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Max Villman
@MaxVillman
Ex fighter pilot. 20+ million views on youtube. Max Tänt Podcast. Investing in Europe’s future through Gungnir Capital. Personal views.
Katılım Mart 2022
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The UK's censorship agency, Ofcom, issued 4chan with a giant fine today.
We responded to Ofcom with a giant hamster today.
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Why is it so difficult to shoot down ballistic missiles?
Ballistic missiles have
-very high speeds
-very high angle of attack
Meaning interceptors will have to be very close to the intended target to be able to reach the ballistic missile.
The ballistic missile has the energy advantage by going from high above and down, the interceptor will lose energy all while trying to reach its intercept.
In the video we see the first air Defence missile not hitting the ballistic missile. And then another air defence missile firing almost parallel to the ground to intercept on its very limit.
Impressive stuff.
Video credit @Etienne_Marcuz
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Excercise Cold Response 26 is now over, at least for me.
During more than a week I was on station in Finland as a reserve officer. This is my first time as a reservist abroad. And it is very fitting that it was in Finland and in early March.
Because exactly 86 years ago - 1940 - a volunteer force of Swedes protected Finnish soil and air during Soviet invasion.
One of the bloodiest days for us Swedes came March 13th - one of the days I was in Finland - as the Soviets emptied there ammunition supplies just before the cease fire came into effect at noon.
It has been said that history repeats itself. Once again a large Swedish force is in northern Finland - ready to protect Finland, Sweden and the rest of the alliance.
We are NATO.
As an investor in early stage defence tech start ups through our fund Gungnir Capital (currently fundraising) I think it is important to stay in touch with the needs of the warfighter.
What better way than serving?
Major Villman, out.
(Best patch core26 award goes to Akktu Stakki - 211 SQN Kallax) Försvarsmakten
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@pansarfem Det mesta är redan sagt. Handlar bara om att sno på rätt sätt 😉
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@MaxVillman Vilket sammanträffande att en officer som gillar rostig taggtråd uppmärksammade just den 13 mars i ett arbetsutrymme för J -laget 😁
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Featured in Sweden’a top business newspaper:
di.se/debatt/forsvar…
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Max Villman retweetledi
someone built an OPENSOURCE MILITARY RADAR that tracks multiple targets up to 20km away
its called AERIS-10, full github repo schematics, PCB layouts, FPGA code, python GUI, everything under MIT license
commercial phased array radar starts at $250,000. military surplus is $10,000-50,000 but its decades old analog junk with no electronic beam steering
this does electronic beam steering at 10.5GHz, pulse compression, doppler processing, multi-target tracking on a real time map
two versions: 3km range with patch antenna array, 20km range with 32x16 slotted waveguide array and GaN AMPLIFIERS
custom frequency synthesizer, 16 front-end chips, FPGA doing all signal processing, GPS and IMU for ACCURATE target coordinates when the platform moves
all gerber files included so you can order the PCBs and build it yourself
one person built what defense contractors charge a quarter MILLION for and open sourced it
GIF
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Sweden just got the green light to buy HIMARS. About time.
The U.S. State Department approved a potential sale of 20 M142 HIMARS launchers to Sweden — almost $930 million.
The package includes GMLRS, Extended Range GMLRS, and 20 M57 ATACMS pods.
That’s real deep strike capability.
The need was identified years ago.
The doctrinal requirement for the deep fight — shaping the battlefield long before the enemy reaches your forward units, by interdicting logistics, degrading command nodes, destroying reinforcements — has been on the Swedish Army’s wish list for years.
You don’t always have to attack to win.
But you need the ability to reach deep and make every enemy movement costly.
ATACMS gives you 300 km of battlefield shaping at strategic depth. This plus air power= war winning.
What’s NOT in the package is also the right call.
No PRSM.
Good.
It’s expensive and still maturing. If you need extended range cost-effectively, air-launched munitions — Sweden already has that through the air force. No need to duplicate it via ground launch.
But this isn’t a done deal — and time is the real constraint.
The Korean K239 Chunmoo is still on the table.
