Tuesday, March 02, 2021
MWX 2-21: Amphibious Combat Vehicles
No Slack, 2-327IN @NoSlackBN...
If it ain’t raining, we ain’t training. BCO conducts Squad Live Fire. Go Bayonets!
Monday, March 01, 2021
Project 21631, Black Sea Fleet 41st Brigade of Missile Boats’ Buyan M class corvette
Small but powerful: Zelenodolsk AM Gorky built, #ВМФ Project 21631 #ЧФ Black Sea Fleet 41st Brigade of Missile Boats’ Buyan M class corvette Orekhovo-Zuevo 626 transited Bosphorus towards Mediterranean armed with SS-N-30 land attack Kalibr missiles pic.twitter.com/gvDFSofeA5
— Yörük Işık (@YorukIsik) February 28, 2021
Sunday, February 28, 2021
The Changing Of The Guard by Simon Akam is an uncomfortable read...via The Daily Mail
via DM
There is little doubt that ultimately the British military failed badly in Iraq by ceding control of Basra, in 2007, to the sectarian Shia militias that we had hitherto been fighting.
It took an operation – ‘Charge of the Knights’ – by the poorly regarded Iraqi security forces and their US advisers, in the spring of 2008, to regain control of the city. This was the nadir, but there had been some successes earlier in the campaign, political rather than military, before the population began to realise that we simply didn’t have the resources or the will for the amount of reconstruction that the infrastructure and civil society of southern Iraq required.
Kongsberg RT60 remote turret
CV90 IFV equipped with Kongsberg RT60 remote turret (credit: Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace) pic.twitter.com/jnOiHkB4cr
— Ronkainen (@ronkainen7k15) February 28, 2021
Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf Praises Marine Corps press conference...fast forward to 2030 and what would he say?
Could USMC 2030 do what was done in the past?
The future Marine Corps wouldn't even be in theater! Face ANY future adversary? His own force design says "one region, one foe"....this is past capability that the future force won't be able to duplicate.This was a demonstration of what Marines can accomplish- an expeditionary force with the capabilities and training to face any future adversary.
— David H. Berger (@CMC_MarineCorps) February 28, 2021
Houthis attack Riyadh...
Damn! That was quick. A new policy towards Saudi Arabia and almost immediately the Houthis attack. That long lasting, low grade regional war is gonna pop soon. When it does it will be NASTY!#UPDATE: Video of Patriot intercept of incoming ballistic missile over Riyadh minutes ago. You can see the glow of the superheated missile in its terminal phase (warhead?). pic.twitter.com/sooKJWVRwv
— ELINT News (@ELINTNews) February 27, 2021