Tag Archives: nato

International, Technology

NATO’s MiG-21

Video

During the Cold War it was known as Mikoyan & Gurevich, hence MiG.

MiG 21, NATO reporting name Fishbed/Lancer.

BULGARIA:

New Jersey Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Andrew J. Moseley, 16JUL2015.

New Jersey Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Andrew J. Moseley, 16JUL2015.

New Jersey Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Andrew J. Moseley, 17JUL2015.

New Jersey Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Andrew J. Moseley, 17JUL2015.

Apparently 2015 was the last year that Bulgaria operated the MiG-21.

CROATIA: 

Minnesota Air National Guard Photo by Technical Sergeant Lynette Hoke, 05APR2019.

Minnesota Air National Guard Photo by Technical Sergeant Lynette Hoke, 05APR2019.

It is smaller than an F-16

Minnesota Air National Guard Photo by Technical Sergeant Lynette Hoke, 05APR2019.

Minnesota Air National Guard Photo by Technical Sergeant Lynette Hoke, 06APR2019.

Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Croatia video of MiG 21s flying with French Rafales, 15MAR2022:

Croat MiG 21s with USAF Aviano Air Base F-16s on the Pleso/Zagreb Airport, 27MAR2022. Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Croatia by T. Brandt.

Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Croatia, on 17MAY2022 a MiG 21 was assigned ‘Gate Guard’ duty for the 30th Anniversary of a flight by Colonel Ivica Ivandić.  This is a controversy in Croatia because there were other MiG 21s involved in that flight and those pilots were seemingly ignored:

ROMANIA, ‘Lancer’: 

2014

USAF photo by Staff Sergeant R.J. Biermann, 17APR2014.

2015

U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Armando A. Schwier-Morales, 17MAR2015.

U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Joe W. McFadden, 16APR2015.

U.S. Army photo by Sergeant William A. Tanner, 22MAY2015.

USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Matthew Bruch, 23OCT2015.

USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Matthew Bruch, 23OCT2015.

2016

18MAR2016, Canadian Forces photo by Master Seaman (Master Sailor) Steeve Picard.

2017

U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Jonathan Snyder, 29JUL2017.

U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Jonathan Snyder, 29JUL2017.

U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Jonathan Snyder, 29JUL2017.

26SEP2017, Canadian Forces photo by Sergeant Daren Kraus.

2019

Romanian MiG 21s visited Serbia in October 2019. Photo via Ministry of Defence Republic of Serbia.

Ministry of Defence Republic of Serbia, 01OCT2019.

Ministry of Defence Republic of Serbia video, Romanian MiG 21s at the October 2019 International Air Exercise Air Solution meet:

28NOV2019. Canadian Forces photo by Leading Seaman (Sailor First Class) Erica Seymour.

28NOV2019. Canadian Forces photo by Leading Seaman (Sailor First Class) Erica Seymour.

NATO Channel video MiG-21 operations, cockpit view:

2022:

Romanian Ministry of National Defense video report from 04SEP2022, a pilot’s last flight in a MiG 21UB:

Ukraine Crisis: NATO forces Slovakia to suddenly retire its MiG 29s

More MiGs: HERITAGE SABER & MIG FIGHT IT OUT…OVER SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA?

INDIAN AIR POWER

MiG-21 adversary F-4 Phantom Two: PHINAL UN-MANNED PHANTOM PHLIGHT

SOVIET ERA TANKS NOW IN USE BY NATO: BULGARIAN T-72

Technology

Phinal UN-manned Phantom Phlight

Video

On 21DEC2016, the QF-4E was officially retired.

Video report, Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico, phinal UN-manned Phantom phlight, August 2016:

2015 video from Tyndall AFB, Florida, a phather’s phinal Phantom phlight is his son’s phirst Phantom plight:

Video, QF-4E last plight out of Tyndall 24JUL2015, heading to Holloman AFB:

In 2017, former QF-4E pilot reminisced about the Phantom Phans, and his phinal phlight:

Hill Air Force Base 2016: PHINAL manned PHANTOM PHLIGHT, and the phinal phate of USAF F-4 PHANTOMS!

