“The Peace Vanguard detachment has trained all over the United States and Idaho has one of the best training sites in the country.”-Master Sergeant Joel Mann, Arizona Army National Guard
Idaho Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Becky Vanshur, 26AUG2022.
Personnel with the Arizona Army National Guard and Singapore Air Force’s Peace Vanguard load rounds into the AH-64’s 30mm Chain Gun, on Idaho National Guard’s Orchard Combat Training Center. Idaho Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Becky Vanshur, 26AUG2022.
The Republic of Singapore Air Force has a unit based in Arizona called Peace Vanguard. They are there to learn how to operate the Longbow from the Arizona Army National Guard. Part of that training brings them to Idaho’s Orchard Combat Training Center (OCTC) for gunnery.
Idaho Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Becky Vanshur, 26AUG2022.
Idaho is home of a new kind of gunnery range called DAGIR (Digital Air Ground Integrated Range), one of only three in the U.S., which was opened for testing in March 2021, and officially certified for use by AH-64s in March of 2022.
Idaho Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Becky Vanshur, 26AUG2022.
Idaho Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Becky Vanshur, 26AUG2022.
Idaho Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Becky Vanshur, 26AUG2022.
F-15A number one rolled out of the Saint Louis, Missouri, factory. Notice it does not yet have the DayGlo orange paint applied. McDonnell-Douglas photo, 26JUN1972.
McDonnell-Douglas F-15A number one gets packed aboard a Lockheed C-5A Galaxy, for its trip to Edwards Air Force Base, California.
McDonnell-Douglas photo of the first flight of F-15 number one, 27JUL1972. DayGlo paint not yet applied. Notice the shape of the wings and stabilators.
The first F-15A, #71-280, unveiled publicly after its first flight, July 1972, it now has the DayGlo paint applied. It was never called the YF-15 as several interweb sites say. From the beginning it was F-15 Eagle.
USAF promotional video, by Airman First Class Moses Taylor:
71-280 F-15A number one is now serving museum duty on Lackland AFB, Texas. However, it is painted to represent a different F-15.
This B-52 is carrying a 3/8th-scale F-15A drone, back then called a Remotely Piloted Research Vehicle (RPRV), 23OCT1973. This was done to test the possibility of stall-spins, before the real F-15A Eagles began their test flights.
The 12 contractor F-15As were used in Category I pre-production T&E, the eight USAF F-15As were used in Category IIpre-production T&E. They were never officially designated as prototypes or even called YF-15 (as some online sites say), they were officially called McAir F-1 (for the F-15A single seaters) and McAir F-2 (for the TF-15 two seaters). The Category I phase was later re-named Contractor Development, Test & Evaluation, the Category II phase was renamed Air Force Development, Test & Evaluation.
Installing a F-15 style intake on a J85 nacelle. NASA photo, 1975.
Photo via Edwards AFB photo shop. NASA’s F-15A 71-287 in 1976, testing the FMD version of Pratt & Whitney’s F-100. 287 would go on to test the HIDEC system, in the early 1990s.
I took this photo with a crappy little fixed focus 110 camera, in 1977.
This photo shows a T&E Eagle (possibly number one) with the straight edged stabilators. McDonnell-Douglas photo.
This photo shows the smaller speed/dive brake of pre-production aircraft F-15A number five (71-284). It was apparently the first F-15 to get the 20mm Vulcan gun, obviously not at the time this photo was made (due to lack of gun port). McDonnell-Douglas photo.
The pre-production T&E Eagles can be distinguished from later production Eagles by the shape of the wing tips, the shape of the elevators (officially called ‘snag stabilators’) and the size of the speed/dive brake. T&E F-15As had squared-off wing tips, stabilators that did not have a ‘dog tooth’, and had a smaller more rectangular speed/dive brake. However, several T&E F-15 Eagles were quickly updated with the snag stabilators, yet retained the original wing tips and small speed brake.
This photo shows one of the T&E Eagles updated with the snaggle toothed stabilators. USAF photo via the Edwards AFB photo shop, I got it in the mid-’70s but exact date it was made is unknown.
