Monday, December 29, 2025

NSFW funny

Grannys like this really do exist. I've met one and when I say no filter and no fucks to give I mean it. Entertaining and a bit disturbing at the same time.

 

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Open Comment Post. 29 Dec 25

 


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China stages military drills around Taiwan to warn ‘external forces’....they're falling into our trap

 via Defense News

China’s military on Monday dispatched air, navy and missile units to conduct joint live-fire drills around the island of Taiwan, which Beijing called a “stern warning” against separatist and “external interference” forces. Taiwan said it was placing its forces on alert and called the Chinese government “the biggest destroyer of peace.”

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The drills are nothing.  The reaction to the arms sales are over the top and point to a couple of mistakes the Chinese have made in this mess.

#1  They imposed a deadline on themselves to accomplish reunification.  HUGE MISTAKE!  From my view of the Chinese people and culture they aren't the type to issue ultimatums or strict deadlines.

In this case they did and its pressurizing everything.  Imagine if they didn't put down a marker and simply said as soon as possible.  

They could then build up their military slowly and efficiently.  Instead they're on a breakneck rush and every allied country in the region is on alert.

#2  They've thrown away the carrot and essentially limited themselves to only one course of action.  All around the world they've successfully used diplomacy, guile and sometimes trickery to achieve their goals.

To their credit the deed was done before anyone noticed.  They never gave themselves that option with Taiwan.  Perhaps its the success they had in Hong Kong that made them switch tactics.  Perhaps its the propaganda that Taiwan is simply a breakaway province and no one would care.  I don't know and it doesn't matter.

China has picked its course and is rushing full speed ahead with no off ramps due to their rhetoric.

#3  They didn't believe we had time to course correct.  They're only partially right on this one but being partially right isn't good enough to win a flawless victory.

Because of points 1 and 2 the allies in the Pacific are fully aware of the situation and taking action to correct things.  Should they have acted earlier?  You bet your ass but in this case late is better than nothing.

China doesn't have all the gear/tech in place yet.  Soonish but not yet.  Meanwhile we've had a couple of challenges appear that have turned the MIC to damn near full and leaders in the US and Japan (to a certain extent in S. Korea and Australia) are acting to plug gaps.

Have you noticed something else?  

This is a bipartisan thing.  Even stupid war opponents like myself argue about the "what's" that are being done, not the issue that something SHOULD be done.

In this whole kerfuffle China has made missteps that are playing into our hands. Instead of acting calmly and rationally they've acted like a bully and alarmed the entire region.

If war comes and I hope it doesn't this will be an ugly shock to the system.

I don't think historians will be able to call a winner to be honest.  Thousands of lives lost, Taiwan reduced to rubble, China teetering and probably gonna have a military coup and America will in all likely hood withdraw from the world stage.

Everybody loses and loses big.

The weird thing is that China could have easily achieved its goal by being patient but it had to swing its dick around instead. 

 

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Sunday, December 28, 2025

I don't think he's gonna get them...

🔥Grace Under Pressure: Horses Casually Gallop from a Bear
byu/Mint_Perspective inNatureIsFuckingLit
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Saturday, December 27, 2025

Open Comment Post. 27 Dec 25

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A light aircraft automatically contacted Air Traffic Control, declared MAYDAY and successfully landed itself, after it's pilot became incapacitated.

A light aircraft automatically contacted Air Traffic Control, declared MAYDAY and successfully landed itself, after it's pilot became incapacitated. This is the first confirmed real-world use of this technology outside of testing or demonstrations.
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Friday, December 26, 2025

Musical Interlude

This song pairs good with good buddies, grown folks talk and some Jack Daniels Black...
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Open Comment Post. 26 Dec 25

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Thursday, December 25, 2025

ISIS in Africa is back on the target list...

