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Vehicle I-D: M109, Cold War and beyond

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Cold War: Approximately 1947 (due to U.S. President Harry Truman’s Truman Doctrine) to 1991 (Operation Desert Storm, collapse of Soviet Union).

U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) M109 with short M126 155mm gun, Viet Nam, July 1966. Photo by Captain Edwin W. Besch.

A USMC Major General has the ‘honor’ of launching the 30-thousandth round from a 4th Battalion, 11th Marines, M126 155mm gunned M109, in Viet Nam. USMC photo by Sergeant Upton, 25JUN1967.

Video I edited from the late 1960s U.S. Army’s The Big Picture film to focus on the M109, and a sneak peak at what was then the experimental M109A1 (complete with fake artillery sound effects):

Another video I edited from The Big Picture about the USA 3rd Armored Division in NATO Germany, late 1960s, showing the short barreled M109 (there was no nat-sound, and the narration is terrible so I edited it out):

Silent USA film by ‘Jensen’, M109 action Khe Sanh area, Viet Nam, August 1970:

With the M109A1, the short M126 barrel was replaced with the long M185 cannon.  From A1 through A4 series there is no visual difference, the upgrades being internal.    If you’ll notice, some photos show a protruding panoramic periscope, while others do not, and it does not matter if it is an A1, A2, A3 or A4.  The A5 variant got a more powerful motor, and a new M284 gun of apparently the same length as the M185, visually similar to its predecessors.

A U.S. Army (USA) M109A1 is loaded onto the U.S. Air Force’s (USAF) YC-15, on Yuma Army Proving Grounds, Arizona. The experimental YC-15 helped develop the C-17. Photo by Charles P. Connally, 17DEC1975.

Photo attributed to Bernd Hartmann, Germany 1978.

In the mid-1970s, the U.S. Army (USA) turned a M108/109 into a fake-news ZSU-23-4 for use in the testing of a U.S. Air Force (USAF) ground vehicle identification/targeting program. It was seen again, very briefly, in a ReForGer (Return of Forces to Germany) wargame, where European tank-o-philes speculated that the USA had created a new anti-aircraft tank. 

USMC M109s displayed for U.S. Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger, 27JUL1981. USMC photo by Corporal Jarman.

USMC M109, Twentynine Palms, California, November 1981. USMC photo by Sergeant D.D. Smith.

USMC M109 on Twentynine Palms, California, 28APR1982. USMC photo by Staff Sergeant Parker.

A little confused about the location of this photo, the info says it is a ReForGer exercise yet also says it is Fort Riley, Kansas, 1982. USA photo by Sergeant First Class Mcbride.

USMC 2nd Tank Battalion M109 self-propelled artillery in NATO Norway, March 1983. USMC photo by Corporal M.H. Coffey.

NATO Canada M109A1. USA photo by Specialist-5 (aka Spec-5 or Specialist Second Class) Vince E. Warner, 14MAY1983.

In 1984, the U.S. Army (USA) announced it was considering an ‘A5’ upgrade to its M109s, and the creation of a specialized ammo carrier based on the M109’s chassis. There is very little visual difference between the earlier long barreled M109s and the ‘A5’ M109.

Pulling the powerpack from a M109A1, Egypt, 1985. Photo by Dan Mock.

NATO Norway M109 with M126 155mm gun, February 1987. USMC photo by Corporal J.D. Gonzales.

Two M109A1s on a U.S. Navy (USN) landing craft, May 1987. USN photo by Photographer’s Mate Ed Bailey.

The information that came with this photo says it is a USA M109A1, Fort Irwin National Training Center, California, March 1988.

A USA M109 155mm self-propelled artillery gun is offloaded for Operation Desert Shield, sometime in the last quarter of 1990. USA photo by Staff Sergeant Ruark.

Egyptian M109s taking part in Operation Desert Shield, moving through NBC decontamination training lanes, December 1990. U.S. Air Force photo credited to Technical Sergeant H. H. Deffner.

USA M109A2, Fort Huachuca, Arizona. The odd shaped thing on the bow of the M109A2 is an experimental anti-tank-mine device. Photo by Lynn S. Beltran, January 1991.

