USA video, by Sergeant Amber Cobena, UH-60 helicopter insertion, 24FEB2023:
USA photo by Sergeant Amber Cobena, 25FEB2023.
It is considered a ‘first’ for the UAE: “This historic first JRTC rotation demonstrates the proficiency of the UAE Land Forces and strength of our partnership.. …focused on building our proficiency with the UAE Land Forces’ 11th Mountain Battalion.”– Lieutenant General Patrick D. Frank, U.S. Army Central Commanding General
A soldier from the United Arab Emirates 11th Mountain Battalion engages with opposition forces in ‘The Box’ during Joint Readiness Training Center Rotation 23-04, 27FEB2023. USA photo by Sergeant Amber Cobena.
The very next day, WKBN went on the air to call the MyID a ‘crazy conspiracy theory’, claim that it cannot be tracked, have yet to even arrive for issue:
On 22FEB2023, a plane carrying employees of CTEH, an Arkansas based environmental consultancy firm, crashed killing everybody on the plane. In this THV11 video a reporter asks why so many government agencies from other jurisdictions showed up to the plane crash, the flimsy answer is that “it’s within a hundred yards of the city”:
Here’s eight hours (looped) of CNN-News18 video of the Cleveland explosion aftermath from 21FEB2023. The report reveals that the alloy factory had recently passed a safety inspection:
Ohio Army National Guard Military Police and Ohio State Highway Patrol (Trooper), work checkpoints around East Palestine, 08FEB2023. Ohio National Guard photo by Airman First Class Ivy Thomas.
On 24FEB2023, a cattle rancher located north of East Palestine says he had to “talk my way past the Army National Guard and the State Troopers” just to get to his property (about 1:40 into the interview), he is being followed by the local sheriff:
True life victim of disaster cover-ups, Erin Brockovich, calls it ‘gaslighting’, reveals that school drinking fountains are turned off, private water wells have been ‘locked’, 26FEB2023:
On 27FEB2023, Ohio Representative Steve Demetriou says federal and state officials are ignoring the human victims of the crash, calls for independent field hearings. Interviewer reveals that people are returning bottled water because they don’t trust the source of the bottled water:
26 February 2023 (21:05-UTC-07 Tango 06) 07 Esfand 1401/05 Sha’ban 1444/07 Jia-Yin(2nd month) 4721/26 февраля 2023 года
On 25FEB2023, the Aviation Industry Corporation (AvIC) of China reported that they sold an undisclosed number of its latest 4th/5th generation training aircraft to a U.S. ally; the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Model of L-15 trainer at the 16th IDEX in UAE. Photo via AvIC.
The deal was apparently made during the recent 16th International Defense Exhibition and Conference (IDEX) in Abu Dhabi. The L-15 looks very similar to the Russian Yak-130 and NATO-Italy’s Aermacchi M-346. Apparently, the L-15 is the nomenclature assigned by the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) for the export version of the JL-10 trainer.
JL-10, photo by Li Ning, 20JUL2020.
According to the PLA, the turbines powering the L-15/JL-10 are made in Ukraine; Ivchenko-Progress AI-222-25F turbofans!
PLA video, twin engined JL-10 flies alongside older training aircraft of the Harbin Flight Academy, April 2022:
In 2021, Chinese military sales reps said the toughest market to sell weapons in is in The Middle East (South West Asia), and that the L-15 can compete with Western systems: “After the Airshow China in Zhuhai in October, China brought it to Dubai, reflecting the importance it attaches to the Middle East arms trade market. Now, the L-15 is at the same level of the products of these developed countries, and offers more advantages in terms of price.”-Wang Yanan, aerospace science and technology analyst
PLA video of Shijiazhuang Flight Academy’s JL-10, 10FEB2021:
06AUG2018.
In 2018, the PLA Navy got a navalized version called JL-10H.
06AUG2018.
The People’s Republic of China makes the same claim about its military industrial complex that the United States does; that it is about building global peace and security.
