Videos
Vehicle I-D: Afghan 8/17 Mils
NATO reporting name Hip.
The primary identifying feature between Mil 8 and 17 versions is; the Mil 8 has the tail rotor on the pilot’s right side, the Mil 17 has the tail rotor on the pilot’s left side. All other details are subject to change.
Video by Bob Ditchey, Hip door gunner live-fire, 13MAY2018:
2014 video, Mil 17B(V)-5 helicopters inflight over Afghanistan:
2014 video, by Senior Airman Brandi Hansen, of NATO member Czech Republic advisers on a training flight, with live-fire door gunning, in an Afghan Mil 17B(V)-5 helicopter. Czech Republic has a long history of using Mil helicopters and was sent to help train Afghans:
2013 NATO video report; Uruzgan based 4th Brigade of the Afghan National Army conducted resupply and casualty evacuations:

Forward Operating Base Shank in Logar province, 04AUG2012. U.S. Army photo by Specialist Austin Berner.
Photo by Technical Sergeant Dennis Henry.
In 2012, NATO member Czech Republic deployed air-crews to Afghanistan. They got acquainted with the terrain by taking rides in Afghan Mil 17B(V)-5.
Photo by Technical Sergeant Dennis Henry.
Photo by Technical Sergeant Dennis Henry.
Photo by Technical Sergeant Dennis Henry

U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer Second Class Jonathan David Chandler. Sun rises on a Mil-8 helicopter on Camp Bastion, Helmand province, 23OCT2011.
Photo by Staff Sergeant Matthew Smith.
Photo by Staff Sergeant Matthew Smith.
Forward Operating Base (FOB) Bostick, 09OCT2011.
Photo by Staff Sergeant Matthew Smith.
FOB Fenty, Jalalabad, 09OCT2011.
Photo by Staff Sergeant Matthew Smith.
Mil 17B(V)-5 over FOB Fenty, 08OCT2011.
Photo by Staff Sergeant Matthew Smith.
Photo by Staff Sergeant Matthew Smith.
May 2011: Mil 17B(V)-5 crash & burn.
Photo by Petty Officer Third Class Jared Walker.
Video, February 2011, rocket training:
Video by Sergeant Bryan Spradlin, October 2010, showing U.S. and Afghan forces refueling and rearming a Hip:
During Afghan national elections Hip helicopters are used to deliver empty ballot boxes, and then retrieve full ballot boxes after voting. These pics are from September 2010.
Maybe it’s time the United States use its military to control ballots during national level elections?
Photo by Petty Officer Second Class Ernesto Hernandez Fonte.
August 2010, U.S. advisers fire the rockets of a Mil 17. U.S. advisers were prepping to train-up Afghan aircrews in using the Hip as a gunship.

By November 2008, Afghanistan had received three new U.S. taxpayer funded Mi-17 Hips. U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sergeant Keith Brown, 25NOV2008.
Vehicle I-D: UH-60 FOR AFGHANISTAN, KILLED-OFF BY THE MIL 17?
See how the CH-47 loves to collect ‘Hip’ bones
River Gun Boat: România, guardians of the Danube
NATO Romania’s armored river gunboats are operated by a unit called Division 88. Romania has been operating river gunboats on the Danube River since 1860, making Romania the oldest ‘modern’ navy to do so.
This Shield of Dobrogea video, posted in March 2021, shows gunboat ops during exercise Danube Protector:
Romanian armored gunboat F-178 Smârdan in action on the Danube (Dunăre), during NATO’s Saber Guardian 2017.
NATO video, quad 23mm anti-aircraft guns blazing on the Smârdan during Saber Guardian 2017:

Mihail Kogălniceanu class F-47 gunboat, U.S. Army photo by Private First Class Nicholas Vidro, 16JUL2017.
Romanian river monitor F-47 Lascăr Catargiu, Saber Guardian 2017.
NATO video of river patrol boat, armored gunboats, and larger monitors, supporting Danube river crossing operations, big guns firing (wait for it):
Armored gunboat F-176 Rahova provides cover for Danube river crossing, Saber Guardian June 2019.
NATO video of Danube river crossing, armored gunboats and a monitor, Saber Guardian 2019:
Romania has three Mihail Kogălniceanu class river monitors, beginning operations in the 1990s:

Mihail Kogălniceanu class and Smârdan class launching rockets. Photo via Naval Forces Romania, October 2021.
Five Smârdan class armored river gunboats, beginning operations in the late 1980s-early 1990s:
Division 88 operates about a dozen of these non-named VD-141 river patrol boats. The VD-141 class began operations in the 1980s:
Shield of Dobrogea video posted in January 2020, Division 88’s smaller river patrol boats:
Shield of Dobrogea video of Division 88 river gunboats in action, posted November 2019 (although a lot of the video is actually from 2017):
Official Romanian Navy promotional video about Division 88 river gunboat operations, posted April 2019:
River gunboat ops, posted by Shield of Dobrogea, May 2018:
More gunboat action, posted April 2018:
River gunboat report posted April 2017:
A long video about Romania’s river gunboats, from 2015:
Gunboat target practice, video posted April 2013:
The Jamestown Foundation has a article with more info about Romania’s Danube Flotilla.
Fellow NATO member Turkey sold to the Romanian Border Police 12 SNR-17 river patrol boats.
Vehicle I-D:
ARMURĂ ROMÂNIA
U.S. NAVY KEEPS OLD U.S. ARMY BOAT-TRUCK AFLOAT
Vehicle I-D: Armură România
Former Soviet Bloc member Romania became a member of NATO in 2004.
One of the first operations as a member of NATO was to deploy troops to Iraq in 2007. Video of Romanian TAB-B33 Zimbru (Romanian built BTR-80) heading out for patrol in Iraq, April 2007:
In 2008, Romanian troops operated U.S. made armored HMMWV (High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle), as well as their BTR-80s (aka TAB-B33 Zimbru [Aurochs, or wild cattle]) while patrolling outside the city of Nasariyah, Iraq.
Since July 2006, Romanian troops have also been working alongside U.S. troops in Afghanistan. U.S. Army video from 16OCT2010, showing Romanians training for deployment to Afghanistan:
U.S. Army (USA) video report from 2009, revealing that the U.S. Army has expanded into Romania:
The UROVESA VAMTac (Vehículo de Alta Movilidad Táctico) looks like a U.S. HMMWV, but it is actually made in NATO-Spain.

Tennessee Army National Guard learns to shoot the Cold War era Soviet 12.7mm heavy machine gun on the Babadag Training Area, Romania, 13AUG2009. Photo by Sergeant Marla Keown.
Live prep & fire video, by Sergeant Ellis McDaniels, TR-85M1 Bizonul (The Bison) invade Grafenwoehr, Germany, June 2014:
Romanian Armed Forces video of tank live-fire, from point of view of the top of the turret: https://fb.watch/3b_7nPPEy8/
A modified BMP, the Romanian MLI-84M Jder (Marten), in Germany, 2014.

In 2015, the U.S. issued MRAPs to Romanian troops operating in Kandahar, Afghanistan. USA photo, 02MAR2015.
In 2015 Romania expanded its NATO role by deploying additional troops to Afghanistan. Romanian troops operate U.S. made Oshkosh M-ATV MRAP (Mine Resistant Ambush Protected).
TR-85, Smardan Training Area, Romania, April 2015.
Video, PMA T-55 bridge layer in action, 2015:
Romanian Armed Forces video of bridge tank operation: https://fb.watch/3bZYmB3S-C/
MLI-84Ms drive around a German made Gepard (Cheetah) anti-aircraft tank, April 2015.
Once called the TABC-79, the Scout/Recon vehicles are now called ABC-79M.
A DMT-85M1 engineer vehicle, based on the TR-85M1, December 2015.
From September 2016, a T-55AM (aka TR-77-580).
Romanian BMP ambulance conversion, July 2017.
Video by Staff Sergeant Michael Zahnow, how to cross a Romanian river (the Danube):
BTR-60 (TAB-71) just outside Ramnicu Valcea, July 2017.
Video, BTR-70 (aka TAB-77) from 2017 maneuvers:
Video, by Specialist Jacob Banuelos, TR-85 live fire, Smardan Training Area in December 2017:
TAB-77 (BTR-70), May 2019.
Piranha-3 crosses the Danube river during Saber Guardian 2019.
Video, by Specialist Drake Chandler, of NATO Saber Guardian 2019 wargames, Romanian Swiss made Piranha cross a pontoon bridge:
Saber Guardian 2019 music video, by Michigan National Guard Specialist Brian Pearson and Romanian Captain Mariana Dinu:
More live fire video, Saber Guardian 2019, TR-85 and T-55 (TR-77-580):

Photo by Sergeant H. Marcus McGill. Piranha joins a U.S. convoy to the Black Sea for Exercise Rapid Falcon, 19NOV2020.
More Romanian Armed Forces videos: www.facebook.com/Romanian.Armed.Forces/videos
Soviet era tanks in use by NATO: POLAND
NATO: MiG-21
World War Three, 2016:
SNAKE RIVER Militia M1A2 SEP, LIVE FIRE ROMANIA!
MONTANA Militia ENJOYS BEING THE ‘BAD GUY’ IN ROMANIA!
Vaccine Fail: California
There’s an old saying; as California goes, so goes the rest of the nation. I hope not. List of links to news reports showing the vaccination campaign in leftist-liberal democrat controlled California is a failure, as of 20JAN2021:
Report that restaurant lockdowns might have actually spread CoViD!
New California-Los Angeles CoViD variant renders vaccine useless?
Mass-vax-site at Disneyland is shutdown for a second day, blamed on weather
Another person has adverse reaction to CoViD shot, state health experts ask that vaccinations be stopped!
More conflicting reports of vaccine shortage
People are moving out of California, in hopes of getting the shot!
City of Long Beach boasts of successful vax campaign
Video report, Travis Air Force Base conducted mass flu vaccinations, and prepped for future mass CoViD vaccinations:
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State politician gets the shot, then gets infected!
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Healthcare workers being forced to work non-stop!
Photo by Senior Airman Neil Mabini.
California Air National Guard deployed a Disaster Relief Beddown System (DRBS) outside of the emergency department of PIH Health Downey Hospital. The medical tent is equipped with electrical and HVAC.
Pandemic Samaritan: Charity delivers medical tent and supplies to High Desert hospital in California
Vaccine Fail: U.S. VAX BANNED! SKYROCKETING NUMBER OF HEALTHCARE WORKERS REJECT THE SHOT!
KC-135: The last ISO for the 916th
Photos by Staff Sergeant Mary McKnight.
In October 2019, on Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina, the 916th Maintenance Squadron (of the 916th Air Refueling Wing) completed their last isochronal (ISO) inspection of a KC-135 Stratotanker.
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The KC-135 has been replaced by the KC-46 Pegasus.
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The last ISO on the 916th KC-135 was started in August, but took longer than expected due to delays caused by severe weather: “The ISO (isochronal) aircraft was placed on the flightline as a precaution to protect it from possible damage. The hangar it was in leaves the empennage exposed to high winds which could cause more damage because of the close tolerance to the hangar doors.”-Senior Master Sergeant Karl Rehkamp, 916th Maintenance Squadron maintenance flight chief
Explainer video report, by Technical Sergeant Michael McGhee:
KC-135:
BATS & BEARS, OH MY!
Vehicle I-D: KDC-10 Koninklijke Luchtmacht
Photo by Staff Sergeant Dana Cable.
In September 2019, A Royal Netherlands Air Force KDC-10 paid a visit to Fairchild Air Force Base, Washington, for Exercise Mobility Guardian.
Fairchild AFB, Washington, 2019. Photo by First Lieutenant Jessica Cicchetto.
2019: Texas airborne fueler company buys Dutch KDC-10s
Photos by Maartje Roos.
Photos from NATO’s Trident Juncture 2018, in Norway.
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NATO video, taxi-takeoff, heading to Trident Juncture 2018 in Norway:

Photo by Chris Okula.
They flew all the way to Edwards Air Force Base, in California, to refuel one of their own F-35s! According to the press info, at the end of March 2016, the Royal Netherlands Air Force (Koninklijke Luchtmacht) was used to prove the viability of refueling F-35s with KC-10s.
Halloween 2020:
HOW TO MUMMIFY YOUR KC-10, OR, LAST FLIGHT OF 86-0036
Operation CoViD-19:
PROJECT AIR BRIDGE, 747S, MD-11S, BREAKING AIRLIFT RECORDS!
Wildfires 2019: DC-10, IDAHO’S 911
Bare Metal:
NASA’S MD-11 EXPERIMENTAL
DC-8: Pandemic Samaritan

Photo via Samaritan’s Purse.
Samaritan’s Purse DC-8 arrives at NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center, Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California, 11JAN2021.
Photo by Giancarlo Casem.
The aircraft delivered supplies for a 50+ beds Emergency Field Hospital being constructed at Antelope Valley Hospital in nearby Lancaster.
Video, by Giancarlo Casem, showing off-loading of Samaritan’s Purse DC-8, 11JAN2021:

Samaritan’s Purse photo showing emergency hospital tent construction in Lancaster, California.
Samaritan’s Purse video showing emergency hospital tent construction:

Samaritan’s Purse photo showing hurricane response efforts in Honduras, November 2020.

