Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

The Growing Weakness of Western Artillery Capabilities
New Eastern Outlook ^ | 3/26/24 | Brian Berletic

Posted on 04/11/2024 7:32:41 AM PDT by hardspunned

After decades of waging war against impoverished nations with destitute armies, or no standing armies at all, the US has suddenly found itself in a rapidly changing world where peer and near-peer competitors are outpacing it in military capabilities. Many of these capabilities are showing up on the battlefield in places the US has until recently enjoyed relative military superiority.

One area the US has found itself particularly weak in is artillery. The conflict in Ukraine has revealed a variety of shortcomings regarding not only US artillery capabilities, but those of the collective West.

(Excerpt) Read more at journal-neo.su ...


TOPICS: Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: agitprop; coldwarjunkies; hoax; killkillkillforpeace; lies; mic; neoconforeverwar; propaganda; russianpropaganda; russsianpropaganda; ukraine; warpigsunite
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-78 last
To: DarthVader

You love your feelings and obviously are fixated on pure reinforcement of them.


61 posted on 04/11/2024 3:52:15 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 58 | View Replies]

To: DarthVader

“I could careless.”

I imagine you are.


62 posted on 04/11/2024 4:07:34 PM PDT by MeganC ("Russians are subhuman" - posted by Kazan 8 March 2024)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 60 | View Replies]

To: ansel12

No I am looking at the facts and empirical evidence. Just because you don’t like it doesn’t make it true. I am researching this deeply and extensively. When the doctor examines everything and the diagnosis is you have 6 months to 1 year to live they don’t like it but are realistic. America under its current leadership is in danger of being crushed out of existence and I wish it was not so but the evidence is here and it is following a pattern that has been seen numerous times throughout history.


63 posted on 04/11/2024 4:07:35 PM PDT by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 61 | View Replies]

To: ansel12

Concur.


64 posted on 04/11/2024 4:07:58 PM PDT by MeganC ("Russians are subhuman" - posted by Kazan 8 March 2024)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 61 | View Replies]

To: MeganC

I’m not careless and I could care less about you and your stupid , vapid opinions.


65 posted on 04/11/2024 4:08:43 PM PDT by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 62 | View Replies]

To: DarthVader

No, you are one of those guys who can’t focus on what the conversation is about, that doesn’t read what the other person is saying, and needs to ignore it to keep focused on his fixation.


66 posted on 04/11/2024 4:11:51 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 63 | View Replies]

To: DarthVader

“I could care less about you and your stupid , vapid opinions.”

A statement which is wholly negated by the statement itself.

See? I’m also smarter than you are.


67 posted on 04/11/2024 4:13:04 PM PDT by MeganC ("Russians are subhuman" - posted by Kazan 8 March 2024)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 65 | View Replies]

To: Chainmail

“The only problem with US artillery is that we haven’t produced enough of it and that we have focused only on the 155mm caliber rather than faster-moving and potentially armored medium caliber systems and dedicated heavier General Support artillery and recently, some erroneous military thought has been to nearly abandon tube artillery over missiles.”

To put it another way: You seem to AGREE with us that the Neocons are TOTAL IDIOTS and had no business wasting BILLIONS retrofitting the military for women and Trannies, when they could have been preparing for a REAL WAR.


68 posted on 04/11/2024 4:18:46 PM PDT by BobL (A society built on MERIT cannot survive on DEI (ref. South Africa, and now USA))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]

To: ansel12

You can’t handle the truth because our enemies are making similar moves and are more ruthless than we are. They are making numerous alliances with some characters who are even more unsavory than they are. It’s a matter of numbers, size and capabilities that outweigh NATO right now. Our current pathway will lead to us losing a conflict. The way things are playing out is not in our favor and everything that is being hypothesized is coming to pass. This all very relevant.


69 posted on 04/11/2024 4:18:49 PM PDT by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 66 | View Replies]

To: MeganC

ESAD. You are as dumb as a box of hammers!


70 posted on 04/11/2024 4:19:39 PM PDT by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 67 | View Replies]

To: DarthVader

You are rambling and still ignoring my posts and their focus, to concentrate on your fixation.


71 posted on 04/11/2024 4:24:59 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 69 | View Replies]

To: ansel12

I’m not rambling but analyzing what you are stating and dismantling it based upon an thorough empirical process and analysis of the data. You are in a state of delusional denial!


72 posted on 04/11/2024 4:27:57 PM PDT by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 71 | View Replies]

To: DarthVader

Wow.


73 posted on 04/11/2024 4:31:52 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 72 | View Replies]

To: DarthVader

And you have twice now proven yourself to be dumber than I am. So does that make you dumber than two boxes of hammers? Or is it three?


74 posted on 04/11/2024 4:41:16 PM PDT by MeganC ("Russians are subhuman" - posted by Kazan 8 March 2024)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 70 | View Replies]

To: ansel12

This applies:

“The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people with limited competence in a particular domain overestimate their abilities. It was first described by Justin Kruger and David Dunning in 1999. Some researchers also include the opposite effect for high performers: their tendency to underestimate their skills. In popular culture, the Dunning–Kruger effect is often misunderstood as a claim about general overconfidence of people with low intelligence instead of specific overconfidence of people unskilled at a particular task.”


75 posted on 04/11/2024 4:42:56 PM PDT by MeganC ("Russians are subhuman" - posted by Kazan 8 March 2024)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 73 | View Replies]

To: MeganC

You are delusional and DK is irrelevant here. It applies to you!! I have worked for a long time in my field and have lots of experience in things that you don’t. I am currently working on another advanced degree dealing with our current geopolitical situation and the data that my academic research and advisory board is looking at is coming to these conclusions. The facts are speaking for themselves and I really don’t like it but it is the way it is. You are a propagandized PA and no critical thinker by any measure. People like you are going to get blindsided!


76 posted on 04/11/2024 4:53:21 PM PDT by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 75 | View Replies]

To: DarthVader

“You are delusional”

And you are a troll and you’re not very good at it. Seriously, just how many times are you going to use the word ‘delusional’ today?

Whether you are a Russian troll or an American troll you have a very limited vocabulary and it shows.

Find some new words. While you’re at it find some original thoughts, too.


77 posted on 04/11/2024 5:02:13 PM PDT by MeganC ("Russians are subhuman" - posted by Kazan 8 March 2024)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 76 | View Replies]

To: MeganC

Your vapid statement here only proves the truth I said about you. You have a level of stupid seldom seen. There are those of us who are strong patriots who have different opinions based upon experience and the examination of the facts. Just because the facts contradict what you think. Learn to examine things and think critically.


78 posted on 04/11/2024 5:09:19 PM PDT by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 77 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-78 last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson