These nonsensical steam catapults are just one of several instances of Trump trying to pretend he knows anything about ship design, and they’re making the country weaker.
At this point, trump is just accelerating the military industrial complex eating itself. The whole bullshit with the embarrassingly openly corrupt SIG Sauer deal for a new rifle platform, Lockheed absolutely dragging their ass in deploying the F35, weapons manufacturers in a race to cram as much expensive bullshit as possible in their missles and “smart bombs”, the consolidation of suppliers making fewer points of failure in logistics, etc. Hell, I can only think of one and a half things the us military has done recently that actually make some form of sense: that new Vortex scope is actually kinda cool af, and the F35 program is actually a good idea with decent hardware, just absolute bullshit execution, though. In any case, already not looking great with the wildly unnecessary transition to a new rifle cartridge and compounding supply issues.
Then there’s trump.
All those super expensive missles we already have trouble scaling up production of? All gone. Don’t worry, the contractors are gonna make a killing on resupplying those shits.
Ability to use allied countries for resupply? lol, byeeeeeee
Wasting military resources on bullshit political theater? You better believe it!
Trying to bring back naval warships that have been obsolete since fucking World War 2? Well, here we are.
Pity the vortex only exists in the same way that Armata does; yes, a few people have seen one, but they’re not actually being deployed anywhere in meaningful numbers. Even the units issued the M7 still don’t have them.
And their actual practical benefit is… Questionable. I regularly interact with Canadian combat arms, and it’s notable that the people who actually do frontline stuff think the Vortex sounds like ass. None of them have the slightest interest in a scope that claims to aim for you.
Then again, those same people have been deployed alongside US military, and been OPFOR in training exercises against them, they’ve seen them shoot, and they were not impressed. Consensus in the CAF is that US marksmanship is dogshit. So I guess I can see the appeal of a device that attempts to replace training with technology, provided that the training you’re replacing is really, really bad.
At this point, trump is just accelerating the military industrial complex eating itself. The whole bullshit with the embarrassingly openly corrupt SIG Sauer deal for a new rifle platform, Lockheed absolutely dragging their ass in deploying the F35, weapons manufacturers in a race to cram as much expensive bullshit as possible in their missles and “smart bombs”, the consolidation of suppliers making fewer points of failure in logistics, etc. Hell, I can only think of one and a half things the us military has done recently that actually make some form of sense: that new Vortex scope is actually kinda cool af, and the F35 program is actually a good idea with decent hardware, just absolute bullshit execution, though. In any case, already not looking great with the wildly unnecessary transition to a new rifle cartridge and compounding supply issues.
Then there’s trump.
All those super expensive missles we already have trouble scaling up production of? All gone. Don’t worry, the contractors are gonna make a killing on resupplying those shits.
Ability to use allied countries for resupply? lol, byeeeeeee
Wasting military resources on bullshit political theater? You better believe it!
Trying to bring back naval warships that have been obsolete since fucking World War 2? Well, here we are.
Pity the vortex only exists in the same way that Armata does; yes, a few people have seen one, but they’re not actually being deployed anywhere in meaningful numbers. Even the units issued the M7 still don’t have them.
And their actual practical benefit is… Questionable. I regularly interact with Canadian combat arms, and it’s notable that the people who actually do frontline stuff think the Vortex sounds like ass. None of them have the slightest interest in a scope that claims to aim for you.
Then again, those same people have been deployed alongside US military, and been OPFOR in training exercises against them, they’ve seen them shoot, and they were not impressed. Consensus in the CAF is that US marksmanship is dogshit. So I guess I can see the appeal of a device that attempts to replace training with technology, provided that the training you’re replacing is really, really bad.