Elbit Systems & Rafael Live fire demonstration (Hanwha Defense AS21 REDBACK launch vehicle!)

Major hat tip to Gregory Knowles Twitter Page!

2d LAR Gunnery Range

Late Open Comment Post. 2 March 2021

Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (VMM) 165 (Reinforced), 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit, conducts a forward arming and refueling point during Realistic Urban Training

MWX 2-21: Amphibious Combat Vehicles

U.S. Marines Corps Amphibious Combat Vehicles (ACV) with Co. D, 3rd Assault Amphibian Battalion, 1st Marine Division, were employed for the first time in a 1st Marine Division training exercise during Marine Air Ground Task Force Warfighting Exercise (MWX) 2-21 at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, Calif., Feb. 14-20, 2021. MWX is the culminating event of the service-level training exercise, challenging Marines to fight against a free thinking adversary with similar capabilities in a force on force environment.

No Slack, 2-327IN @NoSlackBN...

 If it ain’t raining, we ain’t training.  BCO conducts Squad Live Fire. Go Bayonets!

Kazakhstan MOD testing the Otokar ARMA 8x8

 

EOS Defence Systems R800 remote weapon station mounted on a Al Jasoor Rabdan 8x8 armored infantry fighting vehicle

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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

The Changing Of The Guard by Simon Akam is an uncomfortable read...via The Daily Mail

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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.

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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?

Fast forward to 2030 and what would he say?

US Army combat engineers were magnificent in breaching the enemy barriers for the Marines.

US Army tanks provided outstanding firesupport for their light armored vehicles and the transportation of their forces by Army mech in Bradleys and Strykers were key to the speed of their assault.

The Marines did put up an impressive amount of fire in the form of MLRS but was heavily augmented by Army artillery cannons, MLRS and ATAMS which had much more staying power.

Marine Air did yeoman's work in providing rides to SOCOM, the 101st and 82nd for their deep air assault into enemy territory and Army aviation was happy to have them along to help.

But it was mainly in the role of logistics in which I want to sing the praises of the Marine Corps.  The EABO really kept our units supplied and on the move.  The Marine Corps might not have had much of a role in the actual assault but they along with transportation command really were key enablers in this US Army/Allied Force assault.