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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).

During the Cold War it was known as Mikoyan & Gurevich (Микоян и Гуревич), hence MiG (МиГ). The MiG-29 began military service in 1983. NATO reporting name Fulcrum.

U.S. Department of Defense concept of what a MiG-29 looked like, image released to the public on 23MAY1984.

From 1983 to 1985 the MiG-29 was kept out of public sight, then the leadership of the Soviet Union changed, adopting a concept called Glasnost which resulted in public demonstrations of the MiG-29 all over the world.

Photo of MiG-29 number 01, published in Western NATO countries in January 1987.

Photo of MiG-29 number 02, published by the NATO-West in January 1987.

In 1989, the Soviet Union was trying so hard to be ‘open’ that they sent one of their new MiG-29s to an airshow in NATO-Canada.

U.S. Air Force personnel help Soviet personnel refuel a MiG-29 that stopped at Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska, enroute to an airshow in British Columbia, Canada. USAF photo by Sergeant Gregory A. Suhay, 01AUG1989.

The Soviet Union released this photo to the NATO-West in September 1989.

A Warsaw Pact East German (German Democratic Republic/Deutsche Demokratische Republik) Mig-29, on Preschen Airfield sometime in 1990. Photo by Rob Schleiffert. East Germany ceased to exist in October 1990.

U.S. Department of Defense photo showing the remains of an Iraqi MiG-29, after Operation Desert Storm in March 1991.

(See more in Desert Storm: AIRCRAFT GRAVEYARD)

Post Cold War, Balkan Wars, War on Terror, Battle for Ukraine, 1992 to present. Since the end of the Cold War the company is known as Mikoyan and is now part of the United Aircraft Corporation (UAC), but the aircraft are still referred to as MiGs.

A former Warsaw Pact East German (German Democratic Republic/Deutsche Demokratische Republik) Mig-29UB, now wearing unified NATO-Germany markings, parked next to a USAF F-16B on Ramstein Air Base, Germany, 11AUG1993. USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Gary Tomoyasu.

Former Warsaw Pact Romania MiG-29, 23MAR1996. Romania would officially join NATO in 2004. USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Russ Pollanen.

NATO-Germany MiG-29 flies alongside a U.S. Navy F/A-18 Hornet, somewhere over the Mediterranean Sea, in Summer 1996.

The USAF claims this F-15C shot down the first Serbian MiG-29, during Operation Allied Force. USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Ken Bergmann, 24MAR1999.

Oregon Air National Guard F-15C Eagle taxis with a NATO-Poland MiG-29, on Minsk-Mazowiecki Air Base, during wargame Eagle Sentry, 29APR2001. Former Warsaw Pact Poland joined NATO in 1999. USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Jerry Bynum.

A former Warsaw Pact Czechoslovakia MiG-29, now wearing independent Slovakia colors, 09JUN2001. Slovakia would join NATO in 2004. USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Mitch Fuqua.

USAF officers get a tour of a NATO-Hungary MiG-29, 15MAY2002. Former Warsaw Pact Hungary joined NATO in 1999. USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Colette M. Horton.

Final flight of NATO-Germany’s MiG-29s over the Gulf of Mexico, 14MAY2003. USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Michael Ammons.

In the late 1980s, MiG developed a ‘K’ navalized version of the MiG-29 (first flight 23JUL1988), but there were no takers. In 2004, India decided they wanted the MiG-29K for their small aircraft carrier fleet. The training version MiG-29KUB first flew in 2007. The KUB version can also act as an electronic warfare aircraft.

Russian navalized MiG-29Ks.

Apparently, the fact that India liked the MiG-29K influenced the Russian Military Maritime Fleet to buy their own MiG-29Ks in 2009.

In 2011, California Air National Guard F-16s flew to Ukraine to take part in wargame Safe Skies. This video, by Senior Master Sergeant Christopher Drudge, shows a Ukrainian MiG-29UB taxiing past the California F-16s:

MiG-35 Fulcrum-F

In 2016, UAC-Mikoyan introduced a new ‘MiG-29’ called the MiG-35 (which looks a lot like the navalized MiG-29K). NATO calls it the Fulcrum-F.

