Gassy little devil, ain’t ya?
“Gassy little devil, ain’t ya?”
Yet another variant on “I know what I know, and that’s that.”
If footsoldiers were all that superior to every other form of armed force, the Central Powers would have won the First World War before December 1914, without spending all that money on such tedious, ineffective modern-science techno-whizbangery as battleships, submarines, zeppelins, wireless, and most especially those pesky airplanes.
chainmail and supporters are free to believe or not as they choose, but the development of each and every “advanced” weapon was driven by the imperative of saving the lives of troops already on the ground. And the more advanced concepts of air power (which turn 100 this year) were first theorized, then developed to decrease the necessity of sending troops directly into battle.
Against this logic, the senior armed services have done little except implement their own pallid imitations - even as they complain that the air power practitioners are too inexperienced and immature to grasp “time-honored traditions,” not manly enough to do “real” battle, or “unfair.”
It isn’t about manliness, nor tradition, nor fairness. It’s about effectiveness.
http://www.afcec.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/1170093/usafa-cadet-dev/
Working with faculty at the United States Air Force Academy and researchers at the Air Force Civil Engineering Center, USAFA Cadet First Class Hayley Weir develops new composite material that may be of use in improving soft body armor. In tests, her experimental material has stopped a 44 Magnum bullet.
Weir graduated on 24 May with the Class of 2017 and accepted her commission as a 2Lt. She will pursue a graduate degree at Clemson.
The United States Air Force - saving the lives of troops in ways only loosely connected to aviation. Even when the troops find it insulting.