Why Narco-Subs are the Future of Military Logistics
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0:00 Intro
1:36 Vulnerabilities of Commercial Supply Chains
3:18 Ground News
4:24 Mules to the Rescue
5:56 Problem with Ground Vehicles
7:56 Supply Logistics for US Navy
10:14 VERTREP and CONREP
11:18 Mulberries
12:28 Learning From Narco Traffickers
15:48 Traditional Logistics
16:50 Artificial Intelligence Systems
17:41 Why Aluminum Solid Fuel?
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When Skynet takes over I'm going to sell you out, clear conscious cuz I told you in advance k thanks
Is it only for the US? Because i really couldnt care less if the white house agrees on some news or not as i dont live in the US
You changed the thumbnail, why?
@@chrossantvegas2694 my skynet comment but it's too late
"Infantry wins battles, Logistics wins wars." -John J. Pershing
"Amateurs talk strategy. Professionals talk logistics" -General Omar Bradley
Blessed be logistics.
I’ve heard a of ole Black Jack’s quotes, not all are so sane.
@@armanada7600 "we send in troops with no way of refueling or resupplying" - Russia
Nice quote, nerd.
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We had mules on our farm. They're basically obnoxious tanks. They're smart, alert and tough as hell. We kept them as protection. We raised expensive exotic animals. We used the mules to keep coyotes and other predators away...and they worked.
So, not only are they good for transport, you've got extra ears to alert you...and they're better than yours. Nothing comes near a mule without it hearing it.
Mules get no respect, I'd take a decently trained mule over a horse any day.
@@twillison8824 Less skiddish and more reliable. Other than pure top speed, a mule is better. And as a pack animal, the mule is far superior. It is calmer, more sure footed...
@@TheRagingPlatypus got that right, a mule can go places a horse can't get near.
@@twillison8824 they both have thier advantages
Fire enough guns near it, and it will not be able to hear very well anymore.
My dad was a morter sargent in WW2 and for reasons unknown he was reasigned to a mule company which he knew nothing about. After 3 months the army finally discovered their mistake and sent him back.
Lmaoooooo you found the wrong man's daughter in R&R
That's normal
2 things
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Sergeant
Him, or the mule?😀
It's funny, how two thirds of the footage of mules is from the German Army (Bundeswehr), but only the U.S. Marines are mentioned by name. The Bundeswehr has been using mules and pack horses highly successfully for decades now in its 23rd Mountain Brigade; they're one of the more experienced armies in this field.
Mules are the only thing the German army has that can not run out of spare parts so they better be effective with them 😂.
@@jakob.k_design Also, they're better-looking than German women.
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@@cf453 hahaha spoken like a true virgin! :D
@@jakob.k_designwell also mountains are REALLY rough for vehicles of any sort even helis (because trees and lack of any really good large flat places to touch down and such) and as such it’s probably just a matter of not wanting to spend years and billions developing a vehicle they will only need for a few specific operations and groups and instead just sticking it on a mule and calling it good enough. I am sure the soldiers would love armored support and a vehicle that had AC and heating and maybe a higher caliber weapons system like an autocannon or something but considering the limited application complexity required and ways that that could go wrong I think a choice was made to just… not
Logistics is the key: the best trained, and equipped force, will go nowhere without supplies.
But in reality logistics people are always treated like dipshits and servants in the military (in civilian life too!)
That’s true when the mongol invaded everyone they carry little to non supplies because they get them from looting raided villages so when the Vietnamese cut their supply and starve them to retreat. A small country able to fought off the mighty mongolia empire 3 times just by cutting off their supply
I think "equipped" and "supplied" means the same thing
I was in Operation Cobra 2. it was planned down to the gallon of JP8. The US Army has pallatized loads and about a billion trucks. it's pretty impressive
@@KM-js4we equipped is your gear on you, like weapons or transport, supply is what's being ferried to you, like food, ammunition, spare parts & replacements
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Same!
I was able to occupy, I mean liberate a medium-sized brown country because of his videos!
I want to start a tunnel boring company, could i be a contractor with you?
I am the owner of a fried chicken, fast food chain based in New Mexico. Perhaps you would like to talk business regarding your logistics.
@@kane5645 you wouldn’t happen to know a man named Walter would you?
The funny thing is that we learned the lesson of "make a bunch of cheap transport for our supplies", back in WWII- the Liberty ships were built with this in mind. Fast to make, inexpensive, and expendable.
Yeah, and I'd kinda want to do it with Airships over Narco Subs.
And if you are trying to spam transports just to overwhelm enemy interception, why not go with a modern Robotic replacement of the Liberty Ship method; Easier to make a "Disposable" Hull with some simplistic means of propulsion and the automation to direct it in the general direction you want it to go.
Let alone the landing barges used during Overlord.
Liberty ships didn’t do what sealift command does. They were cargo ships, which are important, but are completely useless for underway replenishment. Ships for underway replenishment are necessarily advanced and well designed, or else they would constantly run into the ships they are supplying. y
Except the crews..
i love how Technology is developing so much that warfare is now advancing backwards
its really not this video is pretty close to just being Chinese propaganda. pack animals are not better than vehicles they have a lot of problems. the resupply ship comment is laughable they are not sitting on the front line and they are not undefended they tend to be escorted by things that can say shoot down in coming missiles. the USA is literally considered the leader when it comes to logistics hell we just removed several links in our logistics chain by figuring out how to dropship cruse missiles from a cargo plane from 600 miles away from the target. look it up its called rapid dragon and its terrifying.
How much longer until the military starts carrying broadswords again?
Sails are being rediscovered for logistics. Their unique infrared signature and self-generating fuel is a big plus.
well its always returning to the roots. e.g. Infantry. Whenever the rules of warfar change. The special equipment becomes vulnerable. And the basics become more important again.
In Colombia, the army has been using since independence pack animals for logistics, as our terrain is mainly the mountanous Andes.
The "Lanceros" are the main ones who use them, for all operations in the high andes and the "páramos".
Meanwhile in the "llanos", horses are used instead of mules for their speed and long lengs for the flooed plains.
Of course it's not the main supply method used by Colombia, but it is frecuently used for the roough terrain and long operations.
here in italy too the mountain troops "alpini" in extreme conditions still use donkeys
No es que colombia sea un ejemplo para un culo, pero buen intento.
@@groucho1080p makes perfect sense. Mules can go up slopes trucks won't even dream of driving on.
@@TheLiasas Militarmente? Si. No por nada la mayoría de mercenarios en el mundo son ex lanceros colombianos
In Germany the Gebirgsbrigade in the Alps uses donkeys or mules as well
in Vietnam, we are pretty much still using these same pack bicycle models that has been in service back in the 2nd Indochina war (French-Vietnamese war of 1945-1954)
basically regular bicycles that have been modified to be walked instead of ridden, with racks to carry supplies
each of them could carry up to 100kg without further reinforcement, or 200kg after reinforcement modifications
on another thought regarding pack bicycle compared to pack animal is that, while the pack bicycle needs its own set of maintenance and primarily runs on human power, they are similarly inexpensive to maintain and are perfectly controllable compared to animal
Nice thing about a mule is it will follow you up a mountain. With the bike thing you would have to carry it which makes things worse in the end. Depends on the terrain you are operating in I suppose
@@MountainDewbies yep, it still wholy depends on the guy who walks the bike
but it worked well in the mountainous northwest region and central region of Vietnam so i suppose it could work on wherever hike-able mountainous terrains
note that the bikes are walked, not ridden
imagine it operates similar to a wheelbarrow, but looks like a bike and is walked like a bike
the bike is there to support the weight of the loads, meanwhile the user only need to push it forward
@@quoccuongtran724 What can I google to find more information about these "pack bicycles"?
One thing to consider is that when drug smugglers lose 90% of their drugs its not like the police is going to sell them and outprice them that way, but if the enemy captures 90% of your supplies you just built a supply chain to the wrong team. There need to be precautions like maybe a self destruct functionality to prevent this.
