Is the donut stand still there at the Nambu Bus Terminal?
ChickenHead
1 year ago
Setnaffa… our work is done.
We spoke against the dumbass vaccine when everything was unclear.
Its safety and efficiency is clear now.
Now it is time to support the vaccine.
Anybody who wants it at this point should be encouraged to get it.
GrayBlack
1 year ago
Would appreciate some feedback on this. There’s been some niche, open source chatter about this.
Infantry squad based drones which live stream targeting infomation directly to firesupport (artillery and motars) should and can be developed. The drone is used to spot the enemy, provide targeting coordinates directly to firesuppport, and provide livestream aerial video with calculated miss or hit distances for real time fire control.
The current tech available already makes this possible and secure via FSO communication and widespread general and rugged computing. Friendly positions are safe and comms safe from jamming. The only thing required is integration and testing. Would just need to poach a few university professors and defense sector engineers to do all this in house for a few years. Plus 5 to 10 million USD in funding.
Besides making ISR available for every line unit, it would also speed up the OODA loop by cutting out unnecessary chain of command in firesupport requests.
ChickenHead
1 year ago
Meh… grayblack… yesterday’s news.
I do this as a side project.
Ask me specifics and I will answer whatever question you ask… right here… for all to see.
There is lots of funding for this.
I am not interested.
GrayBlack
1 year ago
Yesterday’s news by nearly a decade by now. So why hasn’t it been widely implemented? DOD seems obsessed with high flying, expensive, GPS dependent, RF emitting drones. Small, cheap, low flying, FSO drones have not received nearly the same push. There’s clearly some kind of holdup and I’m pretty sure the paper pushers are the main but not sole cause.
It’s like separating the illuminator from the receiver in radar systems. Been old news for many, many decades. Easy to do in principle. Would have some major, obvious benefits, yet somehow never happens.
The Carl Gustav has been old news as well. It took how many decades to be recognized? So many examples of DOD being slow on the uptake.
DOD needs a shake up in their acquisitions process. This needs to start with their wargaming. Give red/blue teams a nearly complete discretionary budget where they can go to vendors to buy and experiment with new equipment. The Senior Enlisted and Junior Officers make the shopping list. Few questions asked. Run the simulations frequently. Give ratings based on winning and reward it. This would promote inovation and competition.
Liz
1 year ago
I know some folks in the drone biz. A lot of the holdup is the FAA.
However, that’s not an empty concern if you think about the amount of air traffic and how to manage it if/when thousands…perhaps hundreds of thousands/millions of drones are flying around also.
setnaffa
1 year ago
GrayBlack, maybe they’re holding something back so China can’t copy it?
CH, I do tend to tell most people who drive EVs to make sure they’re fully vaccinated and boosted.
GrayBlack
1 year ago
setnaffa, officially DOD is preparing for near peer conflict (looking at China). Unofficially DOD is preparing for being the near peer. At this point, fear of China copying is a far smaller concern than falling behind and having nothing to be copied. Innovation has to always be the priority. The US held little back during the Cold War. It cheekily flew top of the line spy planes inside Soviet air space. If the plane got shot down and reversed engineered, the country had full confidence it could simply innovate faster than the Soviets. Today it is China that is cheekily flying spy balloons inside US air space. Spy balloons that appear to be able to control the flight path. Something that DARPA has been trying and failing to do for years now. Apples to oranges sure, but China is no longer copying.
The Chinese did not copy hypersonic missiles. The US can’t even get them to fly controllably. This is forcing American CSGs further and further away from China while they are developing their own CSGs. ~30 years ago American warships sailed through the Taiwan straits, now they hang out around the Philippians.
The Marines are preparing to fight without logistical support. TBS now includes scavenging for food and fighting without superior firepower. Contrast that with WW2’s Pacific when it was generally the Japanese that were the starving ones with inferior firepower. The roles have seemingly been swapped.
One of the most important parts of innovation is implementation. If systems are never deployed wide-scale, problems that emerge at that scale never arise, doctrines never updated or developed in the first place. Further innovation is strangled. Have to be willing to put as much as possible on the table and utilize it.
setnaffa
1 year ago
GrayBlack, I think you should believe less than 50 percent of what the nose-picking CCP says about their capabilities and note they often advertise future capabilities before they even have a successful blueprint, much less a successful proof of concept.
If we can’t build reliable hypersonic weapons, what makes you believe a third world s***hole that can’t even feed itself has them?
Is China dangerous? Certainly. But if they could take Taiwan, they would already have done so.
And do not forget, as I believe out media is trying to do, Israel, South Africa, and Taiwan had thermonuclear warheads on operational cruise missiles back in the late 1970s. South Africa gave up theirs before handing the keys to the current regime; but no one is asking whether Israel has nukes. And they seem to imagine Taiwan just gave theirs away…
SpongeBrain Puddingpants and his SCOAMF-trained handlers may want us in a war; but it may take more than that fat fairy Milley to inspire the troops to do more than call in sick.
