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How to assemble your 1:1 scale F-86

Oregon National Guard photo by John Hughel, 26FEB2020.

Oregon National Guard photo by John Hughel, February 2020.

During the last week of February 2020, the Oregon Military Museum decided to put together an F-86F Saber (Sabre).

Oregon National Guard photo by John Hughel, 26FEB2020.

Oregon National Guard photo by John Hughel, 26FEB2020.

Oregon National Guard photo by John Hughel, 26FEB2020.

The volunteers, guided by a worried looking couple of employees from museum consultant Century Aviation, took care in piecing it together.

Oregon National Guard photo by John Hughel, 26FEB2020.

Oregon National Guard photo by John Hughel, February 2020.

It helps if you have a couple of forklifts, it took about a week for the volunteers to put together.

Oregon National Guard photo by John Hughel, February 2020.

Oregon National Guard photo by John Hughel, February 2020.

Oregon National Guard photo by John Hughel, February 2020.

F-86 number 12892 served with the U.S. Air Force until 1956, then with the Republic of Korea (South Korea) until 1963. It was then acquired by the Oregon National Guard.

Oregon National Guard photo by John Hughel, February 2020.

Oregon National Guard time lapse video, by Sergeant First Class Zachary Holden, of the assembly:

The Oregon Military Museum is located on Camp Withycombe, Clackamas.  The F-86, having sat in pieces since 2012 while the museum was being refurbished, was assembled in time for the museum’s grand re-opening.  (Unfortunately being negatively affected by CoViD-19 response.) 

OREGON MOHAWK FLIES AGAIN (SORT OF) & SOME OTHER MOHAWK NEWS

HOW TO PAINT YOUR 1:1 SCALE B-17 MEMPHIS BELLE WITH ‘PERIOD CORRECT’ (as in made the way they made it back then) PAINT

F-86H HOG GATE GUARDS

VEHICLE I-D: FURY VS MIG

POKEY AIRPORT 02 AUGUST 2014: FJ-4B FURY

PAINTING A P-51 WITH VINYL DECALS?

KIT BASHING: HELLER, FUJIMI & HOBBYCRAFT F-86 SABRE KITS COMPARED

Indian Air Power, 2021

Incomplete images of India’s current state of Air Power.

Indian C-17 on Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, 20NOV2020. U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Christopher Quail.

Indian Air Force promo:

Indian Navy Harrier

U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Matthew Hannen, 30JUL2007.

Jaguar/Shamsher

U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Matthew Hannen, 30JUL2007.

USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Shawn Nickel, 29APR2016.

USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Joshua Turner, 02MAY2016.

(INDIA DEVELOPS RARE EARTH ALLOY TO EXTEND LIFE OF COLD WAR STRIKE AIRCRAFT!)

Radar equipped Shamsher leads U.S. Super Hornets and Indian Su-30MKIs. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Second Class Brandie Nuzzi, 28MAR2021.

Shamsher, MiG-29KUB and Su-30MKI, 23JUN2021, USN photo.

In the above photo notice the Indian two seat MiG-29KUBs are not simple trainers, but have full combat radar system and a different cockpit area.

Link to video of MiG-29K and Harrier fly by:

https://youtu.be/nHI0blqggFI

2010, Indian Naval Station Hansa in Goa, India.

MiG-29K overflies USS Nimitz (CVN 68) in the Bay of Bengal during Exercise Malabar 2017.

Flying with U.S. Navy Super Hornets, 2017.

Indian Navy Aérospatiale Alouette-3 (Chetak) over Goa, August 2017.

Chetak (Aérospatiale Alouette-3). USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Second Class Brandie Nuzzi, 28MAR2021.

Onboard USS Pearl Harbor (LSD 52).

Indian CH-47F, first flight July 2018:

(INDIAN HERCULES APPEARS IN NORTH DAKOTA, 2018)

In 2018, Indian P-8A Poseidon (militarized Boeing 737) took part in Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) Exercise on Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii.

HAL license built Dornier 228 and Hawk-i, and HAL HTT-40, airshow Aero India 2019.

Video, HAL Tejas:

Su-30MKI and HAL (Hindustan Aeronautics Limited) Tejas,  airshow Aero India 2019.

Su-30MKI, RED FLAG-Alaska, May 2016.

Video, Su-30 leads integrated flight of Jaguar, Mirage 2000 and U.S. F-15s:

Video, Su-30MKI bombing run:

(VEHICLE I-D: SUKHOI 27/30)

HAL (Hindustan Aeronautics Limited) attack helicopter, airshow Aero India 2019.

