Uh, here's the video I have been busy working on for a few months now: youtu.be/CmWQgNSEtdw

Yeah. I used to believe we had to beat him "the right way." But here's the thing: We fucking lost. And because we lost, trans kids get to grow up in fear and millions of Africans lost their AIDS medication and underequipped Ukrainian troops were overrun and at some point, it's like...

Trying to get a video I have been working on since July out tonight. If only this test render wasn't taking so long.

Finally we got bookmarks.

I regret buying a USB microphone. Shit is so sensitive it is picking up the pipes in my walls.

mahan is great at big-picture strategy but a terrible prophet of what was coming next. he thought the new hotness might be torpedo boats, by which he meant little steam boats with bombs strapped to the front the point is command of the seas, not how you get there

Then read more theory. It is funny that even when naval warfare is depicted it is usually always heavily gun focused. This is something that stopped being all that relevant in terms of engaging the enemy and killing him quickly after the aircraft carrier was created.

No idea what happened but I know for sure that Frank did it

This has been my life everyday since I left Twitter.

My throat and nose acting up immediately once autumn weather starts hitting.

Trialing rust is also not a very very big issue. Crews clean up after these ships immediately once they go in for a short maintenance period. This is what DDG 55 looked like after being at sea for 215 days (4 years ago) due to covid. Sailors cleaned her up in 2 days back to shiny new.

Escalation has sort of become a thing in western views that must be avoided at all costs. Its just a part of conflict, we should manage it, but it is neither good nor bad. But like if you are always working from a position that all escalation of any kind is bad, how do you anything but capitulation?

Apparently it is highly escalatory to target your enemy's intelligence, reconnaissance and surveillance and command and control capabilities during a major war?

Yeah sanctions are the minimum they deserve. www.jpost.com/middle-east/...

Cooking with lava

Russia took Crimea, that should have been enough, then they got a buffer in Luhansk and Donetsk (something they claim they didn't want and were forced into getting because of people like Girkin), then they invaded the entirety of Ukraine for full conquest. So surely they'll stop this time?

Man, the Soviet MIDAS/DSP equivalent was not having a great time

>detecting air to air collisions from Geostationary orbit.

UFOlogist: That was definitely a UFO NRO after nearly obliterating a key early warning satellite with their failed sat launch: 🫠

Decided to try some of the highly caffeinated energy drinks the kids enjoy these days and this shit is ass. How do people enjoy this shit over coffee?

The rate of major attacks by IS-aligned groups seem to be going through the roof in the Sahel region. At this rate, the entire Sahel might fall to IS-Sahel groups, but hey at least Ibrahim Toure looks cool or something and they kicked the imperialist Germans and UN missions out.

Where are my passive defense enjoyers at 🙏

Finally working on animating the storyboard. On this slide we got Hydrogen bomb vs coughing baby.

This piece is actually bad, the writer doesn't understand the CONOPs of current CCAs and the origins of drones. The role of the drones the USN/USAF are pursuing isnt to replace the human but complement the human in otherwise dangerous environments.

Ever wondered where baby MaRVs came from? well now you know.

Blanket blocks took place last night for me (in the EU) on conflict-related content on Twitter/Reddit that is marked as graphic. The only solution? Send Reddit or Twitter my PII. I don't think I will.

In truth, everyone worth shit should have started jumping ship when Adm. Lisa Franchetti, Adm. Linda Fagan, and Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr were booted because of nakedly racist and sexist reasons.

So DOGE with the support of the Navy canceled the contract for a company that was trying to backup and move the US Navy's pay, personnel, and promotion data to a more secure format so it couldn't be lost if something happened to main center where the data is stored. www.military.com/daily-news/2...

I'm not sure what the deal is with Western/Southern Europe when it comes to critical infrastructure protection. Like many European nations have complained that getting F-35 means that people building these new bases have to be at minimum background checked and the equipment not be China sourced.

Ignoring the numbers for a sec, theres a high chance that these systems also fired on the same targets two or three times. Integration of US BMD systems has been a long term problem and so far only THAAD and PATRIOT have progressed to a level of "true integration". US-Israel integration also sucks.

