Which is why the Corps Got the Tiltrotors. After they figured out how to fly them they've been extremely effective.
Biden and his idiot cabinet members are going to end up causing a big issue with Russia...
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I was thinking the same thing when I read the article about the Japanese Defense Force. Tilt rotors are a very efficient way to move crap around near areas of conflict.
That last line cracked me up.
A bunch of Marines, forty or so died while they figured out the art of flying a tilt rotor.
At least 8 died while they figured out how to fly the AV-8B. Flying VTOL is completely different from conventional fixed wing aircraft.
I wonder why the Marines couldn't have something like this???
www.armytimes.com
38 tons compared to almost 70 on newest Abrams...with the same 120mm main armament.
New Army light tank under construction
The Mobile Protected Firepower is aimed to fill the shooting gaps to cover light infantry formations.
www.armytimes.com
38 tons compared to almost 70 on newest Abrams...with the same 120mm main armament.
I see them flying around Destin all the time. They're much bigger than you'd expect.
Goodbye, tanks: How the Marine Corps will change, and what it will lose, by ditching its armor
Commandant Gen. David H. Berger has said that should armor be needed by Marines, he would look to the Army to provide that capability.
www.marinecorpstimes.com
Goodbye, tanks: How the Marine Corps will change, and what it will lose, by ditching its armor
Commandant Gen. David H. Berger has said that should armor be needed by Marines, he would look to the Army to provide that capability.
Good read, thanks for the link.
Hated this line...
Commandant Gen. David H. Berger has said that should armor be needed by Marines, he would look to the Army to provide that capability.
FREAKING BULL$H1T...
Loved these though...
But the Corps might not get the war its planning for...
“The fact that the U.S. Army of 1965 was designed to fight Soviet tank armies in Europe did not stop President (Lyndon) Johnson from sending it to Vietnam to fight insurgents and a regional power,” Cancian said.
A more reasonable change would have been to dump the Abrams and the tubes, add the longer range rockets AND provide the Marines with the 38tn Mobile Protected Firepower system (light tank) that the Army is getting. Hell, the Army funded its development so that's cost savings right there.
It's not a perfect solution but it's a better compromise than what we got.
The idea that the Army will give us anything because we ask for it is laughable. MacArthur wouldn't even give the Marines the Presidential unit citation for fighting in a battle he gave everyone else one.
General Berger is a short sighted moron.
General Berger thinks if you don't need something or something makes you slow, you give it away even if it will literally take an act of Congress to get it back in the future.
You know what Corporal Desikan thinks?
If you don't need something or it makes you slow, DON'T BRING IT.
Brand new officers have to report to the Sergeant Major once a day. They tell them it's for accountability purposes and to teach them about the value of senior enlisted personnel.
The rest of us think it's to make sure the stupid bastards didn't get lost between the BEQ and the company area, and that they showed up at the correct unit that day.
What do you call a Marine with only half a brain?
Sir.
General Berger is a short sighted moron.
General Berger thinks if you don't need something or something makes you slow, you give it away even if it will literally take an act of Congress to get it back in the future.
You know what Corporal Desikan thinks?
If you don't need something or it makes you slow, DON'T BRING IT.
Brand new officers have to report to the Sergeant Major once a day. They tell them it's for accountability purposes and to teach them about the value of senior enlisted personnel.
The rest of us think it's to make sure the stupid bastards didn't get lost between the BEQ and the company area, and that they showed up at the correct unit that day.
What do you call a Marine with only half a brain?
Sir.
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I also preferred the idea of the reduced numbers of Abrams brigades, if you truly feel you must make them lighter, used as a, "break glass in the case of emergency" type of tool. The Marines faced that need in Pusan and again at Inchon.
LMAO...if they had needed a fully formed brain, it would have been issued to them.
@BamaFan1137 and anyone else still interested
I saw video of the incident.
It shows a mig buzzing the reaper at a distance of ten to twenty meters and jettisoning a small amount of fuel.
Then it shows one of the props was damaged.
Depending on altitude the fuel could have instantly frozen or crystallized and damaged the propeller.
Or, since the Reaper is not meant to maneuver at speed maybe that did it.
Kind of think Putin should be writing us a check.
I saw video of the incident.
It shows a mig buzzing the reaper at a distance of ten to twenty meters and jettisoning a small amount of fuel.
Then it shows one of the props was damaged.
Depending on altitude the fuel could have instantly frozen or crystallized and damaged the propeller.
Or, since the Reaper is not meant to maneuver at speed maybe that did it.
Kind of think Putin should be writing us a check.
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Saw that too. Something solid definitely hit the Reaper.
Could it have been crystallized fuel? Maybe...but I doubt that. It would have needed to be a solid block, not an accumulation of crystals.
Also the Reaper appears to be in level flight as it happens so that rules out the maneuver causing prop damage.
There's a jolt and then the camera immediately pixilates. That was jet on drone contact imho.
I have never seen a Reaper prop up close but I have been told by the people who do op planning and isr for devgru that both the reaper and the predator are notoriously fragile and cranky of maintenance.
But tiny crystals???
Unless that fuel immediately became a solid mass of fuel, I don't see how that's possible.
Either way, the freaking Russian jet caused it. Write the check Putin...or, we're even on the whole pipeline thingy.
Think about how fast both aircraft were traveling. And jettisoned fuel is pressurized.
Pressure plus temperature. Gravel off a dump truck towards a windshield at a much higher speed.
What's the alternative? A Mig flew by our 32 million dollar technical marvel and it fell into the sea?
I agree with you..they were @ 35000 feet supposedly. We need to have some F 35's escort our drones, and if Russia wants to come play...shoot their ass down. Russia does NOT scare me one bit. They have their hands FULL with little Ukraine. They are no match for us, and Putin knows this. He also knows of how weak Brandon is, and knows how far he can push him
Sukhoi...but yea, they aren't built for that.
I'm stunned the camera worked that well after being repeatedly drenched in jet fuel.
