Varsevan / Valra

Another great piece (how well he does this sort of evidence crunching).

Maybe Trump’s 2nd victory should’ve been a warning that the proven failings of, & harm done by, populism don’t necessarily put voters off.

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Dragon H73 MAZRK (with “M” indicating mobile) is designed to engage tactical aircraft and unmanned aerial vehicles and is capable of operating both day and night.

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Hegseth directs 20% cut to top military leadership positions In a memo dated Monday, Hegseth said the cuts will remove “redundant force structure to optimize and streamline leadership.”

In a memo dated Monday, Hegseth said the cuts will remove “redundant force structure to optimize and streamline leadership.”

So all these cuts are happening and the Army has yet to even commit to:

- Expand IAMD units
- Expand AD/BMD buys
- Expand SHORAD/MRAD
- Upgrade AD

or really invest in anything relevant to the Pacific beyond pre-Biden numbers. Guess we at least know where Hegseth's 8% internal savings are from.

Today we are going learn about Light Exo-Atmospheric Projectile's first flight test. So what is LEAP? LEAP was a program aimed at developing extremely lightweight and small KKVs. The program first spawned from an SDI effort develop a light kill vehicle for ground or space based hyper-velocity guns.

The politicians know this, they've heard it repeatedly over the past decade. The noise has grown louder this past year or 2, but so too has SA's economic situation deteriorated. The only way to meaningfully increase the Def budget is to increase SA's GDP, but I fear this will not be anytime soon.
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Hey I wonder why these guys can’t get a peace deal in Ukraine!

24/ Project 1164 Atlant-class ships like Moskva have continous corridors along the entire lengths of their upper and lower (residential) decks. This contributed to the rapid spread of the fire and smoke. The bulkheads could not be sealed due to buckling caused by the explosions.

A pair of Convair Lobber ballistic resupply missiles with their launcher in the background.

The Lobber was a surface-to-surface cargo missile intended to deliver 50 pounds of cargo over a distance of approximately 8 miles.
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Trump got bored with the effort needed to achieve peace in our time and has now moved on to chase the next shiny ball

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I don’t have Shkrebets account right to hand, so I will check later if he specifically said MA-2

The Dutch 🇳🇱 Public Prosecution Service has launched two criminal cases against shipbuilder Damen Shipyards Group :

▶️ one for alleged corruption and money laundering in foreign ship sales (2006–2016)
▶️ another for violating Russia sanctions by exporting potentially military-useful goods.

I generally find this point to be underrated, because not only was the VMF massively incompetent by not keeping Moskva in good shape, but even if had they done this, she was still wholly unsuited for combat

The fundamental error was keeping her in service at all

I mention this because while a lot of attention is rightfully on the poor state of Moskvas systems, even if everything was working as intended, her ability to intercept sea skimming ASCMs was very limited

With Osa-MAs (and not MA-2s) she arguably had no real capability to do so

One detail here is that the Moskva had Osa-MA-2s (also that they were at least partially functional). This nominally has a point-defense capability against ASCMs.

Previously it was thought that Moskva only had Osa-MAs

A very interesting Russian account of the Moskvas sinking

We have had several Ukrainian accounts, but this is from the ‘targets’ perspective

Coming over to your house, asking if I can build some ships in the backyard. It’s critical for contesting the littoral

One reason I worry about LLMs is that research doesn't just give you the answer – it can't know that – it introduces you to worlds of context you have to parse through and decipher and explore, and through that build up a huge collection of incidental random competency. This just takes time. A life.

Just in the same way Google didn't make people smarter because you have to know how to research, AI won't either. In fact, AI will likely make people significantly dumber because it gives anyone the ability to boil all the complexity and nuance out of a topic and feel like they understand it.

If you think the Lockmart pride socks or Raytheon girls coding camps are a disgusting way to market the defense industry to women and minorities, I need you to understand that Palantir and the Thielites are the alternative to that

The Consequences of China’s New Rare Earths Export Restrictions China has imposed export restrictions on seven rare earth elements and magnets in retaliation for new U.S. tariffs. These materials are vital to defense technologies, but the United States is entirely...

Some of the CSIS stuff is direct and to the point about what this means, and theres links to longer reporting about the whole supply chain and end uses

great essay from @quinnae.com that shows how silicon valley utopianism has, once again, been perverted onto a dark course--from a dream of doing the most good into a fever dream of billionaire rule in which "no one will ever say no to them again"

I (and others) have said it elsewhere, but a big problem right now is that today's right-wing elites' beliefs and desires are so deranged that trying to properly explain them to the average offline person makes *you* sound like the deranged conspiracy theorist.

I genuinely can't believe the amount of people who rely on chatgpt and grok to process the world for them.

a brown horse with a white spot on its head is running on a white background . ALT: a brown horse with a white spot on its head is running on a white background .

Yap mode: activate

It's just this nonstop.

Hercules > bought by ATK
Thoikol > bought by ATK > Becomes ATK Launch Systems.
Orbital Sciences > bought by ATK > becomes Orbital ATK > Northrop Grumman.
Rocketdyne > P&W. Rocketdyne > Aerojet Rocketdyne

GD NASSCO's San Diego shipyard is so cool because you got this shipyard churning out 50-90k ton vessels that are almost the size of nuclear aircraft carriers a few clicks away from downtown San Diego.

@virtualbayonet.bsky.social is over at Sea Air Space 2025 and you guys should go follow his account for some pretty neat photos from the event. Given the lack of people from Bsky at these kinds of events (as opposed to Twitter) go give them some extra love for this.

Can we bookmark stuff yet because that is one of twitter most useful features still