Videos

U.S.

“Haven’t got one wrong yet”: Immigrant Invasion U.S.A., 26-31 January 2020

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Incomplete (tip-o-the iceberg) list of main-stream-news links about global immigrant/border operations affecting the United States taxpayers, days of 26 to 31 of Gregorian January 2020.

U.S. ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) report on nonimmigrant students in U.S.

U.S. DEA (Drug Enforcement Agency) National Drug Threat Assessment

ALABAMA:  Illegal immigrants arrested for abusing toddler

ARIZONA: GoDaddy founder pays the tuition for illegals attending Arizona State University

Gang of 11 arrested for drug running

  Man sent to prison for human trafficking

ICE has flown more than 450 migrants to the interior of Mexico since December

The first 30-foot panel for the Yuma 10/27 project is placed at Barry M. Goldwater Range.  Yuma 10/27 will be a 31 miles ‘secondary’ wall, behind the first wall seen in the background.

CALIFORNIA:  Governor Newsom Expands taxpayer funded Health Care Coverage for Illegal Immigrants

Longest cross border tunnel yet, discovered 

FLORIDA: Illegal from United Kingdom dies in ICE custody

Illegal from Cuba dies in ICE custody

 Illegal from Cuba goes to prison for human trafficking

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE)-Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) captured more than 176-thousand counterfeit (fake) sports-related items heading to the Super Bowl, worth an estimated $123-million (MSRP, Manufacturer’s Suggested Retail Price).

BLACK Border Patrol HELICOPTERS SWARM SUPER BOWL-54

Video, Super Bowl truck scanning:

Video, U.S. Coast Guard Super Bowl boat patrol:

GEORGIA: 31 people sentenced for arraigning false marriages to avoid immigration laws

ILLINOIS: Illinois Tech offers MAP funding to illegals

MARYLAND: State legislature overrides governor’s veto of a bill that provides in-state college tuition for illegals

MASSACHUSETTS: Man wanted for wartime rape crimes in his home country, was deported by ICE

ICE deports illegal wanted for attempted murder in Brazil

MICHIGAN: MSU informs all students are eligible of its resources “regardless of immigration status.” 

MINNESOTA: Judge finds county was breaking law by holding immigrants for ICE

NEW YORK: ICE arrests illegal accused of child rape

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested 75 undocumented immigrants 

Illegal man wanted for drug crimes in Spain, deported 

Man sent to prison for gun running from Kosovo

Two Mexicans accused of killing a Mexican soldier and running drugs into the U.S.

OHIO:  judge uses a hunch to call ICE on undocumented defendants: “Haven’t got one wrong yet”

PENNSYLVANIA: ICE arrests illegal who has been repeatedly arrested and released by local immigrant loving law ‘enforcement’

Chester County is or is not a sanctuary county?

PUERTO RICO:  U.S. Coast Guard captures 37 illegals from Dominican Republic on 29JAN2020, bringing the one week total to 69 illegals captured.

TEXAS: Company hit with $3-million fine for knowingly hiring illegals 

Illegal from Mexico goes to prison for human trafficking

UTAH:  Illegal ‘Dreamers’ can now become attorneys in Utah

VERMONT: Second Amendment Sanctuary Movement Takes Hold, to counter illegal immigrant sanctuary cities

VIRGINIA: ICE arrests gang member wanted for crimes in El Salvador

WASHINGTON:  A legal resident, from Bosnia, going to prison for gun running

ICE, along with state and local law enforcers, arrest seven people for child sex trafficking

WYOMING: ACLU says privately run ICE prison is illegal 

Immigrant Invasion U.S.A., 19-25 January 2020: “THIS IS NOT A REQUEST, IT’S A DEMAND!”

 

Kit Bashing, Technology

Vehicle I-D: F-22 Raptor, plenty of kits of this one!

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F-22 Raptor flies over Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, 05DEC2019. U.S. Air Force photo by Airman First Class Erin Baxter.

F-22 during demonstration over Shaw AFB, South Carolina.
USAF photo by Airman First Class Jacob Gutierrez, 06JAN2020.

Whoopsy! Main landing gear collapse on Joint Base Langley-Eustis. Virginia Air National Guard photo, 16JAN2020.

