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Sort of funny as this specific issues had addressed much earlier in this thread when discussing split fleets and the F-15 EX and F-35 combo. Also same article was posted and discussed a few pages ago. Now split fleets work for the USAF due to the volume of aircraft we have — but I don’t...

Also need to factor non compliance with earlier law changes. I knew a number of folks who registered one AR-15 when they went from non restricted to restricted in 1994, and kept 3-4 for ‘a rainy day’. Then there were a ton of ‘deactivated’ AR receivers sold that had a pin welded through a...

It is 6D chess you fool :ROFLMAO: I think he had a plan, and his SecWar was all for it -- so they didn't listen to more informed opinions.

Now one of the bonuses with the steel casing and HiP propellants. The steel casing gives vastly greater neck tension capabilities than brass casings do, and the power for the HiP is almost a compressed solid that fills the casing. Thus bullet setback is virtually impossible with HiP...

@NavyShooter 's post twigged another point that I had meant to mention earlier. Unlike bolt action rifles that just rely on a chamber pressure for safe operation, gas guns (DI and Piston) rely on chamber and port pressures for proper function. Even with current service ammunition ammo...

The Brits still have two lots of 5.56mm as of last year -- 1) ammo for the KAC KS-1 guns, and the C7/C8's 2) ammo for the SA80A2. The SA80A2 ammo is lower pressure - not cycling the AR style weapons well, although it generally works fine in suppressed AR's but still reduced velocities. You can...

As of last week all 5EYE SOF are at least talking about a common load spec. Big Army down here is talking to SOF and working the ammo issues jointly, so I expect that at least Canada, the UK, Australia, and American forces will have a mutually compatible loading (even if the loadings of some...

No not at all -- plus the clay launchers put the targets so they are moving away from you in a fairly predicable pattern. To make it move in a realistic manner you would have a launcher inside 25m that launches it right at you - from any direction and altitude. I'm a pretty decent shooter...

Somewhere I either Typo’d or brain farted. I had meant to write 3 x 8 gun Bty /Bn. (Then two 4 gun Troops /Bty). I like a 1:1 CS Bty / Maneuver Bn ratio At min, and would prefer 1.5 Bty (or 3 Troops) More to follow after lawn work.

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 -...