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Bill Sweetman
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Bill Sweetman
@ValkStrategy
Strategy, risk analysis, OSINT, communications and advocacy. 40+ years in media, seven in industry, global perspective. Blocks limited to anonymous triflers.
Katılım Haziran 2023
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An ancient technique for lifting giant stone blocks using a Lewis tool
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@gregbagwell I know it's in burner, but you're going to need a pretty big IR decoy for this. Did someone feed it a Brick Lane Vindaloo?
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Lots of rumours around the attack on an F-35A yesterday. Stealth aircraft aren’t invisible, so this may cause a rethink into how superior the air superiority is over Iran. We saw similar when an F-117 was shot down in 1999 during Kosovo War. It’s more a reminder than a rethink.
Global Surveillance@Globalsurv
BREAKING; IRAN Used New Majid Heat-Seeking Missile System to Take Out U.S. F-35 Following confirmation that the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps conducted a successful strike against a U.S. Armed Forces F-35 fifth generation fighter flying over central Iran, multiple sources have reported that the Majid short-range air defence system, also known as the AD-08, was responsible. The shootdown has significant implications for the immediate air campaign, and will potentially reduce U.S. and Israeli efforts to use stealth aircraft to launch penetration strikes deep inside Iran.
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@MrHarryCole He's the President, not a comedian, you weak-ass Quisling turd.
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Honestly this pearl harbour thing is such a useful test.
You either think it’s funny or you’re the problem.
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@ValkStrategy @ValerieInsinna @michaeldmarrow @Diana_Stancy There are lots of APG-81 equipped TR-3 jets... I wonder how easy it will be to retrofit APG-85.
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SCOOP: Marine Corps F-35Bs are set to deliver in Lot 17 without radars due to delays with the APG-85. Starting in Lot 18, all F-35s delivered to the U.S. military will be awaiting a radar. With @michaeldmarrow and @Diana_Stancy :
breakingdefense.com/2026/03/exclus…
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✍️ 'Now that the US president has lost all patience with lame duck Keir Starmer, it’s down to Charles to act as Britain’s diplomat-in-chief' I Writes Judith Woods
🔗: telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/03/1…
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@JonA2i @ValerieInsinna @michaeldmarrow @Diana_Stancy Last September's GAO report included this zinger...
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@ValerieInsinna @michaeldmarrow @Diana_Stancy That the new bulkhead can't accomodate the APG-81 does not necessarily mean that the old one can't be 'fettled' to accomodate the APG-85. Fitting a new bulkhead sounds difficult/impossible, & LM always said that Block 4 retrofits will be straightforward.
But I bet you're right!
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How a real F-35 looks in FLIR.
Questions?
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F-35s apparently fuel their afterburners on Brick Lane Vindaloo Double Extra Spicy ☠️☠️☠️☠️
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@Justin_Br0nk Good Q on the MAWS. Already out of flares and on the way back?
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If genuine:
A pop up attack with an IR sensor tracking the F-35 from the ground. Likely seen flying by day
Iran has small IR SAMs derived from Soviet AAMs like R-27T/ET. Might also be Saqr-1/2 (358/359) loitering SAM
Q: why didn’t F-35 EO/IR/MAWS warn the pilot, deploy flares?
OSINTtechnical@Osinttechnical
Iran just released footage reportedly showing one of its air defense systems successfully hitting an American F-35.
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Aside from the fact that it does seem to have been hit, my position on most of the F-35 issue is here.
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CatFu@catfusolana
the catfu master chose not to argue 🐱
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@GarethJennings3 Much of the survivability isn't obvious, but it's things like separated fluid lines, jam-resistant actuators, check valves for flammable stuff. How the Israeli F-4 lost a wing and kept going.
Also, weapon could have detonated a long way from the target. We don't know.
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@ValkStrategy The survivability is geared at them not getting hit, rather than taking a hit and being able to fly back to base. IF real, this is impressive.
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IF this footage is real (and it's a big if), it speaks to the survivability of the F-35 that it could absorb this and return to base presumably many miles from where it was hit.
Faytuks News@Faytuks
The IRGC has released footage of what they claim to be the attack on the US F-35 that was struck and had to conduct an emergency landing
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@JeffFisch Don't know about the video, but engagement confirmed by notorious Commies at AFA...
airandspaceforces.com/f-35a-lands-af…
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I’m calling BS. Here is the frame prior to impact. It doesn’t look right.
1. Missile size appears too big
2. The image is EO/IR. If so, the missile is distorted from the way it should actually appear.
I’ve been wrong before and will again, but that’s my take.
OSINTtechnical@Osinttechnical
Iran just released footage reportedly showing one of its air defense systems successfully hitting an American F-35.
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@SR_Planespotter The in-service DAS is being replaced under Block 4. (And if it picked up everything inside 800 miles over Iran the processor might have a nervous breakdown.)
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F-35s DAS can detect all sorts of missile launches, from even 800 miles away, I find it hard to believe that he wouldn't have gotten a warning and made no defensive maneuvers?
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Nothing like secrecy as a mask for gross misfeasance. This issue should *absolutely* have been flagged when someone decided that the new radar would need a new nose, but this is entirely consonant with the buggered-up management of Block 4 for almost a decade.
Valerie Insinna@ValerieInsinna
SCOOP: Marine Corps F-35Bs are set to deliver in Lot 17 without radars due to delays with the APG-85. Starting in Lot 18, all F-35s delivered to the U.S. military will be awaiting a radar. With @michaeldmarrow and @Diana_Stancy : breakingdefense.com/2026/03/exclus…
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@ValerieInsinna @michaeldmarrow @Diana_Stancy Nothing like secrecy as a cover for gross misfeasance.
Thank you for your attention to this matter!
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... holy shiat, did someone feed that jet a Brick Lane Vindaloo Extra Spicy?
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Notorious anti-industry subversives at AFA confirm a ground-fire hit on an F-35A.
Not that it's a big deal for the F-35, unless someone thought it was invisible and used dumb tactics. But also/1
airandspaceforces.com/f-35a-lands-af…
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Took the Gripen out for a ride yesterday.
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