African Christians have been slaughtered on an almost daily basis in Africa and it isn't getting the air time it deserves. Good to see that Trump is taking action. Even better that he's doing missile strikes so none of our people are in harms way. Well done in my mind.
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Another view of the weaponized Chinese Container Ship

We're gonna build a "battleship" while they take cheap ships and make them arsenal ships. WE HAD THIS SAME FUCKING CONCEPT AND PASSED ON IT!
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It's been theorycrafted but now the Chinese are actually doing. They're weaponizing container ships

Targeting will be a problem unless allied forces become absolutely medieval. I'm talking about total exclusion zones around our warships that extend AT LEAST 500 miles from our formations. Any container ship found within must be killed ASAP. That will of course lead to killing REAL civilian ships (the Chinese will send them out to test us and if we hold strong the propaganda against the sinking will be internationally painful) but there is no other way if we're seeing this in open media.
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Merry Christmas

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Wednesday, December 24, 2025

Japan successfully tested its Type-12 coastal defense system

What if? What if Force Design 2030 had chosen to go with this Japanese missile instead of going with the Kongsberg mistake? Would it have made FD2030 more viable? I doubt it. But instead of bypassing these Marines they'd at least have to hunt them (and hopefully be hunted back).
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Perspective is everything...never trust your first look

The above vid is famous. They even use it in a number of different schools. Why? To make whoever is taking the class to always take a beat and try and drink in the whole picture before they act. Think about this next time you're in a situation. Especially when it comes to street incidents. Act hastily and off first perspective and you could help assault the "good" guy while helping the "bad" one.
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Open Comment Post. 24 Dec 25

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I didn't know it but I'm a fan of Women's Bobsledding...

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Gentlemen! UNDERSTAND THIS! If you engage a woman in combat sports then chivalry is dead. Fight her like you would a man!

 

I don't know if the dude was holding back, is totally unskilled, has the aggression of a butterfly or is simply pussy. IF he was holding back then he needs to get his head together. The cold reality? Unless she's some super skilled underground MMA fighter then this should happen about once every 1000 fights and even in that case it should be a damn good excuse why.
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USNI News on the ACV attempts to shine a light but points out glaring weakness in spots...

 


USNI News was attempting to write a puff piece on the ACV but if you read between the lines you get the impression that this "game changer" is a compromise on wheels.  Via the article that you can read here.

The ACVs, Savage said, are difficult to keep maintained properly, and the battalion doesn’t carry as much as the AAVs used to carry. 

Difficult to maintain?  These rides are practically brand new!  The idea that such a young vehicle to the Marine Corps is difficult to maintain is a brain fuck!

 Marines who operated the tracked AAVs say it’s trickier driving the ACV inside a ship or a combat town, noting the wheeled base doesn’t allow for easy maneuver through tight spaces.

This is a just wow moment for me.  I've seen wheeled vehicles that have skid steering.  This one doesn't.  Pity.  Between fewer numbers (and I have yet to see the numbers assigned to each MEU) and difficulty in maneuver this vehicle will be a boutique item for the ground force.

 “We are not going to be operating in the desert. We’re going where it’s more island-chain campaigns. 

I found this statement by the Lt to be interesting.  I can't quite tell where he's going or what he means here.  Is he being division specific?  Or is he talking Marine Corps wide.

Either way it's disturbing to me.

Quite honestly it smacks of the old Army attitude.  For the Army it was a European battlefield today, tomorrow and into the future.  Nothing else mattered.  In the meantime the fight never happened there but it did in other lands and they weren't ready for the fight.

I hope the Marine Corps isn't following that example but I've heard enough from Senior Marine Corps Officers that confidence is not high. 

Back to the ACV.

I don't want them in a fight anywhere but if these predictors of the future are right and a fight with China is inevitable then I hope they get a workout in a smaller war somewhere so we can see what we really have.  Call it a look past the propaganda of the vehicle to see if it really is a  "game changer".

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Tuesday, December 23, 2025

Netanyahu is pushing the US to make another strike at Iran. Seems like some in the administration are all about it

Has anyone been tracking the wannabe fight that Netanyahu wants against Iran? A quick and dirty is that while the first strike achieved its objectives, Mossad is claiming that Iran is tripling its ballistic missile production and is reconstituting its nuclear program. Long story short is that Netanyahu wants a second strike to destroy Iranian ballistic missile sites and to hit their nuke program again. Supposedly those ballistic missile site, although moved further east (?) are a threat to the security of Israel and he wants them out before the threat become reality.

This announcement is just Huckabee priming the pump so that Trump can go the way of the hawks.

I believe that Netanyahu wants to go on the offensive because the Israeli economy and military is so worn out by the protracted fighting in Gaza, Lebanon and Syria that they just don't have the capability to produce enough interceptors to blunt an attack.

