars:
KPIX video report, U.S. Labor Day combustion engine car sales crashed and burned in mandated electric car California, of course ignorantly blamed on computer chip shortage:
KVVU video report, fewer people are looking to buy new cars in Las Vegas, ignorantly blames lack of customers on lack of parts (maybe it’s actually about price?):
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I remember as a boy I would snicker at any mention of the various anti-fornication commandments in the Old Testament of the Bible. Those silly, sick people from thousands of years ago doing the nasty with anything they could grab hold of!
But about 15 years or so ago, as I was studying how modern humans were using and manipulating genetics in the name of making things better for humankind (in the early Gregorian 2000s a lot of once secret studies involving genetic research were made public and some of those studies are scary), I had a ‘revelation’ that what the Bible is actually talking about, in an immature/ignorant way, was not fornication but genetic engineering.
Many of the Old Testament stories are diluted, mistranslated and over simplified versions of events that took place thousands of years before the Hebrews learned how to write, some of the stories actually from older Paleo-Hebrew societies, with a final redaction of the Torah during the time of Babylonian Exile.
To keep what I’m talking about understandable for most people, I will try to keep things simple.
Leviticus is an Old Testament book filled with commandments for ‘god’s people’. Chapter 19, verse 19, states “Do not mate different kinds of animals.” Depending on which of the plethora of versions of the Bible it might say “Do not mate two different kinds of animals.” Or, don’t breed your cattle with other animals, or don’t breed livestock with “another kind.” It’s amazing how many versions there are, and there has been debate over just what does this commandment mean.
In Leviticus 18:23, the command specifically says humans should not have sex with animals. The most common reason given in the different translations is that it is a perversion. Other versions say it is just an unclean act, or it’s detestable, it’s unnatural, it’s a crime, it’s a confusion, it is an abomination.
The English word Perversion does not just refer to sex acts, it means that something has been altered from its original design. The word abomination means something that is hated, and in the context of the do not screw with animals commandment it means that the end result will become a hated thing.
Main stream scientists continue to deny that anything weird was going on at the laboratory in Wuhan, China. Yet, the simple fact is that lab mice were ‘perverted’ with human DNA and then infected with bat viruses.
Reviewing the latest (once secret) documents it sure looks like Gain of Function (GoF) was taking place, and being funded by the United States government, specifically funded by Anthony Fauci’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases-National Institutes of Health. Fauci adamantly denies, in testimony to Congress, that GoF was taking place in Wuhan, however, Doctor Kanta Subbarao (who works for National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases’ Laboratory of Infectious Disease) stated in a publication that “the term gain-of-function is used by geneticists and is a vague and unsatisfactory term for microbiologists.” In other words there is what I call a Tower of Babel (an advanced civilization destroyed by its language being confused) syndrome taking place; one group of scientists says yes it is GoF, while another group of scientist say no it isn’t.
In the same publication (titled Potential Risks and Benefits of Gain-of-Function Research: Summary of a Workshop), Doctor Subbarao even warned that GoF could result in viruses that do not exist naturally, and that current ‘medical countermeasures’ are not sufficient to prevent unnatural viruses from becoming what she called drug resistant “escape mutants”!
I find it very interesting that scientists involved with DNA manipulation use the term chimeric when referring to hybrid viruses, things that contain two or more sets of DNA. A Chimera is a (supposedly mythical, but not anymore) hybrid animal and is the origin of the concept of monsters.
An upgraded Firtina II was delivered in January 2021. The main identifier of the Firtina-2 is the ASELSAN (“a Turkish Armed Forces company”) designed remote controlled .50 caliber heavy machine gun (Remote Controlled Weapon Station, RCWS), mounted on the top-left rear of the turret, the manually operated .50-cal was mounted on the Tank Commander’s position.
