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@JohnNicholRAF Daily Mail is 110% fiction

This supposedly 'definitive' account of the F-15E rescue needs some serious fact-checking! "unclipped his safety harness and raised himself gingerly out of the battered ejector seat"❓ There's plenty more... so better to simply say it is 'imagined'?

@RealJamesWoods Leave us out of your bullshit politics

Our friends, the Brits, went from relinquishing their right to bear arms in 1997 to standing on the edge of the Islamist abyss today. Our Second Amendment is not about the right to go duck hunting, folks. It’s about keeping power in the hands of The People.

@jcartlidgemp You would take food out of the mouths of babies to fund bombs? A state has failed if it doesn't support its weakest and most vulnerable.

Today, Labour’s decision to reverse the two-child benefit cap kicks in, costing taxpayers billions. With war on two fronts, should the priority really be an even bigger welfare state? We would restore the two child benefit cap and spend the savings on our armed forces.

@LBC @IainDale Maybe crackdown on tax evasion and avoidance? No? Oh...

“Now that is frightening.” @Iaindale reacts to welfare benefits spending overtaking income tax revenue for the first time in the UK's history.

@iDonnz @I_Am_Anti_War @clashreport A tank or APC going "off road"? It will never catch on.

@I_Am_Anti_War @clashreport You think heavy armoured people carriers can just go off roading in the desert? Jesus Christ.

Satellite images show about 28 craters blasted into roads in Iran’s Esfahan province near where a downed US airman was rescued. The craters, each about 9 meters wide, appear placed in a line to deliberately cut off road access. They’re located roughly 20 km from a remote airstrip where US forces destroyed their damaged aircraft. The strikes were likely carried out to block Iranian forces from reaching the area during the rescue operation. Source: CNN

@LeDuveteux @AnthonyAgu88102 The burn damage exactly as he described. Also those blades are feathered, suggesting the plane was parked when blown up.

@NoodleMC2 @AnthonyAgu88102 The snapped and shredded propellor blades... His claim: "To declare that the aircraft "definitely" were shot down based on the "bent" propellers is false."

Thoughts from a retired Special Operations Officer. Though I am not an aircraft surgeon, nor a Coniurationis Fautor, I have some thoughts that may be on interest, presented in three points, a conclusion, and a hypothesis, regarding the US rescue operation in Iran, with consideration to the photos of the aircraft used. I have flown on the C-130H and the MC-130J in training and in combat, to include static line airborne operations, Military Freefall (HALO) operations, and combat infiltration and exfiltration in austere environs, such as the Kobani Landing Zone (KLZ) in Northeast Syria during Operation Inherent Resolve. Point one: it is important to note that the aircraft used in this operation were NOT the standard C-130 Hercules model, which have 4-blade, steel propellers (see picture #2). The fixed-wing aircraft used were the MC-130J, Commando II, operated by the U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command for clandestine operations. The MC-130J uses six-bladed Dowty R391 composite propellers (see picture #1). These blades are constructed from composite materials, specifically featuring a carbon fiber structure rather than the metal (aluminum) used on older C-130 models. Point two: carbon fiber does not melt in the traditional sense, as it does not turn into a liquid. However, the resin matrix holding the fibers does melt and become viscous. Point three: Steel/aluminum blades snap and break. MC-130J R391 blades shatter and can melt. The images we see from the destroyed aircraft (picture #6) show 6 blades. Therefore, these are the MC-130J Dowty blades (they can melt). And as you can see in picture 4 and 5, when not melted, but rather broken, they shred and snap. They do not bend. As you can see from the steel/aluminum variant on the C-130H model, the blades snap and break and bend, they do not shatter or melt. Conclusion: To declare that the aircraft "definitely" were shot down based on the "bent" propellers is false. Could the aircraft have been shot down? Yes. Could the aircraft have been shot down AND the blades melted in the extreme heat of the fire from the BIP (blown in place)? Yes. Both can be true. But it can also be true that the aircraft was not shot down, nor crash landed, and the propellers do indicate burning and melting, not a crash. Hypothesis: The rescue operation expanded to become the desired Delta Force, JSOC, SOF, ST-6 high-risk operation to ALSO seize the uranium in Iran; hence the need for so many operators, support, aircraft, etc. This WAS intended to be that operation. It failed. So what happened to the aircraft. I do not believe that they were "stuck". I have seen MC-130Js plow through dirt, mud, snow, gravel, etc. I doubt they were stuck. It is more likely that the aircraft took hits upon entry and also likely took hits and damage while on the ground at the hasty FARP at the old airfield in Isfahan, "conveniently" close to where the suspected uranium may have been stored. Lesson: A ground war into Iran will be very costly and will be a tactical, operational, and strategic failure (Clausewitz).