U.S.

Heritage Saber & MiG fight it out…over Southern California?

Video

U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sergeant Eric Harris, 07APR2018.

In April 2018, an F-86 Saber (for some reason the USAF liked to use the British empire spelling of Sabre) tangled with a MiG-15 (NATO reporting name Fagot [as in the British empire slang for cigarette, not the U.S. slang for somebody living an ‘alternative lifestyle’]) over March Air Reserve Base in California.

USAF photo by Master Sergeant Eric Harris, 07APR2018.

I remember when it used to be March Air Force Base, and prior to the creation of the U.S. Air Force (a couple of years before the Korean conflict) it was called March Field by the U.S. Army.

March Air Reserve Base conducts the largest airshow in Riverside County and in April 2018 celebrated 100 years since March Field was established, and 70 years since it became a U.S. Air Force operation.

USAF photo by Senior Airman Kaylee Dubois, 16MAR2018.

In March 2018, the same Saber showed up at the Yuma Marine Corps Air Station airshow, Arizona.

F-16 cockpit view video of F-86, over Davis-Monthan, Arizana, March 2015:

The F-86 calls Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, in Arizona, home.  The plane is part of the Air Force Heritage Flight Foundation, and Davis-Monthan is home to the Heritage Flight Training Course.

Air show video:

U.S. Marine Corps Photo by Sergeant Colin Broadstone, 05MAY2018.

In May 2018, a MiG 17 (NATO reporting name Fresco) invaded Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, in North Carolina.

USMC photo by Sergeant Colin Broadstone, 05MAY2018.

MiGs operating over the United States are privately owned (at least that’s what they tell us).

VEHICLE I-D: FURY vs MIG

MIG 17 vs U.S. NAVY FERRARI

HOW TO ASSEMBLE YOUR 1:1 SCALE F-86

Technology

Indian Air Power, 2021

Video

Incomplete images of India’s current state of Air Power.

Indian C-17 on Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, 20NOV2020. U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Christopher Quail.

Indian Air Force promo:

Indian Navy Harrier

U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Matthew Hannen, 30JUL2007.

Jaguar/Shamsher

U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Matthew Hannen, 30JUL2007.

USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Shawn Nickel, 29APR2016.

USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Joshua Turner, 02MAY2016.

(INDIA DEVELOPS RARE EARTH ALLOY TO EXTEND LIFE OF COLD WAR STRIKE AIRCRAFT!)

Radar equipped Shamsher leads U.S. Super Hornets and Indian Su-30MKIs. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Second Class Brandie Nuzzi, 28MAR2021.

Shamsher, MiG-29KUB and Su-30MKI, 23JUN2021, USN photo.

In the above photo notice the Indian two seat MiG-29KUBs are not simple trainers, but have full combat radar system and a different cockpit area.

Link to video of MiG-29K and Harrier fly by:

https://youtu.be/nHI0blqggFI

2010, Indian Naval Station Hansa in Goa, India.

MiG-29K overflies USS Nimitz (CVN 68) in the Bay of Bengal during Exercise Malabar 2017.

Flying with U.S. Navy Super Hornets, 2017.

Indian Navy Aérospatiale Alouette-3 (Chetak) over Goa, August 2017.

Chetak (Aérospatiale Alouette-3). USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Second Class Brandie Nuzzi, 28MAR2021.

Onboard USS Pearl Harbor (LSD 52).

Indian CH-47F, first flight July 2018:

(INDIAN HERCULES APPEARS IN NORTH DAKOTA, 2018)

In 2018, Indian P-8A Poseidon (militarized Boeing 737) took part in Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) Exercise on Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii.

HAL license built Dornier 228 and Hawk-i, and HAL HTT-40, airshow Aero India 2019.

Video, HAL Tejas:

Su-30MKI and HAL (Hindustan Aeronautics Limited) Tejas,  airshow Aero India 2019.

Su-30MKI, RED FLAG-Alaska, May 2016.

