Sunday, July 24, 2011
Trimble decides to participate in APA stupidity.
Trimble has lost it.
Instead of playing it straight, he instead decides to be a shill for the Dark Lord, Bill Sweetman and post tripe like this!
Notice the photo above? What do you see? PL-9 air to air missiles and PL-12 air to air missiles in the J-20's internal weapons bay. What else do you notice? How about the fact that the PL-9 is physically larger than the PL-12 in this mock up!
But in his story, Trimble conveniently ignores the obvious and instead tries to play a game with his readers, by misdirecting them to the "not a pound for air to ground" when he's really attempting to highlight the "supposed" weapons carriage of the J-20.
Obvious.
Contrived.
Silly.
And beneath his dignity. When we have journalist that know better doing SHIT like this then no wonder they're losing respect.
Saturday, July 23, 2011
MultiCam vulnerable to a $120 uv filter?
Check this out from Military Photos. Amazing.
The reddish image is the uv filtered photo and the greenish one is the unfiltered one. Against a first tier enemy, multicam is trash when it comes to preventing detection.
The reddish image is the uv filtered photo and the greenish one is the unfiltered one. Against a first tier enemy, multicam is trash when it comes to preventing detection.
Friday, July 22, 2011
2 articles from DEFESA Global that you should check out.
First up from DEFESA Global is a write up on the Piranha 3 with a new turret. Interesting. They then have an article on a multi-purpose modular maritime action ship there version of our LCS. To be honest, I like there version better.
Tarzan Assault Course
More abuse of authority by police.
Hot button issue guys. No I haven't had contact but I see what's happening and it infuriating. I despise the leakage of police tactics into the military and military tactics into policing. Go to this website for the story but take the time to watch the video in full (he starts at 6:30)
Thursday, July 21, 2011
And even more from Talisman Sabre...
All Photos by Lance Corporal Jerome Reed.
Photos by Maj. Timothy LeMaster
Photos by Maj. Timothy LeMaster
McCain finally gets called out on his F-35 nonsense!
About freaking time!
McCain has been like a drunk sailor on shore leave in Thailand...
But finally the Weekly Standard has called him on his recent rash of foolishness. Read the whole thing here but a highlight....
A think tank in Australia with a vested interest in its demise....a writer with the desire to preserve the European defense industry....the "cool" thing to do if you're a defense blogger....but the days of simply allowing the dis-information has passed. The F-35, the US defense sector, high tech US manufacturing and our alliances world wide require this program to progress.
It would be beyond a shame for a few guys with axes to grind, along with a few Congressional staffers to determine the fate of US defense for years to come.
McCain has been like a drunk sailor on shore leave in Thailand...
But finally the Weekly Standard has called him on his recent rash of foolishness. Read the whole thing here but a highlight....
Terminating the F-35, or simply terminating the F-35B short take off vertical landing (or STOVL), would be fatal for the Marine Corps as a serious war fighting service. The modernization of the Marines is already at risk; the V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor transport turned out to be more difficult and more expensive than anticipated, and last year the Obama administration cancelled the Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle, which would have given the Marines both enhanced amphibious assault capability but, even more important, more firepower and mobility ashore. The Marines’ AV-8B Harriers – a development of the original British jump jet – are at the end of their service life, and the Marines’ F-18s cannot operate from Marine amphibious assault ships. And there’s hardly reason to have the big-deck amphibs without the F-35B. Conversely, operating a fifth-generation aircraft would give the Marine Corps a new viability in small-scale contingencies – think Libya – and allow them to contribute to more challenging “anti-access, area-denial” contingencies in East Asia or in an Iran-type operation. Similar challenges face the Navy; without a fifth-generation aircraft, its own aircraft carriers are increasingly irrelevant to high-end strike campaigns.I know how the "hatred" of the F-35 started.
A think tank in Australia with a vested interest in its demise....a writer with the desire to preserve the European defense industry....the "cool" thing to do if you're a defense blogger....but the days of simply allowing the dis-information has passed. The F-35, the US defense sector, high tech US manufacturing and our alliances world wide require this program to progress.
It would be beyond a shame for a few guys with axes to grind, along with a few Congressional staffers to determine the fate of US defense for years to come.
Two F-35's delivered in one week?
via ASDNews...
Big mistake.
Production on the F-35 has ramped up, the school house is built and fully staffed, the Marine Corps is already planning for early IOC and the critics are left whimpering in a corner.
This already has been a great week for the F-35.
Fort Worth, Texas - It was wheels up Wednesday morning for Lockheed Martin's second F-35A Lightning II production jet delivery in a week. Maj. Joseph T. "OD" Bachmann (Marine Corps) piloted the aircraft, known as AF-8, to Eglin Air Force Base where it arrived at 11:50 a.m. CDT. AF-8 joins AF-9 which Lockheed Martin delivered to the 33rd Fighter Wing last Thursday. The jets will be used for training F-35 pilots and maintainers who are slated to begin course work at the base's new F-35 Integrated Training Center this fall. AF-8 is the eighth F-35 to be delivered in 2011.I simply posted the pic and moved on.
Big mistake.
Production on the F-35 has ramped up, the school house is built and fully staffed, the Marine Corps is already planning for early IOC and the critics are left whimpering in a corner.
This already has been a great week for the F-35.
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
AF-8 Ferry to Eglin AFB
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