En général, quand on vous dit qu'il y en a 13 qui débarquent à la maison, vous le prenez bien ? Demandez à nos marsouins du #21RIMa 😎...#MatosTerre pic.twitter.com/kBEKbK5wa0— Armée de Terre (@armeedeterre) July 17, 2020
Friday, July 17, 2020
Griffon Combat Vehicle headed to France's 21RMA
Army says its helping not encroaching on missions with its long range missiles..and its IS coming for the Missile Marine Corps!.
via Breaking Defense.
The Army is not trying to challenge the division of labor laid down at the famous 1948 meeting in Key West, Fla. between the chiefs of the Army, Navy and the newly-independent Air Force. There’s plenty of precedent within that framework for the Army to have surface-launched missiles that can fire one thousand miles or more, Rafferty said.------------------
“I don’t think we need to go back to Key West, although I wouldn’t mind a trip there to discuss it,” Rafferty told me.
Army AdvantagesStory here.
At the most basic level, Army artillery units do things differently from naval vessels or air squadrons, so they add another problem for an enemy to solve. In some cases, land-based missiles have advantages over air- or sea-launched ones.
Concealability is one such. While aircraft and even surface warships can be designed with stealth features to hide from radar, they’re never invisible, and there’s nothing at sea or in the air to hide behind. Airbases, meanwhile, are notoriously large and static targets. But for artillery units, camouflage can be as cheap and simple as slapping on a coat of green paint, erecting some netting with tree branches on top, or driving into a tunnel. Indeed, as North Korea has shown, a wheeled missile launcher under a mountain is even harder to find than a submarine under the ocean. (Of course the enemy has to roll that artillery into the open to use it.)
The US and its allies, for all their surveillance technology, struggled to find Saddam’s SCUD missile launchers in 1991 and 2003, Rafferty notes. And that was in the open desert, not the more varied terrain of Eastern Europe or Pacific islands. Even the largest artillery systems the Army is developing, the semitrailer-mounted Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon and the Strategic Long-Range Cannon supergun, will still be small enough to conceal, he said.
A certain reader has made the last bold comments in the article several times in our debate about the Missile Marine Corps.
My refrain has always been if we become the Missile Marine Corps that Berger wants then what makes us necessary to the nation.
What makes us unique.
Well according to this article not a damn thing. I can't believe people tend to forget one thing. The Army WILL NOT be left out of any fight in any region on this planet.
The Marine Corps was once the same.
Not the New Missile Marine Corps! We are pigeon holing ourselves into one fight against one enemy in one region. That's a mistake. No one has ever correctly predicted the next fight. The Commandant is thinking the Pacific. I'm thinking Northern Africa.
Lockheed’s IRST Stealth Detection Pod Passes AF Milestones
Story here.
The stunning statement in this article?
“This is exceptionally important, as the Legion Pod uses an advanced IRST technology that gives 4th generation fighters the ability to ‘see’ stealth aircraft that traditional radar cannot,” an Air Combat Command spokesperson says in an email.If I'm not mistaken the ACC spokesperson stated out loud that 4th gen fighters can detect stealth fighters.
Does that reset everything we've been told? Is stealth essentially dead? Does better speed, range, altitude now come back to the fore in importance...not just middling capability in those areas along with stealth?
If so then we've spent the past two decades building a lemon...just like I've said all along.
Thursday, July 16, 2020
Marine Wing Support Group 37 Deactivation Video Message...a victim of the new concept (how many have we seen over the past decade?)
Another deactivation.
The Marine Corps is shedding units faster than a dog sheds hair!
The weird thing? How many different concepts have we heard trotted out? Remember the shouting I did over being told that fighting in Mega Cities was the hot new thing? Remember how we were told that the F-35 would act as a sensor node and be the quarterback in the sky? That it was a "die in the ditch" program (funny thing is we're even cutting that now!) Remember the idea that cyber Marines would be the thing that would change the battlefield? Remember how we needed to do sea basing to win the day? There are a few more I've forgotten.
The point?
The difference between now and all the other stuff we've had slammed against the wall to see if it sticks is that we didn't see the MASSIVE shedding of combat power before it was realized that it wouldn't work.
Once it's gone getting it back in the coming age of EXTREME austerity for the military will be a herculean task...maybe impossible!
For some in my audience that continue to shout "believe the generals" I point to past performance.
I don't know why but this generation of generals have been more wrong than right. It's not a hate filled statement. It's been demonstrated right before our eyes.
So I hit you with this question.
If you have a general leadership that can't crack the code when it comes to fighting the Taliban, screwed the pooch in Iraq, seem confused as hell in Syria then why would you trust that same leadership to have it together when developing the future force to fight the Chinese?
I have to wonder if this isn't a final legacy building exercise by this class of generals.
The leadership of the 80's built a force that is still doing work to this very day. Gear coming online is already looking incapable of facing the future. Their only shot at a legacy of "leaving the place as good (no way they can think they left it better) as they found it" is to develop a war winning concept.
For the Marines this will seal the deal on having the worst Commandant's in its history....3 of them in a row with another getting pulled to be CJCS (which means he will suffer the barbs of the failure in the Middle East along with the President he served).
Marines run to the sound of chaos? Chaos is on every Marine installation right now...no need to go overseas to find it.
2nd America Class Amphibious Assault joins the fleet...a ship the Commandant says we don't need...
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Better vid of a squared away LEO engaging an armed, uncooperative & aggressive suspect.
For the slow folks in class. Dude was reaching for his knife again. He didn't stop the fight so neither did the Officer.
Video released by Krauss-Maffei Wegmann showing testing of Boxer armoured fighting vehicle in Qatar desert
[VIDEO]: this video released by Krauss-Maffei Wegmann showing testing of Boxer armoured fighting vehicle in Qatar desert .. this is part of Qatar Armed Force 8x8 program competition which including Nexter VBCI also pic.twitter.com/Dd4pm8hatM— Abdulmoiz (@abdulmoiz1990) July 15, 2020
The VBCI is gonna win this competition. Mark my words. It's just built for this environment.
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