U may be surprised
There is an old saying in the Army: "Amateurs talk about tactics. Professionals talk about logistics." Our whole military-industrial complex, and the politicians they own, are focused on high technology with high profit margins. As a combat officer, I was more interested in having enough stuff that worked there in my hands. Simpler is usually better.
We have gotten sloppy because we haven't actually faced a truly powerful opponent since the Korean War --- and guess who is pushing their way back into the game.
The one thing the US and China has going for them that Russia doesn’t. Is the ability to tap into contracting civilian freight services to ship massive quantities of supplies over the sea.
China has far more shipyards that can help produce military vessels in the event of a war, thank outsourcing for that.
@@DZ477 but do they have the quality
@@kolinmartz in second world war the US build a lot low quality ships. Quantity was more important in order to just produce more ships than the the German uboots could destroy
@@Tom-ku8bu it’s the destroyers and convoy tactics as well as the constant air patrol coverage that kept the Uboats at bay.
@@DZ477 those will break to! The literally have design philosophy and incentive to build cheap fast and low quality
As an Alpine pack animal soldier, pack animals are indispensable for mountainous terrain but otherwise traditional supply chains remain the way to go. Just two or three horses can carry e.g. a heavy machine gun + ammo to otherwise inaccessible terrain, which is an extreme advantage wherever it applies. But for anything else? Get a truck. Horses travel at walking speed and you need a company of soldiers to transport what one truck can. Pack animals are very powerful in particular situations and imo investment in them should indeed be increased, but they absolutely are not a solution to more general supply problems.
Yes thank you, this is a weird video. The logistics capabilities of USA are quite amazing. At least in comparison to Russia.
Some logistics have only to move at a walking pace. Its smart to transport those by mule for no fuel cost.
It sounds stupid to suggest using animals when vehicles perfectly suffice, especially in the decent infrastructure of china
@@waynebimmel6784 no gasoline, but they need to be fed which isn't free
I didn't get the impression that NWYT suggest to use mule for all logistics needs, just for those with rough terrains.
In China it might be more efficient to use standard vehicles in most areas but in Ukraine the scarcity of infrastructure meant that a single convoy stretched for 40 miles and was extremely vulnerable.
Had the Russians used pack animals for their logistics, maybe they would've had more success.
The best military video I’ve seen in months. Forward thinking and informative
Brazilian army “ light infantry brigade”uses water buffalos as a means of transportation in the Amazon… the reason is that they don’t get scared with loud noise and can carry more then double of the weight of a horse can and in the caatinga “semi desert area in northeast of Brazil “ they use donkey cos they are very strong for they size and don’t need much water
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I went fishing in Amazonia a few times. I saw these natives out there in their dugout canoes with mules in them. They cut down trees, illegally no doubt, and then have the mule drag the trees out to the water and then they float them to their destination. It was something seeing a mule in a canoe though and hearing those howler monkeys off in the distance. That’s a pretty cool place, pink fresh water dolphins, piranhas, jaguars, and those beautiful peacock bass that will snap your expensive rod in half. They fight like no freshwater fish I’ve ever caught.
As someone currently in a sustainment brigade, I can say: it sucks, but we keep the wheels running. Worth the price of victory in the end.
Why it sucks tho? Could you elaborate, I'm really curious
@@Gabriel5955959 Lots of behind the scenes drama. Always understrength, under suppled half the time. We have to scavenge what we need, heard stories of units stealing from each other. We gotta pull each other's weight to keep up the fight. I'm an HR specialist, but I'll have to pull guard duty for hours, clean, repair, basically be a mechanic and chauffeur. Menial tasks, I know, it could be worse. And seeing it pay off is worth it in the end.
If it didn't suck, the wheels would run smoother and victory would be more cheaply won. Don't justify nonsense.
@@Foreign0817 undersupplied and understrength is what caused the Russian offensive to lose initiative. Never use euphemisms for serious issues.
@@littlesquidgaming True. But at least were not acting like we're the spearhead. Yet. We're reorganizing, and while others have before, it's our turn now. I'm not saying its no rush, but I'm also saying: "hey, Rome wasn't built in a day."
During the WW2, when Italy invaded Greece, the battles were fought on a very mountainous terrain. The greek villagers offered their donkeys, mules and even themselves to carry supplies to the soldiers. This logistic support was very helpful in the tactical victories of the Greek army.
Interesting, following this logic, i wonder how much better donkeys would be at invading japanese occupied islands rather than the amphibious vehicles americans used.
Or would we use orca?
@@daslynnter9841 I have no opinion or expertise to answer that. What I do know is that donkeys and mules are fantastic to carry heavy loads in mountain tracks where no wheeled or tracked vehicle can. You don’t use them to storm beach heads. You use them to transfer supplies in mountainous terrains.
@@IMAN7THRYLOS i agree they are the best option for terrain like that, but i was inferring from your post, that you took that one specific example and was trying to say mules are better than modern logistics, like so many other commenters. And for that i apologize.
I didnt want to come off as saying they arent useful in mountains, obviously they are, i was just trying to argue(poorly) that thats the only scenario they are effective in.
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Might be an idea for Taiwan/ROC too when defending from an invasion, due to its many mountains
Three factors for a successful logistics operation; redundancy, the use of multiple routes, and geographical flexibility.
Thanks you for this great video.
It is fascinating !
Honestly just having an animal around would be a big moral boost for the soldiers it might even give them a sense of urgency that a robot can't give.
Yes, nothing makes you feel urgency more than having your mule train blown up in front of you
@@Sniperboy5551 🤯🤯
Robotics can have the advantage of communicating with the militarys sat coms and share said information to the troops, help lead troops through the optimal path to avoid contact or being spotted as it can get live top down information.
The problem seems to be fuel and engine, an electric engine would severly reduce the noise, but all mechanical things will still make some machine noise when moving, then the focus might become soft compound metals with low friction for the joints to reduce friction and contact noise etc. Its pretty much an energy and material race at this point.
Until dear Neddy gets turned into a pink mist
You'd change your mind if you could talk to your wife on the MULE. You cant fuck an animal and pretend it's your wife.
- The Chilean army has mule and equine cattle, adapted for the rugged territory of our nation. They are engaged in exploration, rescue, forward force, supply transport and logistics.
The Army Veterinary Corps created a few years ago through genetic crossbreeding a new mule that could call 4x4 The strength, speed and musculature of a horse but with the resistance, balance and docility of a donkey, they do not look like mules common, they are rather taller and slender giving it a more horse-like appearance but with longer ears.
They are divided into two regiments with a total of approximately 4,000 mounts.
and edible in a pinch.
@@em1osmurf Yes, you never know how bad it will be on the combat front 🐎
That is extremely cool. I must look into this further : ) what's this breed called?
@@loganwolfram4216 I do not know the exact name of the crossbreed, but I know that the mixes are made with the Mountain Breton breed and national breed Corralero.
The first to generate specimens of easy mobilization in the mountainous and irregular chilean territory, and the second with national specimen to generate a fast scout plataform whit great speed in short stretches.
All this work has paid off whit a noble and resilient specimen, thick skin with double fur, narrow chest, medium height and low withers, ideal for pulling work, equipment and supplies transport, mountain campaign and rescue expeditions.
@@felipecaravjal5297 I bet this horse-cow tastes amazing
Wow, there is so much here that needs to be looked at. Excellent video !
I love this channel! Thank for your content!
Expectation: some super high-end thing developed to strengthen military logistics
Reality: a mule
Okham's Razor at it fines
reality is often better
Sorry if I come off as a armchair general but, for what a Mule can do, A truck can do twice more. It doesn't have to be super high end but really all you need nowadays is a truck to distribute supplies. If you have to resort to using animals for the majority of your logistical needs, then something has gone horribly wrong. Sure, you can probably use them for short term stuff or for mountainous terrain (though you have air transportation for that) but otherwise trucks can carry much more supplies. Which is why you see many a country use them historically over time.
@@grugmangaming5152 fr theres a reason the last nation to use a mule for logistics, nazi germany, lost
Mules die, trucks can be bulletproof. Mules slow you down, trucks speed you up. Mules are great for uneven, unpaved terrain, but trucks are great for arriving at, attacking, and defending built up areas which happen to also be the most strategically significant. There is no advantage a squad supported by mules has over a squad supported by an armored car, besides free fuel in the right terrain.