One of the T&E F-15s transferred to NASA, with original configuration wing tips and stabilators.
For kit builders, the first issue 1:72 scale Hasegawa, Revell U.S.A. and Monogram kits were based on the Category I McAir F-1 Eagles.
They were quickly revised once the final changes were established for the production F-15s.
The same T&E F-15, with the squared-off wing tips, but it has been updated with the dog-tooth elevators. NASA photo, 24FEB1978.
Development of the F-15A actually started in the late 1960s, it was designed as a pure dog-fighter, intended to replace the F-4 Phantom-2 in that role. The design was based on U.S. air combat experience over Viet Nam, and on incorrect assumptions about Soviet fighter development, especially the MiG-25 Foxbat.
The defected MiG 25P. This is the photo that inspired the artwork on Minicraft/Hasegawa’s black bordered box issue of their MiG 25 kit, in the late-1970s.
Before the defection of a Soviet pilot in a MiG-25P, to Japan in 1976, the ‘experts’ in the U.S. Department of Defense thought the Foxbat was a dog-fighter. The MiG-25 was actually a straight line Mach 3 bomber interceptor, it carried four long range anti-bomber missiles, and had no guns. Fortunately, the incorrect assumptions resulted in a still potent modern day dog-fighter (proven by the Israeli Air Force) that has also proved it excels at other forms of aerial combat.
TF-15A #71-290. Photo via the Edwards AFB photo shop. 290’s final mission would be as the NF-15B ACTIVE in the late 1990s.
I got this photo from the Edwards AFB photo shop in the mid-1970s. It is TF-15A/F-15B 71-291, which would go on to become the ‘demonstrator’ (mock-up) of the F-15E concept.
71-291 all gussied-up for the Bicentennial in July 1976, and flying over its birthplace of Saint Louis, Missouri. McDonnell-Douglas photo by Pat McManus.
Also in 1972, a combat capable trainer version was created called the TF-15A, but it was soon re-designated F-15B. The improved F-15C single seater, and the improved F-15D two seater, were created in 1979. Visually they all look the same as the improvements are internal.
Bare metal Streak Eagle, named because it was naked, not fast. In the 1970s there was a fad called streaking, which meant you got naked and ran as fast as you could through a public gathering. The insignia on the vertical tail was removed for the high speed runs.
Between 16JAN1975 and 01FEB1975, a bare metal F-15A nicknamed Streak Eagle, broke eight time-to-climb world records. It was then donated to the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, in 1980, where it was painted to protect from corrosion:
The F-15 is used by Israel, Japan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea and the United States.
The second F-15A Eagle (71-0281) was turned over to NASA in February 1976. It was used in no less than 25 experiments which not only benefitted the USAF and NASA, but also the civilian airliner industry.
NASA F-15A #281 over the Mojave Desert, California, 03MAR1978.
This NASA F-15A Eagle was used to compare actual in-flight aerodynamic data to data collected from models in wind tunnels, 17MAY1978.
This is a NASA image showing what their proposed F-15-2D/STOL/MTD would look like, using NASA’s F-15B Eagle. The project would morph into the NF-15B ACTIVE program in the late 1990s.
Somewhere over NATO Norway, the Sun is setting on an F-4E Phantom-2, while its replacement, an F-15B Eagle flies in formation. USAF photo by Master Sergeant Edward Condon, 08MAR1982.
Potential satellite killer. An F-15 armed with the ASAT missile, sometime in 1983. USAF photo.
On Bitburg AFB, West Germany, an F-15D Eagle blows off steam, at full throttle in a ‘Baker Sound Suppressor Unit’. USAF photo by Jose Lopez Junior, November 1984.
An F-15A Eagle gets armed with an AIM-9 Sidewinder anti-aircraft missile, while taking part in wargames over Australia, 01OCT1985. U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Marvin D. Lynchard.
An F-15B Eagle taxis past the then new air traffic control tower on Edwards AFB, sometime in the mid 1980s (1987?).
