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Vehicle I-D: Cold War era BAT-2 now a Kosovo car-basher

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Iowa Army National Guard photo by Sergeant Zachary M. Zippe, 16DEC2020.

While doing time with NATO’s Kosovo peace enforcing operation (KFOR), some Ukrainian troops decided to bring a little friend to some crowd/riot control training on Camp Marechal de Lattre De Tassigny.

Iowa Army National Guard photo by Sergeant Zachary M. Zippe, 16DEC2020.

The training took place on 16DEC2020, and include the Iowa Army National Guard (Troop B, 1st Squadron, 113th Cavalry Regiment).

Iowa Army National Guard photo by Sergeant Jonathan Perdelwitz, 16DEC2020.

It is called BAT-2 путепрокладчик, it is a heavy tracked engineer vehicle equipped with a crane, a ground/road ‘ripper’, a 25 metric tons winch, and a multi-angle dozer blade. The Ukrainian/Russian word путепрокладчик translates to ‘tracklayer’ in English, even though it has nothing to do with laying track (perhaps something lost in translation as the English word ‘track’ has multiple meanings).

Iowa Army National Guard photo by Sergeant Jonathan Perdelwitz, 16DEC2020.

Bash! The old Cold War era engineer vehicle bashes not one but two small SUVs, that were being used as an impromptu road block during the riot control training.

BAT-2 was designed and built in the Soviet Union, specifically for creating and removing obstacles, entering service in 1988. Apparently the word BAT (Бат) is a reference to engineering vehicles. The full Russian word is Батмастер, which translates to English, probably incorrectly, to BAT-master. Another name for BAT-2 (Бат-2) is Батмастер-Истра (BAT-master[?] Istra).

U.S. Army photo by Staff Sergeant Cody Harding, 11SEP2013.

This isn’t the first time a Ukrainian BAT was doing time in Kosovo, in September 2013 the Ukrainian BAT-2 was used to clear a landslide on a road outside Zubin Potok.

See more Ukrainian BAT-2s, including a video, in UKRAINIAN ARMOR 2020.

U.S. Army photo by Sergeant Kyle Larsen, 20SEP2019.

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California Orel nad Ukrainoy Орел над Украиной

Video January 31, 2021 Hutchins AAron

Photo by Captain Jason Sanchez.

California Air National Guard, 144th Fighter Wing, 194th Fighter Squadron’s F-15C Eagle #84-004 preps to take-off from Fresno Yosemite International Airport, California, to participate in the Orange Flag wargame, along with aircrews from Edwards Air Force Base and China Lake Naval Air Station, 10DEC2019.

Photo by Captain Jason Sanchez.

Photo by Captain Jason Sanchez.

2019 California Capital Airshow at Mather Airport near Sacramento.

Photo by Technical Sergeant Charles Vaughn.

84-004 lands at Starokostiantyniv Air Base, Ukraine, for wargame Clear Sky, 06OCT2018.

Photo by Technical Sergeant Charles Vaughn.

#84-004 was painted in an eagle motif for the 194FS’s 75th Anniversary, which was officially in 2018. The 194FS was established in 1946, but was not federally recognized until 1948.

Clear Sky video explainer by Staff Sergeant Christian Jadot:

Photo by Technical Sergeant Charles Vaughn.

A California Eagle taxis past Ukrainian Sukhoi 27s, 09OCT2018.

Video report by Staff Sergeant Christian Jadot, a happy California Eagle pilot talks about “finally” being in Ukraine:

2017: CALIFORNIA CELEBRATES 20 YEARS OF OPS IN UKRAINE!

Finland: OREGON KOTKAT LENTÄÄ SUOMEN YLI

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Vehicle I-D: Even more Ukrainian Tanks Украинская танки українські танки

Video January 30, 2021 Hutchins AAron

Wisconsin Army National Guard photo by Specialist Jared Saathoff, 13NOV2019.

T-64BV, November 2019.

Wisconsin Army National Guard photo by Specialist Jared Saathoff, 13NOV2019.

BMP-1, November 2019.

USA photo by Private First Class Zachery Perkins, 13SEP2017.

BTR-80 and BMP-2, September 2017.

U.S. Army photo by Sergeant Kyle Larsen, 26SEP2019.

BTR-4E tags along with U.S. HMMWV, September 2019.

