Green Goes to War: The Electric Bonfire Chronicles

by | Jun 26, 2024

 

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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 reasons to push hundreds of millions of dollars in research and development of the hybrid electric tank is related to ideology instead of necessity.  In fact, any study of tank warfare in Ukraine is unlikely to support the case for a hybrid electric platform, since the main tank vulnerability is visual discovery of tanks by FPV Drones, not because they are heat sources.

There is no evidence the US Army has taken into account the lessons of the Ukraine war and worked on systems to kill drones that are playing havoc with US and European tanks.

A future system would include a networked capability to kill drones and counter air launched mines. Spending money on a hybrid electric platform is a mistake mostly because it avoids confronting the real issues on today’s and future battlefields.

https://weapons.substack.com/p/the-army-wants-a-new-hybrid-electric

My posting is slow this week since I am at a conference in Calizuela, expect the pace to pick up next week to the usual cadence.

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Bill Buppert

Bill Buppert

Bill Buppert is the host of Chasing Ghosts: An Irregular Warfare Podcast and a contributor over time to various liberty endeavors. He served in the military for nearly a quarter century and contractor tours after retirement on occasion and was a combat tourist in a number of neo-imperialist shit-pits around the world.

He can be found on twitter at @wbuppert and reached via email at cgpodcast@pm.me.

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