SNAFU!

Chinese Wheeled Assault Breacher Vehicle on exercise...

Interesting.

Off subject but I have to wonder. What is the Marine Corps doing with its ABVs?

No Knock Raids are a problem that must be solved...

Free #KennethWalker. The Louisville Metro Police Department charged him with attempted murder because he shot in self-defense when the police raided his home, THE WRONG HOUSE, DIDN'T KNOCK, UNANNOUNCED, shooting 20 times, with eight of those bullets killing #BreonaTaylor. pic.twitter.com/1xQFm0dFgg
— yazuri2🇸🇻 (@503chicaa) May 13, 2020

No knock raids are problematic. The idea that police can rush into a house in the dead of night to arrest someone has been shown to be more than problematic.

It's proven to be deadly.

Add in issues with human failures/mistakes and then add this travesty to the mix and it's too much.

Is the solution to conduct such raids in the daylight? Officer safety will be lessened but perhaps that could cut down on this stuff. Definitely involve a system to verify that you're actually hitting the right target.

But back on task.

This is just heartbreaking. His woman is dead, he shot back against unknown intruders and he's being charged?

This is bullshit.

Canadian Snow Bird Crash...

Thanks to Ryan The Red for the link!

Here's a video that was sent to us at @RadioNLNews from earlier this morning. #Kamloops pic.twitter.com/hc61YWscmQ
— Victor Mario Kaisar (@supermario_47) May 17, 2020

China continues to "upgun" its medium weight forces...ZTL-11 enters service.

Story here.

China is going to come after our forces (in a future war) and they're going to come after us in a big way.

They will charge our positions with overwhelming firepower, and will use shock and maneuver to pin us in place and destroy us in detail.

They might never gain air superiority but they will make any movement by air impossible and if tried extremely pricey in lives/equipment.

Dispersion will not solve the problem. It will only allow us to watch our forces more easily isolated and methodically destroyed.

We're worried about the future sea battle? We should be worried about losing the fight on those islands.

John Cockerill offers new fire support vehicle based on Boxer 8x8 armored vehicle with 105mm weapon station

Story here.

Looks like the UK Strike Brigades are gonna get some powerful punch. I guess they've identified the firepower gap they're facing if they encounter a mech force in the future.

I have to wonder what this means for the Challenger Tank though. I don't see them going the same route as the USMC and totally abandoning the capability but stranger things have happened.

Chinese Python All-Terrain Vehicle (pics via China Defense Blog)

Hmm. Looks like the Chinese are product improving Russian tech. They're showing it in the desert but we can probably guess that they're gonna part of the race to the Arctic.

I know the US Army is gearing up (slowly) to do work up there but is the Marine Corps?

Putting that aside. The only service that I can point to that's actually making solid plans to work up there is the Coast Guard...and that's with the push for new Ice Breakers.

Is it perhaps time for someone to designate an arctic troop Brigade? Quite honestly I see a fight up there (accidental or on purpose) before I see a conventional fight with the Chinese in the Pacific.