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| "War is timeless, so are we." -Every godamm WWII Soviet armor. Yemeni rebels with a Czechoslovak-made SD-100 (Licensed version of the Su-100). The picture is taken less than a month ago. |
How Does the Militarization of Fitness Affect Your Workout?I read the above and then did a quick search through my memory to try and figure out when it happened.
In every way possible. It affects your health, happiness, the sustainability of your program, and your ability to reach your goals.
Do you believe any of the following are true?
*No pain, no gain. You have to suffer to get in shape.
*More is always more. Duh.
*Working out is not fun, but it's an obligation.
*If I don’t almost throw up, I’m holding back too much.
*You’re only as good as your last workout.
*I feel like a loser when I miss a workout.
If you answered yes, then you're at the “exercise is war” understanding of fitness. And that’s fine—if you want to wage war on your body, go ahead. Many of us go through that phase. I spent a decade there, with plenty of joint casualties and war stories to prove it. So I’m not belittling you—I’m just saying that this isn’t the only way to train, and it sure as heck isn’t sustainable. And if you can benefit from my experience and mistakes, that would be swell.
So the end of Frein's story is already clear, either he will die by cop, or be captured. So far he hasn't removed himself from the area of operations, didn't build a tribe or support network to escape and evade, and is now plastered on every BOLO (be on the look out) list of every law enforcement agency.AM is absolutely right of course. A quick "lessons learned" from both the Frein and Dorner affairs tells me one thing.
So the lesson to learn here is clear, if you are going to commit a crime don't fail at basic OPSEC. Don't write a manifesto. Don't leave shell casings in your vehicle. Don't use your cell phone. Don't keep trophies.
I don't know why people do these things, but I suspect it is because they want others to know of the rightness of their cause, of how they were so aggrieved that murder was justified, or some other nonsense.
The design of a new armored vehicle reconnaissance (VBR) for the Army will be developed from the next year in Minas Gerais. The new combat vehicle begins to be developed in 2015 and five years should be delivered the first cars. It is expected that the same line where today are manufactured the armored personnel transport medium wheel (VBPT-MR) Guarani, in Sete Lagoas is used. The Guarani hundredth produced in Minas will be delivered to the Army today.While availing the same platform, the vehicle will be faster, have reinforced armor and heavier artillery, thus enabling it to be used for reconnaissance. It will be the substitute of Cascavel, manufactured by Engesa from the 1970s and used in the Gulf War.Interesting on a couple of levels.
The car will use much of the parts and systems used in the first model. Among the adaptations to meet the new feature is the inclusion of a 105mm cannon, while the MR-VBTP the firepower of artillery was 30 mm or used machine guns point 50 and 762 . VBR will have capacity for three or four soldiers, the driver being the only occupant of the inside of the tower and the rest - the captain, and the shooter, if manual, a helper. Along the crew will be a basket which presents all the ammunition. The VBTP-MR has room for 11 people.
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The United States is close to a $2.5 billion deal with the United Arab Emirates that will send 4,569 mine-resistant vehicles to the Middle Eastern country as Washington wraps up its long war in Afghanistan.OK. This is pure speculation on my part and explains the title of this post.
The Pentagon announced the pending deal Friday. It calls for a foreign military sale of Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles, along with the necessary parts, equipment, training and logistical support.
“MRAPs,” as they are commonly known, are made by numerous manufacturers and have been commonly used in Iraq and Afghanistan to protect U.S. and coalition service members from improvised explosive devices buried in the roads. They were developed with a V-shaped armored hull to deflect bomb blasts.
The deal with the UAE, an Arab partner in airstrikes launched in Syria this week, calls for Washington to deliver mostly MaxxPro MRAPs made by Navistar Defense, a truck maker with headquarters in Lisle, Ill. Other principal contractors involved include BAE Systems of Sealy, Tex., and Oshkosh Defense in Oshkosh, Wis.
The vehicles would be refurbished and sold to the UAE as excess defense articles that were previously owned by the U.S. Army, officials said. Defense officials have said that they have been looking to sell excess MRAPs to partner nations for some time, but the scope of the deals were not clear.
"There are Marines that haven't been born yet that will ride in AAVs..."Now that you've digested that, check this out from the Washington Times...
The Marine Corps believes that improvements in wheeled vehicle technology will allow the private sector to build highly mobile troop carriers with the durability of armored amphibs. Upon completion, each ACV 1.1 will carry between 10 and 13 marines into battle, the website reported.
Now that the developmental phase for the new vehicle is complete, the Corps is ready to put out a formal Request For Proposal to industry in October, Military.com reported.
“The plan is to down select to two vendors. They will each build 16 vehicles. We will use those vehicles to demonstrate their capabilities and help inform the final requirements for ACV 1.2,” Col. Leimbach added.
The Brazilian Army is expected to purchase a new batch of VBTP-MR Guarani 6x6 amphibious armoured vehicles from Iveco Latin America.Amazing.
An order for 56 vehicles is scheduled to be finalised by early 2015 for about BRL200 million (USD83 million), which was allocated in Brazil's planned budged for 2015.
This new contract is to be awarded by the Logistics Command instead of by the army's Department of Science and Technology, which contracted for previous vehicle sets, as the project moves from a develop stage to procurement.
On 26 September the 100th vehicle was delivered to the army, with 128 vehicles purchased so far and scheduled to be completed by December 2014.
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Gary O’Brien, Capture Manager with General Dynamics Land – Systems Canada, explained the company would present a modified version of the Light Armored Vehicle (LAV) 6.0, similar to those in use by the Canadian military, O’Brien explained the vehicle combines LAV chassis with a purpose-built ACV demonstrator unit, has successfully completed initial testing by the USMC Amphibious Vehicle Test Branch.First I had never heard of the designation LAV 6.0 and a very big second is that I hadn't heard that the vehicle had completed test at AVTB.
The air campaign that began this week over Syria was carried out in what Lt. Gen. William Mayville, director of operations for the Joint Staff described as “passive” air defenses.Yeah, that's right.
Syria, however, is purported to possess decent air defenses –- some possibly integrated. And, we’ve not heard anything about Syrian air countering coalition assets. Arguably, this is a unique diplomatic backdrop for the debut of an asset designed at great cost to sneak in and out of air defenses and defeat any fighter that takes it on in the skies.
“What we were looking at was the effects we wanted to see on the target areas and what platforms in the region would be best suited to do that,” he said during a Sept. 23 briefing. “We had a large menu of targets to strike from, and then we chose from there. So, it's less the platform than it is the effects we seek, and then it's what platform can deliver those effects. That's really the job of the [combined air operations center].”Effects we seek?
As the U.S. expands its war against the Islamic State, the Army is preparing to deploy a division headquarters to Iraq.You can stick a fork in it.
Officials have not identified the division that will deploy — the first division headquarters to go to Iraq since the U.S. withdrawal in 2011.
An official announcement is expected in the coming days. But Army Chief of Staff Gen. Ray Odierno recently confirmed the Army “will send another division headquarters to Iraq to control what we’re doing there, a small headquarters.”
It’s unclear how many soldiers will be sent, or how long they will deploy. Division headquarters average between 100 and 500 soldiers and deploy for one year.
DALLAS, Sept. 23, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Lockheed Martin's [NYSE: LMT] Havoc 8x8 Armored Modular Vehicle successfully completed the Nevada Automotive Test Center's challenging Butte Mountain Trail course, one of the most severe off-road test tracks in the world. Teamed with Patria, Havoc is Lockheed Martin's entry in the U.S. Marine Corps' Amphibious Combat Vehicle (ACV) Phase I program.Read it all here.
The mile-long course has nearly 1,000 feet of elevation change and extremely rugged, rocky stretches that have damaged and disabled numerous vehicles over the years.
"Over the course of 10 days of testing, we performed more than 40 test runs up and down the mountain while demonstrating the vehicle's ride quality and crew comfort," said Scott Greene, vice president of Ground Vehicles at Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control. "Not once did the Havoc fail. And we were told numerous times that this course has stopped many vehicles over the years, including tanks."
The testing, funded and conducted by Lockheed Martin, was undertaken to validate the company's solution to the Marine Corps' need for a survivable and robust wheeled, amphibious vehicle. The Marine Corps will conduct its own series of automotive, amphibious and protection tests of 16 Havoc vehicles once the ACV program is under way. The program's Request for Proposal is expected in early 2015
"Our passengers were complementary of the Havoc's handling, ride quality, acceleration and braking throughout the demo while at a fully armored weight," said Patrick Shepherd, Havoc program manager at Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control. "The most highly appreciated design features they noticed were how quiet the vehicle interior was and the smoothness of the Havoc ride throughout the demonstration."
“Effective planning requires the use of the right force at the right place at the right time,” Dave Deptula, the man who ran the air war in Afghanistan, says in an email. “The F-22 is the world’s most advanced combat aircraft and has the ability to negate the effectiveness of threat air defense systems. That’s why it was used in this case. There was no “dry spell,” rather the previous operations in the permissive airspace of Iraq and Afghanistan did not require their capabilities.”Don't be fooled.
