To be fair, body armor isn't even remotely new, not even in the 1950s. The main thing that is new is how much bang for the buck modern body armorcan take.
Night Clerk of the Apacalypse.
Most of the older stuff was at best haphazard and largely unsuccessful for modern era attempts.
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Popular Science has a new issue out exploring future military tech. It's pretty cool.
The Air Force, supposedly, is toying with the idea of a stealth tanker, that can refuel in hostile skies with other stealth aircraft. Won't have the budget to start developing it until well in the mid 2030s.
Not sure if the idea is tactically sound, tbh.
New Survey coming this weekend!
Night Clerk of the Apacalypse.
Supposedly the Navy's little Low Observability drone might get a similar job.
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Even if they're not refueling directly over the target, a stealth tanker will be able to get appreciably closer to the danger zone while being less vulnerable to the longer-legged Anti-Air assets.
Germany Is Quietly Building a European Army Under Its Command
An excerpt:
But this year, far from the headlines, Germany and two of its European allies, the Czech Republic and Romania, quietly took a radical step down a path toward something that looks like an EU army while avoiding the messy politics associated with it: They announced the integration of their armed forces.
Romania’s entire military won’t join the Bundeswehr, nor will the Czech armed forces become a mere German subdivision. But in the next several months each country will integrate one brigade into the German armed forces: Romania’s 81st Mechanized Brigade will join the Bundeswehr’s Rapid Response Forces Division, while the Czech 4th Rapid Deployment Brigade, which has served in Afghanistan and Kosovo and is considered the Czech Army’s spearhead force, will become part of the Germans’ 10th Armored Division. In doing so, they’ll follow in the footsteps of two Dutch brigades, one of which has already joined the Bundeswehr’s Rapid Response Forces Division and another that has been integrated into the Bundeswehr’s 1st Armored Division. According to Carlo Masala, a professor of international politics at the University of the Bundeswehr in Munich, “The German government is showing that it’s willing to proceed with European military integration” — even if others on the continent aren’t yet.
Honestly, though, I find the tagline a bit misleading, tone-wise.
edited 24th May '17 1:00:55 PM by DrunkenNordmann
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Very, given that there was a very public discussion about it right after the Brexit vote became known. So, it's hardly secret... and it's not really very quiet.
I guess people pay attention to what they want to pay attention to.
If my post doesn't mention a giant flying sperm whale with oversized teeth and lionfish fins for flippers, it just isn't worth reading.
Night Clerk of the Apacalypse.
That and I recall there has been off and on talk about such a measure to possibly form an EU army of some sort but no one was yet ready to start the ball rolling.
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VA defends plan to cut thousands of dollars from elderly vets' benefits
Grab your helmets, boys. Things are about to get retarded.
rollin' on dubs
The Trump budget: he saw the patient's heart had stopped so it was restarted with a bullet...
All night at the computer, cuz people ain't that great. I keep to myself so I won't be on The First 48
Oh, bother.
The Trump budget is more like noticing a patient's heart has stopped, putting a bullet between the eyes just to make sure, then selling the organs to his rich buddies.
Disgusted, but not surprised
A procrastination in of itself
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Care to unpack that analogy?
Night Clerk of the Apacalypse.
Silas: Basically a Worst Aid approach to solving the problem.
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A procrastination in of itself
I wasn't sure if the idea of restarting the heart meant that Taira felt the budget would actually help in some way.
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ Cyran
Night Clerk of the Apacalypse.
I am fairly certain she is being sarcastic lack of tone and all that.
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https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20170526_03/
Japanese soldiers have left South Sudan.
rollin' on dubs
Correction: the Trump budget is like seeing a head wound and Trump ties a tourniquet around the patient's neck.
edited 27th May '17 12:39:30 AM by TairaMai
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More like: the patient complains of a headache, and the doctor decides to amputate it.
Night Clerk of the Apacalypse.
Well now we know who should not be teaching first aid classes.
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His tiny hands probably couldn't do effective CPR anyway.
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
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Newsweek: Trump inspires radical Christians in the Military
To no one's surprise, but still truly frightening.
The law in the night
And yes, Lind and Trump know each other.
edited 27th May '17 7:45:19 AM by AngelusNox
Inter arma enim silent leges
How is it that all the worst people in the world are all in the same fucking country club.
Still not embarrassing enough to stan billionaires or tech companies.
If Trump were to die, would they no longer be radical?
A very sci-fi imagining of a future army in 1956.
Some of it was realistic some of it a bit crazy. Stuff like NVG's and the need for vertical lift, and the need for body armor of some sort are among some of the more practical elements.
Lock-Mart has an exoskeleton design to take weight off the soldier now. Their variant has actuators in the knee region that are activated by an onboard computer and a load bearing arm that can mount about 35lbs.
There is also the realistic concern of the frame breaking down or running out of juice putting the load back onto the soldier.
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