Posted on 01/21/2018 8:36:37 AM PST by NorseViking
In network there was video on which the moment of launch of an anti-tank guided missile by Kurds on the Turkish Leopard tank is filmed. The video is published on YouTube channel of fighters of the Kurdish militia of YPG.
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The proof of the wastage is all the gazillion dollar mansions in McClean and Potomac Md that have gone up since 9-11 along with the high-rise office buildings in Tyson’s corner. Civil Service salaries don’t pay for anything close to any of that. That is all paid for by skim off of of private contracts - and remember, no one builds much of anything useful within a hundred miles of Ground Zero [the courtyard at the center of the Pentagon for those unfamiliar with local lore].
“I suspect that a future battlefield will be blanketed with self-reporting sensors that identify where the targets are and then those targets will get neutralized by little flying drones.”
The actual warhead on a tank killing missile is not all that big or heavy. Neither is the kind of armor-piercing shaped charge in an anti-tank mine. Small off the shelf aerial drones and roomba robots could join the fight in big numbers, at low cost. The aerial drones dropping small bombs/grenades has already been widespread in the battles of Mosul and Raqqa.
Which is exactly my point. These guys don't make anything. They are just expensive coat holders, consultants, and middle men.
And that part was kind of deliberate. We can look like we are spending defense dollars, we can destroy the military AND we can keep the dollars here in DC where we can enjoy the parties that they throw for us. We win three times, nay four times. What's not to like about the plan?
The small businesses actually had to perform to survive. The huge DoD corporations dragged their feet to milk all the money they could get. I finished a three year contract in 18 months. The agency I worked for loved what we did and renegotiated our contract to keep us on to integrate our product with one being developed by one of the big boys. Those folks hated us for showing them up and their Program Manager actually scolded me for finishing early as he was going to drag it out and ask for an extension to their three year contract. When our contract ended there was no more work as that big company took one of those omnibus contracts and the PM told me flat out that he would love to hire me and my men but we wern't team players.
Also, I had many lunches at Ground Zero.
That website has someone named Peggy wanting me to click on an ad.
Thank you.
Until you drive a zero turn over some crazy terrain, it might be hard to comprehend.
A little higher chassis, some devices to pull it over obstacles or flip it back over from turn overs, v hull for ieds, internal protection for lighter ieds, some lightweight variations on armor. I think it could be a terror on the field.
My residential model gets 8.5 mph. A jacked up one could get over 20mph in straight aways, then have computer control for when it can make the nasty quick turns.
A thousand of these with 4 or more hellfires swarming a zone would probably be devastating.
Also, you could put ledges on the back for two or more SF or other troops.
Just a thought, but I would Love for our guys to have all the advantages as possible.
Interesting. The cool thing about my zero turn micro tanks is the reduced fuel usage. You can drive all day on 10 gallons.
Thanks
The technology is there for all sorts of improvements. They won’t get made by any of the big players. And, for the most part, the little players with the great ideas are too little to design, prototype and produce working models that the military could test. Besides, the government is a terrible customer. It wouldn’t bother them at all to run you out of business, then give your models to a big player with a contract to make 500. Bantam designed the world war two jeep, but Ford and GM got the production contracts.
I hear you about deliberate inefficiency in the procurement policy. Bureaucrats looking for kickbacks, feathering their nests for later plush jobs, or just to get their egos stroked.
But you are proven right about the cheap drones, ISIS has already jury rigged hundreds of them for military use.
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