Thursday, October 01, 2020

Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 367

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Wednesday, September 30, 2020

Oh and here's the KC-130 after the midair collision with the F-35...

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How an F-35 lands after the pilot ejects!

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Force Design 2030 may be a recipe for the creation of a forlorn hope...or as the Dutch call it "Lost Troops"

 via Defense.info

How realistic is the vision of the future Marine Corps suggested by Force Design 2030, and how effective would it be?

There are numerous obstacles to deploying and operating a stand-in force that can survive in a future high-intensity conflict. Today there are few places in the Western Pacific that such a force can be deployed in peacetime. Even if it were possible to get our Asian allies to allow the Marine Corps to sprinkle units armed with long-range weapons across the Western Pacific, those units would be early targets of China’s first wave of precision weapons during a crisis.

Also, there would be the problem of resupplying those units, which are likely to run out of munitions, fuel and supplies quickly once a conflict starts.

and this...

 Instead of a viable Marine Corps for a future great power conflict, Force Design 2030 may be a recipe for the creation of a forlorn hope.

For the non-military historian, these were small formations of select troops or volunteers assigned particularly hazardous missions. Because their chance of survival was so slim, they were called a forlorn hope or, in the earliest Dutch version of the term, “lost troops.”

Operating in China’s backyard, the new Marine Corps could be facing a bleak future.

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Exactly what I've been saying.  This is a huge gamble and even if it works as planned will fill body bags instead of winning battles.

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French wheeled vehicles in N. Africa...


Note.  I posted this pic yesterday but need you guys to really focus in on this. Look at what we're seeing here.  The VBMR Griffon, the AMX-10 and another vehicle that I can't make out.  This is a powerful, mobile, and lethal force that is both tactically and strategically mobile and has utility across the spectrum of battle.

The Commandant took too big a risk in his new strategy.  It's an all or nothing bet that war will be in the Pacific against the Chinese.   If that war doesn't come (or more likely comes in a different place on the planet) then the Marines will be sitting it out (except for MAYBE the wing providing air support...assuming anyone wants even that).

His mistake was to make an all or nothing bet.  He should have added capability to the force instead of over specializing it. Marines will pay for that mistake...hopefully in the budget and not in filled body bags.


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Third batch of K806 and K808 armored personnel carriers headed to the S. Korean military...

 


via Korean Herald.

Hyundai Rotem said Tuesday it has signed a contract worth 407.7 billion won ($348.4 million) with the Defense Acquisition Program Administration to supply wheeled armored vehicles by 2023.


According to the rolling stock and arms manufacturing unit of Hyundai Motor Group, it will mass-produce the third batch of K806 and K808 armored personnel carriers to DAPA by 2023.


Hyundai Rotem won the order for the first batch worth 26.9 billion won in 2016 and completed the delivery in 2018. It also grabbed the order for the second batch worth 412.9 billion won in 2017 and aims to complete the delivery within this year.


“Based on its know-how from the mass production of the first and the second batches, Hyundai Rotem will supply high-quality armored vehicles for the third batch,” a company official said.


K806 armored vehicles are designed for mobile strikes and reconnaissance missions in the rear, while K808 are intended for swift troop deployment and reconnaissance missions in front-line areas.



 

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Combat in a built-up area is close, personal and extremely violent....via ZuluFucxs Instagram Page

 

zulufucxs "Combat in a built-up area is close, personal and extremely violent. We were familiar with fighting in dense jungles but were disoriented by the combat in tightly packed streets. Sounds ricocheted off walls adding to the confusion of urban combat. Crumbled buildings and blind corners made perfect sniper nests and ambush points. It was chaos.

It was just absolutely utter devastation, burned out trucks and bodies on the road. The stench of death was there all the time.

I remember looking up and saw someone with a cross on his uniform, and I knew he was a chaplain. He told us, 'I don't know if some of you will make it to Sunday...I'd like to give you guys last rites.'

During the fighting, all I could hear were people say, 'I'm hit, I'm hit, I'm hit.' And I kept thinking, when is a bullet going to hit me?

If there's anything close to hell, it had to be Hue." – Lcpl. Richard Prince, Delta Co., 1/5 Marines, Hue City, Vietnam, Feb 15, 1968.

(Photo shows a Marine taking cover next to the remains of a radio operator who took a direct hit from a missile).

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Tuesday, September 29, 2020

What is this craziness supposedly happening in Russia?

This craziness is supposedly happening in Russia. Any of my readers have a clue as to whether its true or not? If it is true then what's the deal? If this is coronavirus related then its super batshit crazy. Aren't the deceased still infectious?This is the translation of the Tweet...
Russia I think the doors of the buildings are defective in Russia. Otherwise, why should the corpses be tied up with a rope and hung upside down, put on the truck full of corpses ...
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VBMR Griffon in North Africa doing work!

 Note.  How do the French classify this vehicle?  Is it a wheeled apc, MRAP, some unknown designated troop carrier or what?







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This will get out of control. It will get out of control and the machines will kill us all!

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Armenian Army finally released it. Here is the second video showing shot down of a Mi-24 heavy attack helicopter of Azerbaijan Air Force

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Hellenic Tank Challenge 2020

 







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