Recent NATO exercises included a robot that relays sonar data to ashore command centers, @byjepstein.bsky.social reports: www.businessinsider.com/nato-fieldin...

Oil prices initially jumped at news of this oil port attack via @byjepstein.bsky.social www.businessinsider.com/ukrainian-dr...

Project Octopus will mass-produce drones to augment Ukraine's limited stocks of very expensive air defense missiles via @byjepstein.bsky.social www.businessinsider.com/ukraine-bets...

Kalibr-carrying corvettes like this one have been a key part of Russia's naval modernization, via @byjepstein.bsky.social: www.businessinsider.com/ukraine-hit-...

These things are 10 to 20 times the range of the longest TOW wire-guided missiles, via @byjepstein.bsky.social www.businessinsider.com/ukrainian-co...

Changing missile trajectories are making Patriot interceptions harder @byjepstein.bsky.social reports: www.businessinsider.com/russia-impro...

"Looking at what they're doing in the Mediterranean, losing a port there means losing logistical support — and that stretches the capabilities they have, which mainly come from this Northern Fleet." via @byjepstein.bsky.social www.businessinsider.com/russian-navy...

"What we see is more ISR flights — surveillance and reconnaissance flights — and not as much air activity into Ukraine anymore." via @byjepstein.bsky.social www.businessinsider.com/nato-surveil...

@byjepstein.bsky.social has a rundown of recent F-35 crashes; the pilot was able to safely eject from this latest one yesterday www.businessinsider.com/f-35-stealth...

An American combat trainer trains Ukrainian soldiers in many of the same ways he would snipers, @byjepstein.bsky.social reports: www.businessinsider.com/ukraines-spe...

The Shahed-like FLM vehicles seem ideal to ready US troops to face Russian drones via @byjepstein.bsky.social www.businessinsider.com/us-has-versi...

NATO forces have gotten better at anti-submarine operations, a top US admiral told @byjepstein.bsky.social www.businessinsider.com/nato-steppin...

The Houthis also sank the cargo ship Eternity C, an attack @byjepstein.bsky.social wrote about

A Chinese warship lasered a civilian aircraft monitoring Houthi attacks in the Red Sea via @byjepstein.bsky.social www.businessinsider.com/germany-chin...

Russia is targeting Ukrainian civilians with a one-two punch of drones and missiles @byjepstein.bsky.social reports: www.businessinsider.com/what-ukraini...

The 3rd time in 14 months that US Navy BMD-capable destroyers successfully defended Israel from Iranian attacks via @byjepstein.bsky.social www.businessinsider.com/us-warships-...

The newest Arrow's advanced telemetry may require fewer missiles to down a threat via @byjepstein.bsky.social www.businessinsider.com/new-intercep...

Most US aircraft left Qatar's Al Udeid air base days ago via @byjepstein.bsky.social www.businessinsider.com/iran-missile...

2 carrier strike groups (one with F-35s) in the Arabian Sea are a lot of retaliatory strike power @byjepstein.bsky.social reports www.businessinsider.com/iran-threate...

Striking craters from the GBU-57 MOP, but very difficult to assess their impact on the underground facilities via @byjepstein.bsky.social www.businessinsider.com/satellite-im...

Ford's 1st major deployment coincided with the 10/7 terror attacks in Israel. It is set to deploy at another perilous moment via @byjepstein.bsky.social www.businessinsider.com/us-navy-newe...

Updated imagery from Maxar, via @byjepstein.bsky.social, shows the scale of damage at Tabriz (north missile base). Location: 38.258280,46.151037. Imagery is from May 29 & June 17.

2 US destroyers have defended Israeli airspace from Iranian attacks @byjepstein.bsky.social reports: www.businessinsider.com/navy-firepow...

How the Iran-Israel fight could play out in the days ahead via @byjepstein.bsky.social www.businessinsider.com/israel-strik...

Read @byjepstein.bsky.social on why Israel's stated goal of taking out Iran's nuclear sites won't be easy www.businessinsider.com/israel-tryin...

"The Red Sea — it's a knife fight in a phone booth." great piece on a destroyer's air defense combat from @byjepstein.bsky.social www.businessinsider.com/us-navy-capt...

