Current US Military

[Smitty-48]

the other advantage of these googles is that you can see through the hull of an armored vehicle like x-ray vision

I've tried the Israeli version called Iron Vision at a military trade show, it's pretty impressive actually

[Smitty-48]

Jesus, are we Germany 1937 now?

Undermanned, pumping up tech, ‘rediscovering’ blitzkrieg, paranoid and looking for a first strike?

the personnel are the most expensive part of the military

paying for the care & feeding of the troops is half the budget

so the doctrine is called Adaptive & Dispersed, you can do more with less troops by leveraging technology

the downfall is when you get into asymmetrical guerilla warfare

so it's like you can drive on Baghdad and take it fast with very few troops

but when Iraq then implodes, the technology can't save you

none the less, at the operational level it's hard to overstate how much this technology streamlines things

in the olden days, we used paper & pencil & string, with a compass, binoculars and a radio

it would take all day to prepare for a relatively simple mission

with this technology all that could be compressed into minutes

at the end of the day, the Pentagon has no other option

the American way of warfare is societal, Americans demand quick & decisive victories with minimal casualties

technology is America's key advantage

the Pentagon can't turn around and say they are going to fight like the North Vietnamese instead

[Ph64]

Well we had another military shooter in Maryland...

Good white supremacist by the name of Fantahun Girma Woldesenbet, a solid Anglo colonizer name.

[The Conservative]

Well we had another military shooter in Maryland...

Good white supremacist by the name of Fantahun Girma Woldesenbet, a solid Anglo colonizer name.

Funny how that is not showing up in any news feeds.

[C-Mag]

Well we had another military shooter in Maryland...

Good white supremacist by the name of Fantahun Girma Woldesenbet, a solid Anglo colonizer name.

[Smitty-48]

All B-1B Bombers Have Been Grounded

The swing-wing bombers have become increasingly unreliable after years of constant work over Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan.

On April 8, B-1B Lancer serial number 86-0104 experienced a ground emergency relating to an augmenter fuel pump filter housing, after landing at Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota. Air Force Global Strike Command's public affairs office has now confirmed that subsequent precautionary one-time inspections carried out on all B-1B aircraft as a result of the discrepancy produced concerning enough results that more invasive inspections were ordered, along with a fleet-wide grounding earlier this week.

The inspections will be performed under the guidance of a Time Compliance Technical Order (TCTO), and each jet will be returned to service individually upon completion. There is no timeline presently for when the B-1Bs are expected to be flying again. Air Force Global Strike Command's (AFGSC) public affairs office told us that other bombers — B-52 and B-2 aircraft — will continue to support combatant commands across the globe.

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/4 ... n-grounded

[C-Mag]

That's an old airframe to have articulating parts that are under stress

[Smitty-48]

That's an old airframe to have articulating parts that are under stress

indeed, supersonic shortens lifespans

I just remember when it was brand new and supposedly going to replace the BUFF

and now it is being sent to the boneyard, while the BUFF soldiers on in its 66th year of service

[Smitty-48]

see, the Rand Corporation study which condemned the F-35, really just condemned it for being a tactical fighter

what the Rand Corporation thought America should invest in instead, was bombers

the idea being that bombers give America global strategic power, reach & firepower in the most efficient package

one idea was to use the B-1B as a Missile Truck

so instead of sending fighters, you send drones out ahead, then the B-1B launches missiles from standoff

this missed the point that the actual war America is fighting is the global market share war for military exports

dropping bombs on people is modern, selling bombs to people is postmodern

[Hanarchy Montanarchy]

dropping bombs on people is modern, selling bombs to people is postmodern

and meme-ing about dropping bombs on people for NFTs while retail trading crypto is hyper-real

thank you Elon for building rockets and tweeting about doge