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  1. LRRPF52

    Ukraine war Bullshit.

    There has never been a US President who has been at-war with a Russian President the way Trump and Putin fight behind the scenes. Same with China. Putin thought he would check Trump’s resolve, effed around in Syria with his Russian Wagner armored battle group against a tiny contingent of US...
  2. LRRPF52

    Ukraine war Bullshit.

    I’m one of the only people you will meet who has been tracking the situation in Ukraine, Georgia, and Russia for decades, to include living in the region and watching how Russia would develop its strategies post-soviet collapse. I look at the real timeline of events from having lived through...
  3. LRRPF52

    Ukraine war Bullshit.

    The EU actively worked to disarm or refuse to equip Ukraine with weapons, under the lead from several US Presidents dating back to the 1990s under Clinton. Each of those US Presidents was on Soviet or Russian payroll dating back to the 1970s and 1980s, namely Biden, Clinton, and Obama. Nobody...
  4. LRRPF52

    Ukraine war Bullshit.

    They have literally leveled cities in Ukraine, and launched White Phosphorous submunitions into farming fields to deny the capacity to use that land. Most civilians evacuate when they get evacuation warnings about nearby Russian forces incrementally taking ground. Same thing in Chechnya and...
  5. LRRPF52

    XM7 worries from the field.

    What you’re describing is UW, not LSCO.
  6. LRRPF52

    XM7 worries from the field.

    If you read through the ODS AAR on Air Power, you see the real pk, CEP, and weapons effects percentages. Nothing is 100%, but it marked a dramatic departure from legacy dumb bomb strikes. Laser-Guided Bombs were introduced in Vietnam, actually first employed in Laos, dropped from F-4Ds. A lot...
  7. LRRPF52

    XM7 worries from the field.

    It’s happening right before our eyes with Israeli Air Force strikes on Iran. They started by degrading and eliminating Iranian Air Defenses at their pleasure, then launched the series of precision strikes picking out Iranian nuke scientists in their beds on specific floors of their apartment...
  8. LRRPF52

    Ukraine war Bullshit.

    It’s consistent with Russian employment of weapons throughout their history though. Civilians are not only targeted, but raped, robbed, tortured, and displaced if they survive. Then ethnic Russians are moved in to occupy those areas. My family suffered multiple losses like this in the 1940s...
  9. LRRPF52

    XM7 worries from the field.

    If you study how modern air assets are designed, made, and employed, we’ve moved to a multi-spectral sensor cluster format with algorithmic-based threat libraries and net-centric connectivity. This is especially true with F-35s, which have one of the most capable AESA Radars ever made, fused...
  10. LRRPF52

    XM7 worries from the field.

    When you annihilate any logistics hubs and turn any transportation assets into smoldering remains before Infantry have a chance to even deploy into the theater, our Infantry don’t have to take any ground from them because threat forces never even reached their intended dismount points. This is...
  11. LRRPF52

    Ukraine war Bullshit.

    It’s interesting how Ukraine targeted specific strategic military weapons platforms with no casualties, while Russia uses drones to specifically attack civilians. What’s worse is Americans condoning that kind of behavior and thinking it aligned with any type of coherent moral system. When was...
  12. LRRPF52

    Ukraine war Bullshit.

    Is it normal for strategic bombers used for cannibalization to be loaded with cruise missiles? If you don’t have any experience in BDA analysis, it’s best not to comment on these things.
  13. LRRPF52

    XM7 worries from the field.

    The Army already knew early-on that the M14 was a non-starter when they did the classified force-on-force exercises at Fort Benning using captured Type 56s and RPDs vs M14s and M60s before any major US combat forces were deployed to Vietnam in 1965. The OPFOR Platoons equipped with 7.62x39...
  14. LRRPF52

    XM7 worries from the field.

    ODS is the only LSCO the US has fought since Korea. The Iraqi Air Force and Army were rated as the 4th-largest in the world, behind the US, China, and Russia. The Iraqi Air Force had 768 tactical combat aircraft ranging from MiG-25PDs with solid-state avionics, to MiG-29As, MiG-23s, Mirage...
  15. LRRPF52

    XM7 worries from the field.

    The .276 Pedersen had the advantage of using .450” case head, so you could fit 10rds in the Garand instead of the 8 in .30 cal with .473” case head. Each pouch on the belt kit of that era would have had 10rds in it instead of 8, so 100rds on the belt instead of 80, augmented by bandoliers with...
  16. LRRPF52

    XM7 worries from the field.

    100%. Given the Army’s track record of not having ever RFP’d, down-selected, and managed a successful service rifle program since the 1930s with the Garand, I think we should seriously consider removing or relocating small arms design, selection, and program management from the big pickle Army...
  17. LRRPF52

    Ukraine war Bullshit.

    That same plant from today: It has been hit before though.
  18. LRRPF52

    Ukraine war Bullshit.

    Here’s a good article on it with many photos from inside, comparison between recovered Shaheed vs Geran, structures, propulsion, origins of their SIM cards, guidance, production facility locations, etc. Our First Look Inside Russia’s Shaheed-136 Attack Drone Factory They were using a lot of...
  19. LRRPF52

    XM7 worries from the field.

    Due to public-schooling, university conditioning, and service academy groupthink & conformity bias, I’m noticing senior planners having an extremely difficult time with nuance and being able to allocate resources to different pools. There’s a lot of binary either/or mentality, which doesn’t fit...
  20. LRRPF52

    XM7 worries from the field.

    WWII is so far removed from the way we fight FSCO, so any statistics from it are largely irrelevant. Just to give you an example, a single F-16 carries more payload farther than any B-17G could, and is not only more survivable against an air threat, but is lethal to other aircraft. A...
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