Post Cold War, 1992 to present:

USA M109 of C Battery, 1st Battalion, 41st Field Artillery, in Somalia as part of a UN peacekeeping mission. USA photo by Specialist Gary A. Bryant, 27DEC1993.

USA M109A3 (according to the info that came with the photo) live-fire training in Kuwait, 25OCT1994. USA photo by Specialist Moses M. Mlasko.

M109 based in Butzbach, Germany, loaded onto rail flat-cars (railhead operation), 28DEC1995. USA photo by Staff Sergeant Arthur Mitchum.

Supposedly the first A6 Paladin upgrades entered service with the USA starting in 1994.  The Paladin has noticeable visual differences regarding the turret, gun mantlet and gun travel-lock.

USA M992 ammo carrier reloads a M109, Bosnia and Herzegovina. USA photo by Sergeant Alejandro Francisco, 06APR1996.

A muddy USA M109A2 (according to the info that came with the photo), Bosnia and Herzegovina, 22APR1996. USA photo by Specialist Glenn W. Suggs.

NATO Italy’s M109L in Bosnia and Herzegovina, June 1996. Notice the rear view mirrors for the driver. USA photo by Sergeant Brian Gavin.

The M109L also has a barrel sleeve between the bore evacuator and the mantlet. The M109L gun is designed and built in Italy, with different shaped muzzle brake and bore evacuator. USA photo by Sergeant Brian Gavin, June 1996.

The M109L also has NATO European smoke grenade launchers. USA photo by Sergeant Brian Gavin, June 1996.

USA’s Alpha Battery, 1st Battalion, 6th Field Artillery, 1st Infantry Division (Mechanized), change track on their M109, in Bosnia and Herzegovina. USA photo by Private First Class Michelle Labriel, 31JUL1997.

Checking out the 1-148 FA’s boom-boom, Summer 1997. Photo by Sergeant AAron B. Hutchins.

My children checking out the 1-148 Field Artillery’s M109, Pocatello, Idaho.

In the late 1990s, I was a 13F for Idaho Army National Guard’s 1-148 FA.

‘My’ M981A3 FiSTV (artillery forward observer M113), on Idaho’s Orchard Training Area (now called Orchard Combat Training Center), Summer 1997.

M109A6 Paladin, Fort Stewart, Georgia, November 1997. Photo by Don Teft.

M109 of Bravo Battery, 2d Battalion, 3d Field Artillery Regiment, USA, in Bosnia and Herzegovina. USA photo by Private First Class Joel C. Miller, 27MAR1998.

Amazingly, this obvious M109A6 Paladin was listed by ‘officials’ as an M109A2!!! In fact, a whole series of photos showing Fort Carson, Colorado, M109A6 Paladins are listed as M109A2s! Also, notice this Paladin has a Mark-19 40mm grenade launcher in place of the usual M2 HB .50-cal machine gun. The A6 has a new turret, gun mantlet and even new style gun travel lock. Photo by Michael Knapik, 22JUN1999.

M109A6 Paladin, Fort McCoy, Wisconsin, April 2001. Photo by Anita Johnson.

NATO Spain M109A5, El Omayed, Egypt. USAF photo by Senior Airman D. Myles Cullen, 20OCT2001.

Global War on Terror, approximately September 2001 (based on speeches by U.S. President Bush) to 23MAY2013 (based on speech by U.S. President Obama).

USA M109A6 Paladin heading towards the Euphrates River, Iraq. USMC photo by Lance Corporal Andrew P. Roufs, 23MAR2003.

Utah Army National Guard’s 2nd Battalion, 222nd Field Artillery M109A6 Paladin, Dugway Proving Grounds, Utah. USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Michael Rice, 12JUN2004.

USA M109A6 Paladin, launches rounds with its turret facing to the rear, in Balad, Iraq. An M992 is standing by with more food. USA photo by Matt Acosta, 28AUG2005.

Egyptian M109. USMC photo by Corporal Chad H. Leddy, 13SEP2005.

Egyptian M109 Self Propelled Howitzer, September 2005, photo by U.S. Army Sergeant Alejandro Licea.

Near Peer Threats and Russo-Ukraine War, 2014 to present. 