This is from a NATO promotional video about Poland’s MiG-29 (edited by me), released in Spring 2018:

U.S. Department of Defense video claiming to show Russian MiG-29s operating over war-torn Libya, 05JUN2020:

Indian Air Power, 2021: Includes the MiG-29KUB

NATO-Bulgaria MiG-29 escorting U.S. Air Force B-52H, 24MAY2021, video (no audio) by Senior Airman Daniel Hernandez:

Ukraine Crisis, 2022: SLOVAKIA SUDDENLY RETIRES THEIR MiG-29 FULCRUM, AT NATO’S BEHEST

NATO video, 21MAR2023, NATO-Poland’s MiG-29UB launching from Malbork Air Base in Poland, and flying over the Baltic Sea:

On 16SEP2023, for the first time Republic of Serbia MiG-29s took part in an airshow in Skopje, Republic of North Macedonia. Serbian Air Force-Air Defense video:

Post Cold War: NATO’s MiG-21s

International, Technology

Whore-Dog-of-War: Slovakia gets new Leo-2A4s, at NATO taxpayer’s expense!

Video September 19, 2023 Hutchins AAron

As of 11SEP2023, NATO-Slovakia now has six NATO-Germany supplied Leopard 2A4 battle tanks.

Photo via Slovak Defense Ministry.

The taxpayers of NATO-Germany should be proud that they are funding 15 rebuilt Cold War era Leopard 2A4 battle tanks for NATO-Slovakia! It is part of a deal Slovakia made to give 30 Cold War era BVP-1 (BMP-1) Infantry Fighting Vehicles to Ukraine.

Official Armed Forces of the Slovak Republic video of the first live-fire training of the Leo-2A4 for Slovak tank crews, in August 2023:

German tankers teach Slovak tankers how to boresight the Rheinmetall 120mm gun, August 2023. Photo via Slovak Defense Ministry.

Bore-sighting the Rheinmetall 120mm gun, August 2023. Photo via Slovak Defense Ministry.

The 120mm round has a silver/gray casing which is combustible plastic, not metal. This one has a Armor-Piercing Discarding Sabot (APDS, aka Sabot) projectile, the blue color indicates it is a training round. Photo via Slovak Defense Ministry.

These are 120mm HEAT (High Explosive Anti-Tank) rounds. Photo via Slovak Defense Ministry.

A Leo-2A4 delivered to Slovakia, April 2023. Photo via Slovak Defense Ministry.

Forever Wars: UKRAINE DEAL GETS NATO-CZECH REPUBLIC ‘NEW’ taxpayer funded LEO 2A4

International

Forever Wars: Japan #1, Global Takeover, NATO War with China?

Video July 13, 2023 Hutchins AAron

NATO = North Atlantic Treaty Organization

After World War Two, ‘Western’ European and North Atlantic countries formed NATO, specifically to counter the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union ceased to exist in 1991-92, but NATO has since expanded its reach around the world.

NATO Pacific Partners, from left to right; Australia, Japan, New Zealand, Republic of Korea.

Japan’s Prime Minister, Kishida Fumio, attended a ‘bilateral meeting’ at the NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, on 12JUL2023.

‘Special’ bilateral meeting with Japan, 12JUL2023.

“No other Partner is closer to NATO than Japan.”-Jens Stoltenberg, NATO Secretary General

“…security is not regional, security is global.”-Jens Stoltenberg, NATO Secretary General

“We are, of course, also concerned with China’s heavy military build-up… and its expansion of nuclear forces…”-Jens Stoltenberg, NATO Secretary General

“Welcome to NATO”, video released 12JUL2023:

“Japan and NATO share the understanding that unilateral attempts to change the status quo…. will not be tolerated, regardless of where in the world.”-Kishida Fumio, Prime Minister of Japan

“…we will cooperate in new security areas, such as cyber… destructive technologies, and strategic communications including countering information manipulation.”-Kishida Fumio, Prime Minister of Japan

Please notice that NATO uses British/King’s English grammar/spelling in its press releases, not U.S. English, which is proof to me that NATO is a tool of the British empire (Commonwealth of Nations)!

