“Honey, can you please provide cover fire for your little sister?”
We can put booster seats and control extensions in some mobile artillery can’t we? Tell them it’s World of Tanks
Tell them it’s World of Tanks
Yeah, it sounds good on the surface, but:
https://www.esrb.org/ratings/30522/world-of-tanks/
World of Tanks has a teen (13+) ESRB rating.
And their little hands are excellent for getting those stuck pieces out
relies less on physical strength and stamina
Fucking what?
Right? Are they just taking up a position which has been setup and then abandoned? We need to expect a child to carry a base plate, at the very least.
Classic Red Wagon
Little Red Steel Wagon
Ages: 1.5+ Years
Weight Capacity:150 lbs.
How did we suddenly move into towed artillery?
This is how acquisitions became so broken.
I mean, the prime mover here is a kid, and the towed platform, according to that page, is only $119.99/unit.
At a 150 lb capacity, and an M252 mortar only needing 91 lbs, that leaves ample capacity for ammunition-carrying.
Frankly, if you look at some of the likely cost-effectiveness of some of the other things that the DoD has been working on to improve the mobility of man-portable mortars:
The Watervliet Arsenal today announced that it has received a $8.5 million contract to manufacture a new lightweight 81 mm mortar bipod for the U.S. Army and Marine Corps.
“Many of the individual parts will be made using lightweight materials, such as Kevlar, Teflon, and Titanium, which have never before been used here for mortar production,” Pond said. “In addition to new materials, new processes and tooling will need to be developed.”
…it does kind of raise the question of why the DoD hasn’t simply considered issuing every Marine mortarman a Radio Flyer red wagon, instead of this Kevlar/Teflon/titanium bipod business.
Listen, obviously nobody disputes the combat effectiveness of the prime mover, toddlers are compact, with high energy density and endurance, and general low-observable capabilities, this isn’t in question!
But some idiot is going yo start demanding they get some body armor, tac radios, fucking food! And next thing you know weight creep gives us a 50kg platform that can’t move faster than 1mph!
Weve all seen this before, the exploding puppies, kitten ir beacons for jdams, this always goes through scope creep, and we end up with billion dollar programs that only end up being 10% effective, so what’s the point of only using babies and pregnant women anyway, they’re not protecting valuable assets like drones and missiles anymore.
Kevlar/Teflon/titanium bipods for a goddamn mortar
And we wonder why it’s so hard to scale up production when somebody starts a land war in Europe.
MY BROTHER IN CHRIST, I AM WRITING YOU TO ASK if you could please send crewed weapons. All we have are ancient AKs that got taped back together.
Can pay in uncut diamonds, but you have to send some first.
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