It’s Friday and time to kickoff the weekend. I’m looking forward to getting in some range time, how about you all? I hope you’ve had a stress free and productive week. If you’ve been watching the news, any network, you are probably suicidal, constipated and taken up vaping. You may even be thinking about sitting down with a therapist, DON’T! A psychologist is a jackass who studied psychology so they could understand themselves. Your going to pay someone $150+ per hour who’s going to try to convince you that the shooting sports is a manifestation of penis envy. Instead, I recommend that you turn off the tube, shutdown the iPhone and start a shoot the shit. Our regular readers know that a shoot the shit is a social interaction in which participants don’t need to know anything about the subject being discussed, make any unsupported comments, use uncensored profanity and/or change the subject at will. It’s like being in Congress with the exception that your are not financially compensated. So, let’s shoot the shit and remember that BUCKWHEAT says “stop vaping!”

When President Trump said our military was depletede, he wasn’t just kidding! But, in addition to material we are also in need of a gigantic mental douche, I’ll explain.

After 20 years of battling jihadists and goat herders, both of who score zero in technology capabilities, we need to refocus on dealing with major powers. In the unfortunate circumstance that we find ourselves in a kinetic confrontation with our global adversaries, be assured that within the first two days we will loose many of our space assets and encounter highly contested skies. Take what I’ve said to the bank.

To give you a brief look at what we may be up against, I present some propaganda videos that demonstrate a bit of Russia’s capabilities. China may be more formidable?

Russia’s Air Defense Capability 2020: TOR-M2DT – S-300 – S-400 Triumf – S-500 Prometheus

One of the interesting things to note is that everything is on wheels. Mobility allows then to evade and deploy effectively.

Russian Airborne Troops, military exercise – Source: Pravda

This next Pravda video takes a shot at our Saudi Arabia Patriot missile installations; pointing out how ineffective they were against smaller sized targets like the Iranian drones used against Saudi Arabian oil fields.

I personally don’t believe our Patriot missile system is ineffective. However, it shows, or better said leads me to believe, that Iran did their ELINT work and charted an attack flight path and altitude to avoid detection. Possibility number two – Patriot missile battery command and control were slacking. If that’s the case someone should lose their job.

The way missile systems are deployed is in conjunction with a long range radar, or radars, used to detect an approaching threat; then, handoff the target to a fire control station for the missile battery, where short range high precision radars track the incoming target for a kill.

Russia laughs at US MIM-104 Patriot systems. Saudi Arabia drone attack – Source: Pravda

Hope you’ve enjoyed our shoot the shit and feel free to participate. Have a great weekend but be safe!