Watch this thing.  Netanyahu seems to want this as bad as the first strike and war hawks in the US NEVER turn down a chance to send young people to war.
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Did the Chinese copy the Russian TOR and claim its world beating?

 

Someone correct me. Is that a Russian Tor by another name?
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USS San Antonio (LPD 17) conducts flight operations...Photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Savannah Hardesty

 

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U.S. Marines with 3rd Bn., 7th Marines conduct fire support coordination exercise

 

U.S. Marines with 3rd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, fire an M252 81 mm mortar during a fire support coordination exercise at Marine Corps Air-Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, California, Dec. 10, 2025. The exercise was conducted to evaluate integration at the platoon and fire support coordination center level with live-fire execution. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Ezekieljay Correa)
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Tell me again why you can't work out?

She does so why don't you? No excuses fuckers!
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Net launchers are effective against fiber optic FPV drones?

Who knew? Correction. I didn't know but its kinda obvious in hindsight. I do know this. When they slap AI into FPV drones (I guess thats putting machines in charge of causing human deaths to the max) that are able to identify and kill targets without people in the loop...and then they do drone swarms with them, then the net launchers are worthless.
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Brochure at the Dubai Airshow in the UAE (old---saved in my X bookmarks & didn't publish it)

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Finnish Patria AMOS (Advanced Mortar System)

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China–New Zealand Cooperation 2025 PLA Army Joint Training: Live-Fire Integrated Exercise

 

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When the time comes you have no time to get ready, you have to be ready...

 

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2nd LAR TOW Missile Range

U.S. Marines with 2nd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 2nd Marine Division displace from the range during a Tube-launched, Optically-tracked, Wire-guided missile range on Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, Dec. 11, 2025. The range integrates the long range, standoff capabilities of the TOW missile with the battlespace awareness advantages of LAR scout teams and the direct fire capabilities of the Light Armored Vehicle 25’s 30mm Bushmaster chain gun. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Brian Bolin Jr.)
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S. Korea is making HUGE entry into the European defense market

 

I've said before and I'll say again. The S. Korean defense sector is growing, is technologically advanced and they're becoming a worldwide exporter. From the Redback IFV to their superior tracked artillery system they're taking the world by storm. Even more concerning for the current defense giants? They're playing the "home built" thing to perfection with reasonable contracts to make at least a portion of the gear built in country. S. Korea is winning the high end game and Turkey is knocking around people in the developing world. S. Korea and Turkey. Monsters in the making.
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2ndLAR: Vehicle Commanders Course

 

U.S. Marines with 2nd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 2nd Marine Division, participate in the vehicle commanders' course on Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, Dec. 11, 2025. The purpose of this training event is to increase combat readiness through realistic scenarios preparing for possible future combat operations utilizing the Light Armored Vehicle Anti-Tank weapon systems and increasing section level proficiency. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Cpl. Noelia Vazquez)


 
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Monday, December 22, 2025

Open Comment Post. 22 Dec 25

 


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US Navy's Golden Fleet arrives with the Trump Class USS Defiant

Website here 

This is just an arsenal ship by another name. I like it but I can't think that we're going the route of the German Navy in WW2. Are we building a modern day Bismark? Yeah I know its supposed to be a class of 20-25 warships but if past is prologue then we'll be lucky to get 4 of them. Then? Then they become the prime target of the threat Navy (China) and they're hunted like deer in Louisiana.
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Saturday, December 20, 2025

China has a UAV that launches up to 100 drones...SUPPOSEDLY!

Read the comments on this tweet and it pretty much captures my doubts about this. I haven't posted it yet (soon) but it appears that since the Trump administration announced the huge military sale to Taiwan that the Chinese X community has been flooding the zone with all kinds of "world winning" military tech that we should all be alarmed about. I consider it horse shit but maybe I'm wrong.
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I enjoyed this way too much....Jake Paul goes down

 

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Wednesday, December 17, 2025

Open Comment Post. 17 Dec 25

 


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JB MDL- Aerial Live Fire, Marines HMLA 773, HMH 772

Mission complete! two CH-53 Stallions from HMH 772 head home in the sunset Dec. 12 after engaging all targets at range 59C at U.S. Army Support Activity - Fort Dix for daytime firing and to prepare to return for nighttime firing. (US Army Images provided by the USASA Fort Dix Training Division / Steven Roussel)

 

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