In honour of its proponents, I suggest that the Dmitriev-Witkoff proposal should henceforth be called the Dim-Wit Plan

My take on Trump's peace plan, and why he can't pressure Ukraine into capitulation.

Every now and then I have to step back and appreciate where we are at as far as open-source availability... The Ford CSG was geolocated using publicly available 10m imagery a little under 3.5 hours after the imagery was taken.

A new video from @CovertCabal and @Jonpy99 about Russia pulling a lot of old tanks from storage www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_Ft...

#UkraineWar: Overview of Russian equipment losses added on 19/11/2025 Full list: oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02/atta...

#UkraineWar: Overview of Ukrainian equipment losses added on 19/11/2025 Full list: oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02/atta...

My latest piece → Information made public today by Rheinmetall CEO Papperger reveals that all four Skynex air defence systems pledged by Germany have now been delivered to #Ukraine, while the first Skyranger 35 is scheduled to be delivered next week. deaidua.org/news/2025/11...

(🧵 1/11) — As it has often been requested, I decided to compile a list of weapon systems, ammunition and more that Germany has verifiably supplied or pledged to #Ukraine since April 2025 – i.e. since the German government has mostly stopped publishing details about military aid.

My latest piece → By the end of the year, the German defence company HENSOLDT expects further orders for the production of TRML-4D air surveillance and target acquisition radars intended for #Ukraine. deaidua.org/news/2025/11...

#UkraineWar: Overview of Ukrainian equipment losses added on 10/11/2025 Full list: oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02/atta...

#UkraineWar: Overview of Russian equipment losses added on 10/11/2025 Full list: oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02/atta...

Perun-o-clock: Algeria & The African Arms Race You've (Probably) Never Heard Of - Surging Budgets & Russian Weapons www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7_F...

At 8:50 AM today in 1979, data from a simulated massive Soviet nuclear decapitation attack running at NORAD were somehow sent to live warning displays there, SAC, the National Military Command Center, and the ANMCC at Raven Rock, triggering a false alarm and a ~6-minute threat assessment conference.

OK, as promised, here's my thread about the links between tear gas/pepper spray and the arms trade and gun industry.

Perun-o-clock: Russia's new "Skyfall' Missile - Evaluation & the Danger of "Superweapon Syndrome" www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0t8...

[VIDEO] Rare access inside an Italian Navy Navy Type 212A Submarine 🇮🇹 Naval News takes you on a tour aboard Italian Navy submarine ITS Romeo Romei (S 529), with the Commanding Officer and XO. Romeo Romei is the final Todaro-class Batch 2 submarine. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNX2...

#UkraineWar: Overview of Ukrainian equipment losses added on 31/10/2025 Full list: oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02/atta...

#UkraineWar: Overview of Russian equipment losses added on 31/10/2025 Full list: oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02/atta...

This is such a good piece www.rusi.org/explore-our-...

#UkraineWar: Overview of Ukrainian equipment losses added on 28/10/2025 Full list: oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02/atta...

#UkraineWar: Overview of Russian equipment losses added on 28/10/2025 Full list: oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02/atta...

Today in 1973, in response to CIA reports that the Soviet Union was shipping nuclear weapons and troops to Egypt to intervene in the Yom Kippur War, Strategic Air Command, Continental Air Defense Command, European Command, and the Sixth Fleet all moved to DEFCON 3 for the first time since 1962.

#UkraineWar: Overview of Ukrainian equipment losses added on 25/10/2025 Full list: oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02/atta...

#UkraineWar: Overview of Russian equipment losses added on 25/10/2025 Full list: oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02/atta...

#UkraineWar: Overview of Ukrainian equipment losses added on 22/10/2025 *note: this update has all the losses documented since the previous update on 30.9.2025, so it is much larger than usual. Full list: oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02/atta...

#UkraineWar: Overview of Russian equipment losses added on 22/10/2025 *note: this update has all the losses documented since the previous update on 30.9.2025, so it is much larger than usual. Full list: oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02/atta...

1. This wreckage is Ukraine's secretive Bars (Snow Leopard) cruise missile that was first mentioned by Minister of Strategic Industries, Herman Smetanin in April 2024. The pieces in this photo are not arranged correctly but still give an idea what it looks like.

