{"id":149309,"date":"2023-11-06T07:00:21","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T12:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=149309"},"modified":"2023-11-03T15:35:46","modified_gmt":"2023-11-03T19:35:46","slug":"monday-miscellaneous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=149309","title":{"rendered":"Monday Miscellaneous"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ah yes, the dawn of a new week. From the TV ads, time to start practicing “Bah, Humbug!” to be sure it snarls appropriately, like am unmuffled Triumph.<\/p>\n

First up (or down, depending on Willie Brown’s whereabouts) our Vice President showed off her exquisite sense of timing again. Evidently, beside curing the border and walking on water, she is involved with eliminating – ya gotta love it – Islamophobia.<\/p>\n

…”announcing the country’s first National Strategy to Counter Islamophobia” with most users taking issue with the timing of the post just weeks after the Hamas terrorist attack on Israel.<\/p>\n

The timing of the post was immediately criticized on social media, and many also pointed out the recent surge in hate crimes against Jewish people.<\/p>\n

“On the same day Hamas leadership goes on international TV and declares their goal is to erase Jews and Israel off the planet,” The Spectator editor Stephen L. Miller posted on X<\/u>. “Just stunning.”\u00a0 Fox News<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Because we all know Muslims world-wide love us and want nothing but the best for us… What’s next, her celebrating Bedford Forrest’s birthday on MLK day?<\/p>\n

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Next up is more a point of curiosity – we all know that the Rooshians essentially have two fighter design houses, Mikoyan Gurevich and Sukhoi. Their Su-27 is one of their better models; but I for one did not realize how BIG the damn thing is. Think a Mini longer than an F-15, which is one of our largest. Put into perspective, in the pic above the foreground left is the SU, the ‘smaller’ one above it a MiG-29, and the one above that an F-4 Phantom (far from a tiny plane its own self.) Or maybe better put: the -27 is less than an arm’s length shorter than a WWII B-17.\u00a0\u00a0 The War Zone<\/a><\/p>\n

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Going the opposite direction…some of you former EW types from INSCOM no doubt remember when EW jamming units were big suckers that had to be vehicle mounted, right? Not just big sonsaguns, they required their own towed generators back in the pre-Cambrian Cold War days.<\/p>\n

The U.S. Army selected a CACI International-owned company to prototype a jammer that soldiers can carry and use on foot to spy on electronic signals.<\/p>\n

The TLS-BCT Manpack is meant to give troops on the move a means of conducting electronic warfare and signals intelligence.<\/p>\n

The Army is reinvesting in electronic warfare \u2014 and manipulation of the electromagnetic spectrum \u2014 after years of divestment. C4ISRnet<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Nice that someone in the Pentagon has realized that potential major foes like China and Russia, or even Iran, are not going to rely on Hamas-style couriers for battlefield info flow… and disrupting their comms is always a good thing. I once saw a FEBA map during a REFORGER that showed a large bight in the line, and centered in the bight was a singlejammer screwing up comms, therefore movement, for the whole area.<\/p>\n

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And\u00a0 the Biden administration has shut down all commercial shipments of US arms\u00a0 overseas for 90 days. Except to Israel, Ukraine, and the 42 countries of the Wassenaar Arrangement which includes almost anyone still speaking to usWassenaar Arrangement – wiki <\/a>\u00a0ironically, including Russia.<\/p>\n

In 2020, export control for most commercial arms, ammunition, and accessories was moved from the State Department to the Department of Commerce\u2019s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS).<\/p>\n

The \u201cpause\u201d is by far the most drastic move that BIS has taken to restrict firearms exports since it took over jurisdiction. One might expect such a major change in policy to be front and center on a government agency\u2019s website, but notice of the \u201cpause\u201d was hidden at the bottom of the BIS\u2019s \u201cFAQ\u201d Page.<\/p>\n

The notice on the FAQ page also gives little reason for why the \u201cpause\u201d is necessary beyond noting that the \u201cpause\u201d \u201cwill enable the Department to more effectively assess and mitigate risk of firearms being diverted to entities or activities that promote regional instability, violate human rights, or fuel criminal activities.\u201d<\/p>\n

That statement and the timing seem to indicate that the \u201cpause\u201d is in response to recent reporting by Bloomberg targeting the Commerce Department for \u201cexporting\u201d American \u201cgun culture\u201d at \u201cunprecedented levels.\u201d Bloomberg even appears to be taking credit for the \u201cfreeze\u201d (as they call it). Buckeye Firearms<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Biden’s folks dancing to the gun-controllers’ tune. It’s interesting, that the gun makers are still allowed to ship to Russia but not elsewhere?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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