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| U.S. Marines with 2d Light Armored Reconaissence Battalion participate in the Top Gun competiton at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, Sept. 3, 2020. The Competition involves the most skilled vehicle crewmen on a range with randomized target positions, utilizing all weapons systems native to the Light Armored Vehicle 25. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Brian Bolin Jr.) |
Moving Forward!Read all that bullshit happy talk to mean that Berger kicked them the fuck out and that Ground Combat Power no longer exists in the Missile Marine Corps.
The M1150 Assault Breacher Vehicles (ABV) are being divested from the Marine Corps in an effort to accelerate modernization and realign 1st Combat Engineer Battalion's (1st CEB) capabilities.
Yesterday, Marines with 1st CEB disembarked the ABV's from San Mateo as a part of Force Design 2030.
(U.S. Marine Corps photos by Cpl. Jailine L. AliceaSantiago)
The M1150 Assault Breacher Vehicles (ABV) are being divested from the Marine Corps in an effort to accelerate modernization and realign 1st Combat Engineer Battalion's (1st CEB) capabilities.
Yesterday, Marines with 1st CEB disembarked the ABV's from San Mateo as a part of Force Design 2030.
(U.S. Marine Corps photos by Cpl. Jailine L. AliceaSantiago)
U.S. Marines with the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing (MAW) Band, operate M240B machine guns and Mark 19 40mm grenade launchers at a live fire range at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif., Sept. 4, 2020. 3rd MAW continues to pave the road for the rest of the Marine Corps by providing realistic training with real world applications to develop recognition primed decision-making in preparation for future conflicts. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Lance Cpl. Juan Anaya)Craziness aside. WHAT THE FUCK IS RECOGNITION PRIMED DECISION MAKING?
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The PLA on Wed released a video of Tibet military command’s live-fire drill on the plateau. PLA also conducted a drill of airborne troops. Yes, these are all aimed at the situation on China-India border. The Indian army will either stop provoking or be prepared to be defeated. <a href="https://t.co/124h0ccu8h">pic.twitter.com/124h0ccu8h</a></p>— Hu Xijin 胡锡进 (@HuXijin_GT) <a href="https://twitter.com/HuXijin_GT/status/1303701622757814272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 9, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Antwerp mayor this week announced the launch of Operation NightWatch, a crackdown on drugs crime which he promised would be the city’s “largest security operation in 20 years.”Sad but inevitable. Are we still the ugly Americans or are we now considered wise?
The initiative has been generally – but not universally – been seen as a flexing of the city’s muscles at a time when it seemed that criminals had free run of the city. There have been numerous reports in recent weeks of grenades and other explosions, and houses and business premises being shot up. Strangely, or perhaps fortuitously, nobody has been injured.
Now the city and its police force are not prepared to take a chance on innocent people escaping violence forever, and nothing could demonstrate a flexing of muscles like the deployment on the streets of the Bear-Cat armoured vehicle.
The BearCat, manufactured by Lenco Armored Vehicles of Massachusetts in the US, is only available for military and law enforcement use, and it is deployed in more than 40 countries.
The name stands for Ballistic Engineered Armored Response Counter Attack Truck, and is basically a heavy-duty commercial pick-up encased in an armour coating of military steel up to 1.5in thick (3.8cm), with ballistic glass, blast-resistant floors and gun-ports as standard.
It can on request also be fitted with sirens, spotlights, thermal cameras and a battering ram.
The vehicle comes in nine different configurations, and judging by photos in the press, the model chosen by Antwerp appears to be the BearCat G3, which its manufacturer describes as suitable for off-road and rural operations, able to seat 12 fully-equipped officers and designed to rescue “downed personnel”.
The Lenco website makes it sound rather unsuited for the Antwerp urban situation: “If your mission takes you off-road, the Lenco BearCat G3 will get you where you need to go,” the company says.
Antwerp purchased its BearCats from Lenco in 2017 to act as a rapid-response vehicle, although it was only rolled out two years later during what seemed like a hostage situation which turned out to be a misunderstanding. It was also brought out last New Year to block off streets.
The curfew introduced last month by Antwerp province’s governor Cathy Berx (CD&V) has ended, but another de facto curfew could be beginning. De Wever and his police chief Serge Muyters (the brother of De Wever’s party colleague and former minister Philippe Muyters) have promised that anyone on the street in sensitive areas like Borgerhout and Deurne may be stopped and subjected to an ID check, and if necessary some streets could be closed to all traffic.
“We are going to try to make it clear to the drug environment that they have gone too far,” Muyters said this week.
“Since weapons of war are being used, the BearCats will be on the street,” De Wever told local TV station ATV.
“If those people are caught red-handed, we aim to be able to meet them with equal force,” he said.
CHALLENGE TO @ChrisCuomo .— Marc Lobliner (@MarcLobliner) September 9, 2020
Prove you’re not a liar. Prove that you can actually lift the weight you’re shown with.
I will fly anywhere you’d like to witness it and we can either have a charity event or I’ll donate $1k to a charity of your choice.
PLEASE RETWEET! pic.twitter.com/5vVZpUoW8S
Officers and soldiers training to operate the VT-4 Main Battle Tank rounding up. The VT-4 MBT is a 3rd generation tank. It features an automatic loading system and unmanned gun turret. pic.twitter.com/kbF4zuVaM8— Defense News Nigeria (@DefenseNigeria) September 4, 2020
陆 军 就 该 是 这 样 的 · 第 二 集 https://t.co/1bvhvFeSOn pic.twitter.com/Q4GWDgRE0y— 蜜柑🍊 (@KushigumoAkane) September 8, 2020
