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arix kirjoitti:
Koulutuksessa pitäisi aina huomioida arabimaissa tapahtuvat blue on blue -tanssit. Niitä tapahtuu solkenaan Afganistanissa, Irakissa jne, miksei siis Jordaniassa?
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Afganistanissa länsimaiset joukot ovat jo vuosien ajan käyttäneet "Guardian Angelsejä" kun ovat kouluttaneet paikallisia sotilaita ja poliiseja. "Enkeliksi" määrätään yleensä joku kokenut aliupseeri, joka jatkuvasti valvoo koulutettavia. Jos joku riehaantuu ja yrittää tappaa länsimaiset kouluttajat, niin enkeli ampuu riehujan.

Afganistanissa paikallisten kouluttaminen on jatkuvaa veitsenterällä taiteilua. Ihan normaalit moitteet esimerkiksi heikosta suorituksesta voi laukaista murhanhimon. Muita tavallisia tuohtumuksen aiheita ovat homoseksuaalisuus (sekä länsimaisten sotilaiden lääppiminen että esiteini-ikäisten seksiorjien pito), pilven polttoon puuttuminen ja ylipäätänsä minkäänlaisen kurin vaatiminen paikallisilta.
 
Leaderwolf kirjoitti:
Jossei ole, niin mikään ei ole muuttunut. Ja se on vielä pahempi vaihtoehto ihan meille kaikille.
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Kiinnostaa. Tämä avasi niin paljon latuja. Mutta jätti vastaamatta. Mitä tarkoitat?
 
USA:n armeija alkaa varustaa jalkaväkimiehiä uudenlaisella pimeä/Lämpötähtäimellä ja aseeseen liitetyllä tähtäinperheellä.
Pitkä artikkeli, mutta tulipa laitettua.

Army aims to field new weapon sight that wirelessly pairs with night vision goggles
By C. Todd Lopez, Army News ServiceJuly 31, 2017

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1 / 3 Hide Caption – An Enhanced Night Vision Goggle III is mounted on a glass skull, and a Family of Weapons Sights-Individual is mounted on an M4 rifle, at Fort Belvoir, Va. The ENVG III, worn on the head, can be paired wirelessly with a FWS-I, which would be mounted on a weapon, to allow Soldiers to see in their eye what the weapon sight is seeing. The Soldier would not need to shoulder the weapon to see through the sight. Both the ENVG III and the FWS-I are slated to be fielded in the next 18 months. (Photo Credit: Jalen Brown) VIEW ORIGINAL
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2 / 3 Hide Caption – MAster Sgt. Lashon Wilson, the senior enlisted adviser for Product Manger Soldier Maneuver Sensors, demonstrates the use of the Enhanced Night Vision Goggle III, paired with a Family of Weapons Sights-Individual, at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, July 27, 2017. (Photo Credit: Jalen Brown) VIEW ORIGINAL
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3 / 3 Hide Caption – A shooter fires on a target at a Fort Belvoir, Va., firing range, July 27, 2017, using an Enhanced Night Vision Goggle III on his helmet, and a Family of Weapons Sights-Individual on an M4 rifle. Here, the combined video feed from both the sight and the goggle puts the reticle from the weapon onto the video feed the shooter is seeing in his goggle. (Photo Credit: PEO Soldier) VIEW ORIGINAL
FORT BELVOIR, Va. -- In the next 18 months or so, the Army expects to field two new systems to dismounted Soldiers that will allow for more rapid acquisition of targets, even those hidden by darkness, smoke or fog.

First out of the gate will be the Enhanced Night Vision Goggle III, expected to be fielded sometime between April and June of 2018. Shortly after, the Army hopes to field the Family of Weapons Sights - Individual, between January and March of 2019.

The FWS-I and ENVG III are unique in that the FWS-I, which would be mounted on a Soldier's weapon, wirelessly transmits its sight picture to the ENVG III, which a Soldier wears on his helmet.

Additionally, the ENVG combines thermal imaging with more common night vision image intensification technology, which is recognizable by the green image it creates.

Under starlight, targets may blend in with the background. But with the thermal capability overlaid on night vision, targets can't hide in smoke or fog, they "really pop out with that contrast," said Dean Kissinger, an electronics engineer who is currently assigned to Program Product Manger Soldier Maneuver Sensors at Program Executive Office Soldier here.

Lt. Col. Anthony Douglas, who serves as product manager for Soldier Maneuver Sensors at PEO Soldier, said the two sensors not only help dismounted Soldiers better see targets, but by paring the two wirelessly -- allowing what the weapon-mounted sight is seeing to be beamed directly to the Soldier's eye -- also helps the Soldier acquire a target faster.

RAPID TARGET ACQUISITION

"The capability gap that we were tasked with [closing] by developing this was the rapid target acquisition capability," Douglas said. "We are allowing the Soldier to actually see what is on their weapons sight, saving them time from having to bring the weapon to his eye."

Master Sgt. Lashon Wilson, the senior enlisted advisor for product manager Soldier Maneuver Sensors, explained how the system will work, and make it easier for a Soldier to acquire a target.

"This weapon-mounted system talks wirelessly to the smart battery pack that is on the Soldier's head, that then transmits a signal to the ENVG III, which now displays a reticle onto the Soldier's optic," Wilson said. "So now what this does is, while the Soldier is on patrol and he has his ENVG III on and he is looking, he has a greater field of view of what is going on in the battlefield."

Soldiers wearing the ENVG III, which is mounted on their helmet, can choose to see both night-vision imagery and thermal imaging as well in their goggle. But they can also choose to see the image coming off the FWS-I that is mounted on their rifle.

A variety of modes allows Soldiers to see in their goggle only the image from the ENVG III itself, only the image from the FWS-I, or a combination of the two. Using a "picture-in-picture" mode, for instance, the image from their FWS-I is displayed at the bottom right of the image that is coming from the goggle.

In another mode, however, if the FWS-I on the rifle and the ENVG III on the Soldier's helmet are both pointed in the same direction and seeing essentially the same thing, then the image from the FWS-I can project a reticle into the goggle. The Soldier can see the full image of what his goggle normally sees, but a circle representing the reticle from the FWS-I is overlaid onto that image, letting the Soldier know where his rifle is pointed. What this means is the Soldier doesn't need to actually shoulder his weapon to acquire a target. That saves time for the Soldier in acquiring that target.

"We are saving him three to five seconds, and increasing their situational awareness on the battlefield," Douglas said.

Additionally, because the reticle is projected onto what the Soldier is already seeing in his goggle -- a much wider view of his environment than what he would see if he looked through his rifle scope -- he is able to acquire a target while maintaining situational awareness of what else is going on around him.

STEEP LEARNING CURVE

At Fort Belvoir, members of the press were allowed to shoot an M-4 rifle that was equipped with the FWS-I, while wearing a helmet equipped with the ENVG III.

Several man-shaped targets were spaced out in the firing lane, each equipped with thermal blankets to simulate body heat. A pair of fog machines simulated battlefield smoke to make it difficult to acquire those targets using only day optics. Using night vision goggles alone, some of the targets could not be seen. But when combined with the thermal imaging capabilities built into the ENVG III and FWS-I, those targets were easily visible.

Using the system proved a bit challenging, however. When looking through the goggle, which was at one point displaying the image transmitted from the rifle-mounted FWS-I, it was hard to tell if it was the helmet that was crooked, the ENVG III that was crooked, or the shooter's own head that wasn't on quite straight.

"The gun is tilted," Wilson confirmed. He served as a trainer for members of the press who were allowed to shoot.

Maj. Kevin Smith, who serves as the assistant product manager for FWS-I, said there is a "steep learning curve," for the system.

"We just got through with the tests with the 4th Infantry Division out of Fort Carson, Colorado, back in June," he said. "We only spent about 40 hours of in-classroom training. But we also spent about a week on the range or so. That's where the Soldiers were really starting to get it and understand it and feel it, on the range."

Smith said one such training event was held at Fort Carson, and two were held at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington.