Video, USAF Air Demo Teams explainer:

F-22 music video, Fort Lauderdale Air Show, May 2019:

Refueling over the Persian Gulf, 17JAN2020. USAF photo by Master Sergeant Joshua L. DeMotts.

Video, ‘undisclosed location’ in Persian Gulf, refueling F-22s, July 2019:

Sentry Aloha war games in Hawaii, 17JAN2020.  Hawaii Air National Guard photo by Senior Airman John Linzmeier.

Video, Sentry Aloha explainer:

First ever Forward Area Refueling Point (FARP) for F-22 Raptors in an extreme cold weather environment. Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, 30JAN2020. USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Ridge Shan.

Missile bay, F-22 on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska. USAF photo by Justin Connaher, 31JAN2020.

Video from July 2019, over Battle Creek, Michigan, taken from Air Force Heritage Flight Foundation P-51 Mustang:

Model kits:

 

USAF ADMITS F-22 STEALTH JET IS A PAIN TO MAINTAIN, AND THAT’S JUST THE ‘SKIN’!

Video:  Virginia F-22

2013: FALSE FLAG REPORT CLAIMS U.S. F-22 SHOT DOWN!

Obama cancels F-22 demo for fear of upsetting North Korea?

News media gives conflicting reasons why Obama deployed F-22s to South Korea!

International

“that Cascadian event’s going to happen!”: Pacific Ring of Fire, 26-31 January 2020

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Incomplete list of links to seismic/natural disaster reports from around the Pacific Ring of Fire, days 26 to 31 of Gregorian January 2020.
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Mountains influence the impact of earthquakes

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AUSTRALIA: Ancient volcano now home to giant fluorescent slugs

COSTA RICA: Rincón de la Vieja erupts

JAPAN: Nishino-shima has been erupting since December

5.2 quake near east coast of Honshu

5.4 quake near Okinawa

5.4 quake hits Hokkaido

MEXICO: 5.1-magnitude earthquake triggers evacuations in Acapulco

El Popo erupts, again

NEW ZEALAND:  Upper-plate earthquakes caused uplift 

PERU: scientists created a ‘cloud curtain’ in tropical forests to mimic the future

4.7 quake, 31JAN2020

PHILIPPINES: Magnitude 4.9 quake rocks Davao del Sur

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RUSSIA:  Magnitude 5.2 earthquake hits Kuril Islands

4.7 earthquake – off the east coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula

UNITED STATES:

Alaska; 3.1 quake, 31JAN2020

California;  Tropical ‘Pineapple Express’ getting boost from Arctic ice 

3.3 quake, 31JAN2020

Warm Water ‘Blob’ Led to Fatal Whale Entanglements

Hawaii;  3.7 quake, 29JAN2020

Utah National Guard joined Hawaii National Guard in a disaster drill that included a contamination event, and the ‘transfer of authority’ to a much larger responding unit:

Montana;  Quake near Helena

Oregon;  State government Cascadia Playbook revealed, Bend-Redmond area to be emergency response HQ: “Our operating assumption is most of the infrastructure we rely on today will not be accessible to us if you’re in the Valley or on the Coast following a Cascadia earthquake.”-Andrew Phelps, Oregon Office of Emergency Management

“….. that Cascadian event’s going to happen!”–Fred LeLacheur,  Redmond Airport Engineer

Oregon governor demands U.S.$13-million for disaster prep programs

Oregon Coast Community College gives free Cascadia Event classes!

Washington;  4.5 quake, 31JAN2020 

Army Corps of Engineers scrambles to prep for major flooding, again

Wyoming; Earthquakes In And Around Yellowstone: How Often Do They Occur?

Yellowstone eruption to create Super Weather?

For past decade Yellowstone area averaged 4.7 quakes per day!

VIETNAM:  Volatile temp changes destroying crops

(from 2013: GLOBAL WARMING or ICE AGE? TROPICAL VIETNAM DROPS TO 25 FAHRENHEIT!!!)

World Bank Issues Its First ‘Green Loan’ to Vietnam

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PACIFIC RING OF FIRE, 19-25 JANUARY 2020

Climate Change, 26-31 January 2020: OCEANS SINK AS THE LANDS FLOOD

International

Oceans sink as the Lands flood: Climate Change, 26-31 January 2020

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Incomplete list of links to news articles concerning climate change events during the days of 26 to 31 of the Gregorian month of January 2020.