Uh, the US used 150 THAAD interceptors (out of an inventory of 534) and 80 SM-3s (out of inventory of 400) in the 12 day conflict between Israel and Iran. More of these missiles have been used since the Oct attack in 2023.

"The strong do what they WANT and the weak suffer what they must". Why should dictators get to decide the fate of millions of others simply because they have the means. "Actually, China and Russia should have their own little spheres of subjugation but anything opposed to that is bad"

If the age of the tank is over and drones are really the only future, then why do both Ukraine and Russia want so much armor?

The US/Europe could sufficiently negate this problem with systems like APKWS and other gun based solutions while production for SAMs is scaled up. APKWS is a semi-active laser guidance and control kit slapped on a 2.75 inch rocket motor. The US can produce 360k rockets and 25k APKWS kits a yr.

Romania ordered 4 Patriot batteries which they barely started receiving as the full-scale invasion of Ukraine started unfolding and they were willing to part with a battery immediately to aid Ukraine.

Well, to get these results tens of thousands of Ukrainians had to pay with their lives. The Ukrainian Army is now larger than almost all of the major European armies combined. So yes, we could make Russia pay, at the cost of a few hundred thousand of our countrymen dead.

We must destroy Alabuga

One of the more confusing aspects of Russia in Europe is the question of what exactly Russia offers to those in its sphere of influence. There's little economic growth to be had dealing with it and little in the way of massive FDI. There are bigger economies in Europe and around the world.

Feel like they were hoping this to have been the opening shots on firing Powell (possibly burying the Epstein story) before the WSJ dropped a nuke on them.

GLONZO GLONZO GLONZO othermeans.io/p/the-glonzo...

Supposedly the DoD used LRASMs in CENTCOM. I can understand using Tomahawks against the scary sand in CENTCOM given 4k of these are in Navy inventory. But LRASM? There are less than 200 LRASMs in Navy inventory. This is a high-end weapon meant for high-end threats.

Ukraine has continously asked for 11-20 Patriot batteries. Here's what kind of coverage you can get with 11. Ukraine has 6~ batteries already, the remaining 5 would cost something like (barring missiles) $1.7-2B. A Patriot batteries goes for $300-400M (export/local costs are the same).

Shaheds are not extremely hard targets to handle. In the middle east, we have seen Apaches and even Gazelle door gunners bring them down. Given enough APKWS (the US makes 25k a year) and enough launching platforms, this problem could be eliminated or impact significantly reduced.

The sheer bent up hatred being released on immigrants around the world is insane to me. Europe has been doing pretty insane shit to them for decades now, but the UK and the US are ramping up their efforts to new levels to join the rest of Europe.

The USAF's FY26 unfunded priorities list is asking for $800M to increase annual production of its JASSM/LRASM air-launched cruise missiles from 1,100/y to 2,100 and max out AMRAAM production to 2,400/y. The USAF and US Army seem serious about weapon inventories. breakingdefense.com/2025/07/air-...

The saga continues, the US Navy's Unfunded Priorities List (wishlist of items they couldn't fit in the regular budget request) is out. The biggest items in the $7.4B request: $1.4B for F/A-XX, $1.4B for munitions production increase, and $800M for increasing weapons procurement over FY26 requests.

"Cannae thus also serves as a grim reminder of the supremacy of the strategic over the tactical and the difficulty of translating even the most tremendous tactical successes into new strategic realities." banger. warontherocks.com/2025/07/the-...

Seems like the US Navy will not be buying any of its new Constellation-class frigates in FY26. Big hit for the program.

Seems like F/A-XX nightmare continues under recent HASC FY26 NDAA markup. F/A-XX gets about $74M. The program is also getting $750M in the recently passed reconciliation bill. However, both of these combined are well below the spending plans under the Biden Admin, which called for $2.2B in FY26.

Been playing Nightreign with wife lately. The game is pretty hardish but with enough time stuff just sort of starts to click. For us stuff started to click today and we managed to defeat like the three hardest bosses in a single sitting. For comparison, the first three bosses took us 60 hours.