Thursday, January 11, 2018
You have a bug problem? Rainier Arms has you covered with your own personal flame thrower!
Yeah.
Only in America.
I believe in "the right to bear arms" but as with anything people tend to get carried away instead of finding a decent stopping place.
Let's be honest. Any right carried too far becomes tyranny...any belief system carried to an extreme can become worship.
But putting my misgivings about freaking flamethrowers available for sale commercially to any Tom, Dick or Harry, I have to wonder why someone would spend so much money on such a weird novelty item. Regardless, check out the pics below
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Wednesday, January 10, 2018
Slaughterbots
Thanks to Gregory for the link!
Watch the film all the way thru folks! You'll thank me later!
You back?
Good.
They ended the video by saying the window to stop this future was closing rapidly. They were right. Only no one listened. This genie is out of the bottle and this makes nuclear warfare seem downright pleasant. Do you remember the horror expressed by the public with the Neutron Bomb scare? People were going batshit over the idea of a bomb that killed all the people but left the buildings and machinery intact.
This is just like that but version 2.0++.
Even worse? Weaponry proliferates. Once one nation has it others will seek to develop it. Then you will have certain groups buy the tech. Eventually it will make its way to criminals and/or terrorists.
Forget lasers...I want EMP generators!
Watch the film all the way thru folks! You'll thank me later!
You back?
Good.
They ended the video by saying the window to stop this future was closing rapidly. They were right. Only no one listened. This genie is out of the bottle and this makes nuclear warfare seem downright pleasant. Do you remember the horror expressed by the public with the Neutron Bomb scare? People were going batshit over the idea of a bomb that killed all the people but left the buildings and machinery intact.
This is just like that but version 2.0++.
Even worse? Weaponry proliferates. Once one nation has it others will seek to develop it. Then you will have certain groups buy the tech. Eventually it will make its way to criminals and/or terrorists.
Forget lasers...I want EMP generators!
Who the fuck is this Major General fucking Coffman?
Thanks to Mark A for the link!
CHECK THIS SHIT OUT via Military.com
"The 1,232nd lance corporal in [battalion landing team] 1/1 is not as important to me as what he's doing with C5I on that ship," he said, using the acronym for command, control, communications, computers, collaboration, and intelligence.Story here.
"The 1,230th to 1,252nd lance corporal on that ship and the last seven Humvees and other stuff, get rid of all of them. You mean I'm going to get some special ops, irregular warfare capability; you mean I'm going to get some enhanced [signals intelligence]; you mean I'm going to get some better radars; you mean I'm going to get fires to do some of my own killing?" Coffman said. "Thank you, Marines, for your interest in national service. We'll see you at the beach, or we'll get you there another way."
Wow.
This is why I don't encourage young men to join the Marine Corps.
This is a senior Marine Corps Officer talking and he is just taking pleasure in shitting on his Marines.
I wouldn't trust this bastard to walk my dog much less send a young man to fight under his leadership.
Major General fucking Coffman can suck a dick. If this is the current thinking of Marine Corps leadership then shut down the institution...it's had a great run but its obvious that the so called leaders we have today are NOT worthy of the sacrifice of our youth.
But the wall punching moment is the last portion I highlighted..."Thank you Marines for you interest in national service"?
WHO THE FUCK IS THIS MOTHERFUCKER TO TAKE SUCH A CAVALIER ATTITUDE WITH MEN AND WOMEN THAT DEDICATE THEIR LIVES TO SERVING THEIR COUNTRY BY ENLISTING IN THE MARINE CORPS?????
Fuck this bastard forever.
NOTE: Have no fear. I've made copies of this article. There will be no rewrite to cover up the arrogance expressed here.
The futurists got this one right. UAV swarms are a thing and we just saw the next evolution in warfare...
via The Drive.