This is a really good .50 cal shot. But many other systems (CIWS, 25mm chain gun, 5-inch deck gun, SLQ-32) should knock out small drones at longer ranges via @byjepstein.bsky.social www.businessinsider.com/us-navy-sail...

A top Polish general told @byjepstein.bsky.social that a big takeaway of the Ukraine war is the importance of light infantry: www.businessinsider.com/ukraine-war-...

The fires ignited by the Ukraine's drones were so extensive that some aircraft were turned to dust via @byjepstein.bsky.social www.businessinsider.com/satellite-im...

"Enemy strategic bombers are burning en masse." @byjepstein.bsky.social got images from Ukraine's Trojan Horse drone attack: www.businessinsider.com/videos-ukrai...

Ukraine's new AI anti-aircraft gun is six for six @byjepstein.bsky.social reports www.businessinsider.com/ukraine-ai-p...

How NATO is training to seize airfields — or counter it via @byjepstein.bsky.social www.businessinsider.com/front-line-n...

Today's show, with @byjepstein.bsky.social is all about the Ukrainian drone war, and how its a blueprint for high tech (and low-lift consumer tech) future warfare. slate.com/podcasts/wha...

Seeing a surface-to-air missile fire in real-world combat is "unlike anything else," the Stockdale skipper told @byjepstein.bsky.social www.businessinsider.com/us-navy-capt...

A former F-35 program manager told BI that installing a 2nd engine on the stealth fighter requires designing and building a whole new aircraft. via @byjepstein.bsky.social www.businessinsider.com/trump-f-55-t...

"I don't think any of us believe that we've seen the plateauing of what is in the realm of the possible." -chief of the Army's Air Defense Artillery School via @byjepstein.bsky.social www.businessinsider.com/drones-becom...

"It's going to cost an exorbitant amount of money to get that up to standard." via @byjepstein.bsky.social www.businessinsider.com/trump-qatar-...

This has become a star-crossed cruise for the USS Harry S. Truman, the 4th mishap of its combat deployment via @byjepstein.bsky.social www.businessinsider.com/us-navy-airc...

Deck guns are so back! via @byjepstein.bsky.social www.businessinsider.com/nato-warship...

This was the 2nd Super Hornet loss on the Truman's deployment. The first was accidentally shot down by a US cruiser via @byjepstein.bsky.social www.businessinsider.com/us-navy-airc...

@byjepstein.bsky.social reports, on @businessinsider.com

Ukraine's drone industry looks nothing like Western defense companies. It is more agile, lower overhead and in direct contact with frontline troops @byjepstein.bsky.social reports: www.businessinsider.com/ukraine-dron...

Publicly disclosed US operations against ISIS in Somalia: 2022: 0 2023: 1 assault operation 2024: 1 airstrike 2025 so far: 8 rounds of airstrikes as counted by @byjepstein.bsky.social www.businessinsider.com/trump-bombin...

Reasons US allies are sticking with F-35 for now: -F-35 beats other available options -5th-gen aircraft needed for SAM threat -F-35B needed for their light carriers -They've already paid for them via @byjepstein.bsky.social www.businessinsider.com/trump-rattle...

North Korea is building a 460-foot warship that could have vertical launchers that carries many different types of missiles via @byjepstein.bsky.social www.businessinsider.com/satellite-im...

There is a massive scar on the only thing standing between a decades-old nuclear disaster and the potential for another @byjepstein.bsky.social reported from Chernobyl www.businessinsider.com/russias-war-...

The radar track seen south of Tower 22 was "too far away" or "moving too slowly" to warrant identification, soldiers said. It proved fatal. via @byjepstein.bsky.social www.businessinsider.com/soldiers-con...

Trump's trade wars and public spats with the leaders of countries buying F-35s pose growing risks to Lockheed's business via @byjepstein.bsky.social www.businessinsider.com/lockheed-mar...

NSA Waltz: "European navies do not have the capability to defend against the types of sophisticated, antiship, cruise missiles, and drones the Houthis are now using" French Navy: Au contraire www.businessinsider.com/french-warsh...

How Ukraine builds its dragon drones via @byjepstein.bsky.social www.businessinsider.com/ukrainian-dr...