Samaritan’s Purse photo showing hurricane response efforts in Honduras.
Samaritan’s Purse video, Honduras hurricane response, November 2020:
Samaritan’s Purse is based in North Carolina, is adamantly Christian, and has a history of working alongside the U.S. Department of Defense, at least as far back as 2012.
Pandemic Flights, 2020:
RECORD SETTING PANDEMIC AIRBRIDGE CONTINUES
Vehicle I-D: NASA’S DC-8 CLIMATE WARRIOR
Going Viral: Flu mutating due to CoViD? USAF gives warning about vaccines!
Here’s an incomplete list of links to news media reports on the latest virus shenanigans:
UN World Health Organization says CoViD herd immunity won’t happen in 2021, even with vaccinations!
European Union approves new influenza treatment, investors are excited
More proof it is about big money: Seasonal Influenza Vaccines Market Technological Innovations and Future Outlook
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CANADA (Commonwealth of Nations): Still no influenza cases detected in Alberta’s ‘unique’ season
Area of Niagara credits CoViD lockdowns, plus flu shots, to lack of flu infections
CHINA: Over half a million under lockdown as Beijing outbreak spreads
Study says CoViD pandemic has changed attitudes towards relationships and sex (that’s interesting because the advent of HIV/AIDS did not)
DENMARK: No flu season?
GERMANY: Blatant pandemic fraud case underway in court
State run radio report interviews ‘expert’ who says new CoViD variants are so much more infectious that stricter lockdowns are needed, YET, at same time admits the new CoViD variants have much less severe symptoms! Also mentions that influenza viruses are radically mutating!
GREECE: Citizens protest lockdown by going to the beach, en masse
INDIA (Commonwealth of Nations): The big return of Bird Flu
Can Bird Flu transmit to People?
IRAQ: Pandemic restrictions a business boon for some Iraqi women
ISRAEL: Corruption trail for prime minister delayed over CoViD fears
Residents protest third lockdown
LEBANON: Increases lockdown, 24 hours curfew for the next week!
MALAYSIA (Commonwealth of Nations): Targeted lockdowns imposed
For first time since 1969, parliament is shutdown due to pandemic
MEXICO: Mexico City restaurant owners rebelling against lockdown
SWEDEN: The once anti-lockdown country will now go into lockdown!
UNITED KINGDOM (Commonwealth of Nations): GPs in England see big drop in common cold and flu cases
Maskless shoppers to be banned
Prime minister criticized for riding a bike during the lockdown he imposed!
Hypocracy as it’s revealed the so called lockdown law allows landlords to show the apartment to potential buyers with you in it, if you consent!
Economic crisis for whom? Woman admits her family’s spending has gone up, not down, blames it on the unexpected costs of home schooling children under lockdown rules!
Scotland; People arrested during anti-lockdown demonstration
No more speedy trial for people accused of crimes in Scotland, courts go on CoViD lockdown
UNITED STATES: Medical ‘experts’ admit they don’t know if getting a CoViD vaccine will actually stop the spread of CoViD!
Study says deaths from heart disease skyrocketing during lockdowns!
Alabama; 41 booze stores shutdown due to the pandemic!
California; Legal marijuana store owners claim that investors are now unwilling to invest due to pandemic (this proves that legalized ganja is not a big money maker, because supposedly sales are up during the pandemic yet store owners rely on debt financing, not sales, to operate)
Video reveals U.S. Air Force sending USAF nurses (from Travis Air Force Base) to local hospitals:
Colorado; Pandemic taking a toll on ski/winter tourism industry
Florida;
This photo, taken on 11JAN2021 on MacDill AFB, reveals that if you’ve had any vaccine in the past two weeks you cannot get the CoViD shot!
Georgia; Despite pandemic lockdowns, home prices in the Atlanta metro area skyrocketing
Maine; Lockdowns threaten people who need cancer treatment!
Michigan; North American International Auto Show cancelled due to the pandemic
Oklahoma; USAF cancels Tinker AFB air show, blames it on the pandemic!
Pennsylvania; Another restaurant shutting down permanently due to the pandemic
Texas; Teaching in the pandemic age is causing more stress, Free mental health counseling offered to teachers
Homeless census for city of San Antonio cancelled due to the pandemic
Washington;

