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The Ration Review- MRE Ravioli in Meat Sauce

If you're going to talk about rations, you have to talk about the US MRE.

 

 

World of Warships- Ranked Battles- New Mexico with three Devastating Strikes

Four battles today, all Ranked Battles. Lost the first two, won the next two.
Interestingly, I did the least damage in this battle.

 

 

And Now, Konstanz

An Iraqi muhammedan shoots six people in a nightclub in the lovely little city of Konstanz, Germany, near the Swiss border.  He was shot by Polizei at the scene, and died at the hospital.  

German Poliziei, of course, "ruled out terrorism".  As was done at Fort Hood, Orlando, Munich, and the scene of several other muhammedan shootings, bombings, and mass murders.  

BERLIN (Reuters) - An Iraqi gunman died in a shootout with German police early on Sunday after killing one person in a nightclub in the southern city of Konstanz, police said, ruling out terrorism as a motive.

"The motives of the man who acted alone are unclear," Konstanz police spokesman Fritz Bezikofer told broadcaster n-tv.

Police said the gunman had lived in Germany for a number of years and was not an asylum seeker. They added that a dispute among criminals may have led to the shooting in an industrial area of the city.

If I recall correctly, the planners of the London subway attacks were, among other things, physicians and professionals who had been in Britain for many years.   The Boston bombers were US citizens.  

Angela Merkel, like Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, is actively participating in the destruction of Western society, deliberately allowing for the mass influx of elements that promise our annihilation.   All the while, Merkel and her cabal give those elements free reign to do so, while acting as apologists for the Islamist-perpetrated slaughter. 

Criminal dispute?  One day we will be told to refer to 9/11 as an aviation mishap.

URR here.

World of Warships- An exciting minute and a half.

 

 

USS Gerald R. Ford first trap and cat

People have been swearing for years that the EMALS and AAG catapult and arresting gear on the Ford would never work. 

Well, now what do you say?

And Now, Hamburg

A brutal knife attack by an Emirati and a known Islamist, screaming "Allahu Akbar!" as he slashed and chased and murdered.   One dead, six injured.  The Telegraph tells us the now-familiar tale.   

And in the "You gotta be shitting me" department, we have this gem of dissonance and denial:

“We must take into account that the jihadist ideology is used as reason or justification for acts that are perhaps committed for quite different motives,” German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere, a member of the CDU party, said in a statement. “The real motives can then also lie in the personality of the attacker.”

Perhaps Mr. de Maiziere might feel differently if he was forced to look for the mutilated body of a loved one in a Paris theater, or a Brussels airport, or a London subway, or under a truck in Nice.  Or any of a hundred places where these filthy, hateful muhammedan monsters have killed or maimed the innocent.   But I doubt it, as the CDU Party has been supplicant to Merkel's grand plan to seed these violent jihadists across the European Union.  

That Donald Trump identified Islamist extremists as among America's enemies in his Inauguration speech is a tremendous step in the right direction.  We have had enough of the Thomas de Maiziere approach, which is indistinguishable from the Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders approach.  Of course, it WON'T be their loved ones in a Brussels airport or a San Bernadino office or an Orlando bar.  Or a New York office building.   

URR here.

I’ve waited a long time for this- Two B-29s in flight together.

British 24 Hour Operational Ration Pack- Part IV

Time from brekkies. Fourth and final installment of the British ORP.

Ration Review- The British 24 Hour Operational Ration Pack- Part III

New Warhead for the MLRS, Or What’s Old is New Again.

The Obama administration’s decision to retire submunition warheads from the military inventory was stupid, and purely political posturing. Submunitions do have a significant dud rate, but that problem can be mitigated, and the military effectiveness of submunition warheads is undoubted. There are a great number of targets on the battlefield that are best dealt with via a submunition warhead, such as enemy artillery, air defense sites, and Petroleum, Oil, Lubricant (POL) storage sites.

The original M26 rocket of the M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System carried 644 M77 Dual Purpose Improved Conventional Munitions. Each bomblet was roughly the size of a 40mm grenade, and featured a small shaped charge with a fragmentation sleeve. That gave it the ability to both penetrate the thin top armor of lightly armored vehicles, and cause casualties to thin skinned vehicles, personnel and material via the fragmentation.

An MLRS field artillery battalion has three firing batteries, with 9 launchers each.  With each launcher firing two pods of six rockets each, that gives us a total of 208,656 bomblets on a given target. Small wonder Iraqi artillery forces hated being on the receiving end of “steel rain.”

The withdrawal of M26 series left the Army  with only the M31 Guided MLRS rocket in the inventory. Mind you,  it’s a fantastic capability, with much better range, and a formidable 225 pound warhead. That’s not nothing. But while it has the ability to take out a point target, it is lacking in its ability to defeat area targets.  Even modest dispersion allows the enemy to mitigate the effects of an MLRS attack.

To address this shortcoming, the Army worked with Lockheed Martin to develop the Alternative Warhead program. Basically, instead of a GMLRS (pronounced “glimmers”) having a simple HE warhead, they put in an airburst fuse for a charge surrounded by  about 180,000 tungsten pellets. The combination of airbust and the large number of pellets yields a significant fragmentation pattern that can yield casualties over a wide area.

^Lots of good ‘splodey  up in  there^

The new Alternative Warhead is now in service, and deployed forces in the Centcom area have used it for the first time during training at the Udairi range complex.

What’s interesting is that the idea of using a vast number of pellets as a fragmentation warhead for a battlefield rocket is hardly new.

When the Army fielded the MGR-1 Honest John unguided rocket in the 1950s, it was first seen as a way of delivering tactical nuclear weapons, or chemical agents. But as US strategy shifted away from tactical nuclear weapons, a conventional warhead was developed for the Honest John, and used the same principle as today’s Alternative Warhead M30A1 round.