The Defense Department is trying to find vendors who can supply transportable bunkers that protect troops against blasts and shrapnel.

The Defense Department is trying to quickly find vendors who are able to ship pre-made shelters to protect troops in the Middle East as the United States’ war with Iran continues.

The department is looking for information from private contractors who can provide “prefabricated, transportable, hardened shelter systems designed to protect personnel from blast and fragmentation threats,” according to a new federal contract notice posted Monday.

  • Fit_Series_573@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    Protection for the troops a month after starting the war and 13 of the nearby bases destroyed… there doesn’t even seem to be a plan on where to place these additional 50,000 troops arriving within the next 2 weeks other than leaving them as sitting ducks in ships. There was never a plan … they are winging it I really hope everyone is realizing this. If it wasn’t for some of the naval commanders already saying no to the madmen on bringing our ships closer to shore for an invasion so far, the number of casualties would be alot higher on both sides.

    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      4·
      8 hours ago

      It is completely insane to me that basically no one in major media is discussing this:

      Ok, so say we somehow get the Tripoli and Boxer up close enough to Kharg or anywhere else such that they can actually deploy LCACs and LAVs and ACVs in an amphib assault.

      … Awesome, there are now 500 to 5000 Shahed drones en route to blow them all up while they are motoring to the LZ.

      … what is the fucking counter to this?

      Literally none of those things have anti-drone capabilities.

      What, are we going to screen an amphib assault with… AH 1Zs and F18s and F35s… shooting down all the drones?

      Cool, then a significant proportion of those get shot down too.

      Our doctrine is so based on the concept of aerial supremacy that we seem to have just forgotten how to conceptualize not having it.

      You do not have aerial supremacy if the enemy can launch aircraft/drones and missiles against your assets.

      Its a similar problem with an aerial / air cav style assault… Ospreys or other choppers doing advance insertions, or the 82nd jumping out of C130s…

      … They’d all be a shooting gallery for the shorter range drones and missiles that Iran has tons of, that we are not able to premptively destroy.

      And if anything manages to land or come ashore… the same problem remains.

      Even NeoCon think tanks that have been pushing for the US to fuck up Iran for 20+ years are frantically writing reports trying to explain how stupid the current apparent ‘strategy’ is.

      Its like we are trying to fuck up harder than Gallipoli.