HAL Dhruv helicopter demo team, airshow Aero India 2019.

Mil 8, airshow Aero India 2019, Air Force Station Yelahanka, Bengaluru.

(CH-47 CHINOOK COLLECTS MIL 8 ‘HIP’ BONES)

Indian Navy Mil 17(171), November 2019, exercise Tiger TRIUMPH in Kakinada.

Indian Navy Sikorsky UH-3H Sea King, November 2019, exercise Tiger TRIUMPH in Kakinada.

Video, Sea King Helicopter lands on the flight deck of the USS Germantown (LSD 42), exercise Tiger TRIUMPH:

MiG-21, Defense Expo 2020.

Video, MiG-21 ‘Night Fighter’:

Video, Alouette ‘Cheetah’ part-1:

Video, Cheetah part-2:

Video promo, IAF Mirage 2000 fighters:

CH-47 Chinook collects Mil 8 ‘Hip’ bones

U.S. Army photo by Sergeant Patrick Jubrey, 06AUG2019.

Surrounded, finders keepers! NATO reporting name for the Soviet era Mil 8 is Hip.

USA photo by Sergeant Patrick Jubrey, 06AUG2019.

USA photo by Sergeant Patrick Jubrey, 06AUG2019.

USA photo by Sergeant Patrick Jubrey, 06AUG2019.

USA photo by Sergeant Patrick Jubrey, 06AUG2019.

CH-47 anticipating sling loading Mil 8, Hohenfels Training Area, Germany, August 2019.

Video explainer, CH-47 sling loads Hip bones in Germany, June 2019:

USA photo by Charles Rosemond, 12MAR2019.

Note that the tail boom, main rotors, landing gear and other loose ‘Hip’ bones are shoved into the fuselage.  Storck Barracks, Illesheim, Germany, 12MAR2019.

USA photo by Charles Rosemond, 12MAR2019.

USA photo by Charles Rosemond, 12MAR2019.

Video explainer, using Hip bones for sling load training in Germany:

Prepping a Mil 8 for use as a sling load trainer, Hohenfels, Germany, 12MAR2019.

USA photo by Charles Rosemond, 12MAR2019.

USA photo by Charles Rosemond, 12MAR2019.

Video, CH-47 Chinook recovers junk Mil 8 in Afghanistan, November 2017:

 

USMC photo by Corporal Ursula V. Smith, 25SEP2019.

RECOVERING UH-1 SKELETONS

VEHICLE I-D: MIL 24 HIND ‘SATAN’S CHARIOTS’

Operation CoViD-19: Covert Op to Control the Global Food Supply?

And when he opened the third seal, I heard the third Beast saying, ‘Come’, and behold, a black horse, and he who sat upon him had a balance scale in his hand. And I heard a voice from among The Beasts, which said, ‘A two-quart measure of wheat for a denarius and three two-quart measures of barley for a denarius, and you shall not harm the wine and the oil.'”-Revelation 6:5-6, Aramaic Bible

CoViD-19=CoronaVirus Disease-2019

Note that even with tens of millions of vaccinations, influenza still infects and kills more people in the U.S. than coronavirus (“CDC estimates that so far this season there have been at least 39 million flu illnesses, 410,000 hospitalizations and 24,000 deaths from flu.”), yet no government has ever ‘locked down’ the private sector food industry over influenza!  Is what’s happening part of a conspiracy, or just proof that our exalted leaders are total idiots?

Never before in the history of the United States has the National Guard been activated specifically to control food distribution!  It wouldn’t be the first time a superpower controlled its people by controlling the food: Food Provisioning and Social Control in Ancient Rome

Here’s an incomplete list of news media links:

Infected food workers, closures of some restaurants, AND international storage and shipping disruptions threaten global food supply.

After locking down borders in the name of fighting CoViD-19, European governments now scramble to find farm workers for harvest, before the crops rot

CoViD-19 lock downs shutdown local food markets in African countries! 

A survey of Latin American Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) companies revealed that CoViD-19 has thrown all their plans for expansion out the window.  Hiring extra employees on hold, new equipment purchases on hold, blamed on supply chain and price disruptions caused by CoViD-19 response.  Will focus on paying down debt and trying to retain current employees. 

A new study of the global Canned Food Market reveals that growing global competition was already impacting the canned food industry, before CoViD-19 struck! In other words, it’s Globalization baby!

