Open Comment Post. 2 Nov 24

 

Weekend reading material...

 The news and info of interests goes thru ebbs and flows.  Sometimes there is nothing.  Other times its off the chain.  This is a time of plenty.  Check out the articles below if you get bored and need some good reading...Personally I found them all VERY interesting.  Hope you do too...

The Marine Corps and Army Must Integrate Armor in Amphibious Ops

“Goodbye Mr. President”: History Shows How EABO Can Go Wrong

MarSOC Marines Are Still Marines

I found this particular article a bit surprising.  I don't know how it is now but my little time with MARSOC gave me the impression that they wanted NOTHING to do with the Marine Corps and just wanted to be all SOCOM all the time.  Moves recently (like adopting Marine Corps type uniforms) makes me wonder what's going on behind the scenes. 

Russia gave US the sonar signature of Yasen-class Kazan submarine

Compass Points - Broken Window Theory

Compass Points - Bright Future

Open Comment Post. 1 Nov 24

 

Can you believe this is a sign on a freaking church? A CHURCH!!! No wonder belief is going down. So many churches are involved in everything except what they're supposed to be doing.  Am I alone or does that sign give the vibe that Negro is not the "N" word they actually wanted to use?

Life goes from awesome to shitty in seconds...via Army Reddit

Going through it.
byu/TheOGltG inarmy

Didn't post this for any other reason except to let many of my readers know how lucky they are. This soldier's life went from awesome to shitty in an eyeblink. I wish him well and this serves as a reminder. Enjoy the ride. That dude is coming for us all...

The globalist want us in the Ukraine fight so bad they can taste it...

Key Republican Mike Turner said that the United States should take direct military action if Kim Jong-un's soldiers are indeed fighting on the Russian side in Ukraine.
byu/Prior-Case58 inLoveForUkraine

First rule of leadership in Congress is to offer your children for military service. We gotta do it. It's the only way to stop the lust for war that so many globalist on both sides of the political spectrum have. Why does N. Korea entering the war in Ukraine demand that we participate? The fixation on Europe is dooming our effort in the Pacific and allowing the Middle East to explode. The Ukraine crisis is a European problem and should be handled by the Europeans. They aren't third world countries and are fully capable of dealing with Russia.

WTI 1-25 CH-53 Heavy Lift...Photos by Cpl. Trent A. Henry

Low light ACV Operations aboard USS Somerset...Photos by Petty Officer 2nd Class Evan Diaz

Terrex s5

Open Comment Post. 27 Oct 24

WTI 1-25; B-Roll; CH-53K Heavy Lift...Video by Cpl. Nicholas Johnson

Open Comment Post. How is everyone seeing the fighting in Ukraine with an eye toward the coming winter...

Just want to see where everyone is at on this. Oh and note I'm not touching the fighting in the Middle East. As polarizing as the fight is in Ukraine, the one in the ME is beyond discussion...

Open Comment Post. 26 Oct 24

So Israel retaliates against Iran. YOU DO KNOW this is all fucking theater don't you???

 

USA, Pentagon:

President Biden is informed of what is happening and is closely monitoring developments. pic.twitter.com/K1efEMVlbg

— S p r i n t e r (@SprinterFamily) October 26, 2024

I don't know what games are being played with people's lives in the Middle East but I do know that games are being played. These strikes and counter strikes by Iran and Israel are nothing but theater. I have never seen a SERIOUS military force telegraph an attack as well as the Israelis have but here we are. If they were serious they would have taken out nuclear facilities. They didn't. If they wanted to cripple Iran's economy they would have gone after their oil and port facilities. They didn't. Hamas is dogshit and the Palestinian people are stupid as fuck for following them but the Palestinians should be advised. They're suffering for people that don't give a fuck. Its readily apparent that NONE of the Arab nations actually care and the same can be said of the Persians. They're a tool and Gaza is the battlefield.

Damn. Fines in a war zone....A neat road sign erected in Saint- Sauveur-le-Vicomte, France in July 1944.

 

I guess that's one way to make sure your soldiers don't lose their shit....glad to know officers had to pay more...

Are wheeled IFV/APC an evolutionary dead end???

 

Using this as an example only.  A Leopard MBT next to a Boxer IFV.

Have forces around the world globbed onto a concept just for shits and giggles and haven't actually looked at the combat performance of the thing?

I'm looking at the wheeled IFV trend.

The vehicles are freaking huge.  They're touted as having the same cross country performance of tracked vehicles cross country but most nations are still supplementing them with tracked IFVs.

From what I've seen (and I might be wrong) they're rather awkward in urban environments and the inability to skid steer is definitely a weak spot.

Their main advantage is in long range travel and higher ground clearance for added mine resistance.

But the threat has changed.  Mines are so "war on terror" and the next war will probably be a drone and direct/indirect fire fuck fest.

For US ground forces in particular its a huge risk to depend on wheels when maneuver is the mantra used by everyone.

Mobility kills or denied terrain due to the capability of your force is a deadly thing.

