Inline skate force

Croningfool SG

How the fuck do you perform your contact drills on roller blades?

"CONTACT FRONT" *BANG BANG BANG BANG*

"SECTION - Straight Ahead, 50, FIRE!"

"...Eh...Sgt, wait ar...need to take off boots."

RaTtY8l SG

how r u gonna skate in the damn bloody forest with mud, grass, stones??? even go fibua how r u jus like others pointed out, going up stairs? with 10-20kg of back packs u think its easy? have u served went through a field exercise??? or r u jus a pec E cleck sitting in the air con room playing CS n maplestory???

arball SG

p/c : ok men! due to technical constraints, we cannot chiong into the building! so we shall use our super high tech skates and do figure skating on the parade grnd!

arball SG

imagine throwing the wheels at the enemy...

eagle SG

Think first.This new stuff for medium or long distant.Use your judgement to use.

1.Pick the good skaters lah.

2.Have i told u go into wrong place with this skate?

3.any thing may get lose,including yourself!

So do u bring yourself along?

4. and 5.Thats why i need u guys valuable input lah.

Question:Any inventions?

Thanks, but we already have motorbikes for medium to long distance, and yes, motorbikes off-road, and through jungles not too dense. We have training for it; there's a SOC for military bikes class 2B licence.

Croningfool SG

imagine throwing the wheels at the enemy...

No way will I do that. The thought of signing 1206s for some overpriced 'mil-spec' piece of plastic is enough to make one's eyes water.

lionnoisy SG

i am not asking our men sking for no. of km.,fr Changi to Jurong.

The new kit is for journey up to few km!!

During a war,which may stretch up to no. of weeks,u need preserve your energy.

If the route is secured,why spend your energy and time to walk ,and even run,iso

sking?

2.This will save fuel and other logistic resources,and reducing traffic jams.

If the distance is feasible and route secured,just ski.

No need wait for transport!

fudgester SG

i am not asking our men sking for no. of km.,fr Changi to Jurong.

The new kit is for journey up to few km!!

During a war,which may stretch up to no. of weeks,u need preserve your energy.

If the route is secured,why spend your energy and time to walk ,and even run,iso

sking?

2.This will save fuel and other logistic resources,and reducing traffic jams.

If the distance is feasible and route secured,just ski.

No need wait for transport!

Okay then handsome.... figure out this scenario:

You and your men are skating down the road . Then suddenly your platoon gets ambushed by some enemies hidden in the trees by the roadside.

So..... how the flying *bleep* does your section charge at the enemy hidden among the trees? Ask the enemy to wait while you change from in-line skates to boots? You know what kind of traction rollerblades get in jungle terrain?

Oh wait.... maybe you're just expecting the enemy to laugh themselves to death at seeing a whole bunch of in-line skating SAF troops.

The only conclusion I can make: you've never served in the army, you've never carried a rifle, and no, you've never worn Rollerblades either.

laurence82 SG

The only conclusion I can make: you've never served in the army, you've never carried a rifle, and no, you've never worn Rollerblades either.

alamak

i also want to say this

eagle SG

i am not asking our men sking for no. of km.,fr Changi to Jurong.

The new kit is for journey up to few km!!

During a war,which may stretch up to no. of weeks,u need preserve your energy.

If the route is secured,why spend your energy and time to walk ,and even run,iso

sking?

2.This will save fuel and other logistic resources,and reducing traffic jams.

If the distance is feasible and route secured,just ski.

No need wait for transport!

Military bikes are way faster, way more effective and soldier's energy saving, in addition to the fact that it will most likely use less horizontal space while travelling. That little amount of fuel used for that few km is very very low. In addition, for what I would always do, I will bring extra 3 litres of water on the bike. In a war that stretches and you might not have access to more water, this 3 litres to drink, immediately after dismounting the bike, is really a very very great deal.

If the distance is only a mere few km, and route secured, just ride a military bike over. Why spend your energy and time to skate when there's already a much more simple method? It is not like Singapore doesn't already have a large number of military bikes ready for use any time, nor that Singapore doesn't already have off-road training for such motorbikes.

