Sunday, March 17, 2024

8 million dollar shoplifting ring busted...

Thanks to Ryan The Red for the link!
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Where is AFRICOM? Niger is about to kick us out of our base there...

We should have been all over this. AFRICOM should have been all over this. ISIS, AQ and Boko Haram are running stupid in the country? Seems like another place where SOCOM should have been having a field day (or maybe the shut down Snipers in the USMC). Is it me or does it seem like the whole world is on the verge of going boom lately.
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Get used to him. Putin won re-election. We're gonna have to deal with him...

 

He won re-election. Any hopes of regime collapse thru color revolution are over. We have to deal with him. Either turn off this war or be honest with the people of Europe and the US and decide to jump start a major regional war in Europe but stop "pussy footing" around.
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IDF's intel analysis chief to resign in June over October 7 failures

 via JP.com

IDF intelligence analysis chief Brig.-Gen. Amit Saar will resign his post once the IDF publishes its probe of the October 7 intelligence failures, set for June, he announced on Wednesday at a closed military intelligence conference.

Saar is the most senior Israeli official to date to give an exact time frame for when he will resign, in a show of responsibility, although military sources said he was due to finish his role anyway over the summer.

Previously, a mid-level IDF intelligence major resigned.

At higher levels, IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Herzi Halevi, intelligence chief Maj.-Gen. Aharon Haliva, and Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) head Ronen Bar all previously hinted several months ago that they would resign, but never gave a time frame and, since then, some have speculated that one or more of them may try to stay on given that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is pushing to stay on.

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The Senate Majority Leader was over the top in his call for Bibi to step aside and call for elections.

The optics are bad but not necessarily the message.

I truly believe that the Israeli Govt knew or was warned that the attack was coming but for some reason ignored them.

Additionally we all know that recovering the hostages is just a fig leaf to continue operations.  I get that only four to six Hamas battalions remain and that they can totally destroy the warfighting part of the govt with a final push, but they're playing on heart strings and I despise that.

In the grand scheme of things a Brig Gen is low hanging fruit for a catastrophe of this size.

Higher ups have to face accountability.


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French Foreign Legion Jungle Training just plain hits different...

 

It's been said many times on this blog by dudes that have been there and done that (not just checked out the pics like me) that the French and Brits run some kick ass jungle courses in S. America and in the Pacific. Wonder why we aren't rotating our guys thru there.
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Open Content Post. 17 Mar 24

 


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Hamas activists slams the aid deliveries of food being dropped in Gaza. Ungrateful, unworthy, and wasted aid to unappreciative people once again...

 

Amazing.

This son of a bitch actually said that this is hurting the Palestinians more than just letting them starve.

So be it.

No more airdrops.  For damn sure no port for Hamas.  What will be will be.

No matter what you do it will never be enough.  We should have learned that lesson long ago.

On Oct 7 Hamas sowed the wind.  Now they get the pleasure of reaping the whirlwind.
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Saturday, March 16, 2024

Haitian Gang Hype Video?

This HAS TO BE BULLSHIT!

If this is a Haitian gang and if this is the type of force that the Haitian Police are fighting (let's face it they have no military), then they're screwed.

Someone is funding these dudes and I'm talking about cartel type money.  Additionally while those aren't modern weapons those are all 308's.  They're punching thru most body armor that patrol is wearing on the streets of America (even if your strike plate holds you're probably gonna feel that shit for a month or two and will suffer in other medical ways I can't describe) so you know the Haitian police are meat on a plate.

IF and its a huge IF this is real then we need to rethink the shit happening in Haiti.

This is more than a happenstance jailbreak and general uprising by criminal elements.

I dare say this thing was planned, funded and is controlled.  Can't begin to say what the rational is behind this happening right now but we know it can't be good and is probably against the national interests of the US as the average man and woman sees it on the street.
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China is practicing precision drone flying...a job soon to be done by AI

Interesting isn't it. Cutting edge tech seems to be making the "old" version obsolete faster than lingering "legacy" tech. Drones are the hotness but the days of drone operators seem to be numbered. Meanwhile some of the old mundane stuff like the drudgery of airplane maintenance seems to hang on despite the latest advancements. I know they have predictive programs to tell when something will wear out but you get my meaning. We still need people to turn wrenches.
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Open Comment Post. (LATE) 16 Mar 24

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The time when vets went to war against the local sheriff...

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Friday, March 15, 2024

Gambit Unmanned Air Vehicle Series

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Turkey's Extreme M60 MBT Upgrade

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Open Comment Post. 15 Mar 24

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Boxer Bridge Layer

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Thursday, March 14, 2024

ACV basic land-driving skills

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Wednesday, March 13, 2024

And YOU thought the Army would send its best and brightest to command West Point, yet they come up with this steaming pile of BULLSHIT!

 

Its one of two things or both. Either the US Army fucked up by putting this guy in charge of West Point and/or future Army leaders are fucked up. Either or both. You decide. My rationale? With all the things that the Commanding Officer of the nation's premier academy has to deal with, for him to decide that THIS is the thing that needs to be changed tells me that he's more concerned with optics than he is with developing the next gen of officers. This alone should see him sent packing.
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Force Design 2030 can't make up for China's shipbuilding power...The US Navy and our Pacific strategy is behind the eight ball...

Read this entire thread.

We are currently outpaced by China's shipbuilding power and FD2030 won't do a thing to change the equation.

Even worse is the fact that adding in allied Navies in the region we're still lagging far behind.

Air power is the key.

A naval battle in the Pacific if it is to be won by the US will have to leverage the full capability of its air arm.  We don't have the pilots but the Navy needs to get back to the days of plugging 100 planes on each of its carriers.

Instead of tearing apart the Ground Combat Element the USMC should buy as many F-18's as it takes to plus up the carrier air wing to the max.

Medium range bombers (good on you USAF for the B-21) will have to carry a huge load in the "war" by launching long range missiles from distance to destroy as many ships as possible.

The Navy would do well to build a modern A-6 to get back into the long distance strike realm.

We can't build enough ships to keep up.

Long range medium bombers carrying a shit ton of anti-ship missiles with range is the only way.  Loyal wingmen that are sized like the manned medium bombers would be a nice plus.

At least on paper I just don't see how we match up to win a fight in the Pacific in the near term.  Longer term unless something radical happens it just gets worse.

Someone tell me I'm wrong.
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Tuesday, March 12, 2024

USMC budget request is out and my confusion intensifies...

Ok. Don't get this. Yeah I'm still harping on the ACV buy. THAT DOES NOT FIT WITH FD2030! Now they're buying a whole batch of upgunned versions? I really don't understand. Additionally (I didn't post it...you can read it here) they want to add a cannon to the recon vehicle they're buying!

That thing is gonna need a trailer!  Its gonna have a gun, launch loitering missiles, have communications that rival a command vehicle AND they're primes are both sporting masts on them!

With a rig that was supposed to be about the size of the legacy LAV, its gotta be approaching ACV or bigger with everything planned.

But that's besides the point.

A stand in force that relies on stealth and uses the ocean as its maneuver space (to such an extent that its asking the Navy for a new ship to get them around even in this time of tight budgets) has tossed away tanks but is switching to what amounts to IFVs?

For what purpose?

We've seen the SIF being touted as being viable from the Pacific to Northern Europe and I would assume if that's the case then they're probably convinced that the recon/counter recon mission is gonna be good for the Middle East & Africa too.

SO WHY ARE THEY PUSHING AHEAD WITH THE ACV AND ARV...ESPECIALLY UPGUNNED VERSIONS!

PS.  It was supposed to be out by now but I'm still waiting to see what this new, better, more capable MEU looks like.
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The US Army skipper headed to build the port for Hamas has no chill...they set sail to the Imperial March from Star Wars...

 

Chief Warrant Officers truly have NO FUCKS to give. The Army gave them command of ships? THAT WILL BE A CRUISE TO BE REMEMBERED!
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