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Cold War Vehicle I-D: Korean 대한민국 M48

U.S. Department of Defense photo by Al Chang.

Wargame Team Spirit, March 1984.  Main gun over rear deck.

U.S. DoD photo by Al Chang.

M48 crosses bridge during Team Spirit ’84, with main gun tube over rear deck.

U.S. DoD photo Al Chang.

Very hairy looking M48, Team Spirit ’84.

March 1984, U.S. Army photo by Specialist Long.

U.S. Army photo by Specialist Long.

105mm gunned M48A5K, Team Spirit ’84.

USA photo by Specialist Long.

90mm gunned M48A3K, Team Spirit ’84.

USA photo by Specialist Long, March 1984.

Team Spirit ’89.

U.S. DoD photo Al Chang.

Team Spirit ’90.

U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Corporal Steven Tran.

90mm gunned M48 still in use, September 2015.

USMC photo by Lance Corporal Steven Tran.

USMC photo by Corporal Tyler S. Giguere.

M48s are still in use, slowly being replaced by K1A1s, and soon by the new K2.

‘Gate Guard’ duty.

Vehicle I-D:  KOREAN 대한민국 M47

Cold War 1961: M48A1 v T-54/55; BERLIN KRISE, ‘GAME OF CHICKEN’

December 2019: A FLYING M48A1?

Cold War Vehicle I-D: Korean 대한민국 M47

March 1982, U.S. Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate Petty Officer First Class D. Brockschmidt.

U.S. Department of Defense photo by Al Chang.

Wargame Team Spirit, March 1982.  Main gun tube is facing over the rear deck.  Also, notice the type of muzzle brake, and then compare to the muzzle brakes seen on the M47s in 1985.

U.S. Department of Defense photo by Al Chang.

A Korean M47 that desperately needs a haircut. Team Spirit ’82.

U.S. DoD photo by Al Chang.

Team Spirit, March 1983.

U.S. DoD photo by Al Chang.

This one has a spotlight, Team Spirit ’83.

March 1983, U.S. DoD photo by Al Chang.

U.S. DoD photo by Al Chang.

Team Spirit, March 1985.

U.S. DoD photo by Al Chang.

Korean M47s had both types of muzzle brakes.

U.S. DoD photo by Al Chang.

March 1988, photographer unknown.

U.S. Army photo by Staff Sergeant Jerry Baker.

M47 rolls off KI RIN (LSM-658) during Team Spirit ’91.  Reportedly, the last Korean M47 was retired in 2007.

Vehicle I-D M47: DUMMIES, ORPHANS, TARGETS & GATE GUARDS

Biden’s War: Vermont deploys nearly 1000, Africa, Europe, Middle East!

Since March 2021, Vermont Army National Guard has been quietly deploying its militia-personnel.  A total of 950 people are being deployed.   The deployments, spread over several months, will result in Vermont units being sent to Africa, Europe and the Middle East.

Vermont Army National Guard photo by Sergeant Denis Nuñez.

On 11MAY2021, militia-personnel with the 1st Squadron, 172nd Cavalry Regiment, 86th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, officially said good bye before they got on the bus.

Vermont ANG photo by Joshua T. Cohen.

On 12 MAY2021, they boarded an aircraft bound for a 12 months deployment somewhere in Europe.

Official video explainer released on 13MAY2021:

Vermont ANG photo by Joshua T. Cohen.

Then on 14MAY2021, Headquarters & Headquarters Company (HHC) of the 86th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, held a ceremony for its deployment.

Vermont ANG photo by Joshua T. Cohen.

During the official good-bye, the deployment was ‘splained to Senator Bernie Sanders.

Vermont ANG photo by Don Branum.

Then on 18May2021, Vermont’s Task Force Mansfield and the 172nd Public Affairs Detachment said their official good-byes. Those units are supposedly the last of the Vermont Army Guard units to deploy.

Biden’s War: SOUTH CAROLINA’S F-16C/J LAUNCH TO SAUDI ARABIA!

 OREGON DEPLOYED TO POLAND!

U.S. FORCES ENTER SYRIA, AGAIN

NORTH DAKOTA DEPLOYING TO MIDDLE EAST!

MAINE DEPLOYS TO AFRICA!

NEBRASKA MILITARY POLICE DEPLOY TO MIDDLE EAST!

 MINNESOTA DEPLOYS TO KUWAIT!

ALASKA BLACKHAWKS DEPLOY TO MIDDLE EAST! RETURNING GUARDSMEN NOW IN QUARANTINE!

TENNESSEE DEPLOYS TO MIDDLE EAST!

CONNECTICUT DEPLOYS TO AFRICA!

Vehicle I-D M47: Dummies, Orphans, Targets & Gate Guards

A photo from sometime in the early 1970s, an inflatable decoy (dummy) M47.

White Sands Missile Range photo by Warren Weaver.

December 1977, a M47 about to get taken-out by an M198 artillery fired M712 Copperhead on the White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico.

WSMR photo by Tom Moore.

February 1984, another M47 about to bite the dust as an artillery fired Copperhead zeros-in, on the White Sands Missile Range.

WSMR photo by Tom Moore.

‘On the way!’

WSMR photo by Tom Moore.

‘Target, cease fire!’

U.S. Navy photo by Master Chief Petty Officer Terry Mitchell.

January(?) 1993, U.S. Marines discover an orphaned M47 in Somalia, during Operation Restore Hope.  They removed the live ammo.

USN photo by Master Chief Petty Officer Terry Mitchell.

U.S. Army video still by Specialist S. Paine.

December(?) 1993, U.S. Army troops found more orphaned/destroyed M47s during Op Restore Hope.

On 01AUG2012, personnel on Fort Carson, Colorado, moved a M47 gate guard from its spot on the Kit Carson ‘tank’ Park to a new location in front of the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division’s headquarters building.

USA photo by Specialist Shardesia Washington, 14MAY2015.

In May 2015, U.S. Army personnel on Hohenfels, Germany, used a shot-up M47 target to practice their heavy lifting.

USA photo by Specialist Shardesia Washington, 14MAY2015.

USA photo by Specialist Shardesia Washington, 14MAY2015.

Towards the end of August 2015, the 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, on Fort Riley, Kansas, got two M47s to perform guard duty in front of the unit’s motorpool headquarters.

USA photo by Specialist Courtney Hubbard.

Czech soldiers of the 74th Light Motorized Battalion, 7th Mechanized Brigade, reassemble a shot-up M47 target tank during exercise Allied Spirit-2, at the Joint Multinational Readiness Center in Hohenfels, Germany, 09AUG2015.

New Jersey Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sergeant Andrew J. Moseley.

Shot-up M47 on New Jersey Air National Guard’s Warren Grove Bombing Range, April 2019.

U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Rachel Simones.

M47 target on the Edwards Air Force Base Precision Impact Range Area, August 2019.

White Sands Missile Range crazies: FAKE NEWS T-72, WORLD’S BIGGEST R/C TOY?

Iraq 2003: ARMOR BATTLE DAMAGE

Fake News T-72, world’s biggest R/C toy?

In April of 2013, crazy guys at White Sands Missile Range, in New Mexico, tried to turn a little ATV into a big bad T-72 battle tank!

White Sands Missile Range photo by John Hamilton.

It was an attempt to create a cheap OpFor (Opposition Forces tank), to try and save taxpayer funding that is used on actual T-72s, or converting M113-based armored vehicles into Russian looking tanks.

WSMR photo by John Hamilton.

Also, this is actually for the U.S. Air Force, to test the ability of new aircraft targeting systems to identify enemy tanks.  The crazy guys were ordered to create a Fake-News BTR, BMP and T-72.

WSMR photo by John Hamilton.

The test run was made on the Condron Army Airfield.  Whoa, slow down there plastic tank, five miles per hour please!

The crazy-guys took what was once a static (stationary) corrugated plastic target, used for radar acquisition, and adapted it to fit over a small utility all terrain vehicle (ATV).  They then altered the ATV to be remote controlled, in other words, they created a giant R/C toy.