"Once they get comfortable with it, they really love it," Smith said. "One Soldier, a noncommissioned officer who didn't like it at first, later on during the last test we did, asked me when are we getting this fielded. He said he wanted it now. They want to take them to war and they want to use them."

A FAMILY OF SIGHTS

The soon-to-field FWS-I is meant for the M4 and M16 rifles, and can mount on those rifles in front of day sights that have already been bore-sighted, Kissinger said. What this means is that Soldiers can pop the FWS-I onto and off of their rifle without having to remove their day sights first.

The FWS-I will also work with the M249 Squad Automatic Weapon, the M141 Bunker Defeat Munition, and the M136 AT4 Light Anti-Tank Weapon.

Kissinger said the FWS-I actually provides capability to both light and medium weapons. In the past, there had been sights fielded for both types of weapons. Now that FWS-I provides capability to both, he said, there will be less variations in weapons sights, and a smaller logistics trail, he said.

More capability is also coming to this "family" of weapons sights, Douglas said. There will be a crew-served variant and a sniper variant as well. Both are still under development, he said.

Both the FWS-I and the ENVG III are currently in low-rate initial production. The Army hopes to buy 36,000 of the FWS-I, and about 64,000 of the ENVG III, Smith said. He also said that the new gear is targeted squarely at dismounted Soldiers with infantry brigade combat teams and special operations forces.

For now, he said, he expects it'll be squad leaders and two team leaders within a squad that might first see the FWS-I.

"This is a day or night capability," Douglas said. "We're talking about dismounted Soldiers who would use this. For our mounted soldiers, those on the Stryker or Bradleys ... they do not operate without their thermal on all the time. So we are giving the dismounted Soldier the same capability the mounted Soldiers have."/QUOTE]

https://www.army.mil/article/191631?g
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US military kills Shabaab fighter in ‘kinetic strike’
By Bill Roggio | July 31, 2017 | [email protected] | @billroggio
US Africa Command (AFRICOM) killed one Shabaab fighter in a “kinetic strike” against an al Qaeda branch in southern Somalia on July 29. The offensive is the second of its kind reported by AFRICOM over the past month.

The strike targeted a “Mogadishu Attack Network militant” near the town of Tortoroow in southern Somalia, according to the AFRICOM press release.

“The U.S. conducted this operation in coordination with its regional partners as a direct response to al-Shabaab actions, including recent attacks on Somali forces,” AFRICOM said.

AFRICOM noted that the July 29 attack “was conducted within the parameters of the proposal approved by the President in March 2017, which allows the U.S. Department of Defense to conduct lethal action against al-Shabaab within a geographically-defined area of active hostilities in support of partner force in Somalia.”

At the end of March, The Trump administration loosened the restrictions on the US military to use force against Shabaab after the Department of Defense noted that Shabaab has become more lethal and dangerous. The group has killed hundreds of African Union and Somali forces while overrunning bases in southern Somalia, and has maintained its safe havens while expanding areas under its control during 2016.

The US State Department, in its Country Reports on Terrorism 2016, said that al Qaeda’s branch in East Africa has prospered over the past year “due largely to lapses in offensive counterterrorism operations during 2016.” Additionally, State noted that Somali security forces “remained incapable of securing and retaking towns from al-Shabaab independently,” and while not explicitly stated, hinted that the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) is failing.

The July 29 strike is the second of its kind recorded by FDD’s Long War Journal in the month of July. The previous attack on Shabaab, on July 4, hit a group of Shabaab fighters as they massed in southern Somalia.

http://www.longwarjournal.org/archi...y-kills-shabaab-fighter-in-kinetic-strike.php
 
Air Force One -neuvottelut etenevät – USA:n presidentin tulevat valtiovierailut voidaan lentää venäläisyhtiölle valmistetuilla koneilla
Talouselämä2.8. 10:17
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Kun Yhdysvaltain presidentti lentää, hän matkustaa tavallisesti erikoisvarustellulla Boeing 747 -koneella.
Alun perin Venäläiselle lentoyhtiölle valmistettuja lentokoneita suunnitellaan Yhdysvaltain presidentin virallisiksi virkakoneiksi.