Idaho Army National Guard 1-148 Field Artillery’s M109A6 Paladin, Pocatello Airport air show. Photo by AAron B. Hutchins, 2014.

POKEY AIRPORT, IDAHO ARMY NATIONAL GUARD M109A6

New Jersey Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Andrew J. Moseley, 02MAR2017.

In 2017, the New Jersey Air National Guard used the U.S. Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Reutilization Transfer Donation program to get this M109 for its Warren Grove Bombing Range.

NATO video of NATO Norway M109A6 Paladins conducting fire mission training, video posted 26OCT2018 (no audio with the drone video, but audio with the cool close-up/crew compartment video):

Latvian National Armed Forces M109A5. Canadian Armed Forces photo by Aviator Jérôme Lessard, 15NOV2018.

NATO Vehicle I-D: LATVISKI M109A5Ö (THE Ö IS FOR ÖSTERREICH)

By 2019, a new, so called, M109 began arriving for duty with the U.S. Army (USA).  In 2021, Army National Guard units began getting their new ‘M109s’. Many military armchair ‘experts’ who get paid to write articles for military themed journals call the ‘A7’ an “upgrade” of the A6.  I do not consider the new M109A7 Paladin to be an ‘upgrade’, nor do I consider it to be a true M109 as it uses a completely new hull/chassis that is based on the M2 Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicle, as well as a completely new gun system.

Even in 2021, U.S. Department of Defense media personnel still get it wrong! This video, posted on 09JUN2021, shows Royal Moroccan M109s, obviously the A1 through A5 type, yet it was labeled as “Royal Moroccan Armed Forces Paladin” (the A6 is the true Paladin).  U.S. Army video by Second Lieutenant Catherine Framstad:

USA’s 1st Battalion, 82nd Field Artillery Regiment, launching rounds with their M109A6 Paladin in NATO Poland, 20MAY2021.  Video by Master Sergeant Ryan Matson:

Pennsylvania Army National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant Zane Craig, 10MAY2022.

Pennsylvania Army National Guard drive away from a Army Prepositioned Stock (APS) in Europe, heading to Lithuania in M109A6 Paladins, M992A2 Field Artillery Ammunition Supply Vehicles, and M572 Armored Mortar Carriers, 10MAY2022.

Biden’s War 2021: IDAHO’s 1-148 FA GETS ‘SMART’ ARTILLERY ROUNDS, REVEALS “UPCOMING MOBILIZATIONS”

A 1-148th FA M109A6 Paladin self propelled artillery system freezing to death in Pocatello, Idaho.

Cold War era M109A5 SP-gun. 1-148th FA, Pocatello, Idaho.

TANKS FOR THE MEMORIES

NATO Vehicle I-D:

Turkey’s T-155 Firtina (Tempest)

Vehicle I-D: FINLAND’S SP GUNS 155 PSH K9 & 122 PSH 74

2S1, FROM COLD WAR TO UKRAINIAN BORDER CRISIS!

2S3 AKATSIYA (2C3 АКАЦИЯ), COLD WAR TO UKRAINE BORDER CRISIS!

 

International

World War 3: Russia digs in, flies old Soviet flag! Deploying its newest weapon systems into Donbas/Kiev Ukraine!

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T-72B3 flying the old flag of the U.S.S.R.! Near the village of Rybinskoye. Notice this vehicle is marked with an ‘O’.

Perhaps because of the capture of documents revealing a massive offensive against Russia, Russia is now flooding the Donbas and Kiev Areas of Operations (AO) with more and newer military equipment.  What I found interesting is that one of the videos shows Russian BMP-2s carrying old Soviet Union flags!

This ‘V’ marked tank is the latest T-90M.

I think the ‘V’ indicates Kiev AO. Posted 09MAR2022, masses of BMP-2s, T-72B3s, BM-21 Grads, 2S3s:

‘V’ marked T-72B3.

Posted 07MAR2022, ‘V’ marked support vehicles pour into Kiev AO, Ukraine:

Posted on 06MAR2022, ‘V’ marked BMD-2s, T-72s, MTLBs:

‘V’ marked T-90M and BMP-2:

In the Donbas AO, ‘Z’ marked newer military gear is coming in. I think the ‘Z’ is from a new Russo-Ukrainian word ZaНАШИХ, or За НАШИХ (ZaNASHIKH), which means For Ours. This is a way of saying the Donbas area is Russian.  It could also mean For Victory, which is Зa ПОБЕДУ, or ZaПОБЕДУ (ZaPOBEDU).

 

Armored train.

An Armored train was used to evacuate foreign civilians from Kherson Oblast of Ukraine to the city of Armyansk of the Republic of Crimea.  The ‘silly-vilians’ are from Turkey, Ukraine, Egypt, Azerbaijan, Pakistan, Sweden, Italy, Brazil, Morocco and India.

BM-27 rocket launcher.

Donbas AO. Posted 08MAR2022, 2S19-M2 Msta-S and 2B26 (‘grad’ rockets on a Kamaz 5350 truck?):

‘Z’ marked Kamov 52 double rotary wing gunship in action, posted 09MAR2022:

World War 3: RUSSIA HAS PROOF BIDEN/NATO/UKRAINE PLANS TO ATTACK RUSSIA! PLANS ARE DATED JANUARY 2022!

WAR IN UKRAINE TO START IN MARCH? U.S. ARMY OFFERS BIG BONUS TO RECRUITS WHO CAN SHIP-OUT QUICK! IT’S ALL ABOUT THE GAS!

Influenza

Operation Jupiter: Evidence captured in Ukraine reveals massive U.S. led global biological warfare op! I’ve been warning about this since 2015!

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07 March 2022  (14:48-UTC-07 Tango 06) 16 Esfand 1400/03 Sha’ban 1443/05 Gui Mao 4720

Russia claims to have damning evidence the U.S. was using Ukraine for biological warfare experiments in at least thirty Ukrainian biological laboratories. It is yet more evidence of a massive global biological warfare program commanded by the U.S. Army’s Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), that I’ve been reporting since 2015, when I discovered a U.S. military operation called JUPITR ATD.  Russia also accuses NATO members like Germany and Poland, and the NATO protectorate Georgia, of being involved in Ukrainian biologic experiments.

In this Russian Ministry of the Defense of Russia video, posted 07MAR2022, it was also discovered that DTRA ops in Ukraine ramped up in 2014 (after the pro-NATO ‘revolution’) and that since then there have been outbreaks of numerous diseases in Ukraine, to the point the United Nations’ World Health Organization (UN-WHO) says you don’t want to go there. Russia says the U.S. biological experiments violates international law and is a war crime:

Update: On 11MAR2022, Reuters revealed that the UN-WHO  “advised Ukraine to destroy high-threat pathogens housed in the country’s public health laboratories to prevent any potential spills that would spread disease among the population.”

Operation Jupiter 2022: YET ANOTHER STUDY SAYS M-R-N-A DOES ALTER YOUR D-N-A!

IT’S BLAMED ON THE PANDEMIC, TAXPAYERS FUND NEW U.S. MILITARY A-I DRIVEN HEALTH CONTROL SYSTEM! BECAUSE YOU DON’T KNOW HOW TO FEED YOURSELF?

U.S. ARMY-DEFENSE THREAT REDUCTION AGENCY UPDATES PROGRESS ON NANO-SPONGE VACCINE, 90% EFFECTIVE!

DOCTORS BEHIND TWO NEW U.S. ARMY VACCINES ADMIT THEY KNEW THE PANDEMIC WAS COMING!

Operation Jupiter 2021: DEFENSE THREAT REDUCTION AGENCY’S NEXT-GEN MRNA VAXES TO USE TROJAN HORSE FLU VIRUS TO INVADE YOUR CELLS! ADMITS CURRENT VAXES DON’T WORK!

THE PANDEMIC IS ABOUT LOWERING YOUR GUARD AGAINST TRUE DISEASES?

U.S. MILITARY’S NEW GLOBAL FEVER PROGRAM?

MYSTERY(?) DISEASE KILLS 1000 DEER IN IDAHO! IS IT THE PANDEMIC?

PROJECT SEA RAVEN, WHY IS THE U.S. NAVY SEARCHING FOR NEW DISEASES IN CAPE VERDE?

