Uutisia Yhdysvalloista

Museo

Kenraali
Vuosi sitten lähetin perinnefoorumille kuvan, jossa Yhdysvaltojen laivaston sukellusvene USS Hartford purjehtii omaan pinta-alukseen törmättyään torni vinossa. Korjaukset maksoivat kymmeniä miljoonia.

Tarinalle on ilmestynyt jatko-osa, kun turman syitä selvittänyt raportti on valmistunut. Raportin mukaan aluksen ohjaamisesta vastannut navigaattori oli hytissään lukemassa tenttiin ja kuuntelemassa iPodia. Sukellusvenettä ajoi "joku muu" yhdellä kädellä sekä ilman kenkiä, vuorossa olleet radiomies ja sonarmies eivät olleet työpisteensä ääressä ja aluksen kaiutinjärjestelmän kautta kuunneltiin musiikkia.

Aluksen päällikkö Ryan Brookhart vapautettiin tehtävistään.
 
Heh, siellä on ollu rento meininki. Rötväystä parhaimillaan.

P.S Löytyskö sitä kuvaa vielä?
 
Tämä juttu pitäis näyttää jokaiselle päivystäjälle. :D

Ehkä parempi, että päivystäjän pöytä ei liiku mihinkään sieltä käytävästä..
 
Eli ei ne neukun pojat ole ainoita, jotka ottavat vähän iisimmin nuo jutut...
 
Tuolla on kuva ja onnettomuusraportti: http://www.navytimes.com/news/2009/11/navy_hartford_111509w/
 
Ne varmaan luuli tai veikkas ettei ole isoja mahiksia törmätä mihinkään keskellä merta sukellusveneellä. Mikähän olisi tuo prosentuaalinen mahdollisuus törmäykseen, ei varmaankaan suuri.
 
Amerikkalaiskenraalit huolissaan liian lihavista nuorista

22.4.2010 17:13
A A
STT

WASHINGTON. Ylipaino-ongelmaa vastaan taistelevat amerikkalaiset ovat saaneet tukea asevoimilta.

Ryhmä eläkkeelle jääneitä armeijan upseereita on vedonnut nykyistä terveellisemmän kouluruoan puolesta teemalla "liian lihava taisteluun".

Nuorten ylipaino estää eläkeläisten mielestä armeijan palvelukseen hakeutumisen tai sen jatkamisen. Joka kolmas amerikkalainen nuori on liian lihava asepalvelukseen..

"Vuonna 2030 kansallinen turvallisuutemme on täysin kiinni siitä, kuinka pystymme muuttamaan hälyttävän suuntauksen nuorten ylipainon kohdalla", painotti eläkkeellä oleva kontra-amiraali Jamie Barnett.

"Menetämme jopa 12 000 nuorta miestä ja naista vuosittain jo ennen kuin he ovat päättäneet ensimmäisen palvelukautensa", selitti eläkkeelle jäänyt ilmavoimien kenraaliluutnantti Norman Seip.

"He eivät pysy vaatimusten tasolla eivätkä läpäise kuntotestejä."

Ryhmä haluaisi kongressilta uusia tiukkoja määräyksiä lasten ja nuorten ravitsemuksesta ja erityisesti kouluruokien laadusta ja ravintoarvoista.

Jopa 75 prosenttia amerikkalaisista 17–24-vuotiaista ei kelpaa asepalvelukseen.

Fyysisten ongelmien lisäksi esteinä voivat olla mm. rikosrekisteri tai erikoisaselajeissa lukion keskeyttäminen.

Aika karuja lukuja.
 
Heikkilä kirjoitti:
Amerikkalaiskenraalit huolissaan liian lihavista nuorista

22.4.2010 17:13
A A
STT

WASHINGTON. Ylipaino-ongelmaa vastaan taistelevat amerikkalaiset ovat saaneet tukea asevoimilta.

Ryhmä eläkkeelle jääneitä armeijan upseereita on vedonnut nykyistä terveellisemmän kouluruoan puolesta teemalla "liian lihava taisteluun".