A pole dancing F-15C Eagle? It is mounted upside down on a pedestal at the Rome Air Development Center’s (aka USAF Super Lab) Newport, New York, test site. An external radar warning system pod mounted on the fuselage is being compared to the onboard radar warning system, 06OCT1988.
The ground attack F-15E Strike Eagle began service in 1989, however, the first production F-15E (86-183) came off the assembly line in 1986.
86-183, the first production F-15E.
At first it was just called the F-15E Dual Role Fighter, no Strike Eagle. They stenciled on the nose F-15E No. 1, to be clear that it is the first F-15E.
F-15E Strike Eagles, and a F-15C Eagle, are flanked by F-16s as they fly over burning oil wells, during Desert Storm in early 1991.
Cold War: Approximately 1947 (due to U.S. President Harry Truman’s Truman Doctrine) to 1991 (Operation Desert Storm, collapse of Soviet Union).
NASA’s HIDEC (Highly Integrated Digital Electronic Control) F-15A (NASA #835, USAF #71-287), Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards AFB, California, February 1993.
A 53rd Fighter Squadron F-15C Eagle returns to Aviano Air Base, Italy, after a No-Fly-Zone mission over Bosnia-Herzegovina. USAF photo by Technical Sergeant David Mcleod, 12APR1993.
A 10% scale wind tunnel model of the F-15E Strike Eagle, used to test the viability of ‘pneumatic forebody controls’, September 1994.
Size comparison between USAF F-15C Eagle & E Strike Eagle, and a Slovak MiG-29 Fulcrum. According to the USAF, this was the first time F-15 Eagles and MiG-29s flew together. Photo by Technical Sergeant Brad Fallin, 25MAY1996.
USAF video, by Staff Sergeant Esteban Esquivel, of Israeli F-15I Ra’am operations on Uvda Air Base, Israel, May 2017:
A Ukrainian flag behind the windshield of a California Air National Guard (CANG) F-15D Eagle, 26OCT2017. A Ukrainian General is in the front seat while a CANG Lieutenant Colonel is in the back seat, it was a flight promoting the military partnership of California and Ukraine. CANG photo by Senior Master Sergeant Chris Drudge.
Somewhere in the Middle East (South West Asia), September 2017 USAF video report about F-15E Strike Eagle operations against so-called Islamic State:
California Air National Guard (CANG) video, by Staff Sergeant Christian Jadot, of historical moment when for the first time California’s 144th Fighter Wing lands their F-15C & D Eagles on Starokostiantyniv Air Base, Ukraine, 06OCT2018 (it should be noted that it was not the first time for California to send aircraft to Ukraine, in 2011 the CANG sent F-16 Falcons):
On 04MAY2021, U.S. Air Force F-15E Strike Eagles, based on the United Kingdom, conducted an “Independence Flyover” of the tiny NATO country of Latvia. Short video of F-15E getting refueled enroute to Latvia by Technical Sergeant Emerson Nuñez:
USAF video, by Staff Sergeant Danielle Sukhlall, of Japanese F-15J Eagles operating from Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, 07JUN2021:
A November 2021 USAF promo video, by Staff Sergeant River Bruce, states the F-15 series of aircraft has a long way to go before retirement:
In January 2022, at least six F-15E Strike Eagles (from Seymour Johnson Air Base, North Carolina) were deployed to NATO Belgium, for so-called air policing missions against Russia. Video via NATO:
February 2022:
Ämari Air Base, Estonia, U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Megan M. Beatty, 01FEB2022.
In March 2022, Idaho’s Gov’na, Brad Little, poses with Singapore’s Buccaneers. U.S. Air Force Photo by Staff Sergeant Joshua Hoskins, 21MAR2022.
In December 2021, the Buccaneers flew from Idaho to Florida, to take part in the Weapons System Evaluation Program. U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Betty R. Chevalier, 08DEC2021.
The Buccaneers take part in Red Flag, in Nevada, March 2021. USAF photo by Senior Airman JaNae Capuno.
Mountain Home Air Force Base (AFB), Idaho, is home to F-15SG Buccaneers (428th Fighter Squadron Republic of Singapore) and F-15E Gunfighters (U.S. Air Force 366th Fighter Wing). They fly their own colorfully painted ‘flagships’. The tiny Republic of Singaporeis part of the British empire’s Commonwealth of Nations.
