The Transformational Brimstone Missile

 

  

Picture: Unknown Number 39 (Reconnaissance) Wing Royal Canadian Air Force photographer,Air Ministry Second World War Official Collection photograph,© IWM CL 838

  

When Typhoon aircraft destroyed German tanks behind enemy lines in France,seventy-eight years ago,it was not transformational.

 

  

Picture: Unknown photographer,Ukrainian Military Center video

  

When Brimstone missiles destroyed Russian tanks behind enemy lines in Ukraine,recently,it was transformational,because to transformationalists it's not what you do,it's the way that you do it.

  

The Cost Of A Sikorsky Black Hawk: An Addendum

 

 

Picture: United States' Department of Defense image,modifications by Grand Logistics

 

The Cost Of A Sikorsky Black Hawk explained that export customers pay about forty-five million pounds sterling each for Black Hawk helicopters with associated items,but due to exchange rate fluctuations that figure is now out of date,at current rates the cost would be just under fifty million pounds per helicopter,and in the next fiscal year the United States Army expects to pay about thirty-two million United States' dollars for a Black Hawk,which is about twenty-five and a half million pounds.

 

Two Piece Or Not Two Piece,That Is The Question

 

 

Picture: L. (Phot.) Ben Corbett,Crown Copyright

 

Short Take Off and Vertical Landing naval aircraft have never generated higher sortie rates in combat than conventional aircraft,and logic suggests they never shall as they spend more time undergoing maintenance due to their complex vertical lift systems,but on some British websites it has become a matter of lore that they do,as has the idea that American Abrams Main Battle Tanks cost less than the United Kingdom's Challengers,that Black Hawk helicopters cost less than Wildcats,and that small calibre guns are better at engaging aircraft than large ones,some even think tank guns with single piece ammunition are better than those with two piece ammunition and that shall be the subject of our lesson for today.

 

 

Picture: aick

 

Longer kinetic energy projectiles are better at penetrating armour than short ones,but the charge and projectile of single piece cartridges are stored in series with each other and the Cartridge Over All Length is constrained by the length of the space in which it is stored which means that a longer projectile must intrude further in to the cartridge case and must be shorter than the overall length,and the longer it is the more chamber volume it consumes leaving less space for propellant and therefore reducing muzzle velocity,which is a significant disadvantage.

 

 

Picture: Gertrud Zach,United States' Army photograph

 

The length of two piece ammunition is also constrained by the available storage space,but as the charge and projectile are in series only when loaded in to the gun (at which point there is no restriction on over all length because the barrel has a hole at the other end),the projectile can occupy the entire length of the available storage space and therefore can be longer than the projectile of a single piece cartridge,without intruding in to the chamber,leaving more volume available for propellant and thereby increasing muzzle velocity,which is a significant advantage.

 

Remember The Alamo

 

 

Picture: United States' Department of Defense image,modifications by Grand Logistics

 

The ballistically illiterate often think that a small calibre rapid firing cannon is what is needed for engaging aerial targets,which is the opposite of the truth as smaller projectiles tend to have a longer time of flight and generate a smaller effective volume than larger ones,but to compensate for the inherent inadequacy of the 57mm Bofors 57 Mark 3 Naval Gun System there is a transformational cartridge incorporating a guidance sytem called the Advanced Low-Cost Munitions Ordnance (ALaMO),unfortunately each one costs sixteen times more than a High Explosive Point Detonating round,seven times more than a 3P Mark 295 cartridge and about five times more than a 5 inch Mark 187 High Explosive projectile with a Mark 419 Multi-Function Fuze and full propelling charge,and firing two hundred and twenty rounds per minute at a suicide boat swarm attack would cost almost one hundred thousand pounds per second.

 

The Racist Air Force

 

 

Picture: Unknown photographer,Crown Copyright

 

To tolerate racism is to endorse it,as only racists endorse racism,has Air Chief Marshal Sir Michael Wigston,the professional head of the United Kingdom's Royal Air Force,sacked the racists who wanted "a pilot, who is preferably not white male" to "be the RAF face at a press event for the release of Top Gun 2" (it is not clear why a Royal Air Force officer should be promoting a foreign film about the United States' Navy)?

 

Horses For Courses

  

 

Picture: Grand Logistics

 

The medium infantry and heavy cavalry formations of An Independent Army For An Independent Nation shall be well suited to offensive manoeuvring as all of their units shall be equipped with well protected tracked vehicles from the Matilda and Charger families.

 

 

Picture: Grand Logistics

 

Unlike the Future Soldier Armoured Brigade Combat Teams of the British Army,whose ability to manoeuvre shall be constrained by the high ground pressure and poor protection of the wheeled vehicles which shall equip their infantry and artillery units (contra to manoeuvrist doctrine).

 

The Ten Rupee Jezail

   

 

Picture: Grand Logistics

 

Boxer medium armoured vehicles cost millions of pounds,but rifle grenades able to penetrate medium armour cost just tens of pounds and every Quarter Inch Rifle and Three Eighths Inch Carbine in An Independent Army For An Independent Nation shall be able to fire Half Pound Grenades.