Sunday, February 08, 2026

38 Russian FPV drones to neutralize ONE S. Korean MBT???? So much for tanks being dead on the modern battlefield!

When you in Louisiana and hear "quiet" noises...

BlackbeardGL hypersonic missile

Never knew roosters did this...

11th Airborne's propaganda goes so hard that it makes being cold & wet look cool

That shit must suck so bad! They make it look cool though. I've always wondered about this unit. You never see them deployed to Europe to work with allies in the north even though they're specialist. Also got to wonder how things would go in a fight in the arctic. I'm betting the cold will kill more people than enemy action. They need better transport too. Got to be hard to be ready for the fight if you're half frozen when you get there.

Tell me this isn't one of the most ungrateful things you've heard...via Tonight's Conversation

 

Barrett MARS Precision Grenadier

Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' senior official homes were blown up. Someone is prepping the battlefield for the next fight with Iran.

Note this happened a few weeks ago around the end of Jan. Been busy so I didn't post it. Haven't heard much about it since then.

China's drone mothership concept...

We always come with concepts but never follow thru. Then China does what we imagined (or another country) and we kick ourselves because we didn't go forward. Kinda frustrating. The idea of a drone carrier based on a cheap LHD has been floating around Marine/Navy circles for awhile but the Naval Aviation mafia killed it. Too bad it would have been a real force multiplier. Drone motherships for surface craft? Yeah that's been pushed too but whoever killed that too. I hope this doesn't bite us in the future.

The US Army has their JLTV based light anti-aircraft system.

I wonder why we didn't either include the Army in what the Marine Corps was building or why we didn't wait for them to go first. Same requirement, same vehicle but two different systems. The weirdest thing? The JLTV already has a deep fording kit built for it so since the vehicles are the same there was no need for different systems. This is low hanging fruit to gain some savings in the DOW.

QUART 26.2: Built to Swim, Born to Fight | The Marine Corps ACV...Video by Cpl. Manuel Rivera

 

Open Comment Post. 8 Feb 26

Long, bad couple of weeks...should be back on track now.

Sunday, February 01, 2026

The air assault on Hostomel was not a failure of the VDV but of the follow on forces

The battle of Hostomel airport is trending because of recently posted video. I've been wanting a credible after action on this fight for years. I have yet to see one.

With the limited information I've seen on this assault the VDV did their job.  Even with the CIA giving the Ukrainians advanced warnings they were able to capture the airport for a little while.

What failed is the armored force that was supposed to link up with them and the failure to conduct parachute operations to land other airborne units to reinforce the initial assault.

Air landing additional forces was impossible?  Then drop them on the X!  Your armored force stalled?  Then get some fucking mass and push thru!

The US is heavily reliant on helicopters but I thought the Russians were extremely airborne centric.

I was wrong.

Putin fucked up this fight by going limited instead of balls to the wall.  Still waiting for the after action to be released to the public but from my seat, the objective was in reach right up till the end.

Leadership chopped off their own nuts and sacrificed men because they lacked the will to win.

Note.  This is not a pro Russian post, just my SIMPLE analysis of the fight.

RAF Chinooks in the high north

Twitter is saying I was wrong with my prediction of limited strikes against Iran...

SISU GTT

Open Comment Post. 1 Feb 26