Russia is advancing a conspiracy theory, without providing any evidence, which suggests a U.S. Navy P-8A Poseidon patrol plane may have been involved in an attack on its Khmeimim Air Base in Syria. The incident has been highly embarrassing for Russian authorities, coming after President Vladimir Putin declared total victory over terrorists in the country, and the Kremlin is increasingly insistent that it could not have occurred without direct foreign support.Story here.
I can't stand futurists. For the most part they're just a bunch of idiots that throw shit against the wall in the hopes that some of it sticks.
But I can't lie.
They got this one right.
I've heard talk of drone swarms and haven't been impressed.
Until now.
Forget all the posturing that you're seeing surrounding the news of the swarm attack on the Russian base. Forget all the talk of foreign assistance to make it happen (quite honestly I hope to GOD! that these primitives had help or the world just got several magnitudes more dangerous for us all!).
The stark reality is that this shit is real. I didn't post on this because of other things that I felt were more compelling stories but in hindsight this is a wakeup call. Check this out via Popular Mechanics...
At the close of the Global Fortune Forum in Guangzhou on Dec. 7, the event's hosts set a world record for the largest drone swarm ever deployed. For 9 minutes, 1,180 drones danced and blinked out an aerial show. It was cool. It was also an interesting look into the potential future of aviation.Story here.
According to an executive at Ehang UAVs, which provided the swarm, each drone cost $1,500, which is pretty darn cheap considering their capabilities. Take, for instance, the datalink and software used. It lets more than 1,000 flying robots coordinate autonomously and synchronize movements, with a flight deviancy of a mere 2 centimeters horizontally and 1 centimeter vertically. If something goes wrong and a drone can't reach its programmed position, it automatically lands.
1000 drones? All flying in formation? Cheap as hell? Easily programmable?
Maybe I have a too active imagination but damn. This is the stuff that nightmares are made of.
SOCOM loads up on a futuristic tilt rotor airplane to conduct a deep raid to take out a high value target? Instead of launching hundreds of missiles they instead launch thousands of drones to kamikaze into the aircraft!
Same applies to a forward airfield, staging base....logistics depo....and that applies to basic drones that are available today (as we saw with the Russian experience).
What happens when the drones get smarter, have more endurance, can go faster but remain just as small?
Do we have radars that can detect low flying bird sized objects? Do we have weapon systems that can effectively engage them, yet are economical enough to actually use with a magazine capacity large enough to deal with huge numbers of them?
One other thing.
I know some fucker at HQMC is shouting at the ceiling saying that stupid bastard SNAFU! finally gets it.
Well sorta.
But the same problem applies in spades to dispersed units. How will a Company Landing Team deal with a swarm of 1000 drones? The problem remains. They're too small to effectively deal with potential trouble and once they're found, fixed in location by concentrated artillery barrages, they can be destroyed in place....only now the enemy won't have to risk manned aircraft or even expensive UAVs to do it.
Much to my surprise the futurists got this one right and I'm not happy about it. The future battlefield is scary as fuck now. We just got a small taste of it but most people are so busy chasing BS conspiracy theories (whether true or not) and missing the bigger issue.
We just saw the next evolution in warfare and most missed it.
Spike's Tactical and Pipe Hitters Union supporting Neo-Nazis????
Controversy has hit with the above poster.
What's being said? That PHU and Spike's Tactical support Neo-Nazis.
Where am I on this?
They fucked up.
They included Charlottesville and that yanked the covers off alot. Neo-Nazis got support from a large part of the gun community, militia movement and now a firearms & sportswear manufacturer .
If they wouldn't have included Charlottesville there would be no controversy. But they did and now they have to ride the wave.
What is there response? Well the pic above was posted yesterday and then posted the below pics today...
I get it.
You can't back down cause if you do you're gonna get run over.
Are they racists? I really don't think so. But like I said. They did fuck up badly.
The real question will be if the mainstream media picks up on this. If they do then it won't matter. Life will be rough in those two houses.
This might bear watching...not out of importance, but curiosity...
