Good shoot. Risky as hell but good. Definitely gonna have some explaining to do...

 

Wasted 💀 pic.twitter.com/77UUquGixc

— Vicious Videos (@ViciousVideos_) May 11, 2025

Maneuver Warfare is More Than Rapid Movement

 

This one might be worth skipping. I swear to the good Lord above. Marine Officers no longer speak plainly. It's like they all get hit with the same damn virus at the same damn time. Next this bubba is talking philosophy. Are you shitting me! This is a quote from his article.

Maneuver warfare is by no means dead. Its critics have missed the point that maneuver warfare is a philosophy, not a doctrine. Maneuver transcends the other forms of warfare. It centers on defeating the fighting spirit of the opponent through a unique combination of methods designed for the situation at hand.

So we no longer defeat the enemy by fire and maneuver.  NO!  We defeat the enemy's spirit by maneuver.

These are the people and the thinking that will defeat the Chinese?  God save us! 

FM 3-0 was updated

IAG RILA 8x8 IFV

Open Comment Post. 11 May 25

Well it appears that a few of Europe's leaders are dope dawgs...

 

🇫🇷🇬🇧🇩🇪 BUSTED: The coalition of the willing was doing a Zelensky party, that’s why they’re in such a great mood?

A bit much nose candy? pic.twitter.com/A40NpGkLld

— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) May 11, 2025

They love their cocaine don't they? Powdered cocaine is still the drug of choice for the elite. I thought they would have switched to some designer shit by now.

China is destroying its ghost cities...

 

🇨🇳IF YOU BUILD IT…AND GO BANKRUPT, CHINA WILL BLOW IT UP

Sunshine City II was supposed to be a luxury residential complex - until the money dried up in 2013 and the skyscrapers turned into concrete skeletons.

After years of failed attempts to revive the project, China finally… https://t.co/kNHkqOa1K2 pic.twitter.com/77Hrv9S57a

— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) May 10, 2025

Interesting.

China is a closed society so we don't know much about whats going on inside but open source says that many young and middle aged people are dying suddenly (covid vaccines).  Additionally there is a brain drain going on.  They're restricting passports because so many are leaving.  Now this.

Things are bad for the dragon.

We're winning the tariff war with China but we've pushed them into a corner...

 

 

Watch the whole vid if you can but to summarize? Xi is in trouble and facing factions within the CCP that want him gone. The Chinese people have reverted to their traditional "low consumption" ways. Chinese factories/businesses are closing without paying workers. Layoffs are widespread. The housing market is getting crushed and people are losing big on homes that bought just a few years ago. Youth unemployment is crazy high, college kids are graduating to unemployment. Middle aged people (didn't know this about China) are locked out of jobs because they're over 35. Many are worried about societal breakdown. "Left over women" are worried about their futures and think that they'll never have a family. The list goes on.

China's leadership is in a rough spot because of their own past behaviors.  Manufacturers are running to Vietnam, Mexico and other lands.  Chinese leadership is trying to save face by demanding that the US lower tariffs but they have a track record of delaying negotiations till a new President is elected (happened in the first Trump term....he knows better now).

My worry?

They typical.

Internal problems at home mean that you want the focus outside at an enemy everyone can rally around.

That means activity around Taiwan ramps up dangerously or worse they actually make a run at the island NOW.  Not much more we can do to damage their country (except block the straits but they would probably consider that almost a direct attack on their homeland which would further starve their economy and MIGHT lead to a limited nuclear confrontation) so why not?

Forget Chinese propaganda.  We're winning but we might have acted too late which might lead to unintended consequences of the kinetic kind.

If "payloads over platforms" is real then the days of the single seat fighter are over...

 Everyone here has read about the shoot down of the French Rafale being operated by the Indian Air Force in the furball with Pakistani fighters.  Many are trying to rethink how they view the Rafale & J-10.  

I think that's incorrect.

What I believe everyone should be looking at is the fight itself.  Yeah the platforms are important but I think the payloads are the real stars of this fight.

Think about it.

Everyone believes this was a fight between the Rafale and J-10.  I think it was a battle between the AIM-120 and the PL-15.

We don't know alot about the fight so I'm ahead of my skis on this but apparently the PL-15 won.

What can we speculate on...What do we know?