Yhdysvaltain ilmavoimat neuvottelee parhaillaan lentokonevalmistaja Boeingin kanssa kahden 747-8 -mallisen koneen ostamisesta. Uutistoimisto Reutersin mukaan lentotestatut koneet oli tarkoitus toimittaa Venäläiselle Transaero-lentoyhtiölle, jonka vararikko jätti tilatut koneet Boeingin haltuun.

Koneiden keskihinta markkinoilla on noin 386 miljoonaa dollaria. Neuvotteluista ensimmäisenä ilmoittaneen Defence One -turvallisuus julkaisun mukaanilmavoimat uskovat saavansa koneet hyvään hintaan. Kaupalliseen käyttöön tarkoitettujen koneiden muokkaamisesta koituvia kuluja ei ole vielä arvioitu.


Yhdysvaltain ilmavoimat suunnittelivat rakennuttavansa presidentille uudet virkakoneet, mutta suunnitelmista luovuttiin kulujen karattua liian suuriksi.

Presidentti Donald Trump kritisoi marraskuussa uusien koneiden rakennuskustannuksia, joiden väitti yltävän 4 miljardiin dollariin. Yhdysvaltain ilmavoimien arvion mukaan projekti olisi kustantanut noin 2,87 miljardia dollaria vuoteen 2021 mennessä.

Air Force One ei ole jonkin yksittäisen lentokoneen nimi, vaan se on radioliikenteen kutsutunnus, jota käyttää Yhdysvaltain presidenttiä kuljettava Yhdysvaltain ilmavoimien lentokone.

Nykyisin Air Force One -tunnusta käyttää tavallisesti jompikumpi kahdesta Yhdysvaltain ilmavoimien omistamasta erikoisvarustellusta Boeing 747 -koneesta.


Jaahas. Pian Venäjän tiedustelu kuulee jopa sen, kun Trumppi ottaa Air Force One koneen makuuhytissä viagran rasiasta.
 
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Sairasta menoa jenkkilässä.

Pro-life lawyers want to force 12-year-old rape victim to have her attacker’s baby
http://metro.co.uk/2017/07/29/pro-l...pe-victim-to-have-her-attackers-baby-6815766/
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Jepjep.

Tällaisten uutisten äärellä itsellä aina nousee kiitollisuus siitä, että asun järkevässä Suomessa enkä missään Republikaanihulluuden saastuttamassa valtiossa. Tässä viime vuosina oma kunnioitus Amerikan Republikaaneja kohtaan aika lailla kokonaan romahtanut ja en sitten yhtään tykkää kyseisestä puolueesta. Toki jotkin yksittäiset politiikot puolueessa, kuten Arska, ovat kuitenkin kunnioitettavia, mutta kokonaisuudessaan oksettaa tuo Grand Old Party tai, kuten Obaman kaudella kävi ilmi, Governmental Obstruction Party.
 
US Army Seeks a New Battle Rifle for Piercing Advanced Body Armor
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As it continues to work on an all-new standard infantry weapon, the U.S. Army is considering adopting a new “Interim Combat Service Rifle” in the 7.62x51mm caliber. The service is particularly concerned about soldiers' ability to penetrate advanced body armors with their existing 5.56x45mm M4 carbines.

The weapon must also have semi-automatic and full-automatic fire modes to get into the competition in the first place. The Army ideally wants a gun that has folding back iron sights, ambidextrous controls, the ability to accept its existing standard optical sights and laser aiming devices, and a magazine that can hold 20 to 30 rounds in order to support a combat load of 210 rounds in total.

Given the project’s focus on defeating armor, there is the possibility some tests could incorporate the XM1158 Advanced Armor Penetrating (ADVAP) cartridge that the Army is testing separately. Another option could be the U.S. Navy’s Mk 319 Mod 0 round, already available to special operations forces, which is specifically intended to have better terminal effects after breaking through cover, such as car windows.