Nuorten ylipaino estää eläkeläisten mielestä armeijan palvelukseen hakeutumisen tai sen jatkamisen. Joka kolmas amerikkalainen nuori on liian lihava asepalvelukseen..

"Vuonna 2030 kansallinen turvallisuutemme on täysin kiinni siitä, kuinka pystymme muuttamaan hälyttävän suuntauksen nuorten ylipainon kohdalla", painotti eläkkeellä oleva kontra-amiraali Jamie Barnett.

"Menetämme jopa 12 000 nuorta miestä ja naista vuosittain jo ennen kuin he ovat päättäneet ensimmäisen palvelukautensa", selitti eläkkeelle jäänyt ilmavoimien kenraaliluutnantti Norman Seip.

"He eivät pysy vaatimusten tasolla eivätkä läpäise kuntotestejä."

Ryhmä haluaisi kongressilta uusia tiukkoja määräyksiä lasten ja nuorten ravitsemuksesta ja erityisesti kouluruokien laadusta ja ravintoarvoista.

Jopa 75 prosenttia amerikkalaisista 17–24-vuotiaista ei kelpaa asepalvelukseen.

Fyysisten ongelmien lisäksi esteinä voivat olla mm. rikosrekisteri tai erikoisaselajeissa lukion keskeyttäminen.

Aika karuja lukuja.

Ja Vennäällä ne rekryytit on aliravittuja ja muuten heikkoja. Tasan ei käy onnenlahjat...
 
US to Allies: “No More, From Now On, The US Armed Forces are for Rent Only”
Since 1776, when British Revolutionaries gained control of the Thirteen United Colonies and declared independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain, the United States was involved in over 280 domestic and international military conflicts which many times resolved in the destruction of one's territory, nation and lives.

Some of historical military interventions by the US Armed Forces included: World War I and II, Vietnam War, Korean War, Gulf War, and ongoing wars: Iraq War (Second Persian Gulf War), War in Somalia, War on Terrorism (Operation Enduring Freedom); Afghanistan, Philippines, Trans Sahara, among others.

If we look through world history for the last fifty years, we can see that no country has been involved in as many military conflicts as the United States has.

The US aided its allies, as well as non allies, without any objection, sometimes the US made profit from its military intervention, sometimes not, but all that has changed now, the US is saying “no more” to all allies, “from now on, the US Armed Forces are for rent only”.

It sounds very strange, but as a result of economic crisis, the United States of America is making plans to rent its Armed Forces to all interested parties. The President’s Obama Nuclear Security Summit was the first phase in preparations: “eliminate all nuclear warheads for more efficient and safe warfare”.
http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/opinion/2010/4/22/35482/US-Armed-Forces-soon-available-For-Rent
 
Jaahas.... vai että tämmöistä tällä kertaa. Ei varmaan olisi vaikeaa arvata missä kaikki kalusto valmistettaisiin:rolleyes:

NATO waste risks lives, says alliance head Rasmussen
Afghanistan, with field commanders sometimes using four different radios to communicate with troops around them, the head of the alliance said on Monday.

NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said in a speech in Brussels failure to standardise equipment, from helicopters to combat vehicles, was also adding to costs.

He said some of the 44 nations in the NATO-led force in Afghanistan relied on systems that allowed them to track only their own troops' movement, not those of other allied soldiers.

"The commander in Helmand province in Afghanistan has needed four different radios to communicate with four different national contingents," he told the Belgian defence institute.

"Similarly, we found that different Friendly Force Tracking Systems allowed nations to track their own forces, but not those of other nations - putting lives at risk," he said.

It made no sense for Europe to have more than a dozen competing naval shipyards and 12 separate armoured vehicle manufacturers.

"Do we really need so many different types of infantry combat vehicles, or radios, or helicopters?" he asked.

"If European nations buy 600 NH-90 helicopters, does each of them really have to certify its allotment on a national basis -- when it is estimated that, if this certification were harmonised, it could save up to 5 billion euros?"

