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So you never had a bad week at work and just had to keep rolling? What is she supposed to do?
The military connections are incredibly small. My son and the son of our BN Chaplain in 2003 currently serve together in the same BN.
I imagine X in 1944 saying 6,000 American casualties on June 6, they say they’ve established a beachhead, but have they really?
This is why the NFL will fail at some point. We love it, but all see it and it’s sad based upon how It was always sold….everyone knew WWF was entertainment…and that’s fine, the NFL pretends now that it’s all legit…way too many matchups in week 18 to make that make sense.
Dan Orlovsky: "That's just not offensive pass interference."
ESPN rules analyst Mike Chase: "He shoves him out of the play to begin with. That's why he's so wide open."
Chris Fowler: "So you support the call?"
Chase: "I do. I do." 🏈🦓🎙️ #NFL
That isn’t why Yamato failed. As always the ignorance of how they’re used. Combined arms is why our battleships worked.
What Yamato and Iowa Teach Us
The Yamato was grandiose, the largest guns ever designed for a warship, with nine 46 cm (18.1-inch) main guns capable of firing shells up to 42 km, the farthest of their era. A thick hull, with belt armor up to 410 mm thick, protected that giant.
On the other side, the Iowa boasted more agile turret traversal, a more powerful engine delivering speeds of 33 knots, and precise radar (Mark 8 and Mark 13 fire-control systems) capable of directing accurate shots beyond 30 km, even in poor visibility.
Despite Yamato's bigger guns, its effective firing range was actually shorter than Iowa's, since it relied primarily on optical sighting, limiting engagements to around 25-30 km in good conditions. In fact, Yamato was built without radar and only received a basic, imprecise one in the final year of the war. What a disservice to a historical giant.
In a confrontation, the Iowa would not only dictate the speed and establish the engagement range but also extend that range further thanks to its superior sensors.
What do the Americans need to learn from this?
It doesn't help to increase size when you lack the technology to impose and sustain that advantage.
Actually the Chinese have at least 9 models of hypersonic missiles that are very difficult to defend against.
Sure, plenty of folks don’t like reading about that, but until the GPI (Glide Phase Interceptor, a ship-launched missile designed to intercept hypersonic threats during their glide phase) is completed and the SM-6 sees significant maturation for reliable hypersonic defense, including ongoing upgrades and real tests,
I'd say the bigger the ships, the bigger the targets.
And if equipment-based countermeasures don't arrive in time, a total fleet reorganization becomes necessary, preferably decentralizing C2 to reduce vulnerability, as I've written before.
Beyond that, US need to accelerate and take seriously the research and development of more capable missiles. Missiles became one of the most important factor in naval warfare.
The lesson remains: Only increase size when the technology can ensure the ship's survival and combat efficiency.
I hesitate so much with this because so many are fake, but she is so damn spot on. Forget the political tagging…this is how It should be…but also I wish she wasn’t in uniform 🤷♂️…we’ve gotta separate that.
A CURRENT DRILL SERGEANT speaks out on the new requirements in the military.
@PeteHegseth you’ve got a WINNER here!!! 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼
The lack of knowledge of how the Medal of Honor standards changed dramatically from when It was first established has become a wildly self revealing standard of people who’s opinions I will ignore.
Seeing the footage out of burning man. If only there was 4k for northern Kuwait in the early 2000’s.
