Wednesday, January 22, 2020

Compact, Heavy Firepower, Looks Mobile As Hell, Unmanned Ground Vehicle...


RAF Photographers @ Carterton, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom via Instagram Page...








Iron Fist 2020: 3rd AAB Beach Landing.....Video by Cpl. David Luckey

Open Comment Post. 22 Jan 2020


Wacky Weds. Yeah this is impressive but batshit crazy at the same time...



Hope they had emergency medical on scene.  Wonder how many people left with some type of severe injury?

MANTAS T12 semi-submersible, low observable USV procured for the Royal Navy (3x) and Joint Forces Command (2x)


Tuesday, January 21, 2020

Marine Expeditionary Brigade...




I don't think I've ever really appreciated what a Marine Expeditionary Brigade would actually look like...or to be more precise what it would look like if you put it all aboard ship.

Just plain wow.

That's enough combat power to destroy MANY nations alone.  That's before you add in Naval Air coming from a couple of carriers, a few rapid deployment Army Divisions (or even just Brigades), the USAF sending an Air Expeditionary Force, Special Ops Command running around with their hair on fire and of course the National Guard/Reserves/Coast Guard.

The astonishing thing?

If you're counting hulls then we have enough to get another MEB afloat too.

Sometimes I wonder if we should stop push for more and simply get what we have operating at 100%.  Looking at this simple illustration we're already at overmatch with our US Marine/Navy team solo....and that would apply to a 1st world military force (at least 99 percent of them) much less 3rd world nations.

Iron Fist 2020: US Marines and Japan Ground Self-Defense Force soldiers train with assault amphibious vehicles....photos by Lance Cpl. Britany Rowlett








World Health Organization to hold an emergency meeting as coronavirus cases jump to nearly 300....what do they know that we don't????



Ok.  My spider sense is tingling on this one.

First we had the US CDC jumping with serious quickness to monitor flights coming from China.

Second we saw various other govts doing the same and then we saw outbreaks in Japan, S. Korea and Australia.

Last.  We have the WHO holding a meeting with SERIOUS quickness to discuss the issue.

What do these people know that we, the general public doesn't?  Yeah.  I might be alarmist but doesn't it make you wonder too?

1-9 CAV ‘Headhunters’ participate in trench clearing exercise...

Photos of an American military patrol behind a Russian patrol on the M4 Highway in NE Syria...via Rob Lee's Twitter Page...





What do active military/vets know that the general public doesn't?  That the amount of cooperation between the US and Russia would SHOCK most Americans.

If you see damn near a JOINT patrol like above you can guarantee that there is also joint air cover.  We already know that they deconflict the airspace and I'm sure they'll have rolling air cover overhead to protect these troops if they come under attack.

This is the weirdness of the war in Syria.  The most complex, confusing, multi-player battlefield I've ever heard of.

Wuhan virus kills fourth patient, infects hospital staff amid fear of ‘super-spreader’

via SCMP
Priority now to stop emergence of ‘super-spreader’, with one carrier already infecting more than a dozen medical staff, specialist says

Authorities in Wuhan, the epicentre of the virus outbreak, report a fourth death and 15 infections among hospital staff
Here.

China looks like its gonna be ground zero for the next pandemic.  This is like what...the third super bug that's come from that country?