Video, Su-30 leads integrated flight of Jaguar, Mirage 2000 and U.S. F-15s:

Video, Su-30MKI bombing run:

(VEHICLE I-D: SUKHOI 27/30)

HAL (Hindustan Aeronautics Limited) attack helicopter, airshow Aero India 2019.

HAL Dhruv helicopter demo team, airshow Aero India 2019.

Mil 8, airshow Aero India 2019, Air Force Station Yelahanka, Bengaluru.

(CH-47 CHINOOK COLLECTS MIL 8 ‘HIP’ BONES)

Indian Navy Mil 17(171), November 2019, exercise Tiger TRIUMPH in Kakinada.

Indian Navy Sikorsky UH-3H Sea King, November 2019, exercise Tiger TRIUMPH in Kakinada.

Video, Sea King Helicopter lands on the flight deck of the USS Germantown (LSD 42), exercise Tiger TRIUMPH:

MiG-21, Defense Expo 2020.

Video, MiG-21 ‘Night Fighter’:

Video, Alouette ‘Cheetah’ part-1:

Video, Cheetah part-2:

Video promo, IAF Mirage 2000 fighters:

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’

Technology

Recovering UH-1 skeletons

Video

U.S. Marine Corps photo by Corporal Ursula V. Smith, 25SEP2019.

In September 2019, U.S. Marines used what remained of a UH-1 to conduct fire fighting and recovery training at U.S. Army’s Yuma Proving Grounds (YPG), Arizona.

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

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

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

Video, Weapons and Tactics Instructor (WTI) course 1-20 at Site 2, YPG, 25SEP2019:

USMC photo by Lance Corporal Claudia Nix, 28MAR2019.

They did the same thing earlier, in March 2019.

USMC photo by Lance Corporal Claudia Nix, 28MAR2019.

From 2017, “Just what I need for my collection.”

This pic of the tail section recovery was taken in March 2015.

Video from 2015:

From September 2014.

Also from September 2014.

U.S. Army’s Company D, 2nd General Support Aviation Battalion, 227th Aviation Regiment, 1st Air Cavalry Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, conduct Downed Aircraft Recovery Team (DART) training on Hohenfels, Germany, January 2018.

April 2017, U.S. Army’s B Company, 277th Aviation Support Battalion, 10th Combat Aviation Brigade, conduct DART training on Oberdachstetten Training Area, Germany.

U.S. Army’s 16th Combat Aviation Brigade, 7th Infantry Division on Yakima Training Center, Washington June 2016.

Video from the Huey’s tail rotor as it’s taken for a ride by a UH-60M Black Hawk:

Fort Stewart, Georgia, 2014.

RECOVERY OPS: DKM PRINZ EUGEN

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

Technology

Vehicle I-D: Russian/Ukrainian Aircraft in U.S. service?

Video

The Antonov Design Bureau (founded by Oleg Konstantinovich Antonov in 1946) was originally based in Russia, but officially moved to Ukraine in 1952.

June 2022, photo via Antonov Company.

In 2022, a Ukrainian Ruslan was used to transport NATO Turkey’s Turksat 5B from NATO France to NATO United States, for launch on the controversial SpaceX platform.

Photo via Antonov Company.

In June 2021, a Ukrainian An-124 Ruslan transported several Black Hawk helicopters from NATO Poland to The Philippines.

U.S. Army photo by Richard Bumgardner, 26APR2019.

Two UH-60 Black Hawks bound for Afghanistan about to be eaten by a Russian An-124 in Huntsville, Alabama, 26APR2019.

USA photo by Richard Bumgardner, 26APR2019.

USA photo by Richard Bumgardner, 26APR2019.

USA photo by Richard Bumgardner, 26APR2019.

USA photo by Richard Bumgardner, 26APR2019.

U.S. Air Force video, by Staff Sergeant Bethany La Ville, November 2018 Super Typhoon Yutu relief in Saipan, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (the Ukrainian operated An-124 was contracted by U.S. Air Force):

Video, October 2017, Russian operated An-124 delivers disaster relief equipment to Puerto Rico, paid for by U.S. taxpayers:

U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Corporal Brooke Deiters, 01AUG2016.