The last RC-26B made its final flight on 16FEB2023. For more than 30 years, beginning in 1991 (tail end of the Cold War), the RC-26B Condor not only worked anti-drug missions, but international warzone counter-insurgency flights, domestic homeland security missions, wild-fire fighting and disaster relief efforts: “This aircraft is kind of like a chameleon. It could morph in to just about anything you could imagine, as far as hurricane support, counter-drug, the border or wildfire support. It was like a Swiss Air National Guard Knife.”-Major Luis Flores, RC-26 pilot, Texas Air National Guard
The RC-26B is a modified C-26B, which began service in the last decade of the non-declared Cold War as the C-26A. At one point it was known as the ISR (Intelligence Surveillance Reconnaissance).
National Guard report about combat use of RC-26B, somewhere in South West Asia (Middle East), 18JUL2013:
During those 30 plus years the Condor (modified Fairchild Metro 23) was flown by units in Alabama, Arizona, California, Florida, Iowa, Mississippi, New Mexico, Texas, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Washington.
CALIFORNIA:
California Air National Guard photo, 30JUL2014.
FLORIDA:
Florida Air National Guard photo by Sergeant Lalita Laksbergs, 22FEB2011.
Florida Air National Guard photo by Sergeant Lalita Laksbergs, 22FEB2011.
Florida Air National Guard photo by Sergeant Lalita Laksbergs, 22FEB2011.
Video by Master Sergeant Megan Hunter, 22FEB2011:
IOWA:
Iowa Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sergeant Robert Shepherd, 27JAN2023.
On 27JAN2023, the Iowa Air National Guard conducted its final flight of the RC-26B. The Condor began operations at the Des Moines Airbase only recently, in 2015, providing counter-narcotics, and domestic natural disaster support, for law enforcement and emergency management.
Iowa Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sergeant Robert Shepherd, 27JAN2023.
MISSISSIPPI: USAF video (by Staff Sergeant Aaron Richardson) RC-26B during exercise Southern Strike, October 2015:
TEXAS:
RC-26 cockpit view of New York City, on its way to its final resting place in Maryland. Texas Air National Guard photo by Sean Cowher, 16FEB2023.
Delivering the 147th Attack Wing’s RC-26 to Hagerstown Aviation Museum, Maryland. Texas Air National Guard photo by Sean Cowher, 16FEB2023.
On 15FEB2023, the 147th Attack Wing of the Texas Air National Guard retired its RC-26 Condor, but the final flight was when the aircraft was put out to pasture at the Hagerstown Aviation Museum, in Maryland, on 16FEB2023.
An early Condor of the Texas Air National Guard, with a surveillance pod, 13SEP2005. Photo by Staff Sergeant Cheryl Hackley.
The first Texas Air National Guard RC-26 crew, in 1991!
WEST VIRGINIA:
West Virginia National Guard photo by Edwin L. Wriston, 06JAN2023.
On 06JAN2023, the West Virginia National Guard retired their RC-26 Condor (# 94-0260). RC-26 #94-0260 was one of the last of 11 such aircraft operated by the U.S. Air Force and National Guard.
Final crew for the Final Flight. West Virginia National Guard photo by Edwin L. Wriston, 06JAN2023.
WASHINGTON:
Final start-up of an RC-26, for its final flight from Fairchild Air Force Base, Washington, 06JAN2023. Washington Air National Guard photo by Technical Sergeant Kayleigh Phillips.
On 06JAN2023, Washington joined West Virginia in retiring its Condor. Evergreen State C-26B operations began from Fairchild Air Force Base in 1991, then in 1995 the Condor was reconfigured as an RC-26B.
Washington Air National Guard photo by Technical Sergeant Kayleigh Phillips, 06JAN2023.
“We provide the necessary information to the USDA FS and NWICC, such as, where is the fire? In one instance with the Crescent Mountain fire, the fire behavior and visibility had been erratic. We showed up at 0700, had the RC-26 overhead at 0800, and by 0930 evacuation orders were sent out based on the video feed provided to the incident commander.”-Lieutenant Colonel Rich Cullen, October 2018
Washington National Guard video, RC-26B surveillance of wildfire in Oregon, August 2018:
Inside an RC-26 assigned to the141st Operations Group, Washington Air National Guard, mapping the Chetco Bar fire in southern Oregon 02SEP2017. USAF photo by Senior Airman Sean Campbell.
WISCONSIN: The RC-26B began service with the Air National Guard in January 1992, assigned anti-drugs duty in 1996, final flight 28DEC2022.
Wisconsin Air National Guard’s RC-26B reconnaissance aircraft after its final flight 28DEC2022. Wisconsin Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sergeant Paul Gorman.
Wisconsin Air National Guard’s RC-26B reconnaissance aircraft after its final flight 28DEC2022. Wisconsin Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sergeant Paul Gorman.
25 February 2023 (01:24-UTC-07 Tango 06) 06 Esfand 1401/04 Sha’ban 1444/06 Jia-Yin(2nd month) 4721/25 февраля 2023 года
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a warning about Pfizer’s RSV (Respiratory Syncytial Virus) vaccine; risk of neurological Gullain-Barré Syndrome (GBS) and its variant Miller Fisher Syndrome (MFS)!
During the trials for Pfizer’s RSV vaccine at least two people developed GBA, and one other person developed MFS within eight days after vaccination.
Type 96A, People’s Liberation Army 77th Group Army photo, 04DEC2022.
Sometimes a fuel/oil tank is carried on the top of the left rear hull/fender. It can also carry long range fuel drums on its rear.
Type 96A, PLA 77th Group Army photo, 04DEC2022.
Type 96A, PLA 77th Group Army photo, 04DEC2022.
The tow hooks are mounted on the lower front slope, inboard of the headlights.
Type 96A with manually operated 12.7mm machine gun mounted on turret. Photo by Liu Zhiyong, 13SEP2022.
Type 96B, with remote controlled 12.7mm on turret roof. Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko Junior, 27AUG2022.
Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko Junior, 21AUG2022.
In August 2022, China took second place in the Tank Biathlon and Masters of Armored Vehicles, during Russia’s International Army Games, using their Type 96B. The International Army Games were held on the territories of 12 countries, including China, Russia and Iran, with more than 270 teams from 37 countries competing.
Photo by Yu Ziheng, 14AUG2022.
The Type 96B has a remote controlled 12.7mm heavy machine gun on top of the turret, which is not always mounted. The Type 96A is up-armored with armor blocks, and upgraded gun sights. The Type 96 series uses a 125mm main gun. The ‘skirt’ gets shorter with each new generation of Type 96, the Type 96B being the shortest (sometimes they go ‘naked’).
Type 96Bs leaving China controlled Inner Mongolia for the International Army Games in Russia, July 2022. Photo via CCTV-7.
CGTN video, first round of Tank Biathlon, 15AUG2022, revealing that the remote controlled 12.7mm can also be fired manually:
The Type 96A/B has a turret very similar to the VT4, VT5, and Type 99 tanks. The hull evolved from the Soviet/Russian T-54/55. The roadwheels are uniquely Chinese, and unlike the T-54/55 the track is supported. The Type 96B has more streamlined looking fenders, than the Type 96A, the two exhaust ports are closer together as well and not as obvious as on the Type 96A.
From U.S. Army Graphic Training Aid, Armored Vehicle Recognition, 1987.
From a distance the Type 96A/B looks much like the old Cold War era NATO-West German Leopard 1A4.
People’s Liberation Army 77th Group Army video showing Type 96A during live-fire training, May 2022:
PLA 73rd Group Army photo by Liu Zhiyong, 27APR2022.
PLA 73rd Group Army photo by Liu Zhiyong, 27APR2022.
PLA 73rd Group Army photo by Liu Zhiyong, 27APR2022.
PLA 71st Group Army photo by Bai Junfeng, 15APR2022.
The Type 96 has two exhaust holes on the same side of the hull, the right side, as opposed to the T-54/55 or T-72 single exhaust on the left side.
PLA 71st Group Army photo by Bai Junfeng, 15APR2022.
