During the Cold War it was known as Mikoyan & Gurevich, hence MiG.
MiG 21, NATO reporting name Fishbed/Lancer.
BULGARIA:
New Jersey Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Andrew J. Moseley, 16JUL2015.
New Jersey Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Andrew J. Moseley, 16JUL2015.
New Jersey Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Andrew J. Moseley, 17JUL2015.
New Jersey Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Andrew J. Moseley, 17JUL2015.
Apparently 2015 was the last year that Bulgaria operated the MiG-21.
CROATIA:
Minnesota Air National Guard Photo by Technical Sergeant Lynette Hoke, 05APR2019.
Minnesota Air National Guard Photo by Technical Sergeant Lynette Hoke, 05APR2019.
It is smaller than an F-16
Minnesota Air National Guard Photo by Technical Sergeant Lynette Hoke, 05APR2019.
Minnesota Air National Guard Photo by Technical Sergeant Lynette Hoke, 06APR2019.
Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Croatia video of MiG 21s flying with French Rafales, 15MAR2022:
Croat MiG 21s with USAF Aviano Air Base F-16s on the Pleso/Zagreb Airport, 27MAR2022. Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Croatia by T. Brandt.
Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Croatia, on 17MAY2022 a MiG 21 was assigned ‘Gate Guard’ duty for the 30th Anniversary of a flight by Colonel Ivica Ivandić. This is a controversy in Croatia because there were other MiG 21s involved in that flight and those pilots were seemingly ignored:
ROMANIA, ‘Lancer’:
2014
USAF photo by Staff Sergeant R.J. Biermann, 17APR2014.
2015
U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Armando A. Schwier-Morales, 17MAR2015.
U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Joe W. McFadden, 16APR2015.
U.S. Army photo by Sergeant William A. Tanner, 22MAY2015.
USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Matthew Bruch, 23OCT2015.
USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Matthew Bruch, 23OCT2015.
2016
18MAR2016, Canadian Forces photo by Master Seaman (Master Sailor) Steeve Picard.
2017
U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Jonathan Snyder, 29JUL2017.
U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Jonathan Snyder, 29JUL2017.
U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Jonathan Snyder, 29JUL2017.
26SEP2017, Canadian Forces photo by Sergeant Daren Kraus.
2019
Romanian MiG 21s visited Serbia in October 2019. Photo via Ministry of Defence Republic of Serbia.
Ministry of Defence Republic of Serbia, 01OCT2019.
Ministry of Defence Republic of Serbia video, Romanian MiG 21s at the October 2019 International Air Exercise Air Solution meet:
28NOV2019. Canadian Forces photo by Leading Seaman (Sailor First Class) Erica Seymour.
28NOV2019. Canadian Forces photo by Leading Seaman (Sailor First Class) Erica Seymour.
NATO Channel video MiG-21 operations, cockpit view:
2022:
Romanian Ministry of National Defense video report from 04SEP2022, a pilot’s last flight in a MiG 21UB:
A big water/fuel tank turned into a boat. Intercepted in 1999.
For more than five decades Cubans who don’t like living on their island country have sailed, some even tried swimming, to the United States. This is partly because the U.S. Cuban Adjustment Act (CAA) of 1966 ‘fast tracks’ citizenship for any Cuban who can make it to U.S. territory.
U.S. policy is to sink all intercepted migrant boats.
Looks like simple 2×4 construction. Intercepted in 2016.
Even since the year 2000, Cubans still come up with ingenious, or maybe desperate, ways of getting to the United States.
Not sure what this is. Intercepted in 2016.
Wood planks strapped to 55 gallon drums. Intercepted in 2015.
My favorite. A 1951 Chevy truck mounted on empty 55 gallon drums. The riders actually attempted to drive it to the U.S. The U.S. Coast Guard intercepted the boat-truck in July 2003.
The truck-boat plugged along at eight miles per hour and made it just 40 miles from U.S. shores before sinking.
But wait! In 2004 two Cuban families tried to drive to Florida in their 1959 Buick. The families had tried to do the same thing in the 1990s but their Buick developed electrical problems and they turned back. The U.S. Coast Guard ended their 2004 attempt, catching them before they could reach the shore, sending them back to Cuba, and their classic car to the bottom of the ocean.
But two failed attempts didn’t stop the people in the Buick, they tried again in 2005, this time in a floating 1948 Mercury stretched taxi.
As is U.S. Coast Guard policy, and despite the boat being a classic car, the Cuban taxi-raft was sunk.
Who would’ve thought ‘god-allah-that which cannot be named’ would turn out to be a virus?
Skeletons of vehicles waiting to be completed as factory workers told to ‘go home’!
According to Johns Hopkins University (which, for some reason, has become the go-to source of data for main stream news media) about 3.9-billion people (supposedly half of all Earthling humans) globally have been disappeared, into their homes, due to CoViD-19 stay-at-home and shelter-in-place lockdown orders!
The pathogen called CoronaVirus Disease 2019 doesn’t care about your skin color, sex, age, type of government you live under and especially doesn’t care about what ‘god’ you worship. Drone video showing near empty cities of Budapest-Hungary, Rio-de-Janiero-Brazil, Lisbon-Portugal, Vilnius-Lithuania, and Istanbul-Turkey:
Once busy freeways of Wuhan, Hubei Province, China. 14-million people suddenly ‘disappeared’ by atheist government lockdown!
Video, empty Wuhan:
Video, near empty Paris, France:
In Mumbai, India, even the Hindi gods are powerless against the newcomer called CoViD-19! Siddhivinayak Temple now devoid of devotees.
In Israel, even the chosen people of That-Which-Cannot-Be-Named are being disappeared.
Video, wildlife reclaim the canals of Venice, Italy:
In the town of Nara, Japan, deer are taking over now that humans have disappeared!
Skopje, Macedonia, only stray dogs occupy the capital city’s streets.
In Saudi Arabia, Allah’s Mercy not able to stop Mecca from being nearly shutdown. Pics are before and after coronavirus.
A deer in Sri Lanka, it’s not unusual for deer to be seen in what I suspect is the town of Trincomalee, what is unusual is that all the shops are shuttered and no human can be seen due to CoViD-19 lockdown.
Sign on a building in the near empty city of Cape Town, South Africa.
Two years ago the city of Boise, Idaho, was declared the fastest growing city in the United States, now it’s seemingly abandoned. Ominous video of the empty metro-city of Boise (where all my adult children are sheltering in place, my son needing surgery that has been delayed because it’s not CoViD-19 related):
The once busy international Blue Water Bridge in Port Huron, connecting U.S. state of Michigan with Canada, no traffic. Border checkpoints restricted due to the implementation of Title 42 USC 265.
The lights are still on, but very few people are out-n-about in The Big Apple of New York City, U.S.A.
“For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are asleep. For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord.”– 1 Thessalonians 4:15-17, New King James Bible
“24 Hours of Savings WinCo Foods” re-opened at 05:00 (5am), I arrived at 05:30 and it was already mayhem!
The pics were taken with my phone cam which has a fogged lens. These checkout lines are what greeted me at 05:30, just 30 minutes after WinCo re-opened! They run to the back of the warehouse style store.
Many of the fresh meat items were gone, all the fresh ground beef was gone, by 05:30!
The empty shelves on the left side of the above pic used to be filled with pancake syrup. Pancake syrup, really, do you people need that much pancake syrup? The empty shelves on the right of the pic is where sugar used to be, all gone now.
The infamous toilet paper isle, this time WinCo was not able to re-stock before opening.
I bought $60 worth of food. I got in at 05:30 and didn’t get out until 07:00, the lines were that long, and despite most of WinCo’s check stands being open.
I stopped in at the next door Fred Meyer, they weren’t crowded, but were missing many items as well. An employee told me things have been getting crazy after 08:30 and they’ve been having trouble getting orders into corporate. One of the items I noticed they were out of was bottled water, mmmm, I don’t remember CoViD-19 being able to shut-off your water supply.
Fred Meyer at the former Pocatello Mall location
The employee I talked to pointed out something that makes sense; many people in eastern Idaho save up their money for the end of year holiday season, but people are now spending money like mad due to the CoViD-19 fear-mongering, on top of that people are already being told not to come to work, the result will be that many people here in eastern Idaho are not going to have money to spend for the end of year holidays.
No more “24 Hours of Savings WinCo Foods”, at least for a week.
After yesterday’s declaration of State of Emergency by Idaho’s Governor Brad Little, then followed by President Donald Trump’s declaration of National Emergency, the store I prefer to do my grocery shopping at, and the only remaining 24 hours operation in the Pocatello/Chubbuck area, halted their 24 Hours of Savings!
I’ve always shopped there after midnight because I don’t like crowded grocery stores. I and several dozen people arrived after midnight, 14 March, to find the doors closed for the first time. No signage was posted to explain it.
I drove back home and checked Boise based WinCo’s website and sure enough there is a message saying they’re halting 24hr operations at selected stores due to CoViD-19.
“March 13, 2020
Dear WinCo Customers,
As we all deal with the Coronavirus fallout in these unprecedented times, WinCo Foods remains committed to taking care of our customers, our communities and our employee owners.
