Wednesday, June 17, 2020

205 knots and counting for SB1Defiant.



Remove the cockpit and the passenger compartment, add wings, get a good mission computer/AI into the darn thing and you have the vertical take-off and landing combat UAV the Marines are looking for.

The tech works great in a smaller package so I'm not sure why Sikorsky isn't pushing that angle but time will tell.

It's good to see them finally on track.
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20 Indian Army Soldiers killed in clash with Chinese Army...



Wow.

I've talked about this before.  Not the exact circumstances or location but the idea of a Battalion Commander sinking his teeth into the floor board in some obscure out of area location and events spiraling.

I still haven't seen reports about how this kicked off but the possibility of this turning hot seem pretty high to me.

Don't think we'll ever really know the butcher's bill of this incident on the Chinese side.  They're secretive, deceitful and will do anything to prop up public opinion rather than be honest.

What am I watching for?  Reinforcements to the region from both sides.  Possible activity from Pakistan.  Probably backdoor channels being used to de-escalate the situation.

Either way this bears watching.

2020.  The year from hell.

UPDATE!  Just saw this tweet...as predicted...

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Monday, June 15, 2020

Anti-Drone System - "REPELLENT" COMPLEX for Russian Army



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M2 Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicle crosses a bridge built by both the Polish 2nd and 5th Engineer Regiments at Drawsko Pomorskie Training Area, Poland


Is the Army working on a new armor kit for the Bradley?
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Open Comment Post. 15 June 2020


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Sunday, June 14, 2020

Turks lock on, almost fire on French warship! We need ALPAY back!

Thanks to Pegase for the link!



Don't care what his affiliations are.  We need ALPAY back for the Turk side of this incident!

Jesus!

So focused on societal/police issues that I'm missing big stuff happening in the world.

Just plain awesome (in a bad way) but expected.

While we're distracted real life, world changing things are happening in the wild.
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I would really like to know the back story on this incident...

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Hellfire R9X still active in Syria...


I am amazed that we've become so "humane" that the weapons we're using/developing seem to be so barbaric.  My choice?  If I had to choose a way to die between an explosive and a blender, I'd choose explosives everytime!

Silliness aside this weapon will go down in history.  I don't know if historians will look at it as being the ultimate expression of targeted killings without unintended casualties or a drug induced nightmare but its here and still doing work in Syria.  Check out the Tweets below.






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Chinese Army ZTQ-15 Light Tanks on exercise in Tibet...



<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="fr" dir="ltr">Exercice d'une brigade de l'armĂ©e de terre chinoise basĂ©e au <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Tibet?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Tibet</a>. Parmi les sujets, les unitĂ©s se sont entraĂ®nĂ©s sur l'assaut sous attaques chimiques d'ennemi, et le traversĂ© des zones d'obstacle.<br><br>Les nouveaux chars lĂ©gers ZTQ-15 font partie des manĹ“uvres. <a href="https://t.co/5J4NfyyPjC">pic.twitter.com/5J4NfyyPjC</a></p>— East Pendulum (@HenriKenhmann) <a href="https://twitter.com/HenriKenhmann/status/1272045822931132417?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 14, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>





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Open Comments Post. 14 June 2020


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Romanian MLI-84 photos

Thanks to RakuRo for the pics!











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