COVID-19 JUST THE BEGINNING, GET READY FOR BIO-ELECTRIC WARFARE!

Operation Jupiter 2020: U.S. ARMY CONTINUES TO WARN OF NEW PANDEMIC (not coronavirus)

U.S. MILITARY’S OPERATION COVID-19 IS FOR REAL

Operation Jupiter 2019:MEASLES PANDEMIC SPREAD BY ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS, OR EVIL BILDERBERG VACCINE PROGRAM?

Operation Jupiter 2018: U.S. MILITARY’S SECRET FLU IMITATING VIRUS EXPOSED, VACCINATIONS FOR MILITARY ONLY!

CASH REGISTER RECEIPTS LACED WITH CHEMICAL WEAPON?

Operation Jupiter 2017: C-I-A FAKE VACCINATION PROGRAMS ARE COVERT D-N-A COLLECTION OPS!

NEW TROPICAL ANTHRAX HITS AFRICA! RUSSIAN CBRN (NBC) TEAMS DEPLOYED! ROBOTS WILL SAVE US?

Operation Jupiter 2016: SHARK DNA FOR FUTURE SOLDIERS?

MASSIVE SYPHILIS OUTBREAK NEAR U.S. MILITARY BASE! IT IS NOT 1ST, 2ND OR 3RD TIME U.S. GOVT SPREAD THE DISEASE!

HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE EXPOSED TO AIDS AND HEP B & C IN U.S. HOSPITAL!

ISRAEL CONDUCTS CHEMICAL, BIOLOGICAL WARFARE IN UNITED STATES, CONTROLS NATIONAL GUARD?

GLOBAL WARMING NOT CAUSE OF FISH DIE-OFF, MYSTERY VIRUS DISCOVERED IN 2 SEPARATE LOCATIONS!

CHINA ADMITS TO BLACKMARKET VACCINE OPS!

Operation Jupiter 2015: ANTHRAX IS THE ZOMBIE DISEASE LAZARUS! U.S. SUPPLIES NORTH KOREA WITH ANTHRAX MAKING EQUIPMENT! MORE SECRET ANTHRAX DRILLS IN THE U.S.!

CANADA SIGNS ANTHRAX DEAL WITH UNITED STATES!

U.S. SOLDIER FOUND DEAD IN KOREA, VICTIM OF ANTHRAX?

MYSTERY MEASLES KILLS WOMAN IN UNITED STATES! NOT DISCOVERED UNTIL AFTER SHE DIED! VACCINES DON’T WORK!

Is MERS the spawn of Operation Jupiter? 

JUPITR ATD: A SMALL PART OF A LARGER MILITARY OPERATION SPREADING DISEASE AT A HOSPITAL NEAR YOU!

UTAH SHIPS ANTHRAX TO AUM SHINRIKYO TERROR GROUPS? EBOLA & ANTHRAX PART OF OPERATION JUPITER! U.S. HALTS VACCINES FOR U.S. TROOPS!

International, Technology

Ukraine Battle Damage 2022: Armor, abandoned or destroyed

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Armored vehicle destruction from the end of February 2022 to 06MAR2022.

An abandoned British made Saxon armored car, that was being used as an ambulance by Ukrainians.

Ukrainian Azov militia T-72.

T-64 or T-72?

BTR-3DA, Kharkov Oblast.

Abandoned BTR-70.

BTR-80.

Destroyed BRDM-2, abandoned BTR-80.

BRDM-2.

Video of destroyed Donbas militia (indicated by the ‘Z’ on the hull skirts) T-64BV (which was probably captured from Ukrainian forces):

T-64BV, the identifier is the small steel rimmed road wheels.

What’s left of two Ukrainian T-64BV, near Volnovakha.

T-64BV turret, near Volnovakha.

The T-64BV turret ring seems to be suspended in mid-air.

T-64BV burns in the city of Melitopol.

Smoldering BMP.

BMP-1.

Near Volnovakha, Ukrainian BMP-1Ksh.

What’s left of a BMP(?) in the Mykolaiv/Nikolaev Oblast.

Abandoned BMP-1 near the village of Bogdanovka.

Video of abandoned trucks near Kherson:

A dead Ural truck with likewise human cargo in the bed.

BTR-80, the ‘digital’ camo is typical of that used on Ukrainian vehicles.

Video, abandoned Ukrainian BMP-2 getting stripped of weapons by the Donbas militias:

Burning 9K33 (NATO reporting name Gekko) anti-aircraft missile launcher on Ukraine’s Korotych air base.

Ukrainian 9K33 (Gekko).

Near Severodonetsk, Ukrainian T-72.

Abandoned Ukrainian BTR-60.

Video, abandoned Ukrainian BRDM-2 in the city of Shchastya:

Near Volnovakha, Ukrainian BRDM with 9P148 antitank missile launchers, looks like they fired-off three of the missiles before abandoning the vehicle.

Video, burning Ukrainian BTR-4E:

Burned-out BTR-4E, abandoned Kozak-2 armored car.

World War 3: UKRAINE ABANDONS THEIR BTR-4ES WITHOUT A FIGHT!

Battle Damage: IRAQ 2003

Vehicle I-D: Ukraine’s BTR-3DA

International, Technology

Vehicle I-D: More abandoned vehicles, more ‘V’s & ‘Z’s, white/red arm bands, and Hinds with invasion stripes?

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Russian Defense Ministry video, posted 05MAR2022, showing an abandoned Ukrainian army camp near the village of Radensk, Kherson Oblast. The capturing force vehicles are marked with ‘Z‘ indicating Donbas Area of Operation (AO). The troops are wearing white arm bands on their left arms. The intact Ukrainian vehicles now in the hands of the Donbas are BMP-1s, BTRs, BRDMS and T-64BV, plus crates and crates of various ammo:

Video report posted on 05MAR2022, the liberation of the town of Trekhizbenka by Russians who are wearing white bands on their left arms and Russian ‘liberation’ armbands on their right shoulder. Some soldiers are wearing white bands around their right leg.  Video shows packages of 12.7mm ammo and RPG rounds left behind by Ukrainians. Villagers tell the reporter the Ukrainians took military control of their town in 2014.  It appears the Ukrainians gave-up the town without a fight:

Yet another abandoned Ukrainian BTR-4E, along the Kharkiv-Poltava highway, 04MAR2022.

Video posted 04MAR2022, Russian vehicles (BTRs, BMP-1, 2S3 SP guns) marked with ‘V‘ indicating Kiev AO (apparently near the cities of Bucha, Gostomel [Hostomel?] and Irpin’):

A Donetsk militiaman (indicated by his red arm band) with a NATO Javelin antitank missile, abandoned by retreating Ukrainians, 04MAR2022.

Video posted 03MAR2022, ‘Z‘ marked Donbas AO 2S1 self propelled artillery guns:

‘Z’ marked 2S1.

Invasion stripes? This Hind rotary wing gunship is marked with a ‘Z’, indicating Donbas AO.

This video, posted 01MAR2022, shows Donetsk militia (Donbas AO) wearing red bands on their left arms, their vehicles are marked with ‘Z‘ and some have red cloth tied to them. They have just overran a Ukrainian checkpoint, which includes an abandoned T-64BV:

Vehicle I-D: WHAT HAPPENS WHEN BOTH SIDES USE THE SAME WEAPONS? Operational markings of Russia/Donbas militias.

International

World War 3: NATO Response Force deploys, but not for Ukraine?

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NATO has deployed its Response Force for the first time.  Keep in mind that members of NATO are officially called “member states” indicating that NATO is not just a ‘defensive’ military pact, but is a pseudo-government!

NATO press conference, 04MAR2022, in which it is clear NATO is not going to fight for Ukraine, saying “We are not part of this conflict, and we have a responsibility to ensure it does not escalate and spread beyond Ukraine.”:

On 03MAR2022, NATO Canada updated its laundry list of military stuff Canadian taxpayers are going to give to Ukraine (now approaching hundreds of millions of Canadian dollars).

NATO video by Elodie Romain, 03MAR2022, Ukrainian Antonov 124 lands in NATO Romania loaded with NATO French AMX-10RC wheeled tanks and supplies, while French troops arrive on an French Armed Forces Airbus built airliner:

Photo via French Armed Forces, 03MAR2022.

