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I don’t think anybody has look at or even though about putting the ALQ legacy or next generation pods on anything outside the Hornet for one… I’m sure as much random stuff as you can bolt to a Strike there is a way to carry it all, but then you’re talking about allocating an already limited group of airframes to pick that mission up on Top of what they are already penned for in the big Jpint peer fight. And while “let’s just get/leverage another 4.5-5th Gen” is a plan for the strike side of that fight. There are a whole lot of missions (air resupply, PR, SOTF, etc) that will live/die based on the presence of an available stand off jamming platform to function. Loosing a third of that fleet will mean severe delays to other parts of the big plan that can’t move forward until assets are allocated. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

So minor side bar but I don’t mind airing this bad laundry… A year ago a CW5 from 160th was awarded the highest military honor from the Norwegian military. First time it’s happened since WWII. It was only that award being given, that forced regiment to pony up some medals like ARCOMs for the rest of the guys on that event. Before his award went up on the radar ARCOMs weren’t even given to the crews. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Looking at how low it’s riding in the water, and given the condition of so much other Russian equipment in this war… I’m betting they made a hell of a lot of effort fighting fires, but don’t have the pumps and trim capability to deal with the excess amounts of water the ship was filling its self up with trying to contain the fire. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Picture of the Moskva Appears to be in the middle of fighting fires aboard. Obviously the guy on the support vessel who snapped this didn’t do his annual cyber awareness and OpSec training. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Having relieved the rest of that unit in Iraq, the general attitude by everyone who wasn’t there was one of, “And…?” Seriously, the Battalion Commander seemed to completely dismiss it as any sort of heroic action or show of exemplary performance. If your own boss is barely your advocate, good luck getting anything justified and through the F’d up rewards system that is the status quo. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Meanwhile in the Army… All awards for the 64 pilots who were herding people off the runway or the CAB for the crew that got shot/hit by small arms… still sitting at division. 29 hours continuous operations in one case (crews swapping twice with the aircraft going waaaay past prescribed maintenance checks) ….yeah we will get to that when we feel like it. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

And let me pay with a check if I god damned want too… I’ve got a clearance already. Obviously my credit wasn’t at risk and I’m good for it. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Ok sidebar on this point, because the building narrative by the current party in power and a lot of people safely on the sidelines is plainly obvious with this. Absolutely nobody was aware of how disastrously led, planned,or resourced the actual Russian ground campaign was going to pan out. Austin Green was on record days before actual hostilities prediction to Congress the inevitable fall of Ukraine’s military to the “overwhelming numbers” of Russian BTGs in the area. Anybody trying to change history now and say we were all plainly aware the Russian Army was a paper Tiger and would fall on its face are flat out lying to try and look good in the current trend. Furthermore; this war is far from over. And the danger with feeding that narrative is the thing that has actually given Ukraine the tools and maneuver space to fight this conflict ultimately risks drying up if we stop treating the Russian Army as a legitimate threat and referring to them like some 3rd world power. While I think we all would be a little more comfortable about our tactical chances with the O-plan should the balloon have gone up, none of us should suddenly act like NATO going into Kaliningrad would have been a cake walk, nor should we be saying things that minimize the reality that Ukraine is paying for their freedom with blood and burned/broken cities right now. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Anecdotes speaking to the organization of their withdrawals. This was taken along the Sumy axis after 4th Guards got its ass handed too it. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

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I didn’t see one person fat enough to pass for Navy in that whole trailer. Every Key West dive school support mission 3/160 does they walk into the base gym like we are the first ones to have ever found it. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

*Laughs in German* If they can’t get that thing out into open water and away from more drone strikes, it’s gonna get messed up. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

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

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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