Competitive price, solid capability, and potentially shorter delivery timelines.
Because almost a billion dollars is serious money, but delivery schedules in today’s defence industrial environment are brutal.
Whatever system we choose, speed to fielding matters more than marginal spec differences or cost.
This is also exactly why we’re building Gungnir Capital : to complement these top-end platforms with cost-effective, scalable solutions: loitering munitions, autonomous targeting, sensor-to-shooter integration.
Provided by smaller innovative companies.
The full stack for the new way Sweden and Europe needs to fight.
That work starts now.
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Max Villman retweetledi
Acording to Max villman @MaxVillman the data do not add upp to the facts about the F-35 and Jas 39 Gripen 1/2, coments by Skruffy Talez. youtu.be/3yI4r1bslA8?is… #svpol #Canada
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🇸🇪 2 years in NATO. And honestly?
Sweden was ready long before the vote.
As a fighter pilot in the 2010s I was already flying, training and operating with NATO partners on an almost weekly basis.
We knew their procedures, their people, their way of fighting. Often better than many allies 😉
Final acceptance 2024 and Article 5 made it official. But the integration was already there.
That’s not luck. It’s decades of deliberate work.
When I joined 172 squadron as a young pilot my guys just came back from Red Flag 🚩 Nellis AFB. Just before that they aced operation Unified Protector in Libya.
I just spoke with General Karl Engelbrektsson — Sweden’s former Army Chief on Max Tänt Podcast.
During his time in NATO as a partnership for peace member - when Sweden and Finland got the NATO gold card.
Full interoperability, full access, full trust from day one. That conversation drops on my podcast soon. Worth your time.
And look at what’s already happening on the ground:
Just months after joining we deployed an air contingent to Poland 🇵🇱
- protecting allied airspace and the supply lines running weapons into Ukraine.
Not a token gesture. Real aircraft, real missions, real stakes.
We put a full mechanized battalion into Latvia as part of the enhanced Forward Presence.
Sweden covers the Baltic Sea — without us it’s a strategic problem, with us it’s a NATO lake.
We’ve been part of Baltic Air Policing, contributed to Standing NATO Maritime Group and built deep bilateral ties with Finland, Norway, Denmark, Poland and the Baltics over years of exercises and shared threat assessments - not months.
We brought something else too.
A warfighting culture built around dispersed operations, surviving a first strike and hitting back hard.
That’s not theory - that’s how we trained for decades.
We didn’t show up asking how we could help.
We showed up and got to work.
🎙️ Full conversation with General Engelbrektsson — coming soon.
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If true this is incredibly cool. What an operation by the Mossad!
Dr. Eli David@DrEliDavid
🚨 Breaking: IRGC Quds Force commander Esmail Qaani is confirmed safe in Israel 🇮🇱 It can now be revealed that he played a key role in the elimination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, Hezbollah leaders Nasrallah and Safieddine, and elimination of Khamenei and top IRGC generals.
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There are rumors circulating around about a US Air Force F-15 crashing in Iran, after being hit by Iranian air defences.
So far this has not been confirmed.
The fog of war, disinformation, misinformation and straight up informational warfare is heavy over and Iran right now.
Don’t forget that.
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The friendly fire incident where 3 us F-15s where shot down was not caused by ground based air defence but by a Kuwaiti F/A-18.
As a former fighter pilot this is absolutely devastating to learn - but not surprising.
The Kuwaiti fighter shot 3 missiles with all three hitting one F-15 and downing it each.
Just as expected - the Kuwaitis where on edge after several attacks on bases and infrastructure in the country.
One of the attacks had just killed US service members and caused a lot of damage.
There is still a lot to learn about this incident that we don’t know.
But these things happen in war unfortunately.
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Max Villman retweetledi
Ändringen innebär att den som innehar vad som tidigare ansetts vara licensfritt (och som det _inte gått_ att söka licens på, man kan inte få licens för licensfria delar), numera - av Polismyndigheten - anses begå vapenbrott. Detta utan att lagen ändrats.
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