Recent content by KevinB

8 Bty / BN 3 Bn / Bde 3 Bde of guns = 72 X 2 144 SPA and Ammo Vehicles 8 HIMARS / Bn 3 Bn / Bde 24 HIMARS + 96 PLS trucks X2 = 48 HIMARS + 192 PLS trucks for HIMARS (not to be stolen by other tasks for planning purposes)

Which speaks volumes about the CA.

There is a lot of money being moved. Biggest issue is while some lines can do x3 production with existing infrastructure - it will require more trained personnel, and anything beyond x3, (and with some stuff it’s like x20 and beyond), you need entirely new facilities let alone a new...

DoD went to industry several weeks ago (at least) with programs to exponentially increase Tomahawk, PrSM and several other systems including ADA and AMD. At least some in the system have an understanding of the issues.

Very few if any companies are going to risk running an IRCG blockade - the fact that doesn't appear to have been a plan put in place for this is pretty concerning. (We know there are various plans for pretty much everything under the sun, so it appears the Administration went ahead without...

Not new. The Basij have long taken in young children, it’s how the IRGC builds their structure. Take the orphans and very young children off the streets that their vagrant parents cannot afford (or you just jailed their parents for whatever reason), boom given them food, religious...

No. Slow and exposed with at least 2 personnel involved. I think the poster stepped way out of his wheelhouse in offering opinions on it on X.

Look like a paint can. Much more insurgent like than anything Israeli or American. Pressure Cookers, Pots, Pails etc were very common IED vessels over the past 25 years. I suspect the local anti-regime folks are as well aware of IED methods as insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan, seeing as...

I don’t get the love in about the Senator. It’s a Ford 550 with armor. It isn’t a first line vehicle. It definitely isn’t a JLTV as the protection levels aren’t even close. I don’t get the JLTV outside of certain rovers. It makes a UA Hummer look like an Iltis. It certainly isn’t a...

The issue I have with the TAPV design is that was raised for the CAF version from the original design -- and then a lot more weight was added at the top of the hull raising the CoG beyond a safe limit. Sure you can tip anything - but having seen them sway down the highway near my parents...

I expect the service rounds when adopted will be in the 85k to 95k Chamber Pressure range. The 55gr AP round I shot was 4,105fps from a 11.5" barrel with HuxWrx 556K can, but that was some test stuff just loaded prior to the shoot. The 62-63gr M855A1 projectiles were in the 3,200 FPS range -...

Hey, if you can’t situate the estimate, what’s the purpose right?

Blanks are ivo of 4EFC’s The powder cuts the throat - so in the ideal world they die. Run a Sims bolt for any FoF Fixed is a bit of a misnomer, as you take them off to clean the barrel, and SSI (and all other .mil suppressor companies) has a bullet trap BFA can look a like, as well as a...

There is a willingness to decouple “Fortress North America” from global oil prices. However those suggestions don’t seem to gather that doing that will all but end the Petrodollar as standard. The weirdest thing is (well to me) so many Republicans seem to think there is some 4-6D chess going...

You totally fail to understand the Pro Israeli lobby down here. As well as the reality of post WW2 guilt with how Jewish people were treated. Any President who attempted a SA like embargo would be destroyed.