California Army National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant Eddie Siguenza, 20SEP2019.

BTR-80.

Tennessee Army National Guard photo by Sergeant First Class Walter E. van Ochten, 29JUL2015.

Rear end of a BTR-80, July 2015.

Tennessee Army National Guard photo by Sergeant Timothy Massey, 28NOV2018.

Rear view of BTR-70, November 2018.

U.S. Army photo by Christoph Koppers, 08JUN2018.

T-84 at Grafenwoehr Training Area, Germany, June 2018.

USA photo by Markus Rauchenberger, 06JUN2018.

T-84, Grafenwoehr Training Area, Germany, June 2018.

New York Army National Guard photo by Sergeant Alexander Rector, 14FEB2018.

Ukrainian Army T-64B tank fires a round during a training exercise at the Yavoriv Combat Training Center, February 2018.

Music video, New York Army National Guard trains on Ukrainian T-64B, February 2018:

New York Army National Guard photo by Sergeant Alexander Rector, 14FEB2018.

Canadian Forces photo, 16JUN2017.

BTR-80, June 2017.

U.S. Army video report, June 2017, about how Ukraine is being brought over to The Dark Side, I mean being trained up to NATO standards:

USA photo by Specialist Javon Spence, 12MAY2017.

T-64BV, Grafenwoehr, Germany, May 2017.

Video by Matthew Oldham, T-64BV live-fire, Grafenwoehr Training Area, Germany, May 2017:

Oklahoma Army National Guard photo by Sergeant Anthony Jones, 17FEB2017.

Installing the 30mm barrel of the BMP-2, February 2017.

USA photo by Captain Scott Kuhn, 23JUN2016.

BMP-2, June 2016.

USA photo by Staff Sergeant Adriana M. Diaz-Brown, 01APR2016.

Air droppable and amphibious BMD (Boyevaya Mashina Desanta), April 2016.

Canadian Forces photo, 05NOV2015.

BTR-80, November 2015.

Vehicle I-D: Ukraine’s BTR-4E

Vehicle I-D: Ukraine’s BTR-3DA

Vehicle I-D, 2020: UKRAINIAN ARMOR

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End of the Cold War to Ukraine Crisis: No more Open Skies, or whatever happened to the OC-135B?

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U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sergeant Keith Reed the Third, 17JUL1997.

On 24MAR1992, the Treaty on Open Skies was created as a way of being sure that countries that have military weapons (military-grade arms) control agreements are complying. However, it wouldn’t be until 01JAN2002 that Open Skies actually went into effect, with 34 countries signed-on (but only 20 ratified). Interestingly, the first OC-135B was ready to launch in June 1993!

Newly independent Ukrainian Air Force personnel get their photo taken in front of their Open Skies Antonov An-30. Photo by Technical Sergeant Brad Fallin, 14APR1997.

Russian Open Skies Antonov An-30, 25SEP2009. Photo by Alan Lebeda.

On 22NOV2020, the United States officially withdrew from the Treaty on Open Skies, so far the only country to do so. It’s interesting that the many countries who did not sign-on to Open Skies, like nuclear armed China, condemned the U.S. withdrawal.

Photo by Kelly White. 23APR2020, U.S. Air Force OC-135B (6-12670) stripped and awaiting what would become its final Open Skies livery.

But it is more complicated than U.S. President Donald Trump being a mean old ‘orange man’, it’s about other treaty signators not complying, and the fact that updating the now ‘ancient’ observation technology is just too cost prohibitive for taxpayers.

A naked OC-135B anticipates its final Open Skies paint job on Tinker AFB, Oklahoma. Photo by Kelly White, 23APR2020.

Here’s a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) video, 22MAY2020, in which NATO accuses Russia (Rossiyskaya Federatsiya) of violating the Open Skies agreement:

Photo by Charles Haymond. An OC-135B Open Skies (converted WC-135 weather research) aircraft takes off from Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska,14SEP2018.

Photo by Technical Sergeant Heather Salazar. Voyenno-Vozdushnye Sily Rossii (Military Air Forces of Russia) Open Skies Tupolev Tu-154M RF-85655, lands at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, 14AUG2019.

From 1992-93, three WC-135B aircraft were modified for the Open Skies mission, re-designated OC-135B. For some reason, after only a few years based at Offutt Air Force Base (AFB), Nebraska, the first OC-135B was sent straight to ‘moth-balls’ at Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona, in 1997.

