Tuesday, October 13, 2020
Modern Warfare!
I think they're on the low side of the spectrum on the cost of the bomb but you get the point.
Sadly peer vs peer will NOT happen in a place of our choosing. It will almost certainly start off with a proxy being supported and morph into a meeting engagement of the real antagonists.
LPDs into motherships for small boats? What a waste of capability.
CDC Study Finds Overwhelming Majority Of People Getting Coronavirus Wore Masks
via The Federalist.
A Centers for Disease Control report released in September shows that masks and face coverings are not effective in preventing the spread of COVID-19, even for those people who consistently wear them.
A study conducted in the United States in July found that when they compared 154 “case-patients,” who tested positive for COVID-19, to a control group of 160 participants from the same health care facility who were symptomatic but tested negative, over 70 percent of the case-patients were contaminated with the virus and fell ill despite “always” wearing a mask.
You thought you had a bad day? Check out this e-mail from a professor to his class!
I really hope this is a gag cause if it ain't this dude is snake bit to the max! I'm also assuming that dude's wife shot him which adds to the misery. Better him than me!
Monday, October 12, 2020
The mini-civil war that so many fantasize about might actually hit...
Fucking amazing.
Dude lost his life and his battlefield fantasizes turned to dust in his mouth. Ya know what's crazy. The ultra right is still talking about black lives matter when I'm looking at all the shit in Portland and it was all white on white fighting.
I'm looking at this and its obvious (it was in a couple of other places too) that both sides are armed, a bunch of people have grievances and if there is trouble you'll see many side actors taking advantage of the chaos to rob, rape, steal and deal.
It's a shame.
Many are cracking jokes but give the N. Koreans a little credit on their T-62 mods...
The North Koreans showing off their new super tank... which looks like a T-62 plus a whole lot of aggressive looking steel.
— Eamon (@eamhale) October 10, 2020
A weird looking tank that seems to be based off a 14 year old boys google search of what a modern MBT should have.
It’s good drone bait, if nothing else pic.twitter.com/bjUbWpflhY
I've noticed a recurring theme when it comes to potentially hostile nations and how many view them.
Take N. Korea for example.
They just had their big parade and with the exception (and probably not even that with some of the stuff I've read) of the mobile ballistic missile (its getting slammed for being liquid fueled), they're being dismissed.
Big mistake.
Take the mods on the T-62.
Looks like something a 14 year old would design? Seriously? First it has external anti-tank missiles. On most tanks I remember people trying to make them fit thru the barrel. This is a pragmatic, almost elegant solution. We do it for our IFVs so why not for MBTs?
Additionally I'm seeing band tracks. That's a nice step forward. As far as the armor is concerned I have no idea. What gives me pause though is that it should be obvious to all that the Chinese are giving them AT LEAST limited technical advice (probably more...this nation should have starved to death by now if they weren't helping). So we should expect that armor to at least be functional and they probably have upgraded FCS too!
My last point is this.
Even though it seems apparent that the S. Koreans easily match the North...while they should EASILY be able to repulse any attack on their nation from the North, they still insist on having US troops on their soil (don't forget though that they have an unusually comfortable relationship with the Chinese so Berger won't be able to put his Missile Marines on their soil in event of war).
The reality is that this "hermit" kingdom will be a tough out. The North might have outdated weapons but they will get their pound of flesh in a fight.