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Don't you just love the smell of fratricide---not literal, intellectual, and from the leftoshpere----in the morning? I do.
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Please Mr. Gates, tell me how you can continue forward with your plan to lift the ban after visiting Dover and having, as your press release notes: ".... very moving experience ..."?
- David M
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The return of the United States Army Air Forces (Unmanned), and now with a lower rank structure! -the Armorer
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Speaking of circular firing squads... -the Armorer
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Coming soon to a FOB near you. Ion Cannons! Well, lasers. -the Armorer
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Buck Sargent is back from Iraq! Welcome home, dude! -the Armorer
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Posted without comment. -the Armorer
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Don't you just love the smell of fratricide---not literal, intellectual, and from the leftoshpere----in the morning? I do.
--ry
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Please Mr. Gates, tell me how you can continue forward with your plan to lift the ban after visiting Dover and having, as your press release notes: ".... very moving experience ..."?
- David M
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The return of the United States Army Air Forces (Unmanned), and now with a lower rank structure! -the Armorer
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Speaking of circular firing squads... -the Armorer
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Coming soon to a FOB near you. Ion Cannons! Well, lasers. -the Armorer
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Buck Sargent is back from Iraq! Welcome home, dude! -the Armorer
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Posted without comment. -the Armorer
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*A term of art from the artillery. Harassment and Interdiction Fires. Back in the day, when you could just kill people and break things without a note from a lawyer, they were pre-planned, but to the enemy, random, fires at known gathering points, road junctions, Main Supply Routes, assembly areas, etc - to keep the bad guy nervous that the world around him might start exploding at any minute. Not really relevant to today's operating environment, right? But, it *is. The UAVs we fly over Afghanistan and Pakistan looking for targets of opportunity are a form of H&I fires, if you really want to parse it finely. We just have better sensors and fire control now. Of course, now I have to call them UAS's, because someone got a Legion of Merit for the name change.Anyway, I call the post H&I Fires because it's random things posted by me and people I've given posting privileges to that particular topic. Another term of art that might be appropriate is Free Fire Zone.
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Finally... Obama has listened to reason and withdrawn the idea to make private insurance companies reimburse the VA for service and war related injuries.
Again, I say to you... HOT DAMN!!!
Whaaaaat? The Army gets fixed wing assets? Aw hell, why not just give up the whole idea of separate branches with separate purposes and be like the Canucks?
Yet AGAIN, to paraphrase Dos Gringos...I hate that frakking plane!!!
Coming soon to a FOB near you. Ion Cannons! Well, lasers. -the Armorer
I'm not sure how I feel about this...I mean I'm very excited because hey, this is COOL! But at the same time, I've always felt that lasers have the potential to seriously distract us from railgun technology. Everybody and their grandma has seen a million movies and TV shows with "laser" ray-guns and has been conditioned to see them as THE "futuristic" weapon, whereas very few people have even heard of railguns, much less understand that in the future, both systems should coexist in their own separate roles...
Whaaaaat? The Army gets fixed wing assets? Aw hell, why not just give up the whole idea of separate branches with separate purposes and be like the Canucks?
Yet AGAIN, to paraphrase Dos Gringos...I hate that frakking plane!!!
Coming soon to a FOB near you. Ion Cannons! Well, lasers. -the Armorer
I'm not sure how I feel about this...I mean I'm very excited because hey, this is COOL! But at the same time, I've always felt that lasers have the potential to seriously distract us from railgun technology. Everybody and their grandma has seen a million movies and TV shows with "laser" ray-guns and has been conditioned to see them as THE "futuristic" weapon, whereas very few people have even heard of railguns, much less understand that in the future, both systems should coexist in their own separate roles...
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Jeez. Um. I love boobs very much, but even I don't know what to make of this.
I love boobs very much, but even I don't know what to make of this.
Me, too. Hence, why I made no comment. Congratulations on clicking the link.
As for railguns vs lasers - the Navy is carrying the water for railguns, so I suspect you'll get your wish - as long as a President and Congress are properly enamored.
If you guys in the Air Force are ready to come home, we can prolly make room for you...
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Yeah, I'm very hopeful that the single railgun planned for the Zumwalts will, some decades down the line, lead to a proper reactor-powered gunship. However, the complete abandonment of the "nuclear Navy" concept outside of subs and carriers makes me highly skeptical.
Ridiculous! There is no one like me.
I'm hoping that the single railgun planned for the Zumwalts is going to lead, some decades down the line, to proper gunships powered by reactors...but the complete abandonment of the "nuclear Navy" concept, outside of carriers and subs, makes me very skeptical.