Photo by Charles J. Haymond, 14SEP2018.

This OC-135B conducted observation flights over Haiti, after the 7.0 earthquake in 2010. Photo by Senior Airman Perry Aston, 16JAN2010.

Despite the OC-135Bs being used on other non-Open Skies observations, such as natural disasters, according to some reports the remaining two OC-135Bs are now available for sale as a result of the U.S. exit from Open Skies: “We’ve started liquidating the equipment. Other countries can come purchase or just take the airframes. They are really old and cost-prohibitive for us to maintain. We don’t have a use for them anymore.”

Photo by Staff Sergeant John Hillier. 01FEB2018, a Commonwealth of Nations (aka British Empire) Royal Canadian Air Force C-130J arrives at Rosecrans Memorial Airport, Missouri, joining units from France and Czech Republic for Open Skies training with the Missouri Air National Guard.

What many people might not know is that the Open Skies operation required the use of old school film technology. In this 2015 U.S. Air Force video report, by John Harrington, it’s revealed that the old technology was getting difficult to maintain due to no new parts:

Here is an October 2016 USAF video (by John Harrington) explaining how the imagery captured by the OC-135Bs are processed:

Photo by Delanie Stafford. Snow removal from Open Skies OC-135B, 03FEB2015, Offutt AFB.

Via Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe. Russian examine a U.S. OC-135B, 27FEB2007.

Via Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe. Italian C-130 with SAMSON observation pod.

23NOV2020: Russia warns remaining Open Skies members not to share data with United States

11NOV2020: French personnel to use Romanian An-30 for Open Skies flyover of Russia

Realize that the United States and Russia have always conducted observation flights of each other, Open Skies was just an attempt to make it more militarily non-threatening.

28NOV2020: Russian Sukhoi 27 scrambled to intercept U.S. RC-135 over Black Sea

27NOV2020: Russia accuses NATO of conducting more than 1300 non-Open Skies spy flights

There were rumors that the two remaining Open Skies OC-13Bs were up for sale in 2020, however, the aircraft were given a fresh ‘Open Skies’ paint job and sent to the ‘boneyard’ in Arizona. USAF video by David Farley, 13MAY2021:

OC-135B Open Skies on Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona, 09JUN2021. USAF photo by Senior Airman Alex Miller.

July 2022: NATO-Romania puts to use an ex-Open Skies Antonov 30.

U.S. taxpayer expense: NASA’S Russian Tupolev 144 SST

Pandemic Overflight: KC-135

Bare Metal: KC-135R GETS STRIPPED

EC-135E FIRE-BIRD, 10329 COMES BACK TO LIFE, AGAIN! OR, WHAT TO DO WITH YOUR EXTRA KC-135 KIT.

HOW TO MUMMIFY YOUR KC-10, OR, LAST FLIGHT OF 86-0036

Terminator: SpaceX satellites helping the new U.S. Space Force to target you from above

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Helicopters: Egypt مصر

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Mil 24V (Mi-35), January 2020. Apparently purchased from Ukraine.

Egyptian Ministry of Defense promotional video in which you can see AH-64 Apaches, Kamov 52 Nile Crocodile, Hips, Gazelles, Super Sea Sprites, CH-47 Chinooks and Mi-35 Hinds:

Ka-52 Nile Crocodile.

U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Justin Warren.

Egyptian and Jordanian soldiers secure an urban training area after repelling out of an Egyptian Commando (Sea King), U.S. led Exercise Bright Star, September 2018.

USAF photo by Senior Airman Dawn M. Weber.

U.S. Army photo by Sergeant James Lefty Larimer.

A ‘hip’ Egyptian helicopter (Mil 17V-5) conducting med-evac (medical evacuation) training during Bright Star 2018.

USA photo by Sergeant James Lefty Larimer.

U.S. Department of Defense photo by Tom Gagnier.

Mi-17 V5 from Bright Star 2017.

U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Michael Battles.

U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Third Class Jonathan Clay.

Egyptian navy Kaman Super Sea Sprite lands on USS Jason Dunham (DDG 109) during exercise Eagle Salute, July 2018.

USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Third Class Jonathan Clay/Released)

U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Michael Battles.

Egyptian Civil Police Gazelles get training in anti-tank operations, U.S. led Exercise Bright Star, September 2017.

USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Michael Battles.

Video, Egyptian Gazelles, 2017:

Photo via U.S. Navy.

This is a VH-3A Sea King ‘presidential helicopter’ after rebuild in the United States in 2009. This helicopter was originally given to Egypt’s President Anwar Sadat in 1974, by the U.S. taxpayers (presented by U.S. President Richard Nixon).

Egyptian SH-3 Sea King during Bright Star 82, November 1981.

Silent U.S. Army video, by Sergeant First Class Jacobs, showing Sea King during the first Bright Star 81 (for fiscal year 1981) wargame, November 1980:

Quick video, Hip and Gazelles from Bright Star 2009:

Egyptian Mi-8 Hip during multi-national wargame Bright Star, October 2001. USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Cherie A. Thurlby.

Wargame Bright Star 82, a USAF C-5A Galaxy about to touch-down in Egypt, an Mi-8 is parked in the foreground, November 1981.

Silent U.S. Army video, by Sergeant First Class Jacobs, showing Mi-8 Hips during the first Bright Star 81 (for fiscal year 1981) wargame, November 1980:

May 2020: 126 rebels killed in Sinai

April 2020: 10 Egyptian soldiers killed

February 2020: Egypt’s military is now the 9th strongest in the world

September 2019: Israeli news media accuses Egyptian military of profit-making off Sinai rebellion

Vehicle I-D: IRAQI HUEY

MIL 17 CRASH & BURN

MAINTAINING SATAN’S CHARIOT

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Vehicle I-D: Ukraine’s BTR-4E +

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Kharkiv Morozov Machine Building Design Bureau’s BTR-4 is a private venture that can be configured in many ways. The BTR-4 in this article is armed with a gun system similar to the BTR-3DA (30mm gun, 7.62mm gun, anti-tank missiles).

Yavoriv, Ukraine, a BTR-4E fires its 30mm gun. New York Army National Guard photo by Sergeant Alexander Rector, 01DEC2017.

New York Army National Guard photo by Sergeant Alexander Rector, 01DEC2017.

BroneTransporteR=Armored Transporter

New York Army National Guard photo by Sergeant Alexander Rector, 01DEC2017.

Canadian Armed Forces photo by Corporal Andrew Kelly, 30NOV2017.

Video, Kharkiv Morozov Machine Building Design Bureau rep explains the BTR-4E features:

U.S. Army photo by Sergeant Kyle Larsen, 26SEP2019.

USA photo by Private Joanna Gaona Gomez, 26SEP2019.

Kharkiv Morozov Machine Building Design Bureau of some BTR-4 variants:

https://youtu.be/jltu95B9fRE

BTR-4KSH mobile command post.

BTR-4 Armored Recovery Vehicle (ARV).

BTR-4 Recon/NBC.

BSEM-4K ambulance.

BTR-4MB1 heavy armor version.

Kharkiv Morozov Machine Building Design Bureau BTR-4MB1 promo video:

https://youtu.be/77TM8UR_jog

To make nomenclature identification more difficult, every country that has purchased the BTR-4 applies their own designation.

In 2009 Iraq purchased 420 BTR-4s, but in 2014 sent back dozens of vehicles due to break downs and high levels of corrosion. As of 2018 Iraq had received 280 BTR-4s of differing configurations.

SOVIET ERA TANKS NOW IN USE BY NATO: SLOVENIAN M84

NATO MIG-21

CH-47 CHINOOK COLLECTS MIL 8 ‘HIP’ BONES

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Vehicle I-D: BTR-3DA

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BroneTransporteR=Armored Transporter

Kharkiv Morozov Machine Building Design Bureau’s BTR-3DA, upgraded BTR-3, entering service with Ukraine National Guard in 2017.

Ukraine, September 2017

One 30mm ZTM-1 cannon, a 7.62mm machine gun, fully automated anti-personnel grenade launcher and smoke grenade launchers, two anti-tank missiles.

Carries a commander, a gunner, a driver, and six infantry troops.

Quick video:

Deutz BF6M 1015CP water cooled V-6 diesel engine, coupled to a 3200SP Allison transmission.

Ukraine, August 2017

Maximum speed of 104kmh (64mph), cruising range of 600km (373 miles).

The little covered rails on the driver’s right side of the turret are the mounts for the anti-tank missiles.

