Wednesday, June 22, 2022

French 1st Foreign Cavalry Regiment train on the Jaguar Armored Recon Vehicle

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Hyundai Rotem introduced the concept of a new generation wheeled armored vehicle, ready after 2035

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Cdr Salamander has it right!

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Fed Chair Jerome Powell admits that "Putin's War" IS NOT THE MAIN CAUSE OF HIGH INFLATION!

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Sky Warden NNbS....

A neat compact and lethal system with a useful payload of missiles. This is what the "Stand In Force" needs. They're still gonna get micro fragmented but this will keep them in the fight a little longer.
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Eurofighter "Growler"?


This makes sense.

Not sure the Eurofighter (or any fighter) is the proper platform but everything I've read lately about the next big fight talks about jamming, being jammed and degraded communications.

So why the Navy would even tout the idea of mothballing the EA-18G is beyond me.

I don't think the current (or projected) crop of UAVs will get the job done either.

I believe you need a G550 electronic attack variant is the way.



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Arquus Upgraded VAB MK3

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This lady has lost her mind (regarding current economic conditions)....This is why the Dems are gonna get pummeled in Nov

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U.S. Air Force AC-130 aircraft is refueled by KC-135 Stratotankers, assigned to the 50th Expeditionary Air Refueling squadron within the CENTCOM area of responsibility

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ATMOS. The 155mm Howitzer that the USMC needs!

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Tuesday, June 21, 2022

Towed artillery really is dead on the battlefield...

MLRS/HIMARS won't fill the void though. The obvious answer is artillery must be motorized/mechanized. Towed arty is just a sitting duck.
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Bayraktar AKINCI UCAV departed from Çorlu, successfully completed its first firing test in Sinop offshore with KGK-SIHA-82 (Wing-Assisted Guidance Kit)

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Australia's Land 400 Phase 3 IFV to be cut by a third!

Just plain wow.
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Marine Air-Ground Task Force 7....what is its composition, what is its job?

U.S. Marine Corps Col. David J. Hart, the commanding officer of Marine Air-Ground Task Force 7 (MAGFT-7) “Ripper”, boards the amphibious assault ship USS Essex (LHD2) in the Pacific Ocean, June 17, 2022. MAGFT-7 is integrated with the U.S. Navy to strengthen international maritime partnership, enhance interoperability and promote a free and open Indo-Pacific. 

So its not a MEU, definitely not a MEB or MEF. It's also not SPMAGTF. So what is it? Is it new? What is it's composition? I'm assuming its job is sea denial so composition will be interesting.
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Video of Russian Paratroop Air Assault on Ukrainian Airport (Early War)...from their perspective.

Note. I've been waiting breathlessly for the 18th Airborne Corps, 101st or even Marine Air to do an unclassified analysis on this assault. While they lacked (I believe) the amount of close air that we'd employ, they seemed to do it by the book (I could easily be wrong). 

What went right, what went wrong and what lessons are to be learned from this. I'm a bit surprised that we aren't seeing more discussion of the tactical aspects of this fight. The tech war seems to get all the attention. People are focused on drones, loitering munitions and anti-tank missiles....but when we see concepts employed that seem to follow our way of war and they fail, they don't seem to be raising any eyebrows (looking at Snake Island and the Marine Littoral Regiment!).
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How/Why is Snake Island turning into a major battle? The island seems insignificant and lacks influence over the battle space!

I don't get this!

The Ukrainians tried to hold this island and got smoked.  The Russians moved in and are getting smoked.

Why?

The Russians can control the land from the sea without deploying troops to it.

The Ukrainians are able to assault any installation/troops from shore.

WHY ARE THE RUSSIANS SO DETERMINED TO HOLD IT?  I don't understand.  Educate me please!

The crazy thing?

If either side decided to use the appropriate missile that's available today, then neither Navy could operate in those waters.

The seat of power is on land, not the water....
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The 2/30 Normandie-Niémen Hunting Regiment

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Germany to enact stage 2 emergency plan over energy

Europe will be lucky if its just a recession. If this hits as hard as I think then they'll be looking at damn near a depression. Germany is screwed.

Let me repeat.

The sanctions were applied stupidly and now the chickens are coming home to roost.  Some thought it would just be the 3rd world that suffered?  Bullshit.  This is gonna hit us all.  Emotion overruled common sense.


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Ukrainian military officials are increasingly worried that U.S.-provided Gray Eagle strike drones would get shot down by reinforced Russian air defenses in the Donbas region.

Could this be one of the "lessons" that everyone is getting wrong? Loitering munitions seem like they're king (because they're small?) but bigger ones seem vulnerable IF the Russians actually fought as a combined arms team. The Gray Eagle would appear to be vulnerable to a range of Russian anti-air systems yet the slightly smaller Turkish drone has been roaming free (awful tactics on the Russian side or some magic juice we don't know about).

The actual utility of drones on the future battlefield should be studied .... they might not be the game changer that many think.
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Random acts of crime

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