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Jun 5, 2022 14:37:05 GMT
Post by herosrest on Jun 5, 2022 14:37:05 GMT
The Mongols conquered and destroyed the Khwarizm Empire from 1219 to 1221, and afterward Genghis Khan divided the army into two separate forces. He led his army on a forceful storm across Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India, destroying the region as punishment for the shah’s insulting actions. His other military force, led by his two top generals, Jebe and Subutai, marched their soldiers through Russia and the Caucasus. For the most part, the campaign was not to ruthlessly kill and destroy, but rather to subdue those in these lands by pillaging settlements and forcing the inhabitants to recognize Genghis Khan as the only universal ruler of the world. link
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Jun 5, 2022 15:04:01 GMT
Post by herosrest on Jun 5, 2022 15:04:01 GMT
War winning concepts - OBFoD - Overwhelming Battlefield Firepower on Demand - Whether Precision, smart or dumb, firepower munitions travel with or too engagement and are a complication of battlefield logistics. A true and enduring difficulty at front of every battlefield commanders thoughts and actions.What if.......? this difficulty (referred to as a ball & chain) was removed from equations of offensive and defensive contact. Can it be done? Over to New Jersey - 'Joo betcha by jolly wow!' twitter.com/i/status/1532243218003263490It's a fuel equation. At 10 miles per minute, range 100 miles, response time is 10 minutes. Lovely how those numbers do the 'duck'. Imperial or metric? Anysways, a 600mph response from 100 miles takes 10 minutes. You are targeting a history. The response is required far closer to targets and is therefore on hand with the battle force for immedite response. Is there today a solution to encumbering front line forces with the heavy equipment and logistics of fire superiority? Yes there is. Artillery is past sell by date! with WaM.
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Jun 5, 2022 18:26:38 GMT
Post by herosrest on Jun 5, 2022 18:26:38 GMT
WaM delivery concept. Mallet A Quad rotor lifting system as imaged enclosed in a stealth airframe able to lift smart munitions on demand from parking lots behind the battle line. They 'pop up' to dispense highly accurate munitions on demand or at will, and return to a supply base far beyond all risk - to re-arm. Pop up and WaM. There's the cost equation. Payload over range to base. They loiter on the ground. Pop-up to engage. Fly home to re-arm and return. In 1944, it was called Cab-bank in piloted P-47s. Things have moved on to autonomous. Four lift rotors enclosed in a stealthed lifting body containing fuel, coms and weapons. A swarm shutteling back and forth to maintain constant threat and support of frontline deployments and defences. Whack a Mole.
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Jun 5, 2022 18:59:32 GMT
Post by quincannon on Jun 5, 2022 18:59:32 GMT
You are an amazing man HR. Amazing, a futurest not inhibited by tradition. Good on you.
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Jun 5, 2022 19:04:10 GMT
Post by herosrest on Jun 5, 2022 19:04:10 GMT
Na....... Elizabeth II is amazing. Imagine a small truck production line and maybe 1500 units per week. They would manage re-supply as well but the offensive capability is interesting. You keep your balls but lose the chains. Regards. link
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Jun 5, 2022 22:00:29 GMT
Post by quincannon on Jun 5, 2022 22:00:29 GMT
Actually the U S Army is currently in the process of fielding two vehicle types that are similart to the truck in the link. The idea is to give mobility to our light or lighter (than heavy) Infantry.
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Jun 6, 2022 1:19:39 GMT
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Post by herosrest on Jun 6, 2022 1:19:39 GMT
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Jun 7, 2022 17:00:07 GMT
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Post by herosrest on Jun 7, 2022 17:00:07 GMT
m.imdb.com/title/tt11357212/?ref_=m_ttep_ep_ep4Imagine an airborn Jeep and as numerous but unmanned. Useful payload for precision weaponry or logistics supply besides a plethora of mission roles. Mass produced. Eliminates need for roads trucks, helps and incredibly much besides. The sort of idea which is simply shot down because it turns practice on its head but it doesn't. It makes things simple. Precision munitions delivery is a game changer with the ability to swarm such units on demand. Artillery - defunct. Tanks are already having a harder and harder time surviving. Coming battlefields are precision only and that is missiles - small large and everywhere between. It has already happened.
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Jun 7, 2022 17:42:02 GMT
Post by herosrest on Jun 7, 2022 17:42:02 GMT
All thinking and inspiration with autonomous flight is centred on crewed or passenger carrying vehicles. That is not a part of WaM. The payload is weapons or supplies delivered unmanned. An example of current design - Crew not required. Just secure coms and nav. Loaded and targeted at base way, way back down the supply chain and sent off to do as told. Missile attack missions sit out in forest and field behind front lines until called on to pop up (zoom) launch and land. Instantly redeployable and returning home when rounds out. Up bubble Down bubble. The zoom extends missile range and aquisiton. The vehicle itself, if stealthed is all but undetectable - done right and unmanned. Manned gets too complicated. Build 1500 a week for a force of........ hmmmm..... 75k. Basic unit cost - peanuts.
