Comments on: Old military radios risk friendly fire incidents http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/10/14/old-military-radios-risk-friendly-fire-incidents/ Protect yourself from government gaffes, bureaucratic blunders and incumbent incompetence Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:25:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Actual Human http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/10/14/old-military-radios-risk-friendly-fire-incidents/#comment-11545 Actual Human Tue, 17 Oct 2006 06:10:24 +0000 http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/10/14/old-military-radios-risk-friendly-fire-incidents/#comment-11545 My father worked as an engineer at a non-profit military contractor on the redesign of the A10's comm system back in 1995. I do not recall whether the USAF eventually retrofitted their fleet to include the new package. As the A10 has been consistently on the verge of retirement since the 80s, I doubt that the USAF made the investment. The A-10 story reminds me of post-Korea, pre-Vietnam military air combat thinking, that whiz-bang technology had obviated the need for dog fighting capability. In the flashy future of tomorrow, war is conducted by missile and mission statement. Not close in fighting and not by close air support. Well, not so much. We paid for the naiveté of the pentagon leadership and the civilian clowns above them then as we do now and always will. There is no way around it: war is complex; correct strategy is often boring, and there is too much money to be made selling snake oil. Advocating responsible allocation of funds ends carriers and certainly precludes entry into the profit-driven side of the private sector. So, we have F22 raptors of questionable deterrent value replacing tried & true dog fighters and shitty ground support capability. Welcome to the exciting world of tomorrow. My father worked as an engineer at a non-profit military contractor on the redesign of the A10′s comm system back in 1995. I do not recall whether the USAF eventually retrofitted their fleet to include the new package. As the A10 has been consistently on the verge of retirement since the 80s, I doubt that the USAF made the investment.

The A-10 story reminds me of post-Korea, pre-Vietnam military air combat thinking, that whiz-bang technology had obviated the need for dog fighting capability. In the flashy future of tomorrow, war is conducted by missile and mission statement. Not close in fighting and not by close air support.

Well, not so much. We paid for the naiveté of the pentagon leadership and the civilian clowns above them then as we do now and always will. There is no way around it: war is complex; correct strategy is often boring, and there is too much money to be made selling snake oil. Advocating responsible allocation of funds ends carriers and certainly precludes entry into the profit-driven side of the private sector. So, we have F22 raptors of questionable deterrent value replacing tried & true dog fighters and shitty ground support capability. Welcome to the exciting world of tomorrow.

]]> By: Lord Chancellor U.K. http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/10/14/old-military-radios-risk-friendly-fire-incidents/#comment-11544 Lord Chancellor U.K. Sun, 15 Oct 2006 20:25:22 +0000 http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/10/14/old-military-radios-risk-friendly-fire-incidents/#comment-11544 That us air force _obsolete_ good old radio communication friendly fire magic fits very well with the British Army: Conséquences Corée du Nord. Un échantillon. Les armées occidentales à rompre? L'armée américaine peut-elle conduire une guerre très probablement sans l'armée britannique?Tout à fait sûrement! "Une flotte très vieille de juste huit Chinooks[une désignation pour un hélicoptère britannique] travaille vingt-quatre heures sur vingt-quatre heures pour fournir et renforcer des soldats britanniques dans les avant-postes à distance faisant face à des vagues des attaques talibans[sur la ligne Kandahar Quedda-Waziristan]. Le seul Chinook dans les Malouines[MALWINAS] a été emporté pour l'usage dans la campagne "Medusa"Operation Enduring Freedom"" en grande Perse étendue et en ce que l'on appelle Afghanistan"["MoD forced to hire civilian helicopters in Afghanistan" Arabic News, Lundi 16.10.2006 Pakistan Dawn]. That us air force _obsolete_ good old radio communication
friendly fire magic fits very well with the British Army:

Conséquences Corée du Nord. Un échantillon. Les armées occidentales à rompre?
L’armée américaine peut-elle conduire une guerre très probablement sans l’armée britannique?Tout à fait sûrement!
“Une flotte très vieille de juste huit Chinooks[une désignation pour un hélicoptère britannique] travaille vingt-quatre heures sur vingt-quatre heures pour fournir et renforcer des soldats britanniques dans les avant-postes à distance faisant face à des vagues des attaques talibans[sur la ligne Kandahar Quedda-Waziristan]. Le seul Chinook dans les Malouines[MALWINAS] a été emporté pour l’usage dans la campagne “Medusa”Operation Enduring Freedom”" en grande Perse étendue et en ce que l’on appelle Afghanistan”["MoD forced to hire civilian helicopters in Afghanistan" Arabic News, Lundi 16.10.2006 Pakistan Dawn].

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