But of course if you cant get fuel to the front lines how are you expected to get ammunition, rations, and parts there either. Pretty soon your modern unit devolves into 1800s settlers in the name of self sufficience rather than proper logistics.
@@daslynnter9841 last time 0they used mules they reached Paris and Moscow ( for some days then retreated ) Russia was too vast for any logistical system at that time to support such large scale offensive. Plus they were heavily out produced due to murica.
I remember talking to a former sf operator that served in my country's army in afghanistan and he told me they sometimes had to hire locals to conduct mules due to the ineffectiveness of the other options and that he wished our armed forces had not lost the tradition of keeping and using mules (he was in alpine troups)
A few years ago we had a couple groups of SF soldiers come through our tiny mountain town to do mule skinner training with a local Backcountry guide.
Astonishingly good video. Fascinating, thanks 👍
I watch these videos every day i stay interested by the topics and his voice is amazing
Omar Bradley, "Amateurs talk about strategy, professionals talk about logistics."
Jack Welch on definition of strategy: "Pick a general direction--and implement like hell."
9:02 I would like to point out, that at the beginning of the 2nd World War, the US Navy did not have a large number of liberty ships, did not have enough destroyers (especially in the pacific) and those civilian ships often set sail with few weapons and few escorts, making them easy pickings for German and Japanese U-boats. The US Navy had to learn from harsh experience, and ramp up their production massively over the course of the war.
And knelt on Canada a good bit as well.
Lmao, Japanese U-Boats.
Fun fact, the Imperial Japanese submarine fleet was kickstarted after investment and purchase of American submarines, coinciding further development and modification into the modern Japanese submarine fleet that unfortunately was forced to be put to the test. Though they were quality models they couldn’t face against the quantity and ferocity of the Allied efforts.
@@edie9158 all forms of Navy ships are crucial, but aircraft carriers won that damn war. I will die on this hill.
@@edie9158 The Japanese subs were foolishly targeted at military ships. If they cut the logistic chain which was massively long, things could have been more difficult for the US.
The US Navy _could_ have listened to the Royal Navy, both from WWI experience and from inter-war war games, but chose not to.
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great content
You can't win Wars without Logistics. Heck you can't have Civilization without Logistics!
I wasn’t really a fan of Military analysis vids as they are just recycled hogwash so I naturally strayed from this channels long vids, but colour me impressed, NWYT is a very high quality and entertaining channel, I enjoy your style and how you stick out in the military analysis community
“As their just recycled hog wash” bruh
@@Mcdouble123 Thanks for the correction, I wouldn’t have noticed if not for you, good work soldier.
Normally, I enjoy NWYT videos- but in my opinion, this one seemed kind of wandering and aimless... 20 minutes of random factoids and technology magazine headlines to basically say that logistics is important, without really talking about any topics in any real detail. The main point wasn't even particularly cohesive, the military logistics system is apparantly both too outdated and too advanced at the same time, and the solutions proposed are barges, donkeys, and aluminum fuel cells.
I think my main complaint is, there wasn't any real digging into the legitimate pros and cons for each system/technology. Felt like a guy skimming websites and wikipedia just to have something to talk about.
I guess you could say, it's not what you think.
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Revelation 6 1st Seal: White horse = Roman Empire conquering nations under Trajan 98-117 AD & Gospel spreading rapidly. 2nd Seal: Red horse, bloody civil wars with 32 different Emperors, most killed by the sword. 185-284 AD 3rd Seal: Black horse, economic despair from high taxes to pay for wars, farmers stopped growing. 200-250 AD 4th Seal: Pale horse, 1/4th of Romans died from famine, pestilence; at one point 5,000 dying per day. 250-300 AD 5th Seal: Diocletian persecuted Smyrna church era saints for ten years, blood crying out for vengeance. 303-312 AD 6th Seal: Political upheaval in the declining Roman Empire while the leaders battled each other. 313-395 AD
Revelation 7 Sealing of 144,000, the saints, before trumpet war judgments, which led to the fall of the Roman Empire.
Revelation 8 1st Trumpet: Alaric and the Goths attacked from the north, the path of hail, and set it on fire. 400-410 AD 2nd Trumpet: Genseric and the Vandals attacked the seas and coastlands, the blood of sailors in water. 425-470 AD 3rd Trumpet: Attila and the Huns scourged the Danube, Rhine & Po rivers area, dead bodies made water bitter. 451 AD 4th Trumpet: Odoacer and the Heruli caused the last Western Emperor (sun), Senate (moon) to lose power. 476 AD With the Western Roman Emperor (restrainer of 2 Thes. 2) removed; the son of perdition Popes took power.
Revelation 9 Two woe judgments against the central 1/3rd and eastern 1/3rd of the Roman Empire. 612-1453 AD 5th Trumpet: Locust & scorpions point to Arabia, the rise of the Muslim army. Islam hides Gospel from Arabs. 612-762 AD 6th Trumpet: Turks released to attack Constantinople with large cannons (fire, smoke, brimstone). 1062-1453 AD
Revelation 10 The little book is the printed Bible, which was needed after the Dark Ages when Scriptures were banned by Popes.
Revelation 11 7th Trumpet: Martin Luther measured Roman Church; found that it’s an apostate church, not part of true temple. The two witnesses are the Scriptures and saints who proclaim the pure Gospel and testify against the antichrist Popes. Papal Church pronounced Christendom dead in 1514 AD. Silence for 3.5 years. Then Luther posted his 95 Thesis, which sparked the Protestant Reformation and brought the witnesses back to life. Millions of Catholics were saved.
Revelation 12 Satan used the Roman Empire to try to wipe out the early Church, Satan was cast down as the Empire collapsed.
Revelation 13 The antichrist beast Popes reigned in power 1,260 years, 538-1798, is the little horn of Daniel 7, son of perdition. The false prophet Jesuit Superior General rose to power from land (earth) of Vatican and has created many deceptions.
Revelation 14 Points to great harvest during the Protestant Reformation & wrath on Catholic countries who obey antichrist Pope.
Revelation 15 Overcoming saints victorious over the beast. Prelude to 7 vials and judgment on those who support Papal Rome.
Revelation 16 1st Vial: The foul sore of atheism was poured out on Catholic France, leaving them with no hope, led to revolution. 2nd Vial: The French Revolution started in 1793, killed 250,000, as France had obeyed the Pope and killed saints. 3rd Vial: The French Revolution spread to rural areas of France, where Protestants had been killed in river areas. 4th Vial: The bloody Napoleonic wars shed the blood of countries who had revered and obeyed the antichrist Pope. 5th Vial: Judgment on the seat of the beast. Papal States invaded in 1798, Pope imprisoned, removed from power. 6th Vial: The Turks vast domain dried up, they were only left with Turkey. They lost control of Palestine in 1917 AD, Israel became a nation again in 1948
loved this video essay!
Great video. The Aluminum Fuel alternative was a smart addition.
Been following ground news for awhile. Great resource to get out of our own algorithm bubble, and they've reacted perfectly to pushback from their readers when they change something too much on their platform. Great to hear a sponsor like that!
Logistics is the key to winning any war, modern or not. You can't fight without weapons
best video ever .🤩👍 interesting, more like this please
whoever made the ghost logo centered at 11:55 i appreciate you
The most boring aspect of any major task is usually the most important
I saw this problem coming 20 years ago when the company I worked for adopted "just in time inventory" management software. It worked fairly optimally when everything went according to plan which was almost never. The system simply couldn't account for the unexpected event like a part failure or a vendor that went out of business.
Sounds like your company didn't listen to Toyota while implementing JiTD. You are supposed to keep enough on hand until the next delivery with the expectation some deliveries or sources of supply will fail and have to be reached from scratch. Toyota did the math on microchip logistics and kept 6-12 months of chips on hand for example because that is the lead time on receiving a new order.
