Tuesday, September 26, 2017
Chinese Naval Infantry on Djibouti conducting live fire (video)
Wow. These bastards are getting real deal expeditionary. I originally thought that this was just a rifle company running a drill. Seems like I was more than wrong. They had armored vehicles out and about.
And they're just miles away from OUR base.
Just awesome.
Royal Fleet Auxiliary Ship RFA Tiderace
pics via Naval News Instagram Page.
The pic caption.
Royal Fleet Auxiliary ship RFA Tiderace has reached UK waters after getting underway almost two months ago from Okpo, South Korea, where she was built by Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering.
The second of four Tide-class ships started her voyage on August 3 and arrived in Falmouth in the morning of September 25.
Now that she is in the UK, the 39,000-tonne RFA Tiderace will begin a program of customization which will see her receive armor, self-defense weaponry and communications systems.
RFA Tiderace is expected to undergo around four months of customization before beginning a round of final sea trials before entering service next year.
Meanwhile, lead ship in the class RFA Tidespring is expected to finish final sea trials in the coming weeks and enter service before the end of this year.
The 39,000-tonne Tide-class ships can carry up to 19,000 cubic meters of fuel and 1,400 cubic meters of fresh water in support of Royal Navy operations all over the world.
They have been designed to support the new Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers, the first of which, HMS Queen Elizabeth, arrived in Portsmouth last month.
Chinese getting busy at their new base on the Horn of Africa...
via Sputnik
The Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLA) fired live rounds of ammunition at its newly opened overseas military base in the Horn of Africa last Friday, the South China Morning Post reported Monday.Story here.
The Chinese base operated by the People’s Liberation Army-Navy opened August 1 as the first foreign base under Beijing’s command, Sputnik reported.
"The live-fire training will help explore a new training model for the overseas garrison," base commander Liang Yang said in a Chinese military report cited by SCMP. Humidity and high temperatures require the troops to adjust how they complete a variety of basic tasks, as well as how they use their weapons, SCMP said.
“This is the first time our soldiers stationed in Djibouti have left the camp to conduct combat training,” Liang said.
Chinese Naval Infantry in Djibouti getting in work.
Wow.
The challenge is real.
The goal obvious.
They aren't going asymmetric, they're coming straight at us with a smile on their face and K-Bar Fighting Knife (a clone of course) in their hands.
We better get better faster or we will lose before it starts. We must get hard now. As things currently stand we are NOT ready.
Marine Air is NOT safe.
via AOL Breaking Defense.
If you know a young person who dreams of flying for their country over land and sea, tell them they’re a lot safer in the Navy than in the Marines. The MV-22 tilt-rotor that crashed in August, killing three, and the KC-130T transport that crashed in July, killing 16, are just the tip of a very ugly iceberg. According to data obtained by Breaking Defense, aircraft accidents have killed 62 Marines in the last six years, compared to just 10 personnel from the much larger Navy.Story here.
Yeah. Marine Air is in a good place. Marine Air has had good stewardship over the past few years (looking at you General Davis). Marine Air is ready to take the load to transform the Marine Corps into an "Air Enabled" force (ya like that SLDInfo...that is your bullshit meme right?).
NOT!
Marine Air is broken.
How do they cover it? They blame the pilots for mishaps when the system itself is the cause of the accidents.
Too many missions, too few resources and concepts that aren't funded properly is literally killing Marines.
Too bad no one cares, and no one is willing to call bullshit on the idiocy. What will they do instead? They'll huddle in a corner, say that they're on the right track and should stay the course...and someone's little boy and girl will die in a fiery crash. When that happens and Marines die, there will be a beautiful sunset ceremony and everyone will pause and remember...and then they'll get up the next day and do the same damn thing.
You love the American Flag and Constitution but this triggers you?
You say you love the American Flag and Constitution and everything they represent but quiet dissent....not violence in the streets but quiet dissents triggers you?
YOU ARE THE SNOWFLAKE!
No safe space here.
Fitness talk. Sugar is more addictive than cocaine...
I'll beat on this drum but if you don't care then so be it. If you're not working out and trying to get better/harder everyday then oh well.
I personally love those that don't give a fuck. Makes me harder to take out and them a walking future target.
Awesome.
SAAB's solution to modern air defense (mini-talk)...they agree with the US Navy...
After watching this video it occurs to me. The escort jammer mission should really be given to high speed, combat capable, stealthy UAVs. Imagine a scenario where an escort jamming UAV flies out ahead of a strike package of Super Hornets, loiters over the area jamming whatever pops up. They remain in the area before, during and after the strike to protect the strikers and even conduct post strike analysis.
Regardless it seems that SAAB and the US Navy is on the same page when it comes to penetration of enemy air defenses.
The USAF is stuck on stealth being the solution. On that I believe they're wrong. Time will tell.
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