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.
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.
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.