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Technology

Vehicle I-D: Soviet armor of the U.S. Marine Corps

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U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer First Class Paul Self.

MTLBs operated by 3rd Amphibious Armored Vehicle Battalion, 1ST Marine Division, acting as opposing forces (OpFor) during wargame Kernel Blitz in June 1997, Camp Pendleton, California.

U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sergeant Ryan Ward.

USMC photo by Lance Corporal Timothy Reynolds.

USMC photo by Sergeant Ryan Ward.

USMC photo by Lance Corporal Timothy Reynolds.

USMC photo by Sergeant Ryan Ward.

ZSU-23-4 during Kernel Blitz ’97.

USN photo by Petty Officer First Class Paul Self.

BRDM during Kernel Blitz ’97.

USMC photo by Lance Corporal Timothy Reynolds.

T-72 during Kernel Blitz ’97.

Vehicle I-D: MORE U.S. ARMY FAKE-NEWS TANKS, TIGER STRIPES ANYBODY?

Technology

Robot Wars: MANTAS Devil Ray

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On 17APR2021, the Maritime Tactical Systems‘ ManTAS (Man-Portable Tactical Autonomous Systems) T38 Devil Ray robot boat was demonstrated just prior to the U.S. Navy’s (USN) UxS IBP 21, in San Diego, California.

U.S. Navy photo by Senior Chief Petty Officer Michael Jones, 17APR2021.

According to an article published in March 2021, the T38 (38 feet long) Devil Ray is a combat resupply boat able to carry up to 4-thousand-5-hundred pounds in a single load.  It is the latest in a line of unsatisfactory attempts to create a compact robot logistics system.

USN photo by Petty Officer Third Class Alexander P. Perlman.

Video, by Petty Officer 3rd Class Casey Trietsch, of the Devil Ray tooling around San Diego:

The Devil Ray looks like a racing boat because it is a racing boat.  According to BlueZone Group (Maritime Tactical Systems’s dealer in Australia and New Zealand) “The MANTAS USV vessel is a catamaran hull design based on a powerboat racing vessel that set world speed records.” 

USN photo by Senior Chief Petty Officer Michael Jones, 17APR2021.

UxS IBP 21 stands for Unmanned Systems (not sure why there is an ‘x’ in the acronym) Integrated Battle Problem 2021.  UxS IBP 21 is the first ‘classified’ USN wargame involving robot vehicles and weapons competing against people operated systems, apparently spurred by doubts coming from the U.S. Congress: “With the recent acquisition failures on the last several ship classes, those of us on this committee are skeptical of the Navy’s ability to shepherd this new technology into employable assets that contribute to the lethality of those forces.”-Representative Elaine Luria of Virginia

IBP 21 took place from April 19th to the 26th.

Robot Wars 2020:  USN’S NEW ROBOT GUN BOAT, OR CUSV

Technology

Texas turns to robots to wash F-16

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Texas Air National Guard photo by Senior Airman Ryan Mancuso, 28APR2021.

In 2021, the Texas Air National Guard revealed their latest autonomous system, a robot that washes airplanes.

Texas Air National Guard photo by Senior Airman Ryan Mancuso, 28APR2021.

The 149th Fighter Wing, on Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, sacrificed one of their F-16s for the demonstration.

Texas Air National Guard photo by Senior Airman Ryan Mancuso, 28APR2021.

Texas Air National Guard video by Senior Airman Ryan Mancuso, 14JAN2021:

The robot washer is part of a project funded by AFWERX.  The Texas Air National Guard claims the robot will save taxpayers some money.  The switch to robots is part of the Air Force 2025 program, which was the result of U.S. Air Force planning, originating in 1995.

Robots: PANDEMIC PANIC-ATTACK HITS CAT LITTER? BLAME LOGISTICS COMPETITION AND ROBOTS!

ROBOTS STRIP AN A-10 NAKED!

U.S. Navy’s NEW ROBOT GUN BOAT, OR CUSV

Wash: WASH YOUR HAWK!

KC-135 STRATOTANKER BATH

U.S.

Biden’s Borderland: More boat-people, more drugs, and the Zombie Apocalypse?

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Welcome to borderland hell under the new U.S. President, incomplete list of links to news/government agency reports as of 01 May 2021:

On the Mexican side of the border, in one location so many illegals are expected that charities have built a ‘home’, and already they have tenants.

In another border location, the City of Tijuana is moving a border-crosser camp to a new location, due to massive overcrowding including 5-hundred children.

Due to increased various forms of fraud committed against U.S. businesses by foreigners, the National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center (IPR Center) in partnership with Michigan State University’s Center for Anti-Counterfeiting and Product Protection (A-CAPP), U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the Better Business Bureau announced the launch of IP Protect.  It is a free service for small to mid-size businesses.

ARIZONA: Yuma Sector Border Patrol intercept human smuggling vehicle on Interstate 8.  The smugglers are from California, three of the illegals have prior records in the U.S.

Yuma Sector Border Patrol reports capturing known sex offender trying to get into the U.S.

Yuma County Sheriff’s deputies conducting a welfare check discovered the home was being used the hide illegals.

A Jamaican citizen, who had been living in Utah, gets prison time for ripping-off old people and money laundering.

CALIFORNIA:  U.S. Customs & Border Protection (CBP) reports increase in attempts to enter the U.S. in the San Diego Sector.

  Emergency detention site set to welcome 250 illegal children.

Biden has continued the use of Title 42, California news media claims that as a result kidnappings and extortion is on the rise!

Report says ‘Essential Worker’ status for migrant workers is not being applied to migrant women.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection video by Mani Albrecht, people smugglers use rope to drop two years old and six years old from the wall, 23APR2021:

FEMA will pay for funerals of illegals who died due to pandemic complications.

COLORADO: Man goes to prison as a result of working for Mexican drug dealers.

DELAWARE:  CBP is calling it Zombie Apocalypse ammo.  Somebody tried to ship 40 rounds of Zombie Terminator .38 caliber ammo to Honduras.

FLORIDA:

U.S. Coast Guard photo by Chief Petty Officer Charly Tautfest.

On 25APR2021, the Coast Guard Cutter Bear intercepted this small boat near Fort Lauderdale.  When it was off-loaded it was discovered to have approximately 2-thousand-3-hundred pounds of cocaine.  In April 2020, President Donald Trump authorized Enhanced Counter Narcotics Operations in an effort to slow the increased smuggling of illegal drugs.

USCG photo by Petty Officer Third Class Brandon Murray.

On April 22, Coast Guard Cutter Charles Sexton took-on 72 illegals from Haiti, captured by Customs and Border Protection just ten miles from Lake Worth.  They were sent back to Haiti on 27 April.

USCG photo by Chief Petty Officer Charly Tautfest.

On 20 April, the crew of Coast Guard Cutter Tampa off-loaded approximately 5-thousand-5-hundred pounds of cocaine on Base Miami Beach.  The illegal drug was captured on April 9th, with the help of Tampa Police, when a ‘low-profile vessel’ was captured off the coast of Punta Gallinas, Colombia:

USCG photo.

These two illegals from Cuba are using surf boards in an attempt to get to the United States.  They were captured 70 miles southwest from Key West, on 16 April.  The 16th was a busy day for the U.S. Coast Guard, capturing a total of 23 illegals from Cuba, on three ‘boats’ in different locations off Florida, all were sent back.

USCG photo.

On 10 April this crazy ‘boat’ was found with 14 illegals from Cuba, off Key West.  The illegals were returned to Cuba on the 13th.

GEORGIA:  Illegals can get professional licenses, easy.

Large-scale noncitizen (illegals) visa fraud victimized Saint Simons Island businesses.
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ILLINOIS: Chinese citizen goes to prison as a result of working for Mexican drug dealers.

MAINE: Gives federal tax funded healthcare to illegals.

MARYLAND:

USCG photo by Petty Officer Third Class Kimberly Reaves.

A Port Safety and Security inspection team, from Coast Guard Sector Maryland-National Capital Region, inspects a container to look for undeclared hazards, in conjunction with Customs and Border Protection officers, during a multi-agency strike force operation at the Port of Baltimore, 20APR2021.

NEBRASKA: Mexican citizen gets prison time for identity theft.

NEW YORK: Immigrant loving Empire State creates administrative nightmare with free money for illegals!

NYC’s immigration boss leaves De Blasio admin.

No Plan Yet On How Undocumented People Apply For NY COVID Relief.
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NEW JERSEY: Illegals get driver’s licenses. 

Will New Jersey give $40-million in federal tax dollars to illegals?

PUERTO RICO: 

USCG photo.

On 20 April,  Coast Guard Cutter Joseph Tezanos captured 17 illegals in the Mona Passage.  With no documents, they claimed to be from Dominican Republic and were handed over to the Dominican Navy on 22 April.

USCG photo.

13 April, Coast Guard Cutter Joseph Napier captured 15 illegals from Dominican Republic, in the Mona Passage.  They were sent back.

TEXAS: 33 illegals from Guatemala captured in a safe-house.

Del Rio Sector Border Patrol reports a busy last week of April, capturing  4-thousand-640 illegals, smugglers and known criminals!

In one day CBP personnel working the Pharr International Bridge captured more than $8-million worth of illegal drugs coming in from Mexico!

WASHINGTON: Border Patrol screws-up, detains men legally allowed in the U.S., now has to pay for it.

Washington DC:  Remember when Democrats and the news media continually called President Trump a racists for imposing pandemic travel restrictions against other countries? Guess who just imposed travel restrictions against India? 

The new official word for illegal is non-citizen.

Supreme Court justices rules in favor of undocumented immigrant citing legal technicality.
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Biden’s Borderland: “SMUGGLERS JUST DROP THEM OFF”, BORDER FACILITIES BECOME REVOLVING DOOR OPERATIONS!

U.S.

United Police States: Green Berets show you how to conduct a drive-by-shooting

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U.S. Army photo, 22APR2021.

The U.S. Army’s (USA) 1st Battalion, 1st Special Forces Group-Airborne, traveled to New Hampshire in April 2021.

USA photo, 22APR2021.

They were training for what’s called Low-Visibility Force Protection Training, specifically while using silly-vilian vehicles, in preparation for Low-Visibility Operations in hostile urban/city environments.

USA photo, 22APR2021.

Eyes calls it ‘drive-by-shooting’.

USA photo, 22APR2021.

It even involves defensive driving, i.e. PIT (pursuit intervention technique) maneuver, TVI (tactical vehicle intervention), or what used to be known as a demolition derby.

USA photo, 22APR2021.

 

United Police States, 2016: OBAMA APPROVES EXTRA FUNDING FOR PRISONS!

United Police States, 2015:COPS ABOUT TO OPENLY TAKE YOUR GUNS, NO REASON NEEDED!

IDAHO NEWS MEDIA LIE ABOUT CRIMINAL POLICE RECORDS!

United Police States, 2014: IDAHO GOVERNOR ORDERS SURPRISE INVESTIGATION INTO EVIL FOR-PROFIT PRISON OPERATOR CCA!

‘CHRISTIAN’ NEBRASKA COPS VIOLATE U.S. CONSTITUTION & KIDNAP FAMILY’S CHILDREN BECAUSE OF “IMMORAL” CHOICE OF WORDS USED ON HOME VIDEO!

United Police States, 2013: IDAHO CHILD PRISON COVERING UP SEX CRIMES, DEFIES FEDERAL COURT ORDER! CULTURE OF SYSTEMIC CORRUPTION IN ‘CHRISTIAN’ GEM STATE!

 PROOF YOUR Federal GOVERNMENT IS THE BIGGEST CRIME SYNDICATE EVER!

PRISON is the NUMBER ONE REASON MEN ARE UNEMPLOYED?

YOUR TAX DOLLARS PAY FOR TEXAS RAPE CAMPS!!!

SICK COP BLASTS KITTENS WITH HIS GOVERNMENT AUTHORIZED GUN, IN FRONT OF CHILDREN! TURNS OUT IT’S OFFICIAL POLICY!

‘CHRISTIAN’ MORMONS BEHIND PRIVATELY RUN CONCENTRATION CAMP IN MISSISSIPPI….SAME COMPANY BEHIND ABU GHRAIB?

United Police States, 2012: CALIFORNIA FEMALE COP SHOOTS MAN who was ALREADY RESTRAINED!

MORE THAN 2,000 INNOCENT PEOPLE SENT TO PRISON IN THE UNITED STATES, JUST THE “TIP OF THE ICEBERG”!

UTAH NATIONAL GUARD BASE TO BECOME SITE OF LARGEST PERSONAL DATA CENTER IN THE U.S., YOU ARE THE TARGET!

International, U.S.

Biden’s War: South Carolina’s F-16C/J launch to Saudi Arabia!

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South Carolina Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sergeant Edward Snyder.

On 12APR2021, South Carolina Air National Guard’s 169th Fighter Wing (FW) launched their F-16CJs (SEAD Wild Weasels) to Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia.

South Carolina ANG photo by Lieutenant Colonel Jim Saint-Clair.

About 3-hundred state air-militia-personnel deployed, the unit is know as the Swamp Foxes: “Our Citizen-Airmen are fully integrated with our active component brothers and sisters to partner with our allies in the Central Command area of responsibility to deliver air power where and when needed. As we have done numerous times in the past, the Swamp Foxes will illustrate the force multiplying capabilities of our air reserve component forces.”-Colonel Akshai Gandhi, 169th FW commander

South Carolina ANG photo by Senior Master Sergeant Edward Snyder.

While most personnel deployed during the day, the F-16CJs left McEntire Joint National Guard Base during the night:

Biden’s War: OREGON DEPLOYED TO POLAND!

Idaho

Hawgsmoke 2021: Idaho Air-Militia brings home the Bacon!

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Idaho Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Becky Vanshur, 17APR2021.

Pilots with Idaho Air National Guard’s 124th Fighter Wing, 190th Fighter Squadron, accepted top honors at the Hawgsmoke 2021 competition, and it’s not about Barbeque…..

U.S. Air Force photo by Airman Rachel Perkinson, 14APR2021.

…or was it?  Notice all the broken shot-glasses.  Part of the opening ceremonies, remembering fallen warriors with booze.

Hawgsmoke 2021 was held at Moody Air Force Base (AFB) in Georgia, from April 14th to the 17th.  More than 150 personnel from 13 A-10C units took part in the secretive competition: “You don’t know what the events are until about 10 minutes before takeoff. They might give you general idea of what to prepare for, but you never know until you are sitting in the cockpit.”-Lieutenant Colonel Jason Cobb, 190th Fighter Squadron, Idaho Air National Guard

And the winners are (Idaho in bold).

USAF photo by Airman Rachel Perkinson, 16APR2021

 Top Overall Flying Team: Skull Flight, 190th Fighter Squadron (FS).

 Top Tactical Team: Skull Flight, 190th FS.

 Top Basic Surface Attack: Skull Flight, 190th FS.

Individual Top Gun Overall: Captain Taylor ‘Pistol’ Price, 104th FS.

Individual Top Gun Dive Bomb: Lieutenant Colonel Aaron ‘Puff’ Palan, 358th FS.

 Individual Top Gun Low Bomb: Captain Taylor ‘Pistol’ Price, 104th FS.

 Individual Top Gun Strafe: Captain Taylor ‘Petrie’ Bye, 75th FS.

Weapons Load Competition: Staff Sergenat Riley McIrvin, Airman First Class Maria Bermudez and Senior Airman Najee King, 354th Aircraft Maintenance Unit.

Marshalling Award: 354th AMU, Airman First Class Derek Delosh.

 Overall Maintenance Award: 104th AMU.

USAF photo by Airman First Class Jasmine M. Barnes, 06APR2021.

In the above photo you can see the trophies being made, these are for Best Maintenance Team.  Hey, I have the same skull cap!

USAF photo by Airman First Class Jasmine M. Barnes, 15APR2021.

This A-10 is being used in the first-ever for Hawgsmoke Weapons Loading competition.

Music video by Staff Sergeant Devin Boyer of first-ever Hawgsmoke Weapons Load comp:

USAF photo by Senior Airman Hayden Legg, 16APR2021.

Here’s a really dangerous part of aircraft operations, uploading liquid oxygen for the pilot can breath. An Indiana Air National Guard Airman fills the LOX (Liquid OXygen) bottle on one of his unit’s A-10s, at Hawgsmoke 2021.

USAF photo by Airman First Class Briana Beavers, 15APR2021.

Some of the private donors (yes, Hawgsmoke is partly funded by private donations!), and other ‘distinguished visitors’, got a tour of Hawgsmoke 2021.  Hawgsmoke is a resurrection of the old Gunsmoke competition over Nellis AFB, in Nevada.  Despite military press writers, and even military personnel, constantly using the wrong word to describe when Hawgsmoke happens, it is a biennial event (not biannual, meaning twice per year), taking place every other year.  Biennial and biannual are pronounced differently, so I don’t know why personnel are constantly saying biannual for an every other year event.

“Going to Boise!” video, by Airman First Class Megan Estrada:

The Idaho Air National Guard has hosted Hawgsmoke in 2008 and 2010, and will host the Hawgsmoke competition in 2023.  It would be launched from Gowen Field, and conducted over the Orchard Combat Training Area.

April 2021: Idaho hosts .50 cal Door Gunner shoot

IDAHO HOME TO FIRST EVER NATIONAL GUARD D-A-G-I-R!

March 2021: MORALE BOOSTER A-10C GUN-RUN IN IDAHO!

Business/Economics, Idaho, Technology

Pandemic Logistics Shenanigans: Canned Pet Food? Conspiracy to jack-up prices? Blame China?

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26 April 2021 / 23:50-UTC-07 Tango 06 (07 Ordibehesht 1400/15 Ramadan 1442/16 Ren-Chen 4719)

Photo by AAron Hutchins, 25APR2021.

A recent visit to the Pocatello, Idaho, Fred Meyer revealed that not only are they still out of cat litter, but now they are out of canned cat food!  Notice the blue stickers all over the shelf fronts, they say “Sorry for the inconvenience”.

Across the street at Winco, they are still low on the top selling cat litters, but are also showing fewer stock of canned cat and dog food.  Fred Meyer is also showing a declining stock of canned dog food, but they’re not out of stock, yet.

It doesn’t help that in the past month several brands of pet food, in the U.S., were recalled due to salmonella.

A quick check of the inter-web and I discovered that shortages of pet food is making way more international news than shortages of cat litter, and this time most of the international news media isn’t blaming the pandemic (except for a Fox TV station and other news outlets in New York).

India:  Government orders pet food makers to boost production.

New Zealand:  Global supply issues and shipping delays hit the family cat’s dinner plate.

Whiskas among big-brand pet foods hit by global shipping issues.
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United States: Cat Food Shortage Leaves Pet Owners in a Bind.

Pet food shortage: Fancy Feast, Friskies and 9 Lives.

These Three Beloved Pet Food Brands Are About to Skyrocket in Price.

I also checked for news regarding the logistics industry.

An interesting report out of India revealed that several India airline companies are now contracting to be CoViD-19 oxygen and vaccine cargo haulers in Hong Kong, India and for “private entities” in the United States.  Also, Singapore government-owned Temasek has partnered with Air India and Amazon to airlift oxygen concentrators.

The fact that so many shipping companies are shifting to more profitable CoViD operations can only negatively affect the supplies of everything else.

Siddharth Jain of Inox Air Products, revealed in a recent interview why the current craze of shipping liquid oxygen to CoViD hospitals is screwing up the supply chain, at least in India: “….this has never been done anywhere in the world. Liquid oxygen is not designed to travel thousands of kilometers. Usually, plants are set up where there is a requirement…” 

In New Zealand, University of Auckland Centre for Supply Chain Management director Tava Olsen said supply chains were supposed to flow smoothly like water, but the whole chain had become ‘lumpy’….blames it partly on China.

Covenant Logistics Group just revealed they’ve been restructuring their operations, and admitted that “…supply chain disruptions, and an intensifying national driver shortage, all of which have continued into the second quarter.”

Crain’s New York Business interviewed an ‘expert’ who stated that the pandemic shift to more e-commerce revealed that there is not enough warehouses (believe it or not) dedicated to stocking merchandise for e-commerce sales.  The expert also said the logistics industry is ramping up its use of A-I and robots.

A new article by Logistics Manager says the advent of the pandemic, Brexit, China trade problems, and the recent blockage of the Suez Canal, revealed that the shift to a logistical system operated more with A-I and robots, and less humans, doesn’t work!  It also agrees with the Crain’s New York Business ‘expert’ who says there just aren’t enough warehouses to support the new logistics system.

Photo by AAron Hutchins, November 2013.

At the end of last year the Pocatello, Idaho, Fred Meyer began operating as a ‘fulfilment’ center for their e-commerce and pandemic ‘pick-up’ sales.  The brick-n-mortar store is now serving double duty as an e-commerce warehouse, but that doesn’t mean they’re carrying more stock.

I’ve written several times in the past that the so-called pandemic panic attack buying is actually a major problem with the globalized supply system, in which bigger logistics companies were taking over and shutting down smaller competitors, and switching to a new A-I system with robot workers instead of humans, just before the pandemic hit.

March 2021: PANDEMIC PANIC-ATTACK HITS CAT LITTER? BLAME LOGISTICS COMPETITION AND ROBOTS!

February 2021: GLOBAL SUGAR CRISIS, BETTER STOCK UP NOW!

U.S. Food Crisis: MILITARY DISTRIBUTION SUCCESS PROVES THE MARKET SYSTEM HAS FAILED!

Operation CoViD-19: COVERT OP TO CONTROL THE GLOBAL FOOD SUPPLY?

Technology

Vehicle I-D: Stryker M-SHORAD

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U.S. Army anti-aircraft units in Germany are the first to be upgraded with the new Stryker Mobile Short Range Air Defense (M-ShoRAD) system.

U.S. Army photo by Captain Jordan Allen, 21APR2021.

On 21APR2021, the 5th Battalion, 4th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, 10th Army Air and Missile Defense Command, unveiled their new Stryker M-ShoRAD.

USA photo by Captain Jordan Allen, 21APR2021.

It turns out that your typical ShoRAD (Short Range Air Defense) system requires the user to stop their vehicle (like the HMMWV Avenger system) before firing any one of their anti-aircraft weapons (guns, missiles).  The M (for Mobile) ShoRAD allows vehicles to keep moving while tracking and shooting at enemy aircraft (shoot on the move).

USA photo by Captain Jordan Allen, 21APR2021.

The M-ShoRAD has been in development for several years (officially since 2018 via a ‘directed requirement’, unofficially since 2017 as revealed by IM-ShoRAD Project Manager Colonel Chuck Worshim). It was developed under the acronym IM-ShoRAD (Initial Maneuver Short Range Air Defense).  In February 2021, the 5th Battalion, 4th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, attended an ‘IM-ShoRAD University’ in Germany, the class was taught by personnel who spent time at the end of last year learning the new system in New Mexico.

USA photo by John Hamilton, December 2020.

In December 2020, personnel with the 5th Battalion, 4th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, traveled to White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, for familiarization with the new M-ShoRAD.

A video, by John Hamilton, recorded on 01DEC2020 showing the launching of a missile, and striking of an aircraft target, but it does not show the Stryker firing on the move:

17SEP2020, video by John Hamilton, how to load your Hellfire onto the M-ShoRAD:

USA photo by John Hamilton, 17SEP2020.

Personnel with the 5th Battalion, 4th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, learn how to operate the M-ShoRAD system at White Sands, New Mexico, 17SEP2020.

A John Hamilton video from 26FEB2020, showing all weapons being fired during what’s called a ‘safety test’, but alas, the Styker is not firing on the move:

The M-ShoRAD system is made by Italian owned Leonardo DRS (Leonardo is the name of the Italian owner, DRS used to be known as DRS Technologies).  M-ShoRAD uses Hellfire missiles, Stinger missiles, XM914 30mm gun, and the M240 7.62mm NATO gun.

April 2021: U.S. taxes pay for new USMC vehicle built by Italian and British companies!

March 2020: HOW TO WELD YOUR TANK

January 2019: 1st U.S. Cavalry Regiment Strikers invade Idaho!

International, U.S.

Biden’s War: Oregon deployed to Poland!

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Oregon National Guard photo by Master Sergeant John Hughel.

26 April 2021 (00:45-UTC-07 Tango 06) 06 Ordibehesht 1400/14 Ramadan 1442/15 Ren-Chen 4719

Oregon National Guard photo by Master Sergeant John Hughel.

On 25APR2021, between 120 and 130 Oregon Army National Guard soldiers gathered at West Albany High School football stadium, for an official deployment ceremony.

Oregon National Guard photo by Master Sergeant John Hughel.

Alpha Troop, 1st Squadron, 82nd Cavalry Regiment is being deployed to NATO Poland, for about one year, to take part in the anti-Russia operation called European Deterrence Initiative.

Oregon National Guard photo by Master Sergeant John Hughel.

Biden’s War: U.S. FORCES ENTER SYRIA, AGAIN