U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, Japan, August 2016.

USMC photo by Lance Corporal Brooke Deiters, 02AUG2016.

Russian operated An-124 takes-off from U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, Japan, August 2016.

USA photo by Staff Sergeant Richard Andrade, 22OCT2013.

October 2013, Russian operated An-124 delivers U.S. taxpayer funded Russian made Mil-17V-5 Hip helicopter to the Afghan military, in Kabul.

U.S. Marine Corps photo by Corporal Kevin Jones, 09JUL2013.

A large U.S. Marine CH-53E Super Stallion inside the belly of the An-124 beast, July 2013.

USMC video, by Corporal Jeffrey Scarmazzi, 11JUL2013, U.S. Marines on Marine Corps Air Station Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii, load UH-1Y Venoms into a contracted An-124:

USMC photo by Lance Corporal Natalie M. Rostran, 17JUN2013.

U.S. Marines CH-46E Sea Knight off-load at Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, Japan, June 2013.

USA photo by Sergeant D. Brennan, 07FEB2013.

February 2013, U.S. Army OH-58D Kiowa Warrior helicopter is fed into the An-124 Condor at Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan.

At least three OH-58Ds. USA photo by Sergeant D. Brennan, 07FEB2013.

U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Krystal Wright, 30JUN2012.

Russian operated An-124 gets an MRAP suppository at Shaw Air Force Base (AFB), South Carolina, June 2012.

USAF photo by Airman 1st Class Krystal Wright, 30JUN2012.

Now a satellite up-link suppository, all destined for U.S. Forces Korea.

USMC photo by Mitch Moore, 05OCT2011.

Joint Operating Base Bastion, Afghanistan, An-124 delivers mobile medical Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machine, October 2011.

USAF photo by Sergeant Anderson J. Grant, 21MAY2011.

The U.S. Air Force even showed-off the Ruslan at a public air show on Shaw AFB, May 2011.

USAF photo by Captain Erick Saks, 06MAY2011.

May 2011, An-124 delivers Rough Terrain Container Handler (RTCH) to Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan.

Photo by Jerome Bishop, 01DEC2005.

Pope Air Force Base , North Carolina, December 2005.  Russian contracted An-124 eats a UH-60 Black Hawk, for delivery to Egypt.

At least four UH-60s. Photo by Jerome Bishop, 01DEC2005.

Operation CoViD-19: Video of An-124 used for NATO CoViD supply operations in Slovakia

2016:

USMC photo by Corporal Nathan Wicks, 02AUG2016.

Russian An-124 DELIVERS KC-130J SIMULATOR TO U.S. MARINES IN JAPAN!

Technology

Vehicle I-D: Sukhoi 24

Video

U.S. Navy photo, 12APR2016.

Buzzing the USS Donald Cook (DDG 75), Baltic Sea, 12APR2016.

USN photo, 12APR2016.

Video, Su-24 “Over the bow!”:

USN photo, 12APR2016.

Video, Su-24 “on the deck!”:

USN photo, 12APR2016.

Video, Su-24 “across the flight deck”:

Russian Su-24s on Khmeimim Air Base, Latakia Governorate in Syria, 2017.

Video, ground ops, Latakia, Syria, 2016:

Video, point-of-view cams showing take-off, bomb dropping, and landing of Su-24 in Syria:

Video, USS Ross (DDG 71) gets buzzed, June 2015, Black Sea:

On 24NOV2015, a NATO Turkey F-16 shot down a Russian Su-24 over Syria.

Video, take-offs and landings, Latakia, Syria, 2015:

Video from 2015, Russian Su-24 dropping ‘dumb’ bombs on insurgents in Syria:

Video, aerial refueling 2015:

Video, afterburners lit, Syria:

Algerian Su-24.

Iranian Su-24

U.S. MARINES USE ‘FAKE NEWS’ MIG-23

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

VEHICLE I-D: SUKHOI 27/30

Technology

Vehicle I-D: Mil 24 Hind ‘Satan’s Chariots’, Cold War and beyond

Video

Mil Mi-24/25/35, NATO reporting name Hind.

