@WarOnTheRocks Why is it so difficult for anyone to follow the basic Chinese doctrine - fire strike FIRST? The fixed / never really mobile Taiwanese defenses will be blasted. If you get to an assumption of full kinetics without the PLARF and PLAA and PLAN fire strike full participation….
One Marauder carrying four of Anduril’s containerized Barracuda 500M launchers could add 128 cruise missiles to the magazine of a carrier strike group (more than a Ticonderoga-class cruiser).
Barracudas are no Tomahawks, of course, but not every target needs a Tomahawk.
New test footage: first missile shot from YFQ-44A.
YFQ-44A executed an end-to-end, beyond-line-of-sight strike against a simulated target.
The test, executed out of @EdwardsAFB, represents an important step in turning CCA into an operational capability.
@ryanl_hass@JohnCulver689@brucebrookings@MichaelEOHanlon Why not ask USAF / SAF to release the full RAND 2025 China-US Military Scorecard that was ordered so courageously by Frank Kendall in the last months of Biden. This would answer the question very solidly, and replace the horribly outdated 2017 report that is still cited in 2026.
@PCIS_Guam It is called going Winchester, sadly. We are unprepared for the scale+quality of inbound hypersonics + massive long range rocket (PHL-191) fire. It is easy math, and we will realize it too late. 😳😥. Iran showed depletion of & loss of systems targeted by middle grade threats.
Folks (guys and gals), don't be psyopped by this article. You don't have unlimited time. You need to be moving. Don't put off life. Don't look at Anne Hathaway getting pregnant at 43 and think "Oh, ok I'll be fine." It's a psyop. You'll have massive regret if you squander your youth with hedonism and selfish BS and then try to scramble to have a real life later. Don't be deceived by lies.
@AbWasRightAgain@kurtalexander5@amanpour@willripleyCNN 1) There is no "you people." Take people and arguments as they come. 2) I know that we have them, but that we have very, very few. LRHW and CPS are barely fielded. Castelion is the hope here. 3) You don't research who you are talking to - you are an angry keyboard kid.
@AbWasRightAgain@kurtalexander5@amanpour@willripleyCNN How many do we have, though 😳
You are scoring some basic points against low information people, but not really seeing the larger point, which is that China’s PLARF is going to bring the pain.
He was burning alive, yet he kept re-entering the burning Bradley Fighting Vehicle until all six soldiers and the Iraqi interpreter were safe. Burns covered 72% of his body. His first words were, ‘How are my boys?’ He died three weeks later. It took 16 years for him to receive the Medal of Honor. HIS NAME IS SERGEANT FIRST CLASS ALWYN C. CASHE, NEVER FORGET!!!
This is so clearly fraud
Everyone knows that anyone who’s served now lies to get 100% disability forever (and then usually works other jobs too)
They need to crack down and limit this to real disability but they won’t
In 2004, at the peak of his fame off the back of Get Rich or Die Tryin', 50 Cent travelled to Iraq with his G-Unit crew to perform for American troops.
He flew into Camp Anaconda, a base so volatile it was nicknamed "Mortaritaville" because of the constant bombardment.
The base, also known as Logistics Support Area Anaconda near Balad, was one of the most frequently attacked US installations in the country, taking regular indirect fire from mortars and rockets.
Wearing a bulletproof vest and surrounded by military personnel, he delivered an energetic concert that lifted the spirits of the soldiers
By multiple accounts of the visit, an officer warned him before he went on, "You could die today," and he opened the set with "What Up Gangsta."
"The Pentagon announced they're doing an LCCM buy from Anduril; our Barracuda-500 class. We will produce 7,000 barracudas in 2027. Deliveries on Tomahawks and Patriots are both less than 1,000 a year, so we will make ten times more Barracuda-500s than Patriots or Tomahawks."