Helping to Deforestation in Brazil and Indonesia.
Logging world-wide is big business, many countries have taken advantage over the last fifty years of growing forestry mostly pine trees of various kinds. The trucks developed for military vehicle transportation after world-war-II (1939-45), were thus employed to this new role.
Traditionally logging was done with horses pulling one log at a time, but these days are now long gone. Many new machines have been developed, even to cut out manpower and trees are even processed and trucked to the various mills.
Brazil and Indonesia are seeing the worlds fastest deforestation, with little or no new growth being introduced. In Brazil deforested land is used for farming, while in Indonesia natural forests are being replaced with Palm oil trees that are not suitable.
Thursday, 16 July 2015
Thursday, 9 July 2015
Terrorism. Part-Two.
Adaption.
The movies like 'Black Hawk down' allow us to see how various groups use their vehicles to fit heavy guns, but it is in the news footage that we glimpse some of what appear at first hand to be silly adaptions. Most common guns are between 12.7 to 20mm and sometimes in pairs.
If they work, they will be used and if not then attempts to capture the real 'McCoy will be made. The problems with this type of small unit warfare is that bulky items such as MBT and other tracked vehicles eventually have to be abandoned, just because they are hard to hide.
Many modern armies around the world employ spacial forces in their counter-measures operations, such the U.S. Seals, Russian Spetnatza and the British SAS. All of these, plus a few others have improvised vehicles that are light to meet their limited capability of lightening strikes.
It is perhaps only the Israelis who operate, as a disguised army and have the best world-wide reputation for being effective.
The movies like 'Black Hawk down' allow us to see how various groups use their vehicles to fit heavy guns, but it is in the news footage that we glimpse some of what appear at first hand to be silly adaptions. Most common guns are between 12.7 to 20mm and sometimes in pairs.
If they work, they will be used and if not then attempts to capture the real 'McCoy will be made. The problems with this type of small unit warfare is that bulky items such as MBT and other tracked vehicles eventually have to be abandoned, just because they are hard to hide.
Many modern armies around the world employ spacial forces in their counter-measures operations, such the U.S. Seals, Russian Spetnatza and the British SAS. All of these, plus a few others have improvised vehicles that are light to meet their limited capability of lightening strikes.
It is perhaps only the Israelis who operate, as a disguised army and have the best world-wide reputation for being effective.
Thursday, 2 July 2015
Terrorism. Part-One.
Improvisation.
Terrorists usually operate with light arms, RPG's (Rocket Propelled Grenade Launchers), SAM's (Surface to Air Missiles) and occasional Cannons up to 23mm calibre. But some are more than a small group and could be described as a little army.
ISIS/ISIL Now come into to join the PLO, Hezbollah, FARC and the Al-Quida/Mujaheddin-Taliban.
Many of these groups have commandeered existing occupation military equipment and have adapted it to suit their own environments such as Libya, Somalia and Iraq/Syria. From Toyota pickups to heavy armour are being converted or worked down, rather than reinforced.
Terrorists usually operate with light arms, RPG's (Rocket Propelled Grenade Launchers), SAM's (Surface to Air Missiles) and occasional Cannons up to 23mm calibre. But some are more than a small group and could be described as a little army.
ISIS/ISIL Now come into to join the PLO, Hezbollah, FARC and the Al-Quida/Mujaheddin-Taliban.
Many of these groups have commandeered existing occupation military equipment and have adapted it to suit their own environments such as Libya, Somalia and Iraq/Syria. From Toyota pickups to heavy armour are being converted or worked down, rather than reinforced.
Thursday, 25 June 2015
Russian Federation. Part-One.
Re-Armament.
With European Union sanctions now being placed on Russia, it has caused it to re-arm with new MBT, the order of Nuclear warheads and missile systems. Many world leaders are defending the rights of the expansion of Europe into the Baltic States and the Ukraine and this all has echoes of Nazi-Germany.
Russia wanted peace and made great efforts to comply with the west to do so from the day of Gorbachev, but sadly the weak leadership of Barak Obama has allowed a third world war crises to be on the brink.
The Russian Federation has plenty of military equipment available and with economic co-operation with Iran and the Peoples Republic of China, it will find it easy to develop more and more newer and advanced types equiptment and defence systems.
