One of the most annoying things about the Constellation class is that people complain about the fact that the US Navy bought an existing design and then modified it. Like, what was it supposed to do? Operate French and Italian radars, missiles, guns, sonars, combat systems?

All this talk about strengthening the atrophy in the shipbuilding industrial followed by cancelation of major shipbuilding programs that are sustaining whatever dwindling number of shipyards the US has left.

LCS deployment chart

F-35 program chart

US RCPFH 2024 vs 2025

(copy pasting my rant)I have come to conclusion most people have no idea what's going with the FFG program. First getting the basics out of the way , modifications are necessary you can't expect a USN ship to be operating on Italian equipment like USN have different radars , VLS , missiles etc (1/n)

So I made a Substack and made bigger version of the F-22 development thread , still a newbie so any criticism /thoughts would be appreciated. open.substack.com/pub/geopolit...

THREAD🧵Cooperative Engagement Capability ( CEC) In the Post Cold War 1990's USN found itself performing many littoral missions that it wasn't best suited for , Aegis had revolutionized USN air dense but as always improvements are always necessary (1/n)

AX Competition participants🧵 ( the competition resulted in the A-10) Cessna (1/8)

THREAD ATF/F-22 Development This thread on how one of the best how the best air superiority fighters came be . From the 1970's to the present day. (1/n)🧵

Since the ABM and INF are back on discussion on twitter/X. Wasn't Russia engaged in alot of tech transfers to Iran etc causing US to withdraw or was there more to this ?

Early version of the Volume 1.5 digest (In Pursuit of Performance - A Brief History of the US Navy’s Supersonic Anti-Ship Targets) is now up early for Patreon members. It will go public for the rest of you on Saturday. www.patreon.com/posts/116468...

THREAD🧵( TYPHON RADAR SYSTEM) In the late 1950's as Soviet started to introduce advanced anti ship missiles and advanced jamming techniques , USN faced a difficult choice of continuing the current system or innovate . (1/n)

All the targets USS Norton faced when certifying early Aegis subsystems.

F-117 thread Following USAF experiences in the Vietnam War and observing Israeli performance in the Yom Kippur War , it's was clear there needed someway for aircraft to bypass SAM'S (1/n)🧵

Short Thread/Informal🧵Naval Tactical Data System (NTDS) Concept Development NTDS was the USN's primary Combat System before Aegis . It was developed in the 1950's from the lessons learnt USAF SAGE Air Defense Network (1/n)

Time for a hot take: LCS despite being a dumb concept is over hated and just retiring them all isn't a solution in any way

Quite the following boost here , looks like people are finally moving here

F-16 used in tech risk reduction for the F-35. Divertless Supersonic Inlet (1/n)

Will start to paste threads here soon

How it feels like reading random accounts yapping how Su-30 or Rafale are a suitable counter vs J-20

Kinetic Energy Interceptor , Cancelled in 2009