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Considering EMP range is increased with altitude to a relative blast yield… Yeah people would probably not be ok with the resultant crash of every airborne commercial aircraft within hundreds of miles, not to mention the mass attack to infrastructure of countries not directly involved in hostilities. Setting off a nuke in the modern age whether in or outside the atmosphere is the unacceptable escalation to any conflict. That should be pretty clear at this point to anybody sane. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Ok… I think we need to restructure our OPFOR plan. I can imagine a lot of situations where we’d be scraping together mixed units of national guard weekend warrior types trying to reconstitute stuff in a hurry…. In none of those scenarios do I foresee us breaking into armories full of WWII stocks of small arms and equipment. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Yeah ok boss. Insert Bradley Replacement, JAGM, M-4 replacement, Osprey, Comanche, JSF…. Just keep surging into the humor equation whatever wonderful example of our acquisitions process until you can find one funny in your head. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

If we shot a few people for their failure we might actually have a working replacement for the 135… Just saying… modern problems, very old working solutions. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

It’s not. Post ad: Interesting few hours. Lot of surprise from a lot of people honestly because they’ve all but finished the new nuclear deal (despite the Russians delaying). I’ll be interested to see what happens after this. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Ok… there is an understanding that seems to be missing with the constant “let’s deploy faster!” Ideas. During the deployment is when the assault force is collecting intel and performing mission planning. It’s built into the deployment cycle for SOF. Otherwise all we are doing is getting to a place faster to build the plan there. Not to mention you have to deploy all those supporting elements to make it successful. So either way you’ll be waiting on somebody. Because we aren’t going to fit these dozen+ C17 package SOF contingencies on a 100ton payload rocket. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I don’t think the Tank crews were either… *crew comes back from scavenging fuel* “where the hell is our god damned track!” Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

When questioned on details for his plan the President responded he was, “going to make America great, once more…” Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

It’s also a suitable Ad Hoc anti air system. You won’t hit anything fast or high with it, but against Low slow flyers like helicopters or drones it’s been remarkably effective as a tool. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Praise unto thee… Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

It’s not. Russians redesigned a whole lot of their ground doctrine following Chechnya. https://www.armyupress.army.mil/portals/7/hot%20spots/documents/russia/2017-07-the-russian-way-of-war-grau-bartles.pdf https://info.publicintelligence.net/AWG-RussianNewWarfareHandbook.pdf https://info.publicintelligence.net/AWG-RussianNewWarfareHandbook.pdf That’s Low side. There is other stuff out there…. There is a lot of wide area discussion but essentially it focuses on the move to Battalion Task Group models (BTG). Actual Table of Equipment though is all over the place dependent on type of units. Main tank rule is Battalion structure. They don’t intermix tanks below Brigade level so a battalion is going to be structured around a particular model (72, 80, 90). Brigades may have Battalions with different types (like a single 80 and 2x 72s). Within that individual Battalion you have 3 or 4 company models (10 MBTs per company with 1 for the Battalion Commander) based off what kind of parent brigade/division it’s intended to fall under. Tank Brigade/Division will usually prioritize 4 Troop tank Battalions (41 total tanks) to Infantry brigades so they can provide a Troop to each infantry Battalion with a single Troop in force reserve. Which brings me to my main point….. Send More Javelins! Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

I just gotta make the connection with your post and the meme that just started up on social media… Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

There is nothing about the VDV (Airborne) of their 1st Guards guys that got hammered which would qualify as anything resembling a Penal Battalion. The Russians losing an AN-26 and IL-76 alone would cut a pretty deep swath across some formations that they cannot readily replicate. Same as burning T-80s being seen in social media feeds. I’m noticing a lot more of these convoys with problems that to the laymen would be easily missed. Non prime movers with tow bars attached to other trucks, Diesel engined trucks/tracks with smoke colors that should cause alarm just hammering in down the road until they catch fire somewhere later. When you see a whole Mech convoy in what is not your rear area being filmed by somebody with absolutely no sign of any kind of set security or flank guard. Why on earth in a line of tanks at a tactical pause are you sitting turrets all facing forward, or have dismounts pushed out watching your vulnerable fixed force… that says a lot about the mindset of how they thought this was gonna go. It also explains why the Ukrainian military is having such luck with complex ambushes against these elements. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

A whole lot of “Peace Keepers” getting ready to learn what every military professional with experience in it will tell you…. don’t fight in cities unless you absolutely have to. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

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Not just no but hell no… Let’s go fly around an active conflict as a nonparticipating/quasi referee… one where coordination with either sides air defense is questionable at best, no form of distributed ACO/IFF exists… Basically hope that any Ukrainian with a Stinger or SA-11 can tell the difference between our aircraft and the bad guys. We’ve shot our own airplanes down when we did have TAGS/AGS working…. F all that Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

We also have image intensification and FLIR in way more abundance than they do. Conversely the Russians equip small ground units with ECM and Radar equipment. It does however give me some hope in a LSCO type scenario that one of the two Big Bad’s has demonstrated little in the ability to maneuver in the dark. Conduct fire support operations sure, but if there is an entire portion of the day that they find themselves readily fixed in their combat cycle, that’s a huge advantage to us who can conduct maneuver in the dark. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Buys no drinks at any bar full of pilots…. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Drinks on me for the boys that did this…. Great work guys, keep them coming. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Agree on Germany for USAA. It worked well there, but I’ve got friends in other countries that had issues when they needed them. I wouldn’t call those issues specific to them, more they held no advantage where in Germany they seemed to do very well. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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Well after all it is the same Brigade and Command Structure that was tossed into the ring for he last foreign policy disaster. They’ve got experience in this sort of thing now. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Time the start of active combat with the end of the Olympics. Realize it takes advantage of the short attention spans and selfish nature of world media. Buys them extra hours to make gains before the general mob of people even realize it’s happening. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

I’m just gonna say it…. If we get involved in this war it’s going to cost a lot more marriages than the last two…. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

@Mods Why is “this” still here? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk