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General Quarters!: A Proposal For A New Class Of Frigates
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The thoughts of a Texan armchair general. A Proposal For A New Class Of Frigates. The mission the FFGX is designed for is that of the Perry. Class frigates and the 20 canceled Littoral Combat Ships. The FFGX is not meant to be a ballistic missile defense platform, nor a replacement for destroyers. It is meant to be a ship which can release destroyers to more important duties, but whose loss can be afforded without weakening other CVBGs. At 160m, a beam of 15m, and a draft of 8m. 5 Armament. FFGX woul...
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General Quarters!: Weapons Grade Stupid: "New York homeland security chief used handgun as laser pointer during speech"
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The thoughts of a Texan armchair general. Tuesday, January 7, 2014. Weapons Grade Stupid: "New York homeland security chief used handgun as laser pointer during speech". From Albany Times Union. Jerome M. Hauer. S director of homeland security, took out his handgun and used the laser sighting device attached to the barrel as a pointer. Before Hauer found the map of New York, at which he wanted to point. Hauer, commissioner of the Division of Homeland Security and Emergency. Asked about the matter over th...
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General Quarters!: December 2014
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The thoughts of a Texan armchair general. Monday, December 1, 2014. The Lexington-class: America's Only Battlecruisers. Of the major naval powers at the end of WWI the U.S was the only power not to have built battlecruisers. The British pioneered the concept in 1907 with the HMS Invincible. And were quickly followed by the Germans with the SMS Von der Tann. Of WWII fame. However, the focus of this post is on the Lexington. Class in it's original battlecruiser form. Class into what was essentially a fast ...
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General Quarters!: 2013 In Review
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The thoughts of a Texan armchair general. Tuesday, December 31, 2013. This list is taken from Strategy Page. Unfortunately, I have been out of the loop for most of the year, and missed a lot of what happened this year. Thus, the use of this list. That was the year that was and here are the top ten (in no particular order) military events that defined (or defiled) 2013. Have a happy New Year, and God bless in 2014. Labels: Year In Review. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). I am a Texan, originally from T...
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General Quarters!: Iran: Aliens Are Behind U.S. Foreign Policy
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The thoughts of a Texan armchair general. Tuesday, January 14, 2014. Iran: Aliens Are Behind U.S. Foreign Policy. A stunning Federal Security Services (FSB) report on the nearly two million highly classified top-secret documents obtained from the United States Department of Defense (DOD) run National Security Agency-Central Security Service (NSA/CSS) by the American ex-patriot Edward Snowden states that this information is providing “incontrovertible proof” that an “alien/extraterrestri...In Snowden̵...
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General Quarters!: January 2014
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The thoughts of a Texan armchair general. Monday, January 20, 2014. Rueters: China building second aircraft carrier: reports. Reuters) - China is building its second aircraft carrier, which is expected to take six years, and the country aims to have at least four such ships, Chinese and Hong Kong media reports said on Sunday. Successfully operating the 60,000-tonne Liaoning is the first step in what state media and some military experts believe will be the deployment of locally built carriers by 2020.
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General Quarters!: Where Have All The Wargames Gone?
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The thoughts of a Texan armchair general. Thursday, January 2, 2014. Where Have All The Wargames Gone? December 14, 2003. Commercial wargames began in the late 1950s as much simplified versions of systems used by professional soldiers for over a century. Unlike the professional games, those first commercial designs from Avalon Hill were actually historical simulations. The professional wargames concentrated on fighting tomorrow's battles, not yesterdays. Moreover, the professional games conce...Through t...
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General Quarters!: Stealth: Too Much Of A Good Thing?
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The thoughts of a Texan armchair general. Stealth: Too Much Of A Good Thing? Stealth. Since the development of Northrop's Have Blue prototype in the 70s the Air Force and the Navy have fallen in love with the concept, and has bought 4 types of stealth bombers and fighters since. But at what cost to capabilities? Exhibit 1: T he A-12. The A-12 Avenger II. Exhibit 2: The F-22 Raptor. The F-22 Raptor has become darling of the Air Force, as it can enter a dogfight with any type of aircraft and come out o...
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General Quarters!: My Take On Gun Control
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The thoughts of a Texan armchair general. My Take On Gun Control. 1 Assault weapons/hi-cap magazine bans are pointless. Sen Diane Feinstein has promised to introduce a new assault weapons ban (see outline here. And Dems in the House are promising to introduce. 2 The true purpose of the 2nd amendment is to inhibit the government from becoming tyrannical. In the end, in the event of new gun control laws, all I have to say is, I will not comply. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). The main focus of General Quarters!
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General Quarters!: The Lexington-class: America's Only Battlecruisers
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The thoughts of a Texan armchair general. Monday, December 1, 2014. The Lexington-class: America's Only Battlecruisers. Of the major naval powers at the end of WWI the U.S was the only power not to have built battlecruisers. The British pioneered the concept in 1907 with the HMS Invincible. And were quickly followed by the Germans with the SMS Von der Tann. Of WWII fame. However, the focus of this post is on the Lexington. Class in it's original battlecruiser form. Class into what was essentially a fast ...
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