Wow! Some truly incredible scenes coming out of #Thailand right nowpic.twitter.com/KkuCHhfinb
— James Lee Proudfoot🎗 (@PhilosophyNook) October 17, 2020
This could get ugly.
The Thai military can be brutal if ordered.
This bears watching.
Saturday, October 17, 2020
State Of Emergency and no public gatherings in Thailand, yet we see this...
We don't bunch up like these guys but we still present a thermal signature...how do you fix that?
Another video from the Azerbaijani MoD of TB2 UCAV strikes, presumably from last night. Soldiers have a habit of bunching together more at night than during the day, but as you can see, this just presents a larger thermal signature. 1170/https://t.co/QSWpHS9BqE pic.twitter.com/QRnEuyzFjh
— Rob Lee (@RALee85) October 17, 2020
We don't bunch up. But even if you're dispersed you still present a thermal signature. How do you fix that? We can't walk around in foil uniforms, so the solution is basic.
You kill the drone before the drone kills you (either by direct fire or registering your position to other shooters).
Unfortunately that's the rub isn't it.
Everything is oriented toward killing big drones or if its made to kill small ones then it will be after they've detected your forces.
We need a good medium weight/range option that can protect the force from small/med drones and kill them before they can locate our forces.
Now that leaves one last question.
Whose job is that? Air Arms or Ground Forces?
The new "Force Company" in 2nd LAR....
So now we get an explanation.
It rings more as an experiment headed toward what I've been predicting. A totally different LAR than the one we all know.
I appreciate this vid but it doesn't change my mind. LAR is soon to be aviation based is my guess. As an interim solution it will transition to being a JLTV type setup with numerous UAVs attached.
Soon enough it will be the home of the Predator UAVs and will be in the "ground commanders" hip pocket so that he has battlefield intel.
It'll all be a lie but that's how they'll sell it.
As far as Force Company? Nothing else makes sense. They're selling a bill of goods.
I thought the Russians brokered a peace treaty but this thing keeps churning...
A missile strike levels a row of homes in Azerbaijan's second city of Ganja, killing and badly injuring people in their sleep in a sharp escalation of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict https://t.co/xzXFiD8eTT pic.twitter.com/FUjOuA00rf
— AFP news agency (@AFP) October 17, 2020
Friday, October 16, 2020
The Hulk is a Los Angeles Sheriff's Deputy!?!
Two things.Very PROUD to be actively working and part of the Los Angeles Sheriffs Dept 🦾 pic.twitter.com/svVjfWCMD6
— Lou Ferrigno (@LouFerrigno) October 16, 2020
1st. He got small.
2nd. Those roids did a number to his dome.
Otherwise it looks like a VERY interesting move. Wonder what drug him into the job? Surely he's still getting royalties from the TV show even if he didn't make much money during the silver age of bodybuilding.
Turkish ACV modernisation video
Really don't understand how the Turk defense industry is built. I get the standalone companies but their appears to be an umbrella corporation above them all...SSB or something like that...
8x8 Iveco SUPERAV has two variants?
The new 8x8 Iveco SUPERAV LAND armored vehicle unveiled and presented it to the personnel of Qatar Armed Forces who are in Italy for joint exercise.. Qatar is also interested in SUPERAV amphibious variant and CENTAURO 2..i think VBCI lost the competition😉https://t.co/Ak3QFY8LLB pic.twitter.com/Eh8mqVp391
— Abdulmoiz (@abdulmoiz1990) October 16, 2020
The USMC has a version that is unique to it, and obviously there are two more versions ... a land and amphibious.
Very, very interesting!
Politics Talk. Interesting take on the Covid 19 lockdowns...
Why is it fair that all those people who want a lockdown for their safety are happy to have food producers, retailers, warehouse workers working? Are their lives less valuable?
— Lance Forman (@LanceForman) October 15, 2020
I remember a story where an Amazon worker was complaining that he was being called "an essential worker" because people were buying vibrators online. He then stated there is nothing essential about buying a vibrator!
I get that he was being sarcastic but there is a bigger point to all this.
Many of us in this very audience were required to continue to work while everyone else was staying at home.
I'm not talking about just first responders, medical personnel etc...but also grocery store, convenience store and fast food restaurant workers.
And that's the rub.
This thing has done unbelievable and I think unseen damage to the American work ethic.
People are staying at home and getting paid.
It takes 30 days to make a habit and 90 to make a lifestyle change.
People had enough time to make a lifestyle change and it will be HELL to get many of them to go back to work.
