Thursday, August 06, 2020
Type 96A, new armour package, FCS and thermal imager, JD-3 IR jammer and GL5 hard kill APS
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The war against China will be in AFRICA! It might be proxy forces that are lavishly equipped with Chinese Advisors or it might be frontline Chinese forces but it will be AFRICA not the Pacific!!!!
Do you see the armor above?
How well do you think the Missile Marine Corps would fare in a fight against a couple of Mech/Armor Battalions?
The answer? NOT GOOD. Casualties wouldn't be the problem. The problem will be that all those small, isolated (they call it dispersed) units, will be located and destroyed in order.
What is my answer (cause people seem to want to know)?
REINFORCE THE MEU! ADD TO EXISTING CAPABILITIES INSTEAD OF TRYING TO REVAMP THE FORCE AROUND PIXIE DUST!
Let's address amphibious ships first. This is the one place where Amos was right. He was a fan of the Mistral Class before I was. It just makes too much sense in my opinion. It's just a bit lighter than the San Antonio Class, can support MUCH MORE ROBUST flight operations, has similar capability to launch surface assaults and is AFFORDABLE! One America Class, San Antonio Class along with two Mistral Class ships could easily provide the early entry punch that we all desire and hope for.
Next up would be artillery. On this Berger is on the right path but getting there in the wrong way. What do we need a return to? Regimental Artillery! We don't have 8in guns in service anymore but we could field ATACMS there to break up armored assaults and to attack other targets. Working with the Army we could develop new land and surface attack missiles that fit the MLRS (maybe fewer missiles but they could range further). If not then we could go with bigger missiles mounted on alternate platforms. The MTVR is just waiting to be pressed into service as a missile launch platform.
The ACV? Needs to be turned into a family of vehicles. Full stop. No need to keep playing with the idea of a Marine Corps Fighting Vehicle. We needed one 40 years ago and we need one today.
Aviation?
This is the monster in the room that NO COMMANDANT has been able to cage. Simply put aviation is killing/has killed the Marine Corps and is the reason why we're seeing this bastardized Missile Marine Corps headed down the pike.
The main problem I see is that the AVIATION NECK DOWN CAMPAIGN has failed miserably!
Light Strike should make a comeback. It might be heresy but the V-280 as a tilt rotor light strike platform makes too much sense. Cut the F-35 buy and get some of those. Cut more F-35s and get onboard the Navy's program and buy Super Hornets. Rethink the CH-53K. One hundred million dollars for a helo? Someone at HQMC is smoking crack. If the EFV could get canned for cost then so should this bird. Cut KC-130s. The refueling mission should be tossed to the USAF and buddy tanking utilized when not possible. AH-1Z/UH-1Y should also go away with their mission being taken over by the V-280.
There's alot more but I don't have much time. We're gonna dig into this deeper this weekend but this should get us started.
Simple question.
If you're as alarmed as I am at the thought of the Missile Marine Corps then what's your force design for the future?
Thurs. Funny...When you see it you'll...
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It's juvenile but funny. If you don't get it I'll give you a hint. NECKLINE!
TEDBF twin engined LCA rendering
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| <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">TEDBF twin engined LCA rendering based on earlier <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/HAL?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#HAL</a> released renders.🇮🇳🇮🇳 <a href="https://t.co/4VHt9a7B1m">pic.twitter.com/4VHt9a7B1m</a></p>— Sukhoi Su-57 Felon 🇷🇺🇮🇳 (@I30mki) <a href="https://twitter.com/I30mki/status/1291294412350390277?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 6, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> |
Wednesday, August 05, 2020
Tuesday, August 04, 2020
Beirut just got its teeth kicked in....
Stunning video shows explosions just minutes ago at Beirut port pic.twitter.com/ZjltF0VcTr— Borzou Daragahi 🖊🗒 (@borzou) August 4, 2020
Definitely not fireworks. I'd be surprised if anything remained standing after that. Wonder what it was. Did that look like a fuel-air explosion at the end to you?
If terrorist have bombs that hit that hard now then things just got serious for every major city in the Western World.
Can you imagine an explosion like that in Berlin, London, Tokyo or New York?
Elbit Systems Light PULS™ is a lightweight airborne rocket launcher system.
God in heaven no! I can see it right now. Some Missile Marine Aide is rushing into Berger's office shouting "boss, ya got to see this"!
Next thing you know he's on the phone to Elbit, he fast tracks a buy, the Missile Marines look like a bunch of terrorists driving around in technicals and he calls it a good thing.
Seriously though.
What is the benefit here? I'm not slamming Elbit but the concept. A lightweight, vehicle mounted rocket system that can fit into the back of a helicopter is gonna be too light to put down sufficient fires.
It's cool.
It stirs the soul.
But can it truly be said to be effective at its intended purpose?
Qatar Emiri Land Force DINGO 2 HD Command Post variant..equipped with an extendable mast system
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Israeli Defense establishment puts V-22 Osprey deal back on the table
via Cleveland Jewish News.
Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz and IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Aviv Kochavi said on Sunday that they intend to reconsider procuring the V-22 Osprey aircraft from U.S. manufacturer Boeing.I find this hyper interesting.
Israel had decided several months ago not to purchase the aircraft due to budgetary restrictions.
The Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey is a tiltrotor aircraft with both vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) and short takeoff and landing (STOL) capabilities. Gantz, who during his tenure as IDF chief saw the United States and Israel reach an Osprey procurement deal, is an adamant supporter of purchasing the advanced aircraft.
In a meeting two weeks ago, Israel Hayom has learned, Gantz and Kochavi agreed to revisit the decision to scrap the Osprey deal. If Gantz’s position is indeed adopted, the Osprey would be part of a broader initiative to replace the IDF’s aging fleet of Sikorsky CH-53 Sea Stallion helicopters, which were first incorporated in the 1960s and 1970s.
Despite the air force’s efforts over the decades to preserve the quality of its CH-53 fleet, in 2019 the State Comptroller said in a report that keeping the aircraft operational beyond 2025 would put lives at risk.
That contest to replace the aging CH-53s is between the Sikorsky CH-53K King Stallion, which is manufactured by Lockheed Martin, and the Boeing CH-47F Chinook. While the IDF hasn’t yet declared its preference, according to Israel Hayom the country’s defense establishment prefers the CH-53K due to its better performance.
The Israelis are planning on going after someone and they plan on going after someone in a big way.
Nothing else makes sense.
They keep gravitating back to the V-22 despite the V-280 seemingly coming online in a few years.
So they need speed, range (both of which the V-280 gives in spades) AND a relatively large troops compartment (which the V-280 doesn't).
Budget constraints are going to be a reality on both sides of the Atlantic so I don't see a sweetheart deal being worked out especially if Biden wins the election.
Which means that the Israelis will forgo other kit to get the V-22.
Yeah.
You heard it here first.
The Israeli SF are gonna do a long range raid against someone and its foreseen/being planned right now.
USMC moving ahead with ground vehicle divestiture....is LAR & AAV/ACV next?
via Janes.
The US Marine Corps (USMC) has retired 200 M1A1 Abrams main battle tanks, M88 armoured recovery vehicles, and armoured vehicle launched bridges, and is planning to transfer them over to the army.What should surprise and worry everyone is the speed at which this Commandant killed Tank Battalions across the Missile Marines. What should concern us all is his next steps.
Over the past few weeks, the USMC has been standing down various ground vehicles as part of Commandant General David Berger’s Force Design 2030 plan. On 6 July, for example, the service announced that the last tank assigned to 1st Tank Battalion had departed the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center at Twentynine Palms, California.
The service is now consolidating the vehicles at a logistics base in Barstow, California, and recently announced that its Railhead Operations Group staff is now verifying that everything is in order before sending the vehicles on to army depots in Herlong, California, and Aniston, Alabama.
“We have Marines from several units here to assist with the offload, on load, and securement of the equipment,” Chad Hildebrandt, the railway operations supervisor for the logistics base, said in a 30 July announcement. The loaded cars will be stored on base until we have all tanks loaded and secured, then they will all ship out to the army at the same time”.
Earlier this year, Gen Berger unveiled his vision for how his service should be manned and operating by 2030 to compete with China and Russia. One of his ultimate goals is to design a smaller force that is more nimble to support naval expeditionary warfare operations, and to achieve this the service is funneling dollars away from legacy systems and towards modernised ones.
Will LAR & AAV/ACV be next?
I contend that in keeping with his current rationale of concentrating on fighting one fight, in one region, against one enemy that its a forgone conclusion.
LAR & AAV/ACV must die.
The Marine Corps has morphed into the Missile Marines and will be INCAPABLE of participating in any other conflict (maybe aviation but why would the USAF want them...why would the Navy clear deck space...would we even have units available?).
With ground combat off the table (God Bless the US Army...they're gonna have to carry the whole load) why would they remain in service?
Tanks was just the beginning.
The Ground Combat Element needs a four star advocate at the highest level of the Missile Marines or it will become just a token part of the fight (funny to think that all Marine Infantry will be prized for in the near future is ceremonial events).
Pic of the day. French Army All Terrain Tracked Vehicle in the mountains...
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