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With the demonstrated capability to do point to point tight beam large datalink, ask this question… What do you lose if the manned awacs gets shot down. Not in terms of money but in terms of personnel. And how deep is that bench? How quickly can you regenerate that, and where are you stealing from to do it. This is the same survivability discussion going on in the ground. Put the commander in a position to commander, but we can’t replace whole staffs if they get fragged, so we have to distribute/harden/extend/efc. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Yes, however nobody was confused that you may or may not be holding cocaine legally. That’s the premise with highly regulating a commercial substance, same reason while criminals can get hand grenades or fertilizer, they can’t just walk into any old shop and go and acquire it, nor would an attempt to buy 1000lbs of certain precursor chemicals go unnoticed. If drones were turned into a highly regulated item, the guy trying to walk one to a sporting event would stick out pretty well. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

There is definite application and demand for super heavy lift capacity in the commercial sector, but probably in the single digit numbers I would imagine. I’d be curious to see what the economics on return of some production run requiring massive up front capital for so few airframes. I can’t imagine that return on investment is gonna be something that comes soon enough for all but the craziest people with money. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Every unit that did this is a T in “perform expeditionary operations,” on the METL…. We actually executed work at transcom and locally doing rail head ops…. You understand we are demonstrating the ability to move our heaviest ground forces and have them execute on the other end of that move right? 1-17 Cav is one of the flyover units, and that is literally their last hurrah before casing the colors and disbanding, so what did that really cost us? Look if I can March in the Dothan peanut festival parade, we can damn sure put some effort into celebrating the Army’s 250s birthday. Let’s compare the price tag on Tdy and equipment movement of this to say, the Dayton Air Show. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

The action of an in place turn or a single track turn can create a kind of twisting friction which would be concerning in certain kinds of loose terrain. There’s a video out there somewhere of an M88 getting stuck in a cobblestoned area of some German village and just doing everything wrong to get out, then tearing chunks of cobblestone up, only to get them lodged into the spaces between the road wheels and the track and break the track. Done properly it’s actually a way to have track vehicle dig it’s self a partial hull down position in certain types of ground, but asphalt isn’t gonna do that. It’s not going to remove the paint, and in fact the most concerning thing we have when we drive on a road is idiots curbing the raised pavement because they weren’t paying attention. A truck would do the same damage a tank would do in that case. You can watch along our 7 miles of motor pools heavy tracked vehicles cross streets to go from the motor pool to the tank trail. They don’t have any visible damage along any of those roads. Seriously there are dozens of very real economic cost analysis arguments, but the ones screaming about tanks are just ignoring those for sensationalist BS, and the media talking heads are part of it. The whole “special rubber pads” are standard on all our tracked vehicles, and we haven’t had an all metal track since my dad was in the military. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

I’m thinking of how easily chemical/biological/radiological materials could be dispersed effectively across a dense population area. You could literally just get a coke can worth of something scary lethal on a drone that cost hundreds of dollars, and swarm it across a place like Wall Street at lunch time. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

It was planned in and programmed before he was elected president. The Army was always going to celebrate its 250th birthday. Clutch pearls harder and get outraged the next flyover you see while you’re at it. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Boss I’ve both been stationed in Germany, and driven down that exact road in Hohenfels. The autobahn is nothing particularly spectacular when it comes to actual aspects of road construction other than the abundant use of concrete over asphalt. The roads running between villages are nothing special. The point being the amount of inane noise being generated and pearls being clutched over this upcoming parade is ridiculous and serves as a good marker for people who just want to be upset whether they have a reason or not. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

The irony here is out of an abundance of caution (and knowing idiots will be out there taking pictures of existing potholes to make claims about damage) the Corps of Engineers is throwing millions in efforts to repair the streets neglected by local government for years. The residents and city leadership should be happy that for a couple days pain of traffic delays, they’ve been given an easy button to do years worth of efforts to repair local infrastructure. But they’ll never actually say that. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I’m in an Armor division, we drives tanks on residential graded streets routinely. They didn’t build special streets on Cavazos, Bliss, Carson, etc, the tank trail is really there because the asphalt wears the track pads faster than dirt does. There are videos out on YouTube of Abrams tanks giving a demo in a commissary parking lot. Asphalt roads in the US are built to a 200 PSI standard before deformation. The Abrams in full combat kit puts down ~17 PSI. The Horses in the parade put down 25-30 depending on the horse. If you’re making this argument that Armor somehow destroys roads (when they do less damage than heavy truck traffic) you are in the idiot category. Here let me google that for somebody that needs it… Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Just a public service announcement as we get closer to it… The first planning conferences for the Army’s 250th birthday parade happened before the 2024 election. The people upset about this are finding any of number of reasons to include fabrications of reality on what had to be done to have the parade. Tanks, along with Bradley’s and Paladins all have “special rubber pads” as standard on them at all times… oh and they can and do drive on normal asphalt roads every day without damage. So anybody making that point is an idiot. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

If OSI and others aren’t interested in watching self storage places around Dyess, Whiteman, etc they are truly F’ing up. Stop worrying about catching Joe for throwing a few bundles of bottled water in their Dity move, and worry about actual threats to mission. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

It’s funny because as much hoopla was made about the tea party rallies, they looked like Labor Day picnics. They had to selectively edit the famous scene of a man in a white button up shirt carrying an AR15 to one, because it was a young 20 something black man and that couldn’t be the narrative. Jan 6th was the first time we gave a clip show of recent right aligned rioters to have the news show and clutch pearls about while they ignore a 6 block radius of a random city on fire after a police involved shooting. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Part of the restructure to the Division model and the cutting of what has been explained as extraneous support requirements that don’t fit in the post coin LSCO model. Brigades have basically lost their Aviation staff support and with it that commanders primary advisor on how to use air. What is at the division is extremely limited (both in size and in the case of my division intelligence). We will not have forward placed air control parties outside of only certain Special warfare communities. What we’ve gotten to keep is essentially a deep targeting coordination capability not close air support in the traditional sense. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

There is a massive gulf of use between being naked on the ground and where you are considering strike capable ISR. The ground commander owns his/her scheme of protection, and we are increasingly empowering them for a host of reasons to be capable of that on their own. 1. Your service is taking JTACs away, so that’s helpful. 2. The democratization of effective weapons to provide that overhead search and strike particularly while mobile is increasing every day. 3. Sometimes I want protection and recon security to do just that and not get sucked into strike. That was one of the primary reasons we didn’t arm group 3 ISR when the question was there. It’s why Apache is a terrible recon platform. It’s also why there is an argument to maintain the 19 series because Infantry sees every thing as a nail when we have them the recon security tasks and drones to perform them. What you should have said is any time we have troops on the ground there should be an effective fires/strike capacity to achieve immediate overmatch with the expected threats. Same reason we make those guys truck a Javelin and mortars around when we know we can probably get air if we scream loud enough on the net. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk