Sunday, May 16, 2021
The Mamul Rifle by George Pike Tanev
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| The Mamul Rifle Code name Mamul Rifle. Developed by the The Westinghouse Corporation of Mars, the M-420 is a megawatt class electromagnetic rail weapon, capable of accelerating a 2.5mm solid tungsten needle to relativistic speeds. |
ARC-21 PHOTOEX
San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock USS New Orleans (LPD 18), joined by the Royal Australian Navy’s Anzac-class frigate HMAS Parramatta (FFH 154), the French Navy’s amphibious assault helicopter carrier FS Tonnerre (L9014), and Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force’s Ōsumi class tank landing ship JS Ōsumi, transit together during exercise Jeanne D’Arc 21 (ARC-21), off the coast of Kagoshima, Japan, May 14, 2021. ARC-21 is an opportunity for U.S., French, Japanese and Australian forces to share experiences, tactics, and best practices to sharpen their skills together.
Type 05 series amphibious vehicles operating off Type 071 LPD.
Some nice screenshots of Type 05 series #amphibious vehicles operating off Type 071 LPD.
— Alex Luck (@AlexLuck9) May 14, 2021
Via "by78" at SDF. pic.twitter.com/EmShcHeADz
Convair R3Y Tradewind ~ 1956 General Dynamics...and ANOTHER proposal for Marines & Seaplanes...
A Report on the Convair R3Y Tradewind ~ 1956 General Dynamics from Jeff Quitney on Vimeo.
Well another person has come up with a seaplane proposal for the Marines. You can read it here (behind a paywall)What has me spinning?
MANY years ago on Mike Sparks webpage (tried to find it this morning but couldn't...time is short so hopefully someone here can steer me to it).
For a so called crazy guy (and I do admit he's rather ... combustible) alot of people are rotating back to concepts he put forward decades ago.
"Silent Black Shark"
Interesting what-if development of the J-15 ... some sort of "Silent Black Shark"!
— @Rupprecht_A (@RupprechtDeino) May 14, 2021
(Images via @四川地产界高层-军事画家 from Weibo) pic.twitter.com/GefbjaCqyU
Friday, May 14, 2021
Damn it Berger! Everytime I start inching toward believing that I should give your "Force Design" (read that to mean modern day Maginot Line) a chance you say weird stuff...
It's amazing.
Everytime I start inching toward believing that I should give Berger's Force Design, in reality a modern day Maginot Line, a chance he goes and says weird stuff.
Have you noticed the captions to some pics I've been posting lately? They've made the subtle but obvious pivot toward not only being a "STAND IN FORCE" but they're also claiming to once again be a "Force In Readiness".
He's still buying the ACV. We're still seeing Textron demoing their version of the ARV. The JLTV is getting a bit more firepower. We'll still be light as hell but ground combat capability could be salvaged to a certain degree.
But then this article from USNI News hits and I'm wondering what the fuck! A few tidbits...
What he settled on is a littoral force that can do anti-surface and even anti-submarine operations to help the Navy achieve sea control and sea denial and to project power.
Let me ask the question that an accountant somewhere will ask one day. Why have a Marine Corps if they're doing sea control/sea denial as their primary mission?
The cost of a few additional Burke's would add substantially more firepower than a Marine Littoral Division(MLD). Hell you could probably get more anti-ship firepower from ONE dedicated anti-ship magazine filled Burke than you could from a MLD.
I won't even touch on the idea of doing anti-sub work but that's just plain looney. I guess that means the Corps is looking at manning P-8's or buying Seahawks huh?
It gets better though.
Commandant Gen. David Berger spoke at the conference just after Gilday and said the focus of his Force Design 2030 effort was to help deter a fight with China and to help compete with them on a day-to-day basis in the gray zone, where China is “eating our lunch” today.
“Part of that is because they play by a different set of rules. They’re blurring the lines between police forces and coast guard and military and politics – they are blurring that intentionally. We have very clear lanes that we stay in, and we haven’t moved off of that, we have not adjusted. We have to,” Berger said.
How does a force "compete"? What gray zone are they talking about? I really need some solid definitions instead of this ambiguous stuff that leaves the definition to each person's imagination.
US Army Chinook supports an air assault insertion at Fort Greely during Northern Edge 21
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| FORT GREELY, Alaska (May 11, 2021) - A U.S. Army CH-47 Chinook assigned to B Company, 1st Battalion, 52nd Aviation Regiment flies over the Joint Pacific Alaska Range Complex (JPARC) May 10, 2021, near Allen Army Airfield, Fort Greely, Alaska, prior to an air assault insertion for reconnaissance ahead of a joint forcible entry operation (JFEO) exercise the following day over the Joint Pacific Alaska Range Complex (JPARC) near Allen Army Airfield, Fort Greely, Alaska, during Northern Edge 2021 (NE21). The JFEO exercise involved more than 400 U.S. Army paratroopers, and other military members from the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines, and more than a dozen aircraft assigned to squadrons throughout the United States including CH-47s, and U.S. Air Force HC-130 Hercules , MC-130J Commando IIs, and C-17 Globemaster IIIs. Realistic warfighting training, like JFEO, conducted during NE21, provided a venue for the joint force to develop and improve interoperability, and enhance combat readiness. Approximately 15,000 U.S. service members are participating in NE21 hosted by U.S. Pacific Air Forces May 3-14, 2021, on and above the JPARC, the Gulf of Alaska, and temporary maritime activities area. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Senior Airman Duncan C. Bevan) 210511-F-HF102-0742 |
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