Finally, the physics of your idea is indeed laugable. Think of how much extra energy your calves muscles would have to use with an extra 20kg on your upper torso.

BadzMaro SG

*skates into trip wires connected to claymore mines*

n my god it looks tiring..

Unless u are talking about micro second blade rectraction capabilities installed on the boots for isntant terrain change when encountered.

BadzMaro SG

i dun think that secured.. will mean well paved tar roads =P

fudgester SG

Seriously, where can in-line skating troops be used?

On the roads? But what if the roadsides are jungle terrain and the enemy abushes you from there?

Urban terrain? Good luck trying to charge up a building full of enemy snipers with your in-line skates on.

East Coast Park? What if you kena ambushed from the beach? Charge into the sand with your in-line skates on?

Besides.... as the others have pointed out.... how the hell do you skate with 20kg of FBO? And let's not even talk about FBO.... skating with around 10kg of SBO equipment (SBO = 4kg, SAR 21 = 4kg, helmet = 1kg, ammo and grenades = 2kg) is hellish enough for anyone.

Hey, I'd like to see how an 84mm gunner is gonna go skating.

Then again, like I said, perhaps the lion has a point.... with this kind of ideas, the enemy troops may just laugh themselves to death.

tankfanatic SG

inline skating troops can reveal sniper position mah....

all they have to do is triangulate the sound of the sniper laughter

arball SG

my guess of lionnoisy's next move would be:

he will post today's ST article of the olympic torch being escorted by guards on rollerblades

and,

he will use the skate-shoe integretion thingy tt was the craze some time back.... (ie your boot have a hole or a area for wheels to clip onto)

eagle SG

might as well post that Amsterdam's police force ride on horses, so we should use horses in modern wars too

SingaporeTyrannosaur SG

Still on it?

The new kit is for journey up to few km!!

How on earth can you skate properly with the typical weight a grunt has to carry (excess of 30 kilos), and what happens on the uphill stretches? And what's your idea of a few km? 5 km which our infantry can fast march in 30 min?

During a war,which may stretch up to no. of weeks,u need preserve your energy.

If you want to preserve your energy, then you shouldn't be skating around with 30 kilos sliding around like a moron because you are too heavy to skate in the first place.

If the route is secured,why spend your energy and time to walk ,and even run,iso

If I recall skating is hardly an efficent form of transport, not to mention you are skating with no load, which is totally unlike the infantry mission profile which requires you to carry quite a lot of stuff.

sking?

At least militaries have the proper sense to ski over cross country because it is a viable form of transport because the terrain there permits. There is no such terrain in our region

2.This will save fuel and other logistic resources,and reducing traffic jams.

What fuel and what logistic resources? How can a platoon transport its required gear on skates? No use getting there when you can't fight or are not ready to fight... assuming you can even skate there in the first place!

If the distance is feasible and route secured,just ski.

No need wait for transport!

What are you walking about now? Ski in Singapore? And where is this feasible in south east asia? Do you see plains of snow?

SingaporeTyrannosaur SG

Also, how are you going to ski with a proposed future load of a 4kg SAR, 8kg Body Armour, 1.2 kg Helmet, and another 20 or so kilos of your 2.5 contact rate ammo plus other stuff like LAW (9 KG), M203 + ammo (+3 kg) and 2 day fieldpack (15-20 kg)?

Do you know what is going to happen to a grunt if he falls with this load while skating?

What happens when he needs to go uphill?

Can he safety brake with this weight if he's going downhill?

What happens to the 84 or GPMG section who have to carry even more stuff?

I think this clears it up... you apparently have NOT served any NS before

SingaporeTyrannosaur SG

I think next he's gonna suggest the whole body of the grunt to be covered with inline skates so he can skate more easily...

SingaporeTyrannosaur SG

Finally, the physics of your idea is indeed laugable. Think of how much extra energy your calves muscles would have to use with an extra 20kg on your upper torso.

Well considering he thinks the most efficent way to "run for your life" with a 4-kilo SAR-21 is to hold it with one hand by the scope handle like a handbag and that a F-18E can simply ski-ramp off a LHD we can safely conclude that his physics isn't too good.

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