This feels kinda like commissions for making model kits for others. Professional modelling meets gaming culture.
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I was thinking the same thing. Why send fighter planes against a navy with good air defense systems when I can send subs??? Chinese submarines aren’t that good, but they are upgrading fast....
I believe the pic is choosen by the OP because in this movie scene, the character gives a ‘What the heck just happened’ face/expression....
Even if you put a Liberty Prime in a settlement, it still be unable to defend itself
I figured these will be deployed with a quick reaction force, embedded with infantry, to boost tactical firepower, in lieu of deploying manned armored vehicles. I can imagine them deploying a system consisting a few of these UGVs and its command vehicle, along with a company of soldiers, to hotspots. A BMP3 is about…
Well the Russians are fond of putting rockets on anything that flies
So USA is socialist?
A bigger NATO?
I am talking about your 4 glide bombs, not the plane itself. They will not make it pass the IADS.
What happens if your target is mobile??? The west coalition had so much difficulty finding a bunch of Scud launchers in Iraq. What if your Peer state raise readiness levels for strategic forces during negotiation and the forces deploy within 2 hours?
Not trying to be a spoilsport...(while I am),.....the X-15 is payload dropped and is powered by a rocket......I mean you can break the record now with a similar setup with a better rocket and reentry vehicle or something. A surface-to-space plane under its own engine power, not using a rocket, well it is something…
F117 and B2 in Serbia had jammer support too, in the form of Navy Prowlers iirc..
The SR 71 needed half a dozen fuel tankers for its mission. Speed and range are not best of friends. In the end you still basing for those supporting tankers right?
Just curious, what did you do in the military?
Since I am just a lowly grunt with a radio I won’t brag about it heh. Anw good points. I have not read much about the MEU/MEB, or marine formations around the world. I am still stuck in the ol’ arty/rocket fire beach storming era XD
I will just look at the map, plot the range of an Osprey from the fleet, and put some guys with lots of Manpads around suspected LZs and tell them to hold fire till the Ospreys’ final approach. LZs are just fraught with danger. Didnt they learn anything from Vietnam? Helicopter losses were around 40+%. And that was…
But this ship will travel with a carrier task force right? It will not travel anywhere alone right, in a full scale non permissive environment? Then it will have air cover. Interservice jokes aside, to drop amphibous capability for air support already provided by the Navy in a full scale operation, seems…