Ok. I'm convinced. The nature of warfare (at least in this case) has changed. Can you imagine if these made it into the hands of people we fought in Iraq and Afghanistan? Air Defense is now a PRIORITY! One sandal wearing fucker with about 6 of these could decimate a Marine Rifle Company. That's bad business. We need fixes NOW!#Ukraine: A Ukrainian battery control post of the Skyguard Aspide air-defense system was destroyed by a Russian Lancet loitering munition near Muzykivka, #Kherson Oblast.
— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) July 23, 2023
This system was originally transferred by Italy and not by Spain as was widely claimed earlier today. pic.twitter.com/gkw6PZPmiY
Sunday, July 23, 2023
Are Russian Lancet drones really this active? All I've been seeing are Lancet strikes today
The DHS makes it impossible to NOT be an extremist with their classification...
How can you be alive and an adult and not tick off at least a couple of these boxes!The Department of Homeland security is officially out of their fucking mind.
— Mindy Robinson 🇺🇸 (@iheartmindy) July 23, 2023
Check out the “reasons” they’re labeling Americans as right wing extremists now:
• Combat veterans who are quote unquote “disgruntled about the takeover of their country.” (Well, at least they’re… pic.twitter.com/G2DhofYWZG
US Air Force evacuates American citizens from the capital of Peru ????
via Oops News
The US Air Force “quietly” carried out the evacuation of American citizens from the capital of Peru – Lima. This is reported TC “Militarist”who published a navigation map of American aviation flights from the Flightradar resource.
How is it we keep making these demonstration votes or taking demonstration actions and it keeps blowing up in our faces.
Forget ideals how about we focus on our INTERESTS instead!
Complete obliteration of a $12 million Ukrainian Krab howitzer and crew after a Lancet strike in Kharkov
Yeah. These loitering munitions are gonna be a problem.⚡️ Jesus Christ, complete obliteration of a $12 million Ukrainian Krab howitzer and crew after a Lancet strike in Kharkov pic.twitter.com/e0EPPLFqGZ
— What the media hides. (@narrative_hole) July 23, 2023
Sunday Awesome... A Native American was doing side quests during a REAL WAR!
— Dudes Posting Their W’s (@DudespostingWs) July 21, 2023
Saturday, July 22, 2023
You guys have to check out this Tweet. If he's even halfway right then we need to start watching the Middle East instead of Ukraine....
The US just sent additional aircraft and an MEU to the Middle East. The reason? Supposedly Iranian aggression. The Iranians HAVE BEEN active but no more than usual. So what gives? Lord Bebo has an idea (below) and if he's right we could be looking at a Ft Apache for our forces in Syria. That mission should have ended long ago, but now we might need to fight to maintain our foothold or be forced out. The enemy gets a vote and unfortunately unless we're at the top of our game they're gonna get to choose when they strike. Let me also hit you with this. I don't know where our forces are based in Syria and Iraq but do you remember the missile attack on one of our bases? Imagine a theater wide attack from Iran along with the explusion of our forces from "allied" states in the region? Utter chaos. Do we have a carrier in the region to cover our forces? Enough tankers to get USAF fighters from Europe and back (assume that Turkey will sit it out)? Forward deployment is idiotic in the extreme and puts your force at risk.
🚨Russia increases pressure on the US in Syria.
— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) July 22, 2023
The “drama” with the Russian general Popov seems to slowly make sense. Popov was sent Syria to confront the US. Previously he was commanding the Russian units that repelled the counteroffensive and produced the famous “Leopard and… https://t.co/YzgRmi2WLm pic.twitter.com/KFO3iXToJW
3-to-5 years from now is the danger time when the US could face both China and Russia via Breaking Defense
via BD
As long as Ukraine continues as an active conflict, Russia probably does not have the capacity to pose a conventional threat to Europe. That’s the inadvertent nuclear escalation threat.
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For example, what’s the most effective way Europe can contribute to an effective carrier battle group in the Indo-Pacific theater? It’s not by putting the Charles De Gaulle or the Queen Elizabeth there, it’s by putting the Charles De Gaulle or the Queen Elizabeth in the Eastern Med or the Gulf so that the American carrier group there can go off to the Indo-Pacific.
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In terms of what I hear behind the scenes, essentially the American demand signal is: ‘Europe, you have to stand up and be able to backfill your own backyard so that we can handle the threat in the Indo-Pacific.’ And if you’ve got excess capacity after you do that, then great, by all means come out and help us in the Indo-Pacific.
I think there’s a frustration internally about the public, continued insistence from a lot of European countries of trying to send tiny force packages with huge logistical burdens to the Indo-Pacific as a, quote-unquote, warfighting capability.
There’s a huge amount of good political and diplomatic efforts that the European NATO nations can contribute to the Indo-Pacific, but in terms of warfighting capacity I think there’s a bit of US frustration there.
The article is kinda airpower centric BUT it touches on alot of important topics between Europe and the USA.
Hundreds of Upgraded Rosomak Vehicles for the Polish Army
This explains so much. While the Patria AMV was in the contest to become the "ACV" (before Lockheed Martin backstabbed the hell outta them...that's the one tip I got that I didn't run that I wish I did), the base vehicle did prove to be amphibious.
But its all about the turret isn't it.
If you remember, the ACV was first sporting the larger Kongsberg turret and then one day we saw it with the micro version.
It was all about it being too heavy for water ops.
From my chair the ACV has much less freeboard than the old AAV. I haven't seen the ACV-30 in the water but ya got to figure its gonna be worse.
The AA Bns are gonna be worth watching in the future. They might have run down an evolutionary dead end. Can you imagine? An amphibious combat vehicle that needs a ship to shore connector cause one version is too heavy to swim?
Oh and make no mistake. Its gonna weight out quick. The dream of a ship killing Marine Corps IS an evolutionary dead end and land combat will be demanded of the Corps. Add on armor, APS and other gear will have us with a 45 ton wheeled vehicle that can't swim in any version.
Mark my words.
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