Everyone wants to work from home these days.
Just stick to the plan.
And don’t worry.
We win. They lose.
Yoon Suck Me
1 year ago
The latest figures are in now, showing how much money the very few privileged powerful American entities have made off of their proxy war in Ukraine. $282 billion made off of the Ukraine conflict by Exxon Mobile only in a 6-month period. It’s no wonder the US wants the war to continue at the expense of the rest of the world. But both France and Japan are now breaking the ranks, and buying Russian energy. Do you stick with a US side that is only interested in profiting off of the backs of the world, or do you say, hell with all these sanctions?
There will be resistance. There will be war. America will have conflict with anyone who resists this.
Victory won’t be defined by any military accomplishmnent.
Victory will be defined by the amount of disruption it causes. The enemy will not be conquered. They will simply be kept in a position where they can never quite get their act together enough to be a military or economic threat.
There is good chance: Russia will be disassembled. China will collapse into chaos. India and Brazil will continue to flounder.
The countries to watch are probably Poland and Turkey. And expect something from Japan, as they are going to be faced with some difficult choices.
In a few weeks, I will have more details worked out.
…assuming there there are more CIA reports posted in my gaming group.
setnaffa
1 year ago
It’s always amazing how little thought the useful idjits put into things. Cancer and unemployment had drained my savings; but my other businesses seem to be proving PT Barnum a true prophet of profit. I am in better financial shape than any time in my adult life.
And the best part is they are coming to me with work requests. I offer no advertising. And I’m needing to hire assistants…
Last edited 1 year ago by setnaffa
ChickenHead
1 year ago
Setnaffa, do you need an IT assistant?
I know someone who is about to graduate with some sort of IT degree in America.
I don’t know the details but I know they took it seriously and they are pretty close to a straight A student.
Their dream is a work-from-home remote work kind of job.
I hired them to tutor me on the use of a specific piece of IT-related equipment. I have no time to learn the tricks of the trade so I sent them one and they played around with it and figured out all the cleverness associated with it.
Then they taught me in hours what would have taken me hundreds of hours to figure out on my own. I not only got how to make it work but why it works. Well worth it.
I can hook you guys up if you need it.
setnaffa
1 year ago
The difficult part is hooking us up without revealing my clients to the chinabots.
And right now, the powers that be are requiring several days in the office each week. That includes their regular employees as well as “consulting partners.”
Yep.
Is the donut stand still there at the Nambu Bus Terminal?
Setnaffa… our work is done.
We spoke against the dumbass vaccine when everything was unclear.
Its safety and efficiency is clear now.
Now it is time to support the vaccine.
Anybody who wants it at this point should be encouraged to get it.
Would appreciate some feedback on this. There’s been some niche, open source chatter about this.
Infantry squad based drones which live stream targeting infomation directly to firesupport (artillery and motars) should and can be developed. The drone is used to spot the enemy, provide targeting coordinates directly to firesuppport, and provide livestream aerial video with calculated miss or hit distances for real time fire control.
The current tech available already makes this possible and secure via FSO communication and widespread general and rugged computing. Friendly positions are safe and comms safe from jamming. The only thing required is integration and testing. Would just need to poach a few university professors and defense sector engineers to do all this in house for a few years. Plus 5 to 10 million USD in funding.
Besides making ISR available for every line unit, it would also speed up the OODA loop by cutting out unnecessary chain of command in firesupport requests.
Meh… grayblack… yesterday’s news.
I do this as a side project.
Ask me specifics and I will answer whatever question you ask… right here… for all to see.
There is lots of funding for this.
I am not interested.
Yesterday’s news by nearly a decade by now. So why hasn’t it been widely implemented? DOD seems obsessed with high flying, expensive, GPS dependent, RF emitting drones. Small, cheap, low flying, FSO drones have not received nearly the same push. There’s clearly some kind of holdup and I’m pretty sure the paper pushers are the main but not sole cause.
It’s like separating the illuminator from the receiver in radar systems. Been old news for many, many decades. Easy to do in principle. Would have some major, obvious benefits, yet somehow never happens.
The Carl Gustav has been old news as well. It took how many decades to be recognized? So many examples of DOD being slow on the uptake.
DOD needs a shake up in their acquisitions process. This needs to start with their wargaming. Give red/blue teams a nearly complete discretionary budget where they can go to vendors to buy and experiment with new equipment. The Senior Enlisted and Junior Officers make the shopping list. Few questions asked. Run the simulations frequently. Give ratings based on winning and reward it. This would promote inovation and competition.
I know some folks in the drone biz. A lot of the holdup is the FAA.
However, that’s not an empty concern if you think about the amount of air traffic and how to manage it if/when thousands…perhaps hundreds of thousands/millions of drones are flying around also.
GrayBlack, maybe they’re holding something back so China can’t copy it?
CH, I do tend to tell most people who drive EVs to make sure they’re fully vaccinated and boosted.
setnaffa, officially DOD is preparing for near peer conflict (looking at China). Unofficially DOD is preparing for being the near peer. At this point, fear of China copying is a far smaller concern than falling behind and having nothing to be copied. Innovation has to always be the priority. The US held little back during the Cold War. It cheekily flew top of the line spy planes inside Soviet air space. If the plane got shot down and reversed engineered, the country had full confidence it could simply innovate faster than the Soviets. Today it is China that is cheekily flying spy balloons inside US air space. Spy balloons that appear to be able to control the flight path. Something that DARPA has been trying and failing to do for years now. Apples to oranges sure, but China is no longer copying.
The Chinese did not copy hypersonic missiles. The US can’t even get them to fly controllably. This is forcing American CSGs further and further away from China while they are developing their own CSGs. ~30 years ago American warships sailed through the Taiwan straits, now they hang out around the Philippians.
The Marines are preparing to fight without logistical support. TBS now includes scavenging for food and fighting without superior firepower. Contrast that with WW2’s Pacific when it was generally the Japanese that were the starving ones with inferior firepower. The roles have seemingly been swapped.
One of the most important parts of innovation is implementation. If systems are never deployed wide-scale, problems that emerge at that scale never arise, doctrines never updated or developed in the first place. Further innovation is strangled. Have to be willing to put as much as possible on the table and utilize it.
GrayBlack, I think you should believe less than 50 percent of what the nose-picking CCP says about their capabilities and note they often advertise future capabilities before they even have a successful blueprint, much less a successful proof of concept.
If we can’t build reliable hypersonic weapons, what makes you believe a third world s***hole that can’t even feed itself has them?
Is China dangerous? Certainly. But if they could take Taiwan, they would already have done so.
And do not forget, as I believe out media is trying to do, Israel, South Africa, and Taiwan had thermonuclear warheads on operational cruise missiles back in the late 1970s. South Africa gave up theirs before handing the keys to the current regime; but no one is asking whether Israel has nukes. And they seem to imagine Taiwan just gave theirs away…
SpongeBrain Puddingpants and his SCOAMF-trained handlers may want us in a war; but it may take more than that fat fairy Milley to inspire the troops to do more than call in sick.
Everyone wants to work from home these days.
Just stick to the plan.
And don’t worry.
We win. They lose.
The latest figures are in now, showing how much money the very few privileged powerful American entities have made off of their proxy war in Ukraine. $282 billion made off of the Ukraine conflict by Exxon Mobile only in a 6-month period. It’s no wonder the US wants the war to continue at the expense of the rest of the world. But both France and Japan are now breaking the ranks, and buying Russian energy. Do you stick with a US side that is only interested in profiting off of the backs of the world, or do you say, hell with all these sanctions?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofYcdDMhAmY&t=626s&ab_channel=SeanFoo
Yoon, you have no idea.
The 21st century is going to belong to America.
There will be resistance. There will be war. America will have conflict with anyone who resists this.
Victory won’t be defined by any military accomplishmnent.
Victory will be defined by the amount of disruption it causes. The enemy will not be conquered. They will simply be kept in a position where they can never quite get their act together enough to be a military or economic threat.
There is good chance: Russia will be disassembled. China will collapse into chaos. India and Brazil will continue to flounder.
The countries to watch are probably Poland and Turkey. And expect something from Japan, as they are going to be faced with some difficult choices.
In a few weeks, I will have more details worked out.
…assuming there there are more CIA reports posted in my gaming group.
It’s always amazing how little thought the useful idjits put into things. Cancer and unemployment had drained my savings; but my other businesses seem to be proving PT Barnum a true prophet of profit. I am in better financial shape than any time in my adult life.
And the best part is they are coming to me with work requests. I offer no advertising. And I’m needing to hire assistants…
Setnaffa, do you need an IT assistant?
I know someone who is about to graduate with some sort of IT degree in America.
I don’t know the details but I know they took it seriously and they are pretty close to a straight A student.
Their dream is a work-from-home remote work kind of job.
I hired them to tutor me on the use of a specific piece of IT-related equipment. I have no time to learn the tricks of the trade so I sent them one and they played around with it and figured out all the cleverness associated with it.
Then they taught me in hours what would have taken me hundreds of hours to figure out on my own. I not only got how to make it work but why it works. Well worth it.
I can hook you guys up if you need it.
The difficult part is hooking us up without revealing my clients to the chinabots.
And right now, the powers that be are requiring several days in the office each week. That includes their regular employees as well as “consulting partners.”