Ukraine pleads for more Western support as Russian drone and missile strikes intensify

 via bfbs forces news

A major Russian attack involving more than 100 drones against 15 Ukrainian regions has triggered a renewed call from Kyiv for more Western support to help defend the nation.

Multiple areas were targeted overnight by Russian forces, resulting in damage to commercial and residential buildings, with at least eight people being injured.

Despite shooting down 78 out of 105 Russian drones and jamming 23 others, President Volodymyr Zelensky insisted more help is still needed to protect Ukraine.

Here 

At what point is enough enough?  Is there no limit?  Should western nations empty out their war stock in order to support Ukraine?

Lamborghini Technical

Tunnel fights must be absolutely horrific...

 

The IDF releases footage of a Hezbollah tunnel system located by special forces during commando operations in southern Lebanon earlier this year, after the site was recently demolished.

Troops of the 769th "Hiram" Regional Brigade in recent weeks raided several Hezbollah sites… pic.twitter.com/mmP0ruklQd

— Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian (@manniefabian) October 24, 2024

Open Comment Post. 25 Oct 24

 

Open Comment Post. 22 Oct 24

 

via Mike Aces Flickr Page (FOLLOW THIS GUY!!)

“This is [a] drawing showing a large troop carrying Ithacus rocket being launched from the aft deck of a nuclear-powered carrier of the Enterprise class. Ithacus is a Douglas Aircraft Company concept of a rocket which could transport 1,200 troops or 132 tons of cargo at 17,000 mph to any point on earth. Another Ithacus is poised on the fore deck in this illustration. The carrier deck provides a floating launch pad.”

 

More specifically/accurately, per the always informative Astronautix website:

 

“The smaller "Ithacus Jr." version would have had an intercontinental cargo capability of 33.5t or 260 soldiers. Douglas proposed to launch two Ithacus Jr. vehicles from an Enterprise-class nuclear aircraft carrier, which also would have produced liquid oxygen and hydrogen propellant from seawater. Power for the electrolysis process would have been taken from the carrier's nuclear reactor: 112MW would have been required to produce 1150t of oxygen and 164t of hydrogen from 1470t of water. The rocketships would be stored inside hangars. One Ithacus Jr. would serve as a troop carrier while the other would deploy unmanned cargo to the same military site. The Ithacus Jr. vehicles would land 600 meters apart to deploy a fully armed group of 260 soldiers.”

 

At:

 

www.astronautix.com/i/ithacus.html

 

Even better, and it puts Mr. Bono’s concepts into orderly context. If anywhere near accurate, this is superlative actually:

 

“ROMBUS (Reusable Orbital Module-Booster & Utility Shuttle) was a reusable single-stage-to-orbit Vertical Take-Off Vertical Landing (VTOVL) launch vehicle proposed by Phil Bono of Douglas Aircraft Company in 1964.

 

Phil Bono’s ROMBUS is the basis for an entire family of aerospacecraft, including a single-stage inter-continental ballistic troop transport concept that could deliver 1,200 combat-ready men or 132 tons of equipment anywhere on Earth within 45 minutes.

 

Military versions of the aerospacecraft were dubbed ICARUS (Inter-Continental Aerospacecraft-Range-Unlimited-System) and subclasses of this design were Ithacus, a troop carrier, and Ithacus Jr., a military cargo and equipment transporter, which will be featured in an upcoming post.

 

The civilian aerospacecraft was Pegasus, a Saturn V-class intercontinental rocket capable of transporting 170-260 passengers and 13-33.5 tons of cargo at 25,000km/h, or 90 tons to a 560km Low Earth Orbit, or, alternately, transport 172 passengers and their luggage the 12,000 km from Vandenberg to Singapore in 39 minutes.”

 

At:

 

www.deviantart.com/william-black/art/Douglas-ROMBUS-47097...

Credit: William-Black/Deviant Art website

 

Gorgeous work by Ted Brown, a supremely talented, unheralded (as were most contractor artists of the time), and sadly/most likely, marginalized yet further.

Unfortunately, a huge LOSS this time. A wonderful tribute by Angela Carole Brown, Mr. Brown’s daughter, is no longer at the following website, which I’ve linked to in the past.

However, I believe/am hoping the current owner of the website is one in the same, as she mentions her father being an artist. Although there's no additional information provided regarding him or his contributions.

This one hurts, the wonderfully composed ‘obituary’ had additional photos, to include of the artist, and captured what the man was made of…basically, his legacy. AARGH:

 

www.angelacarolebrown.com/images/TedBrownObituary.pdf

 

See also, although not even the cS gurus knew who it was by, despite being prominently displayed - in the LCC at KSC - at least not as of 2012! It's probably no longer there, and I have a sinking feeling I won't like knowing where it now is. That is, if anyone even knows:

 

www.collectspace.com/ubb/Forum9/HTML/002211.html

Credit: collectSPACE website

 

thedisneyblog.com/2012/06/21/ksc-tour-now-has-rare-access...

Credit: The Disney Blog website

 

With sincerest gratitude Mr. Brown. Rest In Peace. I’m sorry.