@@TheJBerg (Not so) common sense often makes no sense to college educated 'know it alls'. Its a problem for folks who are 'over qualified' to sweep the freakin floor.
I'm sorry this comment is 5 months late. Next time will be better! You can count on me!
No your company did not implement JiT, it just did the minimums and did not actually learn the Japanese lessons on alternative vendors, shippers, and resources. This was fairly common in the US/EU with software vendors selling a solution and manufacturers not bothering to learn the lessons of just in time. so many WAGs put into the data fields for a Work Order, BoM, or Routing.
All of the replies to your comment are interesting. Let me give you my opinion. JIT is Japanese. It fits their culture. Japan is a small country and space/ inventory costs money. That's a problem we don't have. In addition, the Japanese do business differently from us. The manufacturer, the bank, and all the suppliers work together. We call it collusion. It's like a conglomerate. With us its every business for itself. You just don't buy a JIT suite and expect it work without a JIT culture. You don't practice JIT by yourself. You practice it in a group - the entire chain. Face it we are not Japanese. In general, I get the impression that Western management is incompetent. They chase after fads rather than genuine leadership. Managers are good at gamesmanship. They are good at getting the job and not doing it. Their focus is on promotions, looking good, and golden parachutes.
I had already thought about sub transportation, but you reminded me of the importance of cheap and plentyful logistics.
That's neat!!!!!! AGAIN - Thank you
The mule has been bred for thousands of years. It's the cutting edge. You're not going to replace it anytime soon. Not even the kettenkrad or jeep of WWII really surpassed it.
Mules are not bred. They are almost always infertile
"Hee Haw" < 'Yes' >
Except they totally did.
The US was fully motorized and the soviet deep penetration spearheads couldn't have done half as well without being fully motorized either.
Mules and horses outside of specific situations have been surpassed long ago.
Only a fool would think keeping a truck running is harder than keeping a mule running, especially in the modern times where trucks are an integral part of any army and mules are not.
Mules / horses would require their own separate supply line to keep going, bringing their own unique food (no, you can't graze your way to victory for many reasons), constant medical care and shelter. It's also a lot easier to fix a truck than it is a mule, sometimes it's impossible to fix a mule at all and simply discarding them as you would a truck would be impossible and horribly demoralizing to the troops as well as causing issues with animal rights activists back home.
The only situation where a mule could be useful is in a place where trucks or jeeps can't reach, helicopters can't fly, air drops can't be made and the entire situation cannot be changed through active means (taking our air defenses, dropping FAB's to make LZ's, finding another place to go). There are going to be very few situations like that and no sane military power will dedicated time and resources to keeping a donkey force for years doing nothing just in case a situation like that happens.
@@Palora01 oh my god a sane Person here, you completly right with you arguments, it has a reason why every modern millitary has trucks for supply and not donkeys, I also want to add antother flaw with donkeys with a simple question how much weight can a mule carry and how much can a truck carry. It's true that the Russians have at the time problems with supply but this problems come from bad planning and because they didn't secure the captured land good enough. i mean imagine this you ambush a convoy of trucks that is supported by amored cars and can move very fast if needed or a convoy focking donkeys that is only supported by Infantry and can move mabye 12 kmh also you need a shit tone of mules to carry the same amount of supplies if you want to transport the same amount as 10 trucks can.
@@Palora01 Finally someone with a brain, the capabilities of the pack mule are too specific for it to be implemented, only useful in mountainous terrain really, and a helicopter could carry way more equipment and quickly drop it anyways.
I think a little context is needed here: The CSBA study needs to be looked at compared to the standards the US holds itself to. The US military prides itself on good logistics, and so our definition of 'adequate' is a much higher bar than most people realize. Sure, it's old and not well invested, but still far ahead of most anyone else in the world. That doesn't mean we don't need to fix it, but it does not mean we're going to have a failure like Russia is facing. Our 'underperforming' is well above Russia's level of 'excellent'.
That being said, yes, if we had to go to war against China, we'd likely struggle very quickly to maintain the pace we should. Pack animals are definitely something that would help. The US has gotten a lot better at looking at low tech solutions to modern warfare.
There's also the question of what exactly is the scenario that they were testing against? They said a war with China or Russia, did they mean a land war where we invade either China or Russia? Because that seems inadvisable for more reasons than just logistics, and is something I doubt the military really factors into their calculations on these things.
@@todo9633 Great points, guys. Another thing that is huge in Russia and China-- corruption. I mean, we in US have 'corruption' according to some, if you talk about fat cats getting contracts, but they send down quality products to the troops.
Another thing is US has the greatest allies in the world.
As you said, we are not going to get into a full war with Russia or China and I can't imagine very many would survive the first Shock and Awe of the coalition.
One thing I keep seeing in the comments is people putting a positive spin on things. When you're talking about warfare, shouldn't you expect Murphy to be your eternal bedfellow?
Hope for the best, sure, but only if you're planning for the worst
@@blackoak4978 Agree, hope for the best but know Murphy's ready to strike. Prepare for worst case scenario
Imagine being a soldier in 2030 and waiting weeks for resupply, and when they finally do show, its a half mile line of mules moving at walking pace and still not carrying as much as a convoy of armored vehicles could.
Vs a smaller convoy of bulletproof, repairable trucks coming in at 50 mph
Do you use mules to move? Do you ride a horse to home depot to get lumber and walk back with the lumber carried via horse? No why would you do that when you can just use your car/trailer? Why would the military intentionally cripple their own supply line?
Mules have no use supporting an offense role and arguable role in defense.
good vid, very informative
In 2015 I was blessed with a contract for a huge NATO exercise, Germans indeed had mules and they needed an external vet and services to remove the manure as per local regulations.
That opened my eyes to become an expat and have never regretted it since.
I think that's a good point, the US could simply make a bunch of go-fast boats with a certain amount of fuel/cargo and then just pound those ships out, and send 50-100 out in a fleet... Make them all robotic and AI controlled and all that, tell them where you want them to go, and they'll meet you there. You could do the same with subs that travel 30 meters or so below water. You could also have a fuel tanker / supply drone that flys around and lands. These would not need many humans to run.
The "narco" boats are semi-submersible; they have air-breathing engines. Actual submarines require heavy and expensive batteries. Small semi-submersibles are still quite stealthy. They are not fast, but small fast boats burn a lot of fuel, leave a lot of visible wake, and get tossed around quite roughly in bad weather.
Ahh yes waste millions on stealth AI that can be shut down with the current technology that Russia has
@@spycrab5227 Manned systems and autonomous AI systems are equally vulnerable. Neither requires remote control and neither can do much if the ships electronics all break (radar, missile guidance). By contrast, remote control systems don't require AI, but depend upon being able to communicate with a controller, likely far away.
Pacific 24 and other RHIBs are basically that; as I understand, the Type 31 can carry 3-4 with the Royal Navy working towards an Autonomous variant.
My original idea for fast logistics within a wide array of theatres was to just drop off a floating shipping container full of supplies out the back of a cargo plane and have it land using retrorockets.
aluminum fuel is definitely a fire hazard, it usually comes finely divided and can be ignited by an open flame, solids would have to be divided on site and even solid aluminum will burn fiercely if sufficiently heated as would be the case of a firefight
I just want to extend my appreciation for the video frame when You said "imagine we shall" It sure does look like those cranes are holding that boat where are you river used to be but I'll bet it's not what I think.
I've got a newfound respect for mules! And, it's not what you think.
Nice job on this.
It’s not a question of one or the other. It’s always a blend of both. You need to rely on motorized logistics for mass quantity but you’ll need to rely on pack animal or an analogue for distributed operations. The same way you need to rely on tanks to deliver quick direct fires but you need to rely on infantry to seize difficult terrain and guard the tanks from atgm teams. It’s called combined arms for a reason.
I'll take my combat mule with an m249 thank you very much
@@canobenitez I prefer mine with a Mk19
Honestly, general purpose/armored cars would still be better for distributed operations, pack animals are only advantageous over difficult terrain like mountainous regions, a role which theyre already employed in, as shown in the video.
