Thinking_ExUSAF
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6 weeks ago @ DoD Buzz - The LCS 'snowball' may... · 0 replies · +2 points
IF you had differential stabilization fins, forward and aft, you might be able to keep the hull stable fore and aft, but without the flare on the bow you will be taking spray all over the foredeck as well as that BIG TALL deckhouse! Now. . . make it a nice winter storm with the wind blowing off of the Greenland ice cap and all of that spray turns to ice! TONS and TONS of ice, and not even a decent handrail to grab for all of those sailors who have to go on deck to try to break off the ice and keep the ship from turning turtle! LOL! Yep, you are gonna fix that one with software and high tech. . . right?
And the ship does not even have those hypothetical fore/aft differential fins! LOL!
7 weeks ago @ DoD Buzz - The LCS 'snowball' may... · 2 replies · +1 points
By the 1920s, the familiar flared clipper bow and traditional hull (like an Arleigh Burke if you will!) had come back into favor.
10 weeks ago @ DoD Buzz - USMC 3-star: "Party cr... · 0 replies · +1 points
Let the bad guys try to fight the "insurgency" with their high tech, spic-n-span, high profile weapons, but make those rag-tag commandos just as lethal as possible without turning them into logistics-burdened "tread-heads", and. . . .. . I bet that THEY dont have any better answers to the issues than we do!
10 weeks ago @ DoD Buzz - Ohio Guard accuses AF ... · 0 replies · +2 points
10 weeks ago @ DoD Buzz - USMC 3-star: "Party cr... · 2 replies · 0 points
Still think about it. . . .. put 250 to 500 independently operating commandos (aka "Marauders") into a one or two day raid and some serious damage can be inflicted, and how do you defend against them? You either have to intercept them afloat or you have to practically "nuke" the area, otherwise the defenders have to stamp on each ant, one at a time, and that would be practically impossible in a modern urban or semi urban terrain. If an ARCLIGHT had been a single BUFF with a nuke, we could have stamped on the NVA and VC within a 10 mile radius, but. . . . we were unwilling to use the big hammer. How much less willing would an opponent be to "nuke" his own cities and urban centers to get rid of those raiders?
Not saying that the powered exoskeleton/battle armor, or the "k-gun" firing pocket nukes at every "bounce" would be necessary, but. . . . .One intelligent, hostile, well trained . and independently operating commando equipped with multiple demolition charges, a personal weapon, multiplied by 250 or 500, could quickly inflict a very significant military and psychological blow against any enemy. (for a modern, real-world example, look at the overall impact on the war in the pacific that was the result of the Doolittle raid on Japan! The physical damage was relatively minor, the psychological and eventual military impact after Midway was huge!)
11 weeks ago @ DoD Buzz - USMC 3-star: "Party cr... · 4 replies · 0 points
A battalion of heavily armed Marines, dumped into a coastal region with instructions to blow up, burn, and otherwise disrupt anything of military value for a day or so, and then be extracted, could tie down a major defensive force just to "prevent" such an event.
11 weeks ago @ DoD Buzz - The Army's tank trap · 1 reply · +6 points
12 weeks ago @ DoD Buzz - The Air Force's simple... · 1 reply · +1 points
13 weeks ago @ DoD Buzz - AUSA: Soldiers' iPhone... · 0 replies · +1 points
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13 weeks ago @ DoD Buzz - AUSA: Soldiers' iPhone... · 1 reply · +1 points
The "responsibility" for communications security will always have to rest on the individual user. If I want to have the most secure communications system in the world, its very easy to implement. Turn the ON/OFF switch to the OFF position! We would then revert to the pre-telegraph army C4 of the Napoleonic era! ABSOLUTE security would be achieved without any "compliance requirement" on the lower echelons.
As for holding the users responsible for compliance with the necessary security measures, it does so woefully limit creativity and individual initiative, and we KNOW that accountability is one of those anathemas of the current system. <sarcasm dripping>
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