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HighGround

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I remember when people made fun of Russians for unexploded ordinance from their PGMs.

This is why I can't help but roll my eyes when people think Russians are particularly inept and we're the "professionals." I think any real peer-war will be a lot closer to Vietnam rather than Iraq. I pray we don't have to find out.
 
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I'm sure people will have the same reaction to this as with the VT-4 right? /s
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This seems to the logic —

When western weapons malfunction or fail — the fault lies with operator inexperience or improper maintenance.

When Chinese or Russian weapons malfunction or fail — cause its junk.
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Obviously USN is undertrained and inept and can’t use or maintain the weapons properly. If the Wanwanese military used them it will have 270 percent success rate.
 
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Northrop Grumman's CCA2 received the YFQ-48A designation, making it the first contract awarded in the second phase of CCA.

So, CCA2 just an improvement over CCA1 with IWB and claims to reduce costs? The narrative that PLA subsonic CCA are equivalent to CCA1 is completely reversed; CCA2 is at most equivalent to Type C and E.
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i found this linked in a War Zone article regarding strikes of Venezuela (
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) which includes this interesting load out for an MQ-9 Reaper.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2004973079941021755

I didn’t know MQ-9 could handle payloads that big! I guess they have had some upgrades over time? I guess if Reapers are capable of conducting strikes in Venezuela their air defences must non-existent.
 
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SpaceX is building a constellation of satellites for the US Armed Forces called MILNET. The constellation will consist of 480 satellites which I assume are a variant of Starlink.

MILNET is designed to operate as a high-capacity “backbone” layer alongside the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA) currently being built by the Space Development Agency (SDA).

While the SDA’s Transport Layer focuses on low-latency tactical data inputs (such as Link 16), MILNET provides the heavy-lift data transport required to move massive intelligence and sensor files across theaters. This hybrid approach allows the USSF to utilize SpaceX’s volume production to achieve orbital density, complementing the SDA’s multi-vendor tactical mesh.
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These satellites will utilize lasers for mesh communication. Initial operating capability is expected in 2027 with first deployments to start this year (2026).

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