Destroy U.S. Dollar/Return to the Empire, March 2023: JAPAN TOPPLES CHINA, NATO ALLIES & BRITISH EMPIRE TOPPLE JAPAN!

World War Three, February 2023: JAPAN JOINS NATO? PROOF NATO IS A PARANOID-SCHIZOID!

World War Three, False Flag 2022: CHINA WARNS UKRAINE CRISIS IS A DIVERSION, TRUE GOAL OF A-U-K-U-S IS WAR WITH CHINA!

World War Three, 2017: NATO GETS BIGGER, WELCOME JAPAN!

World War Three, 2013: NATO STATEMENTS CONCERNING JAPAN, AND THE NEW GLOBAL NATO!

International, Technology

Forever Wars: Baptism-of-Fire for New ‘Berezhok’, in Ukraine!

Video July 12, 2023 Hutchins AAron

On 10JUL2023, Russian news outlet RIA Novosti reported that the ‘new’ BMP-2M ‘Berezhok’ successfully attacked Ukrainian positions outside the city of Avdiivka (Avdeevka).

The BMP-2M is an upgrade of the Cold War era Soviet BMP-2. BMP stands for Boyevaya Mashina Pekhoty (Боевая Машина Пехоты), literally Combat Vehicle Infantry.

The crew of the BMP-2M used their 30mm gun and two 9M133 Kornet missiles to destroy a Ukrainian machinegun nest, and a Ukrainian truck carrying troops. The BMP-2M also has a 30mm grenade launcher.

Video released by RIA Novosti claiming to show the Berezhok in combat near Avdiivka:

Berezhok is the name of a city in the south-west area that is part of the dispute between Ukraine and pro-Russian separatists.

Forever Wars: UKRAINE DEAL GETS NATO-CZECH REPUBLIC ‘NEW’ LEO 2A4

HOW TO ESCAPE A BLOWN-UP BRADLEY, UKRAINIAN STYLE!

International, Technology

Forever Wars: Ukraine deal gets NATO-Czech Republic ‘new’ Leo 2A4

Video July 10, 2023 Hutchins AAron

On 21DEC2022, NATO’s Czech Republic (aka Czechia) received its first rebuilt Leopard (Leo) 2A4 battle tank from NATO-Germany.

Photo via Czech Ministry of Defense.

It was part of a deal in which Czech Republic agreed to buy new-build Combat Vehicle (CV)-90 ‘tanks’ from Sweden, and gave Ukraine older Soviet era military equipment: “We got the tanks for supporting Ukraine. The support of Ukraine is absolutely correct and necessary, I am proud of it.”-Major General Karel Řehka, Chief of the General Staff of the Army Czech Republic (ACR)

Photo via Czech Ministry of Defense.

Officials from NATO Member Germany, and NATO Partner Austria, observed the ceremony. Czech Republic is getting 13 additional Leo 2A4 battle tanks (along with spare parts) by the end of 2023, and one Leopard recovery vehicle by the middle of 2024.

Video via Czech Ministry of Defense, 21DEC2022:

Photo via Czech Ministry of Defense.

Forever Wars: RUSSIAN ALLY SERBIA ALLOWS NATO WARGAME? OHIO SENDS TROOPS!

U.S. NATIONAL GUARD PREPS FOR GLOBAL WAR!

The newest NATO member Finland already uses the Leo 2A4, and the CV-90.

World War Three, 2012: QATAR JOINS SAUDI ARABIA IN BUYING HUNDREDS OF GERMAN LEOPARD TANKS

International, Technology

Forever Wars: How to escape a blown-up Bradley, Ukrainian style!

Video July 3, 2023 Hutchins AAron

A video was released on an anonymous Ukrainian ‘Telegram’ channel of a firefight involving recently delivered U.S. made M2A2 Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicles (IFV). The video was recorded by an onboard camera, on what I believe is probably the platoon commanders Bradley.

