You get it. Like how could the Navy not have understood their mission module weights for LCS were wrong and that the fuel consumption rate of the engines and speed it would generate didn't jive with the range requirement based on the tankage available.
Then we see some former military make a start up, buy a booth at SNA and then poof, are…
You get it. Like how could the Navy not have understood their mission module weights for LCS were wrong and that the fuel consumption rate of the engines and speed it would generate didn't jive with the range requirement based on the tankage available.
Then we see some former military make a start up, buy a booth at SNA and then poof, are on the cover of USNI a few weeks later as the poster child for yet another new USV program.
Or how could SAIC/BAE sit there and propose, sell and drag out production and modification of the ACV, when anyone who bothered to look at even the most high-level war-planning could see that it was never going to be able to be used for it's intended purpose.
A high-tech, very capable, USELESS tool. We will make plenty of pretty videos of Marines charging ashore in training simulations, and I'm sure we will deploy them somewhere in another pointless brush-war, but it will NEVER be used to assault a defended position from the sea.
"No one told me there'd be math involved"! How many officers like my friends son; was going to be a nuke, now a SWO. He entered engineering at OSU, but switched to International Relations. So not a nuke officer.
I'm not surprised. I was an enlisted nuke for 6 years out of high school, it was absolutely terrible duty. For all the big talk, it's a total bottom-of-the-barrel job series. On the Facebook group of my old shippies, we had a survey. 80% of us were 6 and out. Another 16% re-enlisted STAR and got out after 8 years. That means damn few actually made it a career. At sea, I made $1.83/hour (in 1995 dollars). With that pay and being treated like total garbage (constantly being sold-out by your own chiefs' mess), you're not going to retain anybody that way. For a bunch of guys that are supposedly hard to recruit and valuable to retain, the Navy sure treated us like a bunch of dime-a-dozen guys. That's why nearly all of us moved on to become civilian engineers. My old carrier has become the death-ship. There was a lot of talk for a couple of months but it has returned to status-quo now. 10 suicides a year really doesn't bother the higher-ups, I guess. The only reason anything pinged the Pentagon was that we had 3 in the same week in mid-2022. Do people really think that incoming recruits, especially officer candidates, don't see this?
You get it. Like how could the Navy not have understood their mission module weights for LCS were wrong and that the fuel consumption rate of the engines and speed it would generate didn't jive with the range requirement based on the tankage available.
Then we see some former military make a start up, buy a booth at SNA and then poof, are on the cover of USNI a few weeks later as the poster child for yet another new USV program.
Or how could SAIC/BAE sit there and propose, sell and drag out production and modification of the ACV, when anyone who bothered to look at even the most high-level war-planning could see that it was never going to be able to be used for it's intended purpose.
A high-tech, very capable, USELESS tool. We will make plenty of pretty videos of Marines charging ashore in training simulations, and I'm sure we will deploy them somewhere in another pointless brush-war, but it will NEVER be used to assault a defended position from the sea.
See my recent analysis (shameless plug, I know)
https://barretttheprivateer.substack.com/p/sorry-sir-we-cant-do-that
"No one told me there'd be math involved"! How many officers like my friends son; was going to be a nuke, now a SWO. He entered engineering at OSU, but switched to International Relations. So not a nuke officer.
I'm not surprised. I was an enlisted nuke for 6 years out of high school, it was absolutely terrible duty. For all the big talk, it's a total bottom-of-the-barrel job series. On the Facebook group of my old shippies, we had a survey. 80% of us were 6 and out. Another 16% re-enlisted STAR and got out after 8 years. That means damn few actually made it a career. At sea, I made $1.83/hour (in 1995 dollars). With that pay and being treated like total garbage (constantly being sold-out by your own chiefs' mess), you're not going to retain anybody that way. For a bunch of guys that are supposedly hard to recruit and valuable to retain, the Navy sure treated us like a bunch of dime-a-dozen guys. That's why nearly all of us moved on to become civilian engineers. My old carrier has become the death-ship. There was a lot of talk for a couple of months but it has returned to status-quo now. 10 suicides a year really doesn't bother the higher-ups, I guess. The only reason anything pinged the Pentagon was that we had 3 in the same week in mid-2022. Do people really think that incoming recruits, especially officer candidates, don't see this?