I'm afraid we're gonna have to use a bit of tough love to "get things back to normal" for quite a few people.
What does that mean?
Hate to say it but it means taking a whack at the safety net for those that are able bodied. It also means identifying those that are truly in a risk category, making them stay home (if we can actually afford it as a society/nation) and the rest of us move forward.
That's what I'm thinking. What about you?
Sidenote. Isn't it sad that the response to the virus is a political issue? All those people in govt and the media are gonna regret politicizing this issue. Now there can be no middle ground and/or agreement on how to proceed because everyone is in a camp and won't budge.
Thursday, October 15, 2020
GRAPHIC: Troops from Azerbaijan filmed themselves executing two captured soldiers from Armenia
This is awful but the world has to see it imo...
— Jake Hanrahan (@Jake_Hanrahan) October 15, 2020
GRAPHIC: Troops from #Azerbaijan filmed themselves executing two captured soldiers from #Armenia. I’ve seen enough evidence to confirm that this is real and recent. It took place in #Hadrut in #NagornoKarabakh / #Artsakh. pic.twitter.com/HfSznNjpMA
Lockheed Martin/DARPA OpFires...
.@LockheedMartin is working with @DARPA to advance the game-changing hypersonic technology of OpFires, a boost glide missile that penetrates air defenses and engages targets at medium ranges. #AUSANow
— Lockheed Martin News (@lmnews) October 15, 2020
Turkish ACVs modernisation via EDR Magazine
via EDR
Situational awareness, firepower, survivability, and life support seems to be the four main areas that will considerably improve the ACV effectiveness. The driver will get a new day/night vision system, while 360° close range observation will be available, helping in situations such as urban warfare. The crew will be able to see the surroundings on screens, while a direction finding and navigation system will help during the manoeuvre. The DAF turret will be replaced by Aselsan’s Nefer unmanned turret armed with a 25 mm cannon, a coaxial 7.62 mm adding to the main armament firepower.
According to Mr. Demir, protection will be increased both against kinetic energy and blast threats, a laser waning system providing advanced alarm should the vehicle be subject to laser illumination either from a rangefinder, a designator or a laser-missile guidance system. No data were provided about the increased armour, neither about the add-on weight that this should bring with it; while the weight of the new and old turrets are comparable, it is safe to think that the increased protection level and the add-on of a number of systems will bring with them a considerable weight increase, but the modernised vehicle gross weight was not provided. As no information about upgrades in the mobility area was given, we can presume that the higher weight will partly affecting mobility. The only data provided to date are the maximum road speed being 60 km/h, and the typical 60% gradient and 30% side slope capabilities.
Just another 2nd LAR training video...but the caption is interesting....
Just another 2nd LAR training vid but the caption made me sit up a bit....
U.S. Marines with Force Company, 2d Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 2d Marine Division, execute individual actions and call for fires at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, on Oct. 7-9, 2020. These events give the Marines an opportunity to increase combat readiness in basic individual and fire team tasks due to a company restructuring. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Lance Cpl. Jessica McCrickard)
Restructuring?
Does anyone have any idea what they're doing...what changes are being made?
I've predicted several times that by the time Berger is finished LAR will no longer exist as we know it. Additionally I've stated that the "Advanced" LAR is already a no go. LAR has a place in a Corps that is a medium weight force that fights in every clime and place but is absolutely useless to a Missile Marine Corps that is focused only on the Pacific and China.
Is this the first indication that I'm spot on?
Wednesday, October 14, 2020
US Army& US Missile Marines are competing for the same missions in the Pacific via Defense News...
Are the US Army and US Marine Corps competing for missions in the Pacific? https://t.co/ecxaUwTjtk pic.twitter.com/yC275nkXYJ
— Defense News (@defense_news) October 14, 2020
Of course they are but it gets worse.
The one locale, one foe, too light to fight Missile Marines are sealing their doom. The US Army will come in bigger, badder and will compete for space aboard those light amphibs that the Marines are begging for. Worse than that? Those big decks that the Missile Marines are abandoning will end up being carriers for the 101st, 82nd and 25th ID.
This Commandant has royally fucked up but no one active is willing to call him on this madness.
Sidenote. Anyone that doesn't believe that the US Army won't load up the 25th and 2nd ID with more anti-ship missiles than the Marine Corps can dream of, load up its Apaches for the sea strike mission and doesn't dedicate a few drones to the anti-ship/sea surveillance mission is smoking crack. The Army is coming and they're coming in a big way.
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