Frank Kuhn

Maybe editors should check citations, after all...

Europe Should Buy and Integrate APKWS Rockets For Drone Defense A no-fly zone over Ukraine isn’t likely. This should not stop European air forces from fielding a combat proven, cost-effective defense against Russian drones.

See also this piece by @aaronstein1.bsky.social.

Laser-Guided Rockets Now Primary Anti-Drone Weapon For USAF Jets In Middle East APKWS II rockets have become the Air Force's go-to air-to-air munition against drones thanks to their low cost and small size.

“The APKWS II guidance section has a unit cost between $15,000 and $20,000, with the rocket motor and warhead adding a few thousand dollars more to the full price tag.”

Shaheed-type drones reportedly cost around $20,000+, so that's not a bad cost-exchange-ratio.

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Not quite right.

Newly released documents show what the feds knew about the New Jersey drone scare Even after the Biden administration realized the most alarming claims were bunk, it didn't publicize the evidence it had.

There is even a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) slideshow available online, showing how some of the purported drone sightings can be explained.

None Of The New Jersey Visual Drone Sightings Have Been Corroborated: White House The White House says federal, state, and local authorities have not corroborated any purported visual sightings of drones over New Jersey.

While the hightened awareness to drone activity in Europe is commendable and important, increasing political attention and media reporting will also result in false positives. Just remember the New Jersey drone scare, where most of the sightings turned out to be lawfully operating manned aircraft.

None Of The New Jersey Visual Drone Sightings Have Been Corroborated: White House The White House says federal, state, and local authorities have not corroborated any purported visual sightings of drones over New Jersey.

Remember last year in the United States, where ”authorities have assessed that many of the purported uncrewed aerial systems spotted overhead are actually innocuous crewed aircraft like airliners.“

Russian missile upgrade outpaces Ukraine’s Patriot defences Kyiv’s interception rates fall as enemy strikes dodge US interceptors in final seconds

”The missiles now follow a typical trajectory before diverting and plunging into a steep terminal dive or executing manoeuvres that ‘confuse and avoid’ Patriot interceptors.”

Foreign Relations of the United States, 1989-1992, Volume XXXI, START I, 1989-1991 Editor: James Graham Wilson General Editor: Kathleen B. Rasmussen Department of State Washington 2025

Foreign Relations of the United States, 1989–1992, Volume XXXI, START I, 1989–1991 is out today!

Huge congratulations to @jamesgrahamwilson.bsky.social and the rest of the team at the State Department's Office of the Historian. history.state.gov/historicaldo...

Hegseth's words seem especially chilling in light of his whitewashing of the Wounded Knee Massacre as a heroic "battle" only a few days ago. The message would seem to be that the Trump Administration is willing to forgive any atrocity US troops may commit as an "earnest mistake."

Künstliche Intelligenz, Krieg und Kontrolle – Was ist Hype, was echte Gefahr? Berlin Science Week 2025 mit Niklas Schörnig & Malte Göttsche

Wie wirkt sich #KI konkret auf die globale Sicherheit aus? Am 6.11. erscheint der neue CNTR Monitor mit aktuellen Analysen zu Chancen, Herausforderungen und Lösungsansätzen. Darüber diskutieren wir auch im Rahmen der @berlinscienceweek.bsky.social. ⬇️

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Foreign Relations of the United States, 1989–1992, Volume XXXI, START I, 1989–1991 😍

CDU-Politiker fordert Einsatz von Ex-NVA-Soldaten Die Bundeswehr sucht händeringend reguläre Soldaten. Aber auch an Reservisten mangelt es. Abhilfe könnten Soldaten der Nationalen Volksarmee der DDR schaffen, findet CDU-Politiker Müller. Dafür müsste...

Also vor über 35 Jahren wurde die NVA aufgelöst. Wenn man mit 18 Jahren 1990 in der NVA war dann ist der heute 53.... 🤡
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Real post on another network:

I’m not joking when I say that I sort of expect him to announce new medals for William Calley, Frank Barker, and Oran Henderson for carrying out and concealing the My Lai Massacre.

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NSC staffer William Cockell to National Security Advisor Poindexter in 1986: “JSTPS [Joint Strategic Targeting Planning Staff] will find a use for every warhead and still complain there aren’t enough. Whether the two SSBNs fill a ‘real world’ requirement is another question, however.”

NSC staffer William Cockell to National Security Advisor Poindexter in 1986: “JSTPS [Joint Strategic Targeting Planning Staff] will find a use for every warhead and still complain there aren’t enough. Whether the two SSBNs fill a ‘real world’ requirement is another question, however.”

Wouldn't European governments and the strategic community have had a collective heart attack if any other sitting US president before had publicly said, “we just can't ever use them”? Remember the fuss about "sole purpose"? But in a Trump speech full of crazy stuff, that just gets lost?

Thank you!

I guess we agree about what the conventional wisdom in the D.C. national security bubble is these days. Whether we think an increase in warheads, delivery vehicles and additional sub-strategic options (SLCM-N) is sensible or needed is another question.

And yet, there was no photo-op. What prevented Trump from extending New START in 2020 then?

Point taken, conventional wisdom is fine with me. We also both know that it is not about “more nukes” (as I wrote above due to a lack of remaining characters) in terms of total numbers, but about an increase in deployed warheads and delivery systems.

Putin Proposes One-Year Extension of New START Treaty - The Moscow Times President Vladimir Putin on Friday proposed that Moscow and Washington extend for a year and without any conditions the last major nuclear arms reduction accord between Russia and the United States.

... and 2020.

Putin offers US an immediate extension to key nuclear pact MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin offered Thursday to immediately extend the only remaining nuclear arms reduction pact with the United States, but a senior U.S. official said Washington ...

Another offer in 2019...

Exclusive - In call with Putin, Trump denounced Obama-era nuclear arms treaty: sources In his first call as president with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump denounced a treaty that caps U.S. and Russian deployment of nuclear warheads as a bad deal for the United States, according to two U.S. officials and one former U.S. official with knowledge of the call.

And Putin has offered to extent New START multiple times during Trump I, yet there was no extension back then. What would be different now? Also keep in mind that the treaty was negotiated under Obama, which if you are Trump makes it a bad treaty per se.

I agree regarding interference. But why would you commit yourself to a one-year extension if you intented to upload and break the treaty anyways? Doesn't seem to make a lot of sense to me, especially because some in USG will likely be worried about remaining locked in NST numbers (even if informal).

The White House is completely unpredictable nowadays, so Trump might take on Putin’s offer – especially due to his interest in “denuclearization” and self-image as a great dealmaker. However, we shouldn’t kid ourselves: It's almost common sense in D.C. that more nukes are needed to counter China.

Das Eindringen russischer Kampfjets in Nato-Gebiet wirft Fragen auf Das Eindringen russischer Kampfflugzeuge in Nato-Gebiet wirft Fragen auf. Zwei Wissenschaftler verweisen auf die Praxis in der westlichen Allianz.

Nachdem drei russische Kampfflugzeuge vom Typ MiG-31 in den Luftraum des NATO-Mitglieds Estland eingedrungen sind, ist in Deutschland eine Diskussion über den Umgang mit Luftraumverletzungen entfacht.

Sind die NATO-Prozeduren noch zeitgemäß? Darüber habe ich gestern mit der @taz.de gesprochen.

Cycling into sunrise

Commuting is awful.