The latest Global Small Mammal Food Treats Market report says CoViD-19 response is adding to the pressures of increased global competition. 

CHINA: Why no food shortage in the birthplace of CoViD-19?   It’s credited to a ‘sophisticated’ supply chain planning technology that can adapt to sudden changes in supply and demand.

FRANCE: Report says no food shortages to report

ROMANIA: Halts the export of grain due to fears of internal food shortage caused by CoViD-19

UNITED KINGDOM: 1.5-million people go without food, blamed on CoVid-19 and previous government cuts to food program for poor people! 

Warnings of massive food/medicine shortage as 46% of delivery trucks are halted due to trucking companies going out of business: “The measures the Government have come up with simply don’t work.”-Richard Burnett, Road Haulage Association

Queen controlled Royal military prepping to take over food system

UNITED STATES: U.S. truck drivers warn of food supply shutdown if they don’t get CoVid-19 Personal Protective Equipment! 

Retired U.S. professor of food policy reveals the food was already in trouble before CoVid-19 hit: “We’re talking about a radical change to a food chain that was already going through a radical chain.”– James Tillotson, retired professor Friedman School at Tufts University

Alaska; Food Bank of Alaska reports whopping 75% increase in food demand since CoViD-19 lock-downs!

Arizona; Crisis food distribution planned

Video, National Guard makes sandwiches at the Flagstaff Family Food Center Kitchen, April 10th:

Video, National Guard using its taxpayer funded trucks to transport produce to local grocery stores:

California; Infected McDonald’s employee results in statewide fast food worker strike 

Bakersfield-based carrot giant Bolthouse Farms and competitor Grimmway Farms enact CoViD-19 ‘protections’ after employees get infected!

Northern California food banks report tripling of demand for food as record job loses strike!

Video, National Guard control the FoodShare Ventura County food distribution operations at Freedom Park Camarillo, March 6th (video wasn’t released until April):

Delaware; Video, National Guard delivers food to school children forced to stay home, April 6th:

Florida; Whole Foods employees infected!

Georgia;  Despite reports of onion dumping, vidalia onion farmers are reporting a huge increase in demand that they’re struggling to meet! 

Hawaii;  City of Maui combines food ops with CoViD-19 testing 

Maryland; On March 17th the U.S. Food and Drug Administration posted online “There are no nationwide shortages of food, although in some cases the inventory of certain foods at your grocery store might be temporarily low before stores can restock. Food production and manufacturing are widely dispersed throughout the United States and no widespread disruptions have been reported in the supply chain.”  What happened between March 17th and now?

Michigan; Five grocery store employees die from CoViD-19!

School district halts food delivery to students stuck at home! 

New York; The Big Apple creates ‘Food Czar’ to control grocery stores and blame restaurants that stay open! 

Ohio; National Guard calls it Operation Steady Resolve, here’s their promotional video:

Pennsylvania; Grocery store workers test positive for CoViD-19

South Dakota; Smithfield Foods closes one of nation’s largest pork plants as worker COVID-19 cases spike

Utah; Salt Lake City’s restaurants stay open

Washington DC; U.S. Department of Transportation will not take action against states that don’t halt food-truck activities at interstate rest stops

USDA says it will not penalize dairies for dumping milk

CoViD-19 Oddities: “THERE’S NO WAY THEY’RE GOING TO ARREST ME, THIS IS INSANE!”

Operation CoViD-19: PROJECT AIR BRIDGE, 747S, MD-11S, BREAKING AIRLIFT RECORDS!

Operation CoViD-19: NATIONAL GUARD ‘FOOD’ SURGE

Recovering UH-1 skeletons

U.S. Marine Corps photo by Corporal Ursula V. Smith, 25SEP2019.

In September 2019, U.S. Marines used what remained of a UH-1 to conduct fire fighting and recovery training at U.S. Army’s Yuma Proving Grounds (YPG), Arizona.

USMC photo by Corporal Ursula V. Smith, 25SEP2019.

USMC photo by Corporal Ursula V. Smith, 25SEP2019.

USMC photo by Corporal Ursula V. Smith, 25SEP2019.

Video, Weapons and Tactics Instructor (WTI) course 1-20 at Site 2, YPG, 25SEP2019:

USMC photo by Lance Corporal Claudia Nix, 28MAR2019.

They did the same thing earlier, in March 2019.

USMC photo by Lance Corporal Claudia Nix, 28MAR2019.

From 2017, “Just what I need for my collection.”

This pic of the tail section recovery was taken in March 2015.

Video from 2015:

From September 2014.

Also from September 2014.

U.S. Army’s Company D, 2nd General Support Aviation Battalion, 227th Aviation Regiment, 1st Air Cavalry Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, conduct Downed Aircraft Recovery Team (DART) training on Hohenfels, Germany, January 2018.

April 2017, U.S. Army’s B Company, 277th Aviation Support Battalion, 10th Combat Aviation Brigade, conduct DART training on Oberdachstetten Training Area, Germany.

U.S. Army’s 16th Combat Aviation Brigade, 7th Infantry Division on Yakima Training Center, Washington June 2016.

Video from the Huey’s tail rotor as it’s taken for a ride by a UH-60M Black Hawk:

Fort Stewart, Georgia, 2014.

RECOVERY OPS: DKM PRINZ EUGEN

VEHICLE I-D: MIL 24 HIND ‘SATAN’S CHARIOTS’

Vehicle I-D: Russian/Ukrainian Aircraft in U.S. service?

The Antonov Design Bureau (founded by Oleg Konstantinovich Antonov in 1946) was originally based in Russia, but officially moved to Ukraine in 1952.

June 2022, photo via Antonov Company.

In 2022, a Ukrainian Ruslan was used to transport NATO Turkey’s Turksat 5B from NATO France to NATO United States, for launch on the controversial SpaceX platform.

Photo via Antonov Company.

In June 2021, a Ukrainian An-124 Ruslan transported several Black Hawk helicopters from NATO Poland to The Philippines.

U.S. Army photo by Richard Bumgardner, 26APR2019.

Two UH-60 Black Hawks bound for Afghanistan about to be eaten by a Russian An-124 in Huntsville, Alabama, 26APR2019.

USA photo by Richard Bumgardner, 26APR2019.

USA photo by Richard Bumgardner, 26APR2019.

USA photo by Richard Bumgardner, 26APR2019.

USA photo by Richard Bumgardner, 26APR2019.

U.S. Air Force video, by Staff Sergeant Bethany La Ville, November 2018 Super Typhoon Yutu relief in Saipan, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (the Ukrainian operated An-124 was contracted by U.S. Air Force):

Video, October 2017, Russian operated An-124 delivers disaster relief equipment to Puerto Rico, paid for by U.S. taxpayers:

U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Corporal Brooke Deiters, 01AUG2016.

U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, Japan, August 2016.

USMC photo by Lance Corporal Brooke Deiters, 02AUG2016.

Russian operated An-124 takes-off from U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, Japan, August 2016.

USA photo by Staff Sergeant Richard Andrade, 22OCT2013.

October 2013, Russian operated An-124 delivers U.S. taxpayer funded Russian made Mil-17V-5 Hip helicopter to the Afghan military, in Kabul.

U.S. Marine Corps photo by Corporal Kevin Jones, 09JUL2013.

A large U.S. Marine CH-53E Super Stallion inside the belly of the An-124 beast, July 2013.

USMC video, by Corporal Jeffrey Scarmazzi, 11JUL2013, U.S. Marines on Marine Corps Air Station Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii, load UH-1Y Venoms into a contracted An-124:

USMC photo by Lance Corporal Natalie M. Rostran, 17JUN2013.

U.S. Marines CH-46E Sea Knight off-load at Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, Japan, June 2013.

USA photo by Sergeant D. Brennan, 07FEB2013.

February 2013, U.S. Army OH-58D Kiowa Warrior helicopter is fed into the An-124 Condor at Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan.

At least three OH-58Ds. USA photo by Sergeant D. Brennan, 07FEB2013.

U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Krystal Wright, 30JUN2012.

Russian operated An-124 gets an MRAP suppository at Shaw Air Force Base (AFB), South Carolina, June 2012.

USAF photo by Airman 1st Class Krystal Wright, 30JUN2012.

Now a satellite up-link suppository, all destined for U.S. Forces Korea.

USMC photo by Mitch Moore, 05OCT2011.

Joint Operating Base Bastion, Afghanistan, An-124 delivers mobile medical Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machine, October 2011.

USAF photo by Sergeant Anderson J. Grant, 21MAY2011.

The U.S. Air Force even showed-off the Ruslan at a public air show on Shaw AFB, May 2011.

USAF photo by Captain Erick Saks, 06MAY2011.

May 2011, An-124 delivers Rough Terrain Container Handler (RTCH) to Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan.

Photo by Jerome Bishop, 01DEC2005.

Pope Air Force Base , North Carolina, December 2005.  Russian contracted An-124 eats a UH-60 Black Hawk, for delivery to Egypt.

At least four UH-60s. Photo by Jerome Bishop, 01DEC2005.

Operation CoViD-19: Video of An-124 used for NATO CoViD supply operations in Slovakia

2016:

USMC photo by Corporal Nathan Wicks, 02AUG2016.

Russian An-124 DELIVERS KC-130J SIMULATOR TO U.S. MARINES IN JAPAN!

Ingenious or desperate?

A big water/fuel tank turned into a boat. Intercepted in 1999.

For more than five decades Cubans who don’t like living on their island country have sailed, some even tried swimming, to the United States.  This is partly because the U.S. Cuban Adjustment Act (CAA) of 1966 ‘fast tracks’ citizenship for any Cuban who can make it to U.S. territory.

U.S. policy is to sink all intercepted migrant boats.

Looks like simple 2×4 construction. Intercepted in 2016.

Even since the year 2000, Cubans still come up with ingenious, or maybe desperate, ways of getting to the United States.

Not sure what this is. Intercepted in 2016.

Wood planks strapped to 55 gallon drums. Intercepted in 2015.

My favorite. A 1951 Chevy truck mounted on empty 55 gallon drums.  The riders actually attempted to drive it to the U.S.  The U.S. Coast Guard intercepted the boat-truck in July 2003.

The truck-boat plugged along at eight miles per hour and made it just 40 miles from U.S. shores before sinking.

You might have seen one driving around Miami, but it’s not the one that sank.  A Florida Chevy dealer was so inspired by the effort of the Cubans that he made a much better-working replica.  As of May 2019, the dealer was trying to sell it for just under $40-thousand!  

But wait!  In 2004 two Cuban families tried to drive to Florida in their 1959 Buick.  The families had tried to do the same thing in the 1990s but their Buick developed electrical problems and they turned back. The U.S. Coast Guard ended their 2004 attempt, catching them before they could reach the shore, sending them back to Cuba, and their classic car to the bottom of the ocean.

But two failed attempts didn’t stop the people in the Buick, they tried again in 2005, this time in a floating 1948 Mercury stretched taxi.

As is U.S. Coast Guard policy, and despite the boat being a classic car, the Cuban taxi-raft was sunk.

VEHICLE I-D: JOIN THE U.S. MILITARY GET A CLASSIC CAR?

VEHICLE ID: ARMORED DRUG SMUGGLING BOATS

CoViD Oddities-5: “There’s no way they’re going to arrest me, this is insane!”

CoViD-19=CoronaVirus Disease-2019

Pandemics reveal the strangest things about how humans act. More proof this is actually covert-martial-law!

Incomplete list of links to ‘real’ news media articles.

In global war on coronavirus, civil rights become collateral damage

AUSTRIA: As CoVid-19 lock-downs are lifted, German state funded news media claims there’s a cover-up involving money! 

BELGIUM:  This year the Easter Bunny comes with its own mask! 

BOLIVIA: Video, military used to lockdown city of Montero (the soldiers do not look amused):

CZECH: After being the first to implement lockdown, Prague lifts the lockdown.

FRANCE: 

 If you’re caught on the street in Paris you better have your CoViD papers ready!

IRAN: Video, the Iran Bazaar (shopping mall) in Tehran turned into 3-thousand bed hospital:

ISRAEL-PALESTINE:  Signs of The Rapture as Jerusalem-Al Quds becomes a ghost town for Easter! 

JAPAN:  The western Spring celebration known as Easter just happens to be the official start of Japan Under State of Emergency.

KOREA: Government using CoViD-19 lockdown to ramp-up deportation of foreigners!

Government will electronically tag CoViD-19 lockdown violators!

MEXICO: Funeral home in Ciudad Juárez admits nobody knows what exactly the people are dying from!  Video of body of “suspected” CoViD-19 victim being delivered:

MYANMAR: People being arrested for making “Stay at Home” art works to fight the CoViD-19 pandemic, it is now considered a crime against religion! 

PERU: Video, tanks deployed to border with Ecuador, under guise of fighting CoViD-19:

RUSSIA: Soon you will need written permission to leave Moscow: “Next week, we will gradually introduce a system of lockdown passes. At the first stage, it passes will be introduced for trips to a workplace. Stage two – trips in other purposes. And stage three, if need be, movements within a neighborhood. Dates will be announced later”-Sergey Sobyanin, Mayor of Moscow

UGANDA: Video of Ugandan army delivering unknown ‘supplies’ to silly-vilians (civilians) trapped under CoViD-19 lockdown:

UNITED STATES: U.S. CDC just released influenza data for week ending 04APR2020 (Week 14 of Influenza seasons 2019-2020), saying “…so far this season there have been at least 39 million flu illnesses, 410,000 hospitalizations and 24,000 deaths from flu.” Realize that’s after tens of millions of people got vaccinated for flu! Compare that to the CDC’s own 10APR2020 CoViD-19 numbers (with no vaccine) for the U.S. and then ask yourself why haven’t any lockdown orders been given for influenza? Also, the CoViD-19 numbers include “presumptive” cases. Presumptive means without evidence!

 How COVID-19 is changing law enforcement practices 

COVID-19 Patients and Their Families Are Being Put on Police-Enforced Lockdown

  Arizona;  Man claims CoViD-19 comes from Navajo, publicly demands they be killed!

California; Man thinks coughing deer are infected with CoViD!

Colorado; Former cop handcuffed for playing T-Ball in a near empty park with his daughter.  The former cop even thought “There’s no way they’re going to arrest me, this is insane!”

Florida; More people are using claims of being infected with CoViD-19 for attacking healthcare workers and local government employees.

Georgia; Woman arrested for refusing quarantine!

Hawaii; 53 years old man arrested for threatening cops with CoViD-19. 

Maui police issue 101 tickets over seven days for CoViD-19 violations! 

Louisiana; While people are increasingly arrested for CoViD-19 violations, states like Louisiana are ordering cops to stop arresting people for actual nonviolent crimes!

Maryland; More than 6-hundred people arrested for CoViD-19 violations! 

New York; Video, mass graves on Hart Island, it should be noted the area is routinely used to bury dead people who are too poor/unidentified/nobody claims them as family:

With no evidence, NYC officials are now blaming an increase heart attacks on CoViD-19! Perhaps it’s the highly stressful lock-downs?

Pennsylvania; People are attacking police saying “I hope you get CoViD-19 and die!”

Texas;  woman arrested for intentionally spreading CoViD-19

FBI arrests man for intentionally spreading CoViD-19 at grocery stores

Virginia; ‘Christian’ leader gets arrest warrant issued for reporters who illegally trespassed his ‘christian’ university in an attempt to discredit claims there was no CoViD on campus!

Wisconsin; State hires 120 people to track down suspected infected people, calls the new covert-medical-martial-law employees Contact Tracers! 

CoViD Oddities-4: “THIS IS JUST NUTS…..LIFE WAS GOOD TWO WEEKS AGO”

Operation CoViD-19: U.S. PROJECT AIR BRIDGE, 747S, MD-11S, BREAKING AIRLIFT RECORDS!

CDC, JOHN HOPKINS, WIKIPEDIA, NEWS MEDIA+FLU VS COVID=SOMEBODY IS LYING

CoViD-19 Air Mobile ReDux: 2006 military experiment discovered that cloth masks, even 8 layers thick, don’t work! 

Vehicle I-D: Sukhoi 24

U.S. Navy photo, 12APR2016.

Buzzing the USS Donald Cook (DDG 75), Baltic Sea, 12APR2016.

USN photo, 12APR2016.

Video, Su-24 “Over the bow!”:

USN photo, 12APR2016.

Video, Su-24 “on the deck!”:

USN photo, 12APR2016.

Video, Su-24 “across the flight deck”:

Russian Su-24s on Khmeimim Air Base, Latakia Governorate in Syria, 2017.

Video, ground ops, Latakia, Syria, 2016:

Video, point-of-view cams showing take-off, bomb dropping, and landing of Su-24 in Syria:

Video, USS Ross (DDG 71) gets buzzed, June 2015, Black Sea:

On 24NOV2015, a NATO Turkey F-16 shot down a Russian Su-24 over Syria.

Video, take-offs and landings, Latakia, Syria, 2015:

Video from 2015, Russian Su-24 dropping ‘dumb’ bombs on insurgents in Syria:

Video, aerial refueling 2015:

Video, afterburners lit, Syria:

Algerian Su-24.

Iranian Su-24

U.S. MARINES USE ‘FAKE NEWS’ MIG-23

VEHICLE I-D: MIL 24 HIND ‘SATAN’S CHARIOTS’

VEHICLE I-D: SUKHOI 27/30

Vehicle I-D: Mil 24 Hind ‘Satan’s Chariots’, Cold War and beyond

Mil Mi-24/25/35, NATO reporting name Hind.

From a U.S. Army vehicle identification poster, September 1981.

Russian news media propaganda report on Mi-24P (30mm guns) and Ka-52 action in Ukraine, October 2022:

This is a Ukrainian Mi-24V, supposedly of those donated by NATO Czech Republic.

In August 2022, Russia revoked licensed Mil helicopter operations for NATO-Czech Republic and NATO-Bulgaria, after they donated Hinds to Ukraine. 

In August 2022, Brazil flew its 12 Mi-35M4s for the last time, officially.  Brazil calls its Hinds the AH-2 Saber.  Brazil has been operating Saber-Hinds since at least 2011.  Local news media reports say the high cost of maintaining them was exacerbated by recent U.S./NATO sanctions on Russia.

Video from June 2022, Russian ‘Z’ Hinds (Mi-35M, with 23mm guns in the chin-turret), somewhere over Ukraine:

In May 2022, NATO Czech republic claims to have given Ukraine some of their Mi-24Vs.

March 2022: Hinds with invasion stripes?

In December 2021, a video appeared claiming to show rebels in Yemen now have a usable Hind helicopter:

In August 2021, Taliban took control of donated Mi-35 helicopters, after the sudden withdrawal of U.S./NATO forces from Afghanistan.  See more about the more than four decades long love affair the Afghans have for ‘Satan’s Chariot’ in ZOMBIE ‘COPTER: HOW THE HIND RETURNED TO AFGHANISTAN (with the help of NATO), AND WHY IT WON’T DIE.

U.S. Army photo by Major Robert Fellingham.

In June 2021, U.S. Army AH-64 Apaches and NATO-Bulgarian Hinds took part in a joint Apache-Hind wargame, supposedly for the first time.

In August 2020, Rostec State Corporation’s Russian Helicopters division announced it will begin mass-production of its new export Hind, the Mi-35P. 

Belarussian Mi-24.

At the beginning of August 2020, Belarus claimed that NATO-Lithuania invaded its territory.  The ‘invasion’ was stopped with the help of Belarusian Mi-24s.

Kazakhstan Mi-35M, June 2020.

In June 2020, Kazakhstan received four new-build Mi-35Ms.  Kazakhstan now has 12 Mi-35Ms.

Kazakhstan Mi-35M, June 2020.

Kazakhstan Mi-35M, June 2020.

Libyan ‘Haftar’ Mi-35.

In April 2020, it was reported that an Mi-35, used by the ‘Haftar’ forces in Libya, was shot down, the crew was killed.  It should be noted that the Haftar forces (aka Libyan National Forces) are supported by both Russia and NATO-France!  The 2011 NATO instigated civil war in Libya never ended!

Ukrainian Mi-24P, with 30mm side mounted guns.

U.S. Air Force photo by Airman First Class Jacob T. Stephens, 20NOV2019.

Mil (Mil Moscow Helicopter Plant) 24 gunship flies over Ryan Airfield, Arizona, 20NOV2019.

USAF photo by Airman First Class Jacob T. Stephens, 20NOV2019.

The U.S. Air Force claims it is using the Mil 24 to teach basic helicopter maneuver training to SAR (Search And Rescue) HH-60G Pave Hawk crews.

USAF photo by Airman First Class Jacob T. Stephens, 18NOV2019.

Mil 24 parked next to HH-60G Pave Hawk, Davis Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona.

International Aviation and Space Salon MAKS-2019.

In August 2019, Russia announced it is upgrading its Mi-24Ps to Mi-24P1M standards. 

International Aviation and Space Salon MAKS-2019.

The Mi-24P1M will have the latest electronics, including an anti-aircraft missile launch warning system. The ‘1M’ version will also be several hundred kilograms lighter in weight.

International Aviation and Space Salon MAKS-2019.

In the NATO ‘west’, export versions of Mil 24 are also known as Mil 25 or 35, depending on the accessories (or who is writing the report).

NATO photo, 15MAR2018.

Polish Mil 24 picks up NATO troops during Frozen Fury wargame, March 2018.

U.S. Army photo by Captain Gary Loten-Beckford, 30JAN2018.

Polish Mil 24s swarm a NATO battlefield, January 2018.

Russian Mi-24 flying over Roman era ruins in Syria, possibly 2017.

Russia flies Mi-24s in the NATO-instigated-civil-war-torn country of Syria.

U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist First Class Justin Stumberg, 14JUL2017.

Ukrainian Mil 24, over Kulbakino Air Base in Mykolaiv, during NATO/U.S. Sea Breeze wargame, July 2017.

U.S. Army video by Sergeant Timothy Pike, soldier’s view of Mi-24 Hind-D during NATO wargame on Hohenfels, Germany, March 2017:

U.S. Army photo by Sergeant Matthew Hulett, 24MAR2017.

Maintenance on Czech Mil 24 on Hohenfels, Germany, for Exercise Allied Spirit, March 2017.

U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Corporal Zachary M. Ford, 11APR2016.

Mil 24 over Chocolate Mountain Aerial Gunnery Range, California, April 2016, in support of U.S. Marine Aviation Weapons and Tactics Squadron One (MAWTS-1) during Weapons and Tactics Instructor (WTI) training.

Video, Mil 24 Hinds in action, Syria, October 2015:

Mi-24 Hind-D onboard Yuma Marine Corps Air Station, Arizona. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Staff Sergeant Artur Shvartsberg, 09OCT2015.

U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Arizona, October 2015.

USMC photo by Staff Sergeant Artur Shvartsberg, 09OCT2015.

NATO video from 2014, Afghans deploy their Mil 24 and Mil 17 (171):

The Mil 24 is called Hind by NATO, there is no official name in Russia but crews have used many nicknames for it.  In Afghanistan it’s known as Satan’s Chariot.  NATO video report from 2012:

U.S. Army Photo by Specialist Alan Moos, 21JAN2008.

NATO-Poland Mil 24 in Iraq, Camp Echo, January 2008.

USA photo by Specialist Alan Moos, 21JAN2008.

NATO-Poland’s old Hind-D over Ad Diwaniyah, Iraq, January 2008.

Iraq, May 2006, USA photo.

NATO-Poland Mil 24 and U.S. Apache AH-64 working together, somewhere in Iraq,  May 2006.

U.S. Air Force photo by Technical Sergeant Hill-Wales, 03JUL1996.

The above photo shows three Mi-24 Hind-Ds, of the newly independent Czech Republic (now known as Czechia), attending an air show in NATO-Italy, July 1996.  The Czech Republic joined NATO in 1999.

The U.S. Army captured an almost intact Iraqi Hind-D, during Desert Storm, January 1991.

The U.S. Army first started flying the Mil 24 in the early 1990s, after French and Chadian forces seized an abandoned Libyan Mil 25 Hind-D in 1987.  The helicopter was flown to the U.S. onboard a C-5 Galaxy in 1988.

The Hind-D was based at Fort Bliss, Texas.  It was routinely deployed to Fork Polk, Louisiana, to play the part of the enemy, or Opposition Force (OpFor) in wargames.

This 1995 U.S. Army photo shows the Hind-D equipped with Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement Systems (MILES) ‘laser-tag’ wargame device on the chin-gun.  It has Tasmanian Devil nose art.

From U.S. Army FM 44-80, Visual Aircraft Recognition, July 1993 edition.

Beginning in the early 1980s, the U.S. Army used Huey helicopters to represent Hinds!

U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency photo, released 27APR1989.

The above photo was made in July 1988, but was not released to the U.S. public until 27APR1989.

Photo released by U.S./NATO, March 1985.

Photo released by U.S./NATO, August 1982.

These Hinds had a four-barreled 12.7mm gun in a chin-turret.

Photo released by U.S./NATO, August 1982.

Mil Mi-24 Hind-A. Photo released by U.S./NATO, 01AUG1982.

Czech-o-Slovak Mi-24D, photo by Eduard Karkan, published in 1980.

TASS photo of Soviet Mi-24D, published in late 1970s.

TASS photo of Soviet Mi-24D, published in late 1970s.

TASS photo of Soviet Mi-24D, published in late 1970s.

The Hind-A had a single-barreled 12.7mm heavy machine gun in the nose.

The first production version of the Hind, sometimes called the Drinking Glass, Mi-24A Hind-A.  Riga Airport Latvia Russian Aircraft Museum, in NATO-Latvia.

Prototype Mil V-24.

In 1968 the Soviet Union ordered a new helicopter, combining transport and gunship capabilities.  By June 1970, what would become the Mil 24 was accepted for testing.  The Mil 24A officially began service in 1972.

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