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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: New armored ECM vehicle

Currently known as Electronic Warfare Tactical Vehicle (EWTV), testing began in September 2018 at Yuma Army Proving Grounds, in Arizona.

In January 2019, testing shifted to Fort Irwin National Training Center, in California.

Testing is being conducted by the U.S. Army 1st Division’s 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team ‘Greywolf’.  The EWTV is based on a MRAP (Mine-Resistant Ambush-Protected) MaxxPro Dash.

The new vehicle allows ground forces to intercept and jam electronic communications (electromagnetic spectrum) from a ‘safe’ distance.  It will be a good use for artillery units because it can pin-point the source of electronic sources and then call-for-fire on those sources (the modern version of triangulating radio signals).

It can integrate with existing ECM (Electronic Counter Measures) vehicles like the VROD (Versatile Radio Observation & Direction) and VMAX (VROD Modular Adpative Transmit) systems.

VEHICLE I-D: GIANT R-C TANKS SEEN TEARING-UP WASHINGTON STATE!

Vehicle I-D: AH-1Z USMC FARP

Marine Wing Support Squadrons (MWSS) refuel a AH-1Z Viper (Cobra) during a Forward Arming Refueling Point (FARP) exercise at Yuma, Arizona, 03 APR 2017:

Pic of AH-1Z Viper-Cobra based in Okinawa, Japan

VEHICLE I-D: NATO GERMANY SHOWS OFF ARMORED FIGHTING VEHICLES, IST KOOL!

NEW HH-60M BLACK HAWK FOR HAWAIIAN MILITIA MEDEVAC