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Saturday, April 18, 2020
People are observing something unusual on Israeli Merkava MBTs...
Russian unmanned combat ground vehicle (heavy) on display...
Note. Trying to characterize these unmanned ground combat vehicles. My basic design is to simply label them light and heavy. I guess it'll get more detailed in the future but this is where I'm at, at the moment.
Роботизированная платформа семейства "Уран" pic.twitter.com/jJ1AZNc0co— Specnazopedia (@specnazopedia) April 18, 2020
F-15G Wild Weasel A chinpod was tested in 1983
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Why are we able to come up with so many good ideas and then just leave them on the table?
The USA is innovative in ways that other countries just can't compete with. Other nations simply follow our lead and work on improving versions of what we're doing.
But we start down paths and then leave them in the dustbin.
We need to change that.
Some disagree but I believe the coronavirus will kill defense budgets worldwide.
This is the time to get smart. The time to truly innovate. The time to evolve our systems instead of trying to once again make transformational leaps.
Armor P*rn. Stryker armored vehicles of the 75th Ranger Regiment deployed to Manbij, Syria. Mar 2017
Interesting isn't it.
The US Army's Premier Raid Force even uses Stryker ICVs in the hybrid war in Syria yet the USMC has floated the idea of CUTTING the number of ACVs it will purchase because Berger "does not have confidence" that they'll be useful in the future.
Simply amazing.
The new Marine Corps concept is a clusterfuck from hell.
The British government paid two Chinese companies $20 million for 2 million tests kits for antibodies to the coronavirus. The problem was, they didn't work....
The British government paid two Chinese companies $20 million for 2 million tests kits for antibodies to the coronavirus. The problem was, they didn't work, and the gamble became an embarrassment. https://t.co/RR00u687ZL— The New York Times (@nytimes) April 17, 2020
Boxer to be demonstrated with John Cockerill Defense's C3105 turret
via Janes
Belgium’s John Cockerill Defense is supplying its latest-generation C3105 turret armed with their 105 mm High Pressure (HP) rifled gun to Krauss-Maffei Wegmann for installation on the rear mission module of the Boxer 8×8 Multi-Role Armoured Vehicle (MRAV).Well Ogden and Drummond are gonna be annoyingly happy for the next couple of months while this thing is trialed.
This combination is being developed using internal research-and-development funding and is expected to undertake firing trials later in 2020.
The Boxer MRAV is deployed by Australia, Germany, Lithuania and the Netherlands, and is on order for the British Army.
The John Cockerill Defense C3105 is a member of the C3000 series of turrets that are in volume production for the export market with over 450 built to date and with production still underway.
I guess even in the middle of a pandemic dreams do come true.
Friday, April 17, 2020
Sukhoi Su-57 with alot hanging from it's pylons...
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Somewhere, someone, is training hard to kill you....
— 马日天 (@z5J6NWig6ByNnsC) July 10, 2019
Somewhere, someone, is training hard to kill you.
YOU!!!!! Should return the favor!
Blast from the past...Grumman F-14B Tomcat belonging to VF-142, serial number 161433 suffers major mechanical failure and makes it back to carrier...
via The Aviation Geek Club...
November 13, 1991, a Grumman F-14B Tomcat belonging to VF-142, serial number 161433, successfully managed to land aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Eisenhower, after losing the nosecone at 27,000 feet due to a faulty latching mechanism.Here
The pilot, Lt.Cdr. Joe Edwards, was injured after the lost piece struck the canopy and showered him in glass, injuring his eyes and breaking his collarbone, and even though he also had to deal with limited visibility through a 3-inch hole, as the rest of the canopy was severely cracked, he successfully made it back to the ship with help from his RIO Lt.JG Scott Grundmeier, managing a perfect landing on the second arresting wire.
Both pilots received the Distinguished Flying Cross medal for their achievements, and Edwards later became a Space Shuttle pilot for NASA.
The aircraft was quickly repaired and returned to service, flying until March 11 2005, when the entire Tomcat fleet began decommissioning.
Weird crime...French Mayor Forced to Flee His House Naked After Being Held at Gunpoint by Disgruntled Citizen
via Sputnik
The mayor of Bihorel in the vicinity of Rouen in northern France was forced to flee his house stark naked after an angry local held him at gunpoint and forced him to strip.Here.
The 53-year-old mayor Pascal Houbron told France Bleu radio that the incident happened on Tuesday morning when the local resident, who arrived for a regular meeting, pointed a gun at him.
"He forced me to undress before taking my picture", the mayor confessed.
The politician managed to escape from his bizarre ordeal and sought shelter at his neighbour's house.
According to 76actu news website, the gunman, who had reportedly had a beef with the mayor before, turned himself in to the police.
It was later revealed that the disgruntled man's weapon was, in fact, an air pistol.
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