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Germans have got the light tank thing down. Shove all the small Latinx in these
Military Equipment Sperging Thread - The Tiger II is a better tank than the M1 Abrams edition
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The navy got fucked over so much worse than the army.
Somehow, the LCS still got made.
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Hey kids! Today's word of the day is "graft"! Can you say "graft"?
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The army should just build partial assembly locations in 20 states like the Air Force, nothing would get canceled.
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Real talk though the Navy has always gotten the short end of the stick on budget cuts whenever congress decides the military needs less money. Ever since the very first days of our nation that's been the case.
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Even with graft in play, the U.S. Navy been misusing the ones they have as carrier escorts instead of fulfilling secondary roles. Like convoy escort, which they had abdicated decades ago. Minsweeping as the current minesweeper are decades overdue for replacement, coupled with needing to be transported and babysitted by a destroyer, so nobody tried to fuck with them. ASW, maritime border, U.S. fishing fleet protection and etc.
More importantly cutting LCS production will inevitably shutdown their builders and destroyed the surrounding communities.
Right before Trump left office in his first term, he was negotiating with the winning shipyard of the U.S.S. Constellation and the other shipyard over them getting a license to also build Constellations. Since it didn't care whose design they would be constructing, and only that they constructing something. Afaik Biden had it all shitcanned and the U.S. lost another shipyard.
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And now the Constellation clusterfuck won't be ready until 2029 or so.... What a joke.
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Complete mismanagement, and the only thing that is a problem not cause of said mismanagement. Is the Constellation design isn't to USN [or the Britbong RN] standard of survivability and damage control. So everything have to be redone to bring it to standard. If that had been the only issue, it would've been a nothing burger as it was something to be expected. Don't remember how the USN fucked up everything else with it.
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I like the most recent video from Sub Brief on the cluster fuck of the Constellation
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Love that they named it after such a beast. The old one is arguably harder hitting, but it also wasn't recon, it was the pre A-10. It also wasn't a souped up crop duster lol.
Also the video says they haven't fired Hellfires from it yet, but it's planned. Can take APKWS 70MM guided rockets. They haven't mentioned if it can take 7.62x51mm miniguns or 20mm gunpods so far tho.
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I want that lol. But for real. It seems like the pilots really love it. It's a special operations plane, so it's not exactly going after SAM sites or anything lol.
It's doing recon, staying in the air for a long fucking time because turboprop, and occasionally firing off laser guided weapons for overwatch of its SOCOM guys on the ground. It also can land anywhere basically, dirt or a paved strip, because it's a crop duster at the end of the day.
The Wiesel is a funny little tankette that the Germans have pushed into every role imaginable. I like the Wiesel 2 Air Defense Ozelot variant with Stingers personally
It's getting replaced soon though, because it's vulnerable to fucking everything. The "armor" is more of a comfort blanket lol.
Other variants (Wiezel 1):
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Any time I see it I think of the FACs in Vietnam. They would have creamed themselves for these. great series by the way.
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Back then they had gunpods, unguided rockets, and dumb bombs. Now? Just look at this shit:
It can drop a 500 pound laser guided bomb down your throat from miles away. Or potentially even hit drones with its laser guided APKWS II 70mm rockets. And of course Hellfire. Which needs zero introduction. Your tank is fucking dead. Small boats too.
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I picked up a Czech M85 parka a while back. Clearly old military surplus, but unused. This thing is really interesting when looking at it with modern eyes - it uses only a single zipper on the front, but all other fastenings are done with buttons. No Velcro anywhere. The removable fleece liner, the faux fur collar and the hood are all attached through buttons. All of the stitching is incredibly robust. This jacket was made to be worn hard in cold conditions. I'm very pleased with it.
For around $100, I'd say it's one of the best value jackets you can find (and I have seen them cheaper but not necessarily in as good a condition).
For around $100, I'd say it's one of the best value jackets you can find (and I have seen them cheaper but not necessarily in as good a condition).
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IIRC US Border Patrol was really interested in these not too terribly long ago.
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It's not going to happen, but it would be very funny if it did. The HVP is the last living remnant of the entire 'super secret failgun stealth destroyer' concept, and was intended at various points to be compatible with both the AGS and the future railgun. The fucking grunts indirectly saving the Navy's incompetent boondoggle by having faith in a common guided shell would be fucking priceless.
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I would like to see the guns work simply because "big naval guns cool". Not because it's practical, but because it's awesome. But no lol, I doubt they'll get their ammo, or even a cheaper version that can fit the gun.
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They should have made an FFG from the start. An unfucked Independence might be neat but everybody knows it. Constellation can't come soon enough.
USN probably plans to retire the Zumwalts long before the economics of scale in a common HVP would make it feasable to branch off production for AGS compatible shells, even if it was desired, which it probably isn't. Damn shame because on paper it would become a pretty awesome warship with new missiles and the remaining guns finally working, but they dropped the fucking ball.
They have a decent VLS capacity, AA HVPs would stretch that further, if the tubes for the hypersonics can be fitted for Tomahawks that would stretch it further still, the low radar profile to get close to shore for max range land attack should be a plus, the smart ship control, the drone aviaton, the close in weapons, the generators and capacitors should all be positive and useful capabilities. They could provide area AD for LCS, FFG, and amphibious ships working closer to shore, they could be very potent land attack and surface warfare ships, tbey could be platforms for advanced power intensive systems, HVP to the moon could have even eventually given the fossils their gay naval gunfire and it probably would have worked on small boats too. They just never made it fuckin' work.
Okay that's my official full length Zumwalt rant.
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