The other technique employed by the CVRs is known as “zapping”: …the CVR crew would engage the Argentine position with a brief burst of machine gun fire provoking a response, which was promptly silenced by the main gun. The 30mm RARDEN cannon, with its high velocity and great accuracy, was much favoured for this technique.The issue isn't whether or not such a tactic would work today...against even a moderately capable foe it wouldn't...the issue is the fact that even a light tank mounting a 30mm cannon provided fire support to airborne troops that they normally wouldn't have available.
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| A Jordanian Armed Forces AH-1F Cobra helicopter flies past U.S. Marine Corps assault amphibious vehicles with the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) toward targets during a combined arms live-fire exercise, the culminating event of Exercise Eager Lion 2014. |
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| The 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) light armored vehicles and M1A1 Abrams tanks provide direct-fire support with Jordanian Armed Forces YBR-765 armored personnel carriers and HMMWVs during a combined arms live-fire exercise rehearsal as part of Exercise Eager Lion 2014 |
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| The 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) amphibious assault vehicles carry infantry Marines while M1A1 Abrams tanks provide direct-fire support during a combined arms live-fire exercise rehearsal as part of Exercise Eager Lion 2014. |
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| U.S. Marines with Battalion Landing Team 1st Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), advance on foot during a combined arms live-fire exercise rehearsal as part of Exercise Eager Lion 2014 |
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Russia’s Central Military District (CMD) is to receive ten new armored "Tiger" vehicles, Colonel Jaroslav Roschupkin said Friday.If I remember correctly Iveco made a splash when they announced that the Russian military would be using their vehicles.
"Tolyatti Special Forces will receive ten new armored SPM-2 GAZ-233036 ‘Tigers’. In accordance with the 2011-2020 state arms procurement program, the vehicles will be delivered by the end of 2014," Col. Roschupkin said.
Earlier this year, Col. Roschupkin reported that the CMD was to receive 24 "Tigers" by the end of 2014.
Last year, Deputy Defense Minister Yuri Borisov said Russian Armed Forces’ demand for “Tigers” had reached unprecedented highs following the upgrades to "Tigers" that eliminate the previous advantages of Iveco’s “Lynx” light motor vehicles.
The SPM-2 GAZ-233036 “Tiger” is a high-mobility multipurpose military vehicle manufactured by MIC, a GAZ Group division, at the Arzamas machine-manufacturing plant.
It has a maximum speed of 150 kilometers per hour and can carry up to nine personnel or 1.2 tons of cargo. (Cihan/Ria Novosti)
Ten years ago this month, U.S. Marine Wassef Ali Hassoun disappeared from Camp Fallujah in Iraq. After a five-month military investigation, he was charged with desertion and theft, brought back to Virginia’s Quantico Marine base, and then transferred to North Carolina’s Camp Lejeune for trial. Yet, a full decade later, Hassoun is as free as a bird. The accused deserter’s whereabouts are unknown. No trial ever began. No punishment ensued.Read about this traitorous bastard here.
And our leaders in Washington don’t seem to be doing a thing about this. Hassoun was born in Lebanon and immigrated with his family to Utah in 1999. A few years later, he joined the Marines as an Arabic translator. On June 20, 2004, Hassoun bailed on guard duty at
his base in Fallujah. He took his military-issued gun and his Muslim prayer rug. Military records
obtained by the Salt Lake Tribune showed that he was “torn between military loyalty and his
Muslim beliefs.” According to the internal probe, he undermined intelligence-gathering operations by refusing to translate questions about Islam. He balked at raising his voice to suspected jihadi imams and sheiks. e openly threatened to “walk out the front gate and leave.”
The Muslim Marine told his colleagues he supported Hezbollah terrorist attacks on Israel. Members of his unit told investigators he was “anti-American” and listened to jihad sermons on propaganda CDs. Hassoun had received spiritual counseling from Navy Lieutenant Commander Abuhena Saifulislam, a Muslim military chaplain tied to a radical Wahhabist outfit under federal investigation, according to Hoover Institution fellow and journalist Paul Sperry.
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The appeal to the German side the small size and high mobility is a characteristic of the 10 Tank of GSDF state-of-the-art, to explore the possibility of joint development of the successor to the Type 90 and Leopard 2 in the future.Google Translate struggles with Japanese...as a matter of fact it handles Mandarin much better...but the gist of the article points to the Japanese and Germans working on the next gen MBT. Again, the translation is sketchy but it looks like they're going to do studies with the idea of joint development/production.
The surge of illegal immigrant minors rushing over the Rio Grande threatens to overwhelm the Texas Border Patrol, and new figures show the unexpected development will cost U.S. taxpayers more than $2 billion this year, 1200 WOAI news reports.The unemployment rate is 6.3%.
More than 1,000 unaccompanied immigrant children are arriving in the U.S. each week, according to figures released by the Department of Homeland Security, and some 60,000 are expected to arrive in the U.S. this year. That is up ten times just since 2011.
U.S. Rep Henry Cuellar (D-Laredo), who represents a large portion of the border where the waves of unaccompanied children are arriving, says the situation is out of control.
"The Border Patrol is telling me, we need diapers, we need baby seats, so we can transfer them," he said.
Some of the unaccompanied children are as young as three years old. More than 1,000 have been sent to Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, and others are being sent to other locations far from the border because the flood has left Border Patrol housing facilities packed.
Cuellar says the flood of unaccompanied minors is costing taxpayers $252 per day per child.
“The F-35 was fundamentally designed to go do that sort of thing [take out advanced IADS]. The problem is, with the lack of F-22s, I’m going to have to use F-35s in the air superiority role in the early phases as well, which is another reason why I need all 1,763. I’m going to have some F-35s doing air superiority, some doing those early phases of persistent attack, opening the holes, and again, the F-35 is not compelling unless it’s there in numbers,” the general says. “Because it can’t turn and run away, it’s got to have support from other F-35s. So I’m going to need eight F-35s to go after a target that I might only need two Raptors to go after. But the F-35s can be equally or more effective against that site than the Raptor can because of the synergistic effects of the platform.”Wow.
General Officer AnnouncementFantastic news. I can get behind this!!!
Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel announced today that the president has made the following nomination:
Marine Corps Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr., for appointment to the rank of general and for assignment as the 36th commandant of the Marine Corps, Washington, District of Columbia. Dunford is currently serving as commander, International Security Assistance Force-Afghanistan; and commander, United States Forces-Afghanistan.
“The most expensive components on a Bradley are the turret and turret components – the lethality components that are not included in AMPV. And our projections say that a Bradley-based AMPV would have about the same operating cost as an M113 does. So the Army is going to get sort of ‘improved performance for like money.’”That is a bold statement.
Senate authorizers want to slash about $52 million in fiscal year 2015 funding for the Amphibious Combat Vehicle funding "at the request of the Marine Corps," according to a report issued on Wednesday.The issue with Marine Corps armor shows the total failure of leadership that has surrounded Amos' tenure as Commandant.
The Senate Armed Services Committee's report accompanying the FY-15 defense authorization bill recommends shifting $45 million from the Marines' ACV request to the Navy's shipbuilding account for the Landing Craft, Air Cushion service-life extension program, as well as $7 million in the research and development account for surface connector research and LCAC stern ramp testing.
House authorizers did not make the same recommendation in their mark of the FY-15 defense authorization bill, setting up a conference issue.
Turchynov reviewed on Wednesday heavy armored and special vehicles at the Chuguyev firing range in the eastern Kharkov region, which will be used by the Ukrainian army, including during Kiev’s punitive operation in the country’s east, the acting president’s press office reported.The President of Ukraine is touring defense manufacturing facilities and announces that instead of their premier vehicle, the BTR-4E, they're switching to the cheaper DOZOR.
The armor was also inspected by Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov and commanders of the battalions involved in Kiev’s so-called "anti-terrorist operation" in the country’s east.
"The small armored personnel carrier Dozor is three times cheaper than the BTR-4E APC and has proved its efficiency in field conditions. Today this vehicle is awaited in the National Guard," the press office quoted Turchynov as saying.
Military experts say it will take several months to put the Dozor APC into serial production. Poland earlier purchased a license from Ukraine to make these combat vehicles operational in the Polish army.
Turchynov, Avakov and battalion commanders are expected to visit the headquarters of Kiev’s military operation near the town of Slavyansk in the eastern Donetsk region on Wednesday, Interfax reports.
