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Nov 10, 2022 0:30:34 GMT
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Post by herosrest on Nov 10, 2022 0:30:34 GMT
wow... Little 'w'.
Putin's borzoi in U just got fragged.
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WaM
Nov 10, 2022 0:46:10 GMT
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Post by herosrest on Nov 10, 2022 0:46:10 GMT
With the Putin Putsch sorted there's just the minor pecadillo of whether or not to let Iran nuke Saudi. Tough one is this - which is doing more harm. Sunni or Shite.
God bless and grow up.
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WaM
Dec 9, 2022 10:44:08 GMT
Post by herosrest on Dec 9, 2022 10:44:08 GMT
The current strategy employed by Russia against Ukraine is destruction of energy infrastructure to impair logistics supplying the war effort besides undermining civilian morale through winter.
Until Ukraine can respond in kind against Russian energy infrastructure, logistics is key to....... everything across both sides of the conflict.
I offer this topic, as the assessment it was in April, when it was apparent a long war was in prospect and 5,000 years of military campaigning has not altered the basic premise of organised warfare.
WAM does. This system could have been built and deployed by now, in the thousands to have transformed logistics across Ukraine. The technology is of motor vehicle mass production - you simply upgrade a truck production line. Bish, bash bosh - General purpose utility supply vehicle which does not require roads and bridges, or crews.
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WaM
Dec 9, 2022 15:47:22 GMT
Post by quincannon on Dec 9, 2022 15:47:22 GMT
You almost sound like the U S Army advocates of 1962-63, where those involved in the airmobile efforts had as their primary mantra to free the Army from the tyranny of terrain. It was not a bad idea then, nor is it today. Unfortunately, the far reaching plans of the Army, particularly the advocacy of an air transport brigade designed for the logistical support of the 11th Air Assault Division (the 10th Trans Brigade) fell afoul of the USAF, and the whole concept of airmobile warfare both, tactical and logistical, was stillborn in part, the most important part - logistics. The lesson there is never trust the Air Force, or any outside force for that matter to provide and control those things that are necessary for the functioning of your own force. The new Army helicopter, the Bell V280 Valor, that can fly like an airplane, and land and take off like a conventional helicopter may help, ten years from now when it is fully tested and in the hands of the troops, but it ain't here now, and now is when it is needed. The Valor will replace the Blackhawk and Apache in the troop carrier and attack roles, but we still need a small nimble scout, and a dedicated logistical transport, like the old DeHavilland Caribou
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Jan 27, 2023 14:41:01 GMT
Post by herosrest on Jan 27, 2023 14:41:01 GMT
Freedom is worth fighting for as also your right to par three.... Interservice rivalries shape interesting problems and at the top the only way to sort it out is with experts. Airforce want to stand off and that should have opened the gate for a flood of innovation. Soldiers win the wars and maintain the peace. As we are learning again and exampled since Hitler demonstrated Guernica - bombing civilians doesn't work. Destroying infrastructure is a huge problem for Ukraine which will tax ingenuity and logistics over time. Sending M1's is a bit silly. Just lend Zelensky 320 AH-64's. Apache's along the Dneiper. Empty weight 12,000lbs. Lend Lease - bill Russia
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Jan 27, 2023 15:25:10 GMT
Post by quincannon on Jan 27, 2023 15:25:10 GMT
How long do you think it takes to train an Apache pilot to the point where he can function and survive? Apaches are not the solution absent that two years training to gain proficiency.
Takes some time to train and become proficient on the Abrams or any other modern tank like the Leo, Challenger, and LeClerc, but not nearly as long as with the AH64. My concern is that they will try to rush these tanks into combat without the required time to train. That will not turn out well.
US or UK Apache drivers and you are on the mark HR. Air Cavalry, used properly, dominates, regardless of what Mike has to say. It's not what you have nearly as much as how you use what you have.
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Jan 28, 2023 19:25:33 GMT
Post by herosrest on Jan 28, 2023 19:25:33 GMT
Oddly, I ended up watching an item on TV about Apache crew effiency and competence. No KISSes............. Lu v you. How do you make an incredibly complicated equipment, simple? Hand it to a Ukrainian. All they wanted to do was fight. They would have as happily knocked down the Russians who invaded Poland, as the Germans who did it at the same time.
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Jan 28, 2023 23:12:53 GMT
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Post by herosrest on Jan 28, 2023 23:12:53 GMT
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Feb 1, 2023 19:27:58 GMT
Post by herosrest on Feb 1, 2023 19:27:58 GMT
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Feb 3, 2023 20:32:08 GMT
Post by yanmacca on Feb 3, 2023 20:32:08 GMT
This is a good clip this, but watch it right through as it is around 15 minutes. These guys do a lot of then and now stuff and find places from old WW2 photos.
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Post by miker on Feb 4, 2023 13:15:39 GMT
Tom,
Do I understand correctly that you own semiautomatic rifles but not an AR-15? If so, I fail to understand the difference.
One major problem is the congress does not regulate the unorganized militia. Standards should be established and tested. We don't allow people to drive without training why should we let them play with guns without training and regulation?
Gun rights are not like our other rights because the other rights don't kill people.
Unlike
Edit: rather people who do not follow the law kill other people and some who are not trained do too. Constitutional rights of course do not kill anyone. People who fail to realize their rights stop when the infringe on others.
Everyday of course, hundreds of thousands, even millions, of people behave well snd don’t bother anyone and use their weapons properly.
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WaM
Mar 2, 2023 20:57:40 GMT
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Post by herosrest on Mar 2, 2023 20:57:40 GMT
A year into what was going to be an artillery standoff with the aggressor throwing massed flesh and blood into prepared killing fields and demolished centre's of population.
Meanwhile, the 21st century is networking everything into grand plans. I do hope everyone remembers how that usually works out and taking 12 months in Ukraine on board, how unsustainable it all is.
WaM's an airborn jeep. It is uncrewed. It is launch and forget. It is as general purpose as the jeep and goes where told autonomously to deliver a ton of cargo and come home.
You can hang smart weapons on it. You can do recon. You can do stuff no one has dreamed up yet. You could swarm them. All the idea is, is a networked low cost, low maintenance, general purpose FedEx-UPS. Simples for about the cost of an F-150.
It simply makes thesupply chain airmobile and sustainable. That opportunity never existed. Helicopters cannot do it. Too big, expensive and few and high value.
How many missions to resupply an M1?
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WaM
Mar 4, 2023 9:57:45 GMT
Post by herosrest on Mar 4, 2023 9:57:45 GMT
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Mar 4, 2023 12:30:32 GMT
Post by miker on Mar 4, 2023 12:30:32 GMT
Well. This guy loses me in the first sentence. We clearly have failed in our operations over the past 20 years, nor since Desert Storm have we moved sizeable forces overseas.
Having said that, we need a lot of improvement.
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Mar 4, 2023 15:51:10 GMT
Post by quincannon on Mar 4, 2023 15:51:10 GMT
Another example of us thinking we are better than we are. That kind of crap for brains thinking is going to get us all killed if it persists. You are only as good as you are, not as good as you were, nor nearly as good as you could be if you tried harder, and spent some money to make your dreams come true.
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