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Saturday, April 18, 2020
People are observing something unusual on Israeli Merkava MBTs...
Russian unmanned combat ground vehicle (heavy) on display...
Note. Trying to characterize these unmanned ground combat vehicles. My basic design is to simply label them light and heavy. I guess it'll get more detailed in the future but this is where I'm at, at the moment.
Роботизированная платформа семейства "Уран" pic.twitter.com/jJ1AZNc0co— Specnazopedia (@specnazopedia) April 18, 2020
F-15G Wild Weasel A chinpod was tested in 1983
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Why are we able to come up with so many good ideas and then just leave them on the table?
The USA is innovative in ways that other countries just can't compete with. Other nations simply follow our lead and work on improving versions of what we're doing.
But we start down paths and then leave them in the dustbin.
We need to change that.
Some disagree but I believe the coronavirus will kill defense budgets worldwide.
This is the time to get smart. The time to truly innovate. The time to evolve our systems instead of trying to once again make transformational leaps.
Armor P*rn. Stryker armored vehicles of the 75th Ranger Regiment deployed to Manbij, Syria. Mar 2017
Interesting isn't it.
The US Army's Premier Raid Force even uses Stryker ICVs in the hybrid war in Syria yet the USMC has floated the idea of CUTTING the number of ACVs it will purchase because Berger "does not have confidence" that they'll be useful in the future.
Simply amazing.
The new Marine Corps concept is a clusterfuck from hell.
The British government paid two Chinese companies $20 million for 2 million tests kits for antibodies to the coronavirus. The problem was, they didn't work....
The British government paid two Chinese companies $20 million for 2 million tests kits for antibodies to the coronavirus. The problem was, they didn't work, and the gamble became an embarrassment. https://t.co/RR00u687ZL— The New York Times (@nytimes) April 17, 2020
Boxer to be demonstrated with John Cockerill Defense's C3105 turret
via Janes
Belgium’s John Cockerill Defense is supplying its latest-generation C3105 turret armed with their 105 mm High Pressure (HP) rifled gun to Krauss-Maffei Wegmann for installation on the rear mission module of the Boxer 8×8 Multi-Role Armoured Vehicle (MRAV).Well Ogden and Drummond are gonna be annoyingly happy for the next couple of months while this thing is trialed.
This combination is being developed using internal research-and-development funding and is expected to undertake firing trials later in 2020.
The Boxer MRAV is deployed by Australia, Germany, Lithuania and the Netherlands, and is on order for the British Army.
The John Cockerill Defense C3105 is a member of the C3000 series of turrets that are in volume production for the export market with over 450 built to date and with production still underway.
I guess even in the middle of a pandemic dreams do come true.
Friday, April 17, 2020
Sukhoi Su-57 with alot hanging from it's pylons...
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Somewhere, someone, is training hard to kill you....
— 马日天 (@z5J6NWig6ByNnsC) July 10, 2019
Somewhere, someone, is training hard to kill you.
YOU!!!!! Should return the favor!
Blast from the past...Grumman F-14B Tomcat belonging to VF-142, serial number 161433 suffers major mechanical failure and makes it back to carrier...
via The Aviation Geek Club...
November 13, 1991, a Grumman F-14B Tomcat belonging to VF-142, serial number 161433, successfully managed to land aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Eisenhower, after losing the nosecone at 27,000 feet due to a faulty latching mechanism.Here
The pilot, Lt.Cdr. Joe Edwards, was injured after the lost piece struck the canopy and showered him in glass, injuring his eyes and breaking his collarbone, and even though he also had to deal with limited visibility through a 3-inch hole, as the rest of the canopy was severely cracked, he successfully made it back to the ship with help from his RIO Lt.JG Scott Grundmeier, managing a perfect landing on the second arresting wire.
Both pilots received the Distinguished Flying Cross medal for their achievements, and Edwards later became a Space Shuttle pilot for NASA.
The aircraft was quickly repaired and returned to service, flying until March 11 2005, when the entire Tomcat fleet began decommissioning.
Weird crime...French Mayor Forced to Flee His House Naked After Being Held at Gunpoint by Disgruntled Citizen
via Sputnik
The mayor of Bihorel in the vicinity of Rouen in northern France was forced to flee his house stark naked after an angry local held him at gunpoint and forced him to strip.Here.
The 53-year-old mayor Pascal Houbron told France Bleu radio that the incident happened on Tuesday morning when the local resident, who arrived for a regular meeting, pointed a gun at him.
"He forced me to undress before taking my picture", the mayor confessed.
The politician managed to escape from his bizarre ordeal and sought shelter at his neighbour's house.
According to 76actu news website, the gunman, who had reportedly had a beef with the mayor before, turned himself in to the police.
It was later revealed that the disgruntled man's weapon was, in fact, an air pistol.
Overreaction to the Wuhan Virus has consequences....Florida Man Accused of Murder After COVID-19 Jail Release
via Heavy.
Tampa, Florida, man is accused of killing someone the day after he was released from jail on a judge’s orders issued in an effort to mitigate the spread of COVID-19.Story here.
The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office said Joseph Edward Williams, 26, shot a man to death on March 20. Deputies were called to the scene after several 911 calls came in saying people were hearing gunshots outside, according to an HCSO press release.
According to the sheriff’s office, Williams was one of over 100 inmates freed on March 19 after a county court ordered the release of any pretrial detainees arrested for lower-level, non-violent crimes and who posed no safety threat. The judge’s order said the sheriff had discretion over who could be released.
While the shooting happened last month, Williams wasn’t arrested until April 14, when he was picked up on an active murder warrant. According to an arrest affidavit, a Street Crimes Unit Deputy tracked him coming out of a convenience store. Williams ran from the deputy and there was a struggle once he was caught, the arrest report said. Williams had two baggies of heroin, a hypodermic syringe and a digital scale in the bag he was carrying, according to the sheriff’s office.
Williams Had 35 Previous Arrests & Had Served Time in Prison
Due to my job I'm seeing shit like this happen in real time. These animals are being released back into the public and they will soon descend on the unknowing public like the plague we're currently fighting.
Once these jokers finish getting high and laid they'll be swarming the streets.
It's why I told my girl to house carry during this madness.
Crime is down but you can bet that within 6 months it will flare to unbelievable heights.
Saddle up boys and girls.
Things are gonna get even more sporty than they are now. You ain't seen nothing yet.
Sources believe coronavirus outbreak originated in Wuhan lab
via Fox News.
There is increasing confidence that the COVID-19 outbreak likely originated in a Wuhan laboratory, though not as a bioweapon but as part of China's attempt to demonstrate that its efforts to identify and combat viruses are equal to or greater than the capabilities of the United States, multiple sources who have been briefed on the details of early actions by China's government and seen relevant materials tell Fox News.Story here.
This may be the "costliest government cover-up of all time," one of the sources said.
I've waited long enough.
Time to CHEST THUMP!
I told you....if I recall correctly this blog was one of the first to state that this virus escaped from that lab in Wuhan.
Some of you called me a conspiracy theorists. Many agreed with my take.
At the end of the day it appears we were right.
Tucker Carlson is having a long opening monologue on this issue as I type this. Long story short? The evidence is overwhelming. What's disturbing? He's covered in detail the propaganda effort launched by China to cover up their misdeed.
Our media is thoroughly penetrated by either useful idiots or knowing traitors. The reporting, bloviating, whining that we've seen from the MSM is almost heartbreaking if it wasn't so maddening that it makes you want to punch walls.
Back on task.
We called it here first.
We were right.
Blast from the past....P-3 Orion launches an AIM-9 Sidewinder during tests of the air-to-air missile as a defense weapon for ASW aircraft
Modest Proposal.
Let's put self defense missiles (preferably AIM-260 when it comes online or AIM-9X in the short term) on our AWACS, P-8s, even a couple on transports so that they have a means to defend themselves when the next war comes along against a determined/advanced enemy.
I was monitoring a conversation GAR-9 was having and he brought up the fact that the Brits armed their Nimrods with AIM-9P to defend themselves against Argentinian aircraft shadowing them.
We should consider the same.
Convince me I'm wrong.
NASA announces first SpaceX crewed flight for May 27
#BREAKING NASA announces first SpaceX crewed flight for May 27 pic.twitter.com/jzzjAx9vlf— AFP news agency (@AFP) April 17, 2020
US alerted Israel, NATO to disease outbreak in China in November — TV report
Times Of Israel.
US intelligence agencies alerted Israel to the coronavirus outbreak in China already in November, Israeli television reported Thursday.Story here.
According to Channel 12 news, the US intelligence community became aware of the emerging disease in Wuhan in the second week of that month and drew up a classified document.
Information on the disease outbreak was not in the public domain at that stage — and was known only apparently to the Chinese government.
Pundits on MSNBC have switched up their talking points. They're saying that we must have a day of reckoning with China but for now we need to work with them.
In light of this report, we can assume that the timelines we've been fed are all wrong.
Why?
I'm guessing because the US govt doesn't want to reveal how solid our monitoring efforts are inside China.
It also explains why we didn't see stockpiling toward the end of the year.
That would have given away the game. It would reveal that we knew that they had an outbreak inside their country (additionally analysts could have thought that the Chinese would be able to contain it).
Either way.
China needs to be made to pay.
A couple of other things come to mind.
1. We heard early on (but haven't since) that their were two strains of this virus. Is that still applicable? Could that explain why we're seeing so many deaths in one European country and just a few in another?
2.
If this is true then the points of failure in the Coronavirus response are legion....
#Israel news is reporting that US intelligence alerted Israel of the #coronavirus outbreak in #China in November when it became aware of the emerging disease in #Wuhan and drew up a classified document; it told Trump but he wasn't interested. https://t.co/w8QDMfSvEu— Robert Morton (@Robert4787) April 17, 2020
November?
US intel knew about this thing in November (assuming this is true). I'm trying to remember when this blog got hot on the outbreak. If I'm remembering correctly it was mid Jan....maybe toward the end.
I don't have access to the Chinese internet and I only use open source free nation media.
Thinking a bit more about this issue. We'll never know the real truth behind this thing.
It would require us to access classified intel assessments of the situation that our agencies saw inside China in the Nov-Jan timeframe.
Those assessments could give a clue on how good our survelliance is.
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