NOT AN EXCUSE TO CUT SPENDING

Rasmussen, who is trying to move away from NATO's old Cold War structures towards a more dynamic force, said a need to standardise should not be an excuse to cut spending on defence.

"If we want NATO to be more anticipatory, more deployable, and more adaptable to a wide range of circumstances, the alliance also has to be appropriately resourced," he said.

The key to tackling the challenges of modern warfare is working together to build weapons and systems that are compatible and therefore cheaper in the long run, he said.

"When I look at the extensive allied inventories of tanks and fighter jets and compare them with the analysis of what conflict is likely to look like in the future, I am convinced that we do not need them all," he said.

"I understand that there are strong national interests at work here, and in the current economic climate, there is a real danger of protectionism. But we must resist these temptations -- purely national thinking is no longer affordable," he said.

Nowadays, even the larger nations among the 28 NATO states could not be expected to be able to cover all military capabilities, such has as strategic air transport, combat helicopters, fighter aircraft, or main battle tanks, he said.

"If we were able to agree on who does what in these increasingly expensive areas, then nations -- or groups of nations -- could sacrifice certain national capabilities and re-invest in their specific area of expertise," he said. (Editing by Ralph Boulton
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LDE63P1RE.htm
 
baikal kirjoitti:
Eli ei ne neukun pojat ole ainoita, jotka ottavat vähän iisimmin nuo jutut...
Niin. Taannoin kun venäläiselle (ei NL) panssariprikaatille ei palkkoja kuulunut, votkaspäissään ajelivat pitkin katuja kumminkin aika siististi runnomatta mitään.
 
Asioita vähemmän seuraavat sekoittavat usein esimerkiksi Yhdysvaltojen merijalkaväen ja laivaston ilmavoimat keskenään. Mutta myös muilla laitoksilla Amerikoissa on omat ilmavoimat. Yhdysvaltojen ulkoasiainministeriön ilmavoimat kulkevat nimellä Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs Office of Aviation (INL/A). Operaatioita on käynnissä Afganistanissa, Pakistanissa, Kolumbiassa, Guatemalassa, Perussa ja Boliviassa. Organisaatio mainostaa tulostavoitteiden ylittyneen komeasti Kolumbiassa. Tunnuslause on "Diplomacy in Action". :uzi:

Kotisivut: http://www.state.gov/p/inl/aviation/index.htm
Uusin suorituskykyraporttii: http://oig.state.gov/documents/organization/139642.pdf

OT: Nyt kun Suomen uudeksi Afganistanin suurlähettilääksi saatiin oikein reservin everstiluutnantti Järvenpää niin mitäs jos Suomikin hommaisi alihankintana Afganistanin suurlähetystölle vaikka kehitysapuvaroilla omat ilmavaivat? Päästäisiin samalla isojen poikien kerhoon.
 
Rajasissi kirjoitti:
Ne varmaan luuli tai veikkas ettei ole isoja mahiksia törmätä mihinkään keskellä merta sukellusveneellä. Mikähän olisi tuo prosentuaalinen mahdollisuus törmäykseen, ei varmaankaan suuri.

Tapahtumapaikka oli kuitenkin Persianlahdella Hormuzin salmessa, yksi maailman ahtaimpia vesiväyliä jossa painelee mm. tankkereita aika paljon. 2007 siellä törmäsi Los Angeles-luokan sukellusvene ja tankkeri.
 
Army Resuscitates Mobile Artillery Program
ORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — It could be called “Franken-Cannon.”

Take some components from the Future Combat Systems’ now deceased non-line-of-sight cannon program. Add recycled cabs and gun mounts from 50-year-old Paladin Howitzers. Throw in the chassis from the Bradley fighting vehicle and integrate a new power management system.

Stick them all together and the Army will at last have a new self-propelled artillery system, the Paladin Integrated Management program, or PIM. Like Mary Shelley’s fictional creature, Frankenstein, parts of the cannon have risen from the dead.