Video, river crossing assault:

VEHICLE I-D: GEORGIAN T-72 & BMP

VEHICLE I-D: IRAQI ARMOR, AFTER THE INVASION

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Vehicle I-D: Iraqi Armor, after the invasion

Video April 24, 2020 Hutchins AAron

On 13JUN2019, the Iraqi army unveiled a new tank; the al-Kafeel-1. Note that it uses an M2 .50 caliber machine gun in a remote controlled mount. Russian news sources say the tank is based on Iraq’s experience fighting Islamic extremists, and Iraq’s use of the M1A1M. It is strange that most ‘western’ news sources didn’t report about the Iraqi developed tank until more than a year after its unveiling. Speculative reports say it was developed with help from China.

Inside of BTR-80. 9th Iraqi Army Division Warrant Officer explains to U.S. troops how it works.
U.S. Army photo by Sergeant Mary S. Katzenberger, 27SEP2010.

Ukrainian made BTR-94, 2018.

Ukrainian made BTR-94 blocks 14th of July bridge in Baghdad, 15AUG2004. U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Jacob N. Bailey.

Ukrainian made BTR-4, reports say Iraq was not happy with the BTR-4, claiming they were not ‘new builds’ and had corroded bodies (Ukrainian investigation links the defective BTR-4s to the now infamous corruption scandal plaguing the Office of the U.S. President).

BTR-4 variants, the BSEM-4K ambulance and BTR-4 armored personnel carriers with 30mm gun turrets.

‎U.S. Army photo by Sergeant Kalie Jones Frantz, 06FEB2016.

A mystery modified M113 seen at Camp Taji, February 2016. It’s not a ACV or YPR765. A homegrown modification?

U.S. Army photo by Sergeant Kalie Jones Frantz, 06FEB2016.

U.S. Army photo by Specialist William Lockwood, 11FEB2016.

Camp Taji, February 2016.

M113 ACAV, U.S. Army photo by Sergeant Kalie Jones Frantz, 07FEB2016.

M113, U.S. Army photo by Sergeant David Strayer, 28APR2011.

M113, Kirkush Military Training Base, April 2011.

Notice the use of wide ‘snow’ tracks. Texas Army National Guard photo by Specialist Maria Mengrone, 12MAY2005.

MTLB, May 2005.

Texas Army National Guard photo by Specialist Maria Mengrone, 06MAY2005.

This one has the standard width tracks. Texas Army National Guard photo by Specialist Maria Mengrone, 06MAY2005.

U.S. Army photo by Specialist Sean Hanson.

March 2007. This tank is a Chinese Type 69 (Iraqi designation for Chinese Type 69 is T-55B), as denoted by the headlights on both fenders and the camera/laser sighting system on the mantlet.

Texas Army National Guard photo by Specialist Maria Mengrone, 12MAY2005.

May 2005, Type 69/T-55B.

Notice the U.S. antenna. Texas Army National Guard photo by Specialist Maria Mengrone, 12MAY2005.

BMP-1, October 2005:

Rebuilt BMP-1s on Camp Taji, 07OCT2005.

BMP-1, January 2007:

BMP-1, Camp Taji. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sergeant Jon Cupp, 17JAN2007.

Video Camp Taji boneyard, T-72 turret lift, 2009:

T-62, March 2010:

T-62s in the ‘Bone Yard’. Tennessee Army National Guard photo by First Lieutenant Desiree Pavlick, 17MAR2010.

Graveyard of T-62 and T-72, October 2005:

Camp Taji ‘boneyard’, 10JUL2005.

T-72, Camp Butler/Butler Gunnery Range, February 2006:

U.S. Army photo by Staff Sergeant Brent Hunt, 16FEB2006.

Low quality video from February 2006, supposedly it was the first time Iraqis were able to fire their T-72s since the U.S. invasion:

T-72, Forward Operating Base Hammer, October 2008:

U.S. Army photo by Private First Class Evan Loyd, 31OCT2008.

2008 Besmaya Range gunnery video (by U.S. Army Specialist Neil A. Stanfield):

T-72, Besmaya Range Complex, April 2010:

U.S. Army photo by Private First Class Jared Eastman, 14APR2010.

Checking out a ‘newer’ T-72, apparently donated by NATO-Czech Republic, April 2016:

U.S. Army photo by Sergeant Paul Sale, 05APR2016.

