U.S Army switching to 6.8mm

[ranger]

I have the t-shirt and scars from previous experience with Big Army and "readiness" from my own mobilizations from Desert Storm and OIF plus deploying multiple BNs and COs to OEF. 90 days would be a fast deployment for a National Guard maneuver unit of BN size and hopefully longer for a Heavy Brigade. First issue is you have to "prove" to First Army all the skills from individual through crew through PLT, CO, BN, and BDE culminating at a CTC like event. All the qualifications during Title 32 time are typically ignored.

PS - we do not have enough airlift or sealift to move the ARNG Heavy Brigades so we will have time to spin up.

[HCM]

^^^^^
This

The Ukrainians lost their power grid for a time due to Russian hacking. They were able to restore it pretty quickly as was the old manual equipment was still in place and functional. There's a reason the Navy started teaching old school navigation again.

In the west point lecture I linked, Dr Karber (a former marine officer) says straight out - if you can read a map / use a compass get out of the Army.

[jetfire]

I have the t-shirt and scars from previous experience with Big Army and "readiness" from my own mobilizations from Desert Storm and OIF plus deploying multiple BNs and COs to OEF. 90 days would be a fast deployment for a National Guard maneuver unit of BN size and hopefully longer for a Heavy Brigade. First issue is you have to "prove" to First Army all the skills from individual through crew through PLT, CO, BN, and BDE culminating at a CTC like event. All the qualifications during Title 32 time are typically ignored.

PS - we do not have enough airlift or sealift to move the ARNG Heavy Brigades so we will have time to spin up.

A huge amount of our tactical airlift capability is in the ANG and AFRC as well; that takes time to spool up the guys who need to load and fly the troops and equipment into place.

[RevolverRob]

So, I recognize that one of the major lessons from WW2 was stashing a large portion of your logistical transports in one place is a bad idea (Pearl Harbor). But what are the best ways to meet the logistical needs of a war in say Korea? Presumably we will deploy out of Japan and the Philippines, but we have to get people there first, right? We know carriers and transport vessels are sitting ducks for submarines.

I guess I'm really curious to know why we haven't built a substantial fleet of transport submarines? Obviously, you can't transport as much in a submarine as a gigantic transport ship, but even still...

[Ed L]

I guess I'm really curious to know why we haven't built a substantial fleet of transport submarines? Obviously, you can't transport as much in a submarine as a gigantic transport ship, but even still...

Budget priorities, manpower limitations, plus give the way subs are designed you really can't carry much in a submarine. We have not had enough money to fund more pressing items. Subs are limited in dimensions in terms of height and width in ways that surface ships are not. So if you could design a submarine that could carry anything substantial it would be an awkwardly long and bulky monsterous beast that would be so big that it would be hard to navigate into docks and harbors. It would be a failure because you cannot load or unload material off a submarine as quickly or easily as a surface ship.

[KeithH]

Could this be something totally brand new, like a caseless cartridge, or is the article just click bait?

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/y...20Bird%20Brief

[Jim Watson]

Puff piece with no solid information.

[jetfire]

Could this be something totally brand new, like a caseless cartridge, or is the article just click bait?

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/y...20Bird%20Brief

Military Times is like HuffPo for milnews

[KeithH]

Thanks....I thought I was being teased. The article was so frustratingly vague. Like words were being multiplied without knowledge.

Guess I'll have to wait.

[DamonL]

The article is ok for a general military publication. It references Jim Schatz and Dr Gary Roberts in the article who are SME'a is this area. Doc GKR posted in this thread. For more detailed info, I found these presentation by Jim Schatz with a google search.

https://ndiastorage.blob.core.usgovc...260_Schatz.pdf

https://ndiastorage.blob.core.usgovc...354_Schatz.pdf