Wednesday, October 14, 2020
US Army& US Missile Marines are competing for the same missions in the Pacific via Defense News...
Are the US Army and US Marine Corps competing for missions in the Pacific? https://t.co/ecxaUwTjtk pic.twitter.com/yC275nkXYJ
— Defense News (@defense_news) October 14, 2020
Of course they are but it gets worse.
The one locale, one foe, too light to fight Missile Marines are sealing their doom. The US Army will come in bigger, badder and will compete for space aboard those light amphibs that the Marines are begging for. Worse than that? Those big decks that the Missile Marines are abandoning will end up being carriers for the 101st, 82nd and 25th ID.
This Commandant has royally fucked up but no one active is willing to call him on this madness.
Sidenote. Anyone that doesn't believe that the US Army won't load up the 25th and 2nd ID with more anti-ship missiles than the Marine Corps can dream of, load up its Apaches for the sea strike mission and doesn't dedicate a few drones to the anti-ship/sea surveillance mission is smoking crack. The Army is coming and they're coming in a big way.
What "Tanker" means to each branch of the military...
Too soon? #TankTuesday pic.twitter.com/AUJji8oxaF
— Thunderbolt Chapter USCAA (@ChapterUscaa) October 14, 2020
Yeah bro. Much too soon!
Tuesday, October 13, 2020
They came out of the fog...
The French Army is putting on quite a "capability demonstration" at PACAT2020. I stand by my earlier. They're probably the most capable Western European force (I do like what the Poles are doing too).
I luv their modernization and the vehicle mix they've arrived at. They're gonna be well positioned going into the future.
When I look at what they're doing, it reminds of what the USMC once was. A flexible, medium weight force that can flex up and down the spectrum of combat. Additionally they have a nice (for the size of their country) expeditionary capability and seem well placed to engage in peer vs peer combat.
Don't sleep on the French.
I think they've cracked the code.
Navy is fast tracking its next gen fighter to the 2030s...
via USNI News.
The Navy has to move quicker in its development and fielding of a sixth-generation fighter, the service’s top uniformed officer said Tuesday.
Speaking at a virtual forum hosted by Defense One, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday emphasized that the service cannot afford to move at the same pace it did when developing the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Lighting II.
“We can’t wait until 2045 or 2050 to field the next manned aircraft, if that’s what we think is required. We also have to come to grips with what is required: what do we think the future’s going to hold if we continue to develop and invest in weapons that are more precise and that have range and that, one would argue, will be doing fewer air-to-air combat type of scenarios?” Gilday said.
“We’re going to want to be able to reach up and touch … at quite a distance,” he continued. “So what am I going to get from that investment, from a warfighting perspective, that I can’t get from unmanned? So we have to take a look at that.”
Bad news for the F-35 fanboys.
You can spin this anyway you want but its become obvious (at least to me) that the F-35 just ain't what is needed in the future. Wait fuck that. NEAR FUTURE!
It's stunning to think that this plane is just now entering service, has barely reached its go to war "model" and the powers that be in both the USAF and USN are already turning the page.
It does clear up a few things though.
Now we know why this plane is being offered to some (at least in my mind) questionable allies in the Middle East.
It's already old news.
The next gen fighter is just over the horizon. It will probably be rolled out in an unmanned version first (to augment the lackluster F-35) and then we'll see the full on manned airplane.
The crazy thing?
Its just another piece of data to show how wrong this generation of generals got things. The taxpayers gave them everything they wanted and they still screwed it up. Amazing.