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Idaho militia’s European deployment canceled, suddenly deployed to Middle East

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Ostensibly the deployment of Idaho Army National Guard’s ‘Snake River’ 116th Cavalry Brigade Combat Team to Europe was canceled due to Coronavirus fears. Yet, seemingly without warning, Idaho Air National Guard’s 124th Fighter Wing, and 190th Fighter Squadron, was suddenly deployed to ‘somewhere’ in the Middle East.

Idaho Air Guard’s A-10C Thunderbolt-2s fly alongside USAF F-15E Eagles from Mountain Home AFB, 15MAY2020.

124th personnel began deploying on 11MAY2020, but several Idaho A-10Cs took part in a supposed CoViD-19 morale boosting fly-over of Idaho cities, along with U.S. Air Force F-15E Strike Eagles from Mountain Home Air Force Base, on 15MAY2020.

The deployment, to an undisclosed location for an undisclosed amount of time, of more than 4-hundred personnel makes it the second largest deployment for the 124th Fighter Wing.

Idaho’s 116th Cavalry Brigade Combat Team, which includes personnel from Oregon, Montana and Nevada, was to deploy between 3-thousand to 4-thousand-4-hundred (depending on the news source) soldiers to take part in NATO’s Defender Europe 2020 wargames, but that was suddenly canceled in March due to CoViD-19. 

The deployment would have made the 2020 Defender Europe wargames the third largest wargames in Europe since the end of the Cold War.  However, Defender Europe 2020 was not halted and just got the ‘green light’.  

March 2020: Idaho’s Tactical Air Control Party (TACP) train with horses for first time, to call in A-10C airstrikes on Idaho ‘rebels’?

124TH MILITIA A-10 SHOOTIN’ & SCOOTIN’ THRU IDAHO NEVADA CALIFORNIA

IDAHO A-10C WARTHOGS WALLOWING IN THE CALIFORNIA DIRT, JUNE 2019

116TH ARMORED CAV NTC, JUNE 2019. OVERSEAS DEPLOYMENT IN 2020!

Great Reneger 2019: OREGON, WASHINGTON, IDAHO AND MONTANA ARMY MILITIAS PREP TO DEPLOY

Great Reneger 2017:  IDAHO MILITIA RECORD NUMBER OF DEPLOYMENTS IN ONE YEAR?

2016: IDAHO STRIKE EAGLES DEPLOY TO MIDDLE EAST!

IDAHO ONE OF ONLY 11 STATES SUPPLYING MOST OF THE HUMAN CANNON FODDER FOR THE OBAMA REGIME

Influenza

Going Viral: The new Task Force 31

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The name Task Force 31 isn’t new, in 2008 a U.S. Army Task Force 31 was a medical unit that served in Iraq.  That Task Force 31 (TF-31) was home-based at the 31st Combat Support Hospital on Fort Bliss, Texas.  TF-31’s mission in Iraq was to provide medical care to Iraqis held prisoner by U.S. forces.  Their mission in Iraq ended on 10JUN2008, being transferred to another U.S. Army medical unit.

The new Task Force 31 refers to National Guard units specifically tasked with detailed disinfecting of schools, nursing homes, clinics and hospitals in the United States.

12MAY2020, Guam National Guard begins Task Force 31 ops in local government offices.

On 12MAY2020, Texas National Guard personnel descend upon a nursing home in Austin, one day after the governor ordered the Texas National Guard to begin so called Task Force 31 operations.

Texas Task Force 31 video:

Alabama’s Task Force 31 is staffed by Air and Army National Guard personnel, and work at the direction of Alabama’s State Department of Veterans Affairs.

Alabama National Guard TF-31 explainer video:

26APR2020, Oklahoma National Guard disinfect a buffet at a nursing home (as well as the rest of the nursing home) in Tulsa.

Oklahoma National Guard promotional disinfection video:

West Virginia National Guard enter a child care center, 04MAY2020, to disinfect common areas with chemical sprays.

West Virginia National Guard was instructed how to use Aerosolized Hydrogen Peroxide (AHP) systems to disinfect rooms.

West Virginia National Guard video showing disinfecting operations at state Higher Education Policy Commission office in Charleston:

13APR2020 video of Georgia National Guard disinfecting nursing home in Warner Robins:

02APR2020, a Georgia Army National Guard member pours liquid disinfectant (Hydrogen Peroxide?) into a ‘fogger’ for aerosol use in a Georgia nursing home.

The aerosolized chemical is claimed to be 99.9% effective at killing pathogens within 20 minutes.

Going Viral: LOCKDOWNS ALLOW OTHER KILLER VIRUSES TO GO WILD?

Operation CoViD-19: National Guard Title 32 Ops

 

Influenza

Going Viral: Lockdowns allow other killer viruses to go wild?

Incomplete list of links to news reports about viral outbreaks from the week leading up to the 13th of the Gregorian month of May 2020.  These outbreaks tell us one thing for sure; no healthcare system anywhere in the world can handle outbreaks of multiple diseases, let alone one pandemic.

Thailand reveals various viral infection numbers as of May 5th: Dengue; 10,938 with nine deaths

Chikungunya; more than 10-thousand

CoViD-19; 3,015 with 56 deaths

Measles; at least 765 infections

Stay-at-home lockdowns contradict proven ‘open-air’ treatment for  infections: “Solar radiation may retard its transmission by directly inactivating virions and by increasing immunity to them. A combination of outdoor air and sunlight could also reduce the likelihood of secondary respiratory infections.”

FLU=INFLUENZA

U.S. CDC reports 20,094 laboratory-confirmed influenza-associated hospitalizations between October 1, 2019 and May 2, 2020.  As of May 7th the death rate percentage was at 7.4%, which is above the 6.7% considered to qualify as ‘epidemic’.   

Revealed; face masks used during 1918 Spanish Flu failed to stop the pandemic 

Influenza pandemic fueled rise of Nazi Party, research shows
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The 1957 flu that killed one million people
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COVID-19=CORONAVIRUS DISEASE 2019

U.S. CDC reports 16,318 laboratory-confirmed COVID-19-associated hospitalizations between March 1, 2020, and May 2, 2020. The CDC’s death rate percentage cannot be cited for CoViD-19 rates because it admittedly uses deaths from pneumonia and influenza in factoring the CoViD-19 death rate.  Apparently doing so is the only way to put CoViD-19 death rate above the ‘epidemic’ level.

CoViD-19 medical supplies arrived at Bagram Airport and are being  distributed to U.S. Forward Operating Bases around Afghanistan.

While the U.S. was sending CoViD-19 supplies to troops in Afghanistan, NATO member Turkey sent CoViD-19 supplies to the United States.  On 28APR2020, a Turkish Airbus A400M loaded with medical Personal Protective Equipment landed at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland.

Then on 01MAY2020, a Turkish C-130 landed at the same base with even more PPE.

Wuhan, China, orders new testing after new infections

North Texas Doctor Recovers After Having COVID-19 And Flu At Same Time
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Prisoners in California intentionally infected themselves

Japan raises travel alert for 13 countries
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CoViD lockdowns increase domestic violence in Bangladesh
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Covid-19 might never have a vaccine, just like HIV and Dengue
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DENGUE=DENGUE HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, aka Breakbone Fever

Focus on CoViD has resulted in Dengue epidemic across Southeast Asia

More than 6000 dengue fever cases recorded in Bali
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Focus on CoViD has resulted in Dengue epidemic across Latin America

25-thousand confirmed infections in Argentina

U.S. Army hospital discovers how your immune system reacts to Dengue

CHIKUNGUNYA

Under what I call Operation Jupiter, the U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency’s Chemical and Biological Technologies Department issued the above map of past Chikungunya outbreaks stating that health organizations need to prepare for a future pandemic!  Their warning is based on a new computer app called CHIKRisk.

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HANTAVIRUS

Taiwan reports additional Hantavirus hemorrhagic fever case
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RABIES=LYSSAVIRUSES (considered 100% fatal without treatment)

Rabies is so bad in Turkey that U.S. military personnel on Incirlik Air Base are being told that “A common misconception is that animals infected with rabies virus ‘look rabid’. Animals infected with rabies virus can spread the virus to humans and other animals prior to showing clinical signs of illness. In addition to rabies, there are many other infectious diseases that can be spread from stray animals to humans. These diseases can be anything from severe wound infections to parasite infections. Rabies virus has a 100% mortality rate if left untreated.”-Captian Timothy Beck, U.S. Army, Incirlik Veterinary Services

Hospital in India refuses to treat man for deadly rabies after he was bitten by rabid dog, because he is poor!

Kirkland, Washington, uses CoViD-19 as an excuse to wave proof of rabies vaccination when getting your pet a mandatory city license

El Paso County, Colorado, reports third rabid skunk this year, normally rabies cases spike in Summer, urges pet owners to get their animals vaccinated

Bat found on balcony in Fremont, California, infected with rabies

New Mexico reports three cases of rabid skunks attacking humans and dogs

Vanderburgh County, Indiana, reports rabid bat

Baltimore County, Maryland, reports rabid coyote pack attacking dogs 

Whitestown, New York, reports rabid raccoon

Fox that was biting hikers in North Carolina was infected with rabies

Alamance County, North Carolina, reports first rabid animal case of the year, dog attacked and had to be euthanized, humans possibly infected 

Hall County, Georgia, reports fourth rabies case this year

Going Viral: PALE HORSE, “STOP SAYING IT’S A BAD FLU!”

RECORD SETTING PANDEMIC AIRBRIDGE CONTINUES

FEMA BUILDING MASSIVE ISLAND HOSPITAL?

CLIMATE CHANGE = COVID-19?

PANDEMIC REVEALS U.S. DEPENDENCE UPON FOREIGN FOOD!

Pandemic Oddities: IF YOU’RE SICK YOU’RE NOW A TERRORIST! VEGGIE PANIC BUYING! ANIMALS BEING SLAUGHTERED, BUT NOT FOR FOOD!

Technology

Steel Skeletons of Soviet Afghanistan

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BRDM-2 somewhere near Kandahar International Airport. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Captain Charles G. Grow, 18JAN2002.

T-54B near Bagram Air Base, 29MAY2002. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate First Class Arlo K. Abrahamson.

T-55 Bagram Air Base, 03NOV2003. U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Scott T. Sturkol.

Canadian Forces photo by Master Corporal Kevin Paul.

14JUL2007, plenty of T-62s in the Kandahar tank graveyard.

Canadian Forces photo by Master Corporal Kevin Paul.

Canadian Forces photo by Master Corporal Kevin Paul.

Same time and place, but these are T-55s.

Canadian Forces photo by Master Corporal Kevin Paul.

BRDM in the tank graveyard, Kandahar, 14JUL2007.

Canadian Forces photo by Master Corporal Kevin Paul.

BMP-2s, Kandahar graveyard, 14JUL2007.

Camp Shaheen.

November 2010, a maintenance supervisor with Company D, 186th Brigade Support Battalion, 86th Infantry Brigade Combat Team cuts-up an old Soviet occupation armored vehicle in Durani Village, Parwan Province, Afghanistan.  The villagers were able to sell the pieces of steel to recyclers for cash.

USMC video report on U.S. Army’s 832nd Engineer Company chopping up old tanks:

BTR-80, Panjshir Province, Afghanistan, January 2010.

Quick video, steel skeletons of Panjshir:

Photo by Staff Sergeant Teddy Wade, 02JAN2010.

Panjshir Province, BMP in between T-54 and T-62, January 2010.

U.S. Army photo by Specialist Ken Scar, 12OCT2011.

Tank graveyard, Combat Outpost Red Hill, Parwan Province, October 2012.

U.S. Army photo by Sergeant Ken Scar.

BMP-1, Bamyan Province, Afghanistan, 06JUN2011.

T-54/55, Bamyan Province.

Nowzad, Helmand Province, Afghanistan, February 2011.  Children line up for school while a relic (T-55) of the 1980s Soviet occupation rusts away in the background.

Derelict World War Two era Soviet T-34/85 in Muqer District, Ghazni Province, March 2012.

T-55 in Nowzad, Helmand Province, Afghanistan February 2012.

Remains of ZSU-23-4,  Bala Hissar Fortress, August 2013.  You can see where the anti-aircraft tank took a direct hit in the side.

U.S. Army photo by Sergeant First Class Kenneth Foss, 26AUG2013.

Bala Hissar Fortress, August 2013.

BMP-1s and a T-54/55 (without bore evacuator) in Bamyan Province, February 2013.

Soviet occupation era T-55 still in use.  The U.S. Marine Corps observed Afghan government forces use it against rebel troops in Sangin District, Helmand Province, August 2018.

Vehicle I-D: ZOMBIE TANK T-55, THEY’RE EVERYWHERE!

Zombie ‘Copter: HOW THE HIND RETURNED TO AFGHANISTAN, AND WHY IT WON’T DIE

Technology

Vehicle I-D: Iraqi Huey

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According to a 2007 Reuters report, the neighboring country of Jordan donated their old UH-1H helicopters to Iraq, but the U.S. taxpayers paid to rebuild the Hueys at a cost of $3.5-million, each! 

U.S. Air Force photo by Technical Sergeant Randy Redman, 18APR2011.

April 2011, Exercise Lion.

U.S. Army photo by First Lieutenant Jason Sweeney, 18MAY2011.

Air Assault training on Camp Mejid, photo by Staff Sergeant Tanya Thomas, 11NOV2010.

Prior to 2010, the Iraqis used a smaller flag on their Hueys.

U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Michael Keller, 14JUL2009.

Here’s the smaller flag.

USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Michael Keller, 17JUL2009.

Iraqi Bell UH-1H Huey take-off from Taji Air Base, July 2009.

USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Michael Keller, 17JUL2009.

Their mission is to pick-up a soldier, who is considered recovered enough from being gut-shot, at the Air Force Theater Hospital at Balad Air Base.

USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Michael Keller, 17JUL2009.

U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer First Class Carmichael Yepez, 31JUL2009.

The same Iraqi Huey (#206) is taking off from Forward Operating Base Diamondback in Mosul, at the end of July 2009.

USN photo by Petty Officer First Class Carmichael Yepez, 31JUL2009.

Video, pre-flight checks:

U.S. Army photo by Specialist Chuck Gill, 28SEP2008.

Al Taji Air Base, 11SEP2008.

USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Paul Villanueva the Second, 11SEP2008.

Flaming engine start.

USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Paul Villanueva the Second, 11SEP2008.

USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Paul Villanueva the Second, 12SEP2008.

Door gunner uses Soviet era PK-C machine gun.

Camp Taji, USAF photo by Senior Airman Julianne Showalter, 28APR2008.

Video, over-fly Taji:

Vehicle I-D: IRAQI ARMOR, AFTER THE INVASION

RECOVERING UH-1 SKELETONS

Technology

Mil 17 crash & burn

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In early May 2011, one of the U.S. taxpayer funded Russian built Afghan Mil 17B(V)-5 crashed in Nuristan Province, Afghanistan.  Nine people onboard were slightly injured.

The Hip was part of the first deliveries of U.S. taxpayer funded Russian made helicopters between 2009 and 2010.  NATO/ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) reported the Mil-17s sent to Afghanistan cost about $15-million each!  Dozens more were given to Afghanistan in the years after this crash, in fact the United States signed a new delivery contract with Russia about a week after this crash.

U.S. Army Pathfinders were ordered to remove ‘sensitive’ equipment from the  NATO reporting-name Hip, and then dismantle and burn it to the ground.

USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Brian Christiansen, 12MAY2011.

Parts of the Mi-17, that could be reused, were sling loaded away by CH-47 Chinook.

USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Brian Christiansen, 12MAY2011.

The fire was started using phosphorus grenades.  When aluminum gets hot enough it burns like paper, almost nothing is left but ash.

This was not the first time a U.S. taxpayer funded ‘Hip’ was blown-up by U.S. forces.

U.S. Army photo by Corporal Patrick Gleason, 23DEC2010.

On 23DEC2010, a contracted Mi-17 was blown-up by U.S. forces on Combat Out-Post (COP) Spera in Khowst Province.  The Hip actually crashed on COP Spera several years earlier.

The result of packing an Mi-17 with excess ammo, and then blowing it up. USA photo by Corporal Patrick Gleason, 23DEC2010.

The Hip was packed with ‘left-over’ munitions, which were detonated.  The destruction of the derelict Hip was an excuse to get rid of excess ammo, as COP Spera was being shut-down.

CH-47 CHINOOK LOVES COLLECTING MIL 8 ‘HIP’ BONES

MAINTAINING SATAN’S CHARIOT (Afghan Mi-24V)

AFGHANISTAN GETS MORE U.S. TAXPAYER FUNDED HELICOPTERS & GUNS!

TAXPAYER FUNDED AIRCRAFT ABANDONED THEN TURNED INTO SCRAP METAL! 

U.S. TAXPAYERS TO RESCUE “DONATED” C-130

U.S. TAXPAYERS DELIVER MD-530F CAYUSE WARRIOR TO KENYA

U.S. TAXPAYERS SEND AUSSIE PRIME MINISTER A MODEL BOAT!

U.S. TAXPAYERS FUND POLICE TRAINING & CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS IN VIETNAM!

Technology

U.S. Navy keeps old U.S. Army Boat-Truck afloat

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The Lighter Amphibious Resupply Cargo-5 tons capacity (LARC-V) was developed by the U.S. Army in the 1950s.  Just short of 1-thousand of the aluminum hulled boat-trucks were made, almost half being intentionally destroyed as the United States ended its occupation of Vietnam.  About 1-hundred are now privately owned.  Perhaps in response to concerns about climate change, the U.S. Navy ordered a SLEP (Service Life Extension Program) refurbishment of the versatile LARC-5, and since 2006 has accepted 42 of the upgraded decades old swimming trucks.

U.S. Navy photo by Senior Chief Mass Communication Specialist Brandon Raile, 17SEP2019.

In September 2019, the U.S. Navy used LARC-5 Duck Boats to transport equipment that would allow Navy ships to transfer fuel oil to Alaskan villages onshore.  It’s part of preparations for an expected major natural disaster that could cut-off remote villages along the U.S. Pacific coast.

USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Third Class Jack D. Aistrup, 12JUN2019.

Landing Craft Utility (LCU) ship with a couple of boat trucks during Baltic Operations (BaltOps) 2019.

Video of boat-truck (Duck Boat) actions on Kallaste Beach, NATO-Estonia, during BaltOps 2019:

USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Second Class Jacob I. Allison, 19OCT2018.

Vice Admiral Richard Brown, then Commander of Naval Surface Force-U.S. Pacific Fleet, inspects the increasingly relevant (despite their old age) LARC-5s in San Diego, California, October 2018.

USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Jacob Owen, 14JUL2017.

Inside the Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Essex (LHD 2), July 2017.

USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Jacob Owen, 14JUL2017.

USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Sabyn L. Marrs, 14JUL2017.

USN photo by Mass Communications Specialist Third Class Kenneth Gardner, 22MAY2017.

May 2017, launching a LARC-5 from astern the USNS SGT WILLIAM R. BUTTON during NATO’s Saber Strike 17, in Latvia.

U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Corporal Ricardo Davila, 22MAY2017.

Driver’s position.

USN photo by Petty Officer Third Class Jeanette Mullinax, 29OCT2016.

Entering the well deck of amphibious transport dock ship USS Green Bay (LPD 20), October 2016.

Video, LARC-5s coming aboard USS Iwo Jima (LHD 7) via an LCU, October 2016:

USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Third Class Raymond Minami, 22MAR2016.

USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Third Class Raymond Minami, 23MAR2016.

Entering USS Bataan (LHD 5), March 2016.

USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Third Class Raymond Minami, 23MAR2016.

USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Third Class David A. Cox, 13AUG2015.

In August 2015, LARC-5s were used to help survivors of Typhoon Soudelor, on the Marshal Islands.

USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Third Class David A. Cox, 13AUG2015.

USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist First Class Elizabeth Merriam, 02SEP2014.

Driving into the amphibious transport dock ship USS Green Bay (LPD 20), September 2014.

USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Second Class Tamara Vaughn, 30JUL2014.

Inside amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge (LHD 3), July 2014.

USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Second Class Tamara Vaughn, 30JUL2014.

U.S. Air Force photo by Technical Sergeant Edward Gyokeres, 05JUN2012.

An abandoned and rusting (yes, aluminum does corrode) LARC-5 at Mackall Army Airfield, North Carolina, June 2012.

USN photo by Petty Officer First Class Brien Aho, 07JUL2010.

LARC-5s took part in a landing at Salinas Beach, Peru, July 2010.

USN photo, 17SEP2009.

September 2009, this boat-truck helped with the salvage of an abandoned and wrecked sailboat, near Coronado, California.

USN photo by Chief Petty Officer Daniel Taylor, 14JUN2009.

Fun in the sun at Camp Onslow Beach, North Carolina, June 2009.

Hurricane Harvey: MARINES USE AMPHIBIOUS COMBAT TANKS TO SAVE LIVES!

Bare Metal: NASA Trucks

1942 FORD FIRETRUCK RETURNS TO SERVICE WITH THE USAF!

WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO MAINTAIN A FLYING MILITARY FIRETRUCK?

Technology

Bare Metal: NASA Trucks saving the Trucking Industry

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According to NASA, it was in 1973 that one of its employees became intrigued with how high speed tractor-trailer rigs created massive ‘suction’ as they drove-by slower moving vehicles.  In 1975 a study showed that big-rig trucks moving at 55 miles per hour (the national speed limit at that time) displaced as much as 18 tons of air for every mile traveled.  About half of the truck’s horsepower was needed just to overcome aerodynamic drag.

After leasing a cab-over tractor-trailer from a Southern California firm, Dryden (Edwards Air Force Base) researchers added sheet metal modifications that look very much like what you see on today’s big-rigs. They rounded the front corners and edges, and placed a smooth fairing on the cab’s roofs and sides extending back to the trailer. During the investigation of truck aerodynamics, the techniques honed in flight research proved highly applicable. By closing the gap between the cab and the trailer, for example, researchers discovered a significant reduction in aerodynamic drag, one resulting in 20% to 25% increase in fuel economy.

NASA estimates that its contribution to the ground vehicle industry has reduced fuel consumption by as much as 6-thousand-8-hundred gallons per year per vehicle!

Researchers also installed a boat tail structure on a passenger van.  During the tests, the vehicle’s sides were fitted with tufts, or strings, that showed air flow. The investigators concluded that rounding the vertical corners front and rear reduced drag by 40%, with at a  decrease in the vehicle’s internal volume by only 1.3%. Rounding both the vertical and horizontal corners cut drag by 54%, resulting in a 3% loss of internal volume. Adding a faired underbody helped reduce drag by about 15%.

In a kind-of control test, the passenger van was first covered with a sheet metal box with intentionally squared corners.

It was discovered that simply rounding the corners resulted in a huge reduction in aerodynamic drag.

One of the most effective, and simple, NASA discoveries is saving the trucking industry big money on fuel costs today; the ‘Airtab’.

Bare Metal: KC-135R GETS STRIPPED

NASA’S TUPOLEV 144 SST

Technology

Maintaining Satan’s Chariot

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U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sergeant Cecilio Ricardo, 09APR2007.

What does it take to keep what the Afghan’s call Satan’s Chariot in the air?

U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Angelita Lawrence, 02OCT2009.

Video from September 2009, live fire prep, 12.7mm chin-gun and 57mm rockets:

USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Angelita Lawrence, 02OCT2009.

Video from September 2009, the awesome sight and sounds of live fire training:

Loading the 12.7mm four barreled gatling chin-gun, May 2010.

Don’t forget the 57mm rockets.

These pics were taken at Kabul International Airport during a 100 hours inspection of a Mil 35 (Mi-24V, NATO Hind-E), in October 2011.

Video from June 2015, maintaining the Hind Legs of the Hind-E (and the front leg as well):

Before we go, live fire training 12.7mm chin-gun and 23mm under-wing gun-pods, from 2014:

Zombie ‘Copter:

Afghan Mi-24 Hind-D.

HOW THE HIND RETURNED TO AFGHANISTAN (with the help of the U.S./NATO), AND WHY IT WON’T DIE

Vehicle I-D:

NATO photo, 15MAR2018.

MIL 24 HIND ‘SATAN’S CHARIOTS’, in use by almost everybody including NATO

WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO MAINTAIN A FLYING MILITARY FIRETRUCK?

Technology

NATO: Poland Sukhoi 22

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The Sukhoi 22M4 is the export version of the Sukhoi 17M4.  The NATO reporting name for both is Fitter-K.  Poland began using Su-22s in August 1984, when it was a member of the Cold War era Warsaw Pact.  Poland joined NATO in 1997.  Polish officials want to phase-out the Su-22 by 2026.

U.S. Marine Corps photo by Staff Sergeant Dengrier M. Baez, 07JUN2018.

Note the shark mouth painted external fuel tanks on this Polish Su-22M4, NATO Baltic Operations (BaltOps), June 2018.

U.S. Army video, by Sergeant Jacob Holmes, Su-22s over the Gora Hetmanska Range in Drawsko Pomorskie, 15FEB2017:

A Polish Su-22 now a museum piece. U.S. Army photo by Sergeant Lauren Harrah, 13AUG2016.

Swedwin, Poland, 08JUN2016. USA photo by Private First Class Antonio Lewis.

U.S. Air Force photo by Technical Sergeant Matthew Plew, 05JUN2016.

Polish Su-22M4s in Estonia, taking part in NATO’s Spring Storm wargames, June 2016.

USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Matthew Plew, 05JUN2016.

USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Matthew Plew, 05JUN2016.

Tight formation break-away during Spring Storm 2016.  For kit builders, note the new larger blade antenna behind the cockpit.

Video showing Su-22M4s along with F-15s and SAM batteries:

USAF photo by Airman First Class Kyle Gese, 13JUN2014.

Polish Su-22M4s take-off from Lask Air Base during NATO’s Eagle Talon, June 2014.  Note the smaller original blade antenna behind the cockpit.

USAF photo by Airman First Class Kyle Gese, 13JUN2014

Video, Polish Su-22 during NATO Exercise Anakonda 2014:

Apparently there are only a handful of countries using the Su-22, with Poland being the only NATO member flying the Fitter-K.  Peru has less than a dozen Su-22s in reserve status.  In 2012 Peru signed a ‘codification’ agreement with NATO but is not considered a member, or partner, of NATO.

NATO MiG-21

Vehicle I-D: Sukhoi 24