Secretive Long Range Attack Missile For Marine AH-1s Is Now Being Flight Tested
The Long Range Attack Missile, based on an unknown Air Force weapon, will help ensure Marine AH-1Zs stay relevant in future high-end fights.

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JOSEPH TREVITHICK
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PUBLISHED MAY 2, 2024 8:58 PM EDT
The Marine Corps is now flight testing a new secretive stand-off missile for its AH-1Z Viper attack helicopters.
 

JOSEPH TREVITHICK
 

The U.S. Marine Corps is transforming an unspecified U.S. Air Force missile into a weapon that will give its AH-1Z Viper attack helicopters the ability to strike moving targets on land and at sea 150 nautical miles away. This is exponentially further than the Vipers can reach with their existing air-to-surface munition options. The service has started flight testing this weapon, dubbed the Long Range Attack Missile (LRAM), and plans to conduct the first live-fire launch in Fiscal Year 2025.


Marine Col. Eric Ropella, head of Naval Air Systems Command's (NAVAIR) Expeditionary and Maritime Aviation-Advanced Development Team (XMA-ADT), shared new details about the secretive LRAM effort with The War Zone and other attendees at the annual Modern Day Marine exposition earlier today. The Marine Corps resides within the Department of the Navy and NAVAIR serves as the central manager for aviation and other related programs both services.

"So take everything that you know about an AH-1 and [the] ordnance that it can throw off of it, and exceed that range by a lot, and you will get LRAM," Ropella said by way of introduction.

https://www.twz.com/air/secretive-long-range-attack-missile-for-marine-ah-1s-is-now-being-flight-tested

How about woke initiatives like painting their bullets the colors of the gay rights movement rather than improve barracks?

 
The Coast Guard Academy’s Newest DEI Push
By Michael R. Shevock
May 03, 2024
 
DEI is a bad idea. It is divisive, racist, and anti-meritocratic. Coleman Hughes, Ayaan Hirsi Ali , Elon Musk, and a host of other first-rate minds have vigorously come out against it.  Yet, our Coast Guard leadership continues to promote it without discussion or debate. For an objective observer, that should be the first clue that something is very, very wrong.

Supporters of this ideology are fond of the term ‘cultural competence,’ which they seem to believe is obtainable in a seminar or a classroom, but there are other paths to knowledge. For example, I enjoyed twenty-eight years in federal law enforcement, which, among other things, afforded me familiarity with the inside of a crack-house. Here are are some things I learned first-hand:


(1) Underclass black America is indeed suffering unacceptable levels of violence and generational poverty;

(2) Malcolm X was absolutely correct when he identified white liberals as an impediment to the progress of black America;

(3) the most pernicious condition afflicting underclass black America, yielding drug use, poverty and crime, is the lack of fathers in the home; and

(4) the dominance of the progressive/postmodern agenda, of which DEI is a cornerstone, is almost solely to blame for the pitiful state of our urban poor.

https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2024/05/03/the_coast_guard_academys_newest_dei_push_1029175.html

30 sailors and Marines injured in at-sea training mishap off Florida
By Geoff Ziezulewicz
 May 2, 05:37 PM
 
Thirty Marines and sailors were injured Wednesday night during a training incident involving two ship-to-shore vessels. One of the hovercrafts, assigned to the amphibious transport dock New York, is shown here during a pre-deployment exercise on April 8. (Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jesse Turner/Navy)
Editor’s note: This story has been updated to note a comment by U.S. 2nd Fleet.

Dozens of sailors and Marines were injured Wednesday evening after an at-sea mishap during a training event off the coast of Florida, the Navy said Thursday.


Thirty Marines and sailors suffered injuries, with five sailors medically evacuated to Savannah Memorial University Medical Center for further care, according to the Navy.

“Four of the five Sailors have been released from the hospital after treatment,” the Navy said Thursday afternoon. “One Sailor remains under medical care and is being assessed for further treatment.”

https://www.navytimes.com/breaking-news/2024/05/02/30-sailors-and-marines-injured-in-at-sea-training-mishap-off-florida/

Donna by Ritchie Valens


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMcHbh6HBDk