@gotrice2024 A kitchen is a series of boxes joined together. You build one box, you can build them all. Fitting doors and drawers is a bit fiddly but the same applies.

This family just got an IKEA kitchen delivered to their new home. It’s 210 packages, and many people say the instructions are almost nonexistent, it’s just diagrams. He’s going to have to unbox every part and arrange it in a way that can be identified so that will help with the frustration, many people who bought this quit out of frustration and tried to return it. Whenever people order kitchen sets like this, should it at least come with better instructions or at least a video, have you ever tried to put something together and the instructions weren’t clear and you ended up messing it up?

@LeDuveteux @AnthonyAgu88102 What are we supposed to be looking at?

@AnthonyAgu88102 pbs.twimg.com/media/HFH_1U_b…

@_Ms_J @gregbagwell Plus jet fuel

@gregbagwell Is that a typical 'melt down' or does the wreckage indicate the use of other incendiary chemicals to reach high temperatures?

Some may be wondering why the US flew 2 x MC-130 into a landing zone in Iran rather than use other types available. The clue is in the use of the Night Stalker AH-6 Little Bird Helicopters, which were also destroyed at the forward landing site. 🧵1/8 twz.com/air/night-stal…

@BowesChay The fact they aren't answers your question. Think about that...

As US military Aircraft are forced to "fly around" European airspace to Iran- What would those European countries (and NATO Allies") do exactly, if the Americans just flew over them anyway? Think about it.

@Ziya_Meral The American Exceptionalialism on X and elsewhere over this rescue has been nauseating. They forget that it is also only American that would trigger a global crisis as a distraction from inconvenient domestic issues. "Hooah" indeed.

Really happy for the US serviceman who was rescued and impressed by US SOF as ever.. But a lot of these tweets in tune of 'no one else but Americans would dare or care' really does no service to anyone.. I often remember Operation Barras nam.ac.uk/explore/operat…

@nombody @ShivAroor And yet you want NATO members to buy stuff you don't use yourselves. America has fallen etc

@ShivAroor Ospreys are notoriously unreliable and no one in the military would trust them for a hostile environment rescue

I don’t know. But the claim that the departing US forces blew up their HC-130s sounds off. Also, there must be a good reason (other than availability) why Ospreys weren’t used for the extraction. They’re literally built to avoid what’s being claimed.

@Myaccountbaned3 @ShivAroor May the V-22 could actual do, err, the extraction by itself? Just an idea.

@ShivAroor You can’t fit MH-6s inside a V-22, the actual extraction team needs MH-6 for close air support C-130 + MH-6 combo has been practiced for years for this exact situation

@TheGhostSleepi1 @TerraOrBust I'm sure some people were also furious when lead paint was banned from childrens toys.

People mock Brexiteers for getting so irate over these supposedly trivial things but it’s more what they represent that they hate- tedious, pointless arbitrary rules brought in by meddling bureaucrats with nothing better to do. Even as a remain voter I understand this

@J_L_Fairchild @tre_zen @Mr_Andrew_Fox You clearly enjoy being ratio'd. I don't judge.

@tre_zen @Mr_Andrew_Fox You guys sure spend a lot of time telling us how important it is to help defend against Russia but sure, it was just a lie. Why do you need our weapons then? You guys are so helpless that you still buy energy from Russia.

I'm very much enjoying all the Americans who are VERY ANGRY at “NATO” whilst simultaneously having absolutely no idea what NATO is.

"some 66 fake accounts impersonated real Australian farmers, using Australiana imagery (Vegemite and flags)" @AJGardineresq on fossil influencers, astroturfers & bots - Integrity Gap Report #auspol michaelwest.com.au/big-carbons-al…

@noplaceforsheep Albo needs to give Macron a call. Those sub blueprints are gathering dust in Cherbourg.

Trump tells Australia to either buy oil from the US or storm Iran & open the strait ourselves. Then slaps us with 100% drug tariff. As we funnel billions more to him for fantasy subs… What exactly are we getting out of this relationship 🧐

@YTJustGetATesla I feel smug. Sorry.

No EV driver should feel smug about energy prices. £1.96 a litre for diseasal means EVERYTHING will cost more. There’s diesel in the supply chain of everything you eat or buy. The Trump Tax is going to be ruinous, EV or not.

@rj_abel You need to learn more about our political processes.

Whatever your view on rejoining the EU, that decision belongs to the British people—not Keir Starmers attempt by stealth. Elected leaders are there to serve the public, not override a national referendum or act without clear democratic consent. His actions are traitorous.

@v_j_freeman So much for the sisterhood

As someone with many years involvement in the physical movement of natural gas around Europe from field to end customer the ignorance in this post physically pains me.