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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Neil Armstrong’s footprint on the Moon’s surface.

On July 20, 1969, American astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the Moon. Addressing a record television audience of approximately 650 million, Armstrong spoke the now-iconic words, “That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.”

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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.

It’s such a shame too. Smart phones are powerful enough that decent games could be developed for them.

But we’ll just continue to get slop on them and I’m not sure if there is a good solution or any incentive from the mobile games industry to enact one.

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).

Not to mention those giant pitot tubes on the F-35s.

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.

Air Force, Space Force seek $16B extra for FY26 ‘unfunded priorities’ - Breaking Defense The services’ unfunded requests, obtained by Breaking Defense, reflect sharp increases compared to last year.

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.

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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.

The entire month of June 2025 in the Sun’s atmosphere! (Imaged by AIA & SUVI). The month saw some sizeable solar flares, but nothing hefty launched our way. We also had decent coronal hole and filament activity, even with lower sunspot numbers (relative to the past year)!

Bridge Colby has his head too far up his ass to understand this, even when China says it aloud.

It is imperative Russia be defeated swiftly and overwhelmingly so that our resources can be prioritized to China. We cannot afford a two front Cold War in both Europe and Asia.

It's so wild that the F-117 exists. What a cool air frame

I really hope Congress steps in and saves F/A-XX.

The SecNav toured Navy shipyards and used that as an example for why a completely unrelated industry (Aerospace) can't deliver on a project that has nothing to do with shipbuilding. Good on industry to push back on this shit.

a man in a suit and tie says the future is looking pretty bleak snl ALT: a man in a suit and tie says the future is looking pretty bleak snl

Looking at the Trump admin's budget req... Dog wtf are even doing lmao.
>SM-6 prod getting screwed.
>SM-6 Blk IB (a new variant that'd be a whole lot more capable, esp against hypersonic threat) is largely getting halted
>only 45 PRSM request (down from 230 last year)

The facility under construction at the 70-square-mile (181-square-kilometer) McAlester Army Ammunition Plant will significantly increase production as needed, the Air Force said in a statement. Officials at the facility told Bloomberg News during a March tour by General Charles Brown, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, that equates to completing as many as six or possibly eight bombs per month, up from two currently. McAlester personnel fill bomb casings with explosives and load the warhead and fuse. Boeing Co. makes the bomb’s tailkit, which provides navigation. The Army has described the new bomb assembly area at the Oklahoma plant as a “state of the art facility that has the ability to support the production of 2,000-to-30,000-pound assets as well as providing flexible” explosive “mixing options needed for future requirements.” It’s scheduled to be completed by late spring to early fall, according to the service, with a ribbon-cutting ceremony scheduled for July 30.

The GBU-57 MOP inventory/figures stuff is a bit overblown. Prior production rate was 2/month, or 24 a year. They were working on expanding McAlester Army Ammunition Plant (completed in July 2024) to be able to produce fillings for 6-8 bombs a month (72 to 96/y).

Seems like @bafriedman.bsky.social was right, Fordow might have been double tapped, which is insane. Two MOPs through the same hole.

So 14 MOPs used and only 6 confirmed hits against Fordow. That would mean 8 expended on Natanz which makes sense as it poses a size problem vs Fordow.

CJCS in briefing right now:

The operation to strike Iran last night was "Operation Midnight Hammer"

7 B-2s struck targets and dropped 14 MOPs. The B-2 flights headed West were deception. The actual strike package came across the Atlantic.

"The type of SCUD is still classified and where we got the SCUDs from is classified" Willow Dune test of PAC-2/PAC-2 GEM against Scud.

Listen, If am an Iranian F-14/F-4 pilot, I am loading up on as much fuel tanks as possible and high tailing it out of there to another country. If I am an Iranian AD crew, I am hiding until this whole thing blows over.

IRAF F-14s are no more.

The TPY-2 was facing Yemen in Dec, so they would have to turn it more recently so It could handle Iranian threats. THAAD has spent much of its time in Israel taking down Houthi BMs prior to the current events.