From a U.S. Army vehicle identification poster, September 1981.

Russian news media propaganda report on Mi-24P (30mm guns) and Ka-52 action in Ukraine, October 2022:

This is a Ukrainian Mi-24V, supposedly of those donated by NATO Czech Republic.

In August 2022, Russia revoked licensed Mil helicopter operations for NATO-Czech Republic and NATO-Bulgaria, after they donated Hinds to Ukraine. 

In August 2022, Brazil flew its 12 Mi-35M4s for the last time, officially.  Brazil calls its Hinds the AH-2 Saber.  Brazil has been operating Saber-Hinds since at least 2011.  Local news media reports say the high cost of maintaining them was exacerbated by recent U.S./NATO sanctions on Russia.

Video from June 2022, Russian ‘Z’ Hinds (Mi-35M, with 23mm guns in the chin-turret), somewhere over Ukraine:

In May 2022, NATO Czech republic claims to have given Ukraine some of their Mi-24Vs.

March 2022: Hinds with invasion stripes?

In December 2021, a video appeared claiming to show rebels in Yemen now have a usable Hind helicopter:

In August 2021, Taliban took control of donated Mi-35 helicopters, after the sudden withdrawal of U.S./NATO forces from Afghanistan.  See more about the more than four decades long love affair the Afghans have for ‘Satan’s Chariot’ in ZOMBIE ‘COPTER: HOW THE HIND RETURNED TO AFGHANISTAN (with the help of NATO), AND WHY IT WON’T DIE.

U.S. Army photo by Major Robert Fellingham.

In June 2021, U.S. Army AH-64 Apaches and NATO-Bulgarian Hinds took part in a joint Apache-Hind wargame, supposedly for the first time.

In August 2020, Rostec State Corporation’s Russian Helicopters division announced it will begin mass-production of its new export Hind, the Mi-35P. 

Belarussian Mi-24.

At the beginning of August 2020, Belarus claimed that NATO-Lithuania invaded its territory.  The ‘invasion’ was stopped with the help of Belarusian Mi-24s.

Kazakhstan Mi-35M, June 2020.

In June 2020, Kazakhstan received four new-build Mi-35Ms.  Kazakhstan now has 12 Mi-35Ms.

Kazakhstan Mi-35M, June 2020.

Kazakhstan Mi-35M, June 2020.

Libyan ‘Haftar’ Mi-35.

In April 2020, it was reported that an Mi-35, used by the ‘Haftar’ forces in Libya, was shot down, the crew was killed.  It should be noted that the Haftar forces (aka Libyan National Forces) are supported by both Russia and NATO-France!  The 2011 NATO instigated civil war in Libya never ended!

Ukrainian Mi-24P, with 30mm side mounted guns.

U.S. Air Force photo by Airman First Class Jacob T. Stephens, 20NOV2019.

Mil (Mil Moscow Helicopter Plant) 24 gunship flies over Ryan Airfield, Arizona, 20NOV2019.

USAF photo by Airman First Class Jacob T. Stephens, 20NOV2019.

The U.S. Air Force claims it is using the Mil 24 to teach basic helicopter maneuver training to SAR (Search And Rescue) HH-60G Pave Hawk crews.

USAF photo by Airman First Class Jacob T. Stephens, 18NOV2019.

Mil 24 parked next to HH-60G Pave Hawk, Davis Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona.

International Aviation and Space Salon MAKS-2019.

In August 2019, Russia announced it is upgrading its Mi-24Ps to Mi-24P1M standards. 

International Aviation and Space Salon MAKS-2019.

The Mi-24P1M will have the latest electronics, including an anti-aircraft missile launch warning system. The ‘1M’ version will also be several hundred kilograms lighter in weight.

International Aviation and Space Salon MAKS-2019.

In the NATO ‘west’, export versions of Mil 24 are also known as Mil 25 or 35, depending on the accessories (or who is writing the report).

NATO photo, 15MAR2018.