On 03MAR2022, NATO France reported that for the first time C-130J cargo planes crewed by both French and NATO German crews began flying missions to NATO Romania.

NATO France’s Response Force deployments.

On 03MAR2022, Germany posted a video hyping-up its part in the NATO Response Force:

U.S. Army photo of Stock-2 Site in Mannheim, Germany, 01MAR2022.

On 01MAR2022, the NATO U.S. Army reported that for the first time they have activated their Army Prepositioned Stock-2 sites (open-area warehouses of military vehicles and weapons), at several locations in Western Europe, to equip the masses of troops being sent in from NATO United States!

U.S. Army video by Gertrud Zach, vehicles shipped out of a Stock-2 site arrive on Grafenwoehr Training Area, Germany, 02MAR2022:

NATO’s Boeing E-3A Airborne Warning & Control System (AWACS) based on NATO Air Base Geilenkirchen, NATO Germany, now patrolling Eastern Europe, video released 01MAR2022, includes interviews with AWACS crew who believe they are preventing aggression “towards NATO”:

French Armed Forces photo.

At the beginning of March, NATO France deployed some of its Rafale jets to help patrol over NATO Poland.

At the end of February, NATO United Kingdom began ‘forward deploying’ its Royal Welsh armor units in NATO Germany into NATO Estonia.  Royal Air Force jets based in Cyprus are now patrolling over NATO Poland and NATO Romania.  The Royal Navy is sending ships from NATO U.K. to patrol the Baltic Sea.

NATO video showing NATO French C-130J and Ukrainian An-124 landing in NATO Romanian with VAB armored cars, troops and equipment, 28FEB2022:

NATO video, 27FEB2022, NATO Norway delivers CV90 tanks to NATO Lithuania, using the An-124 Ruslan:

25FEB2022 NATO video explaining their Response Force:

NATO video from 11FEB2022, a look at some of the NATO troops in NATO Romania:

Don’t forget the extra troops Biden has already sent!

Biden’s War: FEBRUARY ARMY/AIR FORCE DEPLOYMENTS & REDEPLOYMENTS!

JANUARY ARMY/AIR FORCE DEPLOYMENTS

Vehicle I-D: WHAT HAPPENS WHEN BOTH SIDES USE THE SAME WEAPONS?

NATO Latvia’s (LATVISKI) M109A5Ö (THE Ö IS FOR ÖSTERREICH)

UKRAINIAN AN-124 IN U.S. military SERVICE!

RUSSIAN AN-124 DELIVERS KC-130J SIMULATOR TO U.S. MARINES IN JAPAN!

World War 3: CHINA WARNS that UKRAINE CRISIS IS A DIVERSION, TRUE GOAL OF Australia-United-Kingdom-United-States (AUKUS) IS WAR WITH CHINA!

 

International, Technology

Vehicle I-D: What happens when both sides use the same weapons?

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Ukraine is the birthplace of Russia.  Today’s larger Russia expanded out of Ukraine.  In the 20th Century the new Union of Soviet Socialist Republics allowed the creation of a separate Soviet Republic of Ukraine. It was during the time of the Soviet Union that Ukraine became a major manufacturer of weapon systems for the U.S.S.R.  In 1991, Ukraine lead the collapse of the Soviet Union by declaring independence.  Then there was the creation of the European Union (EU).  Both the EU and NATO have been actively involved in ‘behind-the-scenes’ influence of the Ukrainian government, for decades now.  Despite that, even today Russia and Ukraine use the same type of major weapon systems.  How do you tell them apart during combat?

This T-64BV is not marked, but carries large Russian and Donbas militia flags.

Russia has obviously thought about that because their ground vehicles, along with the military ground vehicles of Donetsk Republic and Lugansk (Luhansk) Republic have been given unique operational markings.  They look like Latin alphabet letters but are not.  They also indicate the Area of Operation (AO); North in Kiev Oblast, or South in Donbas.

Video from the end of February 2022, Donbas-Lugansk Republic militia and their trucks, BMP-1s and 2S1 SP Guns, all marked with ‘Z’, waiting for orders to move-out:

Somewhere in Donbas.

In the Southern, Donbas area of operation (AO), Russian, Lugansk and Donetsk tracked and wheeled vehicles are marked with a ‘Z’.

