Even Australia's bugs are fucked up....good people but a fucked up land...

Wait till it the camera pans left....
pic.twitter.com/J99arZIyE4

— Science girl (@gunsnrosesgirl3) April 10, 2024

Just burn the house to be sure. One? Hell a dozen? But a freaking battalion of bugs? Naw bro.

French Police neutralize a terrorist. Watch Europe. Things are brewing...especially in the south

The moment the French police send the usual suspect to Allah. https://t.co/hrFQEvSHaj pic.twitter.com/EgTMu435ne

— RadioGenoa (@RadioGenoa) April 10, 2024

Don't know if anyone here is paying attention but things are getting quite sporting in southern Europe. Citizens are becoming active. As usual, the innocent (both sides) will be the real victims but I get the sense (from far away and I admit I could be wrong) that many of those nations are on the verge of some pretty intense sectarian violence.

T-90M about to become Russia's primary MBT?

A video about UVZ has been released. They claim to have started mass production of the T-90M. Shots from workshop 130, where the assembly line for hull assembly is located. Also shots of modernization of the T-72B3, the 500th machine of the current order is shown.
It is obvious… pic.twitter.com/REFXweyaWX

— Andrei_bt (@AndreiBtvt) April 10, 2024

Late Open Comment Post. 10 Apr 24

LaBo 8x8 (better known as Boxer) with a 30mm manned (???) Lance turret

LaBo 8x8 with a 30mm manned Lance turret.
More than 100 LaBo are to be manufactured in Australia and exported to the German Army, making it Australia's largest overseas export of military equipment to Germany.
Manufacturing in Australia probably won't make this already very… pic.twitter.com/uYmbnENemi

— Junsupreme (@RyszardJonski) April 10, 2024

The USMC is subordinating itself to a service that does this????? Leave the sea battle to the Navy, the amphibious assault to the Marine Corps

 

Spot six differences between the two pictures pic.twitter.com/xq6LYj0g5y

— Task & Purpose (@TaskandPurpose) April 9, 2024

Marine Corps Gunny says that Force Design is still too heavy. Agree or disagree its a must read.

Agree or disagree THIS IS A MUST READ!

Force Design Is Still Too Heavy https://t.co/uqQkz8ngs1

— Solomon (@SnafuBlogspot) April 10, 2024

Ya know this argument keeps popping up. At least I know I've seen this "concept" promoted dozens of times over the last 30 years. To be quite honest it sounds like US Army Rangers. Since I'm no longer active many of the folks talking about this say my opinion is worthless. Ok. But I'll tell those bastards this. Are ya'll trying to reinvent the wheel? At the end of the day it comes down to this. The USMC is first and foremost an amphibious assault force. If you are giving up that mission then YOU ARE DUPLICATING what the Army does and does very well. Light Infantry? The US Army has divisions of those. Freaking divisions! You want to do the Ranger thing? First the Rangers ain't gonna give up that mission set. Second even if you try and muscle in on it then you're gonna play second fiddle. Look at Army leadership and you'll see mostly three things. You're gonna have served in the 82nd Airborne, one of the Ranger Battalions or maybe if you're an outlier in the 101st, 3rd ID or 10th Mountain.

Why are Marine Corps thinkers demanding that the USMC be everything but America's amphibious soldiers from the sea and/or shock troops?

One of the main failings of Force Design is that its the tail attempting to wag the dog.

In the Pacific fight the Navy will be the lead service, the Air Force close behind and the Army/Marine Corps praying for what should never happen and that's a ground war in that region.

Force Design seeks to influence the sea battle.  

You can't do that from shore. 

Its not possible.

The real problem is that the Navy hasn't actually formulated a plan.  Until they do then Force Design is useless.

Despite what a certain president said, you can't lead from behind and the USMC will NOT be the lead service in the sea fight.

Zelensky tours the frontlines...

 

I just have to wonder. Dude is at the frontlines without helmet and flakjacket? Really? Seriously? During broad daylight? So many lies, disinformation and such nonsense is floating around this conflict that instead of cheering I just have to wonder if its real.

VIDEO Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky inspected recently dug defensive fortifications in northeastern Kharkiv region Tuesday and issued his latest call for military aid as Russia intensified its aerial attacks on the area
🇺🇦 🇷🇺 pic.twitter.com/10MgZLJWCt

— AFP News Agency (@AFP) April 9, 2024

TEBER-35

 

 

Is it just me or does this thing look remarkably similar to the Kongsberg RT20?

FNSS (along with BAE) have been damn good to me.  I gotta ask about this and the capabilities built in.

They're damn good engineers so I'm leaning towards the form over function on this.  I kinda think of it like the F-22.  The S. Koreans and the Turks are both building next gen fighters.  They both look more similar to the F-22 than the F-35.  In short they're looking for similar performance (or as close as that can get) so they're arriving at the same design cues.

I'll ask and see if I can get an answer.

Late Open Comment Post. 9 Apr 24

 

Are you pagans done yet???

 The eclipse has passed and I'm so glad this MADE UP EXCITEMENT is over.

Ya'll do know in 2017 we had one and the only people that were "excited" by it were pagans.  School kids were looking at the damn thing on their papers as part of their science classes but NO ONE was rushing to "viewing areas".

Hate to say it but they just ran another experiment on the American people and so so so many failed.

They invented the hype on this thing.

They did an artificial stimulus to the economy based on one thing ... FOMO or fear of missing out.

Many bit on it.

