SNAFU!

Tuesday, October 15, 2019

I know the opinion of many but from my seat the Army is doing a good job with the Stryker. They're prioritizing programs and instead of seeking a leap ahead solution they're doing an update.

General Dynamics delivered and they have their steed to ride into the near future.

Considering budgets it ain't a bad solution.

MAGTF Warfighting Exercise....pics by Pfc. Patrick King

U.S. Marine Corps Assault Amphibious Vehicles (AAV), belonging to Second Marine Division (2d MARDIV), are staged in a motor pool lot at Camp Wilson, Marine Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, California, Oct. 6, 2019. The AAVs will be utilized in 2d MARDIV’s execution of MAGTF Warfighting Exercise (MWX) 1-20, from mid-October through early November. MWX is set to be the largest operation conducted by 2d MARDIV in several decades.

That is a HELLUVA lot of AAVs parked in the California Desert.

Seems like Berger was true to his word. The 2nd MARDIV is running the biggest tactical exercise in a couple of decades?

This has to be part of the experiments that he was talking about with the new concepts being explored.

If the USMC can actually look at this work objectively without preconceived notions and is willing to toss what doesn't work then we're burning with gas.

Confidence isn't high but it is rising.

We'll see what we see.

Open Comment Post. 15 Oct 2019

Monday, October 14, 2019

It has begun. US reviewing plans to evacuate nukes from Turkish Air Force Base.

The @nytimes reports that the US is finally "reviewing plans" to flush the WS3 nuclear weapons storage vault at Incirlik Air Base in #Turkey. The B61 nuclear gravity bombs are still there. pic.twitter.com/Hga2eMrAFR
— Ankit Panda (@nktpnd) October 14, 2019

About f*cking time!

Vertical Assault...

Surprise motherf*****r 😂😂😂pic.twitter.com/GU3H22epuK
— CCTV IDIOTS (@cctv_idiots) October 14, 2019

KF-X mockup looks real, doable and practical...

Thanks to Petrus for the pics...

This makes so much sense to me. Stealth treatment without going full stealth. The payoff should be high performance, high agility, outstanding range and a more than decent payload.

Additionally if they're following the Navy's "payloads over platforms" scheme then not only will it be practical, but also affordable.

This is just a neat design.

I hope the S. Korean's can pull this off. If they can then I bet it turns into an export SUPER STAR!

Turkish atrocities in Syria now have a face. Hevrin Khalaf.

A sinistra Hevrin Khalaf, 35 anni, laureata in ingegneria civile, segretaria generale del Partito Futuro Siriano, attivista per la pace e per i diritti delle donne della sua regione.
A destra Hevrin Khalaf, ieri.#HevrinKhalaf #ErdoganAssassin #iostoconicurdi #Rojava pic.twitter.com/K3Mq7uR3JL
— Concy78 (@concyrmt) October 13, 2019

Predicted either a quick heat up or quick resolution to this crisis. Might have been a bit wrong on that one. More on that in a later blog post. But back on task. You might have to do a translate to read the above tweet but the face of Turkish atrocities in Syria now have a face.

My bigger problem.

All these little extremist groups running around Syria being used by everyone are hard to keep on the leash.

Turkey didn't and now they have a symbol to be used against them in the form of the savage killing of this lady.

Turkey seriously miscalculated. I don't know their goals or rationale behind this op but they're gonna pay a long lasting price for this military adventure.

U.S. Army’s AMPV program (Medical Evacuation Variant and Medical Treatment Variant)

Blast from the past coming to the SEC and the rest of the non-football world in Nov....

You don't need a formula to find the numbers just count...1, 2 everyone's coming for you.

You're the chased and the coveted.

You've attained it...now SUSTAIN IT!

LSU FOOTBALL BABY!!!!

You can't beat the boys from the bayou!!!

PS. To my Alabama Crimson Tide readers. A public service announcement...