stephenthinkpad posted:

Probably only one outfit keeps doing it (keep clicking the wrong tech tree) , everyone else thinks is such a dumb solution.

Yeah why not use your thighs to control it?

Trabisnikof posted:

what the defense contractor promises:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GjCcupKkOo

what you get:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CzrGY22UE4

BULBASAUR posted:

this might be my fave post in a while

fits my needs posted:

https://x.com/MilitaryTimes/status/1767211407198589048?s=20

quote:

"The stress from the unit’s training tempo was compounded by their seemingly futile battle to keep their vehicles running, the Iron Knights said. Members of other armored units described similar struggles.

Soldiers regularly worked nights and weekends in the motorpool, they said. Former Spc. Garrett Shiemke, a Bradley mechanic, said the maintainers turned wrenches even on so-called “mandatory fun days,” when the rest of the unit would participate in morale-boosting and team-building activities.

“Everything was secondary to making sure the vehicles are up — including personal health and physical fitness,” said Wright, the infantry captain."

quote:

"Meanwhile, tank brigades run a familiar treadmill, powered by a decade’s worth of decisions by the Army, the Defense Department and policymakers.

The Iron Knight battalion returned from an eight-month deployment to Poland in December 2022. If the Army met its dwell-to-deployment ratio goal, soldiers who completed that rotation would not deploy again until December 2024.

The battalion’s lead element deploys next week."

JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:

wouldn't you be doing the equivalent of holding your body up by your shoulders the whole time you're using the jetpack things

and woudn't the weight of whatever gear you're carrying be included in that

Slavvy posted:

The beatings will continue until morale improves

The Oldest Man posted:

timely https://www.defensenews.com/land/2024/03/11/us-army-scraps-extended-range-cannon-artillery-prototype-effort/

Cuttlefush posted:

mlm wrong again?

quote:

The new plan — following an “exhaustive” tactical fires study meant to revalidate elements of the extended-range cannon requirement led by Army Futures Command — is to evaluate existing options from industry this summer “to get a sense of the maturity of those systems.”

mlmp08 posted:

mlmp08 posted:

FF, claimed such cannons already existed and then walked his claim back to when he couldn’t find an example to say such things could exist but be even better if countries would only listen to him.

JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:

good ik prob

Regarde Aduck posted:

Good effect on target

Mandel Brotset posted:

it’s cool how this thread is picking up steam, it means the thread title is true

Slavvy posted:

It's long, long overdue to be changed to 'is losing'

Comrade Merf posted:

Im sure things have improved since then! Ready to take on the reds anytime, anywhere! Hooah!

Woops!

Mister Bates posted:

back in the 1950s and 1960s the US military experimented with personal flying machines to provide infantry with aerial reconnaissance capability, see if you can spot the problems with this particular design:





in addition to it being a giant blender with the death rotors right below the pilot, who is clinging onto the handlebars for dear life, it turns out that '20 minutes of instruction' was ridiculously optimistic, the thing was actually extremely complicated to control and required a great deal of skill to maneuver. expert test pilots had difficulty flying the thing even in the completely safe and controlled environment of a proving ground in the United States, the idea of actually using it in battlefield conditions is completely laughable. the counter-rotating rotors also had a tendency to wobble, which would cause them to intermesh with each other, destroying both rotors, kicking up shrapnel into the pilot's body, and then the entire ruined contraption would fall to the ground.

anyway, 70 years later they're still trying to make personal flying machines happen

fizziester posted:

Source: Voice of America

https://www.voanews.com/a/pentagon-needs-10b-to-replace-weapons-already-sent-to-ukraine-officials-say/7523377.html

Pentagon Needs $10B to Replace Weapons Already Sent to Ukraine, Officials Say
By Carla Babb
March 11, 2024 9:32 PM

PENTAGON — The Pentagon has a funding shortfall of about $10 billion for U.S. military weapons needed to replace those already sent to Ukraine, a shortfall that requires additional money from Congress to fix, top Defense Department officials said Monday.

“We don't foresee a likely alternative outside of the supplemental funding [bill] or having that money added into an appropriations bill in order to achieve the replenishment that we need,” Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks told reporters.

“We are probably looking at about $10 billion to replace everything, everything that we’ve given in terms of supplies to Ukraine,” one official told VOA.

Pentagon officials expected to get the funding to replenish those stocks in a supplemental request from the Biden administration, which included billions of additional dollars in aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. However, Congress has yet to pass a supplemental aid bill because of arguments on spending and U.S. border security.

The shortfall is tied to the way the Pentagon has accounted for the aid sent to Ukraine. Last June, the Pentagon said it overestimated the value of weapons sent to Ukraine by about $6.2 billion over the past two years.

When calculating its aid package estimates, the Department of Defense was counting the cost incurred to replace the weapons given to Ukraine, while it said it should have been totaling the cost of the systems actually sent, officials told VOA at the time.

The error provided the Pentagon the legal cover needed to send more aid to Ukraine, but the problem remained that more funds would be needed to replenish U.S. military stockpiles with newer, costlier weapons.

Failing to replenish U.S. stockpiles would negatively affect the military’s readiness, another defense official told VOA.

The department still has about $4 billion in authority to send aid to Ukraine, but Pentagon officials have told reporters that sending additional aid without the ability to replenish U.S. weapons stockpiles would be a risk the Defense Department is not willing to take at this time....

drilldo squirt posted:

Man, the united states had had a lot of really bad ideas. Still think they would win ww3 based on how russia is doing though.