Washington National Guard photo by Captain Francine Saint Laurent, 07JAN2021, Spokane Valley, Washington.
The Evergreen State’s National Guard personnel volunteer at the Northwest Harvest food bank in Spokane Valley, 07JAN2021. Washington’s National Guard have been assisting local food banks/pantries since April 2020.
Washington DC; Elected officials exposed to CoViD during Capitol take-over
Going Viral, 08JAN2021: FLU HELL HITS INDIA, YET CANADA DECLARES THE FLU IS DEAD THEN IMPOSES LOCKDOWN!
Vehicle I-D: Armura Moldovan, in a Cold War created country that could go Hot any second!
Moldova is not a member of NATO, but has joined the North Atlantic Cooperation Council making it an official NATO ‘partner’. NATO ‘partner’ countries are located all across the Earth, not just in the North Atlantic (the original justification for the creation of NATO was to form a joint defense system for countries in the North Atlantic).

Photo via Moldovan Ministry of Defense.
BTRs during wargames, December 2020. The flag on the first vehicle is the national flag, the flag on the second vehicle is the flag of the Ministry of Defense.
Official Moldovan Ministry of Defense video showing training with BTRs, towed D-20 artillery, various types of MTLBs, culminating in live fire, December 2020:

Photo via Moldovan Ministry of Defense.
Engineer vehicle based on T-72 hull, November 2020.

Photo via Moldovan Ministry of Defense.
Video of engineer vehicles in action, November 2020:

Photo via Moldovan Ministry of Defense.
BMP artillery radar vehicle followed by 2S9s and BMD-1s, November 2020.

Photo via Moldovan Ministry of Defense.

Photo via Moldovan Ministry of Defense.
An Antonov-2 flies over MTLBs, October 2020.

Photo via Moldovan Ministry of Defense.
T-72 engineer vehicle, July 2020.
Video of vehicle review, and some live fire, July 2020. Sadly, that’s about it for the Moldovan National Army. At the end of the video the Minister of Defense, Alexandru Pinzari, admits they are working with “obsolete” equipment:
Loading anti-tank missile (9M113 Konkurs, NATO codename AT-5 Spandrel) onto a BRDM-2-Anti-Tank armored car, Bulboaca Training Area, September 2019.
Moldova used to be a part of Romania, called Bessarabia. Under Soviet rule Bessarabia became the Moldovan Soviet Socialist Republic. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, Moldova declared independence in August 1991.
BMD based 2S9 Nona self propelled airborne artillery gun, Bulboaca Training Area, September 2016.
Since 1996, the North Carolina Army National Guard has been training with the Moldovan army, through the U.S. Department of Defense’s National Guard State Partnership Program.
BRDM-2 over-watch as U.S. Marine launches a Javelin anti-tank missile in Balti, December 2014.
An old BTR gets taken out by a Javelin.
Video, BTR dies:
Video explainer report, USMC anti-armor training in Moldova, 2014:
Video of various anti-tank weapons being used, December 2014:
From what I’ve researched, Moldova has between zero and possibly a whopping three Main Battle Tanks (MBT), all T-64BV.

Photo by Neil Brennan.
The reason for little or no MBTs in Moldova is apparently because of a cease fire agreement between Moldova and a former territory called Transnistria (Transnistria actually declared independence one year before greater Moldova, yet the ‘NATO’ world refuses to recognize it because it is one of the last few Soviet Republics that still believes the Soviet Union is alive and well). The Sweden based OSCE has been overseeing arms control agreements including the destruction of heavy military vehicles like MBTs. Moldova has complied, but not Transnistria (meaning tiny Transnistria has more armored vehicles than much larger Moldova).
The majority of Moldova’s existing armor are Soviet era armored cars of various types, then tracked utility vehicles like MTLB, and tracked self propelled artillery guns/rocket launchers.

Moldovan news pic of a supposed T-54? (note the spokes on the road wheels) that had been hidden by a family in a disputed district.
At the beginning of 2017, a news report said that a family had been hiding a T-54(?) tank on their property in the divided district of Anenii Noi. It was confiscated.
August 2018: Moldovan, N.C. troops train at Fort Bliss
Vehicle I-D: SUOMALAISET (Finnish) LEOPARDIT JA SISU PASI JA CV9030 JA MTLB JA 2S1 JA BMP-2 JA AMOS





















































