Too soon? #TankTuesday pic.twitter.com/AUJji8oxaF
— Thunderbolt Chapter USCAA (@ChapterUscaa) October 14, 2020
Yeah bro. Much too soon!
Wednesday, October 14, 2020
What "Tanker" means to each branch of the military...
Tuesday, October 13, 2020
They came out of the fog...
The French Army is putting on quite a "capability demonstration" at PACAT2020. I stand by my earlier. They're probably the most capable Western European force (I do like what the Poles are doing too).
I luv their modernization and the vehicle mix they've arrived at. They're gonna be well positioned going into the future.
When I look at what they're doing, it reminds of what the USMC once was. A flexible, medium weight force that can flex up and down the spectrum of combat. Additionally they have a nice (for the size of their country) expeditionary capability and seem well placed to engage in peer vs peer combat.
Don't sleep on the French.
I think they've cracked the code.
Navy is fast tracking its next gen fighter to the 2030s...
via USNI News.
The Navy has to move quicker in its development and fielding of a sixth-generation fighter, the service’s top uniformed officer said Tuesday.
Speaking at a virtual forum hosted by Defense One, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday emphasized that the service cannot afford to move at the same pace it did when developing the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Lighting II.
“We can’t wait until 2045 or 2050 to field the next manned aircraft, if that’s what we think is required. We also have to come to grips with what is required: what do we think the future’s going to hold if we continue to develop and invest in weapons that are more precise and that have range and that, one would argue, will be doing fewer air-to-air combat type of scenarios?” Gilday said.
“We’re going to want to be able to reach up and touch … at quite a distance,” he continued. “So what am I going to get from that investment, from a warfighting perspective, that I can’t get from unmanned? So we have to take a look at that.”
Bad news for the F-35 fanboys.
You can spin this anyway you want but its become obvious (at least to me) that the F-35 just ain't what is needed in the future. Wait fuck that. NEAR FUTURE!
It's stunning to think that this plane is just now entering service, has barely reached its go to war "model" and the powers that be in both the USAF and USN are already turning the page.
It does clear up a few things though.
Now we know why this plane is being offered to some (at least in my mind) questionable allies in the Middle East.
It's already old news.
The next gen fighter is just over the horizon. It will probably be rolled out in an unmanned version first (to augment the lackluster F-35) and then we'll see the full on manned airplane.
The crazy thing?
Its just another piece of data to show how wrong this generation of generals got things. The taxpayers gave them everything they wanted and they still screwed it up. Amazing.
Modern Warfare!
I think they're on the low side of the spectrum on the cost of the bomb but you get the point.
Sadly peer vs peer will NOT happen in a place of our choosing. It will almost certainly start off with a proxy being supported and morph into a meeting engagement of the real antagonists.
LPDs into motherships for small boats? What a waste of capability.
So this is the future?
A new Missile Marine Force mixed with Riverines?
Just disband the Marine Corps now. Why waste money on this useless abomination!
What the Marine Corps should be? A medium weight force that flex up and down the spectrum of combat. A force that is most ready when the nation is least. A force that is USEFUL and capable of fighting on every continent on this planet.
What are we getting?
Missile slinging morons that ain't worth shit outside the Pacific.
Death is inevitable. If the Marine Corps stays on this course then its time for it to die.
CDC Study Finds Overwhelming Majority Of People Getting Coronavirus Wore Masks
via The Federalist.
A Centers for Disease Control report released in September shows that masks and face coverings are not effective in preventing the spread of COVID-19, even for those people who consistently wear them.
A study conducted in the United States in July found that when they compared 154 “case-patients,” who tested positive for COVID-19, to a control group of 160 participants from the same health care facility who were symptomatic but tested negative, over 70 percent of the case-patients were contaminated with the virus and fell ill despite “always” wearing a mask.
You thought you had a bad day? Check out this e-mail from a professor to his class!
I really hope this is a gag cause if it ain't this dude is snake bit to the max! I'm also assuming that dude's wife shot him which adds to the misery. Better him than me!
Monday, October 12, 2020
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