Iraqis began training on U.S. M1A1 Abrams in 2008-09:

Besmaya Range Complex, 31MAR2009. U.S. Army photo by Captain Thomas Avilucea.

According to a U.S. Defense Department news release, between August 2010 and the end of 2011, 140 M1A1M Abrams tanks were delivered to Iraq as part of a 2008 military sales agreement.

According to the the U.S. Army, these were the last of the 140 Abrams delivered to Iraq:

U.S. Army photo by Staff Sergeant Edward Daileg, 29AUG2011.

In 2016, BMP-1s were positioned for the Mosul Offensive against so-called Islamic State:

U.S. Army photo, 18OCT2016.

In February 2018, it was revealed that an Iraqi militia unit funded by Iran acquired nine of the M1A1Ms.

Blurry image showing Iranian funded Iraqi militia hauling an M1A1.

In June 2018, Iraq announced it was trading the M1A1M for the Russian T-90S.

The first T-90S and T-90SK were delivered by November 2019.

M109A1, Firebase Saham, December 2018.

U.S. Army photo by Captain Jason Welch, 03DEC2018.

For some strange reason the official U.S. Army information that accompanied the pic states this is a “M109 Paladin”, but it is clearly not an M109A6 Paladin (which is a radical upgrade of the M109 series), it is a M109A1.

In 2008, U.S. Army officials decided to allow Iraq to refurbish several M109A1s abandoned in the ‘boneyard’ of Camp Taji: “Last fall, our brigade commander was given guidance by the 9th IA commander to pull out of the Taji boneyard roughly a battalion’s worth of M109A1 howitzers.”-Major Matthew DeLoia, Military Transition Team-Pennsylvania National Guard’s 109th Field Artillery Regiment, July 2009

VEHICLE I-D: UKRAINIAN ARMOR

VEHICLE I-D: GEORGIAN T-72 & BMP

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Vehicle I-D: Ukrainian Armor

Video April 22, 2020 Hutchins AAron

Tennessee Army National Guard photo by Sergeant Timothy Massey, 05APR2019.

BRDM-2

Tennessee Army National Guard photo by Sergeant Timothy Massey.

T-84 during Independence Day, 24AUG2018.

Video, T-84 platoon Grafenwoehr, Germany, 2018 (no shooting until the end of the video):

Tennessee Army National Guard photo by Sergeant Timothy Massey, 06SEP2018.

T-64BV

U.S. Army photo by Sergeant Kyle Larsen, 26SEP2019.

BTR-4E

USA photo by Sergeant Justin Navin, 25SEP2019.

An old T-72 or T-64?

A T-72 with reactive armor in Starychi, 04NOV2015, Royal Canadian Forces photo.

T-72

Video, BMP-1s and T-72s:

U.S. Army photo by Private First Class Caleb Minor, 17SEP2019.

BMP-1

U.S. Army photo by Private First Class Caleb Minor, 17SEP2019.

BMP-2

Video, BMP-2:

California Army National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant Amanda H. Johnson, 24SEP2019.

Decontaminating an MTLB-ambulance

Wisconsin Army National Guard photo by Corporal Jared Saathoff, 15NOV2019.

Video, MTLB carrier:

U.S. Army photo by Sergeant Alexander Skripnichuk, 07SEP2015.

KrAZ Cougar

Video, decon KrAZ Cobra:

BAT-2

U.S. Army photo by Private Joanna Gaona Gomez, 18SEP2019.

Video, BAT-2:

Oklahoma Army National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant Eric McDonough, 08JUN2017.

BTR-80

U.S. Army photo by Sergeant Alexander Skripnichuk, 13SEP2015.

BTR-70

BTR-3DA

U.S. Army photo by Sergeant Kyle Larsen, 20SEP2019.

Kozak-2

U.S. Army photo by Private First Class Caleb Minor, 17SEP2019.

ZSU-23-4

Oklahoma Army National Guard video by First Lieutenant Kayla Christopher, 2S1 Gvozdika live fire near Yavoriv, March 2017:

From 2017: CALIFORNIA CELEBRATES 20 YEARS OF FALSE FLAG OPS IN UKRAINE!

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

2016: Idaho based Snake River militia deploy M1A2 SEP to Ukrainian border!

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

Video April 12, 2020 Hutchins AAron

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.

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: