Tag Archives: leclerc

The United Arab Emirates (The Emirates al-ʾImārāt الإمارات) uses a variety of armored vehicles, here’s just a few:

U.S. Marine Corps photo by Corporal Hannah Perkins.

United Arab Emirates’ French made Leclerc battle tank during ‘Iron Magic’, a Combined Arms Live Fire Exercise (CALFEX) with the U.S. Marine Corps, 31OCT2017.

USMC photo by Corporal Hannah Perkins.

USMC photo by Corporal Hannah Perkins.

Boyevaya Mashina Pekhoty, Боевая Машина Пехоты, Combat Vehicle Infantry number 3 (BMP-3) roll across the sand during ‘Iron Magic’ CALFEX, 31OCT2017.

U.S. Army photo by Captain Scott Kuhn.United Arab Emirates’ Leclercs and BMP-3s during ‘Iron Union 5’ at the Al Hamra Training Center on 28SEP2017.

USA photo by Captain Scott Kuhn.

Russian made BMP-3.

U.S Army video by Captain Scott Kuhn, ACVs, a Leclerc based DNG/DCL recovery vehicle with mine plow, BMP-3s and Leclercs during Iron Union 5:

USA photo by Sergeant Aaron Ellerman.

UAE BMP-3 during U.S. led wargames in Kuwait, 27SEP2016.

USA photo by Sergeant Aaron Ellerman.

UAE’s Turkish made ACV (M113 based Advanced Infantry Fighting Vehicle) during U.S. led wargames in Kuwait, 27SEP2016.

USA photo by Sergeant Marcus Gable.

February 2011, taking part in a parade remembering the 1991 Desert Storm liberation of Kuwait.

False Flag 2015: I-M-F PUTS U-A-E IN CHARGE OF ARAB SPRING COUNTRIES!

World War Three 2014: OBAMA DEPLOYS U-S-M-C TO U-A-E! U.S. CONGRESS APPROVES $150-MILLION FOR U-A-E!

World War Three 2012: U-A-E COMPLETES MASSIVE PIPELINE AROUND STRAIT OF HORMUZ

Vehicle I-D: Jordanian Shield اردني درع (Including Leclercs donated by United Arab Emirates)

IRAQI ARMOR, AFTER THE INVASION

KUWAITI C-17 الكويت

Helicopters: EGYPT

International, Technology

Vehicle I-D: Jordanian Shield اردني درع

Video January 10, 2021 Hutchins AAron

Al Hussein (aka Challenger 1 FV4030/4) and AH-1S/F Cobra. Photo via Jordanian Armed Forces.

German made Marder 1A3 Infantry Fighting Vehicle. Photo via Jordanian Armed Forces.

Marder 1A3, photo via Jordanian Armed Forces.

South African made Ratel, on UN ‘peacekeeping’ duty. Photo via Jordanian Armed Forces.

Jordanian Armed Forces promotional video, November 2021:

Photo via Royal Hashemite Court.

Jordan’s King Abdullah the Second, and His Royal Highness Crown Prince Al Hussein, inspect one of at least 80 ‘donated’ (from United Arab Emirates) French-made Leclerc tanks, October 2020.

Photo via Royal Hashemite Court.

Old U.S. made M60A3 tanks during wargames, October 2020.

Official Royal Hashemite Court video:

USA photo by Sergeant First Class Kenneth Upsall.

A U.S. Army Staff Sergeant finds out what it is like driving a Jordanian Challenger-1, called Al Hussein (الحسين), January 2017.

U.S. Army photo by Sergeant First Class Kenneth Upsall, 08JAN2017.

U.S. Marine Corps photo by Staff Sergeant Vitaliy Rusavskiy, 17MAY2017.

Jordanian M113A2MK-1J mingling with U.S. Marine Corps Amphibious Assault Vehicle-P7/A1, May 2017.

USMC photo by Corporal Jessica Y. Lucio, 17MAY2017.

USA photo by Sergeant Youtoy Martin, 17JAN2016.

M113A2MK-1J, January 2016. Video report, U.S. Army trains with Jordanian M113A2 unit, January 2016:

Al Hussein, aka Challenger Mark 1, aka FV4030/4. USA photo by Specialist Ian Valley, 24MAY2016.

U.S. Marine Corps photo by Corporal Sean Searfus, 18MAY2015.

M60A3 tank fires during a combined live fire demonstration as part of Exercise Eager Lion in Wadi Shadiya, Jordan, 18MAY2015.

USMC photo by Corporal Sean Searfus, 18MAY2015.

Photo by Captain Viet Nguyen.

Jordanian YPG-765 during Eager Lion 2015.

USMC photo by Corporal Sean Searfus, 18MAY2015.

USMC photo by Sergeant Austin Hazard, 29MAY2014.

YPG-765 during Eager Lion, May 2014.

USMC photo by Sergeant Austin Hazard, 29MAY2014.

Videos, Jordanian Al Hussein (الحسين), conducting live fire during Eager Lion, Summer of 2013:

U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sergeant Richard Blumenstein, 07MAY2012.

Al Hussein (الحسين) fire during Eager Lion, May 2012.

U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Scott Stewart, 01SEP1987.

A Jordanian M113 is off-loaded from a U.S. Air Force C-141 Starlifter, during wargame Bright Star, in the North African country of Egypt, September 1987.

Vehicle I-D: IRAQI ARMOR, AFTER THE INVASION

Vehicle I-D: CHALLENGER vs LECLERC

2016: NATO’s secret chemical training for Jordan

Technology

NATO Vehicle I-D: Challenger vs Leclerc

Video January 25, 2020 Hutchins AAron

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:

French Leclercs invade NATO-Germany, 29MAY2018. U.S. Army photo by Kevin S. Abel.

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 photo by Specialist Craig Carter, 05JUN2018.

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:

Simulated CBRN attack. USA photo by Specialist Craig Carter, 05JUN2018.

Push-me-pull-you action, towing away a ‘broke-dick’ Leclerc. USA photo by Specialist Craig Carter, 05JUN2018.

Leclerc’s butt. USA photo by Lacey Justinger, 04JUN2018.

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:

USA photo by Gertrud Zach, 07JUN2018.

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.