How is that Rob?You're starting to sound like you might be a good replacement for the late Art Bell . . . .
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Europe under extreme duress
- Thread starter Randy Daytona
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Just a little “tongue & cheek”reference to some of Art’s more “controversial” discussions during his late night broadcasts. Did you ever have a chance to listen to him?
AIRMMCPORET
Plan “A/B” Retired
Nope he died, George Noory took his spot.
GroundPounder
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Used the listen to him while on the night shift. His thing was that he may or may not believe what the guests were selling, but he let them talk.
If you need anything, I'll be remote viewing that face on Mars.
Pivot to unmanned....
www.armytimes.com
Army to cut 6,500 active-duty aviation jobs over next 2 years
The move aims to realign the force toward the use of unmanned drones instead of manned aviation platforms and will occur over fiscal years 2026 and 2027.
www.armytimes.com
Now that the army is out of the manned scout business, I wonder how long it will take them to get out of the manned attack business. Indeed, now that the Marines have successfully tested unmanned logistics with UH-1’s and KMAX helicopters I wonder how long it will take to scale that up to heavy vertical lift?Pivot to unmanned....
Army to cut 6,500 active-duty aviation jobs over next 2 years
The move aims to realign the force toward the use of unmanned drones instead of manned aviation platforms and will occur over fiscal years 2026 and 2027.
I *believe* the King Stallion FBW FCS likely has the base foundation for an autonomous capability. It wouldn’t surprise me at all.
DJI produces some impressive “utility lift” aircraft for the global markets - for ag and construction missions.
There is a new episode of “The Next World War” on the Flat Circle History channel - which indeed gives some insight into drone scenarios that are increasingly relevant
It’s in the FVL-Heavy Cargo requirements for optional manning.
It’s seen as both a survivability cape as well as a way to combat crew fatigue in distributed operational nodes where you spread the peanut butter as thin as possible.
Whether FVL-Heavy gets funding however….
This isn't a bad write up, even if from 2019.
Anyone know of a more recent update of the FVL program?
Anyone know of a more recent update of the FVL program?
FVL isn’t a program as much as a wide ranging department portfolio which may or may not exist following the realignment of Futures and Tradoc.
FVL was designed as a cross functional team meaning they got to be the sort of conceptual experimental guys engaging with wide industry to solve a host of problems. At some point there is a handover from them to the traditional POE/PMs where capabilities directorate written hard requirements documents guide a more traditional acquisitions process. The MV-75 is/was just one of the big showpiece items and it’s about to migrate to a PM. They also a stake holder representing Army Aviation in airspace integration of the air litoral space, they’ve got a lot to do with mesh networking and NGC2 though that’s being moved over now that NGC2 is its own CFT.
FVL-Attack is dead, launched effects is shared. Heavy-Cargo was the next thing on but it’s not the priority all the other stuff is driving so it sits.
Good chance the current head of FVL becomes Gill’s replacement but there are a couple other names in the hat.
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Interesting times in France. With unrest in Germany and the UK as well, does Italy have the most stable government amongst the larger European nations?
www.theguardian.com
What happened on a chaotic day in French politics – and what next?
Sébastien Lecornu agreed two days’ extension to his 27-day premiership in last-ditch effort to form government
These nations have reached “peak social benefit” and are at a point where everyone is pointing at the next person over and saying “Make that one pay more in taxes, but don’t take anything from me!” Likely the entire global economy is looking at a serious dip requiring belt tightening and serious program changes. Not a depression, but a noticeable shift in how and where people work and how governments reset public benefits.Interesting times in France. With unrest in Germany and the UK as well, does Italy have the most stable government amongst the larger European nations?
What happened on a chaotic day in French politics – and what next?
Sébastien Lecornu agreed two days’ extension to his 27-day premiership in last-ditch effort to form government
This leads back to Europe stating they are going to increase defense spending- its going to be a challenge for them.
They can increase funding all they want… call me when they bring back the conscription that was used throughout the Cold War to meet the manning requirements.
I want to see Germany get serious about the fact even if it had tanks that worked they have no bodies to drive them.