Video by John Hamilton of highly paid engineers playing with their giant R/C tank:

It also has tactically placed metal strips and heat generators to simulate the radar and heat signatures of a real tank. The experimental giant R/C tanks went to Edwards Air Force Base, California.  I have not been able to find any info on what happened to the corrugated R/C tanks, but I suspect they were used to test the F-35’s ability to identify and attack ground vehicles, that is because the F-35’s ground attack testing (at Edwards AFB) began about the same time that the fake-news tanks were created.

IDAHO’S 1:1 SCALE FAKE NEWS RUSSIAN RADAR TANK

Biden’s Borderland: Enough drugs to kill NYC! Now they’re called ‘undocumented non-citizen’!

Welcome to borderland hell under the new U.S. President, incomplete list of links to news/government agency reports as of 17 May 2021:

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ARIZONA: U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) video, by Andrew Franklin, of the ‘temporary’ non-citizen processing facility near Tucson:

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FLORIDA:

U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer Second Class Marianne Guemo.

The USS Sioux City (LCS 11, home port Naval Station Mayport), along with U.S. Coast Guard anti-drug personnel, captured more than $24-million worth of cocaine in just two days, towards the end of April!
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U.S. Coast Guard photo.

U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) captured a boat from Cuba with 22 illegals heading to Florida, 14MAY2021.  The USCG was tipped-off by the Cuban Coast Guard.
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PUERTO RICO:

USCG photo.

USCG returned 13 illegals to Dominican Republic on 11MAY2021.
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USCBP photo by Greg L. Davis.

An ‘undocumented non-citizen’ loads onto a Border Patrol truck after being captured near Marfa, 06MAY2021. He was part of a group of at least five men who said they were waiting for a smuggler (coyote) to pick them up.
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CBP video, by Michael Battise, of operations inside the ‘temporary’ non-citizen processing center at Donna, 04MAY2021:

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VERMONT:  Vermont National Guard Counterdrug Task Force reports helping Bennington Police capture $300-thousand worth of illegal drugs!  The authorities were tipped-off by a concerned resident.
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Biden’s Borderland, as of 01MAY2021: MORE BOAT-PEOPLE, MORE DRUGS, AND THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE?

Vehicle I-D: T-84/T-80/T-64 Украина Ukrania

MorozovKMDB photo.

The latest T-84, the BM Oplot.  Although it has a large exhaust port that would indicate a turbine engine, it actually has a complicated turbo-supercharged 6-cylinder ‘double-stroke’ piston (meaning each cylinder actually has two pistons) engine.

MorozovKMDB photo.

MorozovKMDB photo.

MorozovKMDB photo.

This tank is called by several names, it was developed for militaries that use the NATO 120mm ammo originally developed for the 120mm Reinmetall gun.  It is known as Yatagan, KERN2-120, or T-84-120.

MorozovKMDB photo.

MorozovKMDB photo.

This MorozovKMDB promo video is called Oplot, but it shows the T-84 and the Yatagan.  The visual difference is that the Yatagan’s turret extends over the engine deck:

https://youtu.be/IRpoVsaYPhk

Ukrainian Ministry of Defence video from 2014 showing Oplot and Bulat:

Photo via MorozovKMDB.

T-80UD.

Photo via MorozovKMDB.

Photo via MorozovKMDB.

Self-entrenching tool in use.

Photo via MorozovKMDB.

The upgraded/up-armored T-64 known as BM Bulat, looks very much like the T-80UD.  The visual give-aways are the position of the smoke grenade launchers, and the type of roadwheels .

Photo via MorozovKMDB.

Canadian Forces photo by Aviator Stéphanie Labossière.

T-64B at the International Peacekeeping and Security Center, Ukraine, 11APR2019.

Canadian Forces photo by Aviator Stéphanie Labossière.

Canadian Forces photo.

An old T-64, International Peacekeeping and Security Center, Ukraine, 07DEC2018.

Canadian Forces photo.

T-80BV at the International Peacekeeping and Security Center, Ukraine, during Canadian sponsored Operation Unifier, 29NOV2018.

Canadian Forces photo.

Canadian Forces photo.

Canadian Forces photo.

Canadian Forces photo.

