Friday, October 16, 2020
Turkish ACV modernisation video
8x8 Iveco SUPERAV has two variants?
The new 8x8 Iveco SUPERAV LAND armored vehicle unveiled and presented it to the personnel of Qatar Armed Forces who are in Italy for joint exercise.. Qatar is also interested in SUPERAV amphibious variant and CENTAURO 2..i think VBCI lost the competition😉https://t.co/Ak3QFY8LLB pic.twitter.com/Eh8mqVp391
— Abdulmoiz (@abdulmoiz1990) October 16, 2020
The USMC has a version that is unique to it, and obviously there are two more versions ... a land and amphibious.
Very, very interesting!
Politics Talk. Interesting take on the Covid 19 lockdowns...
Why is it fair that all those people who want a lockdown for their safety are happy to have food producers, retailers, warehouse workers working? Are their lives less valuable?
— Lance Forman (@LanceForman) October 15, 2020
I remember a story where an Amazon worker was complaining that he was being called "an essential worker" because people were buying vibrators online. He then stated there is nothing essential about buying a vibrator!
I get that he was being sarcastic but there is a bigger point to all this.
Many of us in this very audience were required to continue to work while everyone else was staying at home.
I'm not talking about just first responders, medical personnel etc...but also grocery store, convenience store and fast food restaurant workers.
And that's the rub.
This thing has done unbelievable and I think unseen damage to the American work ethic.
People are staying at home and getting paid.
It takes 30 days to make a habit and 90 to make a lifestyle change.
People had enough time to make a lifestyle change and it will be HELL to get many of them to go back to work.
I'm afraid we're gonna have to use a bit of tough love to "get things back to normal" for quite a few people.
What does that mean?
Hate to say it but it means taking a whack at the safety net for those that are able bodied. It also means identifying those that are truly in a risk category, making them stay home (if we can actually afford it as a society/nation) and the rest of us move forward.
That's what I'm thinking. What about you?
Sidenote. Isn't it sad that the response to the virus is a political issue? All those people in govt and the media are gonna regret politicizing this issue. Now there can be no middle ground and/or agreement on how to proceed because everyone is in a camp and won't budge.
Thursday, October 15, 2020
GRAPHIC: Troops from Azerbaijan filmed themselves executing two captured soldiers from Armenia
This is awful but the world has to see it imo...
— Jake Hanrahan (@Jake_Hanrahan) October 15, 2020
GRAPHIC: Troops from #Azerbaijan filmed themselves executing two captured soldiers from #Armenia. I’ve seen enough evidence to confirm that this is real and recent. It took place in #Hadrut in #NagornoKarabakh / #Artsakh. pic.twitter.com/HfSznNjpMA
Lockheed Martin/DARPA OpFires...
.@LockheedMartin is working with @DARPA to advance the game-changing hypersonic technology of OpFires, a boost glide missile that penetrates air defenses and engages targets at medium ranges. #AUSANow
— Lockheed Martin News (@lmnews) October 15, 2020
Turkish ACVs modernisation via EDR Magazine
via EDR
Situational awareness, firepower, survivability, and life support seems to be the four main areas that will considerably improve the ACV effectiveness. The driver will get a new day/night vision system, while 360° close range observation will be available, helping in situations such as urban warfare. The crew will be able to see the surroundings on screens, while a direction finding and navigation system will help during the manoeuvre. The DAF turret will be replaced by Aselsan’s Nefer unmanned turret armed with a 25 mm cannon, a coaxial 7.62 mm adding to the main armament firepower.
According to Mr. Demir, protection will be increased both against kinetic energy and blast threats, a laser waning system providing advanced alarm should the vehicle be subject to laser illumination either from a rangefinder, a designator or a laser-missile guidance system. No data were provided about the increased armour, neither about the add-on weight that this should bring with it; while the weight of the new and old turrets are comparable, it is safe to think that the increased protection level and the add-on of a number of systems will bring with them a considerable weight increase, but the modernised vehicle gross weight was not provided. As no information about upgrades in the mobility area was given, we can presume that the higher weight will partly affecting mobility. The only data provided to date are the maximum road speed being 60 km/h, and the typical 60% gradient and 30% side slope capabilities.
Just another 2nd LAR training video...but the caption is interesting....
U.S. Marines with Force Company, 2d Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 2d Marine Division, execute individual actions and call for fires at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, on Oct. 7-9, 2020. These events give the Marines an opportunity to increase combat readiness in basic individual and fire team tasks due to a company restructuring. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Lance Cpl. Jessica McCrickard)
Restructuring?
Does anyone have any idea what they're doing...what changes are being made?
I've predicted several times that by the time Berger is finished LAR will no longer exist as we know it. Additionally I've stated that the "Advanced" LAR is already a no go. LAR has a place in a Corps that is a medium weight force that fights in every clime and place but is absolutely useless to a Missile Marine Corps that is focused only on the Pacific and China.
Is this the first indication that I'm spot on?
Wednesday, October 14, 2020
US Army& US Missile Marines are competing for the same missions in the Pacific via Defense News...
Are the US Army and US Marine Corps competing for missions in the Pacific? https://t.co/ecxaUwTjtk pic.twitter.com/yC275nkXYJ
— Defense News (@defense_news) October 14, 2020
Of course they are but it gets worse.
The one locale, one foe, too light to fight Missile Marines are sealing their doom. The US Army will come in bigger, badder and will compete for space aboard those light amphibs that the Marines are begging for. Worse than that? Those big decks that the Missile Marines are abandoning will end up being carriers for the 101st, 82nd and 25th ID.
This Commandant has royally fucked up but no one active is willing to call him on this madness.
Sidenote. Anyone that doesn't believe that the US Army won't load up the 25th and 2nd ID with more anti-ship missiles than the Marine Corps can dream of, load up its Apaches for the sea strike mission and doesn't dedicate a few drones to the anti-ship/sea surveillance mission is smoking crack. The Army is coming and they're coming in a big way.
What "Tanker" means to each branch of the military...
Too soon? #TankTuesday pic.twitter.com/AUJji8oxaF
— Thunderbolt Chapter USCAA (@ChapterUscaa) October 14, 2020
Yeah bro. Much too soon!