Tuesday, July 28, 2026
Patria's 6x6. Why are European forces all over it?
This vehicle's rise makes me wonder. 8x8's were all the rage and suddenly, to me out of nowhere, we suddenly see this 6x6 taking center stage. Is it because 8x8's are too expensive to operate? Are they a maintenance hog? Whatever it is we now see this new trend and no one seems to know why.
We're doing ground uavs at the squad level wrong...
We are doing ground uavs so freaking wrong.
Let's see what's on the agenda. They're looking at ground uavs for medivac, resupply, load carrier, mine clearing, assault support etc...
What they aren't looking at ground uavs for is to kill drones...at least at the squad level. Even better if you're looking at the monster that is China then they should be tasked with killing air and ground drones!
Think about it.
We're so enamored with the clusterfuck that is the Ukraine/Russia war, so fascinated by the first person vids of aerial uavs hunting down individual soldiers that we're missing the bigger picture.
Killing an airborne threat with a rifle or shotgun?
If you're tired as fuck, wet and cold/hot, pulling bugs out of your groin area, looking out for booby traps/IEDs and scanning for enemy forces on the ground is more than enough work for the average Marine/Soldier.
Now you're adding in an aerial threat?
Get real. Packages should be built to take the load off the humans on the ground. To take away some of the pressure. To help them stay alive.
Turning to China, I can easily foresee them tossing 100 drones at an Infantry Squad. You think that rifle/shotgun fire is gonna be enough?
Someone at some level is smoking shit they shouldn't.
Bite the bullet.
If this threat is real and no other solutions are available (better solutions) then how about putting short range radars and a suitable cannon on an adequately sized ground uav and swatting those fucks from the sky before they hurt our people.
Open Comment Post & Thanks.
Quick thanks to everyone.
If you've been here a minute you know that posts slow down for a variety of reasons.
The latest reason is a surgery.
Not whining, not crying just explaining. We all get older and this last one really kicked my ass. Don't get it twisted. The surgery turned out fine. The Dr to my pleasant surprise was outstanding (young dude...I thought I was dealing with Doogie Howser MD).
Its the recovery from it.
Bro. Getting this shit fixed has wiped me the FUCK OUT! I know getting old sucks but man this is on a different level! Its like my body and father time teamed up and said they're tired of my bullshit and they decided its time to ge my mind right for me.
Anyway. I appreciate y'all. I think I got it going again and posting SHOULD resume.
Thanks again for y'alls patience.
Tuesday, July 21, 2026
No one is paying attention but Ukraine's number of drones/missiles intercepted makes no sense.
Are you seeing the number of drones and missiles that they've claimed to have intercepted? It makes no sense. Keeping a (very) loose count of the number of Patriot, SAMPT and ASTER missiles and their stockpile is damn near empty. Even Zelensky has claimed as much, going so far as to ask allies to draw from their own active stockpiles of Patriots to help.On the night of July 19, Russia launched a massive air attack. The aggressor used 166 air attack assets: 10 Zircon missiles, 25 Iskander-M/S-400 ballistic missiles, 3 Onyx anti-ship missiles, 3 Kh-59/Kh-69 guided air-to-surface missiles and 125 enemy UAVs.
— Ukrainian Air Force (@KpsZSU) July 19, 2026
Ukrainian air… pic.twitter.com/Jyw9vsBZtV
EVEN IF every one of those drones claimed was actually shot down and even IF those shot down was accomplished with gun/cannon fire it still doesn't explain how they Zircon, Iskander, M/S-400 and Onyx missiles were killed.
In other words I personally believe they're "misleading" (trying to be gentle here...the real word is LYING) the public on the success they're having.
We have officially entered the silly season of this war. No one is to be believed. Even if they're an eye witness to the event they only have a small snapshot of the war.
Face it people.
Our govts are lying to us all and we don't have enough information (open source) to even have a guess as to what's going on.
Monday, July 20, 2026
Andruil Industries "Thunder"
Thunder. The New Era of Attack Aviation. pic.twitter.com/cEGLBkwgRt
— Anduril Industries (@anduriltech) July 20, 2026
CAPINT tank with ASCALON turret...one ugly ass tank
This tank is like being in a bar. Drunk when you look from the front, sobered up when you look again from the side.KNDS France demonstrates CAPINT tank with ASCALON turret as testing advances on future armoured capability،The demonstration suggests that the unmanned turret is at least partly functional and not merely a mock-up. pic.twitter.com/laWD5rWLVP
— Valhalla (@ELMObrokenWings) July 5, 2026
As always never eat what the enemy leaves behind...matter of fact you'd be advised to not even fuck with it unless you're doing site exploitation
If the peer fight that the Pentagon wants so bad comes to be then you can bet the dangers of this kind of nonsense will only increase.ضابط في الجيش الروسي قام بفتح بعض الحلويات والشوكولاتة التي عُثر عليها في مناطق المعارك بأوكرانيا… وهذا ما وجده. pic.twitter.com/Mm4NJgwR5Z
— عائشة السيد - Aisha AlSayed (@aishaalsayed9) July 7, 2026
We're not even finished with Iran yet and they're already rolling out the case of bag Cuba!~
Trust and believe this talk by Rubio isn't coming out of nowhere. We've all seen the slow march, I dare say the ground laying for the US to bag Cuba. I must say for an administration and a President that said that he was the "no new war" guy, he sure seems to have a list of nations he wants to attack. The only thing that might even be SLIGHTLY funny about this whole thing is that I can't wait to hear how all the Israel haters to blame the Jews when we decide to launch an attack on Cuba. Sounds like a stretch? You're new here huh?For more than six decades, the Cuban regime has been the leading sponsor of radical leftism and Third Worldism in the United States.
— Secretary Marco Rubio (@SecRubio) July 20, 2026
The State Department is exposing the full history of Cuban espionage and subversion in our country.
The American people deserve to know.…
Saturday, July 18, 2026
Apparently all it took was for Iran to strike our Command & Control for us to get serious about air strikes...
One other note about this thing. Decapitation strikes are fool's gold. Want more? Forward basing is fool's gold. Sounds good on paper but limits your options. We knocked off Iran's leadership during the start of this fight and all it led to was chaos. Who do you negotiate with if you kill most of their established leadership? The answer is no one. You have a target entity that is struggling to find new leadership while you play diplomat at the UN or wherever else.🇮🇷🇺🇸The economic and military backbone of the Iranian regime has just been systematically severed—as catastrophic U.S. precision airstrikes completely isolate the country’s most vital maritime chokepoint, plunging Tehran into an existential crisis.
— NSTRIKE (@NSTRIKE1231) July 18, 2026
According to an explosive… pic.twitter.com/LWY62l0kwI
Next this forward basing is idiocy on steroids. Imagine going against a country that has a VERY robust missile capability (even more than Iran's) or has been stockpiling drones since the start of the Ukraine war? All those forward bases are is targets to be hit. Unmovable, very open targets that you can't at this time provide enough anti-air coverage to (thanks US Air Force....didn't ya'll promise air dominance?).
We need to have our forward basing consist of either being aboard ship or in the air. Preferably in the air. A couple of dozen 747's acting as flying command posts is a much better option than having our stuff wide open.
Even better would be a few long endurance, high flying, relatively fast UAVs that act as communication relays along with a constellation of sats so that our regional commands can be setup in the US and send out orders from an ocean away.
This is still good news for the corporations though. Those rebuilding contracts for Iran just went up in value.
War is a racket.
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