The production and price factors are primarily focused on the ability of the manufacturer to make up the rifles quickly and efficiently without sacrificing quality. Based on the known criteria, the Army appears to want to hire a vendor that already has the ability to make a production run of up to 50,000 rifles or can reasonably expand to do so with limited effort. This would seem to favor established companies already making such weapons in appreciable quantities.

"The 5.56mm round, we recognize that there is a type of body armor out there, that it doesn't penetrate,” U.S. Army General Mark Milleytold members of Congress in May 2017. “We also have that body armor ourselves"
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http://amp.timeinc.net/thedrive/the-war-zone/13270/us-army-seeks-a-new-battle-rifle-for-piercing-advanced-body-armor?xid=amp-thedrive
 
Uimaopetusta kaupan lattialla amerikoissa:

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...en kyllä oikeasti pysty ymmärtämään mitä hienoa tuossa edes on noiden nulikoiden mielestä?
 
Herman30 kirjoitti:
Kuulostaa turhalta ominaisuudelta vaatia full auto 7.62x51mm aseelta.
Luodit menee maasta taivaaseen, ns all over the place.

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Muistaakseni Britit vaihtoivat innokkaasti omia puolari FALejaan vihollisten sarjatuli FALeihin. Mahdollisuus sarjatuleen mielummin kuin ilman, on tilanteita joissa se on hyödyllinen.
 
White nationalist rally at University of Virginia
Protest organiser Jason Kessler, who has previously accused the town of "anti-white hatred", described the event as an "incredible moment for white people who've had it up to here and aren't going to take it anymore".

The New York Times and Washington Post reported that the crowd chanted "You will not replace us" and "Jew will not replace us" during the event.

Demonstrators held lit torches - which some observers described as a reference to the Ku Klux Klan - and chanted "blood and soil" and "one people, one nation, end immigration".

The rally was met by a smaller group of counter protesters who had surrounded the university's statue of Thomas Jefferson, holding a banner that read "VA Students Act Against White Supremacy".
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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40909547
 
Yksi on kuollut Charlottesvillessä Virginiassa jossa uusnatsit ja KKK ovat kahakoineet vastamielenosoittajien kanssa kun auto ajoi väkijoukkoon. Yhden kuolleen lisäksi 19 loukkaantui, tappeluissa on loukkaantuneita tullut 15. Kuvernööri on julistanut hätätilan.
A chaotic and violent day turned to tragedy Saturday as hundreds of white nationalists, neo-Nazis, Ku Klux Klan members — planning to stage what they described as their largest rally in decades to “take America back” — clashed with counterprotesters in the streets and a car plowed into crowds, killing one person and injuring 19 others.

Angela Taylor, a spokeswoman for UVA Medical Center, said 20 people were brought to the hospital in the early afternoon after three cars collided in a pedestrian mall packed with people. One died, she said, although she could not say if it was a man or woman or give any identifying information. Another 15 people were injured during street brawls, city officials said.

Earlier, police had evacuated a downtown park as rallygoers and counterprotesters traded blows and hurled bottles and chemical irritants at one another, putting an end to the noon rally before it even began.

Gov. Terry McAuliffe declared a state of emergency shortly before 11 a.m., saying he was “disgusted by the hatred, bigotry and violence” and blaming “mostly out-of-state protesters.”
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...bd5460f0d7e_story.html?utm_term=.fb8ac21ab43f
 
aj77 kirjoitti:
Tämä on outoa.

https://twitter.com/x/status/896357953644765189
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Tämä on sairasta. Samaan aikaan National Rifle Association tekee mainosvideoita, jotka kutakuinkin kannustavat sotaan valtiovaltaa vastaan. Edelleen samaan aikaan Valkoisessa talossa on historiallisen epäsuosittu presidentti, joka on ottamassa etäisyyttä myös omaan puolueeseensa (sikäli kuin Republikaanit ikinä edes olivat hänen puolueensa), ja puhuu suoraan omalla tukijoukolleen, joka on noin neljännes kaikista äänioikeutetuista.

Edustuksellinen demokratia on selvinnyt monesta kovasta koitoksesta. Selviää tästäkin.
 
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