Military Arms has a review coming of the Ruger PC 9mm Carbine!
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I can't fucking wait to see Mac's review of this weapon! Haven't been excited about a new offering in awhile but this one has me lusting after it.
Still don't like that fore-end. Wonder why they made it a take down (was that really necessary?). And that scout rifle type sight setup irks me to no end (really dude...everyone runs sometype of optic these days!).
But still...I'm intrigued!
A run of 200 CH-53Ks will generate more revenue than the Black Hawk...
via Rotor and Wing.
Sikorsky is about to become disrupted by its own product. Andreas Bernhard, chief engineer on the Sikorsky CH-53K, said during American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics’ (AIAA) SciTech Forum in Kissimmee, Florida, that in the 2020s, the Black Hawk would no longer be the manufacturer’s main product.Story here.
“Since 1974, Sikorsky has been a Black Hawk company,” Bernhard said. “In the 2020s, Sikorsky will generate more revenue with the CH-53K than it will with the Black Hawk. And hand-in-hand with that, we’re delivering a capability to our primary customer, the United States Marines, that is truly transformative and disruptive.”
Just plain wow. The title of the article was that the CH-53K would be disruptive to its own manufacturer.
I was intrigued.
Then I got pissed.
I wonder if this bubba realizes the implications of his words. The CH-53K is guaranteed to be 200 and probably less than 300 airplanes. More modern models of the Black Hawk will be bought when the CH-53K goes into production yet the small run will generate more revenue than the Black Hawk?
Many are excited by Neller and love the idea that he took a punch at the F-35 by saying that he could equip every Marine with gucci gear for the price of one of those airplanes.
But that's not even half the story.
The Marine Corps is spending an UNGODLY portion of its budget on aviation. We don't have one airplane that costs 100 million dollars each. We have 2. The F-35 and the CH-53K. We don't have one airplane that costs more than 75 million dollars each. We have 2. MV-22B and KC-130. As things stand the only affordable aircraft we operate is the AH-1Z and UH-1Y....and if the former Deputy Commandant for Aviation had his way the AH-1Z would be retired early in favor of a tilt wing unmanned monstrosity that can do close air support, escort, radar picket etc....who knows how much that will cost.
You want to impress?
Get the Marine Corps house in order. As things stand Marines aren't benefiting, the taxpayer is getting hosed, the only people jumping for joy are the stockholders in these companies.
I love Rep Gallagher! He knows how to start sh*t!
Best line @ #SNA2018 this morn fm @RepGallagher who is a Marine: A Surface Warfare Officer is “as I like to call them, the world’s most lethal Uber drivers” @USNavy @USMC He knows he’ll pay for that...— Colin Clark (@ColinDefense) January 10, 2018
Oh the Squiddies are not gonna like that at all! I can't wait to see the reactions to this. I don't know this Gallagher dude but I love anyone that can start shit with little to no effort.
Dude is definitely a Marine!
BAE has submitted its bid for Amphibious Combat Vehicle downselect!
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WTF happened to Russian warplanes at the Hmeymim airbase? What is the truth?
Yeah I wasn't ignoring the story. Just waiting for clarification.
Think about what we allegedly saw here. A swarm attack by commercially available drones on a major installation that supposedly caused destruction to frontline Russian aircraft?
If I have to hit you with all the questions this raises then you're not paying attention.
But the biggest of them is how were terrorists able to conduct such a strike? How were they able to coordinate their activities beyond line of sight?
And of course there is the really big question.
How were they able to do this without help?
The question remains. What the Fuck happened to Russian warplanes at Hmeymim airbase!
Y-20 is in service with Western Theater Command.
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| China has announced that a batch of at least five Y-20 jet transport aircraft have been put into service by the Western Theater Command. While the Y-20 officially entered service in 2016, this is first time so many were seen together. |
Ya know what annoys? We could use that jet for our operations.
You know what annoys more? The Chinese would probably sell us a few too.