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Jun 7, 2022 17:57:24 GMT
Post by quincannon on Jun 7, 2022 17:57:24 GMT
HR: Included in the new design proposal for U S Army division is a drone company in every brige. I would imagine it is quite similar to your thoughts on the matter.
Don't count out tanks. For ever countermeasure there will eventually be a counter-countermesure.
My best to you. Keep on thinking. c
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Jun 7, 2022 20:07:37 GMT
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Post by herosrest on Jun 7, 2022 20:07:37 GMT
lilium.com/jet This is interesting. The tank is established and is a primary target besides asset. Smart kill has only just begun. It was smart mortars in the early 1980's and all sorts since and they work but unit cost is a constraint. Countermeasures is its own game and active at levels from vehicle in the field to design refit and there is a vast investment. What will the M1 be replaced with? WaM is no way a tank. Weight of armour plate kills it but it can be stealthy. Everything evolves and i'm sure lots of energy is going into active defence of MBT's. Lazers maybe but they are their own problem. Germany has some going. Regards.
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Jun 8, 2022 14:15:29 GMT
Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2022 14:15:29 GMT
All things have vulnerabilities. The gun/armor race goes on and crosses dimensions. All these drones, smart weapons, and even the average soldier today is dependent upon satellites to drive his GPS and a communication system to connect it/him/her/whatever to its mates. These links are relatively easy to disrupt. ASATs are expensive now, but if directed energy weapons ever get to the point they can be fired with a "cartridge" of sorts releasing a pusle of energy at a target, the satellites etc. are all in danger. Even stealth effects can be overcome, example an ancient SA-6 taking down an F-117 because they figured out cell phone outages could track the plane. Excursion: I was laughing at the very "lethal" Air Defense System in Top Gun: Maverick. It was the even more ancient SA-3 which is radar guided and the F/A-18s countermeasures was to drop flares. They also carry chaff to mess up radar control, but they didn't show that. And then the SA-3 detonates when it is in close proximity to the flares. I was groaning in the theatre and my wife had to shush me. But the point is, the race, like the beat, goes on ... the beat goes on ... the beat goes on ... guns keep pounding a rhythm to the brain... the beat goes on... For what I still think is a fairly realistic picture of war in the far future, check out Hammer's Slammers on Amazon by my friend David Drake, based on his imagination and experience in the Black Horse Regiment in Viet Nam. There are a lot of things in what he wrote that we have today. Fusion powered tanks though, does seem very very very faaaaar off.
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Jun 9, 2022 19:45:14 GMT
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Post by herosrest on Jun 9, 2022 19:45:14 GMT
Neat concept vehicle theflighter.com/urban-aeronautics-cityhawk-evtol/Soldiers tend to avoid terminal activity unless they are special or highly motivated. Carrier strike capability as deployed to the Pacific in conjuction with land based air would have overwhelmed Axis airstrength which was increasingly focused against 8th Airforce. Yrs, the German army was a tough nut with effective fire superioty but overwhelmed by mass and airpower. There were more tanks than they could destroy and more soldiers than could be killed. Supply was the controlling factor. The assault on Southern France is very little known of for simple reasons. A strike as I indicated faced little serious opposotion from either Italian air or sea forces. The small boats were certainly effective weapon systems and...... You take them out. Landings where I suggested would have concentrated German minds wonderfully. A significant withdrawl from France would have happened in the blink of an eye. I tossed the concept into the ring to be different and whatever way youcontemplate the strategy it wins unless the invaders aren't interested in giving battle. The same is so with WaM and mass deployment of truck sized drones.
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Jun 9, 2022 20:27:34 GMT
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Post by herosrest on Jun 9, 2022 20:27:34 GMT
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Jun 17, 2022 8:36:14 GMT
Post by herosrest on Jun 17, 2022 8:36:14 GMT
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ryy-7tcZqC8This technology will transform battle and battlefields. Development is commercial, fractured and entirely focused (I said focus) on commercial gain, which is an unhelpfullly useless approach to bangs for bucks. Unit price needs to realise car production price levels because all things being equal, that is going to happen eventually. Therefore - eventually is the focus and a window of opportunity. Military budgets finance mass production technology? There's no need! Just give car manufacturers the incentive to design a militarily useful product. Payload, range and support costs. An autonomous airborne JEEP for the 2020's. At a million a copy, waste of time. At $50-60K you change............ everything. I mean, everything with a 1200-2000lbs payload. It doesn't need bells. It doesn't need whistles. It doesn't need crew. It doesn't need fancy electronics and in fact these can be podded onboard. It does not need specific roles since the mission electronics beyond basic resupply tasks, can be added and removed on demand. At $50k unit cost you get 20 per million bucks... which is quite a bang. A 2000lb payload will lift what offensive payload? Enough to ruin anyone's day.
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