Monday, October 21, 2019
Open Comment Post. 21 Oct 2019
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| Yeah this is on Open Comments but I'm gonna keep circling back to this puppy! Where are we with it? Why aren't we hearing more about it? An ideal solution to get heavier armor to shore (or our ACVs near it from far out)....forget robot planes, how about robot ship to shore connectors!!!! |
Chinese born US Navy Lt arrested for spying worked at the ANTI-SUBMARINE WARFARE UNIT in NAS Jacksonville
via News4Jax.com
The FBI investigation into a Jacksonville Navy lieutenant with connections to Chinese nationals added a new twist Friday.Story here.
According to a criminal complaint obtained by News4Jax, another arrest was made in a separate investigation with ties to Jacksonville Lt. Fan Yang, a Chinese-born man who became an officer with the U.S. Navy.
Zheng Yan, 27, has been accused of conspiracy to violate federal law for smuggling U.S.-made vessels, flash drives other and equipment that was bound for the Chinese government.
Zheng Yan is named in the United States District Court complaint along with Lt. Yang and Yang Yang. Ge Song Toa, a Chinese national with connections to the Yang's and Zheng Yan, is also facing multiple charges.
Lt. Lang and Yang Yang were both arrested Thursday and accused of conspiracy to violate federal law, specifically prohibitions on firearm possession by an alien admitted under nonimmigrant visa and transfer of a firearm to a nonresident between March 2017 and Sept. 2019. Their home in San Jose was raided by the FBI and NCIS on Thursday.
The case could have bigger implication because Lt. Yang is a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy Anti-Submarine Warfare unit at NAS Jacksonville and had top security clearances.
We are thoroughly penetrated with traitors inside our military and security services.
We can't win until we conduct a complete and thorough mole hunt. Sorry folks. It's past time to get serious about this stuff.
The Chinese are robbing us blind and our own "sensibilities" are being used against us.
Be hard. Be fair. But how about a little common sense! We MUST remove these threats!
Sunday, October 20, 2019
Sunday quick hit. Turkey is allowing the Kurds (their enemy) to retreat basically intact guaranteeing an ongoing insurgency...
What's worse than a half thought out plan? A plan that's been done in detail only to be allowed to go off the rails when politics and not tactical reality takes hold.
More to the point.
I'm making assumptions here.
I'm assuming that Turkey prepped the ground for their assault on the Kurds. I know I've watched as they warned any and all that would listen that they would make an incursion into Syria to create a buffer zone (if I recall correctly parts of Iraq were included too). The warning went on for more than a year.
So when they finally launched their incursion I wasn't a bit surprised. What did surprise was the ferocity of their assault. Let's be honest here. The Turks went all out and unleashed massive air and artillery strikes. The Kurds without their American benefactors were reeling from the hits.
I'm also assuming that they were aware that Europe and the US would be outraged by this action. I'm assuming that they were prepared to take the hits on a public relations front and to a degree even economically.
I was wrong.
The Turks are claiming victory. They're still involved with sporadic fighting, but make no mistake about it. They messed up badly.
If the Kurds are the terror group that they claim then they lost a massive opportunity to stomp it out.
By agreeing to a ceasefire they're allowing their enemy to retreat in order to muster their strength to fight another day.
The US will turn around and resupply the Kurds. The Syrian govt will welcome them in order to help reclaim the rest of their nation.
The Turks will have an emboldened insurgency on its doorsteps and will see a slow but steady trickle of dead/injured soldiers returning home.
Turkey isn't a winner in this thing.
Syria is.
Russia is.
The US might be if the goal is to untangle ourselves from the middle east tarbaby.
But Turkey? Not by a long shot.
More to the point.
I'm making assumptions here.
I'm assuming that Turkey prepped the ground for their assault on the Kurds. I know I've watched as they warned any and all that would listen that they would make an incursion into Syria to create a buffer zone (if I recall correctly parts of Iraq were included too). The warning went on for more than a year.
So when they finally launched their incursion I wasn't a bit surprised. What did surprise was the ferocity of their assault. Let's be honest here. The Turks went all out and unleashed massive air and artillery strikes. The Kurds without their American benefactors were reeling from the hits.
I'm also assuming that they were aware that Europe and the US would be outraged by this action. I'm assuming that they were prepared to take the hits on a public relations front and to a degree even economically.
I was wrong.
The Turks are claiming victory. They're still involved with sporadic fighting, but make no mistake about it. They messed up badly.
If the Kurds are the terror group that they claim then they lost a massive opportunity to stomp it out.
By agreeing to a ceasefire they're allowing their enemy to retreat in order to muster their strength to fight another day.
The US will turn around and resupply the Kurds. The Syrian govt will welcome them in order to help reclaim the rest of their nation.
The Turks will have an emboldened insurgency on its doorsteps and will see a slow but steady trickle of dead/injured soldiers returning home.
Turkey isn't a winner in this thing.
Syria is.
Russia is.
The US might be if the goal is to untangle ourselves from the middle east tarbaby.
But Turkey? Not by a long shot.
MAWTS-1 Marines Conduct AV-8B Harrier Landing and Refueling...Pics by Cpl. Adaezia Chavez
USMC from HQ to the School Houses are all in on the Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations.
Are we moving too far toward being enablers instead of warfighters? Are prioritizing aviation to such a degree that our ground force becomes irrelevant?
Blast from the past. USS Truxton running aground off the shores of Canada...
Note. This tale of Canada has a happy ending..thank God!
When @USNavy USS Truxton ship ran aground off the coast of Newfoundland in February 1942, Lanier Phillips’ shipmates told him to stay with the sinking ship.— Canadian Forces in 🇺🇸 (@CAFinUS) October 20, 2019
They said he’d be lynched if he made it ashore through the frigid and oil-covered Atlantic waters. pic.twitter.com/kbJ17kSP02
Open Comment Post. 20 Oct 2019
Pics are of S. African experimental MRAPs. They're via Caesar's Twitter Page...give the dude a follow!
US Navy & Marines conduct large scale exercise in S. China Sea with two Aircraft Carriers and two Large Deck Amphibs...
via BreitBart
The U.S. Navy recently sent an aircraft carrier strike group and an amphibious ready group consisting of two large deck warships, dozens of aircraft, and thousands of sailors and Marines into the South China Sea, apparently for the first time ever.Story here.
Last week, the U.S. Navy sent the Ronald Reagan Carrier Strike Group – consisting of the USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier and her accompanying ships, aircraft, and sailors – and the Boxer Amphibious Ready Group consisting of the USS Boxer amphibious assault ship and a Marine Expeditionary Unit of more than 2,000 Marines into the strategically important body of water.
The Navy said it had no records showing a carrier and amphibious operation of this kind in the South China Sea before, and the last time two aircraft carriers conducted operations there together was on August 17, 2001.
“While we do not have anything in our records that speaks to a carrier and amphib operation in the South China Sea, our Marine and Navy forces routinely operate together in the Indo-Pacific region,” Lt. Anthony Junco, a spokesman for the Navy’s 7th Fleet, told Breitbart News.
“The most recent dual-carrier operations in South China Sea we could find record of was conducted on 17 August, 2001 and included the aircraft carriers USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) and the now decommissioned USS Constellation (CV 64),” he said.
The U.S. naval and Marine forces conducted “joint, high-end warfighting exercises,” including with live fire, to “increase battle readiness,” according to an official Navy report on the recent operations.
A few things.
* Good to see the US Navy and Marines focusing on dealing with the coming war with the Chinese. It's no longer if but when. We need to get ready. Seriously ready.
* Not sure this is the answer. I've said before that we don't need to enter this region so the idea of enemy Anti-Access/Area Denial was simply a lie to push stealth aircraft. Sailing four of our capital ships within range of enemy defenses is curious in my opinion. Educate me where I'm wrong with my thinking, but I would imagine that even carriers would act as lily pads for aircraft that operate from bases ashore from which they'll actually carry out missions against Chinese aggression.
* From what I've seen I like the direction our Naval Services are headed. What concerns is that we're standing pat and have no answer to their Coast Guard which is acting as almost a marauding force, bullying smaller nations AND we have no real answer to the artificial islands they're building. We gotta wrap our heads around both issues and get them solved poste haste.
All in all I'm pleased. Crawl, walk, run...not sure where we're at in dealing with the China problem but at least we're doing something.
Saturday, October 19, 2019
Bayou Man Blog on the Northrop Grumman 50mm Cannon...Awesome read!
via Bayou Man Blog
A week ago, I wrote about how several nations are up-gunning their infantry fighting vehicles (IFV's) and armored personnel carriers (APC's). Russia is leading the "caliber wars" with an updated version of a Cold War-era 57mm cannon, and others aren't far behind.
I mentioned the Franco-British CT40 40mm cannon in that article. I've since been advised that, no matter how effective it may be, the cost of its ammunition is "eye-watering", due to its extremely compact and specialized design. It's been suggested that each round is at least two to three times the cost of more conventional equivalents, and sometimes more. If so, I'd regard that as a major concern. Armies need to train with the weapons they're going to use in combat - simulators can only do so much compared to using the real thing. If training becomes too expensive, due to the cost of ammo, then budgetary reality will dictate that training be cut back. That can be disastrous when the proverbial brown substance hits the rotary air impeller. It's something to keep in mind, for sure. (The new Russian cannon will use conventional ammunition that's been in production for over half a century, and is well understood. Even with more capable modern projectiles, the cost per round should still be manageable.)Story here.
Now we read that a new XM913 50mm experimental cannon has just been demonstrated for the US Army. This is a very innovative weapon, one that's been resurrected from the scrap heap of the Cold War to become a very viable option for future armored vehicles, so I'd like to spend a little time on it.
I would SO LOVE to see this gun mounted on select ACVs within the Amphibious Assault Platoon!
Airbus A400M Grizzly drops 80 Paratroopers (40 from each door) during testing (Twitter Post Vid)..
📢 In case you missed it!— Airbus Defence (@AirbusDefence) October 18, 2019
🎥 The #A400M new generation airlifter has completed the certification flight test for the simultaneous dispatch of 80 (40+40) equipped paratroopers from both side doors on a single pass. ✈️
More information: https://t.co/7gqM4qRPxF#WeMakeItFly pic.twitter.com/ylMTo6aApO
Nice to see but I have a side question. What is the decent rate of those parachutes.
Seems like those guys are falling pretty fast to say that they're all Hollywood.
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