For those of you interested in WW2 electronic warfare, there are Paul Woodage's (@WW2TV) earlier presentations with Matt Bone's radar hunting Typhoons here:
The Radar War Before D-Day ()
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And Paul's presentation with Thomas Withington's presentation with RAF 100 Group here: ()
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Plus a 7 July 2021 one just posted by the History Indoor channel titled
The Darkest Moonlit Night: RAF Bomber Command's raid on Nuremberg 30/31 March 1944 here:
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And finally, Craig Bellamy PhD and my Section 22 presentation with Paul Woodage:
MacArthur's Secret Radar Hunters
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The Section 22 Special Interest Group's presentation on Gen MacArthur's secret radar hunters will be on WW2TV tomorrow, July 7, 2021.
Check it out.
Section 22 was a secret WW2 radar intelligence unit in the S.W. Pacific.
This tweet thread hosts an 82 slide information packet that was released over the six days prior to the Feb 2021 CIMSEC Bilgepumps podcast on Section 22.
Nor are squadies the only payload these multicopter "lift rings" can move around.
The Ukrainian “Thunder” loitering drone recce-ammunition uses the lift ring staging concept to lift it's munition and then acts as a radio relay naturasigorta.com/ukrainian-loit…
Conceptually, staged drones are a partially disposable form of air to air refueling.
This reusable multi-copter staged munition drone concept certainly makes a USS Unicorn style VTOL aircraft & drone carrier a while lot more interesting.
@GreenSpike5@RALee85 The US Army likes to keep upgrading the GMLRS baseline over time. So their whole mass production cost reduction curve gets d*cked to h-ll and gone.
Yet even if the US Army accepted 100m versus 10m CEP, you are still in the $25,000-to-$40,000 per rocket range.
This thread is another visit into the pyrrhic victory known as Operation Iceberg, the Apr 1945 invasion of Okinawa.
This thread is based on my Aug 2013 Chicagoboyz column "Technological Surprise & the Defeat of the 193rd Tank Battalion at Kakuzu Ridge" chicagoboyz.net/archives/38455… 1/
On 19 April 1945, the US Army’s 27th Inf Div launched an attack against the Kakuza Ridge position held by the 32nd Army on Okinawa with the 193rd Tank Btn's 30 tanks, S.P. assault guns, and attached armored flame throwers from the 713th Flame Tank Btn. 2/
When the battle was over, 22 of the 30 AFV had been destroyed in a coordinated ambush by Japanese AT- guns, artillery, mortars & suicide close assault teams. Among the dead was the commander of the 193rd, on whom blame was laid for attacking without infantry in close support. 3/