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@levina sorry for not responding in the other thread, but I didn't want to get too off topic there. Yes, casualties are a concern and our training, speed of movement and action helps overcome our own. But hostage casualties are a concern too, the main concern of any hostage rescue mission. The...

It could used to help shield an operator, especially as few people aim at walls, despite them being permeable to bullets at close range, but you'd end up too stationary for my liking and lose situational awareness while sucked into a video-screen. When I was with the Norwegian Police Advisory...

Seems they were operating out of RAF Lossiemouth. Unless you've really long legs, it's not the Baltics. Part of Sqd. 6's QRF.

:lol:Well I couldn't at first, but then I realized I had AdBlock active. Whoops. According to CJTF OIR - Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve, that is the same prison from the raid. Published on Oct 25, 2015 Coalition aircraft destroyed an Islamic State of Iraq and the...

Maybe for covert insertions where being quiet is necessary, but hostage rescues are fast and violent. You need surprise, speed and to overwhelm your adversaries before they can react and take actions against you or the hostages. Cornershot is too deliberate and too slow. Photo comes from the...

@levina here's the video from the What's in your Gun Locker? | Page 42 thread. Fast and violent, not time for deliberation.

Old pics (from the early 2000s). Some gear shown is now out of service. Iceland doesn't have a standing military, but NATO nations are on a rotating defense assignment to defend Icelandic territory. Here is Norway's turn. Norske vaktsoldater på Keflavikbasen under...

USS Dallas and HMS Illustrious. Anyone want to guess who came out ahead in this exercise? God didn't save the queen this time:p:. Exercises are fun, even lowly Sweden kicked American a**, but in a real conflict, bet on the Americans. Still not better than Ula.

I'll second their professionalism. I served along side US forces in Afghanistan, theory didn't make them good. Training and tactics helped, their equipment made our forces look amateurish, but their combat experience, with some of these guys having done double-digit tours in multiple nations...

I suppose not making things worse is a strange way of trying to say you want to make them better. Like a young boy harming a young girl he likes because he's afraid to tell her, not confronting the US could be a way China saves face while indicating it wants to mend ties, without actually saying...

Yes, that's what I meant. Should China has opted for a confrontation, it would have had political, economic and militaristic consequences as the regional nations, not that they don't already, would have looked towards the US to further entrench itself and its commitments/actions in the region to...

Why even try though? Should they have entered into a confrontation with the US ships, China would have shown the region what it's trying not to, in that it's not engaged in a "peaceful rise" and is committed and willing to engage in confrontations with larger nations, not just the confrontations...

I'm going with Virginia as number one, with a larger fleet they can effect a greater area. Seawolf is damn good, but there are only three, and one isn't typically used as an attack sub, it's a special missions platform. This would be the 400ft USS Jimmy Carter, over 100ft longer than the...

Very much so, they can't be resupplied quickly, have limited supplies themselves, small outposts are pickets that warn a larger force and attempt to hold-out against or harass an opposing side. Still, having a lot of smaller islands engaged in an A2/AD type strategy can bring a rain of AShM to...

Wifi Networks Can Now Identify Who You Are Through Walls Who needs a peep hole when a wifi network will do? Researchers from MIT have developed technology that uses wireless signals to see your silhouette through a wall—and it can even tell you apart from other people, too. The team from...

Hey little bro! Where the helvede are you? @Transhumanist convinced me to join, I know where she is, but where'd you go!?!? MIT Is Growing Living Bacteria Into a Second Skin That Reacts To Your Sweat What if we could grow electronics in a lab, using carefully engineered bacteria rather...