Recent content by Colin Parkinson

POTUS has been a legit target for a long time, both to domestic and international actors.

China political circle is in disarray right now and with the death/disappearance of a top general, they might be reluctant to arm them right now/

I think we all got a blunt reminder at how effective a sub can be. That might lean the decision makers to who can provide the fastest.

Sri Lanka has a 12nm territorial waters, but the sinking was well within their EEZ . This is a 40nm radius from Galle, so she was sunk somewhere in that area. Hard to tell with open source what her intentions where. Whether to attack Diego Garcia or to head home? According to Wiki, the class can...

As I recall the UK did declare a certain area of the South Atlantic a combat zone prior to the sinking of the Belgrano?

Happened several times in WWI and II

When I was in, we had every vehicle on a tactical move manned with a air sentry, The C2 was the main weapon of choice.

There was a similar thing going on, different product though: https://railfan.com/canadas-shortest-short-line-calls-it-quits/

Yes if I get anymore Persian bakeries or restaurants I going get fat.

Roshel is the modern day armoured CMP. Start filling out the reserves with it, god knows they need the vehicles.

I don't really see how much more value the boxer version gives you over the truck version? I suspect the trucks ease of maintenance, road mobility, extra payload will outweigh any of the benefits of the additional armour. These will rarely if ever come under direct fire and will be targets by...

Some of that can be attributed to mid level meddlers who try to "protect and insulate" their bosses, often without direction and often to promote their own self-importance.

Iran is hard at work expanding the "Coalition of the unwilling, but still involved" by hitting Turkey with a missile.

Yea my main concern is that the Germans want to fill their order book to the brim and figure out how to deliver later. I think they are also used to being the "premium pick" and not used to having to compete either for subs or for MBT's. SK knows that our order is super important for them and...

I agree with this, short sightedness on the part of the USN, to eager to get that kill mark.