Phil Tharp

@KurtSchlichter Same here.

Revolution

@GovNuclear fission!

In 5 words or less: What makes nuclear energy so great?

@BasedMikeLee YES

Would you support a constitutional amendment prospectively limiting birthright citizenship to children born to U.S. citizen parents?

@RealAirPower1 You do know the GAU-8 is one big fucking bullet launcher?

Seeing images of a lone Warthog circling low over Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad province, Iran, supporting the CSAR for the downed F-15E crew. No heavy ordnance, no ECM pods, just the GAU-8 and a pilot hugging the deck - guarding the survivors. The images remind me of the "Sandy" missions of Vietnam, flown by A-10's granddaddy, the A-1 Skyraider. The tools have changed, but the role remains the same: fly low and slow, fly into the teeth of the danger, watch the treeline, and hold the line until everyone comes home. It was, and still is, the hardest seat in the sky - protecting the life of a brother on the ground at any cost, even your own. CSAR is a ballzy lot!

@KurtSchlichter Most of them carry miniguns.

Homeboy are very lucky that those helicopters were in a hurry because otherwise they would be puddles of cream of asshole soup.

@chaotichermes That's what the founders wanted. Skin in the game. They are for the most part, much smarter than us.

The US should bring back only being able to vote if you’re a landowner. Would solve quite a few problems off the bat.

@mirandadevine yup

Are these helicopters refueling in the air?

@KurtSchlichter vermin extermination.

What do you call hanging 10K terrorists?

@SGTWipper1Each American Revolution and you?

How far back does Military Service go in your family?

@shanaka86 These are american issues. None of your damn business.

Twenty-six generals and admirals in fourteen months. No misconduct cited for a single one. A former Fox News weekend host who never held a senior military command has removed the Joint Chiefs Chairman, the Army Chief of Staff, the commander of Army Transformation and Training, the Chief of Chaplains, and at least 22 other senior officers from the most powerful military on earth. He blocked four Army officers from promotion to brigadier general, two Black men and two women, by unilaterally striking their names from a list of 36. When Army Secretary Dan Driscoll refused to remove them, Hegseth did it himself. No hearing. No review board. No Senate consultation. The names were struck because the man who reads the list decided they should not be on it. The pattern is not random. It is architectural. Every removal serves the same function: shortening the distance between a presidential decision and its execution. The officers who remain are the ones who did not resist. The officers who resisted are gone. The replacement for the Army Chief of Staff is Vice Chief General Christopher LaNeve, who served as Hegseth’s personal military aide. The man who carried the briefcase now signs the orders. The chain of command has been rebuilt so that every link answers directly to the man who removed the previous link. General Randy George was the commander of the United States Army’s ground forces. That title matters now in a way it did not matter six weeks ago. Before February 28, ground forces in Iran were a theoretical exercise discussed in war colleges and think tanks. After five weeks of air strikes, with the IRGC publishing bridge target lists across four allied nations, with the President saying the military has “not even started” destroying what remains, with MEUs staged in the Gulf and the 82nd Airborne deploying and JSOC operators at forward bases in four countries, the ground option is no longer theoretical. It is a logistics package. And the man whose job was to assess whether that package should be opened was told to retire the same day the President posted “much more to follow.” Lieutenant General Hodne ran the command that trains every soldier who would execute a ground operation. Major General Green led the chaplain corps that would minister to every soldier who dies in one. George decided whether the operation should happen. Hodne prepared the soldiers to carry it out. Green prepared them to live with it. All three were removed on the same afternoon. Congress has not held a hearing. No subpoenas issued. The legal authority for a Defence Secretary to unilaterally override promotion lists and force immediate retirement of Senate-confirmed officers during wartime has not been tested because nobody with the authority to question it has chosen to. The IRGC has said attacks will “intensify from next week.” The Ford carrier is heading back. The CNN intelligence assessment confirms half of Iran’s launchers and thousands of drones remain. The President has named the next targets: power plants, desalination, oil wells, Kharg Island. And every general who might have said “this crosses a line” is already gone. Twenty-six officers. Zero misconduct findings. One question that every general still serving is asking behind closed doors: who is left to say no? And what happens when the answer is nobody? open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

@battleangelviv Do you think they'll like the song "All Night Long"?

when Teslas become basically sentient, the Cars movies will be real

@RedLineReportt My favorite ice cream

🚨Joe Biden has secured a $10 million book deal for his presidential memoir. What should it be named?

@Aviation_Intel Must have taken them off so they would not get wet!

There are no sights on these rifles… irons or optics. 🤔

@phascogaly @pbeisel Wasn't a stupid question. It was a good question.

@vptharp @pbeisel Thanks for reply. I quiz Grok to avoid too many stupid questions. Grok is forgiving. SpaceX / Musk was happy to graduate from Falcon Heavy to Starship, far more economical. It’s interesting to understand why certain decisions made, often seem counterintuitive.

Starship v3 is king. Starship v3’s thrust is roughly equivalent to ~90 Boeing 747s at full takeoff power Starship v4 — ~22 million lbf.

@GSO_Police @NASA I'm hoping for Whataburger!

$100 says they find a Dollar General or mattress store on the other side of the moon. Calling it now @NASA

@johnkonrad Anyone who thinks shooting long gun is beneath them should not be anywhere near the dept of war or the merchant marine. The long gun is the queen of weapons and it's mastery is absolutely essential for war fighting.

Remember last year when all those naval officers said hitting the range was beneath them? Now their civilian boss is out there slinging lead. If it’s not beneath him, it sure as hell isn’t beneath you.

SRB's tend to be non-reusable. That was our experience with Shuttle. Also, as the fuel is burned, the surface area increases increasing thrust to be max at burnout. To get around this for manned flight, so we don't smush the crew, we mixed a moderator into the solid fuel to slow the burn rate down as the surface area increased. This add complexity to the fuel mix and application.

@vptharp @pbeisel 33 Raptors have way too much power for later in flight, need to be throttled down before MaxQ or the acceleration / aero pressure would be unbearable. (best i understand in my ignorance). Must be a good reason side boosters not used. (Complexity?)

@SteveLovesAmmo Ha! What a bunch of shitheads!

This sounds like something CNN would do.

For all of those asshole people and businesses sending fake personal letters to me and other people over 65 offering to buy our silicon valley houses for cash, screw you. Anyone in silicon valley that owns their house knows how much it is worth and how to sell it.

@amuse better yet, use them for target practice.

NATO: The US doesn’t necessarily need to formally exit NATO but it should shutter its bases and bring all 100,000 troops home from Europe. The EU should enlist the thousands of military age Islamic men to defend the continent.