Saturday, November 21, 2020

Open Comment Post. 21 Nov 2020

 


Rheinmetall Mission Master family – Turning the Wolf Pack concept into a reality

If this is true then the plot to kidnap the Michigan governor was going to be gruesome if successful...

Geez!

This is some chilling shit.  If these maniacs were successful then this would have been a gruesome spectacle.

One thing though.

All these governors are going to be "rejuvenated" in the coming year to ease the anger of the public over these lockdowns.

It's conspiracy I know...BUT...it makes no sense to release details of the planning especially in the atmosphere we're in now.

I have no idea on this except to say that if this is true then damn! 

Challenger-2 in digital camo


 

Another horror from Auschwitz...

What kind of monster tosses a new born infant into a gas chamber? The Nazis were animals.

Rick Rescorla, a former British Paratrooper from Cornwall


We finally get a look at the Dutch Iveco Anaconda in the Caribbean...



 Interesting.  I wonder why they chose to adopt a specialized vehicle for such a mundane mission.

Chinese armor & artillery vehicles on exercise...




 

French VBMR Griffon conducting river crossing ops....

 



Thursday, November 19, 2020

Is Turkey's ALTAY MBT Program in trouble?

 


Story at Defense News (here) but it would appear that they're having trouble with the engine and other components.

Is the small print in the British defense spending boost the fact that they're halving the buy of F-35's????

I'm gonna have to read this reporting on the British Defense spending boost.  First we have the news about the F-35 buy getting cut in half, next we have talk about the British Army going down to about 70K boatspaces....

The small print might be important in this thing.

Side note.  Everyone is talking about lasers, AI, space forces and robotics on the battlefield. Are they chasing ghosts or is this technology really ready for primetime? If it ain't then we're gonna create hollow forces from hell all over the western world.  Ya know what gives me pause on this whole thing? Do you remember when the Marine Corps was all about cyber on the battlefield? Before that the talk was about fighting in mega cities.  Now they're on this.  Is it real or memorex?

Russia conducts impressive airlift of peacekeepers to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone...


Quite honestly I've wondered why so many Europeans fear a Russian attack. This military movement kinda clarifies things.  The Russians are capable.  We haven't been talking about it on these pages but they have engaged in an impressive airlift of men and material to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone. 

The capability is clear.  No trains.  No ships.  Just aircraft and they've moved a respectable force to the region and are already escorting civilians out of the area of fighting.

Additionally they've somehow kept Turkey on the sidelines (and I know the Turks want to jump balls deep into this thing).

They have the military side down, the diplomatic side.  They're a power broker in Europe.

They also have one more thing the EU doesn't.

They have the will to act.

I still have to wonder if they might be stretching themselves though. Libya, Syria and now Armenia?  That's a strenuous lift.  The Russians could be walking into the same trap that the US has.  The big winner?  China.  They wait patiently, building their strength while at the same time pushing out diplomatically and on EVERY economic issue under the sun.

When the Chinese finally do act (and it won't be in the Pacific....they have built a wall of trade around them with the very people we will need to assist us in a fight with them) it'll be in an area of their choosing and on their timetable.