PLA 71st Group Army photo by Bai Junfeng, 15APR2022.
PLA 73rd Group Army photo by Liu Zhiyong, 15JAN2021.
The Type 96A appears to be connected to a generator on the ground. PLA 81st Group Army photo by Yang Jian, November 2020.
The front of the Type 96A/B turret is different from the older Type 96, also, the bustle racks have armor(?) plates attached.
PLA 72nd Group Army photo by Xiao Yuxuan, 11MAY2020.
CGTN video, January 2020, female tank commander explain why she likes the Type 96A/B (because it makes her look “most beautiful”, typical!):
CGTN video, Type 96B during 2019 International Army Games:
CGTN video of Type 96 driver showing-off, December 2017 (I did the same thing in an M1 Abrams, it is actually easy to get a tank to drift or slide, if it has a powerful motor):
Type 96:
The older Type 96 has a splash guard on the front slope, and the turret bustle racks do not have armor plate covering them.
Skirtless Type 96. PLA 71st Group Army photo by Yao Zongkai, 17SEP2022.
PLA 82nd Group Army video from May 2022, Type 96 live-fire:
The Type 96 is also known as ZTZ-96.
PLA 71st Group Army photo by Zhu Baolong, 21MAY2022.
The Chinese started with the T-54/55 hull, then got radical by replacing the unsupported track system with a supported track (the track-links themselves are the same), and replacing the manually loaded main gun with the auto-loading 125mm from a T-72.
PLA 71st Group Army photo by Zhu Baolong, 21MAY2022.
The wire cage on the top rear of the turret is for catching the spent 125mm casings as they are ejected from the turret. PLA 71st Group Army photo by Yao Zongkai, 21MAY2022
The turret of the Type 96 is shaped different from that on the Type 96A/B, especially on the front.
PLA 71st Group Army photo by Lin Min, February 2022.
The Type 96 inherited the butt of the T-54/55.
Notice the spent 125mm casings on the ground behind the Type 96. PLA 71st Group Army photo by Lin Min, February 2022.
People’s Liberation Army photo by He Rui, late January 2023.
Track shoes/pads are removable, on the Type 99A. PLA photo by He Rui, late January 2023.
It has been confused with the export only tanks VT1 and VT4, and the lightweight high altitude tank VT5. Sometimes it is called ZTZ-99A. The Type 99A is an radical evolution of the Type 99. The Type 99 is based on the Soviet/Russian T-72, it began service in 2001.
T-72 style roadwheels and small exhaust ports on both sides of the Type 99A.
The Type 99A has the driver’s position slightly offset from center of the front of the hull, and has two periscopes, the Type 99 has only one T-72 style periscope for the driver and the position is centered. Other Chinese tanks with similar looking turrets (like the Type 96B) have driver’s positions that are offset from center, on the driver’s left side, revealing they were originally based on the T-54/55.
An 81st Group Army Type 99A with armored blocks, and without fender skirts. Notice the ‘Eiffel Tower’ in the background. PLA photo, 10JAN2023.
CGTN video explaining the Type 96A, from August 2020:
In 2011, China began slowly replacing the Type 99 with the Type 99A, however, it wasn’t publicly revealed until 2015.
CGTN video, Type 99A during parade in July 2017:
CGTN video, Type 96A during parade in October 2019:
Type 99:
The older Type 99. PLA 76th Group Army photo by Cao Xuguang, 14JUL2020.
The exhaust ports on the Type 99A are set further back than the Type 99, due to a new powerpack (motor/transmission). The powerpack for the older Type 99 was reportedly developed by NATO-Germany. The headlights on the Type 99 sit higher up on the front slope than the Type 99A. The front tow hooks on the Type 99 sit on the upper front slope, below the headlights, while the tow hooks of the Type 99A are mounted on the lower front slope, inline with the headlights.
The older Type 99. PLA 76th Group Army photo by Cao Xuguang, 14JUL2020.
PLA 76th Group Army photo 08JUL2020.
PLA 76th Group Army photo by Cao Xuguang, 18JUN2020.