Upgrading the decades old Paladin was in the works before the Future Combat Systems was canceled in April last year, said Ron Hayward, director of fire support programs at BAE Systems. Until then, it was a supportability and obsolescence program, he said. The idea was to maintain the Army’s current fleet of approximately 900 cannons and replace outdated parts, he said.

When Defense Secretary Robert Gates cancelled FCS and its non-line of sight-cannon “it became a one-horse race and at that point PIM became the future of a self-propelled artillery for the U.S. Army,” he added.

“What started as a very humble obsolescence and supportability project … has [now] been able to insert some very key technologies that have made this vehicle completely relevant and also provides some design headspace for future growth,” Hayward said.

The NLOS-C was one of a family of FCS vehicles that was supposed to share a common chassis, network and logistical footprint. It was ahead of the development cycle because it, too, had taken parts of a previously canceled program, the Crusader. The Army sunk $2 billion into the Crusader until its cancellation in 2002. Defense Department leadership at the time, including then secretary of defense, Donald Rumsfeld, and his deputy, Paul Wolfowitz, said the Army would still require a mobile, all-weather, precise weapon that was capable of striking multiple targets. While never dubbed Crusader II, the NLOS-cannon was the next mobile artillery piece in the pipeline.

Now the requirement for artillery that can fire, move on before an enemy can pinpoint its location, then return fire, has fallen to PIM.

Technologies that would have been included in the now cancelled NLOS-C program are among those that will migrate to the new Paladin. “We didn’t reuse parts. We reused technologies,” Hayward said. “All of the parts had to be reengineered.”

The fully automated loading system that was slated for the NLOS-C did not make it into the PIM, but it will use a semi-automatic rammer. The FCS program envisioned the operators never having to touch the rounds. PIM operators will have to hand load the artillery shells, but soldiers will no longer have to ram them into the breech.

The current Paladins require hand ramming, which can lead to rounds not hitting their intended targets when operators shove them in either too hard or too softly.

The gun mount and cab will be recycled from old Paladins. However, the electronics and displays inside will be upgraded from analog to digital.

A clean electrical environment will be a major upgrade, he said. To make this happen, a new cable management system will replace the hydraulic system that sends power from the chassis to the gun turret. The old slip ring that carries out these actions interferes with today’s digital systems — especially communications, he added.

“Slip rings are notoriously noisy,” said Hayward. “It’s not a friendly environment for digital electronics.”

Despite the integration of these different components, the program is not attempting to push the technology envelope, Hayward said.

“We’re not trying to do anything innovative and sexy here on this program … perfect is the natural enemy of good enough,” he added.

The chassis is taken from the Bradley fighting vehicle. That will save the Army money in the long run, Hayward said. It will lower operation and sustainment costs because the service will not have to supply different sets of replacement parts or tools. Bradley maintenance crews will be able to fix the new Paladin’s chassis as well, he added.

The loss of the non-line-of-sight cannon and its fully automated system means the Army will not benefit from a smaller crew. NLOS-C was designed to operate with two personnel. PIM will require four soldiers.

As far as power, BAE is integrating its on-board vehicle power system into the Paladin, said Don Flynn, director of military vehicle systems at the company. PIM will be the first to showcase BAE’s new system, which the company is attempting to sell to U.S. military and foreign customers. The system sends power to components where and when it is needed. When a driver accelerates, the power is redirected from systems that aren’t being used, and surges it to the drive train.

Flynn said the power system also answers a demand in the military for exportable energy.

“One of the added benefits you get from this system is the ability to produce up to 30 kilowatts at a time,” he said. That’s enough to run a command center or a field hospital, he said.

BAE developed the system believing there would be an increasing demand for onboard power management on military vehicles. Dashboards are being crowded with electronic devices, he said. The system is modular and scalable so it can be installed on any size vehicle. The company has tested it on humvees, Strykers and medium-sized military trucks. It also foresees requirements that call for onboard power management on the upcoming joint light tactical vehicle.

Hayward said the 70 kilowatts the PIM will produce is “an enormous amount of power when you consider that previous vehicle had a 24-volt, 600-amp system.”

The Army awarded BAE a contract to produce five PIMs and two ammunition carriers last year. The service will be testing the system from May to August.

The latest number of PIMs to be acquired stand at about 400, Hayward said.

But that may not be settled, suggested Lt. Gen. Robert Lennox, Army deputy chief of staff, G-8. The Army is currently working its way through extensive portfolio reviews of everything from helicopters to precision fires to ensure that it is purchasing new systems in appropriate quantities and with the right capabilities. The combat vehicles study has not been completed, he told reporters.
http://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/archive/2010/May/Pages/ArmyResuscitatesMobileArtilleryProgram.aspx
 
Tämä juttu voisi myös olla iltavapaa-osastoa mutta ajattelin että tässä on kuitenkin uutis- ja johtamisaspektia. "Sitten kun ymmärrämme tuon kaavion, olemme voittaneet sodan" :cool:
Eli

Death by powerpoint
Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the leader of American and NATO forces in Afghanistan, was shown a PowerPoint slide in Kabul last summer that was meant to portray the complexity of American military strategy, but looked more like a bowl of spaghetti.

http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/MSNBC/Components/Photo/2009/December/091202/091203-engel-big-9a.jpg

"When we understand that slide, we'll have won the war," General McChrystal dryly remarked, one of his advisers recalled, as the room erupted in laughter.

The slide has since bounced around the Internet as an example of a military tool that has spun out of control. Like an insurgency, PowerPoint has crept into the daily lives of military commanders and reached the level of near obsession. The amount of time expended on PowerPoint, the Microsoft presentation program of computer-generated charts, graphs and bullet points, has made it a running joke in the Pentagon and in Iraq and Afghanistan.


"PowerPoint makes us stupid," Gen. James N. Mattis of the Marine Corps, the Joint Forces commander, said this month at a military conference in North Carolina. (He spoke without PowerPoint.) Brig. Gen. H. R. McMaster, who banned PowerPoint presentations when he led the successful effort to secure the northern Iraqi city of Tal Afar in 2005, followed up at the same conference by likening PowerPoint to an internal threat.

091203-engel-big-9a.jpg
[/font]
 
On jämäkkä ja selkeä paketti tuo Oldskoolin postaama. Tuon jälkeen ei tarvi kenenkään valittaa, etteikö tuohon tilanteeseen ole joku perehtynyt oikein todella.

Puolustusselonteko voitaisiin visualisoida tuohon tapaan....saataisiin aikaan faktoihin perustuva kansalaiskeskustelu. Luulen, että Nato-halukkaat eivät esitä asiaansa tuolla tavoin pyrkiessään raivaamaan mielialoja sopivaan suuntaan.
 
Teräsmies kirjoitti:
Army Resuscitates Mobile Artillery Program
ORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — It could be called “Franken-Cannon.”

Take some components from the Future Combat Systems’ now deceased non-line-of-sight cannon program. Add recycled cabs and gun mounts from 50-year-old Paladin Howitzers. Throw in the chassis from the Bradley fighting vehicle and integrate a new power management system.

Stick them all together and the Army will at last have a new self-propelled artillery system, the Paladin Integrated Management program, or PIM.
...
The NLOS-C was one of a family of FCS vehicles that was supposed to share a common chassis, network and logistical footprint. It was ahead of the development cycle because it, too, had taken parts of a previously canceled program, the Crusader. The Army sunk $2 billion into the Crusader until its cancellation in 2002.
http://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/archive/2010/May/Pages/ArmyResuscitatesMobileArtilleryProgram.aspx

No niin, tässä siis leivotaan olemassaolevista komponenteista tai ainakin alustoista, lisätään uudelleensuunniteltuja osia. Tiukat kysymykset arvon spekulantti-kollegoille:
  • paljonko tulee PIM-tykin kappalehinta olemaan?
  • paljonko hintaa lienee saatu alaspäin hyödyntämällä ylläolevaa "leipomismenetelmää" ?

