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2021-02-03 Government
Top Marine General: We Need to Get Comfortable with 'Throwaway' Equipment
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Posted by Besoeker 2021-02-03 02:12|| || Front Page|| [2 views ]  Top

#1 Biden and the Progressives believe in throwaway troops instead.
Posted by Deadeye Jaiting7534 2021-02-03 03:55||   2021-02-03 03:55|| Front Page Top

#2 Aren't they called "Bullets"?
Posted by Snineling Flotle8716 2021-02-03 04:26||   2021-02-03 04:26|| Front Page Top

#3 Gee General what you are advocating doesn't fit with the new "Green Deal Agenda", remember we must recycle, reduce our carban foot print, be respectful to the environment of mother Gaia.
We can only assume (making an ass of u and me) that you did not get the memo.

/sarc
Posted by One Rock 2021-02-03 06:22||   2021-02-03 06:22|| Front Page Top

#4 The MIC dream - every weapon expensive as hell and needs replaced after one use.
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-02-03 07:37||   2021-02-03 07:37|| Front Page Top

#5 Sure, as soon as they get the bugs out of the F-35 3D- printer software.
Posted by Mercutio 2021-02-03 07:59||   2021-02-03 07:59|| Front Page Top

#6 I actually proposed 'kamikaze' drones 20 years ago. Back then for a few hundred dollars one could buy a radio-controlled model plane and equip it with a camera, transmitter and explosive charge so I figured the military could do the same for a few thousand dollars.
Posted by Glenmore 2021-02-03 11:10||   2021-02-03 11:10|| Front Page Top

#7 Soon to put out applications for work in some defense company.
Posted by 49 Pan 2021-02-03 11:30||   2021-02-03 11:30|| Front Page Top

#8 *OR* he could be restating that our "Risk Averse Culture" is making demands on military procurement that are idiotic.
--see also Rand Simberg's Safe Is Not An Option on how risk aversion has hamstrung NASA.
Posted by magpie 2021-02-03 14:04||   2021-02-03 14:04|| Front Page Top

#9 The problem with fielding mediocre weapons is that they become targets for better weapons. Where to scrimp? Sensors? Performance? Reliability? Exploiting small performance differences is how you win.

As it's been said before, "You go first General."
Posted by Ebbuck Uloluling2068 2021-02-03 15:02||   2021-02-03 15:02|| Front Page Top

#10 LCS?
Posted by james  2021-02-03 17:26|| https://idontknowbut.blogspot.com  2021-02-03 17:26|| Front Page Top

#11 Glenmore: More than twenty years ago I was beating the drum for the elimination of piloted planes. I wanted no more McCains
Posted by b 2021-02-03 18:07||   2021-02-03 18:07|| Front Page Top

#12 Aren't those called cruise missiles?
Posted by Slappy 2021-02-03 19:26||   2021-02-03 19:26|| Front Page Top

#13 as the Defense Department works to counter fast-paced military advancements from China and Russia,

Maybe we could play the Russia card against China and double our advantage-- without wasting trillions on systems that are easily matched when it's one-against-two. Just a thought.
Posted by Spetch Spawn of the Poles1440 2021-02-03 21:22||   2021-02-03 21:22|| Front Page Top

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