Lockheed Martin SB>1 DEFIANT in Flight

 

French Army Chadian Marching Regiment (VBCI - Army Marines) screening for Ivory Coast mission?

 *Need a French reader to put this one together for me.  Google Translate is obviously FUBAR on this one!  Side note.  Foreign army's order of battle is hard enough to track but the French take it to a new level.  Well the French and the Italians.  Army Marines?  At one time I would have thought the idea absolutely repulsive.  But now?  With the moves that Berger is making?  I kinda get it. The Marine Corps might have a better "standard of living" tucked under the Army with a MUCH BETTER equipment set than we're seeing aligned with the Navy...just saying...

Évaluation des Cobras de la 1ère compagnie au @CENTACOfficiel avant leur projection en Côte d’Ivoire 🇨🇮. Nous sommes prêts 💪🏼#PrepaOps #DéTERREmiNation #armeedeterre #troupesdemarine ⚓️ pic.twitter.com/3Ci6mGVGRn

— régiment de marche du Tchad (@RMT_officiel) December 16, 2020

Open Comment Post. 18 Dec 2020

 

Re-run but I find this pic so weirdly captivating...inflight dinner?

Russia to complete trials of next-generation armored vehicle

 

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New video footage of the Sprut-SDM1 Airborne Tank Destroyer

Can one of my Russian readers get them to put up vids with English subtitles?

Russia earlier this week launched a top-secret missile capable of destroying satellites in low orbit

Russia earlier this week launched a top-secret missile capable of destroying satellites in low orbithttps://t.co/It2J8HLgf1

— The Moscow Times (@MoscowTimes) December 17, 2020

I've been watching the reaction of "military Twitter" on this and everyone seems to be falling on being "surprised" or finding it "interesting".

I kinda assumed this capability has existed since at least the 1990s in the black side of the ledger...of the USA & Russia...and that the Chinese probably had the capability by 2010 at the latest.

For better or worse Reagan and his star wars initiative jump started the militarization of space.

To be clear, the next war was going to have space as a battlefield whether we liked it or not.

To take it a step further, I don't see this as a provocative move.  I consider it an attempt at keeping PACE with us.

This genie is out of the bottle.  Too late to try and put the cork back in it.  The weird but possibly good/bad thing is that destruction of a nation's sats could bring us back to the bad old days of total warfare.

Imagine if an enemy state knocked out all our sats.  I can't even imagine the civilian death toll but it would be there.

The more effective this tech becomes the less likely (I think) peer nation warfare becomes.  The real question is this.  What happens when rogue nations glob onto the idea of going after big powers sats? 

Elbit Systems ATMOS Iron Sabre ready for its first shooting in the US

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1 Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry @ Exercise Patricia Strike

 

CV90120

💥 #DYK the CV90120 can match the firepower of a traditional tank but its lightweight design makes the vehicle even more maneuverable on the battlefield.

Strong. Agile. Lethal. #CV90 #combatvehicle #combatready pic.twitter.com/y8pGhx5Ehw

— BAE Systems, Inc. (@BAESystemsInc) December 17, 2020

Late Open Comment Post. 17 Dec 2020

 

Open Comment Post. 16 Dec 2020

 

Greek indigenous solution for Leonidas IFV upgrade by EODH

 Note.  So interesting that they clearly state that the Turk weapon system is the threat that they're building to.  NATO needs to step into this brewing conflict to keep it from turning hot.

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