Wednesday, January 27, 2021
Tuesday, January 26, 2021
A stunning revelation about how the Navy views "naval integration" with the Marine Corps!
The navy doesn’t talk of naval integration, or if they do, it’s because they’re “smiling and nodding” at the Corps. pic.twitter.com/CN17PxXyyI
— the duality of man (@JungianThings) January 23, 2021
Wow!
This is so spot on it hurts.
The Navy is developing it force of the future and isn't talking about the Marine Corps "integrating" with it at all. As a matter of fact the Navy appears to be agnostic when it comes to integration.
They don't seem to care and if they do then it doesn't matter whether it's the Army, Air Force, Marine Corps, foreign forces or anyone at all.
It is only the Marine Corps that is tying itself at the hip of the Navy but the Navy doesn't even notice.
Berger's concept is a joke even to its primary partner.
The key to ground vehicle modernization? Realizing that not everything needs to be mounted on armored vehicles!
Details on various Boxer modules from #IAV2021, includes 14m and 22m bridging systems, 105mm mobile gun platform, and 155m Howitzer. pic.twitter.com/WiX5QCVTQe
— Harry Lye (@harry_lye) January 26, 2021
I've been watching the British Army's journey with the Boxer MRV and have been a bit perplexed by all the variants being proposed.
In this era why are they looking at placing gun and even MLRS pods on the thing?
Why are they looking at developing a bridging variant?
I'd even contend that a casualty evacuation/medivac variant is a bridge too far (how did you like that turn of phrase Think Defence?).
Look, I get it.
A family of vehicle (FOV) is all the rage. I understand the theory. You get mass and in the case of the Boxer MRV you supposedly get mission modules so you get more bang for your buck (I consider it theoretical savings though....no one has actually done the mission module thing).
Limited budgets mean you need to be smart with your money. Putting everything on a wheeled IFV is just not smart. If it can go on a truck then put it on a truck. If its your infantry then used the added armor and mobility that your wheeled IFV gives you.
But don't be fashionable. Everything doesn't have to go on the same platform for false uniformity.
C2 vehicle based on the K808 has been completed
And, in the ASPAC region, development of a C2 vehicle based on the K808 has been completed: https://t.co/rxLdU7huwl More connectivity for the South Korean army. pic.twitter.com/UmZUOZ8BtB
— Sam Cranny-Evans (@Sam_Cranny) January 26, 2021
Boxer Mobile Gun System
The Boxer Mobile Gun System is not a tank, but a modern take on the classic assault gun. Its 105 mm gun can neutralise MBTs up to T-72. It has a long engagement range for countering other AFVs, excels at bunker busting and other infantry fire support tasks. pic.twitter.com/74Ex4XaTDp
— Nicholas Drummond (@nicholadrummond) January 26, 2021
Here’s who’d win if an Airborne brigade fought a MEU...HINT! The old Marine Corps would win, the new Marine Corps I have my doubts...
Note. Readers were discussing this in comments so I decided to make a dedicated blog post on it.
via WE ARE THE MIGHTY!
The Alaskans wanted the base to act as an early-warning installation and a platform for controlling Arctic traffic while the Federal Forces needed it as a marshaling and power projection platform for the invasion of Alaska.
The soldiers and Marines raced to the island, each unaware of the other’s plans. 4th Brigade caught a ride from Alaskan Air National Guard C-17s while the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit rode in on their dedicated Navy ships, the USS Peleliu and the USS Germantown, from where they were already steaming in the northern Pacific.
The paratroopers arrived first, jumping into the grass and wildflowers covering Fort Glenn. After Army pathfinders walked the runway and declared it safe for airland operations, C-17s began ferrying the unit’s heavy equipment onto the base.
I love these fictional battles. Old Skool Marines won the day (considering the weaponry used I think we can clearly use Berger's tenure as the line between old and new). New Skool? I think the paratroop boys would smash!
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