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new amphib
Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2014 1:20 pm
by geofflambert
RE: new amphib
Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2014 1:33 pm
by Gaspote
"The full-scale model should be able to carry at least three tanks and a HMMVW (High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle),"
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RE: new amphib
Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2014 1:37 pm
by crsutton
Totally cool, but at what expense? It seem like the trend is very costly high tech equipment in very limited numbers. This seems great for limited and local engagement with technically inferior powers but I get a sneaking suspicion that when the next "big one" happens, most of our expensive equipment will be mutually destroyed in the first six hours, and then the conflict will go on for the next six years with bayonets and slings being the predominant weapons...[;)]
RE: new amphib
Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2014 1:47 pm
by dr.hal
I want one!
RE: new amphib
Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2014 10:44 pm
by geofflambert
ORIGINAL: dr.hal
I want one!
Yes, we all know you want one for your extravagant BBQ beach parties, but the USMC designed these for anytime they want to vakay on Grenada.
RE: new amphib
Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2014 6:09 am
by JeffroK
ole man ribber.....
Back to the paddle wheel!
RE: new amphib
Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2014 8:57 am
by btd64
ORIGINAL: crsutton
Totally cool, but at what expense? It seem like the trend is very costly high tech equipment in very limited numbers. This seems great for limited and local engagement with technically inferior powers but I get a sneaking suspicion that when the next "big one" happens, most of our expensive equipment will be mutually destroyed in the first six hours, and then the conflict will go on for the next six years with bayonets and slings being the predominant weapons...[;)]
And rocks and spears...[:D]..GP
RE: new amphib
Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2014 3:02 pm
by tocaff
All of these high tech toys are getting more and more complicated. That just means more and more stuff to break down and harder and harder to maintain. I guess KISS has been totally forgotten in favor of whizbang.
RE: new amphib
Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2014 4:18 pm
by Bullwinkle58
ORIGINAL: tocaff
All of these high tech toys are getting more and more complicated. That just means more and more stuff to break down and harder and harder to maintain. I guess KISS has been totally forgotten in favor of whizbang.
The issue for the US now is personnel costs. Long gone are the days when an E-1 was unmarried and cost about $100/month due to the draft. Equipment that is complex might keep the fewer numbers alive longer. Look at the manning of a Burke-class DD versus, say, a Spruance from the 1970s. Now compare it to capability.
We have made the decision to rely on contractors to repair modularized gear behind the lines and then depend on superior logistics (most USAF) to get the gear back to the front. It was this way in the old days to an extent too. I can't tell you how much stuff on my boat was "even cog" repair parts. You had to send in the broken one to get a new issue.
I think in the not to distant future that 3D printing will come into military logistics in a big way. I have been encouraging young people to look into this tech for long-term investment opportunities. It will be the Internet of their generation in terms of explosive growth. Right alongside factory-grown meat.
RE: new amphib
Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2014 10:20 pm
by mind_messing
Old Al was right.
Who knows what we'll fight WW3 with, but WW4 will surely be sticks and stones.
RE: new amphib
Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2014 1:56 pm
by Numdydar
ORIGINAL: Bullwinkle58
ORIGINAL: tocaff
All of these high tech toys are getting more and more complicated. That just means more and more stuff to break down and harder and harder to maintain. I guess KISS has been totally forgotten in favor of whizbang.
The issue for the US now is personnel costs. Long gone are the days when an E-1 was unmarried and cost about $100/month due to the draft. Equipment that is complex might keep the fewer numbers alive longer. Look at the manning of a Burke-class DD versus, say, a Spruance from the 1970s. Now compare it to capability.
We have made the decision to rely on contractors to repair modularized gear behind the lines and then depend on superior logistics (most USAF) to get the gear back to the front. It was this way in the old days to an extent too. I can't tell you how much stuff on my boat was "even cog" repair parts. You had to send in the broken one to get a new issue.
I think in the not to distant future that 3D printing will come into military logistics in a big way. I have been encouraging young people to look into this tech for long-term investment opportunities. It will be the Internet of their generation in terms of explosive growth. Right alongside factory-grown meat.
This is spot on. The massive amount of investment into 3D printing is beyond anything in history. And it is just going to even bigger.
The scale of what 3D printing means to humanity is hard to comprehend. From working guns to food.
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-01-28/all-the-food-thats-fit-to-3d-print-from-chocolates-to-pizza