How about some McPunch instead? Customer beats #McDonald’s employee in #HongKong after being asked to wear a face mask pic.twitter.com/C93sLOWqrp— RT (@RT_com) July 18, 2020
Monday, July 20, 2020
People wigging out about wearing a mask is a worldwide thing apparently....
Saturday, July 18, 2020
Mexican cartel becoming "militarized"
This is terrifying. Video released by the Mexican cartel and paramilitary group CJNG show the extent of militarization of their special forces. Scores of armed & kitted out fighters in standardized uniforms line a large convoy of up-armored troop transport vehicles and technicals pic.twitter.com/Kffz6UYwIX— Hugo Kaaman (@HKaaman) July 18, 2020
Hmm. Don't know if that's a show of force or a declaration that the Mexican govt should handle this as an insurgency rather than a law enforcement issue.
AT4's should become standard loadout for all forces engaging them...but then it becomes an issue of those weapons getting into the hands of the cartel.
Maybe they should hire the KGB to take care of the problem...heard they were quite effective in the middle east when dealing with terrorists and these cartels seem to fit the bill.
Does the Littoral Combat Group sound useful in Africa, the Middle East or Europe?
via USNI News.
USS Somerset (LPD-25), USS Wayne E. Meyer (DDG-108) and Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force (SP-MAGTF)-Peru deployed together as Littoral Combat Group 1 in November and December.Story here.
While at sea, the operations the group conducted leveraged both ships’ bread and butter missions: supporting Marines and pushing them ashore, embarking a Coast Guard law enforcement detachment, hosting a surgical team for humanitarian assistance work, and more. The two ships sailed to Valparaiso, Chile, for the Eleventh International Maritime and Naval Exhibition and Conference for Latin America (EXPONAVAL) and the 200th anniversary of the Chilean Navy. Also during the deployment, the 1,000 sailors and Marines from LCG-1 worked with the Peruvian Naval Infantry in a humanitarian assistance and disaster relief exercise in the disaster-prone Chorrillos district outside Lima, and conducted a maritime patrol exercise with Ecuadorian navy assets to counter illegal, unregulated and unreported (IUU) fishing, among other activities.
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The goal of the LCG-1 deployment was to work out the command and control, which placed a Navy captain as the commodore of two ships and the SP-MAGTF, as is the case with the commodore of an amphibious squadron (PHIBRON) who oversees an Amphibious Ready Group and Marine Expeditionary Unit, or a destroyer squadron commander (DESRON) commanding a surface action group. Still, though the focus of the deployment was on command and control and not the actual missions that a DDG and an LPD could conduct together, it’s easy to see how the Littoral Combat Group could be useful higher up the range of military operations: the DDG firing missiles at an enemy defense system to allow the Marine forces to move ashore, the Marines using their MV-22B aircraft in support of the DDG’s maritime security missions at sea, and so on.
This is in connection with the Brute Talk that I posted earlier this week. Go back and watch that vid then read this article.
Does this formation sound like it would be useful anywhere besides the Pacific (if there)?
I don't think so.
This concept is a failure. That's why the Commandant is shedding units as fast as he can. He knows that once the cheerleaders stop cheering and start thinking they'll all be asking "WHAT THE FUCK!"
By the time that the yes men, kiss asses and sycophants realize their mistake and join others who are questioning this abomination it'll be too late.
The die will be cast and the future of the Missile Marine Corps will be too far along to change. China is gonna eat this force alive.
Open Comment Post. 18 July 2020
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| My money is on the Harris Hawk but that Rattler will put up a good fight....he won't go easy...nice sized too... |
The 81st Group Army of the PLA has recently taken delivery of what appears to be a battalion set of Type 99A2 MBTs
The 81st Group Army of the PLA has recently taken delivery of what appears to be a battalion set of Type 99A2 MBTs, according to footage from CCTV-7. It is part of the Central Theatre Command with responsibilities to protect Beijing and act as a reserve for the rest of China. pic.twitter.com/k1CQ3Y6O9r— Sam Cranny-Evans (@Sam_Cranny) July 10, 2020
I had a sudden epiphany.
The NEW Missile Marine Corps (MMC) will be in the same position as the Japanese Imperial Army & Navy versus the United States Marine Corps during WW2.
We will be holding pieces of land in the Pacific and will be doing our very best to prevent them from making an amphibious assault onto those islands so that they can conduct further operations...ie setup FARPS for further action against our fleet (in essence doing to us what we're hoping to do to them).
Just like the Japanese in WW2, if the Missile Marine Corps can't keep them from hitting shore then it will be over. The GCE is almost non-existent (or will be in the near future) so those Chinese Mechanized Army, Marine and Airborne formations will simply roll over our forces.
Even worse?
I can actually see a time when we make the same determination as the Japanese Imperial Forces and allow landings in the hope that defensive positions (along with the vain hope that supporting fires will arrive from over the horizon) will somehow make the survival of those MMC Marines possible.
This scenario is bad enough in the Pacific but if the Chinese take the advise of a former CNO then they'll simply roll back our defenses, attritting us into oblivion then having their way with the feeble remnants of a once powerful ground force.
I really see that happening in N. Africa against the Chinese, possibly against the Iranians in the Middle East (so many naval choke points in that region that it's a wonder how they think this concept can apply there) and against the Russians the MMC would be food on the table waiting to be devoured.
18th Airborne Corps' Twitter Series...Chapter 9: The Expendables
Friday, July 17, 2020
Griffon Combat Vehicle headed to France's 21RMA
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
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.
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