Since many of you cannot read my 2019 piece on tear gas in Nature, I will kindly replicate it for you: Kaszeta, Dan. "Restrict use of riot-control chemicals." Nature 573.7772 (2019): 27-29.

Starting into the weekend, I just finished another update to my website, which includes changes to the military aid database, footage database and the MedEvac database. Full details below. Military aid database — ~€30 million investment in the NSATU Trust Fund (delivered) 1/3

At 0400 today in 1979, Gen. William Odom, National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski’s military assistant, was awakened by a call from the Pentagon’s “War Room.” A West Coast early-warning radar had detected a Soviet SLBM in flight which was expected to land 150 nautical miles off Oregon’s coast.

Rare off-topic post of mine: I would like to draw your attention to the excellent work of my colleagues at @tochnyi.info. After months of intense work, we have finally published our interactive map that allows you to follow the ongoing “human safari” in Kherson in detail.

Perun-o-clock: Russia-NATO Confrontation - Drones over Poland & MiGs over the Baltic www.youtube.com/watch?v=zG7s...

Here's a video of how the Russian gasoline crisis progressed over the past 5 week. Tonight on @tochnyi.info we will spend extra time on discussing the topic. Tune in at 21:00 Kyiv time.

#UkraineWar: Overview of Ukrainian equipment losses added on 26/09/2025 Full list: oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02/atta...

#UkraineWar: Overview of Russian equipment losses added on 26/09/2025 Full list: oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02/atta...

#UkraineWar: Overview of Ukrainian equipment losses added on 23/09/2025 Full list: oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02/atta...

#UkraineWar: Overview of Russian equipment losses added on 23/09/2025 Full list: oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02/atta...

🔎🇺🇸Is a secretive US special ops 'mothership' operating in the Caribbean? New satellite imagery raises ??? Analysis of Sentinel 2📸 from 20 SEP 2025, shows a vessel with a highly unique fore/aft superstructure almost identical to the MV Ocean Trader, a US Spec Ops vessel operating SW of St. Kitts

🔎🇺🇸USS Stockdale (DDG-106) Spotted on Sentinel 2 on 20 September 2025 at pier 2N at Vasco Nunez de Balboa naval base in 🇵🇦Panama City 4x DDGs now operating in SOUTHCOM

🇺🇸NAS Roosevelt Roads: F-35s New high-resolution satellite imagery from Sept 20, 2025, confirms a continued US military presence at the former NAS Roosevelt Roads, Ceiba, Puerto Rico. Analysis reveals 6x F-35 Lightning II aircraft on the tarmac, indicating a persistent, strategic deployment

Hi all, I just published my latest Missile Matters post on the precarious state of Europe's mini jet engine industry, a sector that is critical to Europe's missile rearmament but remains underappreciated. Access the post here: missilematters.substack.com/p/small-thru... Short summary below. 1/7

#UkraineWar: Overview of Ukrainian equipment losses added on 20/09/2025 Full list: oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02/atta...

#UkraineWar: Overview of Russian equipment losses added on 20/09/2025 Full list: oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02/atta...

OTD in 1951 first deportations of Operation Osen began. 20,000 Lithuanians were forcibly deported to Siberia as USSR continued to "liberate them from fascism" 6 years after WW2 ended Imagine mass deportations happening today...

„Given the weak response so far in reference to the Russian aggression against us, it should come as no surprise when Russia continues to attack and tests our reaction.

My latest piece → Research shows that the delivery of the two MIM-104 Patriot fire units recently announced, which the German government originally announced it would finance alone, will now be financed largely by other countries. deaidua.org/news/2025/09...

🔎🇻🇪Venezuelan Exercises: La Orchila on Watch On September 14, 2025, with Venezuelan military exercises underway, we took a closer look at La Orchila Island, a key strategic point.

THREAD: 70 years ago today, a specially-modified B-36 bomber—the NB-36H—made its first test flight out of Carswell Air Force Base, Texas, carrying (but not powered by) an operational 1-Megawatt air-cooled nuclear reactor. It would make 46 more flights over Texas and New Mexico through March 1957.

1/ The Russian Black Sea Fleet is reportedly in a "systemic crisis" due to manpower problems, a recruitment campaign that is mainly attracting "chronic alcoholics and drug addicts", and ongoing systemic corruption involving stealing repair funds for unseaworthy ships. ⬇️