Wednesday, April 26, 2023

Open Post Comments. 26 Apr 23

 


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Pentagon officials cheer Tucker Carlson’s ouster

 via Politico

From maternity flight suits to diversity policies to Ukraine aid, the military was a favorite punching bag for Tucker Carlson. Now that he’s off the air, some Pentagon officials are quietly cheering his departure.

Carlson’s criticism of Biden-era personnel policies appealed to many of the rank-and-file, which has a large bloc of conservative members. But at the upper levels of the Defense Department, news of Carlson’s firing from Fox News on Monday was met with delight and outright glee in some corners.

“We’re a better country without him bagging on our military every night in front of hundreds of thousands of people,” said one senior DoD official, who like others interviewed for this story was granted anonymity to discuss a politically sensitive topic.

“Good riddance,” said a second DoD official.

Asked to respond to the news that DoD officials are pleased by his departure from Fox, Carlson responded by text message: “Ha! I’m sure.” He declined to comment further.

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Wow.

Leadership in the military is out of touch with the people that will MAKE UP the military (as long as its all volunteer).

If they can't handle Carlson criticizing them then how are they gonna handle the Chinese sinking an aircraft carrier?

We're gonna get raped with a cactus in the next big fight.  The bubbas in service right now don't even realize how fucked they are.

God bless them, its gonna be ugly.

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US Army Aviators are complaining of a "stealth" stop loss being used against them...

 via Daily Caller

The heart of the issue is when the soldiers must serve their three-year BRADSO. Until recently, the Army allowed aviation officers to serve their BRADSO concurrently with their flight school Active-Duty Service Obligation. The Army recently changed the rules to require the officers to serve the BRADSO consecutively, adding three years to the officers’ service times.


The Daily Caller obtained a video filmed in 2020 of an HRC officer saying that the BRADSO would be served concurrently to the flight school ADSO.


“You’re ADSO upon graduation … you’re not going to have to do three [years] after,” he said, in reference to the BRADSO. The officers note several instances like this one of them being told that the BRADSO would “run concurrently with the flight school ADSO.”


All three officers told the Daily Caller that they were alerted to the changed interpretation in February 2023.


Army HRC did not provide a response to the Daily Caller’s request for comment by publish time.

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 “Every company commander I’ve had in five-seven years has left. None of them have made a career of it,” the first aviation officer said. Company commanders are typically captains. Some officers want to exit the service before they get promoted to major, which, for most, is effectively a grounded desk position. “I don’t want to do that.”

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Can't comment on the facts at play here but I can say without a doubt.

THE LAST THING THE US ARMY WANTS IS A WHOLE GENERATION OF PILOTS FEELING LIKE THE ARMY SCREWED THEM OVER!

This kind of thing affects recruiting in a big way!

The solution seems simple.  Just let them continue to fly.  Don't push them behind a desk.

Is there any such thing as a permanent Captain and then just add steps to his pay since he won't go up in rank to ensure they stay?

Captain 1st, 2nd, or 3rd class sorta thing?

Probably not but they better figure out something.

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Long time reader indicates that Kurganets-25 is likely dead....

 


Long time reader, S300V4 said this in the comments section...

Su-57 is expected to reach 1 per month rate this year. Or already reached, information is now scarce. Goal "76 before 2027" might as well be reached.


T-14 is being supplied to training facilities and does some warm up in Donbass, according to TASS. Tank is beyond "lets close it", it is near ready, I guess.


Kuragenetz is probably dead.


Bumerang developer said they are going for state trials again, "alterations were made and we are now ready for another try".


Koalitsiya is alive and is being "updated in chassis". Chief of Artiellery and Missile stuff says its "nearly completed".


So far progress is slow (war, after all) but so only Kurganetz is highly likely dead - most of other projects are (i'm suprised) were not axed due to war.

Interesting.

This is what I was hoping for with having readers from so many parts of the world.  Real deal info.  At least with the hardware side of things.

Did anyone even think to ask where the Kuragenetz was in its development phase?

I hadn't.

To be honest it had slipped my mind.  Now we know its probably dead.

Open source info mixed with informed readers worldwide contributing to the conversation.  That shit is awesome! 

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Tuesday, April 25, 2023

Korkut anti-air system

I would so love to see how this would perform in Ukraine. Turkey has taken a middle road in the fight so I don't think we'll see it. But if we could...OOOOHHH!!!!
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Speaking of Turk armor. OTOKAR AKREP II 4x4 is being prepared for mass production.

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The Turkish heavy-weight attack UAV (Bayraktar Akinci) and unmanned fighter (Bayraktar Kizilelma) carried out a joint flight

Jesus! The Turks are zooming along with their UAV programs and very few people are paying attention. Armor is zooming too. Oh and did I mention the unmanned naval ship program is zooming? How they're building drone ships that look capable of swarming a naval task force? Imagine an aerial drone and unmanned ship drone attack on a naval task force...an all quadrant attack that puts the task force on its back foot followed up by manned fighters going in for precision strikes on capital ships that are in the middle of damage control/rescue operations. We need to walk and chew bubble gum. We've become scared to push tech. Musk is right. The designers in the 50s were right. Try. If you fail you learn. But try! We've become scared of failure in our development. Too cautious. Even DARPA has slowed down. Evolutionary upgrades with an eye toward technological advancement/design/research. That is how you build a force in the 21st century.
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British Royal Marines are helping evacuate citizens in Sudan

 

Hmm. If we have a Marine on the US Army's staff can we claim USMC participation in this effort? LOL!
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The Ukrainian offensive has barely begun and officials in Washington are already down playing expectations...

 via Politico

Alex and JONATHAN LEMIRE have a story today about how the Biden administration fears it will be criticized if Ukraine’s counteroffensive falls short of its goals. Simply put, if Kyiv’s forces don’t retake a large chunk of territory seized by Russia, hawks will say the United States should’ve provided more weapons while doves will claim the time for peace talks was yesterday (and that’s not even including what on-the-fence allies would do).


So today, we thought we’d dive a little deeper into why this fear is cropping up all of a sudden.


Two U.S. officials told our own ERIN BANCO that the belief is the Russians are so dug in that the Ukrainian offensive won't amount to much. There is even some thinking that the offensive might not happen at all, at least not in the way Ukraine’s push last year went down. "I don't think that there's going to be this, wake up one morning and see, like, Ukrainian streaming across large swaths of territory sort of situation,” said one of the officials, who, like others, was granted anonymity to discuss sensitive internal deliberations. “Definitely not."


Furthermore, our own PAUL McLEARY heard that when Ukrainian officials were in Washington, D.C., last week, they asked administration officials what pledges or guarantees they could expect from the United States during the NATO summit in July. The general response to them was: “Depends on how the counteroffensive goes.”

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Depends on how the counteroffensive goes.

Wow.

If we were only supplying military weapons and gear then I could easily say ok.

But we're doing more than that.

We're propping up their entire freaking economy and that's with the knowledge that many of their senior officials are stealing our money like there is no tomorrow.

So what's my concern.

They're gonna push because they want to get money. But the soldiers on the ground who will follow the orders to push are gonna be paying with their lives.

I wish that at least ONE TIME in my lifetime we could get an ally that isn't corrupt as hell (does Kuwait qualify?) that we could support fully and only wanted to achieve truly measurable goals without the sloganeering of "as long as it takes and whatever it takes".

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The Corps is finally waking up to the fact that the total focus by the Commandant on the Pacific has cut us out of missions in other theaters...

 

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