Ukrainian made KrAZ armored car, in use by local Donbas forces.

Video of Russians meeting with Lugansk Republic troops, 03MAR2022:

T-64BV somewhere in Donbas.

Video report, posted on 03MAR2022, Ukrainian Ground Forces abandoned a T-64BV, Lugansk Republic forces quickly claimed it by spraying ‘Z‘ symbols on it, and working to repair it for their own use (it was one of two abandoned T-64BVs, the video also shows an abandoned BRDM-2):

Abandoned Ukrainian T-64BV, now in the hands of the Donbas militias as indicated by the ‘Z’ painted on the skirts.

In the Northern Kiev Oblast AO the vehicles are marked with a ‘V’. Video of ‘V‘ marked Russian BMPs, BRTs and T-72B3s entering the Kiev Oblast of Ukraine from Belarus, the road sign gives the location away as the Gomel (Homiel) Oblast, Belarus-Kiev Oblast, Ukraine border crossing (heading towards Chernobyl Exclusion Zone?), 03MAR2022:

When you see a Western news report about Russian activities, if they are talking about Kiev AO (Area of Operation), but the images show vehicles with ‘Z‘ on them then the images are actually from the Donbas AO.

New Cold War 2022: RUSSIAN T-72B3M LIVE FIRE CRIMEA!

UKRAINE ABANDONS THEIR BTR-4ES WITHOUT A FIGHT!

Vehicle I-D:

2S1, FROM COLD WAR TO UKRAINIAN BORDER CRISIS!

International, Technology

Ukraine abandons their BTR-4Es without a fight!

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Photo via RusVesna-SU.

At the beginning of March 2022, Russian forces passed by a platoon sized element (4) of Ukrainian built BTR-4Es, all abandoned, with none showing signs of combat!

Photo via RusVesna-SU.

They carried the Red Cross insignia of the Ukrainian Ground Forces.  Going by the ‘Z’ symbol on the Russia vehicles this was in the Donbas Area of Operation.

Video, apparently the BTR-4Es can’t handle the mud:

Vehicle I-D:

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

UKRAINE’S BTR-4E +

International, Technology

Vehicle I-D: New(?) Iraqi Sukhoi 25 KM & UBKM

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Su-25, U.S. Army photo by Major Alexa Carlo-Hickman, 07JAN2022.

What many people in the United States don’t know is that under President Barack Obama, Iraq was allowed to get weapons from countries considered ‘not friendly’ to the United States, like Iran and Russia.  In fact, Iranian Sukhoi 25 aircraft operated inside Iraq, from Iraqi air bases, to help Iraq fight the so-called Islamic State.  When Iran left they ‘gifted'(?) the Su-25s to Iraq.  These were in addition to the Russian Su-25s acquired by Iraq.  They are Su-25KM single seaters and Su-25UBKM two seaters.

Su-25KM, USA photo by Major Alexa Carlo-Hickman, 07JAN2022.

USA photo by Major Alexa Carlo-Hickman, 07JAN2022.

U.S. Army video, by Specialist Nathan Smith, maintaining an Iraqi Su-25KM on Al Asad Air Base, 10JAN2022:

Su-25UBKM, USA photo by Major Alexa Carlo-Hickman, 07JAN2022.

USA photo by Major Alexa Carlo-Hickman, 07JAN2022.

Su-25KM, Iraq Ministry of Defense photo, 2016.

Video report about Su-25s being used against so-called Islamic State:

Su-25KM, Iraq Ministry of Defense photo.

2014 video of Russian delivery of Su-25KM, no audio until interview with Iraqi pilot:

Desert Storm Battle Damage:

Iraqi Su-25, U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) photo.

Iraqi Aircraft Graveyard

Vehicle I-D: IRAQI HUEY

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Anti-Freedom Convoy ‘National Emergency’ NATO Canada updates war with Russia

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Canadian immigration official just admitted that they began “more than a month ago” to prepare for Ukrainian immigrants, expanded immigration operations in Europe more than a month ago!!!  Defense official admits Canada started sending military supplies BEFORE war started, as part of Canada’s Operation Unifier in Ukraine!

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