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@PrivacySetting1 @MrPitbull07 It hasn't though

@MrPitbull07 I’m not going to waste my time doing it, but why do I feel like if I dug just a little bit deeper this story would change A lot..

Remember Dan Price...that CEO who took a pay cut so he could pay all his employees a minimum annual wage of $70,000? Here’s what happened next: “Six years later after the decision that others said would destroy his business, Dan reports that revenue has tripled, the customer base has doubled, 70% of his employees have paid down debt, many bought homes for the first time, 401(k) contributions grew by 155% and turnover dropped in half. His business is now a Harvard Business School case study.” In his own words: “6 years ago today I raised my company's min annual salary to $70k. Fox News called me a socialist whose employees would be on bread lines. Since then our revenue tripled, we're a Harvard Business School case study & our employees had a 10x boom in homes bought. Always invest in people.” Courtesy of Craig Henley

@tsplnly @SocialistMMA China says that. But they are absolutely looking to dominate and control critical supply chains, etc. Masters of Sun Tzu teachings.

@SocialistMMA The US also prefers to blow up the world where Chyna is an equal 😂

Notice how China never talks about destroying America, they just want to sell us stuff. Meanwhile psychopath Americans constantly talk about destroying China China doesn’t even care about exporting their ideology around the world like America does Who is the true threat to humanity? Every single person in the world should be siding with China over the bloodthirsty Epstein regime in the west

@SocialistMMA China is just a lot more sophisticated and takes different approaches. They're not buying farmland properties near US military bases because they want to raise chickens or cattle. Just like they don't send their college students to get "lost" in restricted military posts.

@sentdefender Totally misogyny and racism. Driscoll has a better sense of judgment and looking at credentials rather than kneejerk response that they were selected due to DEI quotas.

U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is blocking the promotion of four Army officers to be one-star generals, two of which are Black and two women on a list of roughly three dozen officers up for promotion, in a highly unusual move that has prompted some senior military officials to question whether the officers are being singled out because of their race or gender, according to The New York Times. Hegseth had been pressing senior Army leaders, including Army Secretary Daniel P. Driscoll, for months to remove the officers’ names, military officials said. But Secretary Driscoll, citing the officers’ decades-long records of exemplary service, had repeatedly refused. Earlier this month, Hegseth broke the logjam by unilaterally striking the officers’ names from the list, though it is not clear he has the legal authority to do so. The list is currently being reviewed by the White House, which is expected to sent for final approval to the Senate.

@War_Radar2 Warhead size is so puny however. Not sure what they plan on hitting for the cost of that missile with such a small warhead. Take out just 1 radar array for tens of millions of dollars?

BREAKING: 🇺🇸🇷🇺🇨🇳 U.S. hypersonic breakthrough shakes global powers. The United States Army is about to deploy the Dark Eagle hypersonic ground-launched missile, capable of striking targets over 3,500 km away in under 20 minutes. This move signals a direct challenge to China and Russia, who have long dominated the hypersonic weapons field. Experts say Dark Eagle ends their technological edge, giving the U.S. unmatched speed, range, and precision. For years, Beijing and Moscow flaunted their hypersonic capabilities, but now the U.S. is taking the lead, proving rapid-strike dominance in a way rivals can’t ignore. 🌐 Analysts warn: “With Dark Eagle, the U.S. is rewriting the hypersonics game, and China and Russia are on notice.”

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@wattyouwll @ColbyBadhwar @TheIntelFrog Whether one is pro or against the war should make no difference in having a discussion as to whether tactics should be improved, if that's the case (that US troops are using full auto mode).

US PATRIOT crews are evidently leaving their batteries on automatic engagement mode rather than semiautomatic. That is the original doctrine for ballistic missile defense from the 1980s & 1990s. Huge failure of leadership here. The Army is not unaware of the latest best practices established by the Ukrainians.

@ColbyBadhwar Surprised that with all this talk of AI that the "automatic"mode isn't better equipped to deal with threats and to do it approaching human skill levels when in semiautomatic mode.

@tRumpnado2016 @halbritz @SenGillibrand If error in AI, it just bolsters the reluctance that Anthropic had with regard to not having humans on the loop with regards to targeting. Yet Trump and Hegseth would say it's due to woke policies. What idiocy.

@halbritz @SenGillibrand Sounds like Gen. Alex Grynkewich is saying that it's unlikely this was an intel mistake, that we had to know it was a school, and some kind of command failure led to the tragedy. This screams Ai targeting or targeting choices made without following proper intel eval.

Asked today about reports that old intel could have led to the US military striking an elementary school in Iran, Gen. Alex Grynkewich — commander of US European Command — tells lawmakers that in his experience at the operational level, "we have robust standards that we go through and look to see and update the imagery and update our understanding of the target and refresh the intelligence on a recurring basis to determine the chances of civilian harm and to address any collateral concerns that might be there."

@AmericaExpanded @AnalyticaCamil1 Get rid of MIC restrictions on soldiers' right to repair equipment and that will help balance things somewhat.

@AnalyticaCamil1 Partial true, maintenance is the biggest source of fraud and graft with the contractors and MIC. New acquisitions stil have problems but nothing on maintenance.

Not picking on Bernhard here, but QTing him since this is a popular misconception, the lion’s share of the US’ defense budget goes to paying personnel and Operations and Maintenance (pretty much just “the costs of doing business”). Graft and fraud is at most a tertiary concern, DoD’s procurement allotment has simply been woefully inadequate for the better of 20 years while personnel and O&M costs have been rising in tandem with market rates to gobble up a steadily increasing share of overall spending.

@NSTRIKE1231 Most of the damage they have done historically were from ground units and their rocket/artillery forces.

🇺🇸 🚨 Trump told CBS that the war in Iran may end soon: 🗣️ “I think the war is almost over. They no longer have a navy, they no longer have communications, and they no longer have an air force. The United States is moving ‘far ahead’ of the originally planned four-to-five-week timeline for the military operation.”

@dyingwind @anggglo @IAPonomarenko PPP. That's where it matters as that is the measure of what your citizens can buy and how good a life in a material sense they can have.

@anggglo @IAPonomarenko Wrong I tend to agree that GDP is a pretty poor indicator of a country's actual economic might. But they haven't invented a better metric so far

And I’d like to remind everyone that not so long ago, by helping Ukraine with weapons, America was: - securing valuable contracts for its own defense industry and spending a large part of U.S.-Congress-allocated funds in America - gaining massive global advertising for American weapons, which in Ukrainian hands performed superbly in a war against a vastly superior enemy (just look at the impact systems like the Bradley, HIMARS, and Patriot had) - gaining an extremely loyal ally in Ukraine, ready to share its cutting-edge experience from a new era of warfare, especially in drones and highly intensive missile defense - reinforcing its image as the arsenal of democracy and the powerful leader of the free world, sending a clear signal to dictatorships worldwide: don’t even think about wars of conquest, we will support our democratic allies - sending Ukraine, to a significant extent, older weapons from its stockpiles that would have had to be written off anyway in the future, while simultaneously modernizing its own arsenals - achieving the radical military weakening of an aggressive militaristic Russia, a dictatorship fundamentally built on revenge for the Cold War, hatred of America and the West, and a desire to dismantle the American-led world order And all of this -- without a single American servicemember having to get deployed and fire a single shot. Ukraine pleaded, humbly asking for nothing more than a simple win-win partnership: with your weapons we save ourselves from extermination -- you get a defeated fascist Russia. I genuinely cannot understand how anyone could trade all of that for absurd lies about “$350 billion,” then smear and humiliate Ukraine, insult America’s key NATO allies, side with that KGB cyborg in the Kremlin -- and then to squander billions of dollars, cost American lives, and derail the global economy in a poorly thought-out war in the Middle East. And then eventually end up asking Ukraine to help defend American bases in Jordan from Iranian-Russian drones.

@clashreport Do we have enough rare earth materials to make these exquisite munitions should China likely block out access to processes rare earth materials?

Trump: We just concluded a very good meeting with the largest U.S. Defense Manufacturing Companies where we discussed Production and Production Schedules. They have agreed to quadruple Production of the “Exquisite Class” Weaponry to reach the highest levels of quantity as rapidly as possible. Expansion began three months prior to the meeting, and Plants and Production of many of these Weapons are already under way. We have a virtually unlimited supply of Medium and Upper Medium Grade Munitions, which we are using, as an example, in Iran and recently used in Venezuela. Regardless, however, we have also increased Orders at these levels. The Companies represented were the CEOs of BAE Systems, Boeing, Honeywell Aerospace, L3Harris Missile Solutions, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and Raytheon. The meeting concluded with another meeting scheduled in two months. States all over the Country are bidding for these new Plants.

The president of the United States punched a 13 year old child in the face because she bit his penis while she was being forced to perform oral sex on him. Donald Trump said to her: “Let me teach you how little girls are supposed to be." After the little girl bit him with her teeth, “he struck her” and said: “Get this little bitch the hell out of here.” The man in charge of the largest nuclear arsenals in the world is a violent child rapist. DONALD TRUMP IS A VIOLENT CHILD RAPIST.

@JE_codder @AndrewPerpetua youtu.be/bhlUjX4kZeA?si…

@AndrewPerpetua Is this a secret and you wont tell? Please do tell!

If you think the US lacks low cost interceptors for Shaheds, you're a silly little lad. No, the US has fantastic extremely low cost interceptors specialized in shooting down shaheds. The US is far more incompetent than you give them credit. The US simply isn't using them.

@spades_cmd @AndrewPerpetua Raytheon makes the Coyote Blk. 2 counter drone interceptor. I don't think we have enough deployed thoughnor even enough launchers. youtu.be/bhlUjX4kZeA?si…

@AndrewPerpetua By any chance is it the aim-9 missiles?

@davidpypre @clashreport US didn't send Tomahawks to Ukraine. Although we did sent Patriots and we got money to replenish them.

@clashreport They’ve already depleted their inventory? Wow. Biden’s support of Ukraine cost the USA way too much.

NEW: Trump administration will meet top U.S. defense contractors (Lockheed Martin, RTX/Raytheon, others) at the White House to speed up weapons production as U.S. stockpiles have been strained by conflicts including Iran, Ukraine, and Gaza. The Pentagon is preparing a ~$50 billion supplemental budget to replenish stockpiles and increase output of key weapons like Tomahawk cruise missiles (target production up to 1,000 per year). Officials are also pressuring contractors to prioritize production over shareholder payouts, with underperforming companies potentially facing penalties or contract termination. Source: Reuters

@waymoproblems @clashreport Also let's it forget that all these munitions need rare earth metals for which we are totally dependent on China for processing. They are not allies and are competitors; ...so...yeah...great plan guys!!

The supply chain confession disguised as a strength move. You don’t call an emergency White House meeting with defense contractors to speed up production if your stockpiles are adequate. You don’t prepare a $50 billion supplemental budget if the existing budget covers the operational tempo. You don’t pressure contractors to prioritize production over shareholder payouts if production is on schedule. Every line in this announcement is an admission read backwards. Stockpiles “strained” is the press release word for depleted. “Replenish” means empty. “Speed up” means too slow. “Increase output of Tomahawk cruise missiles to 1,000 per year” means current production can’t replace what’s been fired. The target production rate tells you the consumption rate exceeded the production rate, which means the inventory is drawing down toward zero. And the timeline is the tell. Increasing production to 1,000 Tomahawks per year doesn’t help you this week. It doesn’t help you this month. Defense manufacturing doesn’t have an overnight switch. The supply chains for missile components run through subcontractors and sub-subcontractors and raw material suppliers with their own lead times. You’re talking 12 to 18 months before increased production translates to increased stockpiles. Maybe longer. So what do you do for the next 12 to 18 months while you’re waiting for the production surge? You fight with what you have. Which is what’s left after five days of firing 2,000+ munitions at 2,000+ targets. Cooper’s scoreboard was also the inventory depletion report. Every target struck is a munition that doesn’t exist anymore and can’t be replaced at the rate it was consumed. And “pressuring contractors to prioritize production over shareholder payouts.” That line is extraordinary. The government telling Lockheed and Raytheon to stop doing buybacks and start building missiles. That’s a wartime economy demand. That’s not strain. That’s crisis. You don’t threaten contract termination with your defense contractors during an active war unless the alternative is running out of the weapons you need to fight the war. Cooper says combat power is building. The White House is begging Lockheed to build faster. Believe the procurement order. It has the better information.

@Aviation_Intel Should counter w/mass deployment of Gorgon Stare equipped air vehicles to saturate all of Yemen & see movement of units& then hit them prior to sending any aircraft. Task C17s w/ Growlers ready to disgorge Rapid Dragon filled w/ Anduril Barracudas to hit those non emitting SAMs.

Passive EO/IR sensors are a real bitch to contend with for manned combat aircraft. It was fully known that the Houthis had this capability and employed it with missiles for years. Fully integrated IADS with advanced IRST etc is really a fucking problem, including for stealth aircraft. We have highlighted this in regards to this exact event multiple times: twz.com/news-features/…

@brandontseng2 @shieldaitech Is the solution @shieldaitech offering, the use of VBATs for non blinking, continuous &blanket overwatch of terrain in order to locate these SAM cells that lay dormant? DARPA helped to create the Gorgon Stare sensors. Need to blanket the area w/ Vbats equipped w/Gorgon Stare

fantastic piece in the WSJ that covers the threat that the Houthis posed to US air-power. @shieldaitech exists to solve these types of threats. "In addition to nearly shooting down the two F-16s, they knocked more than a half-dozen Reaper drones out of the sky." "But the Houthis had developed a network to track American warplanes with observers, optics and infrared sensors whose intricacy U.S. officials didn’t entirely understand. That enabled them to flick on their air-defense radars at the last moment, so U.S. pilots would have little time to react—a tactic pilots came to call a “SAMbush.” wsj.com/politics/natio…