Melting glaciers could unleash ancient viruses
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Having fewer children touted as the answer

Some insects and some animals are breeding like mad, some are good some are bad

Good crop insects are dying at rapid pace

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The Ocean Floor is Sinking

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Powerful Magnitude 7.7 Earthquake Strikes Near Jamaica and Cuba; Buildings Shake in Miami

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5.4 magnitude quake strikes Mediterranean Sea

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Fossilized Footprints Show Neanderthals Climbing An Active Volcano

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NATO members Canada, France, Italy, Lithuania and the United States are testing energy saving tech at this year’s Smart Energy Training and Assessment Camp.  It includes LED lighting, energy metering, atmospheric water generation, and various sizes of portable solar arrays.

ALBANIA: 4.3 quake, 31JAN2020

AUSTRALIA: Canberra declares state of emergency

BRAZIL:  Exploding canals, imploding malls

More than 30-thousand homeless due to flooding

indigenous group takes on “invader” mining company
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ICELAND: Alert level raised for expanding volcano

INDONESIA: More flooding, more deaths

ITALY: Vehicle ban goes into effect on Sunday

ROMANIA: 5.2-magnitude earthquake

SENEGAL: Has already lost one town to ocean rise

SWITZERLAND:  Warming rivers means less fish to eat?

TURKEY:  4.0 quake, 31JAN2020

UNITED KINGDOM:  Flood victims say new flood plan will make things worse

UNITED STATES: Wine making will end if a new climate adaptable grape cannot be found 

Trees Aren’t the Simple Climate Solution They Seem to Be

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‘Stop using the worst-case scenario … as the most likely outcome,’ experts say
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Illinois;  FEMA grants city additional U.S.$2.3-million to buyout flood prone residential properties (for some reason this news article refers to the grants as an ‘award’, as if the city won a contest)
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North Carolina; 2.3 quake
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Oregon; Utility company pays for climate change education in Portland grade schools (it should be noted that the same utility company announced in November 2019 that it will shutdown its remaining five customer service centers in Spring)
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Puerto Rico; 

Puerto Rico Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Caycee Watson, 30JAN2020.

Puerto Rico Air National Guard personnel with the 156th Medical Group, inspect toilets and hand washing facilities at  an earthquake response ‘base camp’ in Guayanilla, 30JAN2020.
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West Virginia; FEMA grants one county U.S.$131-million to rebuild flooded schools (for some reason this news article refers to the grant as an ‘award’, as if the county won a contest)
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CLIMATE CHANGE, 12-18 JANUARY 2020: OPERATION SUDDEN RESPONSE

Going Viral, 30-31 January 2020: “I’M THE ONLY ONE LEFT”

U.S.

Pennsylvania Disaster, Army deploys!

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Not reported by the ‘main stream”, on 24JAN2020 the U.S. Army’s Charlie Company, 2-104th General Support Aviation Battalion, 28th Expeditionary Combat Aviation Brigade, deployed in response to a disaster in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Video, UH-60 Black Hawks deploys:

The casualties were transported to a medical facility at Fort Indiantown Gap, in UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters.

Don’t worry, it was just another in the growing number of disaster training operations by the U.S. military.  Blood provided by Field of Screams Haunted Houses of Pennsylvania.

OPERATION SUDDEN RESPONSE

FEMA REGION 4, FEMA REGION 6, CONTAMINATION EVENTS!

U.S.

Black helicopters swarm Super Bowl-54

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U.S. Customs and Border Protection photo by Ozzy Trevino, 23JAN2020.

Since at least 23JAN2020, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) Air and Marine Operations, Miami-Dade Police, and other government agencies have been training-up for Super Bowl-54.  Every year so much taxpayer funded security is heaped upon the Super Bowl you might as well put the military in charge of the NFL.

U.S. CBP photo by Ozzy Trevino, 23JAN2020.

Among the assets being used are the CBP’s black and gold UH-60 Black Hawks, oh, and their little AS350 A-Star ‘copters. CBP video by Dusan Ilic, 27JAN2020:

U.S. CBP photo by Jerry Glaser, 27JAN2020.

CBP video by Dusan Ilic, 27JAN2020:

U.S. CBP photo by Ozzy Trevino, 29JAN2020.

CBP video by Dusan Ilic, 27JAN2020:

CBP video by Dusan Ilic, 27JAN2020:

CBP video by Jerry Glaser, 27JAN2020:

VEHICLE I-D: CBP’S BLACK HELICOPTERS DEPLOY TO PUERTO RICO, QUICK MINICRAFT KIT REVIEW

BLADE FOLDING ARMY BLACK HAWKS

International, Technology

U.S. taxpayers to rescue “donated” C-130

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24 January 2020 / 21:35 UTC-07 Tango 06 (05 Bahman 1398/29 Jumada l-Ula 1441/01 Ding-Chou 4718)

U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Sarah Brice, 14JAN2020.

“The U.S. commitment to this partnership is stronger than ever, and I look forward to building upon it in the days ahead.”-Michael Raynor, U.S. Ambassador to Ethiopia, during the June 2018 C-130E hand-over, he obviously didn’t realize the Ethiopians couldn’t handle the U.S. taxpayer funded ‘gift’

Poorly thought-out hand-over of donated C-130E, June 2018.

A year-and-a-half ago the U.S. government “donated” a C-130 Hercules to the struggling Ethiopian air force, and without much forethought, it turns out, as it was discovered that the Ethiopian military personnel lacked the knowledge to maintain or operate the transport.

USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Sarah Brice, 14JAN2020.

In January 2020, U.S. military officials realized the Ethiopians needed help with their U.S. taxpayer funded gift, so the U.S. Air Force’s 818th Mobility Support Advisory Squadron (MSAS) went in.

U.S. Air Force maintenance personnel check-out the landing gear on the donated C-130E. USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Sarah Brice, 14JAN2020.

Explainer video, 23JAN2020:

So far the old C-130E has completed taxi runs, hopefully will be flying soon.

Between 1998 and 2014, Ethiopia got two C-130Bs, and a C-130E.  The above pic is of tail #1562 seen wasting away.  The other B model and the E model are listed as active, which is hard to believe since Ethiopia had so much trouble maintaining the C-130E donated in June 2018.

In the cockpit, USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Sarah Brice, 14JAN2020.

In the cargo bay, USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Sarah Brice, 14JAN2020.

The intent of the donation of the C-130E was to help Ethiopia conduct ‘peacekeeping’ missions in Africa.

Taxpayer rip-offs: U.S. TAXPAYERS DELIVER MD-530F CAYUSE WARRIOR TO KENYA

BARE METAL: C-130 PAINT PREP, OR THE EMPEROR GETS SOME NEW CLOTHES

Technology

NATO Vehicle I-D: Challenger vs Leclerc

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NATO’s 2020 anti-Russia training was held in the eastern European country of Latvia (right on Russia’s border).

NATO promo-video, NATO’s Adazi Training Base, Latvia, 23JAN2020:

LECLERC, NATO-France:

French Leclercs invade NATO-Germany, 29MAY2018. U.S. Army photo by Kevin S. Abel.

U.S. Army (USA) video by Kevin S. Abel, May 2018, France ‘invades’ Germany for Strong Europe Tank Challenge:

The Leclerc does not have a bore evacuator (fume extractor) on its NATO compatible 120mm F1 smoothbore main-gun.  It uses interior overpressure, or a compressed air system, for gun-tube fume extraction.

USA photo by Specialist Craig Carter, 05JUN2018.

USA video by Matthias Fruth, Leclercs blasting away during NATO’s Strong Europe Tank Challenge at the 7th U.S. Army Training Command’s Grafenwoehr Training Area, Germany, June 2018:

Simulated CBRN attack. USA photo by Specialist Craig Carter, 05JUN2018.

Push-me-pull-you action, towing away a ‘broke-dick’ Leclerc. USA photo by Specialist Craig Carter, 05JUN2018.

Leclerc’s butt. USA photo by Lacey Justinger, 04JUN2018.

Leclerc has a single exhaust that looks like a giant water-pipe elbow pointing skyward. The ‘things’ on the back-end of the tank are racks for external fuel drums, à la Soviet style.

CHALLENGER:  No, not my (snow)drifting Challenger!

NATO-United Kingdom:

USA photo by Gertrud Zach, 07JUN2018.

This is the Challenger I’m talking about, the United Kingdom’s Challenger-2.  The Challenger has a ‘coffee-can’ bore evacuator on its non-NATO compatible 120mm L30A1 rifled-bore main-gun.

USA photo by Gertrud Zach, 07JUN2018.

It also has fuel drum racks on its butt.  The exhaust ports are square looking boxes towards the rear on each side of the vehicle.

Pistol shoot. USA photo by Gertrud Zach, 06JUN2018.

Video, shooting a pistol from the turret of a Challenger-2, Strong Europe Tank Challenge,  Grafenwoehr Training Area, Germany, June 2018:

USA photo by Gertrud Zach, 07JUN2018.

Somebody lit a fire under this Challenger-2’s ass!  I suspect that it is one of the smoke grenades used to simulate a CBRN attack.

USA silent video, by Elliott Banks, of Royal Red Coats uploading their unique three-part-ammo:

USA video of Challenger-2 blasting away (this time Elliott recorded the audio), 06JUN2018:

VEHICLE I-D: MODEL T & WHITE MOTOR WARRIORS

JOIN THE U.S. MILITARY GET A CLASSIC CAR?

 ZOMBIE TANK T-55, THEY’RE EVERYWHERE! (and they keep coming back from the dead)

Kit Bashing, Technology

Vehicle I-D: Cold War and beyond, C-2A to C-2A(R) Greyhound, now ‘On Final’! Can you get a kit of it?

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Nice, Italy, 1970. Photo via U.S. Navy’s VR-24.

The Grumman C-2A Greyhound has been around for a long time, joining the U.S. Navy in 1966 (production started in 1965).

Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, October 1990. USN photo by Don S. Montgomery.

Somewhere over the Pacific Ocean, February 2005. USN photo by Photographer’s Mate Justin Blake.

It was developed from the E-2 Hawkeye early warning aircraft, and eventually replaced the older C-1 Trader.

C-1A Trader, Naval Air Station Norfolk, Virginia, August 1983. USN photo by Journalist Senior Chief Petty Officer Kirby Harrison.

C-2 Greyhound somewhere over the Indian Ocean, Summer of 1980. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate First Class David Maclean.

Somewhere over the Mediterranean Sea, Summer 1988. USN photo by Commander Leenhouts.

C-2A over Naval Air Station Norfolk, September 1989. USN photo by Photographer’s Mate Third Class Stephen L. Batiz.

Seven little Greyhounds over Naval Base San Diego, California, August 1990. USN photo by Photographer’s Mate Second Class Patrick Muscutt.

News media board a C-2A Greyhound, during Operation Desert Shield, August 1990. USN photo by Journalist Petty Officer Second Class Bartlett.

Hurghada, Egypt, a Greyhound being loaded with supplies for an aircraft carrier in the Red Sea, post Operation Desert Storm. USN photo by Photographer’s Mate Second Class Savage, May/April 1991.

Official USN website history of the C-2A Greyhound: C-2A Greyhound Logistics Aircraft

Operation Enduring Freedom logo painted on the underside of the tail-end of a C-2A. Naval Air Station Norfolk, July 2002. USN photo by Photographer’s Mate First Class Shawn P. Eklund.

Naval Air Station Norfolk, July 2002. USN photo by Photographer’s Mate First Class Shawn P. Eklund.

Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Corporal Jacqueline Diaz, 18MAR2009.

It has gone through many upgrades, the current Greyhounds are known as C-2A(R) and are identifiable by their NP2000 propellers.

U.S. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. USN photo by Petty Officer Third Class Joshua Nistas, 15JAN2010.

USN video,  Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch Systems (EMALS) and Advanced Arresting Gear (AAG) testing aboard USS Gerald R. Ford’s (CVN 78), 17JAN2020:

Another Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch Systems (EMALS) and Advanced Arresting Gear (AAG) testing aboard USS Gerald R. Ford’s (CVN 78) video:

Video, Rawhindes of Fleet Logistics Support Squadron (VRC) 40 conduct their first flight operations from aboard USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72), April 2019:

Carrier Onboard Delivery, aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68) November 2017:

More Rawhides video from February 2017,  operations aboard the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69):

Video, Horsemen of Detachment IV of Fleet Logistics Support Squadron (VRC) 40, takes off and lands on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) October 2016 (warning, includes slow-mo-video, do not adjust your set):

Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, video of Greyhound prepping for trip to USS George Washington (CVN-73), September 2014:

Naval Air Station North Island, San Diego, California, 11DEC2013. USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Second Class Stacy Atkins Ricks.