U.S. Air Force photo by Airman First Class Andrew Kobialka, 15MAY2020.
Buccaneers F-15SG flagship flying alongside an F-15E from a different squadron (Bold Tigers) of the same Fighter Wing, and Idaho National Guard A-10Cs, as part of CoViD-19 morale booster operations 15MAY2020. The Buccaneers are flown by the The Republic of Singapore Air Force, but are based at Mountain Home AFB, Idaho.
Idaho Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Becky Vanshur, 15MAY2020.
About to deploy from Idaho to Utah, for Combat Hammer. USAF photo by Airman First Class Jeremy D. Wolff, 02MAY2017.
Combat Hammer, 2017.
USAF photo by Senior Airman Jeremy L. Mosier, 02MAY2017.
Official USAF video report about Combat Hammer, Singapore bombs Utah:
USAF photo by Senior Airman Connor J. Marth, 27FEB2017.
Over Mountain Home AFB, February 2017.
USAF photo by Airman Alaysia Berry, 08APR2016.
Buccaneers bomb crew getting instructions at the start of weapons loading competition at Mountain Home AFB, April 2016.
Singaporean F-15SG crews competed against USAF F-15E crews for best weapons loading, on Mountain Home AFB, Idaho. USAF photo by Airman First Class Chester Mientkiewicz, 08APR2016.
USAF photo by Senior Airman James Hensley, 19NOV2015.
Landing at Luke AFB, Arizona, for exercise Forging Saber, November 2015.
USAF photo by Airman First Class Thomas Spangler, 11JUL2014.
Red Flag Nevada, July 2014.
Video, Red Flag Nevada night take-off, afterburners:
USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Jim Araos, 09OCT2012.
Idaho’s, I mean Singapore’s Buccaneers taking part in Red Flag Alaska, October 2012.
USAF photo by Senior Airman Benjamin Sutton, 16OCT2012.
Only one of the F-15SGs has fancy paint on its tails, the others are plain.
The Republic of Singapore began flying F-15SG Strike Eagles at Mountain Home AFB in 2009. The U.S. Air Force re-activated the 428th Fighter Squadron specifically for the RSAF (as part of the Peace Carvin V program). The 428th Fighter Squadron (FS) is officially part of the 366th Fighter Wing (FW).
USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Jeremy L. Mosier, 12JUN2019.
‘Flagship’ F-15E Strike Eagle of the 366th FW, Mountain Home AFB, Idaho.
Video, 2019 ‘elephant walk’ at Mountain Home AFB:
USAF photo by Todd Cromar, 15AUG2018.
Taking part in Combat Hammer at Hill AFB, Utah, 15AUG2018.
USAF photo by Airman First Class JaNae Capuno, 22MAY2018.
Gunfighter flagship over Mountain Home AFB, 22MAY2018.
USAF photo by Airman First Class JaNae Capuno, 23MAY2018.
The 366th FW ‘Gunfighters’ (represented by the 20mm Vulcan-gun carrying Spook) includes 389th FS ‘Thunderbolts’ (represented by the lightening bolt), 391st FS ‘Bold Tigers’ (represented by the orange field with black tiger stripes [like Idaho State University’s colors]) and 428th FS ‘Buccaneers’.
USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Javier Cruz, 13DEC2016.
USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Javier Cruz, 13DEC2016.
A 391st Fighter Squadron Bold Tigers F-15E Strike Eagle over Saylor Creek bombing range, near Mountain Home AFB, Idaho. USAF photo by Master Sergeant Kevin Wallace, 16OCT2013.
U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis greeted at Mountain Home Air Force Base by USAF Colonel Joseph Kunkel, and the Defense Attaché from Singapore. U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Jeremy L. Mosier, 16JAN2018.
U.S. Defense Secretary James N. Mattis speaks to 366th Fighter Wing Airmen, 16JAN2018, at Mountain Home AFB, Idaho. USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Jeremy L. Mosier.