Repent and follow Jesus my friend! Repenting doesn't mean confessing your sins to others, but to stop doing them altogether. Belief in Messiah alone is not enough to get you into heaven - Matthew 7:21-23, John 3:3, John 3:36 (ESV is the best translation for John 3:36). Contemplate how the Roman empire fulfilled the role of the beast from the sea in Revelation 13. Revelation 17 confirms that it is in fact Rome. From this we can conclude that A) Jesus is the Son of God and can predict the future or make it happen, B) The world leaders/nations/governments etc have been conspiring together for the last 3000+ years to accomplish the religion of the Israelites C) History as we know it is fake. You don't really need to speculate though because you can start a relationship with God and have proof. Call on the name of Jesus and pray for Him to intervene in your life. - Revelation 3:20
Revelation 6 1st Seal: White horse = Roman Empire conquering nations under Trajan 98-117 AD & Gospel spreading rapidly. 2nd Seal: Red horse, bloody civil wars with 32 different Emperors, most killed by the sword. 185-284 AD 3rd Seal: Black horse, economic despair from high taxes to pay for wars, farmers stopped growing. 200-250 AD 4th Seal: Pale horse, 1/4th of Romans died from famine, pestilence; at one point 5,000 dying per day. 250-300 AD 5th Seal: Diocletian persecuted Smyrna church era saints for ten years, blood crying out for vengeance. 303-312 AD 6th Seal: Political upheaval in the declining Roman Empire while the leaders battled each other. 313-395 AD
Revelation 7 Sealing of 144,000, the saints, before trumpet war judgments, which led to the fall of the Roman Empire.
Revelation 8 1st Trumpet: Alaric and the Goths attacked from the north, the path of hail, and set it on fire. 400-410 AD 2nd Trumpet: Genseric and the Vandals attacked the seas and coastlands, the blood of sailors in water. 425-470 AD 3rd Trumpet: Attila and the Huns scourged the Danube, Rhine & Po rivers area, dead bodies made water bitter. 451 AD 4th Trumpet: Odoacer and the Heruli caused the last Western Emperor (sun), Senate (moon) to lose power. 476 AD With the Western Roman Emperor (restrainer of 2 Thes. 2) removed; the son of perdition Popes took power.
Revelation 9 Two woe judgments against the central 1/3rd and eastern 1/3rd of the Roman Empire. 612-1453 AD 5th Trumpet: Locust & scorpions point to Arabia, the rise of the Muslim army. Islam hides Gospel from Arabs. 612-762 AD 6th Trumpet: Turks released to attack Constantinople with large cannons (fire, smoke, brimstone). 1062-1453 AD
Revelation 10 The little book is the printed Bible, which was needed after the Dark Ages when Scriptures were banned by Popes.
Revelation 11 7th Trumpet: Martin Luther measured Roman Church; found that it’s an apostate church, not part of true temple. The two witnesses are the Scriptures and saints who proclaim the pure Gospel and testify against the antichrist Popes. Papal Church pronounced Christendom dead in 1514 AD. Silence for 3.5 years. Then Luther posted his 95 Thesis, which sparked the Protestant Reformation and brought the witnesses back to life. Millions of Catholics were saved.
Revelation 12 Satan used the Roman Empire to try to wipe out the early Church, Satan was cast down as the Empire collapsed.
Revelation 13 The antichrist beast Popes reigned in power 1,260 years, 538-1798, is the little horn of Daniel 7, son of perdition. The false prophet Jesuit Superior General rose to power from land (earth) of Vatican and has created many deceptions.
Revelation 14 Points to great harvest during the Protestant Reformation & wrath on Catholic countries who obey antichrist Pope.
Revelation 15 Overcoming saints victorious over the beast. Prelude to 7 vials and judgment on those who support Papal Rome.
Revelation 16 1st Vial: The foul sore of atheism was poured out on Catholic France, leaving them with no hope, led to revolution. 2nd Vial: The French Revolution started in 1793, killed 250,000, as France had obeyed the Pope and killed saints. 3rd Vial: The French Revolution spread to rural areas of France, where Protestants had been killed in river areas. 4th Vial: The bloody Napoleonic wars shed the blood of countries who had revered and obeyed the antichrist Pope. 5th Vial: Judgment on the seat of the beast. Papal States invaded in 1798, Pope imprisoned, removed from power. 6th Vial: The Turks vast domain dried up, they were only left with Turkey. They lost control of Palestine in 1917 AD, Israel became a nation again in 1948
@@daslynnter9841 The Toyota Hilux is peak modern military vehicle. Change my mind.
As a person who has worked on researching military optics and radar in the USA, the lack of domestic capacity to produce critical technologies and materials has long concerned me. The problem is that maintaining domestic manufacturing capacity that is economically competitive is difficult because the commercial applications have a massive advantage due to the amount of product shipped, and the fact that engineering and development costs can be spread over a large number of relatively low cost items. I think maintaining viable domestic manufacturing capacity will require dual-use and agile manufacturing capabilities that can serve both commercial and defense purposes, and that the DoD should be funding ways to cleverly exploiting commercial manufacturing technologies for military use. In any extended war of attrition, weapons and equipment that require complex and specialized supply chains to produce are likely to not be able to be manufactured in sufficient quantity, and warfare may revert to using much older technologies.
If you look with an ideological eye, you will not see the truth. The main reasons we are not the big manufactures of just about everything are 1. We have a pathetic healthcare system that is substantially more expensive than anyone, even the luxurious system the Swiss have. Forget your political persuasion, single payer would be less than 1/3 the cost and do everything we are doing and more. 2. Unions. It is just a system of extortion. And it kills our mines, and manufacturers, makes or education obscenely expensive, and almost everything government does. 3. Lawsuits are permitted where the jury feels compelled to award ridiculous amounts to insure the corporation or the government feels the pain. But this makes us have to tax more and get much less in our communities, when government is the looser. And when companies are, they are much less competitive, and now in debt, and possibly doomed. Lawsuits should only result in job loss of the business elites who were responsible for allowing whatever. And monetary damages should be limited to realistic loss. The only reason this is permitted is because lawyers are the people making the laws. 4. We allow far too many monopolies and near monopolies. Mergers in military contractors is especially pernicious. The last time there was concern on a presidential platform was in 1924. They mention it after we have to bale out companies to the tune of many billion of dollars because of "too big to fail". But then it is not brought up again, and megamerger after megamerger is allowed. This greatly interferes with making products competitively. 5. NIMBYs interfere with construction of the homes we need and infrastructure. 6. We tossed out the Atomic Energy Commission and replaced it with the NRC, which has been directly hostile to nuclear power. They effectively tripled the cost of nuclear power, when it really should have been getting cheaper. Failure to take advantage of the potential of nuclear has lead to mountains of coal ash, and Global Warming. Other countries would have followed where we lead. China and India would be nuclear-powered instead of coal-powered. 7. Zoning. The way we have zoned has made far more need for transportation and has lead to daily massive congestion that could have been prevented. Imagine if your work was almost always a block from your home...instead of 10, 20, 30 miles away. Less wasted fuel. Less wasted time. More money in your bank account. 8. We devastated our country with lead emissions. The damage from this is astronomical. Those 25 and younger are less affected, but still affected. 9. Extreme overpayment of corporate board members...because they set their own compensation. Compensation should be legally limited to 50x the lowest paid employee. 10. The use of share buyback rather than giving a dividend. This is a trick by the rich to avoid paying taxes. If they don't sell shares, and they receive no dividends, they did not earn anything...and pay no taxes. If workers are taxed to pay for everything they have to earn more, costing more to the companies hiring them, but the workers see none of that money, because it goes to taxes, yet it still makes the products less globally competitive because of this higher labor cost.
People often say, "American workers could never compete with China or Vietnam or wherever because they pay a few dollars a day, so why even try? Just block imports and make everything here." But that is not true. An American skilled worker operating advanced machinery can produce more than 100 workers do in those other countries. If we correct all these Issues I mentioned, we could easily produce vast quantities for export, and return to an economy many times larger than any country in the World, including China. Something actually never seen before. We could afford the research to cure aging, cure dozens of diseases, to have massive mines, and cities on the Moon, Mars and a dozen other places in the Solar System.