Some are happy with this statement by Neller....I still think we need a Ground Combat Advocate wearing stars....
Thanks to Mark A. for the link!
via Military.com
But with major Marine Corps investments for new rotary-wing and fixed-wing aviation platforms well underway, cost may not be the obstacle it once was for the service. The commandant signaled his plan to invest heavily in the infantry when speaking with deployed Marines during his yearly Christmas tour.Story here.
The Marines' new 5th-generation fighter, the F-35B Joint Strike Fighter, costs roughly $100 million per copy, Neller told troops at one of a dozen town hall-style addresses he gave in the span of seven days in late December.
"I could kit out every grunt in the Marine Corps with the coolest s*** head-to-toe for $100 million," he said. "And I intend to do that."
For what else may be coming for the infantry, look to the "Über Squad," an experiment started this year by Wade.
This summer, the 13-Marine unit from 1st Battalion, 6th Marines, was kitted out with M27s, suppressors, and high-tech Ops-Core helmets borrowed from Marine Corps Special Operations Command that feature built-in hearing protection, but also magnify other sounds to improve situational awareness.
The Marines used light MARSOC body armor and advanced AN/PVS-31A night vision devices. They also got 60-round Magpul drums, allowing them to increase the amount of ammunition they carried.
Wade said that the high-end night vision equipment had proved its worth recently during a nighttime exercise at Marine Corps Air-Ground Combat Center 29 Palms, California.
"That rifle squad moved faster at night than the live fire-safety chaperones," he said. "[The Über Squad moved too fast for them to keep up because they had better night vision goggles."
Ok. Full disclosure. The M27 is cool but the M16A5 would have been much cooler still.
Additionally do you get the force of connection with this announcement?
It was made days after it was announced that the Assaultman was being done away with.
I consider this a cleansing statement...an attempt to refurbish his reputation, after making a horrendous decision to back a concept that no one understands and apparently no one can explain (taking away Infantry boatspaces to give to cyber).
The fact remains. The Ground Combat Element has no advocate. Every Marine General is now an aviation advocate and the spending inside the Corps reflects that.
In essence there is no balance. No one making a pitch for the ground force.
Aviation has the Commandant and the Deputy Commandant. Logistics has the same.
But there is no one to speak for the GCE, and this little pitch done at town halls don't change that fact.
I remain unimpressed.
DF-16 puts the US Marine Corps Base on Okinawa within striking distance
via Sputnik
The DF-16, first unveiled to the public in 2015, can travel about 625 miles and has been reported to be as accurate as a cruise missile, Chinese military observers have said. The mobile-launched ballistic missiles could theoretically be launched from anywhere on China's mainland, one of China's missile shelters in the South China Sea, or even an aircraft carrier.Story here.
The DF-16, which can carry up to three nuclear warheads, puts the US Marine Corps Base on Okinawa within striking distance, as well as Japanese islands, Taiwan and the Philippines. Just last month, a minister with the Chinese Embassy to the US said the PLA would initiate Taiwan's reunification with mainland China through "military force" if the US follows through with plans to send an aircraft carrier to Taiwan to make a port call.
Tuesday, January 09, 2018
Navy tests new joint-air-to-ground missile on AH-1Z helicopter
NAVAIR Press Release.
Naval Air Station, Patuxent River, Md. – The Navy successfully completed its first Joint Air-to-Ground Missile (JAGM) flight test on the AH-1Z helicopter Dec.5 at Patuxent River.
During the flight, aircrew aboard the AH-1Z navigated the missile through various operational modes and exercised its active seeker to search and/or acquire targets, demonstrating its compatibility with the aircraft.
"Initial results from the flight indicate the missile performed as planned,” said Liam Cosgrove, JAGM flight test lead. “We will continue to conduct a series of tests to prepare for live fire testing of the JAGM off the AH-1Z scheduled for early this year.”