As we experience higher than normal demand on a variety of products, we are working around the clock to not only keep our stores open, but also clean and as stocked as possible. We are also ever-mindful of keeping our employee owners, our customers and our communities as safe as possible. To that end we are working with the CDC and local Health Agencies to make sure we follow all Coronavirus protocol, as well as our own internal hygiene and food safety protocols.
We at WinCo Foods understand that you are relying on us in these difficult days to continue providing you with quality food at the lowest possible prices. On behalf of our 19,000+ employee owners, we have no intention of closing our stores and every intention of keeping our shelves as stocked as we possibly can. To help this, we will be temporarily closing various locations between the hours of 12am and 5am for the next week, so the stores can clean and re-stock. We will re-evaluate this policy after this week has passed.
We appreciate your patience while we do this. WinCo remains committed to all of you, and to providing you with foods for your hungry families.
Thank you,
The employee owners of WinCo Foods”
I guess the ’employees of WinCo’ don’t realize that most people are not going to think of checking WinCo’s website before heading out to the store.
This was WinCo’s toilet paper isle several days prior to their overnight lockdown.
“I looked and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth.”-Revelation 6:8, New International Bible
Incomplete list of links to news reports about viral outbreaks during the days of 11 to 12 of the Gregorian month of March 2020.
Members of the West Virginia National Guard provided Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) instruction to employees of the Cabell Huntington Hospital, to prepare for possible Pandemic. West Virginia National Guard photo by Edwin L. Wriston, 11MAR2020.
Video, West Virginia National Guard trains the employees of Cabell Huntington Hospital for handling CoViD-19 victims (not sure why there’s no audio):
Photo by AAron B. Hutchins. Ransacked toilet paper shelves at a Pocatello, Idaho, WinCo store. The toilet paper hoarding continues despite no shortages (note the full cases stacked on the floor awaiting stocking on shelves), and no reason why CoViD-19 would result in toilet paper shortage.
Incomplete (tip-o-the iceberg) list of main-stream-links about global immigrant/border operations affecting the United States taxpayers, days of 23 to 29 of Gregorian February 2020.
These U.S. taxpayer funded coastal patrol boats, called Defender, were given to the country of Djibouti on 22FEB2020, for use in patrolling their coastal borders!
U.S. Marine with Marine Wing Support Squadron 171, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing, takes part in the U.S. taxpayer co-funded building of a school in Thailand, 23FEB2020.
This pic might look like a happy tour boat, but the reason there are Coast Guard personnel onboard is that it was an illegal operation! It happened near Bahia Hutchinson Island, 23FEB2020, the boat operator was ticketed for three violations of boating regulations.
Nearly 127-thousand counterfeit items, retailing at more than $2.5-million dollars, captured during enforcement action leading up to the National Basketball Association (NBA) All-Star Game.
People charged with bribery involving illegal immigrant detainee lists and a law firmYet another abandoned boat found by the U.S. Coast Guard, this time on Tiki Island, 28FEB2020. For the past year it seems the number of abandoned boats found by the Coast Guard has gone up, from Hawaii in the Pacific to Puerto Rico in the Atlantic. It is bad luck for boat owners, or smugglers of drugs/humans?
Rare weather phenomenon Saint Elmo’s Fire ‘captured’ by hurricane hunter Sky Hopper Kermit in North Atlantic:
Over the North Atlantic — Crew of #NOAA42 Kermit recorded St. Elmo's fire (weather phenomenon) during their 15 February winter storm flight for the Ocean Winds research project. #FlyNOAA#morethanhurricanes#weather credit: Lt. Josh Rannenberg, NOAA Corps pic.twitter.com/jUMMeaSYsi
— NOAA Aircraft Operations Center (@NOAA_HurrHunter) February 18, 2020
Incomplete (tip-o-the iceberg) list of main-stream-news links about global immigrant/border operations affecting the United States taxpayers, days of 09 to 15 of Gregorian February 2020.
HAWAII: In federal court, Singapore based Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement pled guilty to knowingly dumping pollution into U.S. waters and will pay a fine of $1-million-750-thousand. It is considered the largest fine ever in the District of Hawaii.
Falcon Dam has been identified as a major national security concern and as such the U.S. Coast Guard, the International Boundary and Water Commission, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), U.S. Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Border Patrol, Texas Department of Public Safety, and Texas Parks and Wildlife Department all agreed to jointly patrol the area during ‘elevated security situations’.
At Egg Harbor Township, state militia (National Guard) conducted natural disaster response training that included weapons of mass destruction (chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear) 11FEB2020.