Ukraine’s 36th Naval Infantry Battalion Tactical Group conduct a night-shoot, 25OCT2018.

U.S. Army (USA) Photo by Kevin S. Abel.

T-84s at the Strong Europe Tank Challenge at the Grafenwoehr Training Area, Germany, May-June 2018.

USA photo by Markus Rauchenberger, 06JUN2018.

USA photo by Kevin S. Abel.

Size comparison, T-84 versus Leopard 2A6.

USA photo by Markus Rauchenberger, 06JUN2018.

USA video by Christian Marquardt, Ukraine’s T-84 joins NATO tanks from Austria, France, Germany, Poland, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States, in a shoot-out.  It is hard to see because of the smoke, but the T-84 is the small one:

USA video by Kevin S. Abel, new track pad installation on T-84:

New York Army National Guard (ANG) photo by First Lieutenant Derrick Garner.

March 2018, T-64BV at the Yavoriv Combat Training Center.

New York ANG photo by First Lieutenant Derrick Garner.

New York ANG video, I had to edit out the extremely boring narration (no audio), and edit just to show the T-64BV:

USA photo by Specialist Javon Spence.

Leclerc versus T-64BV at Strong Europe Tank Challenge, May 2017.  The USA photographer incorrectly identified this T-64BV as a T-64BM (Bulat upgrade).

Ukrainian Defence Ministry video about the evolution of the T-64:

New Cold War: RUSSIA STOCKS-UP ON VEHICLES FOR NAVAL GROUND FORCES

Vehicle I-D: EVEN MORE UKRAINSKAYA TANKI УКРАИНСКАЯ ТАНКИ

Vehicle I-D: UKRAINIAN ARMOR

New Cold War: Idaho based Snake River militia deploy M1A2 SEP to Ukrainian border!

Vehicle I-D: Don’t confuse T-84 with M84, SLOVENIJA M84A4 SNIPER, 2021

Vaccine Fail: Lack of demand kills military shots? Warnings about new ‘Severe Malaria’! Got Vax-Pass?

Incomplete list of links to reports and studies showing the vaccination campaign is a failure, as of 15MAY2021:

AstraZeneca (U.K) versus Sinovac (China)

Nature.com asks; How did a new variant spread around the world unnoticed?

U.S. military bases in Europe to begin vaccinating children.

United Nations’ World Health Organization (UN-WHO) condemns governments who are now vaccinating children, says the vaccines would be of better use if given to poor countries!

Yet another report reveals the truth (buried in the middle of the article) about why poor countries are short on vaccines; lack of cold storage facilities.

The UN-WHO warns of “new variant of concern”!

Reminder; the UN-WHO has not approved a single CoViD vaccine!  CoViD shots have only been authorized for emergency use under the UN-WHO’s Emergency Use Listing (EUL), which states “The WHO Emergency Use Listing Procedure (EUL) is a risk-based procedure for assessing and listing unlicensed vaccines, therapeutics and in vitro diagnostics with the ultimate aim of expediting the availability of these products to people affected by a public health emergency.” 

AUSTRALIA: Genetically modified CoViD vaccine nose spray.

CANADA: The Ontario Associate Minister of Small Business and Red Tape Reduction, Prabmeet Singh Sarkaria, is being criticized for revealing that “The study out of Qatar states that Pfizer’s one shot is only 30% effective against the variant that originates out of the U.K.”

CHINA: Republic of China (Taiwan) has been praised for its pandemic policies, but now is on the verge of declaring a Level 3 emergency (for the first time) due to skyrocketing infections!

South China Morning Post investigation reveals that many academic articles published on China’s inter-web are fake, all you need is 4-hundred USD and you can publish anything as ‘academic/scientific’!

GERMANY:  Germany hints at blocking travel to and from United Kingdom!

City officials of Wiesbaden worked with U.S. Army leaders to create a vaccine passport for U.S. Army personnel.  Currently in Wiesbaden, business owners can require potential customers to take a rapid CoViD test before entering their store.  It’s hoped the new U.S. Army/Wiesbaden vax-pass will satisfy those pandemic-panic-attack business owners.  It is not valid in other Germany cities.

FRANCE: Says Biden’s vaccine patent waiver idea is irrelevant.

INDIA: Revealed; fully vaccinated U.S. health ‘expert’ dies of CoViD after traveling to India, his wife finds it “ironic”!

Health officials consider expanding the time between first and second doses of CoViD vaccine, because studies indicate there is a better immune response.

Why Biden’s push for vaccine patent waivers won’t work for India.

India’s CoViD crisis is shutting down global logistics, creating shortages of the products you want!

ISRAEL: Study reveals that the efficacy of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is directly affected by additional disease-modifying therapy (DMT).

JAPAN: A retail billionaire claims Japan’s pandemic-panic-attack policies are turning the Tokyo Olympic into a “suicide mission”!

Government bans re-entry of foreigners who live/work in Japan!

SWITZERLAND: Basel based vaccine maker says Biden’s vaccine patent waiver plan smacks of East German communism.

RUSSIA: Nasal spray vaccine ready by 2022?

UNITED KINGDOM: Changes CoViD pandemic-panic-attack rules (yet again), blames it on new variants!

UNITED STATES:  Investigation shows only 12 people are responsible for almost all social-media fake-news about vaccines!

What is the new CoViD vaccine ‘honor system’?

Alabama; University of Alabama at Birmingham claims vaccine nasal spray works good in mice.

Arizona;

Arizona National Guard photo by Technical Sergeant Michael Matkin.

The state National Guard began vaccinating children, ages 12 to 18 years, at a drive-through vaccination site in Mesa.

California;  Celebrity talk show host/political commentator Bill Maher gets infected despite being fully vaccinated!

Colorado; Health officials report yet another new variant of CoViD, despite vaccinations!

Illinois; If vaccines are so good why is the gov’na offering $4-million in amusement park tickets to encourage people to get vaccinated?

Kentucky;

U.S. Army photo by Eric Pilgrim.

Military leaders on Fort Knox are now begging people to get vaccinated.  Captain Shantyl Galloway, officer in charge of the vaccination site, reported that the number of people getting the shot has dropped from between 150 to 2-hundred per day, to just 40! It’s now estimated that by the end of June the Fort Knox vax-site will be sitting on 2-thousand unused (and expiring) vaccines: “We’ve seen a drastic decline in demand……the demand just isn’t there.”

Maine; Vaccinated people in Maine say its not fair that incentives are now offered to get people vaccinated, demand that incentives be made retroactive!

Maryland; Gaithersburg based Novovax is losing money after it was revealed its new CoViD vaccine is only 51% effective against the South African variant!

  The state prison system is now offering prisoners cookies and candy to get them to take the unapproved (authorized for emergency use only) vaccine!

Gov’na praises pizza restaurant for offering free pizzas to people who got vaccinated.

U.S. Army, USAMMDA public affairs photo by Jeffrey Soares.

The U.S. Army Medical Materiel Development Activity (USAMMDA), along with drug maker Amivas, reminded the public that their Malaria Treatment Drug-Intravenous Artesunate (MTD-IVAS) is available for treating ‘severe malaria’.  The U.S. Army along with the UN-WHO have been warning of severe malaria, and working on a new treatment for several years.  The MTD-IVAS treatment was actually approved in May 2020, by the USFDA, but was overshadowed by the corona virus pandemic panic attack.  So far 5-hundred people have been treated with the new drug: “Artesunate for Injection fulfills a critical gap because it is the only FDA-approved drug to treat severe malaria in Service Members and the U.S. population.”– Ryan Adams, MTD-IVAS project manager

Nevada; New variants detected!

New York;  Onondaga County using tax funded ‘free’ meals to encourage people to get vaccinated!

New York National Guard photo.

On 12MAY2021, the New York National Guard claimed to have issued the 25-thousandth 2nd dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine at the Bronx-Baychester Point of Distribution (PoD) center.

Ohio; If vaccines are so good why are state taxpayers being raped of $1-million, per week, to encourage people to get vaccinated?

Oklahoma; State health officials report increasing cases of new variants!

U.S. Army photo by Staff Sergeant Jeremy Bennett.

At the FEMA/U.S. Army Northern Command’s mass-vax site (Community Vaccination Center, CVC) in Tulsa, U.S. Navy medics began vaccinating children, ages 12 to 17.

Utah;  If vaccines are so good why is the gov’na considering using taxpayer dollars to pay people to get vaccinated?

Virginia;  Remember, the CoViD vaccines are not ‘approved’, they are only authorized for emergency use and as such military personnel are not required to get them.  On 14MAY2021, the U.S. Navy announced the end of  “high-throughput COVID-19 vaccination” for their operations in Norfolk.  Navy officials admitted it is due to lack of demand: “We’ve vaccinated roughly 10-thousand people within the COMNAVAIRLANT claimancy.  We’ve successfully satisfied the demand of people who want the vaccine.”-Lieutenant Aimie Terry, Assistant Force Nurse

While the U.S. Navy halted ‘high-throughput CoViD-19 vaccinations’, FEMA deployed the U.S. Coast Guard to the Military Circle Mall in Norfolk, turning the now vacant Macy’s store into a mass-vax (CVC) site.  Optimistic officials think that there will be 3-thousand silly-vilians (civilians) per day using the CVC site.

Washington; For the week of May 3-9, the state National Guard claims that 11-thousand-338 CoViD-19 vaccines were administered.

Washington DC; Reminder, not one of the so-called CoViD vaccines in use in the United States have been approved as a vaccine under the USFDA!  All the propaganda by government officials and main-stream news media is hyperbole, the USFDA has only “authorized for emergency use only”, which is technically and legally not the same as ‘approving’ as a vaccine, mainly because the ‘experimental medical technologies’ did not go through the more intensive testing required for a true approved vaccine!

Wisconsin; Chippewa County revealed it has reduced the amount of vaccine it orders due to crashing demand, only 37% of the county residents had been vaccinated. County health officials confirmed at least one case where a fully vaccinated person still got infected!

Remember, the CoViD vaccines are not ‘approved’, they are only authorized for emergency use and as such military personnel are not required to get them.

U.S. Army, Fort McCoy Public Affairs photo by Aimee Malone.

On 04MAY2021, the U.S. Army post Fort McCoy halted on-post vaccinations due to lack of demand.  Health officials even stated that many personnel that got the first shot never came back for the second dose.  Fort McCoy health officials are assuming it is because the vaccine is now widely available through out Wisconsin, for free.

Vaccine Fail, 03MAY2021: PHARMACIES SPOIL VACCINES, ISSUE FAKE SHOTS INSTEAD? JAPAN REVEALS DEATHS AFTER GETTING SHOTS!

New Cold War: Russia stocks-up on Vehicles for Naval Ground Forces

Ministry of Defense of Russian Federation, Southern Military District, video posted 12MAY2021, 152mm self propelled artillery in North Ossetia:

BMP-3 seen in this year’s Victory Day Parade.

Since the beginning of the year, Russia has been upgrading its naval land forces (army corps-marines) with new armored vehicles, including the latest BMP-3.  On 11MAY2021, more than 30 BMP-3s were delivered to the new mechanized infantry division of the Baltic Fleet, stationed in Kaliningrad.

Quick video, posted 29MAR2021, of assembly of Russia’s current armored vehicles:

In December 2020, it was announced that Russian Baltic Fleet forces would be bolstered due to NATO’s build-up of forces near Kaliningrad, including a new mechanized infantry division: “In response to this threat, the Armed Forces’ command has to take measures in response. As one of such measures, a full-strength motorized infantry division will be formed to make part of the Baltic Fleet’s army corps. The new formation will comprise motor rifle and artillery regiments and a separate tank regiment.”-Admiral Alexander Nosatov

TASS photo by Vitaly Nevar.

The December 2020 announcement stated that several new units within the Baltic Fleet would be created in 2021.  On 13MAY2021, its was announced that the new 18th army corps division, of the 79th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade, would be ready by the end of the year.  It was also revealed that the expansion and upgrade of the Baltic Fleet is based on what was observed during recent NATO wargames.

TASS photo by Valery Matytsin.

Expansion of the Baltic Fleet’s army corps was also conducted during 2019-20.

In April 2021, forty new BMP-3s were delivered to Russia’s Pacific Fleet army corps.  Here’s video of those BMP-3s being off-loaded in Primorye:

Eastern Military District photo.

On top of that, additional BTR-82A armored cars and T-80BV tanks had been delivered.

Southern Military District photo.

Also in April 2021, the Black Sea Fleet conducted launchings of Zvezda Kh-35 ‘Bal’ anti-ship missiles from Crimea.

Southern Military District photo.

In Crimea, on 24MAR2021, the Black Sea Fleet held wargames for its army corps.

Northern Fleet photo.

Also, at the beginning of March 2021, the Northern Fleet held wargames in the Russian Arctic, specifically to increase proficiency of S-400 anti-aircraft crews.  Here’s video from April 2021 of a S-400 Pantsir-S demonstration to foreign military officials:

Southern Military District photo.

In January and February 2021, the Caspian Flotilla conducted training for its army corps (marines) officially in preparation for the International Army Games.  This included BTR-82A armored cars.

Northern Fleet photo.

Also in February 2021, the Northern Fleet conducted arctic training in the Pechengsky district of the Murmansk region, using Aleut tracked ‘snow-cats’.

Northern Fleet photo.

New Cold War: RUSSIA INVADES FLORIDA?

New Cold War: IDAHO’S FAKE-NEWS RUSSIAN RADAR TANK

New Cold War 2016:  TINY LITHUANIA BUYS RECORD $437-MILLION OF TANKS FROM GERMANY AND ISRAEL!

Vehicle I-D: ARMURA MOLDOVAN, IN A COLD WAR CREATED COUNTRY THAT COULD GO HOT ANY SECOND!

Cold War 1961:   BERLIN KRISE, ‘GAME OF CHICKEN’ M48A1 VS. T-54/55!

Cold War Finale: Soviet Helix boards U.S. aircraft carrier!

USN photo by Petty Officer First Class Mark Therien, 14OCT1992.

On the 14th and 15th of October 1992, as the Soviet Union fell apart, two Kamov 27s (Red 46 and Red 53) made history by becoming the first Russian helicopters to land on not one, but two U.S. Navy (USN) ships.

USN photo by Petty Officer Second Class Steven Cooke.

USN photo by Petty Officer Second Class Steven Cooke.

The NATO reporting name Helix was from the destroyer Admiral Vinogradov, it landed on the USS Ranger (CV-61), the ships were taking part in the same multinational wargame (Operation Southern Watch) in the Arabian Sea.

USN photo by Petty Officer Second Class Steven Cooke.

USN personnel got to check-out the ‘enemy’ helicopter.

USN photo by Petty Officer Second Class Steven Cooke.

This USN officer seems very happy about sitting in a ‘enemy’ helicopter (or maybe he just played a nasty joke and crapped in the pilot’s seat?).

USN photo by Petty Officer Second Class Steven Cooke, 15OCT1992.

There were lots of group photos taken with USN personnel and the crew of Red 46.  This one shows the happy Captain of the USS Ranger (bald guy giving the thumbs-up sign) with the Soviet, I mean Russian crew of Red 46.

USN photo by Petty Officer First Class Mark Therien, 14OCT1992.

Red 46 also paid a visit to the USS Kinkade (DD-965).  USN helicopters also visited the former Soviet ship.

USN photo by Petty Officer First Class Mark Therien, 14OCT1992.

Red 46 back home on the Admiral Vinogradov, after its visit to USS Kinkade.

USN photo by Petty Officer First Class Mark Therien.

Kamov hanger onboard Admiral Vinogradov.

USN photo by Petty Officer Second Class Steven Cooke.

Red 53 onboard USS Ranger, 15OCT1992.

USN photo by Petty Officer Second Class Steven Cooke.

USN photo by Petty Officer Second Class Steven Cooke, 15OCT1992.

Red 53 leaving USS Ranger.

USN photo by Petty Officer First Class Mark Therien.

“For the Long Voyage.”