Ryan McBeth

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379 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 19 Sep

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The President's Daily Brief · The PDB Situation Report | July 11th, 2026: The Iran Ceasefire Is Dead—Here's What Happens Next · 11 Jul 2026 podcast

And so now you have all these old Oliver Hazard Perry class frigates.

And you're like, you know what?

We don't really need these things anymore because Russia doesn't really have a lot of submarines and we need to spend money fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.

And so let's get rid of the frigates.

We don't have to worry about that anymore.

And that's when the Navy kind of developed this thing called the littoral combat ship, which was.

So really good idea.

But the problem is that because of modern day drones, it can't littoral.

And because it doesn't have a lot of weapons, it can't really combat.

So it's it's one of the it was a good idea.

That was kind of the whole idea was you park a littoral combat ship off the coast.

it has a really shallow draft and then the the gun on the littoral combat ship uh can help support marines ashore uh and it just never really worked out because you you couldn't really get this thing close because of uh because of the drone threat and several other reasons the ship had problems with you know that that makes me answer this question ryan uh i know this is off topic but

So it would probably be a toss-up between the Sergeant York system, which was an anti-aircraft system that was kind of developed in the 80s that used a laser for ranging and targeting.

And during battlefield conditions, smoke would essentially blind the laser.

And maybe the M10 Booker.

The M10 Bucker, which was one of those things where it was not a light tank.

It was essentially an assault gun.

And it was one of those things that sounded like a good idea that everyone wanted to make happen, even though we're seeing tank turrets getting tossed in the air due to drones in Ukraine.

So it'd probably be a toss up between those two systems, at least for the Army.

So the A-10, it's a fantastic aircraft for coin or counterinsurgency.

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