“…the next stop Mountain Home Air Force Base, they have a very, very big range complex in southern Idaho and eastern Oregon. It includes Strike Eagle fighter squadrons, American, plus a Singaporean squadron….
…..So I could also get a — a sense for how we’re doing with this Singaporean Air Force that keeps some of its force here in the states where they have enough room to fly, maneuver, and of course gain the interoperability with the U.S. Air Force.”–James N. Mattis, United States Secretary of Defense, 16JAN2018
USAF photo by Senior Airman Malissa Armstrong.
On 16JAN2018 U.S. Secretary of Defense James N. Mattis paid a visit to Mountain Home Air Force Base, in Idaho.
“This was a small gesture to express our appreciation and gratitude to the U.S., and in particular the State of Texas, which have been good hosts for our Peace Prairie Detachment.”-Lee Hsien Loong, Singapore’s Prime Minister
Singapore Air Force CH-47 Chinook in Texas
Since 1996 Singapore has based a small unit at the Grand Prairie Army Aviation Support Facility in Dallas. They’ve helped out the Texas National Guard with other natural disasters like Hurricane Floyd in 1999, fire and flood operations in Texas in 2000, and Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
08 October 2015 (02:09 UTC-07 Tango 01)/16 Mehr 1394/24 Dhu l-Hijja 1436/26 Bing-Xu 4713
The Bank of China Australia and the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Singapore conducted major international transactions using the Yuan (RMB, RenMinBi) instead of U.S. dollars.
The transactions totaled the equivalent of $11.34-million USD, involving companies in Singapore, Australia and China. It’s the result of China’s new Cross-border Interbank Payment System.
However, Bank of China Australia (Sydney) says they’ve already ‘cleared’ $314.8-billion USD since February, and Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Singapore cleared $7.41-Trillion USD for the first three quarters of 2015!
USD = U.S. dollar
AUD = Australian dollar
CAD = Canadian dollar
XCD = East Caribbean dollar
NZD = New Zealand dollar
There are dozens of countries that use their own dollar. The yuan is now the 4th most used international currency.
21 February 2014 (23:38 UTC-07 Tango 22 February 2014)/20 Rabi ‘ath-Thani 1435/02 Esfand 1392/22 Bing-Yin (1st month) 4712
Talk about false flag ops, while Thailand is descending into U.S. sponsored civil war, Trilateral Commission members United States, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea and China conducted Cobra Gold 14 (14-16 February 2014).
Cobra Gold is the largest U.S. led war game in Southeast Asia, and this was the 33rd event. For some participants the operations are still ongoing.
Besides the now normal amphibious assault beach taking operations, Japanese news media revealed that this year’s Cobra Gold games involved Japanese units conducting military medical rescue missions, in line with Barack Obama’s Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA).
The GHSA operation saw Japanese “Self Defense Forces” ‘rescue’ a school full of children in central Thailand. And for reals, the Japanese are now building an actual medical clinic at the school.
Neo-imperialist Japan is now requiring that any country that requests Official Development Assistance (ODA) from Japan, such as medical help (part of GHSA plan), must also allow Japan to bring in military forces!
The Chinese are doing the same thing! They took part in Cobra Gold for the first time and also conducted Obama regime GHSA ops, and now are building a real school. China is a member of the Trilateral Commission.
Of course this Cobra Gold 14 is taking place after months of U.S. instigated riots against the socialist, yet democratically elected government of Thailand. Protestors involve middle and upper class people who want to pay less taxes, as well as farmers who’re claiming they have yet to be paid the government subsidy for their rice crops. The latest news is that the farmers are blocking roads into Bangkok with their tractors. There are reports that the farmer subsidies have bankrupted the government. Yeah, a socialist anti-U.S. anti-Trilateral Commission government, now you know the reason why Obama is backing the rebels.
Obama is not bringing the troops back home from the illegal War on Terror, he’s shifting U.S. military power to Japan, and South Korea, for the coming war with China over who will control the vast economic resources in the South China Sea (aka Asian Meridian).
