27JUNE23, #RCCTO's Mid-Range Capability (MRC) Project Office, in conjunction with 1st Multi-Domain Task Force Soldiers, and the U.S. #Navy Program Executive Office Unmanned Aviation and Strike Weapons, demonstrated the launch of a missile from the Army's prototype #MRC system. pic.twitter.com/STSC3swp0y
— U.S. Army RCCTO (@usarmyrccto) June 27, 2023
Now that the Wagner drama is over (or at least appears over), what do ya'll think is going on with the war.
I can't put my finger on it but I sense we're entering a new phase. Where that will lead I don't know, but the latest arms package from the US along with the fact that no European nation to my knowledge has moved with us seems to prove what I've been thinking.
The cow is tapped. Not much more milk coming. Additionally, we heard back in MARCH that we were assuming risk by supplying Ukraine as lavishly as we have.
That's my view, what's yours?
via Breaking Defense.
General Berger’s initial planning guidance as commandant ended that long-time rationale. It argued that large amphibious ships were too vulnerable and too expensive: “We must continue to seek the affordable and plentiful at the expense of the exquisite and few.” In highlighted text, the guidance announced: “We will no longer use a ‘2.0 MEB requirement’ as the foundation for our arguments regarding amphibious shipbuilding. We will no longer reference the 38-ship requirement.”
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If large amphibious ships were too expensive and too vulnerable and the Marine Corps believed that the future lay in small amphibious ships, then the Pentagon should limit the building of large amphibious ships.
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The Navy came to the same conclusion. The Navy’s FY 2023 shipbuilding plan showed a target of 24 to 28 large amphibious ships, which meant that, when previously funded amphibious ships were considered, no amphibious ships would be needed for several years.
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The controversy would die down if the Marine Corps offered a strong wartime rationale for 31 large amphibious ships. However, it continues its wartime emphasis on small units under FD 2030. The latest FD 2030 update does cite the need for 31 large amphibious ships but is vague about why, saying it’s: “[to] coordinate their actions directly with stand-in forces to control maritime terrain.” The Marine Corps has provided a calculation for their goal of 35 Landing ships Medium (nine for each of the three Marine Littoral Regiments and eight more for maintenance and other unavailability). Yet, there is no proposed calculation for arriving at 31 amphibious ships as there had been for the earlier amphibious ship goal of 34.
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I'm sure they're getting hazardous duty pay, but will the Purple Heart be classified?In Krematorsk (Ukraine) a Hotel was bombed. By the amount of military men immediately on the spot, you can surmise that it was used by the military.
— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) June 27, 2023
-> Especially interesting is that some of the victims talk in English and have tattoos of the “US 3rd airborne Ranger Battalion”! pic.twitter.com/10TF4gYJbQ
Don't fuck with the boys from the Bayou!It's an LSU thing 💍 pic.twitter.com/aPBDK7S6cP
— SEC Network (@SECNetwork) June 27, 2023
#Ukraine: Six previously unseen losses of Ukrainian M2A2 Bradley ODS-SA infantry fighting vehicles, South of Mala Tokmachka, #Zaporizhzhia Oblast - at least two IFVs were destroyed and 4 were damaged and abandoned. pic.twitter.com/Mq16lzegq3
— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) June 26, 2023
.🚨Fixed & Subbed: A unit from the 59th brigade of the AFU left their position, because they’re only 3 people and can’t hold it any longer.
— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) June 26, 2023
-> Their commander got pissed, threw a grenade and most likely killed them.
War is hell … especially if your own people try to kill you. https://t.co/tP549Lvu9k pic.twitter.com/Stz7U5fmmw
Jesus! This isn't about hate, this is about concern! HOW CAN HIS FAMILY DO THIS TO HIM? If they loved him they would get him off the stage and get him home to enjoy his remaining life. That would be the human thing to do. But it isn't about humanity, its about power. Check out his wife. Yeah this is an accusation based on observation. That woman loves the power of being the wife of the US president more than she loves him. Same applies to the rest of the family.President Biden during meeting last week with Prime Minister Modi:
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) June 26, 2023
“I was just thanking the — anyway, I started off without you, and I sold a lot of state secrets and a lot of very important things that we shared...”pic.twitter.com/uVI6cALdX8
God knows the Army is trying but the current Stryker is so outdated it isn't funny. The US Army has the oldest wheeled combat vehicle (talking 8x8s) in the West. Everyone else has or is in the process of modernizing. The US military has to get out of the stance that they need leap ahead technology. Incremental steps forward are steadier, give our defense sector better stability and will avoid the shocks that we see when a contractor doesn't win a competition and they're forced to leave the sector meaning that the one remaining has a monopoly.“This Is Heavy!” - Marty McFly #BeAllYouCanBe I #MakingADifference I #Army2030 I #armylife I #whyiserve I #Readiness I #ArmyTeam I #MondayMotivation I #MotivationalMonday pic.twitter.com/Ui8inYdNmT
— 1-2 Stryker Brigade Combat Team (GHOST) (@1SBCT_Ghost) June 26, 2023
Ukraine Peace Talks May Start in July - Media https://t.co/fZpFPLRO79 pic.twitter.com/T0mBlF5G48
— Sputnik (@SputnikInt) June 26, 2023
Fuck the Republicans. Fuck the Democrats. Fuck the world. I am so tired of being told that we have to be fiscally responsible at home while we're seeing this out of control lavish spending on Ukraine! We could easily spend this money to fix our roads and bridges. To fund our hospitals. To fund medicad and medicare. To fix our airports and ports. BUT FUCKING NO! We send it to leadership of Ukraine so they can pocket most of it and then send a bit to the troops living in the mud. I hope the troops on both sides understand the reality of this thing. They're fighting for people that really don't give a fuck about them but will shout "for democracy" or "for the motherland" to the top of moon while they die screaming for their mothers.The United States plans to announce tomorrow a new military aid package for Ukraine worth up to $500 million including ground vehicles.
— Clash Report (@clashreport) June 26, 2023
1/ Prigozhin's audio just dropped: "This was a march for justice, Wagner was going to be disestablished and we protested that decision. Our organized advance and professionalism during our march demonstrates what the February 24, 2022 attack on Kyiv should have looked like."…
— Samuel Bendett (@sambendett) June 26, 2023
#BREAKING Wagner group will continue operations in Mali, C. African Republic: Russian foreign minister pic.twitter.com/KX9W7XpWik
— AFP News Agency (@AFP) June 26, 2023
