via Army Recognition (story here)
Between the offering from S. Korea and this beast, I am of the thought that some of the finest wheeled IFVs are being built in Asia.
They'll never release the results of all the competitions but I would luv to know how the evaluators stack these vehicles head to head.
FORGET BUDGET CONSIDERATIONS AND OTHER ADD-ONS...just straight up which is best. I'll even take different operating conditions but it would be nice to know the real deal.
The Bullets That Struck United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson Had 'Deny,' 'Defend,' and 'Depose' Written on Them"This is some ballsy shit. Either this dude is certifiably crazy with some "Dexter" attributes or this is a pro job designed to send messages and fuck with law enforcement. With some of the shit I'm seeing I put this at a 25% chance (at best) of them ever catching this dude. What people seem to forget is how hard it is to catch these guys. Does anyone remember the DC Sniper case? If they had stopped at 3 kills and knocked off then they never would have been caught. The sad fact is that most killers KNOW their target. If its random or the person is far removed from the victim then it gets substantially harder to link them.
byu/Bad-Umpire10 inDamnthatsinteresting
I don't know what to make of this. The gun handling skills are ok but nothing high speed. What caught my attention instead (the media is all over gun handling) is his reaction. Malfunctioning gun? Cleared it calmly. Has an actual human in his sights? Handled it calmly. No wasted or rushed movements. This doesn't seem like his first rodeo. Another thing that caught my attention is that during the shooting he's positioned where the cameras don't catch is face.Holy shit. Graphic…
— Geiger Capital (@Geiger_Capital) December 4, 2024
The United Healthcare CEO was killed by a legit hitman. Knew exactly where he would be within minutes and assassinated him with a silenced pistol.pic.twitter.com/ueipv1hE7h
Looks like the money laundering operation known as "aid to Ukraine" is about to dry up...at least for awhile. Throwing money at a problem never works. Ya got to have a plan. Unfortunately, no one has a plan for winning in Ukraine (however that might look) and the only thing they're capable of doing at the moment is to fight for fighting's sake. Fuck the lives of the troops on the ground. Fuck the destruction of the country. Fuck the broken people on both sides. The fighting must continue for fight's sake.BREAKING: No more funds for Zelensky. House Speaker Mike Johnson announces that Congress will not be green lighting any more money to Ukraine.
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) December 4, 2024
“We have a newly elected president and we're going to wait and take the new commander-in-chief's direction on all of that — so I don't… pic.twitter.com/kHirZruCEL
Just fucking wow.BREAKING: South Korean military announces the Martial Law will stay in place after a vote was held to reverse it.
— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) December 3, 2024
They can be seen breaking into the building where votes were being held.
There was a 190-0 vote to overturn the martial law declaration. pic.twitter.com/dX9P2AO1TT
I'm gonna hit you all with some uncomfortable truths.
The USMC has been wagging the Navy's tail in a big way when it comes to shipbuilding. It's been bitching and moaning to such an extent that it is at LEAST partially responsible for the mess that is Navy shipbuilding.
Want proof? Follow my bouncing ball....
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USS Zumwalt. The Marine Corps cried about a lack of naval guns to support our amphibious assaults. The USMC also whined about the lack of range that current guns had. The Navy tried to come up with a solution. The Zumwalt used leap ahead tech to try and provide a solution but in the end it was too much too soon and the gun were incapable of doing the job at a reasonable expense.
The funny sad thing?
Years later the Marine Corps got out of the amphibious assault business in everything but name. They're still trying to decide what to do with the Zumwalt.
USS Montford Point. When initially conceived the Marine Corps was whining about not having enough well decks to launch its AAVs and LCACs to conduct Ship To Objective Maneuver. The Navy put together its Expeditionary Transfer Dock.
After much fanfare, after much crowing the USMC changed course again. I believe (don't hold me to this, I'm doing it from memory), the focus changed from surface assault to being "air centric".
So what happened? This happened!
The very essence of the ship changed to being a lily pad for helos.
They turned into orphan children for awhile too. I remember exercises where they were being setup for use as mine countermeasure ships and finally pawned off on SOCOM for use as base ships.
These CONSTRUCTED but no one knew what to do with them ships had trouble finding their place in our force structure. With maintenance and MANNING turning into an issue the Navy is mothballing them.
The funny sad thing now? Now the Marine Corps is trying to claw them back saying they're needed for the Stand In Force!
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Expeditionary Fast Transport. This one is weird. The Marine Corps stated they needed ships to move Marines around the Pacific. Air travel was not capable of moving men and machines in an efficient way. In steps this puppy.
It was the hotness for awhile but guess what. Its time in the sun was short-lived. Now? Now they're being reclassed as hospital ships (a few) and God only knows what for the rest.' Instead of being high speed transports that fill that need the Marine Corps is moving toward Stern Landing ships. Why these ships can't be flexed into the role is beyond me but they are shallow draft capable and while I don't know the particulars of Force Design it seems like a missed opportunity. Several of these ships are going into mothballs too.
Oh and don't think the tail wagging has stopped.
The Marine Corps is complaining about the lack of amphibs. The Marine Corps is demanding Stern Landing Ships. The Marine Corps is demanding to be the controlling force in the naval fight because it has its Stand In Force taking hits and shooting a few missiles at Chinese vessels (the SIF makes no sense....zero out the SIF and buy a few more Burke Destroyers and you have a damn near 500% firepower improvement without risking American lives acting as a tripwire force that can actually kill enemy ships without being micro fragmented!).
My point and my complaint?
The Marine Corps has been gyrating from concept to concept, pushing the Navy to build ships to support those concepts and then is left holding the bag when the Marine Corps moves on to the next hot thing that hits the Commandant's desk.
I don't know how it happened but the Marine Corps is and has been suffering a crisis of leadership that is readily visible in the demands its placed on the Navy with regard to ships to support the amphibious force.
As much as I hate to say it, the Navy has been MORE THAN accommodating. The Navy has jumped thru hoops to support the Marine Corps.
Sadly the Marine Corps is at LEAST partially responsible for the mess that is Navy shipbuilding.
via DN
Facing every imaginable shortage, tens of thousands of Ukrainian troops, tired and bereft, have walked away from combat and front-line positions to slide into anonymity, according to soldiers, lawyers and Ukrainian officials. Entire units have abandoned their posts, leaving defensive lines vulnerable and accelerating territorial losses, according to military commanders and soldiers.
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More than 100,000 soldiers have been charged under Ukraine’s desertion laws since Russia invaded in February 2022, according to the country’s General Prosecutor’s Office.
Nearly half have gone AWOL in the last year alone, after Kyiv launched an aggressive and controversial mobilization drive that government officials and military commanders concede has largely failed.
It’s a staggeringly high number by any measure, as there were an estimated 300,000 Ukrainian soldiers engaged in combat before the mobilization drive began. And the actual number of deserters may be much higher. One lawmaker with knowledge of military matters estimated it could be as high as 200,000.
THIS!
THIS IS WHY ZELENSKY IS PUSHING AN ABSURD PEACEPLAN!
He knows he can't get NATO membership but he started high and hopes that the final plan will allow him to save face.
I have never seen such a crazy battle plan in my life. The counter offensive was ill conceived. The push into Russia was batshit stupid.
After reading this article one thing is clear.
The Ukrainian Army is on the verge of collapse.
IF THIS TURNS INTO A HARD WINTER THEN YOU WILL SEE RUSSIAN ADVANCES COUNTED IN THE TENS OF MILES PER DAY.
Quite honestly we need to be thankful that Putin is timid and not a military man.
If Putin had been to even a Sgt's Course in the Marine Corps then he would be literally skullfucking logistics units supplying frontline troops instead of going after Ukraine's power grid.
All the drones wasted on going after Kyiv would be pummeling the frontlines just to destroy whatever morale still exists with the Ukrainian infantry.
But the good thing is that because Putin isn't a military man and is timid (notice that I'm NOT saying he's stupid because he isn't) he won't do the things that could send the Ukrainian military into a full blown retreat across all fronts.
This war is over.
For better or worse Russia will get its bufferzone and China will help it rebuild while what's left of Ukraine will be an anchor around the neck of the EU for 50+ years.
IF.🇷🇺🇺🇦‼️🚨 ZELENSKY IS TEADY FOR A CEASEFIRE!
— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) November 29, 2024
Zelensky says he can agree to a ceasefire in Ukraine if:
- Ukraine gets an invitation to NATO for the whole territory
- The only held territory is under the military NATO umbrella
- Then Ukraine can have a ceasefire and try to get the… pic.twitter.com/jeaqbDUTA2
YES, YES, YES!Europe must assume responsibility for supporting Ukraine on its own—beginning with a recognition that ramping up its support is not beyond its ability, Paul Hockenos writes. https://t.co/IlENeTitqB
— Foreign Policy (@ForeignPolicy) November 13, 2024
None of us will ever know the full details on this but its terrible all around. The mother and child are both dead, the father saw his loved ones killed, and although I think its justified one of those cops will have to deal with the fact that they killed a kid. Like I said. Terrible all around.NEW: Mother and baby shot dead by police after she charged at them with a knife
— Unlimited L's (@unlimited_ls) November 29, 2024
Officers were called to a family assault in Independence, Missouri
They calmly spoke to Maria Pike, 34, who was holding her 2-month-old daughter, Destinii Hope, in a closet
Pike's husband was seen… pic.twitter.com/Tht1qWL5Ey
If I were Russian I'd be more than a little alarmed.🇷🇺 Russian Air Force carpet bombing terrorists in Aleppo
— Gabe (@GabeZZOZZ) November 30, 2024
The aftermath is very gruesome, so I won’t post it here, but know that many terrorists were eliminated there. pic.twitter.com/t5znXSJwHJ
Just watching this vid I was shocked. I've always been a more horsepower guy. To take it a bit further I've wondered why 1500 hp seems to be the accepted upperlimit for armored vehicles in this era. It kinda pissed me off. The vid shows something different. Without a good transmission to get the power to the tracks then you're pushing a rock uphill. That Type 10 looked dramatically quicker than the Type 90 in my opinion. A new factor to consider I guess.Type 90 vs Type 10: Mobility Battle
— 2S7 pion (trost) (@Trotes936897) November 30, 2024
Type 90: Mitsubishi 10ZG32WT 1,500hp engine with automatic transmission.
Type 10: 8MA 1,200HP engine with continuously variable transmission (CVT). pic.twitter.com/obecz9gFpR
Armor and Fighters of the Syrian National Army (SNA) are now amassing to the North of Tal Rifaat in Northern Syria, as they prepare to open a Second Front against Assad’s Army near Aleppo, as well as the U.S-Backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) positioned between Tal Rifaat and… pic.twitter.com/hm58BaZR5L
— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) November 28, 2024
If you took the time to watch the video then no further explanation on that point is needed.It was a coordinated sychological operation
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 29, 2024
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