An event of this type and you have people in tears?  This is the event that shows you how small we are in the universe?

False emoting to please the sun god.

Pagans rejoice.  You got a whole new flock of followers.  The crazy thing?  We're supposed to be at the height of our intellectual and scientific knowledge yet the crowd is moved just cause some freaks on TV that dance when ordered to, told you this was a big deal.

Rant over.  The moon is coming and I know alot of you have to get outside to pay your respects to the moon god.

Patriots stand up. Yeah Biden is losing the black vote big time....

 

All The Patriots Right Now! 🔥🔥🔥 pic.twitter.com/YJ6uRjtX3T

— I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 (@ImMeme0) April 7, 2024

Open Comment Post. 8 Apr 24

WTI 2-24: CH-53 Aircraft Day Battle Drills...Video by Lance Cpl. Maurion Moore

 

Marine Corps Warfighting Publication 8-10

Seems like one of those recruiting officers that Zelensky has should take this youngsters place...

🇺🇦 This is Vokha, a Ukrainian soldier with Down syndrome getting harassed and beat up by his "comrade".

What a sick world we live in. Fк Zelensky. pic.twitter.com/EXHUnOXdGB

— Spetsnaℤ 007 🇷🇺 (@Alex_Oloyede2) April 7, 2024

I blogged about this youngster getting sent to the front. I said it was a disgusting shame. I would hope someone with some juice makes a call to Ukrainians and gets this guy pulled off the line. As bad as seeing women on the frontlines (to me), this is much much worse. I hope he has a guardian angel. I hope someone in power in Ukraine has the BALLS to do the right thing.

Hope ain't high though.

Bad shit happens everyday to good people.

To be actual and factual I'm surprised and pleased to see him still alive.  I hope it stays that way.

This thing probably stinks to high heaven, its meat I wouldn't feed to a dog and I'd be careful eating the plants that sprout up from its return to the earth...

 

Holy shit.... what cartridge would I realistically need to drop something like this?
byu/StompinShaft inFirearms

I've killed a few sows and piglets with my AR. I think it would get the job done on this beast but I'd have to make sure I had my drum mag installed. If this is real (I believe it is) and not perspective, like most will claim when they see a big animal, then it would rival the famed HOGZILLA (every community has one) lurking near the bayou in my part of the world.

Protip.

Make sure you have a redneck friend.  They can show you some shit.  Got all the deer meat I can use till next season.  To top that I have a few that actually have pig farms (yeah I'm careful...never make a pig farmer mad...IYKYK) and TRAP wild pigs, pen them, feed them corn for a few months and then butcher them.

Long story short.

Pigs are a pest to farmers.  To those that can properly harvest them they're awesome.

Meat prices are high as hell, but nature can provide if you know/learn how to take advantage.

Sunday rant. Being an American overseas and getting kidnapped don't bring the response it once did.

 Ya know what has me spinning.

Once upon a time if you were an American and you got kidnapped overseas, you would see a full press - all of govt approach to get you home.

The CIA and FBI would be working overdrive to shake the trees. SOCOM would be spooled up and ready to stack bodies.  A USMC Marine Expeditionary Unit would be hovering offshore begging to land and get some.

Now?

We don't anymore.  To be even more blunt we can't.

We have so many people from so many war wracked nations around the globe that picked up "dual" citizenship (that needs to be a discussion one day...how the FUCK can you claim to be a citizen of two nations!) that the issue has at least in my mind become clouded.

I'm looking at the war between Hamas and Israel.

We have people from both sides claiming US citizenship as well as being citizens of the warring sides.

Even worse than all of the above?

We have enough issues at home as it is.  Now we're seeing fights from across the water affecting shit at home because of these dual citizens.

Sectarian violence has to follow at some time.

I don't know how ya'll roll but if you ain't seeing flashing warning signs then maybe you need to fix your glasses.

Open Comment Post. 7 Apr 24

 

A reader brought up what I think are missed opportunities and unintended consequences of our sanctions on Russia and their current linkage to China...

 Dude posted this on the blog so I feel free to post it for everyone to see instead of it being buried.  I think he brought up some very valid points about the current linkage between Russia and China.

Quite honestly I think the Biden Admin in their arrogance and lack of forethought set the stage for the lineups in the next major war.

via my reader.

Its in China's interest to give the Russians the upper hand, how much of an upper hand is debatable, I think they hope the Russians achieve total victory (as the latest US rant about Chinese providing satellite intel shows).

Most of the blame lies on western leadership. Prior to the war Russia was economically linked to the west, Russians generally liked the west due to common history, also Russia was strategically positioned to choke Chinese access to central asia, has a shitload of resources, has a lot of street cred with nations like India and Vietnam, and has even if kind of shitty, a large pacific fleet with some decent boomers. As Mearsheimer always argued, it was a primordial concern for the west, mainly the US, to bury the hatchet with the Ruskies and work to contain China. It was a very doable endeavour.

Now, 2024, Russian economy is very much linked to China (with nowhere to run), Russians are quite likely very resentful of us westerners (would love some S300V 4 update about it) due to all the moronic hate across europe in early 2022, plus a lot Russian libs fled Russia around that time. Russia still has a shitload of resources which they can sell via land routes to China, land routes we cant interdict, they still have a lot of street cred which will be used against us, and they still have a large fleet with some decent boomers that will either remain neutral or join the chinks. As I always say, I hope the mighty latvian and polish fleets decide to save the day because the campaign difficulty went from moderate to ultra hard.