Polish Mil 24 picks up NATO troops during Frozen Fury wargame, March 2018.

U.S. Army photo by Captain Gary Loten-Beckford, 30JAN2018.

Polish Mil 24s swarm a NATO battlefield, January 2018.

Russian Mi-24 flying over Roman era ruins in Syria, possibly 2017.

Russia flies Mi-24s in the NATO-instigated-civil-war-torn country of Syria.

U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist First Class Justin Stumberg, 14JUL2017.

Ukrainian Mil 24, over Kulbakino Air Base in Mykolaiv, during NATO/U.S. Sea Breeze wargame, July 2017.

U.S. Army video by Sergeant Timothy Pike, soldier’s view of Mi-24 Hind-D during NATO wargame on Hohenfels, Germany, March 2017:

U.S. Army photo by Sergeant Matthew Hulett, 24MAR2017.

Maintenance on Czech Mil 24 on Hohenfels, Germany, for Exercise Allied Spirit, March 2017.

U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Corporal Zachary M. Ford, 11APR2016.

Mil 24 over Chocolate Mountain Aerial Gunnery Range, California, April 2016, in support of U.S. Marine Aviation Weapons and Tactics Squadron One (MAWTS-1) during Weapons and Tactics Instructor (WTI) training.

Video, Mil 24 Hinds in action, Syria, October 2015:

Mi-24 Hind-D onboard Yuma Marine Corps Air Station, Arizona. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Staff Sergeant Artur Shvartsberg, 09OCT2015.

U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Arizona, October 2015.

USMC photo by Staff Sergeant Artur Shvartsberg, 09OCT2015.

NATO video from 2014, Afghans deploy their Mil 24 and Mil 17 (171):

The Mil 24 is called Hind by NATO, there is no official name in Russia but crews have used many nicknames for it.  In Afghanistan it’s known as Satan’s Chariot.  NATO video report from 2012:

U.S. Army Photo by Specialist Alan Moos, 21JAN2008.

NATO-Poland Mil 24 in Iraq, Camp Echo, January 2008.

USA photo by Specialist Alan Moos, 21JAN2008.

NATO-Poland’s old Hind-D over Ad Diwaniyah, Iraq, January 2008.

Iraq, May 2006, USA photo.

NATO-Poland Mil 24 and U.S. Apache AH-64 working together, somewhere in Iraq,  May 2006.

U.S. Air Force photo by Technical Sergeant Hill-Wales, 03JUL1996.

The above photo shows three Mi-24 Hind-Ds, of the newly independent Czech Republic (now known as Czechia), attending an air show in NATO-Italy, July 1996.  The Czech Republic joined NATO in 1999.

The U.S. Army captured an almost intact Iraqi Hind-D, during Desert Storm, January 1991.

The U.S. Army first started flying the Mil 24 in the early 1990s, after French and Chadian forces seized an abandoned Libyan Mil 25 Hind-D in 1987.  The helicopter was flown to the U.S. onboard a C-5 Galaxy in 1988.

The Hind-D was based at Fort Bliss, Texas.  It was routinely deployed to Fork Polk, Louisiana, to play the part of the enemy, or Opposition Force (OpFor) in wargames.

This 1995 U.S. Army photo shows the Hind-D equipped with Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement Systems (MILES) ‘laser-tag’ wargame device on the chin-gun.  It has Tasmanian Devil nose art.

From U.S. Army FM 44-80, Visual Aircraft Recognition, July 1993 edition.

Beginning in the early 1980s, the U.S. Army used Huey helicopters to represent Hinds!

U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency photo, released 27APR1989.

The above photo was made in July 1988, but was not released to the U.S. public until 27APR1989.

Photo released by U.S./NATO, March 1985.

Photo released by U.S./NATO, August 1982.

These Hinds had a four-barreled 12.7mm gun in a chin-turret.

Photo released by U.S./NATO, August 1982.

Mil Mi-24 Hind-A. Photo released by U.S./NATO, 01AUG1982.

Czech-o-Slovak Mi-24D, photo by Eduard Karkan, published in 1980.