I've thought there ought to be some sort of initiative to "onshore" production of anything whose loss of which could severely harm us if we couldn't import it.
But I wasn't thinking munitions. I was thinking critical medical supplies and pharmaceuticals.
I was thinking the critical supply manufactories, defined as critical for national stability, could be sited in states that really need work (and whose senators really would need to be won over to this project...)
I would not be surprised a major conflict would use up the tech fast, then wind up being with WWII level stuff, fast and easy to manufacture in mass.
The redundancy joke was subtle enough I almost missed it, well done XD
That snorting at the "thanks to narcotics" had me killed 😂
The thing about using narco trafficer strategy is that each interception mean, you give the enemy your supply, for narco trafficer this isn't a problem, but for war, this is like giving the enemy extra claw.
put a trap on the supply package/box. example: the receiver needs to enter correct code to open the box of supplies. if enter incorrectly - boom!
@@FaizalYacob possibly or maybe rig each supply vehicle with explosives that could be detonated, the key there is to destroy the cargo, far vessels they could try scuttling the vessel.
the key is the cargo.
@@FaizalYacob Antipersonnel mines aren't legal.
@@Photosounder In the field of war we call it "guidelines" rather than law XD
@@Photosounder No, your blanket statement that "anti-personnel mines" is wrong.
Only landmines are supposed to be forbidden.
Don't believe me? Claymores are literally anti-personnel mines, and are entirely legal.
A few years ago in a seminar with aspiring military senior leaders, I suggested that the USAF would do well to balance its portfolio between high-tech, high cost prestige aircraft and smaller, cheaper ones that could be fielded in larger quantities. You'd have thought I asked them to eat their own babies.
They are preparing for the previous war. They claim to train soldiers to adapt, yet the brass is stuck in decades-old doctrine.
Money is not an issue mindset vs. quantity of proven systems like f15, a10, f16, f117.
If 99 % of countries can't match those, what are we building stuff that's 100x the cost and only marginally better, like high end steath. Thier skins can't even hold up to high speeds and have to be replaced ... wtf?
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Am watching thenks a lot bro
That robot dog was an experimental device which failed because it was too noisy however a lot of lessons were learnt from it. Now we are using drones and quad bikes to get around the war zone.
The old proverb: "Army marches with a stomach" is very true.
It’s a quote from Napoleon, not a proverb.
12:37 **training sounds**
killed me 🤣
@19.49 . Well played sir.
i love that at 1:25 dude on the back got a can of pringles in his pocket.
I’ve been saying it for years: donkeys are the future. This video now proves it. All we need to resupply the war ships are floaties for the donkeys! Why is the Navy sleeping on this?! Donkeys with floaties are the pinnacle of a modern-warfare logistical solution!!!!!
Tom Clancy's "Red Storm Rising" deals significantly with the NATO supply line from America and the importance of convoy's.
god that was a good book. brings back memories.
Not only that. Change Germany to Ukraine and Red Storm Rising does better job informing you on the development than most media.
Repent and follow Jesus my friend! Repenting doesn't mean confessing your sins to others, but to stop doing them altogether. Belief in Messiah alone is not enough to get you into heaven - Matthew 7:21-23, John 3:3, John 3:36 (ESV is the best translation for John 3:36). Contemplate how the Roman empire fulfilled the role of the beast from the sea in Revelation 13. Revelation 17 confirms that it is in fact Rome. From this we can conclude that A) Jesus is the Son of God and can predict the future or make it happen, B) The world leaders/nations/governments etc have been conspiring together for the last 3000+ years to accomplish the religion of the Israelites C) History as we know it is fake. You don't really need to speculate though because you can start a relationship with God and have proof. Call on the name of Jesus and pray for Him to intervene in your life. - Revelation 3:20
Revelation 6 1st Seal: White horse = Roman Empire conquering nations under Trajan 98-117 AD & Gospel spreading rapidly. 2nd Seal: Red horse, bloody civil wars with 32 different Emperors, most killed by the sword. 185-284 AD 3rd Seal: Black horse, economic despair from high taxes to pay for wars, farmers stopped growing. 200-250 AD 4th Seal: Pale horse, 1/4th of Romans died from famine, pestilence; at one point 5,000 dying per day. 250-300 AD 5th Seal: Diocletian persecuted Smyrna church era saints for ten years, blood crying out for vengeance. 303-312 AD 6th Seal: Political upheaval in the declining Roman Empire while the leaders battled each other. 313-395 AD
Revelation 7 Sealing of 144,000, the saints, before trumpet war judgments, which led to the fall of the Roman Empire.
Revelation 8 1st Trumpet: Alaric and the Goths attacked from the north, the path of hail, and set it on fire. 400-410 AD 2nd Trumpet: Genseric and the Vandals attacked the seas and coastlands, the blood of sailors in water. 425-470 AD 3rd Trumpet: Attila and the Huns scourged the Danube, Rhine & Po rivers area, dead bodies made water bitter. 451 AD 4th Trumpet: Odoacer and the Heruli caused the last Western Emperor (sun), Senate (moon) to lose power. 476 AD With the Western Roman Emperor (restrainer of 2 Thes. 2) removed; the son of perdition Popes took power.
Revelation 9 Two woe judgments against the central 1/3rd and eastern 1/3rd of the Roman Empire. 612-1453 AD 5th Trumpet: Locust & scorpions point to Arabia, the rise of the Muslim army. Islam hides Gospel from Arabs. 612-762 AD 6th Trumpet: Turks released to attack Constantinople with large cannons (fire, smoke, brimstone). 1062-1453 AD
Revelation 10 The little book is the printed Bible, which was needed after the Dark Ages when Scriptures were banned by Popes.
Revelation 11 7th Trumpet: Martin Luther measured Roman Church; found that it’s an apostate church, not part of true temple. The two witnesses are the Scriptures and saints who proclaim the pure Gospel and testify against the antichrist Popes. Papal Church pronounced Christendom dead in 1514 AD. Silence for 3.5 years. Then Luther posted his 95 Thesis, which sparked the Protestant Reformation and brought the witnesses back to life. Millions of Catholics were saved.
Revelation 12 Satan used the Roman Empire to try to wipe out the early Church, Satan was cast down as the Empire collapsed.
Revelation 13 The antichrist beast Popes reigned in power 1,260 years, 538-1798, is the little horn of Daniel 7, son of perdition. The false prophet Jesuit Superior General rose to power from land (earth) of Vatican and has created many deceptions.
Revelation 14 Points to great harvest during the Protestant Reformation & wrath on Catholic countries who obey antichrist Pope.
Revelation 15 Overcoming saints victorious over the beast. Prelude to 7 vials and judgment on those who support Papal Rome.
Revelation 16 1st Vial: The foul sore of atheism was poured out on Catholic France, leaving them with no hope, led to revolution. 2nd Vial: The French Revolution started in 1793, killed 250,000, as France had obeyed the Pope and killed saints. 3rd Vial: The French Revolution spread to rural areas of France, where Protestants had been killed in river areas. 4th Vial: The bloody Napoleonic wars shed the blood of countries who had revered and obeyed the antichrist Pope. 5th Vial: Judgment on the seat of the beast. Papal States invaded in 1798, Pope imprisoned, removed from power. 6th Vial: The Turks vast domain dried up, they were only left with Turkey. They lost control of Palestine in 1917 AD, Israel became a nation again in 1948
Overheard the description for Ground News. . . that is *AWESOME!!!* 😄
What you say makes sense except for one thing.
Who makes money off mules? Tech upgrades, spare parts, excess units, modifications, cost overruns, phantom projects, redesign, rework, replace with next generation when it's almost right...
USN unrep (replenishment at sea) actually doesn't take that long. An entire carrier battle group can be resupplied in a few hours.
Conrep (connected resupply) can transfer heavy pallets of materiel as well as transfer fuel oil and aviation fuel.
Vertrep (vertical resupply) can transfer huge amounts of materiel swiftly if properly staged on the supply ship (I did it for years.) Also, it can be done with ships not close together if needed.