PLA 76th Group Army photo by Cao Xuguang, 18JUN2020.
Welcome to borderland hell under U.S. President Joseph Robinette Biden Junior, incomplete (just the tip of the iceberg) list of videos and reports from the United States Coast Guard (USCG) about the increasing flood of boat people from Bahamas, Cuba, and Haiti, and the increasing illegal fishing operations by Mexico, for January 2023:
On 04JAN2023, the U.S. Coast Guard reported returning 75 illegals to their home country of Cuba. But wait, there is more: 08JAN2023, 273 illegals from Cuba were sent home! On 10JAN2023, 187 illegals were shipped back to Cuba! Then, on 12JAN2023, 177 illegals were sent back to Cuba! On 18JAN2023, 82 illegals were returned to Cuba. 90 illegals were sent back to Cuba on 20JAN2023.
U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer Second Class John F. Roberts, 14JAN2023.
On 14JAN2023, a USCG HC-144 Ocean Sentry flew over a boat filled with more than 2-hundred illegals from Haiti, somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean.
U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) video by Petty Officer First Class Nicole Groll, showing the crew of an HC-144 Ocean Sentry dropping food and water to illegals who got shipwrecked on an island in the Bahamas, 21JAN2023:
USCG video by Petty Officer First Class Nicole Groll, showing the illegals shipwrecked on Angulla Cay, Bahamas, 21JAN2023:
Also on 21JAN2023, the USCG reported returning 83 illegals to their home country of Cuba.
Approximately 60 miles south of Andros Island, Bahamas, 21JAN2023, USCG District 7 video showing interception of boat overloaded with 396 illegals from Haiti:
On 22JAN20232, the USCG returned 68 illegals to their home country of Cuba.
The USCG reports handing over to the Navy of the Dominican Republic, on 23JAN2023, 58 Dominicans and seven Haitians, who were caught trying to get to the U.S. illegally.
69 illegals were sent home to Cuba on 25JAN2023.
USCG District 7 photo, 27JAN2023.
On 27JAN2023, USCG District 7 captured 309 illegals approximately 20 miles northeast of Mole Saint Nicolas, Haiti. They were sent home on 31JAN2023.
FLORIDA: Cuban Boat People intercepted near Islamorada, USCG video by Petty Officer Third Class Ryan Graves, 12JAN2023:
Approximately five miles east of Dry Tortugas, 68 Cubans were intercepted on 20JAN2023, video by USCG District 7:
TEXAS:
USCG photo by Petty Officer First Class Carson Corbin, 07JAN2023.
On 07JAN2023, the USCG captured a Mexican fishing boat with 350 pounds of illegally caught Red Snapper onboard, three Mexicans were transferred to Border Patrol.
USCG District 8 photo by Petty Officer First Class Corinne Zilnicki, 09JAN2023.
On 09JAN2023, the USCG intercepted a Mexican fishing boat-crew that had illegally caught 2-hundred pounds of Red Snapper.
USCG District 8 video, from 20JAN2023, of sinking Mexican fishing boat that had four Mexicans illegally fishing near Texas, they were turned over to Border Patrol. They had illegally caught 66 pounds of fish before their boat started sinking:
USCG District 8 photo, 26JAN2023.
On 26JAN2023, the USCG captured five Mexicans illegally fishing off the Texas coast. The fishermen had illegally caught 3-hundred pounds of Red Snapper before being intercepted!
The VT4A1 has an onboard drone that extends the battlefield observation of the tank crew to 10 kilometers. It is vertically mounted, next to the wind sensor on top of the turret.
Image taken from CGTN video, 07NOV2022.
It also has anti-tank missile detectors on the sides of the turret. The 125mm gun is enhanced by the use of new types of rounds fired from the gun.
Hour long CGTN report, from 06NOV2022, which starts off explaining the new VT4A1:
I have not found any People’s Liberation Army videos or photos of any Chinese units actually using the VT4, it appears to be an export only tank, so far with Pakistan the only customer.
Pakistan received its first VT4s in 2020, then placed an order for more VT4s in 2022, and is considering license building them.
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