Every thing is tactical
We’ve not had a lot of success with tactical wind
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October 5th, 2010 at 10:17 am
Clearly, the Colonel has had insufficient experience of US Army Field Ration C, “The musical fruit.”
October 5th, 2010 at 10:39 am
I don’t think the military issues liver and limas anymore…
October 5th, 2010 at 10:58 am
+1 Comatus, I’ve made good use of tactical wind when clearing rooms.
October 5th, 2010 at 12:59 pm
This is the stupidity that the Democrats have the military worrying about … renewable energy on the battlefield.
October 5th, 2010 at 1:09 pm
Tactical wind, it directs your farts towards the enemy!
October 5th, 2010 at 2:50 pm
How about strategic wind, better known as portable nuclear power plants? Is there not a truck-mountable nuke plant available to provide electricity to a military base? If not, why not?
October 5th, 2010 at 3:31 pm
Mikee, if there isn’t one, it’s not the fault of designers. There have been spaced-based nuke plants for years, and more recently, the Japanese have deployed what they call “neighborhood nuclear power”, which is smaller units that take up just one moderate-sized urban lot, but power an area of several dozen blocks of city.
But nuclear power is, like guns, just SOOOOO SCARY for the average liberal airhead to get their pea-brains around, that it is ignored at the least, and actively opposed at the worst.
For me, it’s like going to the office. My Dad was involved with safety design for the very beginnings of the Nuclear Navy, and I spent a good many years in the military as the spear-point of the Nuclear Triad, the Strategic Air Command’s B-52 bombers.
There are lots of ways to supply the power grid, and there will be more new ways. Nuclear is THE way to go to fill in the gaps for the present and near future.
October 5th, 2010 at 4:14 pm
SPQR, more than half the tanks the Germans lost in the last year of the war were lost due to lack of fuel, not enemy action. So having some way to power things without fuel isn’t quite as dumb as it sounds.
October 5th, 2010 at 4:53 pm
Mu,
No offense intended, but I think you are making a small miscalculation of scale. There is NO WAY something as big as a tank is going to be solar or wind powered any time soon. Even today’s advanced (by wwII standards) solar and/or wind power would not have helped the Germans one bit that late in the war.
I’m just sayin…
s
October 5th, 2010 at 6:01 pm
Mu, yep and the answer is a Prius tank.
Right?
Sheesh.
October 5th, 2010 at 11:37 pm
The military has had portable Nuclear Generators for years, they’re just owned by the U.S. Navy, and most of them are on Submarines. I remember hearing that when a Hurricane smashed into Guam in the ’70s, they hooked up a Fast boat to shore power and backfed the Island Grid for a few hours until they could get the Power Plant back up and running. Of course, that might be Politically Incorrect nowadays, since we all know how well FEMA gets things up and running, right?
October 6th, 2010 at 12:36 am
Will Blackhawk make a black – oops, flat dark earth – whoopie cushion? Then one can practice force-on-force tactical wind without the dangers of the real thing. Or would that have to be blue, for practice?
October 6th, 2010 at 6:12 am
When the US Navy sells a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, I will be first in line IF it comes with operational reactors.
Just think: reactors that are small, reliable, simple enough for sailors to operate, safe enough to operate in combat ships.
I’ll anchor outside the 12 mile limit and run a cable to connect one or more to the grid and undercut the power generating companies. It’ll be a license to print money!!!
October 6th, 2010 at 10:36 am
“Simple enough for sailors to operate”? Man, that is cold, and I’m an old AF partisan and thought I knew all the bad swabbie jokes.
When my local, problematic nuke plant was on its ass operationally in the 70’s, a sudden influx of ex-sailors made it viable for another 25 years. There, I said something good about Navy. 14-6.
October 6th, 2010 at 12:04 pm
Sendarius, there was a period where the Soviet Union was running nuclear submarine reactors in port connected to local grid to supply power.
Kinda of a scary way / desparate measure given Soviet nuke construction standards.