Wednesday, August 18, 2021

Otokar AKREP IId

 

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In walk the investigators/lawyers....In the MIDDLE of an operation the bureaucracy goes after our warriors...

via Air Force Times... 
The Washington Post, which first reported the discovery of the remains on Monday, noted that the pilots declared an in-flight emergency when they could not pull up their landing gear. 

The aircrew diverted to a nearby country and the human remains were found upon inspection, the Post reported. Stefanek said she could not confirm the Washington Post’s story. She did not answer what the Air Force will do with the remains as the investigation begins. Air Mobility Command, which manages the American airlift fleet, and international partners are working with OSI on the inquiry. 

“Beyond the OSI review, AMC and safety officials are doing due diligence to better understand how events unfolded and ensure the continued safety of current and future flight ops as we support the mission in Afghanistan,” Stefanek said in the release.

Here. 

Its obvious how this happened.

Afghans (almost all men of fighting age...they can fight to escape but couldn't fight to save their country) rushed the flight line, got onto the runway, clung to an airplane that was taking off and got squished in the process.

Why OSI has to investigate this is beyond me.

NOTE!!!  BlackTail states that because human remains were found in the landing gear of the C-17, that this qualifies as a Class A Mishap.  To that I say ok.  Don't know the rules for declaring something a Mishap, but I will say that a two second look at the vids of the chaos that these pilots/aircrew were dealing with should make this a non-issue.

Why the announcement of an investigation was made is beyond me...If this is anything but a formality then its a travesty.


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Rheinmetall Natter 7.62 - Automatic tracking for highest first-hit probability

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NMESIS

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Tuesday, August 17, 2021

Open Comment Post. 17 Aug 2021

 

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BREAKING: A prototype of the new Russian transport aircraft Il-112V crashed near Moscow.

 Thanks to GenArmchair for the link!


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Monday, August 16, 2021

Dry and wet SPIE rigging B-Roll

 

U.S. Marines with 3d Reconnaissance Battalion, 3d Marine Division, conduct special patrol insertion and extraction rigging training at Kin Blue training area, Okinawa, Japan, on Aug. 12, 2021. SPIE rigging techniques are used to rapidly insert and extract Marines when a landing zone is unavailable. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Lance Cpl. Jerry Edlin)
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3d Reconnaissance Battalion, 3d Marine Division, conduct helocast training at Kin Blue training area, Okinawa, Japan

 

U.S. Marines with 3d Reconnaissance Battalion, 3d Marine Division, conduct helocast training at Kin Blue training area, Okinawa, Japan, on August 10, 2021. This specialized insertion and extraction training allowed Marines to perfect the necessary skills to conduct clandestine waterborne operations. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Mario A. Ramirez)
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About Afghanistan...

 I just really don't know what else to say about this cluster....This page will serve as a temp discussion area on that subject till there is something solid to latch onto with regard to that mess.

Just remember this.

The same military and civilian leadership that brought us this ... idiocy ... are the same individuals that promise to solve the rest of the world's problems.

They're human and I'm sure they did their best.

But they're just human.  They have better intel than we do (social media is a powerful tool to know what's happening on the ground though) and have more resources but at the end of the day it comes to individual force of character and resolve.

The Taliban had it.

The Afghan govt didn't.

That's why they fell.  To put it simply they had no heart.

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CHINESE TACTICS ATP 7-100.3

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