The battle happened in Zaporizka Oblast (aka Zaporizhzhia), on 08JUN2023, the platoon of Bradleys made contact with enemy forces, which apparently were too powerful as the IFVs are attempting to fall back. The platoon commander is using the 25mm gun to provide covering fire as M2A2s retreat, unfortunately the retreating IFVs are driving in front of the Bradley providing covering fire!

Impressively, the gunner is able to control his trigger pulls missing the retreating vehicles, but one of the retreating Bradleys is either hit by enemy fire, or runs over a land mine. You might think the crew are dead, but amazingly the crew emerges from the back with their M4 assault rifles. A smoke grenade is thrown, then the platoon commander fires-off his smoke grenade launcher, the homeless IFV crew uses the smoke as cover while they scramble onto the platoon commander’s Bradley.

The anonymous poster of the video added crappy music, so I edited out the audio:

Interestingly, while Russian news sources made fun of the Ukrainians’ apparently failed attempt to use M2A2 Bradleys in battle, some Russian news sources also praised the Bradleys for ‘crew survivability’ admitting that the crews operating Soviet/Cold War era BMPs (Boyevaya Mashina Pekhoty, Боевая Машина Пехоты, Combat Vehicle Infantry) would not have survived the same incident!

When I first joined the U.S. military during the last decade of the Cold War, crew survivability was one of the main drivers of ‘Western’/NATO combat vehicle design.

Forever Wars: SNAKE RIVER M1A2 SEP, BORESIGHT MOROCCO!

NATO GREATLY INCREASES TAXPAYER FUNDING, EXPANDS GLOBAL AMMO SUPPLY, FORMS ‘BIRDS COALITION’ WITH UKRAINE!

NATO-SLOVAK BMP (BVP) & OT-90, Cold War to Battle for Ukraine

International, U.S.

World War 3: The only global military alliance says the war with Russia is in “beginning stages”!

Video June 13, 2023 Hutchins AAron

Joint statements by the NATO Secretary General, Jens Stoltenberg, and the Secretary of State of the United States, Antony Blinken, in Washington DC, 13JUN2023:

THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF OLIGARCHICAL COLLECTIVISM: MAINTAINING POWER THROUGH A CONTINUOUS WAR ON TERROR, OR WAR IS A COMPETITION TO CONTROL THE MOST SLAVE WAGE WORKERS

Orwell’s 1984 for reals, March 2022: NATO BULGARIA TO LEAD ANTI-RUSSIA OPERATION, WITH BIDEN’S BLESSINGS!

World War Three, December 2013: JAPAN and OFFICIAL ORWELLIAN DOUBLE-SPEAK PRO-WAR PROPAGANDA PROGRAM HAS BEGUN, MILITARY FORCES INCREASING!

International, Technology

Cold War to Battle for Ukraine: Slovak BMP (BVP) & OT-90

Video June 7, 2023 Hutchins AAron

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

A Indiana Army National Guard soldier gets a lesson on how the BVP works, 15SEP2015. Indiana Army National Guard photo by Sergeant Daniel Dyer.

Slovak BVP (BMP) based ambulance. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sergeant Micah VanDyke, 12OCT2016.

During the ‘Cold War’, Czech-o-Slovakia was one country created by the victors of World War Two by forcing Slovakia and Czech Republic together (just as they did after World War One). Czech-o-Slovakia became a member of the Warsaw Pact in response to the creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

Slovak BVP-1 (BMP-1). U.S. Army photo by Staff Sergeant Micah VanDyke, 12OCT2016.

Slovak BVP-1 during a NATO CBRN exercise near Lešť, 20MAR2017. U.S. Army photo by Sergeant Justin Geiger.

In the Czech-o-Slovak language the BMP became Bojové Vozidlo Pěchoty (BVP), which means basically the same thing as the Russian BMP; Infantry Fighting Vehicle (IFV). Like most users of the BMP/BVP, Czech-o-Slovakia made many different versions, including their unique OT-90.