The Trilateral Commission was founded by David Rockefeller in 1973. The official goal is to foster economic and political co-operation between Pacific Asian countries, North American countries and European countries (notice these are the regions that are currently in big economic trouble).
In 2000, the Japan membership was expanded to include many other Asian countries, and is now called the Pacific Asian Group.
In April 2013, Japan became a member of NATO (which has become the Trilateral Commission’s military unit): “…..You might ask why the Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization should come to the Pacific region. The answer is very simple. Today’s NATO is a new NATO. It’s a NATO with a global perspective. It’s a NATO with global partners. And Japan is our longest-standing global partner…..NATO and Japan are like-minded……we can help the United Nations and the international community to reinforce the rules-based international system……we need common approaches and responses…….To confront global threats such as terrorism, cyber attacks, and proliferation…..And I am delighted that later today, Prime Minister Abe and I will sign a Joint Political Declaration to guide our future work.”-Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO Secretary General, from statement made on the morning of 15 April 2013, Japan National Press Club
Researchers in India are reporting that the Dengue virus is evolving. They have identified at least four serotypes of the virus in the Indian state of Kerala, and have observed mutations since 2008. They have also identified new strains of Dengue that have come in from outside Kerala.
Another problem is that it seems if you survive an initial infection, you will get sicker if you’re infected a second or third time (which is almost guaranteed in mosquito swamped areas). They say this is why outbreaks of Dengue Fever are getting worse: “People who are infected a second time with a different type of the dengue virus may have a different immune response wherein the clinical symptoms of dengue might worsen and the person will have severe disease. This is called antibody-dependent enhancement.”-E. Sreekumar, Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology
In the South East Asian country of Laos, 7920 people have been infected with Dengue Fever so far this year. 13 have died.
The UN World Health Organization gave Laos this dire warning: “If there are no effective actions undertaken, there will be serious economic and social consequences for Lao PDR including deaths, overloaded central, provincial and district health care facilities, and debilitated workers due to illness.”
The UNWHO says the number of mosquito spread Dengue Fever cases has exceeded 2010 numbers for the same time period, in Asia.
Singapore is reporting more than 10000 cases. For the same time last year they had 4632 cases. Citizens in that country are outraged because it was revealed that one infected person died in a hospital, because the patient was ignored by medical staff for at least five hours.
Thailand’s Ministry of Public Health confirmed 43609 cases, with 50 deaths. That’s three times higher than last year during the same time period.
The Philippines’ Department of Health reports 42207 cases.
Malaysia reports more than 10000 cases.
Sri Lanka has ordered it Ministry of Defence and Ministry of Health to conduct a dengue eradication operation.
Three millionths of a percent, that’s how many people throughout the world actually control the majority of the wealth.
According to a survey by Wealth-X (a Singapore based company that serves the interests of the ultra-rich, it says so on their web site) most of the world’s wealth is held by only 0.000003% of the people!
Ultra high net worth (UHNW) individuals are people with $30 million or more in assets. That means real wealth, not wealth that’s ‘on paper’. Wealth-X says there are only 185,795 UHNW people globally! Of that, only 1,235 people are true billionaires!
Wealth-X breaks it down for the United States: 57,860 UHNWs, 455 of which are true billionaires. This means that of the 1% in the U.S., 1/54th controls 13.5% of the country’s wealth!
For Europe there are 54,325 UHNWs, in Asia there are 42,525 UHNWs, and 15,100 UHNWs in Latin America. Interestingly there’s nothing about ultra wealthy in Africa or the Middle East.
The Government of Singapore Investment Corporation announced that it has disposed of almost all of its investments in Olympus.
Singapore held 2% of Olympus stocks. They are the first major stock holder to announce they were dumping their shares in Olympus. U.S. Olympus stockholders seem to be waiting for Olympus officials to provide an explanation as to where all their money went.
SINGAPORE APACHES TEST IDAHO’S NEW D-A-G-I-R SYSTEM
IDAHO NOW PREMIERE SITE FOR WAR-FIGHTER TRAINING! NATIONAL GUARD THE NEW QUICK REACTION FORCE!
