Analyst of processes and student of history. Show your work when you think: details matter. Don't blame anyone else for my tweets; I'm just a guy on free time.
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As a member of the Navy aviation community that exists to see targets like this coming...
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Bless your heart, you sweet summer child.
Actually seagliders will be VERY hard to see
You can see torpedos via sonar
You can see drones via radar
Seagliders fly in the surface clutter in between
Plus they're quiet and can go all-electric for no thermal signature too.
We're working with SOCOM to characterize this.
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"Any landing you can walk away from" is true, but this pilot didn't cut the engines at ground (sea) level and walk away.
He pushed a bad situation, and it unsurprisingly ended worse.
Republic of Dagestan (RF) β
βοΈπ₯ UPD: Some more footage of the Ka-226 helicopter crash in Dagestan! Yesterday the aircraft lost control and crashed into a pier, breaking into pieces. After that, it fell onto a private house, causing a fire. Five employees of the JSC Kizlyar Electromechanical Plant (russian military company) died.
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We are currently working on cross-referencing this to be sure but if this is accurate, this isnβt great
Itβs easy to forget what a government shutdown really looks like on the ground.
For many junior enlisted service members, paycheck to paycheck is a reality. Even with temporary funding found to cover pay, itβs not guaranteed beyond the next cycle.
Now, dining facilities are closing due to lack of appropriation. For some Soldiers, that DFAC isnβt just a convenience itβs their only affordable meal option.
We need to make sure these DFACs stay open. @SecWar @SeanParnellASW @DOWResponse
I wouldn't have figured Russia would ever run out of D-30s, but the count by @Jonpy99 @HighMarsed @waffentraeger @CovertCabal @Vishun_military @Ath3neN0ctu4 has them down to 836 in mid-2025; from 2305 in 2023 and 3336 prewar.
docs.google.com/spreadsheetsβ¦
According to a ruSSian source, they received new barrels for the D-30 howitzers.
There are several possibilities:
βοΈ Imported from a foreign country
βοΈ Taken from old stockpiles
βοΈ Or they relaunched the production line.
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Building special submarines to carry Poseidon is pretty dumb when SSBNs exist.
Waste that cash, Russia!
The nuclear-powered submarine cruiser Khabarovsk has been launched in Severodvinsk, Russia, close to the border with Finland, yesterday.
The submarine could be capable of carrying up to 12 nuclear Poseidon torpedoes.
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"Preacher seems to have seen it before..."
Dude saw that once myself, the bride was keeping a second backup man. He came to the wedding uninvited and she was obviously freaking out the whole time to the point when it was ask βdoes anyoneβ¦ or foreverβ¦β and he said β- you told me you were singleβ.
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James B. retweeted
Sam has been working overtime to pay for our new puppy. She wanted a dog from a top breeder. While she did that, I booked as much freelance as I possibly could and managed to pay for half.
Buying a print helps, if you can't buy one, retweeting also helps.
It normally takes 3 years in a rank to retire at that rank.
Admiral Holsey became miltary deputy of SOUTHCOM, his first 3-star post, on 1 February 2023, so he won't retire as a 4-star, maybe not even as a 3-star unless his final day including terminal leave is past 1 Feb 2026.
Read our updated reporting here, including about an Oct 6 meeting between Hegseth, Holsey and Caine that was the beginning of the end.
cnn.com/2025/10/16/politics/β¦
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I see and hear only one sharp explosion--no drone impact or spreading fire--so it was probably an internal detonation.
There seems to be a second plume of smoke to the right--not sure if that's from the original blast or a second perfectly simultaneous blast.
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Contract red air jets are old, glad to see the pilot got out
An ATAC Hawker Hunter, "ATAC12", went down off the coast of Big Sur this afternoon.
The screenshot shows "ATAC11" N326AX in a low orbit over the site of the downed "ATAC12" (not visible)
"RESCUE04", a NAS Lemoore SAR MH-60 responded and transported pilot to Stanford.
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π§΅For those who parrot DoD talking points that this is about "reporters eliciting crimes," this really isn't about that. A few points
1. People trusted w/ classified information revealing it or failing to safeguard it are guilty of a crime. News outlets who publish it are not/
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Going to war with Venezuela is dumb but this is unfettered mental illness.
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The ONS have released the full mortality data for 2024.
Big fail for turbo cancer.
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This has been making the roundsβanother article calling for U.S. conventional submarinesβso I suppose it's time to weigh in. In this case, the article is written by someone personally knowledgeable of submarine operationsβa U.S. submariner.
However...
usni.org/magazines/proceedinβ¦
James B. retweeted
I don't normally like to tag all over the sphere here, but if people do not already know;
If you bank with NFCU or USAA, you must enroll in the shutdown assistance program by 10 OCT. The AER program ALSO opened as of this morning - 08 OCT. This is a SMALL window.
If you have Junior Soldiers - they are likely the most impacted. Please make sure they understand this timeline. This is due to the pay date schedule and when 'early deposit' would normally hit and the official shutdown/dfas timelines.
They have to enroll by Friday if they want to be paid 'as normal'.
In previous years this was 'automatic' and they didn't have to worry about it - they MUST actually apply this time around. I'm not pleased to have to do this, and I would prefer congress figure it out, but commentary from this afternoon indicates there will be no 'military pay specific relief' - and it doesn't appear the shutdown will end shortly.
Now it's time to do the military thing and do the best we can with the shit we've been handed.
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If I want a handful of missiles on a slow-moving platform, get me a BGM-109.
The Navy should augment its submarine force with conventionally powered boats capable of launching cruise missiles. bit.ly/3WdDjee
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