Slovak OT-90 crew launches an S2M anti-aircraft missile, October 2013. Photo via Ministry of Defense of the Slovak Republic.

According to the current Ministry of Defense of Czech Republic (aka Chechia), the OT-90 was developed to carry a squad of infantry equipped with anti-aircraft weapons.

The man/woman portable S2M missile. Photo via Ministry of Defense of the Slovak Republic, October 2013.

The large turret of the BMP/BVP was replaced with a smaller turret (same used on the Czech-o-Slovak designed OT-64 armored car), to make room for the specialized anti-aircraft weapons.

S2M launch from OT-90. Photo via Ministry of Defense of the Slovak Republic, October 2013.

After the so-called Cold War ended, Czech Republic and Slovakia went their separate ways, and since there was no more Soviet-Warsaw Pact, they both joined NATO (NATO felt it necessary to remain in existence, even though its stated enemy the Soviet Union no longer existed). Today’s NATO-Czechia replaced their OT-90s with NATO-United Kingdom designed Land Rover vehicles. NATO-Slovakia still uses the OT-90.

Battle for Ukraine: February 2014 (NATO backed coup) to present.

U.S. Army video (by Sergeant Alan Brutus) of Slovak BVP-2 live-fire, during wargame Dragoon Crossing, 16SEP2015:

More live-fire video (by Christoph Koppers), 16SEP2015:

NATO video of rail off-load of Slovak BVP-2s and OT-90s, in NATO-Latvia, 13APR2017:

NATO video of Slovak BVP-1s and OT-90s, assigned to a newly formed ‘anti-Russia’ NATO Battle Group, 21SEP2022:

On 29NOV2022, the Ministry of Defense of the Slovak Republic announced that 30 BVP-1s had been sent to Ukraine. Officially it is part of a NATO weapons deal, in which Slovakia would get 15 upgraded Leopard 2A4 battle tanks from Germany.

Cold War to Battle for Ukraine: NATO-ROMÂNIA GARDIENII CERULUI GEPARD

H-A-W-K, HOMING ALL-THE WAY KILLER

NATO Vehicle I-D: BMP AMBULANCE, ROMÂNIA STYLE

Vehicle I-D: GEORGIAN T-72 & BMP

International

Hunger Games: NATO members ban food imports from Ukraine! Global food shortage caused by E-U hoarding?

Video April 16, 2023 Hutchins AAron

16 April 2023 (11:25-UTC-07 Tango 06) 27 Farvardin 1402/25 Ramadan 1444/26 Bing-Chen 4721/16 апреля 2023 года

Anybody remember when ‘woke’ NATO governments, and their lackey news media outlets, were warning of huge global food shortages due to the so-called Russian invasion of Ukraine?

Yesterday, NATO members Hungary and Poland banned food imports from Ukraine, and yes it is about the money, and yes it proves there is no food shortage: “The increasing imports of agricultural products from Ukraine cause serious disturbances in the markets of our countries, great damage to producers and social unrest.”-Robert Telus, Poland’s Minister of Agriculture & Rural Development

According to numerous reports out of Europe, NATO members have been trying to help Ukraine’s economy by taking in huge amounts of food from Ukraine, however, that has backfired, causing food prices to collapse which in turn is hurting the domestic food industries in those NATO countries!

EuroNews report:

Reuters report:

According to Al Jazeera, the true reason for global food shortages is that the European Union (EU) is hording all the food coming from Ukraine, despite original promises: “Grain has since flowed… but much of its has not travelled further on to the Middle East and Northern Africa, as it was meant to under the EU plan.”

Hunger Games: FACT CHECKERS LIE! United States IS PREPPING TO USE m-R-N-A ON LIVESTOCK!

Technology

Battle for Ukraine: Direct-Fire, NATO Poland’s Krab

Video March 28, 2023 Hutchins AAron

Poland’s Krab is a self-propelled artillery gun, normally an indirect-fire weapon, but can be used as a direct-fire weapon (like a main-battle-tank). The following images and videos were made during Exercise Dynamic Front, March 2023, in NATO-Denmark.