TASS photo of Soviet Mi-24D, published in late 1970s.

TASS photo of Soviet Mi-24D, published in late 1970s.

TASS photo of Soviet Mi-24D, published in late 1970s.

The Hind-A had a single-barreled 12.7mm heavy machine gun in the nose.

The first production version of the Hind, sometimes called the Drinking Glass, Mi-24A Hind-A.  Riga Airport Latvia Russian Aircraft Museum, in NATO-Latvia.

Prototype Mil V-24.

In 1968 the Soviet Union ordered a new helicopter, combining transport and gunship capabilities.  By June 1970, what would become the Mil 24 was accepted for testing.  The Mil 24A officially began service in 1972.

VEHICLE I-D: MD-530F CAYUSE WARRIOR, AFGHANISTAN

HOW TO USE C-4 & THERMITE TO KILL A ZOMBIE TANK

Influenza

CDC, John Hopkins, Wikipedia, News Media+Flu vs CoViD=Somebody is Lying

08 April 2020 / 12:34 (UTC-07 Tango 06) 20 Farvardin 1399/14 Sha’ban 1441/16 Geng-Chen 4718

“CDC estimates that so far this season there have been at least 39 million flu illnesses, 400,000 hospitalizations and 24,000 deaths from flu.”–Key Points from Week 13 U.S. CDC Influenza Report, ending the week of 28MAR2020

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is supposed to issue weekly influenza reports, but as you can see from the above quote the last one they released is now a week and a half old.

“Total cases: 395,011, Total deaths: 12,754  Data include both confirmed and presumptive positive cases of COVID-19……”–COVID 19: U.S. at a Glance, update 08APR2020, U.S. CDC

The above data is the U.S. CDC’s CoronaVirus Disease-2019 report as of today, and includes ‘presumptive’ infections (presumptive means to presume despite lack of evidence!).  Interesting that the CDC can put out almost daily CoViD numbers but is seemingly having trouble issuing their weekly flu numbers.   Notice the difference, the week-and-a-half-old flu death numbers are still higher than the CoViD-19 numbers, by almost 12-thousand; influenza is still king killer.

Now to my point that while the U.S. CDC is the official health tracker of the United States our main stream news media is citing data issued by John Hopkins University.  In fact all the ‘western’ countries’ news media are citing data from John Hopkins, from Germany across North America all the way to Japan.  What happened to each country’s own CDC or public health agencies?  What happened to the United Nation’s World Health Organization?

Here’s a prime example from the government sanctioned British Bullshit Corporation, I mean British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) as of today: “…according to data from Johns Hopkins University. The US has more than 398,000 confirmed cases….”

But wait, when I go to John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health: Center for Health Security COVID-19 Updates-April 7 it referrers me back to the U.S. CDC, as well as the UN WHO and even Russian and Chinese government reporting agencies.  So why don’t our news media cite the original source?  Why did not only BBC lie about the source but they lied about the amount?  BBC cited John Hopkins but, as I said, if you go to the John Hopkins website they refer you back to CDC.  Also, BBC’s U.S. number of CoViD infections is almost 3-thousand higher than what CDC has published today.

Then I checked the exalted Wikipedia.  Wow, I don’t know where Wikipedia is getting its U.S. numbers from but they’re much higher than what the U.S. CDC is reporting.  Wikipedia is reporting 417,206 U.S. infections and 14,183 deaths as  of 08APR2020.

Note that even Wikipedia’s very questionable U.S. CoViD-19 death data is still lower than the week-and-a-half-old CDC influenza death data, by a little less than 10-thousand.

Who can you trust? Somebody is lying, influenza is still killing more people than CoViD-19, unless the influenza numbers are wrong as well!

Operation CoViD-19: FEMA’S EMERGENCY AIRLIFT REVEALED!

CoViD Oddities-4:  “THIS IS JUST NUTS…..LIFE WAS GOOD TWO WEEKS AGO”

CoViD-19, Air Mobile ReDux: 2006 military experiment with cloth masks show they don’t work, so why are they telling people to use them?