JAGM, a joint program with the Army, is a precision-guided munition for use against high value stationary, moving, and relocatable land and maritime targets. It utilizes a multi-mode seeker to provide targeting day or night in adverse weather, battlefield obscured conditions and against a variety of countermeasures.
“This missile will provide increased lethality and better targeting capabilities, beyond the Hellfire’s laser point designating capability that the AH-1Z currently has in theater today,” said Capt. Mitch Commerford, Direct and Time Sensitive Strike (PMA-242) program manager.
JAGM is managed by the Program Executive Office for Missiles and Space, Redstone Arsenal, Alabama. It will initially be employed on the AH-64 Apache and Marine Corps’ AH-1Z helicopters and is compatible with any aircraft that can carry Hellfire missiles. The Army will will complete a 48 shot test matrix by May 2018 on AH-64 Apache aircraft in support of Milestone C.
Chinese barbarity that supporters. 5th columnist in the US and the business community loves to ignore...
via Cdr Salamander Blog.
"Students understood they were given one hour to leave square but after five minutes [armored personnel carriers] APCs attacked," the cable said. "Students linked arms but were mown down, including soldiers."----------
"APCs then ran over bodies time and time again to make "pie" and remains collected by bulldozer. Remains incinerated and then hosed down drains," it said.
The cable, which described the 27th Army as illiterate "primitives" from the northern province of Shanxi, commanded by the nephew of then Chinese President Yang Shangkun, said the heavily armed troops were kept without news for 10 days and told they were to take part in a military exercise.
At Muxidi, "the enraged masses followed ignoring machine-gun fire to next battle at Liubukou," the description reads, in a reference to a district of Beijing just west of Tiananmen Square.Read the whole thing at Cdr Salamander's house.
"APCs ran over troops and civilians at 65 kilometers/hour in same manner," it said. "One APC crashed and driver (a captain) got out and was taken by crowd to hospital. He is now deranged and demands death for his atrocities."
It said the 27th Army was ordered to spare no-one, and "shot wounded Shenyang soldiers."
In Liubukou, "four wounded girl students begged for their lives but were bayoneted," it said.
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"1,000 survivors were told they could escape via Zhengyi Lu but were then mown down by specially prepared machine-gun positions," it says, adding that any ambulances trying to rescue the wounded were also attacked and their crews killed.
"With medical crew dead, wounded driver attempted to ram attackers but was blown to pieces with anti-tank weapon," it says. "In further attack APCs caught up with Shenyang military straggler trucks, rammed and overturned them and ran over troops."
It said a 27th Army officer was shot dead by his own troops, "apparently because he faltered."
Rant Time!
Do you not get the force of connection? Do you not see the real and present danger here?
Chinese troops used APCs and Tanks to run down its citizens until they turned into paste.
Chinese troops setup machinegun positions to attack medical personnel that rushed to aid the wounded.
Chinese troops used anti-tank weapons to destroy ambulances that rushed to aid the injured.
Finally.....
Chinese troops SHOT AND KILLED THEIR COMMANDER. Not because he was a fuck wit and led into kill box after kill box, but because he faltered when witnessing the slaughter that his men were engaged in!
RUSSIA IS NOT THE THREAT!
You think the Islamic Radicals are hard?
You think that they are filled with a fervor that defies logic and understanding?
Take another look at the Chinese military!
I did a blog post where the Chinese President called for his men to embrace hardship and to do whatever necessary to win (paraphrasing). In the US in front of most troops that would be shrugged off. Another politician urging troops to do the hard thing while they sit back in luxury.
In China?
They believe that shit.
Even worse?
The population believes that shit and so do the 5th columnist inside the US that we welcome with open arms. They might carry the badge of US citizen but their hearts belong to the Red Dragon...Communist China.
Now to my fear.
A Company Landing Team is deployed in a position at the far end of a short limb and they're found, fixed and destroyed in place by a Chinese Mech Infantry Combined Arms Battalion.
