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Aww, jeez not that power-ranger mockup thingy again!
About 10 years ago, there was a similar outfit shown on all the pop-sci/discovery channel info outlets. This looks like the same one, only with a few cosmetic add-ons.
Somebody at Natic labs is grubbing for money or attention again.
Sarge: The weight will come from the batteries/fuel cells required to power that thing and the armor add ons. The way it usualy works is that given a choice between maintaining the same protection for less weight, and same weight for more protection, the pentagon usualy compromises on less protection with even more weight.
God help us (national guard types) when they finaly figure out how to make powered armor like the Warhamster 40K space marines.
Posted by: Helmuth, Speaking for N guard ||
04/10/2007 17:15 Comments ||
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Don't laugh. The first unit to be officially issued the new ACUs was a Guard unit out of Georgia.
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Don't laugh. The first unit to be officially issued the new ACUs was a Guard unit out of Georgia
I know. I was shocked. Ususaly us guard types get the worn out hand me downs from the active duty side. 2 examples--
1. SINGCARS radios were fielded to my unit in 1997. 10-15 years after the active duty guys. The actual radios were 10-15 year old plain and -A model units. We were an "enhanced brigade" (read: highest priority for new stuff) at the time too.
2. Trucks. We did not see the new FMTV trucks untill we deployed in 2005. We finaly turned in our last M35 A2 (2.5 ton) truck last week.
Now with all the deployments, the guard is getting some of the first flight new stuff first. It's quite a shock.
Somehow I expect the guard will still get the short and/or dirty end of the deal somehow.
Posted by: Helmuth, Speaking for N guard ||
04/10/2007 19:38 Comments ||
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ALAPPUZHA, APRIL 9: In Keralas once-acclaimed rice bowl, Kuttanad, comrades are making sure farmers stick to the good old sickle just as their forefathers did, and avoid all modern bourgeois farm machines. The apparatchiks are also working on a detailed diktat specifying which individual farmer could sow and reap his crop when, from next year.
Unlike elsewhere in the country, no farmer here can use things like harvesting machines, unless they have the comrades sanction. Each farmer must apply to the local office of the CPMs Travancore Karshaka Thozhilali Union (TKTU), part of Kerala State Karshaka Thozhilali Union (KSKTU), the partys farm worker union. The union will then consider the applications on a case-to-case basis, send its own inspection teams to the farms. The comrade-inspectors will determine if enough of their union members are really not available to manually do what farm machines could do a lot cheaper and much more efficiently at wages fixed by the union. Any farmer who dares to use a farm machine without union sanction has to be ready for the consequences.
Farm machines are good only for farmers, helping them make big profits, say C K Bodhanandan, TKTU general secretary. But they dont benefit workers. We wont allow machines to harm workers interests, he told The Indian Express. But even this is a big change till some three years ago, the CPM and its union had used its might to implement a blanket ban on harvesting machines in this area of over 1 lakh hectares of paddy farms. Some eight years ago, some farmers got together to bring in their first ever farm machinery basic threshing machines. They had to hastily send them back after the comrades threatened to destroy them.
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