But a key to proper logistics management is prepositioning where the bulk of items are placed at forward or intermediate bases or ports to cut down transit times for the supply ships to dock, take on cargo, then get back to the fleet.
As for the fuel, hydrogen fuel cells are way behind where they should be. But that is changing as industrial systems and vehicles running on hydrogen become more numerous. This technology has far greater upside than electric vehicles, just a matter of getting a fuel grid built.
I am sure you can find ways of creative accounting that makes a $500 mule cost $1,000,000 when the army is buying it.
@@Yora21 ... The army did have a talking mule way back when.... Frank, Francis, something like that. I think it went to Hollywood. That could be a possibility...
Who makes money from mules? biotech..
Uh, will they supply the acid as well when using the aluminium as fuel? (to neutralize the spent solution)
If i remember my school chemestry right the reaction product other than the hydrogen is aluminium hydroxide aka drain cleaner, but higher concentration.
If you dump that stuff into the enviroment every time you refuel you will end up ruining it and possibly poison the ground water for decades.
considering the US dumbed thousands of tonnes of toxic waste is Iraq and Afghanistan, i don't think they would care
Many metal compounds (ores) are tightly bound to rocks, so living beings have not evolved protection against them. They are only present in soil and water in more than trace amounts when humans have extracted them. This is not true for sodium and potassium which are common in sea water and for calcium and aluminium which are common in the soil. Hence animals have evolved good protection mechanisms and will not get poisoned by them as long as their kidneys are well.
I think it depends on how dire the situation is.
Best case you would return it for reuse.
I'm sure not every IBC tote or Jerry can gets ditched in the field.
There really is no "higher concentration" than pure lye used for clearing drains.
Peroxide is another one of those chemicals that has a lot of energy density but is pretty dangerous to handle in the field.
There's a reason all branches of the service use compatible fuel oil.
@@jimurrata6785 By higher concentration i mean, usually drain cleaner is crystaline sodium hydroxide with grains of aluminium mixed in. When the sodium hydroxide reats with water, the resulting lye will attack the aluminium to form aluminium hydroxide which is even more basic.
But it's not pure aluminium hydroxide.
@@DasIllu Ah, gotcha. 😉
I don't think I've ever bought or used 'drain cleaner', only straight up lye.
18:23 "Aluminum is not a fire hazard" - It's the most brilliant idea I've heard. When it burn, it burn crazy, eat through steel, concrete. Imagine a truck with it being hit, it will not just detroy the vehicle, kill the crew, but also destroy the road.
They could be used in a more stealthy way to launch suicide drones as well if you want to really soften coastal defenses and enemy naval op's.
Small and harder to detect or hit makes these semisub's a modern niche platform.
And if you mount them with ecm modules they can cause untold amounts of chaos.
Using pack animals is tactfully sound for moving supplies for a modern military, but as both the soldiers from the first world war and second world war found it comes with its own problems. The pack animals get injured due to combat or mistakes made while traversing difficult terrain, you're going to have to put it down if the injuries are too severe. There's also morale of the soldiers if the animals are killed. There's documentaries and books on the physiological effects of loosing animals during war, depression and lowered morale, especially for those who primarily have to take care of them during deployment. It's not just an easy fix with no downsides, there's no such thing.
Also, pack animals like donkeys and horses, equine eat 90% longer and more than bovine because of their stomach anatomy. So you need to bring a lot of food on that already overburdened supply line if there's no edible food for them. So, all in all, no, going back to pack animals supply lines is a waste of time, resources, money. We have planes that can go anywhere that can literally cargo drop supplies with parachutes. So no, we need to go forward with mechanization and improve upon it, not throw it into a lake and go back to the centuries old ways of doing things. With that thinking we'd still be using muskets and firing lines.
The German army of World War 2 used horses because they didn't have enough trucks. Trucks were better than horses 90% of the time in the 1940s and trucks have got a lot better since then, whereas horses haven't. Horses were militarily obsolete by 1940 and that isn't going to change.
Can't eat a truck
European armies didn't have to import fodder for their draft animals. During WW2 the US Army began using horses and mules as pack animals in the mountainous terrain then discovered they couldn't obtain the needed fodder and grains for them from local markets. That forced the War Department to requisition fodder and grains from farmers, the rail cars to rush it to ports and faster transport ships to race those over to Italy before the animals starved to death.
@@bunkydoes8048 no but a truck can carry more food than what you would ever get out of an entire horse.
Animals also die without fuel whereas a vehicle will sit there till you find more.
Once I heard that for every combatent in the Pacific war, there were 13 other supplying him or carrying him through the islands.
Amazing!
I was in the marines, army, navy, and airforce, was a navy seal, and did two tours, I have see battles, and wars, and I can say with confidence that I just made this up.
the future of warfare: pack animals like mules and horses...
Mongolia: Let's go!!!!!
I love ground news! I'm glad you got a sponsorship by them.
that snort at 12:36 = 10/10
4:59 "…and worst of all, it was fu**ing loud." - And gave a heat signature.
I would say from operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, our logistics Dept of the military is top notch. I even say a modern marvels episode about it. Totally mind blowing
There’s is so much information in this video. It’s like 3 fully researched videos in one
Cool to see my ship USNS MILLINOCKET in the opening of this video. MILITARY SEALIFT COMMAND
"The solutions for the future can be found in the principles of the past"
Quite a good video on vulnerabilities. However, this is presuming the US, particular it's Naval Sealift, logistical complements are facing a fully operational and capable enemy. Hopefully, the sharp end of the stick would have already rendered the enemy capabilities much duller compared to the conflict start.
This is a good point, in an all out war, logistics wouldn't truly matter until a week or more after the start. It'd begin as an air and naval war
Yeah, nukes will dull both sides a lot.
I’m cav scout in an airborne unit. We don’t get any of the fancy bradlys or strykers that heavy cav gets. When we are luck we get to use our hmmwvs. Most of the time though we are on foot. Our job in conventional warfare is to be moving well ahead of the infantry and armor units to locate enemy units and reconnoiter routes for the movement of personnel and vehicles. The amount of gear it takes us to do our job is very heavy and we are not capable of carry everything we would like to accomplish our mission. Especially at the speed we need to be moving to stay ahead of the main body. If we had horses like the cavalry of old we would be much more effective. We would be able to cover way more ground than the infantry and also be able to carry all of the optical and radio systems we need to be much more highly effective at reconnaissance. We would also be able to carry more food and water to sustain much longer missions. If you throw 100lbs on a guys back and have him cover 20 miles in a day he’s going to be gassed and hurt by the time he gets where he’s going. With horses we would be able to make that movement with minimal wear on the soldiers so they could be as combat effective as possible while also having every possible tool they need for the job. It would also save the army massive amounts of money and headache trying to keep our vehicles operational. Horses for light cavalry would be a massive improvement in both combat effectiveness and cost cost effectiveness.
Or just replace us with drones.
Motorbikes are faster on all but the roughest terrain, can be built to carry almost any load, and are able to go at a moments notice.
If horses are the answer, surely bikes work too?
Just remember that Marius’ Mules proved better than the real ones. Granted, talking about 100 BC, but it was also “tested” on the Mormon Trail in the mid 19th century AD. Humans are tough and the fastest mammals for 1000+ mile journeys.
I really enjoy this narrator. He clearly enjoys what he is doing, but he doesn't take it way too seriously :)
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Not just being a avid wildlifer but also a millitary enthusiast & an optimization expert (in a short span of influence or work), I know why world of millitary & humans will eventually have to get down from their virtual high horses & take note of what is available in nature to not exploit it, but to manage with it to sustain ourselves.
Energy Dynamics is key for all living populations, be it animals, plants or even humans.
Indian Military has natural advantage.
The lack of naval / merchant marine vessels is supposed to be solved by the Merchant Marine Act of 1920, known as the Jones Act. It is a federal statute establishing support for the development and maintenance of a merchant marine in order to support commercial activity and serve as a naval auxiliary in times of war or national emergency
Solution to Army supply issues: horses
Solution to Navy supply issues: sea horses
Before seeing this video I had heard about the pack robot. Just watching that noisy and awkward robotic mule my first thought was “why not just use regular mules?”
