German Army’s Panzerlehrbrigade 9 receives motorcycles
Major General Ullrich Spannuth, commander of Panzerlehrbrigade 9 and during 2019 commander of the NATO Response Force’s (NRF’s) Very High Readiness Joint Task Force (VJTF) being led by the brigade, said, “The motorcycles increase the command capabilities of our force.” They will be used for dispatching if communications break down, carrying maps, orders, or memory sticks, according to the German Army. Maj Gen Spannuth added that it was easier and less visible for motorcycles to reconnoiter close to deployed units.
I really dont see the use for a motorcycle on the modern battlefield, youre a big target, theyre harder to ride than a quad, youre still guaranteed to die from a mine, they take long to dismount and retrieve your weapon on amd its harder to carry cargo and passengers.
What would be pretty dope tho is that auto balancing feature honda has a prototype of, if a motorcycle had basic self driving ability you could fire on the move like old school cavalry.
Elijah Ross
>Should motorcycles be standard equipment in modern armies? Idk, but Motorrad sounds rad.
>They will be used for dispatching if communications break down, carrying maps, orders, or memory sticks, according to the German Army. Maj Gen Spannuth added that it was easier and less visible for motorcycles to reconnoiter close to deployed units.
It's like some haven't learn anything from the Millenium Challenge.
Robert Scott
i can imagine that you need to deliver a physical object that cant be emailed from A to B, and you arent in the line of enemy fire then a motorcycle would be much more efficient and convenient than using a humvee to do so
Joseph Cox
Motorcycles are easier to ride than a quad. A dumbass on a quad will flip it in within a minute of driving it. A motorcycle is useful to access footpaths and mountain passes that are inaccessible to larger vehicles.
Samuel Morales
They make it much easier to get kills with an NCO sword
Leo Morgan
>the Millennium Challenge, where the bicycle messengers moved at lightspeed and fishing boats carrying anti-ship missiles weighing four times their displacement teleported into launch range
Consider suicide.
Parker Young
For some reason I can only imagine some Eastern European trying this, might be a Hussar thing..
>heavy as fuck bmw touring bikes with complicated electrical systems >not a trials bike with a kickstart and flashlight >but muh bags >thinking you cant easily mount bagger pouches on the sides
There is a diesel-electric drivetrain bike that DARPA is testing out for our military. The idea is the engine can run on the many variants of diesel/jet fuel/etc found in combat theaters, and when sneaking up on enemies they can cut the diesel engine and go all-electric so they're silent. They're all dualsports bikes of course, it's a joint effort by a few companies. Would fucking love one desu.
Military motorcycles are the most aesthetic military ground vehicle. You're on a modern day iron horse, riding an explosion chamber with wheels. If the cavalrymen of yore could see it they'd cum immediately.
Matthew Hill
That sounds like it will be so expensive that they will cancel it.
Bentley Ross
Well, I hope they have decent luck with the fork seals on those F-850's. Those forks are fucking shit.
Julian Martin
They are not, there is no clutch or balancing required on a quad. Offroad motorcycles also have a high center of gravity and high seats, so no manlets allowed. You drop one of those with a 100 pound cargo on it good luck picking it up. I still think the quad provides more utility and ease of use over a motorcycle. >dispatches can only be sent by motorcycle
Michael Lewis
>Quads >useful
Jack Smith
Look up hondas gyroscope self balancing motorcycle, you can basically hop of the bike and it will stay upright and even follow you around. Diesel electric is also the best drive train.
Jayden Murphy
The US has a bunch too. NTVs and ATVs too. They have their uses.
Robert Ward
Damn, what kind of bikes are those? They look nice.
Yeah I found out about the military one because I was trying to find a diesel electric bike. It would be fucking amazing to have desu.
Anthony Diaz
They very much are standard equipment in the Finnish army already so idk.
Aaron Jackson
>Should motorcycles be standard equipment in modern armies? Are they not? Motorcycle couriers were used already in WWI. Of course, a four-wheeler is pretty much always the better choice if you don't specifically need the mobility a motorcycle offers.
The USMC (and/or the Army) have a bunch of modified Kawasaki KLR bikes, with special Diesel engines by DT (Hayes Diversified Technology). They have proved to be very effective and popular.
They start with the track suit pretty young over there.
Josiah Roberts
Still gotta feed it
Ayden Jones
quads >Twice as likely to hit a mine >wide > still need two hand to operate > still not heavy enough to mount a crew served weapon Why?
Nicholas Nguyen
Wut? Bikes kick ass off road!
Juan Morgan
>Wut? High center of gravity says hi!
Ever tried to go into a slight curve with a quad?
Jordan Hill
I don't need to google it to know adidas onsies are surely common over there.
Brody Cox
T. Actual Retard
Evan Howard
Don't you mean the exact opposite? Granted, the totally unsourced and unrealistic claims about lightspeed motorcycles puts a damper on things, but as the case may be, if someone is jamming all your communications, you're going to need messengers to transmit information and orders instead of yelling uselessly into a radio.
Jaxon Williams
Fully loaded dual sports are still pretty easy to pick up, I've had a similar amount of gear on my DR650 and it's not that bad, Quads suck offroad if your trying to hustle since they roll easily and don't handle off camber slopes well. Even if you look at races like Dakar or the Baja 1000 the quad classes are consistently slower than motorcycles and the injuries are more serious since a 300lb bike falling on you is more survivable than a 600lb quad.
Quads are great if your trying to have inexperienced people putter around but bikes are better offroad if you are willing to put in a bit of practice.
Noah Jenkins
Judging by your comments I would say you have ridden a bike, but very few times.
I ride bikes for years now, all classes I also have a few hundred km on a quad, bikes are easier to ride both on road and of road, but bikes cant of road as well as quads in extreme conditions.
A quad is more capable of road, but much harder to ride.
Mason Ramirez
>that's why the best offroad motorcycles have sidecars
jesus christ
Brody Baker
Should be absolutely verboten in a fuzzy battlefront/low intensity war. A loud soft easy to knock down off by itself human target, decapitation traps and hostages.
In a high intensity war with busted communications and mass death is more sense. Germany planning for the Russian invasion.
