Air Force Rescue’s motto: “These things we do, that others may live.” CSAR is mission beyond reproach.

@giledpallaeon.bsky.social A question for you. In the late 1970s, when we were building Tomahawk, there was an anti-ship version, which used the Harpoon seeker in the Tomahawk airframe (source: secwww.jhuapl.edu/techdigest/C...) But it never really ever got used, and all post-1980 U.S. ship kills

AAAAAAAHHHHH

Two observations about U.S. industrial policy efforts. 1. CHIPS PO, the most successful modern U.S. effort to do IP, was very different than successful Korean, Japanese, Chinese IP efforts in that it was not focused on indigenization. Indigenization and self-sufficiency....

In the lead up to WWII, the Ordnance Department of the US Army had detailed surveys of manufacturing facilities that helped them figure out which ones would be suitable for different war production needs.

Is there a good resource for how we did air base defense (shelters, dispersion, etc.) in the 1980s in preparation for Soviet conflict? @mikeblack114.bsky.social?

While the Chinese EV makers are excellent, we need to be realistic, the insanely low price tags are being driven by a combination of low real wages, currency devaluation and overall deflation in China (which is bad!!). If you picked up Chery and let them build here, they would not be $8500.

Cannot wait for this. First edition, 1986.

@bafriedman.bsky.social 🤣

Have RLG IMUs gotten good enough to avoid the need for GPS fixes? GPS very easily jammable, even with better codes.

The resolution improvement of SAR resolution is WILD.

I mean, we have to open the straight. Shouldn’t have gone to war, but letting Iran control the Straight would be a staggering strategic loss. Take your time, do a blockade first. Bring the right assets to the theatre to do convoy escort.

Seems overly pessimistic. We can and should control the straight if we commit the forces to do so. We shouldn’t have even done this war but now we must reassert freedom of navigation.

Live look of INDOPACOM

Uhhhhh. Who is launching these?

Soliciting opinions on this take. I thought intercept rates were high (if at the expense of interceptor usage).

Can the US establish enough control of the straight to restore shipping volumes? How would it do so?

Anyone have thoughts on this book: www.amazon.com/American-Bri...

I do not think this is the U.S.'s Suez?

Lmfao

A rant. Every single military book uses tactical, operational, strategic differently and inconsistently depending on context and it drives me mad.

Alright time to read this @mikeblack114.bsky.social

The story of Joe Rochefort is so sad. Perhaps the single-most important member of the U.S. Navy in the first-half of 1942, without whom Midway just does not happen, smeared by his rivals for being right. I am happy he has been vindicated by history, but sad his career suffered for being right.

TIL that the Korean War Wonsan landings were delayed d/t mines. Never-ending problem.

Hey CENTCOM you’ve been planning for this for decades, you wanna dust off that OPLAN for Hormuz now buddy? CENTCOM:

@mikeblack114.bsky.social Is the consensus that we did allow THAAD radars to be destroyed lol.

Rare L from Pape?

I don’t see why SM-2/3/6 production can’t be spread to multiple firms, rather than all being concentrated in Raytheon. Theres no way Raytheon hasn’t earned a reasonable return on its investments in developing the models (and should continue to do so for new R&D).

Dan Caine failed to save us

Re: www.wsj.com/politics/nat... and the article being discussed here before, what are our thoughts on the Houthi air defense network described: "network to track American warplanes with observers, optics and infrared sensors whose intricacy U.S. officials didn’t entirely understand"

When did Caine become the voice of reason? x.com/joshkraushaa...

thank u shadow secdef caine

Dumb historical question for USAF folks here. In the 1950s, classic SAC days, what was the air-to-air combat plan? For continental air defense, we were planning to use really fast interceptors, hence F-102, 106, and the AF was even planning for Mach 3 interceptor XF-108.

the thing about satyagraha is that Gandhi being murdered himself doesn't constitute failure--the point of nonviolent resistance isn't that it's more safe, it's that it dramatizes the violence of the state and highlights its illegitimacy via contrast, and it mobilizes public outrage against injustice

Have there been any publically disclosed intercepts of supersonic ASCMs with the 1980s AEGIS system? This is a super impressive moden one. www.reddit.com/r/Engineerin...

Alright time for a defense book purchasing bonanza. Recommendations appreciated on anything you'd recommend to learn more about defense with a focus on operations, tactics, technology, acquisition/procurement!

Never been able to get any good answers to whether the Soviet supersonic sea skimmers of the 1980s were as much of a threat as often thought.

Tooze's masturbatory fantasies of massacring liberals for not being left enough are such a perfect summary of who he is and why not treating Leninists like neo-Nazis is one of modern academia's greatest sins. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

My latest in #MarineCorps Gazette: "Digging is Winning." BLUF: Our above ground CPs in Okinawa are sitting targets. Friendly IADS can't interdict PLA precision fires targeting them at scale. We gotta go underground. Below posts contain the remaining pages - give it a look! #WriteFightWin

What do we think about this defense crew? @mikeblack114.bsky.social @davidalman.bsky.social

Where is this rat fuck at?

Here’s hoping for minimal Tomahawk usage 🙏

Guys it's January 11th....

Just got to the Leyte Gulf chapter of Ian Toll's brilliant Pacific War book, and the "Where is TF34... the world wonders?" telegraph is incredible to read.

Any thoughts from my Defense community? @mikeblack114.bsky.social @tonystark.bsky.social

Something I don't think folks have fully clocked is the degree to which just about everyone under the age of 45 in any natsecs adjacent space to the left of groypers is flatly saying "this is illegal as shit, that's all there is to it"

Impeachment. Now. Again.

Iran has been a waste of resources. Now we’ve got an open ended low intensity conflict that no one has signaled a clear end state for. Strikes w/o legal justification, nuclear material in the wild. Thanks CENTCOM for the brain work adventure.

I’ll say it again: It was a huge mistake for Congress to abolish itself.