Koettakaapas haarukoida vastaus ennenkuin katsotaan vertailukohdiksi Paladinin, Crusaderin tai NLOS-C:n kappalehintoja :shy:
 
baikal kirjoitti:
On jämäkkä ja selkeä paketti tuo Oldskoolin postaama. Tuon jälkeen ei tarvi kenenkään valittaa, etteikö tuohon tilanteeseen ole joku perehtynyt oikein todella.

Puolustusselonteko voitaisiin visualisoida tuohon tapaan....saataisiin aikaan faktoihin perustuva kansalaiskeskustelu. Luulen, että Nato-halukkaat eivät esitä asiaansa tuolla tavoin pyrkiessään raivaamaan mielialoja sopivaan suuntaan.

Kiitän kommentista !
Tuohon powerpoint-syyttämiseen, jota harrastettiin myös aikana jolloin NASAlle sattui onnettomuus, heittäisin vähän vettä liekkeihin. Ei ole välineen vika jos ongelma on niin monipolvinen (kuten tuo kaavio pari viestiä yläpuolella), että siihen ei ole esittää yhtä yksinkertaista ratkaisua.
Eikä myöskään ole välineen vika jos ongelmaan halutaan nähdä esitettävän vain yksi ratkaisu (Nasan tapauksessa laukaisumääräaika piti saavuttaa eikä oltu selvästi ohjeistettu että ihmishenkiä koskevat riskit pitää esittää selvästi).

Vaikka tässä ketjussa ei varmaan aletakaan puhumaan Natosta, niin veikkaisin myös että puolustusselonteko voisi tosiaankin olla kuvattavissa tuollaisen spaghettikaavion muodossa. Siksi että uhkathan eskaloituvat, vaikkapa näin: ympäristökatastrofi esim. "Ukrainassa" --> kansainvaellus --> puute ruuasta ja katosta pään päälle --> rajavalvonta käy mahdottomaksi.
 
Telaketjulliset sotavehkeet eivät näemmä ole katoamassa minnekään ainakaan Yhdysvalloissa.

U.S. Army rendering of a possible (tracked) Ground Combat Vehicle design

Is the (US)Army Leaning Toward a Tracked Ground Combat Vehicle?
This early in its development, the Army’s Ground Combat Vehicle is still much closer to being a grab bag of wants, needs, and concepts than it is to being an actual operational reality. The current schedule calls for 2-3 competitors to be chosen in late 2010 to fight it out for the right to design the vehicle, with an infantry carrier variant to be produced by Fiscal 2017. While the Army just issued its latest request for proposals late last week, Army brass has been dropping hints over the past several months that they might be leaning toward a tracked vehicle for the GCV design, as opposed to the wheeled MRAP, M-ATV and Stryker combat vehicles it has been buying over the last decade.

After delivering his remarks about Army modernization at a breakfast meeting in Virginia on Thursday morning—where the biscuits and gravy were, as always, superb—Lt. Gen. Robert Lennox from the Army’s G-8 department added more fuel to the fire, telling Ares during a question and answer session that the Army indeed seems to be leaning toward tracks.

Reflecting lessons learned from the Future Combat Systems fiasco, the GCV has no weight requirement—but it does have requirements for survivability and maneuverability. Back in March, an Army spokesman told me that the service wants the vehicle to have the “urban mobility of a Stryker, with the off-road capability of a Bradley and the survivability of an MRAP. The mobility requirements are as important as survivability, because you can’t make your battlefield commander’s movements predictable. You can’t limit his routes; you’ve got to be able to go in various terrain.”
http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/blogs/defense/index.jsp?plckController=Blog&plckScript=blogScript&plckElementId=blogDest&plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&plckPostId=Blog%3a27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7Post%3aac6bd6ae-88c3-4ab1-8eb3-69243ae77420
 
Back
Top