Mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicles are staged at an Army pre-positioned stocks site in 2018, at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait. (Courtesy of the U.S. Army)
Defense One: Misfiring Cannons, Rotted Tires Among US Army Gear Pulled for Ukraine, Watchdog Finds
It’s not the first time the unit and its contractor have been faulted for poorly maintained equipment by the service's inspector general. When technicians got a look at one U.S. Army howitzer set to ship to Ukraine, it wasn’t pretty.
The M777 cannon, which an Army contractor was presenting for inspection, “would have killed somebody” if it were fired, the technicians said, according to a recent report by the Defense Department’s inspector general.
The investigation details numerous failures by an Army unit and a contractor that could have endangered the lives of Ukrainian or U.S. troops if the faulty equipment had been fielded. The report also exposes problems with a program designed to help soldiers deploy quickly across the world.
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Update: Equipment for Ukraine drawn from Kuwait wasn’t combat-ready, IG says (Defense News)
WNU Editor: For the past few months I have been reading reports from Ukraine that there are problems with US military equipment. My gut tells me that the above inspector general report is just the tip of the iceberg.
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ReplyDeleteUS servicemen are too busy wearing dresses and proclaiming their pronouns to bother with equipment and armiment maintenance.
ReplyDeleteVery surprising to read this:
ReplyDelete"The M777 cannon, which an Army contractor was presenting for inspection, “would have killed somebody” if it were fired
I sort of brushed off the headline since it's common knowledge we're only giving them the old shit that was about to expire anyway. But if the vaunted M777 isn't being maintained then wtf. We were told for 3 months straight that the M777 is one of our most advanced systems and a huge game changer. Why are we spending 3.7 million per arty piece if we're going to treat them like $5,000 soviet garbage??
It’s called corruption. Looks like we’re actually helping Russia by sending useless equipment. Maybe this has something to do with the three billion dollar gap just discovered. We were sending useless junk at a price of new equipment
DeleteThat useless junk sure seems to be giving g the Russians hell , imagine if they got the good stuff
DeleteContractors. Raytheon. dny corps get huge contracts to maintain weapons in storage.
ReplyDeleteThey do an ok job but in the middle east the DoD and DoS sometimes force them to hire local nationals. Or they have to bid so low they have to use Ugandans or Kenyans. Quality goes down real fast in those cases.
Absurd shame to give to a country already from Russia, failed, exacerbated racism and corruption, it's even nauseating to see military aid and other countries in Syria 0%
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ReplyDeleteIt appears we are not much more ready for a world conflict now than we were for WWII.
Excuses the war is being lost so lets blame the equipment the old a bad tradesman blames the tools
ReplyDeleteSo the russians are breaking out T-55s because many T-72s in storage are not combat ready.
ReplyDeleteBut crickets from WNU
not shocking really. it is wnu.
Atleast
ReplyDeletethe equipment gave pro russians something to read and something to feel
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ReplyDeleteKevin McCarthy once suggested the president needs "soft food.” Now he's the one serving a "s**t sandwich" to his caucus.
Those Russian tanks are old. But guess what. I could careless, we are not spending one time to restore them. That's a Russian problem
ReplyDeleteAnd your t 55 bullshit Is overated. Who told you that one when the CinC Europe just said something totally differernt?