1.  Both sides are saying it was a beyond visual range fight.

2.  We can guess that AWACS or maybe even ground radars assisted in the fight.

3.  We can guess that both sides were ripple firing missiles at range.

4.  We know that the planes involved should have been using their AESA style radars.

5.  We guess that full electronic countermeasures were used by both sides.

My point.  We need bigger, longer ranged missiles that are NOT confined to the size of single/twin seat fighters.  We need bigger AESA arrays that give longer range and can identify/target more hostiles.  We need longer range so that we reduce our reliance on tanker support.  Lastly we need the capability in this new platform to go supersonic so that it can both add energy to its missiles, get out of dodge if necessary and possibly power energy weapons that might come online.

What am I really calling for?  The B-1R!

Fill the nose cone with a huge honking AESA array.  24 AIM-260 missiles.  It can fly at distance.  It can loiter in its patrol area.  It can do the job of a whole squadron of F-35s with much less support.  Partner this plane with a "scout" UAV to detect enemy fighters at distance and the threat envelope goes way down.  Make those UAVs stealthy and they might even remain undetected while the enemy is dodging (trying to dodge) incoming missiles.

A pair of B-1Rs along with a half dozen stealthy scout UAVs (similarly equipped with AESAs) could take on a regiment of enemy aircraft and probably come out on top.

Dedicate a few B-21s to act as penetration "fighters" and you can pick off the stragglers that avoid the main clash because they can get closer to make those kills.

Regardless I believe that once we get the full tick tock of the furball between India and Pakistan it will show that fighter combat has evolved to a point where it SHOULD look different from what we're doing right now.

The fighter mafia as we know it should be disbanded.

ROK Army nighttime artillery live fire exercise

Open Comment Post. 10 May 25

Wahash Korkut Air Defence Gun

Vehicle info here

Open Comment Post. 8 May 25

This Tesla fights back!

 

Oh man what I wouldn't do to see this in person! 🤣🤣#TeslaRetribution#Revenge pic.twitter.com/aedyHHMKAx

— Catarina Senora Gatita (@WyattCatarina) May 8, 2025

Pakistan downed one Rafale fighter jet operated by the Indian Air Force (IAF)

 via CNN

A high-ranking French intelligence official told CNN that Pakistan downed one Rafale fighter jet operated by the Indian Air Force (IAF), in what would mark the first time that one of the sophisticated French-made warplanes has been lost in combat. Pakistan had claimed to have shot down five IAF jets in retaliation for Indian strikes, including three Rafales. Indian officials are yet to respond to the claim.

WOW!

If Pakistan knocked down an Indian Rafale with a Chinese jet this will send shockwaves thru the French version of our DoD.  It will tank sales in a heartbeat. I need more info! 

Late Open Comment Post. 7 May 25

 

Ukraine's Army is preventing Zelensky from making peace?

A reader sent me this and I forgot to note his name. Apologies and thanks!

The commander of the Ukrainian army, Robert Brovdi "Madyar", on behalf of a million armed soldiers, issued an ultimatum to Zelensky, forbidding him to negotiate with Russians and make territorial concessions.

Military is threatening to march on Kiev.

Zelensky has lost control… pic.twitter.com/Wpkeq4mPTW

— Diana Panchenko 🇺🇦 (@Panchenko_X) April 27, 2025

This is stunning.

An Army that is engaged in a peer war doesn't want peace?  Doesn't want the fighting to end after years?  This ain't the guys on the ground talking.  This is another hand exerting pressure.  The generals might be bought but the guys on the ground are taking hits they shouldn't.

I haven't done an update on the fighting in Ukraine but put it like this.  Ukraine damn sure ain't winning and it could be described as "just holding on". 

Open Comment Post. 4 May 25

I wonder how many will recognize the greatness of this pic!

We're either blessed or spoiled. We play games for cars/money. They play games & are happy to win basic staples...

Parece bastante divertido pela euforia delas! 👏👏👏 pic.twitter.com/iRlxmRL6b4

— PÁTRIA MAMADA 🤣 (@_PATRIA_MAMADA) May 3, 2025

Get your mind right. You don't know what tough is if you have a roof over your head and food to eat...

Democrats are floundering in the polls

🚨 DEMOCRATS: "The country turned on Trump! The voters have buyer's remorse! We told you!"

CNN, THIS WEEK: "Who'd be doing a better job as president... guess who comes out on TOP? This looks a LOT like the election result. Trump two points ahead of Harris! Trump continues to… pic.twitter.com/1Ht7Muxlhf

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) May 2, 2025