On Final: The U.S. Navy has tried several times to replace the Greyhound, but potential replacements failed to measure up, or never materialized. In 2015, the USN stated that it intended to replace the Greyhound with the much more expensive, less load carrying ability, tilt-rotary wing CMV-22B Osprey, possibly starting in 2024.

Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland, 19MAR2020. USN photo by Steve Wolff/Paul Lagasse.

On 19MAR2020, C-2A Greyhound Bureau Number (not ‘build number’ as many people/authors incorrectly call it) 162142 took its final flight.

Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland, 19MAR2020. USN photo by Erik Hildebrandt/Paul Lagasse.

BuNu 162142 had flown with VX-20 for just short of 30 years.

Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland, 19MAR2020. USN photo by Erik Hildebrandt/Brittany Dickerson.

BuNu 162142 retired to the Patuxent River Naval Air Museum.

USN photo by Christopher D Nette, 18AUG2020.

On 17AUG2020, the last C-2A(R) to undergo planned maintenance interval three (PMI-3) arrived on Fleet Readiness Center Southwest (FRCSW), North Island Naval Air Station, California. PMI-3 for the Greyhound costs just under $4-million: “Other C-2s will induct for the much smaller PMI-1 and 2 events and most likely will also have in-service repairs. Field events for PMI-1 and 2 are scheduled out to Fiscal Year 2022.”-Jorge Gutierrez-Lopez, FRCSW Props IPT program scheduler

28NOV2020, somewhere over the Arabian Sea. USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Third Class Keenan Daniels.

28NOV2020, somewhere over the Arabian Sea. USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Third Class Keenan Daniels.

In 1:72 scale; I-D Models made a vacform kit in the mid-1970s.  Falcon began issuing a Triple conversion set in the 1990s that included a C-2A fuselage for the Fujimi or Hasegawa E-2 Hawkey.  Resin kit maker RVHP Models currently has an outrageously expensive full-kit (you can buy a couple of the 1:48 Kinetic kits for one RVHP kit).

Trumpeter offers a detailed 1:350 scale kit for your aircraft carrier.

Fox One Design Studio offers 1:144 scale versions.

In 1:48 scale the rare resin Collect Aire kit comes with four blade prop, while Kinetic’s more affordable plastic kits come with either four or eight blade props.

VEHICLE I-D: USN GOSHAWK T-45

Technology

Vehicle I-D: USN Goshawk T-45

Video

U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Third Class Connor Loessin, 20JAN2020.

The U.S. Navy (USN) is currently testing its new Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS) and Advanced Arresting Gear (AAG), and the venerable T-45 Goshawk is one of the guinea pigs.

USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Zack Guth, 18JAN2020.

USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Third Class Connor Loessin, 20JAN2020.

USN video, Goshawk touch-n-go (wait for it) aboard the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78), 18JAN2020:

 

USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Jesus O. Aguiar, 18JAN2020.

The T-45 is now an old plane, its origins go back to the 1970s British empire Hawk trainer.  The USN asked for a navalized version and began using it in 1991, calling it the T-45 Goshawk.

USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Third Class Zachary Melvin, 18JAN2020.

USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Third Class Zachary Melvin, 18JAN2020.

USN video, fueling the Goshawk, take-off & landing aboard the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78), 18JAN2020:

USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Jesus O. Aguiar, 18JAN2020.

Interestingly, model kit builders were able to get a Goshawk before the USN officially started using it.  In 1989, Italeri (eh-taal-ery) began selling 1:72 scale kits of the T-45A Goshawk.  In 1990, Testors reboxed the Italeri kit.  Italeri reissued the kit in 2019.

USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Third Class Ryan Carter, 17JAN2020.

USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Second Class Ruben Reed, 17JAN2020.

Another fueling video:

USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Third Class Ryan Carter, 17JAN2020.

USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Third Class Ryan Carter, 17JAN2020

VEHICLE I-D: MODEL T & WHITE MOTOR WARRIORS

NEW F-16 WRAITH! NIGHT FIGHTER WW-2 STYLE!

F-8 DFBW, OR ANOTHER REASON WHY TODAY’S TECHIE GENERATION OWES THE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX!

NEW TAIL FEATHERS FOR OREGON EAGLE, B-17 BOMBER STYLE! PLUS, MINI-EAGLE.