❗️🇷🇺In Zhukovsky, we managed to photograph a promising single-engine fighter, which, apparently, Rostec plans to present on the first day of MAKS-2021.
— The RAGEX (@theragex) July 15, 2021
#Russia pic.twitter.com/Zsa0782DgD
Thursday, July 15, 2021
Russia's new single engine fighter spotted in the wild!
MAG-16 Max Readiness Flight
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| U.S. Marine Corps aircraft with Marine Aircraft Group (MAG) 16, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing (MAW), prepare to take off at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, California, July 14, 2021. In a dynamic display of combat power that featured over 40 aircraft in MAG-16’s mass flight, the aircraft showcased the tactical capabilities that 3rd MAW uses to remain lethal and deployable on a moment’s notice. |
Maybe a Ft Apache moment for a ground force but even that I would think would call for a different mix of aircraft. Strikers not rotary/tilt wings.
A quick article covering the M50 Ontos...perhaps the most "Marine" direct fire vehicle ever built...
Its a quick read with great pics (a few of them are here)...but what stood out to me was this quote...
One of the Marine officers leading the siege of the Citadel later identified the Ontos as “the most effective of all Marine supporting arms,” in the Battle of Hue.
Naval guns, Marine/Navy air, artillery, mortars...none of that was as effective in the Battle of Hue City as the M50 Ontos.
Direct fire support is currently out of style in the US Marine Corps.
Pity.
Not because its the end of tanks (which is a shame) but its a pity because when you have to re-learn lessons it usually comes with a heavy price.
Let's hope the US Army's Armor is around or else the New Marine Corps could face some very bad times.
WTF is going on in S. Africa???
Private security zooming around is one thing but I'm getting word that something fierce has broken out and the only ones talking about it are the preppers...and they're all taking notes on what could happen here.
It's crazy out there..WORLDWIDE! Be careful folks. An ill wind blows for some reason and we might be on the edge of the madness with more intense stuff to come.
US Army Electronic Warfare & Cyber mission explained...
#ArmyTech for the next battlefield.
— U.S. Army (@USArmy) July 15, 2021
The mission of Electronic Warfare and Cyber is to acquire integrated intelligence and cyber warfare capabilities that provide cyberspace superiority to enable freedom of maneuver on the battlefield.
🎥 ➡️ Chris Adornato#Modernization pic.twitter.com/sHSRM60ZFC
Navy cuts F-35C squadrons on carriers from two to one...while losing 6 planes in the downsizing...
Navy officials told a key House panel this week that by creating a different mix of aircraft in the future carrier air wing, the service could shave five years off the timetable to close the shortfall in its strike fighter aircraft inventory.By 2025, the Navy will have solved its strike fighter shortfall in part by changing how it will field the F-35C Lighting II Joint Strike Fighter. Instead of two squadrons per air wing with 10 tails, the Navy will now field a single squadron with 14 tails, Rear Adm. Andrew Loiselle, director of the Air Warfare Division (OPNAV/N98), told the House Armed Services subcommittee on tactical air and land forces on Tuesday. testified it was reducing F-35C Lightning II Joint Strike Fight from two to one squadron per air wing.
This is a wow story for me.
It sounds good to solve the fighter shortfall.
It sounds good to combine squadrons so you have less overhead, thereby driving efficiencies.
It even sounds good to at the end of it all to pull off a stealth (pun intended) cut to F-35C production while singing a happy song to Congress.
What concerns is that everything is getting smaller.
Less wings/aircraft acknowledges (at least in my mind) that we have a carrier surplus.
If we have a surplus (according to the accountants) then that means we can cut carriers.
We cut carriers then we're shrinking while China is growing.
I cheer the cuts to the F-35 but the implications for our overall stance against China (which is supposed to be the end all be all for the Pentagon...at least for now till another shiny ring shows up) is taking a beating.
That super big reconciliation bill the Dems are gonna pass don't help either.
Defense analyst were predicting a terrible 20's for the DoD. Its not gonna be terrible its gonna be savage and brutal.
I'm drinking this in but it looks like we're headed toward fortress America. The entire defense establishment is about to be ravaged and nothing can stop it.
Massive flooding in Germany...Army activated
JUST IN - Flood disaster in many parts of Germany. At least 20 dead, hundreds missing, tens of thousands displaced, hundreds of thousands without electricity, army mobilized for relief and rescue operations.pic.twitter.com/ITtjiNE1Bu
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U.S. Black Hawk made an emergency landing in the middle of the Romanian capital, Bucharest.
NEW - U.S. Black Hawk made an emergency landing in the middle of the Romanian capital, Bucharest. It knocked down 2 light poles. No injuries were reported.pic.twitter.com/7TJvgwtdJt
— Disclose.tv 🚨 (@disclosetv) July 15, 2021
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