Comments by "LRRPFco52" (@LRRPFco52) on "BFBS Forces News"
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@JammyDodger45 Edgar Brothers are the Prime Contractor for the UK as an importer, not manufacturer.
They arrange for all the carbines, optics, scope mounts, magazines, blank firing adaptors, simunition kits, protective gear, and all associated items to be bundled, then delivered. In their own words:
"As the Prime Contractor and UK Distributors, Edgar Brothers will be utilising a range of battle-proven products from suppliers from around the world to deliver the chosen solution."
Edgar Brothers is acting as a privatised military procurement agency, not a manufacturer of weapons. They have no ability to manufacture KAC weapons, Vortex optics, LAMs, etc.
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Yup. US population is 331 million. Finland is 5.5 million. There are tiny States in the US with more fightes, transports, helos, special ops, artillery, etc. than 95% of nations on earth.
My State alone has at least 72 F-35As, a National Guard helicopter base, artillery, a Special Forces Group, MI, Engineers, a USAF Logistics Depot that overhauls and upgrades fighters, etc.
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@robinstreets1792 The US Medicare and Medicaid programs make US Defense budget squirm with envy, and they're filled with billions of fraud, never audited or discussed much. Meanwhile, defense programs are under constant scrutiny and attacks.
Congress uses Medicare and Medicaid as political slush funds to reward campaign donors, with Medicare A being used as a rolling hospital bail-out fund, but then the hospitals line workers are always wondering where the money went.
It would be far better to let the private sector with massive defense contracts employ those people in high tech and manufacturing jobs with excellent private benefits, than scrounging for basic care on the dole-out after the money has been pilfered by political opportunists.
Then we could have funded F-22A and F-23A simultaneously with obscene production numbers and sustainmemt, on top of thousands of JSF.
The defense sector employees could send their kids to private schools or tutor them at home, so as not to be caught up in the socialist prison system of public schooling and counter-productive welfare conditioning.
Federally-funded medical programs are wretched disasters, unless you're talking about Federal employees, which then becomes very high-end with Blue Cross/Blue Shield.
NHSs in Europe are one of the biggest resource-wasting, tax money black holes ever devised by man.
I've lived under several if them in Germany and Finland, with a lot of anecdotal accounts from family in Sweden.
If you look at the number of hospitals, clinics, specialists, and dental clinics in even the poorest areas of the US and compare them with major cities in Northern Europe, it's sad to see what Europeans put up with unknowingly. It could be so much better, but socialists think it will create socioeconomic disparity by unleashing people's true potential, so better to just keep everyone muzzled and chained-down with limited take-home income potential and property ownership.
My elderly parents are getting decimated financially by the tax codes there.
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The AR-15 family of weapons has had from 1957-2023 to evolve with US funding behind it every step of the way. The core operating system, ammunition, and magazines were pretty much dialed-in by 1967 with the M16A1/Colt 603. AR-15s have been in the UK MoD inventory since the mid-1960s at the latest, so the UK actually has generations of engineers and technicians who have proficiency in supporting it. The UK should have adopted and licensed their own AR-15 production in the 1970s, but instead chose to take another Stoner design (AR-18), turn it into a heavy bullpup designed by committee, and make it unreliable with a terrible trigger pull and overall crude construction.
The savings to the UK taxpayer would have been considerable had they gone with the already-proven, lightweight, SAS-preferred AR-15 family of weapons. Now that it’s 2023, they are finally coming around for the RMs with one of the most cutting-edge AR-15 variants ever produced. This carbine beat out all the top company competitors in the trials, to include Hk, SIG, and several others. All of them were beautiful submissions, but this one rose above the rest.
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@MrTangolizard Over the past 18 months of actual trench warfare in Ukraine, how much evidence of bayonet work have you seen?
US and UK don't fight that way. We're on the offense with Net-Centric Air-Land Battle with Air Power as the main effort, followed by long-range precision fires, artillery, mortars, IFV main guns, turret and co-ax belt-feds, anti-armor and shoulder-fired explosives munitions, then dismounted crew-served belt-feds and snipers, LMGs, grenade launchers, then Joe with his pea shooter to sift through the grayed-out carcasses in the rubble.
There is literally no role for a bayonet in the 21st Century, and it was already marginalized to insignificance in WWII.
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It simply outclasses the Harrier in every performance metric imaginable.
Most important of all those metrics is safety. The Harrier is an inherently unstable jet during landing and is responsible for the loss of hundreds of lives and airframes over its career.
Aside from that, the F-35B has...
* Roughly 2x combat radius
* Mach 1.6 capable
* 5,700-22,000lb payload
* Humiliates any 4th Gen fighter in A2A combat using unfair advantages in SA, first-look, first-shoot
* Can penetrate the most dense IADS on the planet and conduct deep VLO strike on national command level TGTs
* Can execute Destruction of Enemy Air Defense nodes better than 4th Gen fighters who were dedicated to that specific mission
* Regularly conducts electronic attack in advance of strike packages by opening perimeter defense radar nets with 5th gen EA techniques
* Has anti-ship and ASW capabilities that are rarely discussed, with cooperative multi-spectral surface & sub-surface scanning abilities that are in the early stages of awakening the US and UK maritime 5th gen dominance
* Regularly tracks low earth orbit satellites with the AESA, then fuses those tracks with its other sensors, and pipes that live track data to anyone on its data link net
* Is able to detect and track ballistic missile launches at 800nm with the early DAS, which is being replaced with an even higher res new gen DAS
* Can read aircraft tail number markings in the IR spectrum based on temperature gradients between light and dark paint
* Regularly performs Airborne Early Warning & Control for other F-35s, Typhoons, NATO F-16s, Hornets, & F-15s.
The leaps in capability from the Harrier to the F-35 are almost like jumping from an F-86 into something Skunk Works would make for Darth Vader.
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@Rubeless Look up short stroke vs long stroke piston designs.
AK, Garand, SAW/Minimi, M240/MAG58, etc. are long-stroke.
Short stroke: SVT-38/40, SKS, FAL/L1A1, M-14, AR-18, G36, Hk416
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@heybabycometobutthead Yup. Historically, the Med has been the territorial waters of the civilizations who actually have large population centers along its coastlines, but then became territorial to the French, Spaniards, Italians, and British Empire.
After the decline of the British Empire, it became the purview of the US Navy allied with legacy European partners, namely UK, France, Spain, Italy, and Greece.
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@ThunderAppeal Depends on what your definition of winning is. The only Nation that fought theater-level campaigns on 3 different continents and took ground while defeating those regional threats was the US.
US fought the Pacific, North African, and European Theater of Operations from 1941-1945, after being attacked by Japan in Dec 1941.
Another important metric was % of loss of prime age males relative to the National population.
The US had negligible losses in this area, which helped us emerge as the world's industrial super power after the War.
England, France, Germany, Russia, Ukraine, Italy, Finland, the Baltics, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Czechoslavakia, Belurussia, etc. suffered tremendous losses of prime aged males, as well as civilians in most of those nations, from which they never really recovered socially or politically.
The devastation to Russia by the Bolsheviks and then Germans is one if the most overlooked studies by Russians themselves.
There were battles that cost the lives of hundreds of thousands just in a few weeks or less in Russia that most military historians haven't even heard of. Russian archives are quite good in this regard, but weren't widely-distributed.
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@ThunderAppeal Soviets were and still are antiquated scientifically and technologically. This is a community that relies on the US Patent & Trade Office, technical theft, espionage, and bribery to obtain US, Canadian, British, French, and German designs, dumbs them down so they can be produced my drunken slavs in outdated factories, while pushing propaganda what great and undefeatable systems they invented.
When these systems face Western counterparts on the field of battle or in the air, they get stacked like scrap metal as of it were a sport.
In peacetime, their systems compete with wartime attrition for losses and mishaps. Take the MiG-21, MiG-23, MiG-29, and Su-27/30 as examples.
MiG-21: 104 total losses in its first 5 years of service, 309 in its first 10 years. Fatalities are hard to count since the Syrians, Egyptians, etc. don't report their combat loss fatalities, but hundreds with other operators.
MiG-23: 291 total losses, lost count of the fatalities.
MiG-29: 164 total losses that we have records of, 81 fatalities. (Not bad actually for its overall service life if accurate)
Flankers: 76 losses, 143 fatalities since 1981. Fatalities include that horrible airshow where 77 people were killed in Ukraine.
Then look at their tanks, APCs, and small arms.
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Carries same amount of weapons as the MiG-29 in A2A, not as many as the Su-27/30/35, but this doesn't matter if you VLO approach into inescapable weapons solutions.
In a 4th Gen world, you both are visible to each others AWACS or ground controllers, who set you up for intercept.
You then vie for position and angles advantages while employing ECM, in hopes to get first launch.
First launch is meant to make the enemy defensive, so you can get a follow-up shot.
Whoever out-lasts the other wins in many cases.
With F-35, his AWACS doesn't see, and can't send comms to their fighters anyway.
He flies blind, then eats a missile at optimum burn stage fired from a much higher speed approach off-axis.
Nobody is in a position to chase F-35s, and F-35s fly faster since they don't have parasitic drag from external stores.
Internal wpns = F-35
Speed advantage is in F-35 favor since it cruises at .9 Mach.
F-35 combat radius is much greater than the MiG-29. Even the F-35B carries 14000lb of internal fuel.
The Su-27 has more range, but all that gas it carries just ends up fueling the fireball.
Add in the UK F-35 with Meteor and it gets very scary for Russian AWACS and Sukhois.
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@UnknownHumanOnline My Scout Platoon was on Freedom Bridge guard duty when the ROK Army soldier popped the melon of a NorK SOF Scout Swimmer in the Imjin River.
There were 2 of them right by the riverbank, which was bordered by the southeast hill of Camp Greaves. If you looked down the hill from Camp Greaves on the south side, you saw the Imjin right there. NorK Commandos used to Recon our Camp regularly, since cross-border missions were part of their regular schedule and commando training pipeline.
ROK Army had different outposts all along the border and DMZ, and were responsible for patrolling the riverbank.
Guy heard some movement by the water, ran up on these two NorKs, and started blasting with his K2.
They jumped in the water, and he capped one through the right side of his head, canoed it right open. The other swam deep and got away.
They pulled him out and had intel guys photograph everything. He had a ROK Army uniform on under his wetsuit with incorrect insignia.
They had a waterproof kit bag like a rubber duffel with weird M16 copies, Tokarevs, cameras, and explosives. The NorK scout swimmer commando was ripped, nothing like most Koreans. Dude looked to be about 32-35yrs old, had been doing frogman work all his life.
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