You mentioned Ukraine. But you didn't mention the tactics. "Shoot n Scoot"
Move quickly towards the front lines, shoot (mortars, UAVs, Manpads, now it seams SAMs.) and then scoot away.
I promise you there is more than one Technical used in Ukraine's new Patriot shoot n scoot tactics.
Best for last... air defense. Trucks are the only, mobile enough, platform to interdict Shaheeds. Units with search lights, lasers, manpads, and machine guns hunt drones and cruise missiles.
I saw in SA where they had taking the Hilux and put a mortar in the back of it with a computerized aiming system and were incorporating it into their regular forces. A great idea for fast support. The Marines has a similar idea with a special jeep to tow a 120 mortar, but I think they scrapped those a few years ago? I dont see any problem with our forces doing this, saves a lot of money. Charles
Trucks, SUVs, and vans in South Korea all have places ready for blackout lights to be installed. If it hits the fan, those all get turned over to the military.
Trying to convince insurgents to install locational devices in their trucks we can track. It was worth the effort. (Having the technical knowhow to deal with such circumstances is not beyond insurgencies, but the very nature of a technical means the software development side of things likely isn't there on a grand scale. ) Tracking targets via the sim card was a noticeable issue in the early stages of the urkrainian conflict. Russia noting the large, congregated presence of foreign distributed tech in networks for targets of missiles attacks. They hit bases used as training points for the foreign volunteers this way. At least, reportedly. This being Russia, well, hard to say the validity of these reports. Though by eye witness testimony I know the bases did very hit.
You want to get technical, the US Army had “not quite” technicals for years and years. The Dodge pickups might have been standard, I don’t know. The Chevy pickups and Blazers had upgraded suspensions specific diesel engines. I was driving those till 1996 or so.
And as shelter carriers. We had OV-1D Mohawk ground stations mounted in them. Took the SLAR readout equipment right out of the cockpit and put it in a shelter. Transmitted data from the plane and saw the same thing the T.O. in the plane saw. These shelters were forward deployed with lead elements during the first Gulf War.
The existence of technicals kinda points to the huge potential military gains that could be achieved by any military able to produce military drones with the level of cost savings that is allowed by mass consumer manufacturing. At that price point a country could field 100s of thousands of drones for the price of a major capital ship (either sea or flying) capable of potentially overwhelming almost any enemy defense (we are approaching the point where drones will have sufficient intelligence to act despite EW).
I get why this may not be the perfect solution for the US but for a country like India it's an appealing option. Of course I'm not sure any military can manage to reach consumer levels of cheapness.
I thought that set of technical images was some kind of new Captcha, like identify the images with the infeasible rocket launchers.
You mentioned Ukraine. But you didn't mention the tactics. "Shoot n Scoot"
Move quickly towards the front lines, shoot (mortars, UAVs, Manpads, now it seams SAMs.) and then scoot away.
I promise you there is more than one Technical used in Ukraine's new Patriot shoot n scoot tactics.
Best for last... air defense. Trucks are the only, mobile enough, platform to interdict Shaheeds. Units with search lights, lasers, manpads, and machine guns hunt drones and cruise missiles.
I saw in SA where they had taking the Hilux and put a mortar in the back of it with a computerized aiming system and were incorporating it into their regular forces. A great idea for fast support. The Marines has a similar idea with a special jeep to tow a 120 mortar, but I think they scrapped those a few years ago? I dont see any problem with our forces doing this, saves a lot of money. Charles
Mitsubishi mounted guns taking down a Shaheed. (Telegram Link)
https://t.me/UaOnlii/70700
Trucks, SUVs, and vans in South Korea all have places ready for blackout lights to be installed. If it hits the fan, those all get turned over to the military.
Why do they call them "technicals"?
Miss opportunity, "Technically, what is a Technical?"
Trying to convince insurgents to install locational devices in their trucks we can track. It was worth the effort. (Having the technical knowhow to deal with such circumstances is not beyond insurgencies, but the very nature of a technical means the software development side of things likely isn't there on a grand scale. ) Tracking targets via the sim card was a noticeable issue in the early stages of the urkrainian conflict. Russia noting the large, congregated presence of foreign distributed tech in networks for targets of missiles attacks. They hit bases used as training points for the foreign volunteers this way. At least, reportedly. This being Russia, well, hard to say the validity of these reports. Though by eye witness testimony I know the bases did very hit.
You want to get technical, the US Army had “not quite” technicals for years and years. The Dodge pickups might have been standard, I don’t know. The Chevy pickups and Blazers had upgraded suspensions specific diesel engines. I was driving those till 1996 or so.
They were great as light logistical vehicles
And as shelter carriers. We had OV-1D Mohawk ground stations mounted in them. Took the SLAR readout equipment right out of the cockpit and put it in a shelter. Transmitted data from the plane and saw the same thing the T.O. in the plane saw. These shelters were forward deployed with lead elements during the first Gulf War.
The existence of technicals kinda points to the huge potential military gains that could be achieved by any military able to produce military drones with the level of cost savings that is allowed by mass consumer manufacturing. At that price point a country could field 100s of thousands of drones for the price of a major capital ship (either sea or flying) capable of potentially overwhelming almost any enemy defense (we are approaching the point where drones will have sufficient intelligence to act despite EW).
I get why this may not be the perfect solution for the US but for a country like India it's an appealing option. Of course I'm not sure any military can manage to reach consumer levels of cheapness.