After seeing what they did to their own citizens do you believe that they would be treated more humanely than if the same happened in the Middle East? The only difference is that there would be no video evidence. They would be savaged, murdered and left in shallow graves with a few hundred white phosphorous grenades thrown in to destroy the evidence.
I say again and you need to wrap your mind around it.
China is the threat. Russia? We can work with them. China wants to creep into our house and kill us in our sleep.
Monday, January 08, 2018
You have my permission to read USNI Blog for this ONE article by SgtMajor Burke
Not gonna lie to you.
USNI Blog makes me want to punch walls, commit violence and to ensure that the grass is fertilized with the blood of my enemies.
They engaged in what I consider REPREHENSIBLE activity a couple of years ago and I will never ever fucking forgive them. My fantasy about rampaging thru the building and laying waste to it is just that a fantasy.
I'll let those that came before them to settle accounts for their treachery.
But every once in a while, much to my amazement, you can have wayward organization TRY and get their bearings back.
I don't believe that's happening for even ONE SECOND at USNI Blog, but nevertheless YOU MUST READ THIS ARTICLE by SgtMajor Burke.
It's pretty damn inspiring and what I expect from a Marine Corps leader. Check it out here.
USNI Blog makes me want to punch walls, commit violence and to ensure that the grass is fertilized with the blood of my enemies.
They engaged in what I consider REPREHENSIBLE activity a couple of years ago and I will never ever fucking forgive them. My fantasy about rampaging thru the building and laying waste to it is just that a fantasy.
I'll let those that came before them to settle accounts for their treachery.
But every once in a while, much to my amazement, you can have wayward organization TRY and get their bearings back.
I don't believe that's happening for even ONE SECOND at USNI Blog, but nevertheless YOU MUST READ THIS ARTICLE by SgtMajor Burke.
It's pretty damn inspiring and what I expect from a Marine Corps leader. Check it out here.
Saudi F-15 downed in Yemen...
Thanks to Drinas for the link!
Just plain wow.
This fight deserves some major league study and should send shock waves thru HQ Marine Corps and Special Operations Command.
The ISIS effect is spreading. We're seeing groups adopting to successfully fight nation states.
The days of the SEAL or Special Forces Team are over. The future? You better be willing to send REINFORCED Ranger or MARSOC Company (probably a couple of companies if not the Battalion) along with sufficient air and artillery support to do a raid, much less a stand up fight.
— Yemen Observer (@YemeniObserv) January 8, 2018
Just plain wow.
This fight deserves some major league study and should send shock waves thru HQ Marine Corps and Special Operations Command.
The ISIS effect is spreading. We're seeing groups adopting to successfully fight nation states.
The days of the SEAL or Special Forces Team are over. The future? You better be willing to send REINFORCED Ranger or MARSOC Company (probably a couple of companies if not the Battalion) along with sufficient air and artillery support to do a raid, much less a stand up fight.
Marine Air in Okinawa is in turmoil!! Now an AH-1Z makes an emergency landing....
via Minneapolis Star.
A U.S. military helicopter made an emergency landing Monday in Japan's Okinawa islands, the second such incident in three days.Story here.
A Marine Corps AH-1 attack helicopter with two people aboard landed in a field at a waste disposal site in the town of Yomitan on Okinawa's main island, according to Japanese media reports. No injuries were reported.
Photos showed an apparently intact helicopter parked in a grassy area.
The U.S. side told police that a warning light had indicated a problem with the aircraft, public broadcaster NHK said.
The Marines said in a statement that the helicopter had been repaired and would return to base as quickly as possible.
"We remain committed to both the safety of our neighbors in the communities in which we live and the safety of the Marines who fly on our aircraft," it said.
An air centric Marine Corps is JUST NOT DOABLE! They will continue to wear out men and machines in the push to make the impossible happen.
It's past time to return to a balanced force. Stop chasing dreams laid out by Think Tanks and start doing the work of protecting the nation!
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