With European Union sanctions now being placed on Russia, it has caused it to re-arm with new MBT, the order of Nuclear warheads and missile systems. Many world leaders are defending the rights of the expansion of Europe into the Baltic States and the Ukraine and this all has echoes of Nazi-Germany.
Russia wanted peace and made great efforts to comply with the west to do so from the day of Gorbachev, but sadly the weak leadership of Barak Obama has allowed a third world war crises to be on the brink.
The Russian Federation has plenty of military equipment available and with economic co-operation with Iran and the Peoples Republic of China, it will find it easy to develop more and more newer and advanced types equiptment and defence systems.
Thursday, 18 June 2015
The Australian Navy.
Tri-Ships.
It is now perhaps Australia that is leading the world in marine design say that over Sweden, with its generations of tri-ships. These large catamaran designs have proved more effective to handle the conditions of the southern-Oceans and the Pacific.
The Polynesian peoples knew a thing or two about how to build wooden boats and hop from island chain to chain. These ancient boats covered all aspects of the sea from trade to fishing to war and raiding parties.
Australia's biggest problem at the moment is illegal fishing and immigrants hoping to cross the Indian Ocean, but we can be sure that there are many other illicit activities where these types of ships and patrol craft can handle better than single hull vessels.
It is now perhaps Australia that is leading the world in marine design say that over Sweden, with its generations of tri-ships. These large catamaran designs have proved more effective to handle the conditions of the southern-Oceans and the Pacific.
The Polynesian peoples knew a thing or two about how to build wooden boats and hop from island chain to chain. These ancient boats covered all aspects of the sea from trade to fishing to war and raiding parties.
Australia's biggest problem at the moment is illegal fishing and immigrants hoping to cross the Indian Ocean, but we can be sure that there are many other illicit activities where these types of ships and patrol craft can handle better than single hull vessels.
Thursday, 11 June 2015
Road Trains. Part-Two.
Problems.
The problems with road traffic is the quality of the roads, from Highways to dirt tracks. This is what limits the use of heavy haulage traffic who need to keep on the smooth, rather than getting stuck on broken ground.
Russia, China, America, Brazil and many other better developed nations can take advantage of this type of long distant haulage and there are many new concepts coming on the the commercial market. The moving of machinery is the main need for some road trains, but it can be animals and general goods that would be cheaper than flying or sailing them in?
The one disadvantage seems to be the side moving bus development is still not available to heavy haulage and would be of benefit to expand into countries with worse road conditions?
The problems with road traffic is the quality of the roads, from Highways to dirt tracks. This is what limits the use of heavy haulage traffic who need to keep on the smooth, rather than getting stuck on broken ground.
Russia, China, America, Brazil and many other better developed nations can take advantage of this type of long distant haulage and there are many new concepts coming on the the commercial market. The moving of machinery is the main need for some road trains, but it can be animals and general goods that would be cheaper than flying or sailing them in?
The one disadvantage seems to be the side moving bus development is still not available to heavy haulage and would be of benefit to expand into countries with worse road conditions?
Thursday, 4 June 2015
Aviation Lifters. Part-Two.
Lockheed C-5 Galaxy, Antonov An-124/224.
These are currently the three largest giants of the aviation world in the area of heavy lifting, as yet there no cargo version of the civil Airbus A380 on the cards. Lifting of oil and drill rigs parts are the main uses today, apart from the ability to Carry ICBM (Inter-continental Ballistic missile) components. Russia, Canada and Australia along with the Amazon in Brazil are the areas for this type of work.
We do not hear much about this, because these aircraft really are military more than they are civil. But now with exploration and the ever increasing demand of fossil fuels by developing nations, such as China, India and Brazil there is a demand for commercial contract flying.
These are currently the three largest giants of the aviation world in the area of heavy lifting, as yet there no cargo version of the civil Airbus A380 on the cards. Lifting of oil and drill rigs parts are the main uses today, apart from the ability to Carry ICBM (Inter-continental Ballistic missile) components. Russia, Canada and Australia along with the Amazon in Brazil are the areas for this type of work.
We do not hear much about this, because these aircraft really are military more than they are civil. But now with exploration and the ever increasing demand of fossil fuels by developing nations, such as China, India and Brazil there is a demand for commercial contract flying.
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