It should be noted that many of the militia members of the Army National Guard’s 116th Cavalry Brigade are currently spending the holidays somewhere in the Middle East.
See more during warmer temps: 1-148 FIELD ARTILLERY GATE GUARDS
It should be noted that many of the militia members of the Army National Guard’s 116th Cavalry Brigade are currently spending the holidays somewhere in the Middle East.
See more during warmer temps: 1-148 FIELD ARTILLERY GATE GUARDS
For the past 23 years, the imperialist Japanese army (Japan is a Constitutional Monarchy) has been training for war on the U.S. Army’s (USA) Yakima Training Center (YTC), in the state of Washington. It is officially called Exercise/Operation Rising Thunder.
Japan Ground Self Defense Forces (JGSDF) use many different armored vehicles during the war games, including the Cold War era Type 74.
The Type 74 has a collapsible suspension.
USA video interview-explainer by Sergeant Bryan Spradlin, which includes Type 74 live fire, September 2013:
2016: IMPERIALIST SNIPERS INVADE EVERGREEN STATE!
U.S., AUSTRALIA & JAPAN INVADE VIETNAM, AGAIN! PREPS FOR WAR WITH CHINA!
2012: IDAHO’S MICRON TECHNOLOGY INVADES JAPAN!
Video report on World War Two tank restoration ops at Fort Benning, Georgia, with a focus on an M18 Hellcat and a Jagdtiger:
In 2012, the U.S. Air Force moves a Tiger-1 from the United Kingdom to the U.S. Army Armor and Cavalry Museum at Fort Benning, Georgia, for repair and full restoration.
According to the USAF, the Tiger-1 was originally on display at the United States Army Ordnance Museum at Aberdeen Proving Ground, then at a museum in Germany, before being stored at RAF Alconbury, United Kingdom, with two other tanks.
Apparently there was two years of legal wrangling before the approval was given to send the Tiger to Fort Benning, Georgia.
In September 2015, an old LVT-4 Willie was moved from Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, to Anniston Army Depot, Alabama, finally landing at Randolph Hall, a Marine training facility located on the Ordnance Campus of Fort Lee, Virginia, in January 2016.
The purpose is to restore it and to train-up new Marines Corps welders at the same time. Interestingly the dedicated fans of the armor display at Aberdeen were never warned and thought Willie had been kidnapped: “The question was asked about the location of the LVT that used to sit in front of the old barracks. Through various emails and phone calls, Willie was tracked down and located sitting on a storage lot at Anniston. Through coordination and agreements to provide a better indoor home, it was agreed to move it back with the Marines.”– Chief Warrant Officer-3 Joseph Bering, USMC
Once restored Willie reportedly will end up at the U.S. Army Engineer Museum at Fort Leonard Wood (Lost in the Woods, my old basic and advanced training alma matter), Missouri.
VEHICLE I-D: ARMOR MUSEUM FORT LEONARD WOOD, MISSOURI
RAT ROD 1967 BLH AUSTIN-WESTERN USN SEABEES ROAD GRADER $14,794
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:
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 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:
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:
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.
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.
Video, shooting a pistol from the turret of a Challenger-2, Strong Europe Tank Challenge, Grafenwoehr Training Area, Germany, June 2018:
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)
In December 2019, a serviced and freshly painted M48 Patton was returned to the U.S. Army Central HQ on Shaw Air Force Base, in South Carolina.
The M48 spent about two months at Fort Knox, Kentucky, getting a make-over at the Logistics Readiness Center.
From this view of the engine deck you can see it’s a M48A1 Patton.
In September 2019, the faded gate guard was taken away from its post in front of Patton Hall on Shaw Air Force Base.
It’s been guarding Patton Hall since the building’s dedication in 2011.
VEHICLE I-D: ZOMBIE TANK T-55, THEY’RE EVERYWHERE!
VEHICLE I-D: GIANT R-C TANKS SEEN TEARING-UP WASHINGTON STATE!
VEHICLE I-D: M4 SHERMAN
VEHICLE I-D: Idaho’s 1-148 FIELD ARTILLERY GATE GUARDS
Introduced to the public at the Victory Day Parade on 09MAY2015, the T-14 Armata features fully digitized equipment, an unmanned turret and an isolated armored capsule for the crew.