Prey, your thoughts then ?

they would be lock this thread and be done with it.;)

No, mate, but I was at university with a bloke who was being paid for by La Legion Etrangere, because he’d been invalided out after an injury he got in Tchad. I remember him saying how disgusting some of the water tasted when they had to rely on purification tabs.

Of course, on base they could buy Evian or whatever – but it wasn’t flown in on military transports, it was bought from a local importer, who had it trucked in from the coast. Y’know, even Tchad has such people . . .

Yes mate.

Award yourself a Naval Gold Medal . My point is yes A I is with us, but hey it certainly lacks when judgement or imagination is needed.

Why a ‘Naval Gold Medal’? I am not n the navy and this has nothing to do with the sea.:p

Water does not have to be flown in to most places. There are such things as purification tablets, filters, solar stills etc. Even in the most arid desert, no sane person would fly in water from another continent.

And as has been pointed out, the French have proven themselves able to sustain forces of the size being discussed, in the places being discussed, for long periods, with Transalls & a few C-130s. The A400M will give a huge boost in capability over what has already been proven enough to support such a force.

You have obviously never watched thousands upon thousands of bottle of drinking water being unloaded from transport aircraft in Afghanistan or Africa then:rolleyes: The C-17 would provide an even greater boost.

And that is lifted by military transports in that country and all the other people there too. You can buy what is in place already. But I am shure, that is not the amercian way. I will not be surprised to learn that for their troops they will transport soda and toilet-paper around the half globe.

looks like you will be surprised then.

Oh really? It’s 600 metric miles at most to the drop zone + they’re using light AFVs and not MBTs.

So what you think they are going to fly them there and just leave them there? I assume that you have a basic understanding of logistics, you know human beings need things like food and water?:rolleyes:

What are your views on the subject of Artificial Intelligence ?

well its intelligence that is artificial.