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indigi posted:I looked up what this is, and apparently it can’t go faster than 8mph in reverse? that’s funny Seems like an overloaded transmission?
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Frosted Flake posted:Seems like an overloaded transmission? [statler and waldorf voice] but it only has two gears!
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Frosted Flake posted:Seems like an overloaded transmission? I mean it is essentially an armored car put into a utility role. That said, it’s 340 hp engine is more powerful than most APCs…
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KomradeX posted:Isn't the Bradley replacement even bigger than the Bradley. It sounds like they literarily did Pentagon Wars with that one It probably has to be bigger just to fit a whole squad in it, which the Bradley couldn't.
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:It probably has to be bigger just to fit a whole squad in it, which the Bradley couldn't. The new replacement for the m113 only fits 6, I guess the idea is they are going fit more equipment in it.
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Ardennes posted:The new replacement for the m113 only fits 6, I guess the idea is they are going fit more equipment in it. It's gonna fly
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Takanago posted:What are some good books/articles/etc. to read that are related to the things that have been talked about in this thread? maybe you have heard of a little someone called Tom Clancy
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Ardennes posted:The new replacement for the m113 only fits 6, I guess the idea is they are going fit more equipment in it. look if you want to transport a whole squad all you need to do is buy two of the darned things! Built in redundancy and operational flexibility!
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Takanago posted:What are some good books/articles/etc. to read that are related to the things that have been talked about in this thread? Brassy’s Land Warfare Series is a good start
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The MATV/JLTV has built-in night vision cameras with a flip-down screen and a halon system that suffocates the crew if it goes off and like no cargo space and the cab is as high off the ground as a big rig, it is supposed to fill the role of a jeep, lmao it owns Iirc the doors have hydraulics since they're so heavy due to the armor, like basically an apc ramp but the designers wanted it to open like a car door Imagine a ww2 movie where the commander comes tooting down the road in a jeep but instead its a big rear end loving over-the-road tractor trailor sized armored car being driven by an 18 year old with "40 hours" (some E6 rubberstamped their license) of driver training who is sitting like ten feet off the ground white-knuckling the steering wheel trying not to take out oncoming traffic or street signs Justin Tyme has issued a correction as of 22:20 on Feb 20, 2022 |
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KomradeX posted:Isn't the Bradley replacement even bigger than the Bradley. It sounds like they literarily did Pentagon Wars with that one From what i can find there isn’t one anymore. Just cancellation after cancellation until they threw up their hands and said ‘uh we’ll replace everything including the m1 in 2035’
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Regarde Aduck posted:From what i can find there isn’t one anymore. Just cancellation after cancellation until they threw up their hands and said ‘uh we’ll replace everything including the m1 in 2035’ Last I saw there were five different replacements being considered this last year. So they gave up on all of them?
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Regarde Aduck posted:From what i can find there isn’t one anymore. Just cancellation after cancellation until they threw up their hands and said ‘uh we’ll replace everything including the m1 in 2035’ I must have missed that, they mentioned it on an episode of Well There's Your Problem last year. I didn't realize it had been cancelled
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Looks like its going ahead but delayed from this year to 2025, then delayed again till production start 2030 so yeah 2035 sounds about right for general adoption https://www.defensenews.com/land/2021/10/11/us-army-gets-its-first-look-at-bradley-replacement-options/ At least some of the delay appears to be because the mic got pissy with the military expecting the arms companies to front some of the cost causing it to fall through and the military to apologise and offer more of their own funding KomradeX posted:I must have missed that, they mentioned it on an episode of Well There's Your Problem last year. I didn't realize it had been cancelled Yeah sorry cancelled wasn’t the right word, just significantly delayed
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Justin Tyme posted:The MATV/JLTV has built-in night vision cameras with a flip-down screen and a halon system that suffocates the crew if it goes off and like no cargo space and the cab is as high off the ground as a big rig, it is supposed to fill the role of a jeep, lmao it owns I was given 20 minutes of practice before my first convoy in a 30 ton armored vehicle through Baghdad I had never been in before.
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Regarde Aduck posted:From what i can find there isn’t one anymore. Just cancellation after cancellation until they threw up their hands and said ‘uh we’ll replace everything including the m1 in 2035’ The Warrior replacement was giving the drivers brain damage of some sort from vibrations. It kind of rules that we can’t replace any of the 70’s and 80’s era equipment because the MIC has gotten exponentially dumber since then.
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Frosted Flake posted:The Warrior replacement was giving the drivers brain damage of some sort from vibrations. Havana syndrome is real….
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Takanago posted:What are some good books/articles/etc. to read that are related to the things that have been talked about in this thread? https://taskandpurpose.com/opinion/millenium-challenge-2002-stacked-deck/ The book I've been posting excerpts of is "About Face: The Odyssey of an American Warrior", by David H. Hackworth I'd also recommend "The Perfect War: Technowar in Vietnam" by James William Gibson, which is an even harsher and more materialist breakdown of why the American military failed at Vietnam so badly I'd also recommend "The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism" by Andrew Bacevich, as well as "America and the Imperialism of Ignorance: US Foreign Policy since 1945" by Andrew Alexander for a broader look at US foreign policy Regarding the US experience in Iraq, I'd recommend "The Forever War" by Dexter Filkins, and Rajiv Chandrasekaran's "Imperial Life in The Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone"
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Justin Tyme posted:The MATV/JLTV has built-in night vision cameras with a flip-down screen and a halon system that suffocates the crew if it goes off and like no cargo space and the cab is as high off the ground as a big rig, it is supposed to fill the role of a jeep, lmao it owns All tweaked out on ripits no doubt
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Blackhawk Down(at a Utah ski resort) https://twitter.com/localnews8/status/1496273737561292807?s=20 The rotor of the first helicopter struck the second. Amazingly, no one died.
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Frosted Flake posted:I’m curious what they’ll have to do in your initial training to get soldiers vaccinated and willing to wear (gas) masks. gas masks are to protect against gay bombs
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Frosted Flake posted:I’m curious what they’ll have to do in your initial training to get soldiers vaccinated and willing to wear (gas) masks. The same way they do with everyone else: They get tossed into the tear gas and OC spray training room anyway. The consequences of their choices will soon become apparent. staticman posted:
Ya, whoever is in office during WW3 will have the other side that didn't vote for them defying anything they do as a matter of course. Nothing a bit of yellow journalism and narrative making can't fix, but we're definitely not going to see people just lining up to enlist like after Pearl Harbor.
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Real hurthling! posted:imperial life was a great read welp, world war three is apparently kicking off so i'm just gonna say "imperial life was great"
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Bar Ran Dun posted:the war may be secondary to the energy supply and commodity grain effects. oh that’s a relief, for a second I thought tensions might be heightened 😁
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Centrist Committee posted:oh that’s a relief, for a second I thought tensions might be heightened 😁 man I just keep thinking about the supply chains of the Bronze Age and what happens when they can’t get tin anymore.
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