Thursday, March 15, 2018
Wednesday, March 14, 2018
Blast from the past...English Electric Lightning F1 lawn darting...
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| Test Pilot George Aird flying an English Electric Lightning F1 ejected from his plane at only about 100 feet in 1962… he survived - |
Where is ACV Increment 1.2, a tracked, fully amphibious version? We should be working on it now!
On these pages we've been hot and bothered about ACV 1.1. The wheeled version that the Marine Corps is suppose to start buying sometime this year (assuming that it isn't delayed further) but that's only half the story.
If you remember correctly the other part of the plan was an ACV 1.2, a fully tracked amphibious vehicle! Check this out from a report to Congress...
On June 14, 2013, Marine leadership put the MPC program “on ice” due to budgetary pressures but suggested the program might be resurrected some 10 years down the road when budgetary resources might be more favorable. In what was described as a “drastic shift,” the Marines decided to “resurrect” the MPC in March 2014. The Marines designated the MPC as ACV Increment 1.1 and planned to acquire about 200 vehicles.I hate saying dudes name so much because it gives me heartburn, but this is the Amos plan after the tribe went batshit when he canned the Marine Personnel Carrier.
The Marines also plan to develop ACV Increment 1.2, a tracked, fully amphibious version, and to acquire about 470 vehicles and fund an ongoing high water speed study. Although ACV Increment 1.1 is to have a swim capability, another mode of transport (ship or aircraft) would be required to get the vehicles from ship to shore.
The Marines are reportedly exploring the possibility of developing a high water speed ACV 2.0, which could accompany tanks and light armored vehicles into combat.
It's bullshit of course.
One or more of these vehicles will probably never see the light of day and it gets in the way of a plan (in my opinion) to try and reach an end point where the heaviest ground vehicles the Marine Corps has is the MTVR, with the JLTV being the primary combat vehicle (air centric Corps rears its ugly head again).
But put my suspicions aside.
If we're actually suppose to be working on an ACV 1.2 then where is it in the budget documents?
Where is the request for information from industry on the project?
Which manufacturers are assigning engineers to work the problem?
Is the real or Memorex (if you're too young to get the reference then look it up)?
Israel believes the SU-57 went to Syria to test it against Western systems...
via FlightGlobal.
Israeli sources assess that Russia has sent dozens of new weapon systems to Syria, to undergo testing under combat conditions. But the Su-57's arrival – which places two of the world's most advanced stealthy combat aircraft within close proximity – creates a unique situation.Story here.
While Israel has not reacted officially to the development, a senior source says there is no doubt that Moscow has sent its newest fighter to the region in order to test it against Western technologies.
In mid-February, the biennial "Juniper Cobra" exercise, which also involves US forces, began in Israel. The three-week activity is aimed at improving the nation's defences against ballistic missile threats, using a scenario where US assets are deployed to provide assistance.
The exercise creates a situation where a large number of advanced radars are looking at the airspace across the region, making the Su-57's arrival of particular interest.
Russia claims to have developed a new radar system that can detect stealth aircraft, but sources suggest that the Sunflower system may lack the fidelity required to support targeting by missiles.
This explanation makes alot more sense than the drivel about it being a "hot weather" test.
The US blew off the deployment but the Israelis seem to be taking it seriously.
I think the Israelis got it right.
Where is this Russian fear of a US strike coming from? What is going on in Syria?
via Press TV News.
A top Russian general says his country will respond to a US strike on Syria, targeting any missiles and launchers involved in such an attack, if the lives of Russian servicemen are threatened.Story here.
“There are many Russian advisers, representatives of the Russian Center for Reconciliation of Opposing Sides and servicemen in Damascus and at Syrian defense facilities,” the RIA news agency quoted head of Russia's General Staff Valery Gerasimov as saying.
The warning came a day after US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley said Washington was ready to unilaterally "act" against Syria, just as it did last year when it bombed a Syrian government air base over allegations of a chemical weapons attack.
I found out that Tillerson was fired because he was supposedly working behind the scenes to save the Iran nuke deal.
That properly explains that move, but this one is a mystery. Nikki has been a neo-con, globalist dream come true.
She is in lockstep with the former administrations policies in Syria and I hate to say but parrots what I'm reading from defense officials.
Are the Russians taking her seriously?
Some of the most strident talk from this administration when it comes to foreign affairs has come from our UN Ambassador.
But this response by the Russians doesn't seem right. Is their something they're seeing that we're not?
Alligator Lightning....vid by Staff Sgt. Jacob Osborne and Cpl. Tyler Harrison
Some of you jokers will say this is cool. Some of you collectivist will say this is the way of the future.
I say fuck you.
This makes absolutely no sense.
What benefit does this deliver to the US Marine Corps, and our national security to operate from a French warship?
How does this make the Corps faster, or more lethal?
It fucking doesn't.
This is a re-run of Amos' bullshit of forming a SPMAGTF-CR that served no purpose other than to wear down our forces and push an aviation centric meme.
We have a Marine Corps of 175, 000 plus (don't know the exact numbers...is it up to 186K now), but we still have the same number of MEUs. We're pushing SPMAGTF-CRs and now we have this foreign ship shit.
They're make work projects that hide the reality.
Combatant Commanders are making calls for forces that serve no purpose except to guild their individual kingdoms, this forward deployment nonsense is not detering anyone and as things currently stand we have enough amphibious ships to meet mission without jumping aboard foreign ships and confusing the issue if the balloon goes up unexpectedly somewhere.
So is this cool? Perhaps. Is it batshit stupid? You bet your ass.
Tuesday, March 13, 2018
You don't see that on an LAV-C2 everyday!
pic via ynetnews.com
I did a double take when I saw this pic. Back story. I was reading up on the USMC deployment to Israel for exercises with the IDF and this was part of YNets coverage.
An Israeli flag on an LAV-C2?
I'm a supporter of Israel but this gave me pause. I wonder whose idea this was? I don't recall us doing the same with other allies....but I could be wrong.
Lastly is this part of a messaging campaign or am I making a big deal out of nothing?
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