Strategy, risk analysis, OSINT, communications and advocacy. 40+ years in media, seven in industry, global perspective. Anonymous dipweeds blocked at will.
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Every time I see an ICE agent doing this I know he's done it to women before he joined.
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For all of the bad takes today: FFS let nobody tell Emperor Demento of Orange that the Chinese have a super duper fighter with THREE engines.
THREE ENGINES!!!!!
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It’s awesome. Makes you realize that not enough new stuff has been happening in aircraft design for 40 years.
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He isn't lying. He really believes it because his ability to distinguish fact from thoughts has mostly gone. It's called "confabulation" and is characteristic of people with progressive dementia.
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If Gaines had placed ahead of Lia Thomas she would be much poorer and almost completely unknown.
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This is also a guy who believes that some rando in 1823 dug up a set of golden plates on which was inscribed the ultimate truth, and that God has declared coffee and tea to be abominations. Mormonism is a UFO cult with its own state and a shitload of money.
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Inevitable because JK Snarling's mob thinks (1) they Can alWays teLL and (2) that there are 10x as many trans people as there really are, and the bitter old hag will never correct them
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Any teeny tiny flicker of sadness for these people as they get fucked over is extinguished when I remember that they voted for DFT because he was going to fuck other, browner people over.
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This is also a guy who believes that some rando in 1823 dug up a set of golden plates on which was inscribed the ultimate truth, and that God has declared coffee and tea to be abominations. Mormonism is a UFO cult with its own state and a shitload of money.
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There are elegant French airplanes, and there are French airplanes that a modeler put together from his spares box over a slow, grey November weekend infused with glue fumes and whisky.
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Absolutely.
Kirk made millions out of telling young white men that they should be angry and fearful.
That DEI meant they would be shut out of opportunities they deserved.
That "woke" would prevent them from complaining.
Kirk was all for every kind of firearm.
An angry, fearful young white man shot him.
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Since some people came to class today without a proper breakfast, here is why a twin-engine F-35 is Not A Thing.
It would have a different center-section, weapons bay, secondary power, hydraulics, electrical...
The only bit that could be retained is the avionics, but they suck.
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Da (and I cannot emphasize this too strongly) fuq?
Trump: F-35, we're doing an upgrade, a simple upgrade, but we're also doing an F-55. I'm going to call it an F-55, and that's going to be a substantial upgrade, but it's going to be also with two engines because the F 35 has a single engine. I don't like single engines.
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Remember all the psuedo-smart twerps who went banging on about “it’S nOt a Dem0crAcy it’s a Con-STI-toot-inal rePubliC" whenever anyone mentioned the Senate or the Electoral College?
They've gone quiet. Maybe they didn't give a rat's ass about the Constitution, after all.
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tfw you have your new combat drone announcement all set for AFA and the Chinese gazump you.
Survivable. Lethal. Autonomous.
Lockheed Martin Vectis™ is here. 🦨
This cutting-edge uncrewed aircraft integrates with 5th and next-gen platforms and provides unparalleled mission survivability.
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Typical disinformation. There doesn't need to be a kill switch. The mission data file must embody current threat data for the system to optimize the "blue-line" track - known since the late 70s to be essential to stealth - and accurately ID targets via sensor fusion./1
‘There is no kill switch’—The F-35 'kill switch' rumor has been debunked.
“After weeks of speculation, the Pentagon formally denies having the ability to remotely disable @LockheedMartin’s F-35 fighter jets.”
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A JD Vance dossier? So fa, allegations have been couched in terms that provide him with a bit of cushion and are not specific about sectional abuse charges, but there may be more for the media to chaise down.
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A new GAO report on @theF35 is out and full of news. Running the gamut from bad to OMFG./1
gao.gov/products/gao-25-1076…
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They that do not read history...
China Building SAM Sites That Allow Missiles To Be Fired From Within Bunkers
An all-new pattern of air defense site has emerged in China near the border with India.
Story: twz.com/land/china-building-…
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You can't comprehend how much GOFOs and senior enlisted LOVE to rip up their schedules and travel for days to hear a greasy-haired former infantry O-4 yell at them about "warrior ethos", pushups, beards and haircuts.
Pete will be lucky to escape with his pants on.🤣
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Trumpalos claim to detest transwomen, but then make cis women look like trans adult actors.
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Animal Farm was published 80 years ago today. This is T.S. Eliot's rejection letter, a year earlier.
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I don't know who needs to hear this but it is probably a bad idea to line all your bombers up in a tidy row in the same place you have parked them for the last 30 years.
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The guy who made a fortune selling ice cream looks a shitload healthier than the three-years-younger health crank RFKjr, who looks like he stood too close to a nuclear detonation and sounds like a dying sheep
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THIS IS GOD, REPEAT GOD, TO ALL AVTWITTER
FFS STOP REPEAT FFS STOP DOING THIS
GOD OUT
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This person’s knowledge of women apparently dates to some particularly rough period of the 14th century
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Third time this week that this photo of mine has been reused without credit or with wrong credit, because some punk troll on F-16 net pasted LMTAS on it.
This and one other shot I took are the only photos of a company model to have seen the light of day./1
F-16 just turned 50. Amazing. So much history, but let's not forget what could have been with the Block 60 F-16E/F 'Desert Falcon." Full delta, lots of gas. F-16XL gets all the love, but this thing would have been pretty amazing. They ended up going with a less ambitious config.
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Night after night, I go to the same vile bar. so that I can better learn to detect and avoid these demons, but morning after morning I I awake in her fragrant clutches, my bowels deflowered and my seed spent upon the wall. God help me!
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Getting shot in church would seem to be strong evidence that prayer doesn't work, or at least, that it doesn't work as well as an AR-15.
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Another thing your grandma wasn't exposed to was rampant spouting paranoid nutcases in her telephone
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Interviewer is another poof. What America doesn’t need is the vile plastic hags of Whore-a-Lago, or Kari or Kristi or Kimberly.
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Update!
aspistrategist.org.au/chinas…
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They were getting live video, over the flightline. How hard would it be to do this to Whiteman AFB?
Ukrainian SBU security service sources tell @FT the agency is conducting "a large-scale special operation to destroy enemy bomber aircraft" deep inside Russia.
"SBU drones are targeting aircraft that bomb Ukrainian cities every night. At this point, more than 40 aircraft have reportedly been hit."
Video footage filmed by a Ukrainian reconnaissance aircraft and shared by the official appeared to show Russia’s Belaya airfield, located in south-eastern Siberia some 5,500km east of the frontline, in flames.
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This is why all the "road base" F-35 demos are touch-and-go or at best don't involve engine shutdown. The jet has a huge appetite for unique ground equipment and there's none of that less than 5000 miles away.
3 days grounded (and counting) at Trivandrum airport, the @RoyalNavy F-35B clearly has a proper snag. Seen here being guarded by the @CISFHQrs. Here’s wishing the aircraft a safe return to its home deck soon.
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Further investigations. @Justin_Br0nk @GarethJennings3 @FTusa284 @VioletClub
aspistrategist.org.au/chinas…
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Make it two seasons, and only for the people who voted to deport the agricultural workers.
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All of this. Read the whole thing.
Due to popular demand, I removed the paywall from our acclaimed Q&A with @SimonWDC about why the Trump campaign is in more trouble than you think. So read it if you haven't already and please subscribe to Public Notice if you appreciate work of this sort. publicnotice.co/p/simon-rose…
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Putin: Hands DFT an envelope
-- Opens envelope.
(F/X) Sound of uncontrolled bowel movement Putin: We have rest of Ms. Maxwell's files
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Seems as if they're a bunch of incompetents who rushed into announcing that they'd got their guy, thereby giving the assassin a free pass to get away from the scene.
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American Christianity is managing to combine the worst of both ends of 1960s Irish Christianity, which is quite the fucking feat.
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Trillion Dollar Trainwreck goes on sale on May 20. Without a hint of controversy, I'm sure.
valkstrat.com/trillion-dolla…
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So what about this? Looks pretty round to me.
2D nozzles are better for RCS but awful heavy. There's a reason that your pressure cooker isn't square.
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Just the photos give me vertigo. Someone's going to do a flying pinwheel on that marble floor and de-brain themselves.
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Oh my, do we see some excellent use of 1960s technology here? One word: ISINGLASS. @RAeSTimR @penandpaper1989 since everyone's forgotten about that, and how the Su's 'ighly hingeinious flight control system works generally, anyone interested in a quick 500 words?
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Most F-35 posts that start with "debunk" miss something important and this one is no exception. It's not just a matter of "updating software".
The Mission Data File (MDF) is the electronic battle manual for the F-35. It provides known target characteristics/1
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Not to mention wiggling his fat carcase, every chance he gets, to the original gay anthem
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A three-star USAF force strategist just threw the whole fifth-generation nonsense under the bus in a video brief to International Fighter Conference #IFC25 in Rome. “That nomenclature doesn’t really help us any more,” he said, arguing that advanced weapons and EW on an F-15EX give it “capabilities more akin to 5gen”./1
@FTusa284 @FuhrMP @VioletClub
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"Being trans is a menta[ illness"
-- Who told you that?
"My Sky Daddy whose son was conceived without sex, was executed and rose from the dead."
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Putin: Hands DFT an envelope
-- Opens envelope.
(F/X) Sound of uncontrolled bowel movement
Putin: We have rest of Ms. Maxwell's files
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It literally takes 15 seconds to go to the AAA site and prove he is lying or delusional.
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It's deflection from the fact that the crews and controllers were infinitely better qualified to do their jobs than
- a TV host as SecDef
- an art collector as SecNav
- conspiracy theorists at HHS and FBI
- a person with dementia as POTUS
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If you'd predicted ten years ago that in 2025, Typhoon would be notching up new customers, Rafale would be steaming towards F5 and accelerating production, that Team JSF would be scared of Gripen in Canada, and that deliveries of combat-ready F-35s would have stalled...
Just when you thought the day was already busy with European fighter news, @AirbusDefence have declared they will lead on a #Eurofighter offer for #Portugal.
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Somewhere there is an envelope "to be opened in the event of" that contains an address in Zurich, a box number, and a combination. Among the very interesting contents of the box are instructions as to what to do next.
This frightens Donnie very much, through the dementia.
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"Game changer" is actually appropriate for once, as people actually fighting a war pick the airplane that works./1
reuters.com/business/aerospa…
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Dutch is German after two solid bong hits and I will not be taking questions at this time
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He's in court for harassing a teenager, and got arrested for overtly inciting unprovoked violence, but I guess you're a loser when it comes to facts, too.
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