*training noises*
I cracked up so hard on this one
The pack mule robot was built to sustain troops in the field but the main conflict is just about resupplying them. With the adaption of borderline power armors this problem may phase itself out. It would be rather odd for things to regress so much and go back to actual mules. Drone delivery or even a drop pod depot would be better.
But when we get to resupplying entire fleets the floating island and submarine cargo ships may be the best bet. Being low profile they could surface and use low reflective solar panels and just run almost silent on batteries.
I think it's generally presumed that modern armies will use small drones for resupply and reconnaissance. The pack mule I think is a decent idea for some specialised light forces that operate in mountainous areas, whilst light forces generally would do better with something like the Robotic Platoon Vehicle that the British Army is testing out in Cyprus. Either way, soldiers need increased load carriage capability; outside of more troops carrying less equipment or exosuits, the RPV/mule and similar systems is the most competent way to provide that capability without sacrificing the benefits that light forces bring.
The Mulberry's only worked because they were built in Britain then assembled in France; they didn't have to cross an ocean and stay whole in rough seas. Aside that, floating islands for ship-to-ship replenishment isn't possible nor competent, the closest thing I can think of to that is the Mexeflote which is for ship-to-shore transport -- and auxiliary ships in general. The difference is that a supply ship can move, whilst a 'floating island' can crawl at best. Semi-submersible cargo ships would be too expensive. A well-trained crew would be required rather than simply civilians, whilst the vessel itself would likely be incredibly slow with little capacity for stores or fuel.
We often think of the railroad as a transportation technology, but one of it's first uses was military,
Civil war troops were laying track, once you had a line to an area it was unbeatable, they could bring overwhelming resources to bear
Same with Roman roads and water ways
But railheads are a bottleneck when you have to transfer to other modes, e.g , trucks or air. Russia relies on rail in country; when they have to offload in Ukraine, HIMARS pays a visit.
@@Riddim4 The amount of Material Russia was able to deploy in ukraine so far still is insane. The only thing they did not bring enough of intially was infantry, which was the reason for their early failure.
Also their fronts in the north which were supported by road broke down, and their eastern and southern, rail supported fronts, held.
So i think this is overall a demonstration of the quality of rail logistics.
Also the entire ukrainian logisitics are run over Rail. Thats one of the reasons Russia was targeting the Powerproduction, since ukrainian Rail is running on electricity and not on diesel.
And there is no doubt that the ukrainian Logisitic is extremly good. They are capable of sucessfully handling a myriad of different platforms and systems. Basically they are within every logistic Planers worst nightmare, and they excell in it.
9:55 USNS Supply, what an amazing naming sense 😭
Bro, he got to the end of the section about pack animals and I thought the video was done, completely forgot it was supposed to be about narco subs. Dang thats some good ASS content!
Pretty interesting prospects, good video✌️ 👍
Einstein once said: “I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones”. It seems he was wrong. We see, half of WW3 will be fought with sticks and stones and may be gardening tools.
Gardening tools have the perfect camouflage. They look like gardening tools.
@@jamesparson Underrated comment.
@@jamesparson USA and Russia have 1000's of nukes, but we don't talk about the ... probably hundreds of gardening tools each side has.
@@OilHutJones and what about snow removal equipment?
Repent and follow Jesus my friend! Repenting doesn't mean confessing your sins to others, but to stop doing them altogether. Belief in Messiah alone is not enough to get you into heaven - Matthew 7:21-23, John 3:3, John 3:36 (ESV is the best translation for John 3:36). Contemplate how the Roman empire fulfilled the role of the beast from the sea in Revelation 13. Revelation 17 confirms that it is in fact Rome. From this we can conclude that A) Jesus is the Son of God and can predict the future or make it happen, B) The world leaders/nations/governments etc have been conspiring together for the last 3000+ years to accomplish the religion of the Israelites C) History as we know it is fake. You don't really need to speculate though because you can start a relationship with God and have proof. Call on the name of Jesus and pray for Him to intervene in your life. - Revelation 3:20
Revelation 6 1st Seal: White horse = Roman Empire conquering nations under Trajan 98-117 AD & Gospel spreading rapidly. 2nd Seal: Red horse, bloody civil wars with 32 different Emperors, most killed by the sword. 185-284 AD 3rd Seal: Black horse, economic despair from high taxes to pay for wars, farmers stopped growing. 200-250 AD 4th Seal: Pale horse, 1/4th of Romans died from famine, pestilence; at one point 5,000 dying per day. 250-300 AD 5th Seal: Diocletian persecuted Smyrna church era saints for ten years, blood crying out for vengeance. 303-312 AD 6th Seal: Political upheaval in the declining Roman Empire while the leaders battled each other. 313-395 AD
Revelation 7 Sealing of 144,000, the saints, before trumpet war judgments, which led to the fall of the Roman Empire.
Revelation 8 1st Trumpet: Alaric and the Goths attacked from the north, the path of hail, and set it on fire. 400-410 AD 2nd Trumpet: Genseric and the Vandals attacked the seas and coastlands, the blood of sailors in water. 425-470 AD 3rd Trumpet: Attila and the Huns scourged the Danube, Rhine & Po rivers area, dead bodies made water bitter. 451 AD 4th Trumpet: Odoacer and the Heruli caused the last Western Emperor (sun), Senate (moon) to lose power. 476 AD With the Western Roman Emperor (restrainer of 2 Thes. 2) removed; the son of perdition Popes took power.
Revelation 9 Two woe judgments against the central 1/3rd and eastern 1/3rd of the Roman Empire. 612-1453 AD 5th Trumpet: Locust & scorpions point to Arabia, the rise of the Muslim army. Islam hides Gospel from Arabs. 612-762 AD 6th Trumpet: Turks released to attack Constantinople with large cannons (fire, smoke, brimstone). 1062-1453 AD
Revelation 10 The little book is the printed Bible, which was needed after the Dark Ages when Scriptures were banned by Popes.
Revelation 11 7th Trumpet: Martin Luther measured Roman Church; found that it’s an apostate church, not part of true temple. The two witnesses are the Scriptures and saints who proclaim the pure Gospel and testify against the antichrist Popes. Papal Church pronounced Christendom dead in 1514 AD. Silence for 3.5 years. Then Luther posted his 95 Thesis, which sparked the Protestant Reformation and brought the witnesses back to life. Millions of Catholics were saved.
Revelation 12 Satan used the Roman Empire to try to wipe out the early Church, Satan was cast down as the Empire collapsed.
Revelation 13 The antichrist beast Popes reigned in power 1,260 years, 538-1798, is the little horn of Daniel 7, son of perdition. The false prophet Jesuit Superior General rose to power from land (earth) of Vatican and has created many deceptions.
Revelation 14 Points to great harvest during the Protestant Reformation & wrath on Catholic countries who obey antichrist Pope.
Revelation 15 Overcoming saints victorious over the beast. Prelude to 7 vials and judgment on those who support Papal Rome.
Revelation 16 1st Vial: The foul sore of atheism was poured out on Catholic France, leaving them with no hope, led to revolution. 2nd Vial: The French Revolution started in 1793, killed 250,000, as France had obeyed the Pope and killed saints. 3rd Vial: The French Revolution spread to rural areas of France, where Protestants had been killed in river areas. 4th Vial: The bloody Napoleonic wars shed the blood of countries who had revered and obeyed the antichrist Pope. 5th Vial: Judgment on the seat of the beast. Papal States invaded in 1798, Pope imprisoned, removed from power. 6th Vial: The Turks vast domain dried up, they were only left with Turkey. They lost control of Palestine in 1917 AD, Israel became a nation again in 1948
Imagine cheap and disposable unmanned cargo gliders with low RCS because of using plywood, foam and fiberglass in their construction. They also can be flying wings or BWBs - even commercial flight controllers can make it fly.
*uploads and watches the views roll in*
NWYT narrator: "Finally! My dream of a Bazooka mule will be fulfilled!"