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Monday, August 24, 2020
Range Week at work..
Gonna be kinda slow this week ya'll. It's range week at work so I'll be grinding in the rain (if the hurricanes hit!) or worse.
Sidenote. Remember all those conspiracy theories about why all these agencies are buying all that ammo? Well this week me and 16 other folks will be shooting up 17K rounds. Our range is hot every week cause they run us thru it annually. For all the bodies that carry in the dept that's quite a bit of ammo and we're not huge.
Kinda puts all that ammo buying in perspective doesn't it.
Armored Medical Evacuation vehicle configuration of the PARS III 8x8 FoV
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| The AME is the Armored Medical Evacuation vehicle configuration of the PARS III 8x8 FoV`. The vehicle is highly maneuverable and designed primarily for casualty evacuation from forward battle areas. It has a capacity of carrying a driver, a commander, and 2 medics with either 2 patients on stretchers and 4 seated patients or just 8 seated patients. |
Sunday, August 23, 2020
Lukashenko is losing it!
#URGENT | Video of Alexander Lukashenko arriving at Presidential Palace with assault rifle emerges online https://t.co/FbRFVGwmlB#SputnikUrgent pic.twitter.com/vQj97CyA3t— Sputnik (@SputnikInt) August 23, 2020
Chinese Type 89A infantry modified battlefield reconnaissance vehicle
China's Type 075 returns from sea trials...
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Question.
How can you look at the fleet that China is building and believe that they don't have global ambitions?
That's why the thinking that we can NOW (maybe in the past but not now) we can keep them bottled up in the first island chain and that the Missile Marines should orient themselves totally to a fight in that region is beyond me!
Additionally, after much thought the Generals are just gonna have to swallow hard and accept reality.
If China and the US ever cross swords in this region then the casualties will be horrific. Even IF it doesn't go nuclear. I find that thinking a bit perplexing too. From what I've read if the old USSR ever did its thing thru the Fulda Gap many experts were predicting that entire divisions would be wiped out. I believe I read that a Cav unit was predicted to be eviscerated in total in a matter of minutes. A book that attempted to predict the war said that NATO would get desperate and attempt an air assault by the 101st and that the unit was rendered combat ineffective WHILE FLYING IN!
My point? China is going global and the battlefield will be Africa! The services better get ready for a big all domain fight on a huge continent.
Don't fly the ISIS flag in Yemen with Houthi fighters around...
— H.K 🇸🇾 (@Ibra_Joudeh) August 23, 2020
Narrow field of view on this engagement but why would a lone dude decide to do something so provocative? Why didn't he bail out sooner? Where were his bros?
I'm armchairing this thing and you don't do that cause I wasn't there and I don't know. Having said that I still have these questions!
Saturday, August 22, 2020
Think Defence asks "Is it time to bring back the medium bomber"? Hell yeah it is!!!!
Is It Time to Bring Back the Medium Bomber?— Think Defence (@thinkdefence) August 22, 2020
Can't believe this post is nearly a decade old
https://t.co/XwqMVhIkxW
Make sure you read his article (amazing that this has been talked about for more than a decade), but the answer is HELL YEAH IT IS!!!
The problem?
The various services have been beset by mafias that have tilted the field in terrible ways that we're only NOW starting to see the consequences of.
Aviation has wrecked the Marine Corps and now its reforming itself into an abomination in order to make what it has work. Which means an even greater disturbance in force structure (couldn't help the Star Wars reference).
For the Navy its coming to terms that instead of being an asset, carrier Navy is close to becoming an hindrance instead of a war winning construct.
For the Air Force? It's the fighter mafia, the surrender forced on the old Strategic Air Command (in their case I guess it was a bit more understandable because bombers held sway for so long), and the imbalance in their force structure that has left them short ranged.
In essence it makes no sense for the USAF to be fielding thousands of tactical fighters but no capable medium bomber.
We need a solid capable modern version of the B-25. Something with long range, fast, can fly high and launch missiles at distance. I would aim for speed of high subsonic but it would need to be able to do Mach 1 in a "dash". Additionally it needs to be able to roam far and wide. Avionics from the F-15EX and those that WORK from the F-35 would be nice to have too.
Engines would be off the shelf and nothing fanciful (again I'm looking at the F-15's set) and stealth would be limited, not a goal but stealth reduction where possible (and affordable) would be pursued.
But what about the B-21? Its another one of those hold over projects that no longer applies. For better or worse Generals are gonna have to wrap their brains around the fact that "manned" aircraft will no longer be penetration platforms. That will be left to robots/loyal wingman. Which means that another expensive stealth platform isn't needed. Quite honestly they'd be smarter to focus on building in a secondary electronic warfare function into my mythical bird. Carrying the Navy's EA-18 next gen jamming pods as a matter of everyday life would be a nice force multiplier and since I see a three man crew which would include an Electronic Warfare Officer it makes sense!
That's my idea. What's yours? Is this dead on arrival? Is TD (and ME!) wrong?
Lazar 3 - 8x8 armored combat vehicle
At Army Recognition...here.
Curious thing. This vehicle (at least previous models) had been listed as MRAPs. I guess its really not an issue though. Many vehicles that would have previously been listed MRAPs are now considered full on combat vehicles.
I wonder what the real distinction was/is?
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