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Boeing, Boeing, Gone

by Bill Buppert | Jul 2, 2024 | Blog

There is nothing new here but the corruption is deep at Boeing: "It comes after an unnamed parts supplier uncovered small holes in the material from corrosion, The New York Slimes reported. The FAA is looking into both the long and short-term implications for the aircraft equipped with the faulty parts. It’s not clear how many planes have used components made from the fake titanium." Metal behaves differently at altitude and underwater. Fake metallurgy. No maintenance workers at the airline that received these fake airplanes verified and validated metallurgy. The chaos avalanche of the...

Ep 046 “Review and Discussion: My Lai: Vietnam, 1968, and the Descent into Darkness by Howard Jones”

by Bill Buppert | Jul 1, 2024 | Chasing Ghosts Podcast

I discuss the slaughter of over 500 unarmed men, women and children in My Lai in March 1968 by American soldiers. In concert with the Tet Offensive in 1968, this was the end of American arms in Vietnam. The collision of barbarism, toxic leadership and moral injury make everyone of these pages bleed. One of the most searing indictments of American arms you will read. This book is an acquired taste because it may crush your soul. References: Howard Jones My Lai: Vietnam, 1968, and the Descent into Darkness Karl Marlantes What It Is Like to Go to War Bill Russel Edmonds God is Not Here: A...

Green Goes to War: The Electric Bonfire Chronicles

by Bill Buppert | Jun 26, 2024 | Blog

The madness continues. The Pentagon is woke and now they are trying to make war safer for the environment. The era of the manned tank is over in the twenty-first century much like the aircraft carrier but the fixation on exquisite and vulnerable platforms still mesmerizes the military morons in the DoD. And I will bet the ten million dollar Psychedelic Electric Abrams will cost more that that... Now the Green Energy Enviruses have convinced the dim bulbs at the Pentagon that the next Abrams heavy tank variant should be a hybrid or electric. The US Army today is "woke" and one of the...

The Continuing US Icebreaker Fiasco

by Bill Buppert | Jun 24, 2024 | Blog

There will be no more new US icebreakers. There is no capability in the manufacturing base. There are no industrial design talent stacks or ability to build icebreakers that work under government contracts. The shipyard throughput is a little above zero. The Arctic is a Russian lake. What's my evidence? Coast Guard and Navy estimates of PSC procurement costs have increased about 39% since the April 2019 PSC program contract award. Another oversight issue for Congress concerns schedule delay in the PSC program. The Coast Guard originally aimed to have the first PSC delivered in 2024, but the...

The Yemeni Mouse That Roared

by Bill Buppert | Jun 21, 2024 | Blog

The picture above is the anti-ship missile employed by the Houthi in Yemen. American taxpayers have spent hundreds of billions of dollars on the world's most advanced naval force. The U.S.-led campaign against the Houthi rebels, overshadowed by the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip, has turned into the most intense running sea battle the Navy has faced since World War II, its leaders and experts told The Associated Press. Most intense US naval combat since 1945. 1945. The Osa class is probably the most numerous class of missile boats ever built, with over 400 vessels constructed between...

American Zampolit: The Coprophilia Military Media Complex

by Bill Buppert | Jun 20, 2024 | Blog

The Modern War Institute at West Point, like the War on the Rocks website, has been institutionally captured by a curious hybrid of left-wing culture warriors and the neoconservative "war on the world" fetishists. I used to have great admiration for a considerable part of the intellectual heavy-lifting performed by magazines like the Army War College quarterly Parameters along with others but over the last decade there has been a shift of using these journals and websites not for critical renditions and examinations but over-priced sewing circles to provide public relations cover for...

KC-46A Pegasus Refueler Failure Continues

by Bill Buppert | Jun 19, 2024 | Blog

One of the components of American strategic projection has been the world's most prodigious and sophisticated aerial refueling fleet. There are currently approx 400+ KC-135s capable of refueling two receiver aircraft at the same time in the current USAF fleet. The first operational flight was 1956. The last KC-135 was delivered to the Air Force in 1965. Of the original KC-135As, more than 417 were modified with new CFM-56 engines produced by CFM-International. The newest KC-135 air-frame is 59 years old. Fifty nine years old. The retirement of the KC-135 has been anticipated and the...

Fiji Follies Mimic First World Navigation Problems

by Bill Buppert | Jun 18, 2024 | Blog

There are now eight (there were nine before this disaster) total patrol vessels in the navy of Fiji; this is simply negligence and lack of proper training much like the US Navy collisions in 2017. It is extraordinarily expensive to reconstitute a vessel that has flooded in seawater even if salvaged. A mission to salvage a boat that ran aground on its maiden voyage after Australia gifted it to Fiji has begun, with efforts underway to minimise any environmental impacts including a potential oil spill. Fiji's navy said on Saturday that favourable weather conditions would assist the recovery of...

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