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Given it has been nearly two weeks and I have not been able to regain access to my account, I think it is probably time to call it quits.
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John Ridge
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John Ridge
@WeaponScientist
Formerly @John_A_Ridge | Physics | Weapons Systems | Security Assistance | Lockheed Liberal | Raytheon Radical | 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇹🇼
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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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Twitter space with Colby Badhwar (@ColbyBadhwar), John Ridge (@WeaponScientist), Fabian Hoffmann (@FRHoffmann1) and me tomorrow, Friday 20 March, at 8pm Central European Time / 3pm Eastern Time.
Tune in for insights about Iran, Ukraine, missiles, drones, military production etc.
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I have a significant number of questions about this Foreign Military Sale.
Much could be said about the integration of LRDR and THAAD.
Very curious.
Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧@ColbyBadhwar
Also approved for emergency FMS to UAE: 1 long-range discrimination radar integrated with Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD); 12 Sentinel A4 uplinkers; 2 THAAD C3 Fire Control and Communications (TFCC) tactical operations stations; and 2 THAAD C3 TFCC launch and control stations, plus associated equipment & services, for an estimated $4.5 billion.
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Also approved for emergency FMS to UAE:
1,500 GBU-39/B Small Diameter Bombs Increment I; 900 KMU-556 Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) guidance sets; and 300 KMU-557 JDAM guidance sets, plus associated equipment & services for an estimated cost of $644 million.
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Also approved for emergency FMS to UAE:
400 AIM-120C-7 or AIM-120C-8 Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missiles (AMRAAMs), plus associated equipment & services, for an estimated cost of $1.22 billion.
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🇺🇸🇯🇴 The US State Department has approved an emergency Foreign Military Sale to Jordan of aircraft and munitions support, plus associated equipment and services for an estimated cost of $70.5 million.
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Something looks VERY sus with this.
> Sensor appears cooled, dynamic range set window oddly for sky?
> Resolving AB plume details?
> No secondary plume luminance against smooth background of space, should have some shimmer and effects visible immediately
> Sensor bloom wrong.
OSINTtechnical@Osinttechnical
Iran just released footage reportedly showing one of its air defense systems successfully hitting an American F-35.
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@David_Hambling @HartreeFock With the radar cross-section of a Greyhound bus
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@HartreeFock ...but a Flamingo FP-5 using this sort of gudance and costing 1/4 as a much as a TLAM with twice the range and payload might....
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This is the reason why I will never give up blasting stupid takes like this. A drone flying at low speed with a fraction of the payload of a TLAM is not replacing TLAM… stuff cost money for a reason for the sake of God!
Furkan Gözükara@FurkanGozukara
This is insane. The new $35k drone has the exact same optical terrain-scanning tech as a $2.5M Tomahawk missile. If GPS is jammed, it literally looks at the ground to navigate. The era of multi-million dollar missiles is over.
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As always, initial reports fragmentary and often wrong. Do not lose your minds about today’s F-35 happenings until further information comes out. Then you can lose what of your mind you’ve got left, maybe.
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🚨🇺🇸🇦🇪 State Dept approved $2.1 billion emergency FMS to UAE
The US State Department has invoked the AECA emergency clause to approve a possible Foreign Military Sale to the UAE of 10 Fixed Site- Low, Slow, Small Unmanned Aircraft Integrated Defeat System (FS-LIDS) System of Systems, 240 Coyote Block 2 All-Up-Rounds, plus other associated equipment and services for an estimated cost of $2.1 billion.
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🚨🇺🇸🇰🇼 State Dept approves $8 billion emergency FMS to Kuwait
The US State Department has invoked the AECA emergency clause to approve a possible Foreign Military Sale to Kuwait of 8 Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor (LTAMDS) radars, plus associated equipment and services for an estimated cost of $8 billion.
This would make Kuwait the 2nd international customer for LTAMDS, behind Poland.
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@ayatr0llah West Asia soothes my compulsion for consistency
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Because they’re gay
The Emissary@TheEmissaryCo
Why are folx using "West Asia" more instead of the "Middle East" now?
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Rheinmetall’s CEO has no insight into U.S. munitions stocks.
Brandon Weichert@WeTheBrandon
Rheinmetall CEO confirms my reporting. All stockpiles in Europe, the Mideast, and US are basically empty. Cannibalization of INDOPACOM Arsenal, which began a little bit last week, will begin in earnest. It will take years, if ever, to recover. Moscow and Beijing know this.
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Breaking from @halbritz @OrenCNN :
A US F-35 fighter jet made an emergency landing at US air base in the Middle East after it was struck by what is believed to be Iranian fire, according to two sources familiar with the matter.
Capt. Tim Hawkins, a spokesman for US Central Command, said the fifth-generation stealth jet was “flying a combat mission over Iran” when it was forced to make an emergency landing. Hawkins said the aircraft landed safely, and the incident is under investigation
“The aircraft landed safely, and the pilot is in stable condition,” Hawkins added.
The incident would be the first time Iran has hit a US aircraft in the war started in late February. Both the US and Israel are flying F-35s in the conflict; the aircraft costs upwards of $100 million.
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“No other vehicles were found to be appropriate replacements” is a funny way of saying that HMT refuses to pay for any replacement.
Larisa Brown@larisamlbrown
The announcement on Ajax is expected next week. The vehicle passed safety tests and sources suggested troops may have to undergo motion sickness training to overcome issues. No other vehicles were found to be appropriate replacements
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Iran’s strike last night wiped out 17% of Qatar’s natural gas export capacity, repairs are expected to take three to five years -Reuters
(Based prewar market estimates, Iran managed to destroy ~3.5% of global LNG capacity in a single strike.)
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🇺🇸 M31A1 GMLRS Unitary, ~90km max range. Iran evidently deployed this Krasukha electronic warfare system relatively close to the border.
Air-Power | MIL-STD@AirPowerNEW1
HIMARS O'Clock
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🇺🇸 The Missile Defense Agency has awarded Raytheon a $8.4 billion contract modification for SM-3 sustaining engineering and product support (SE&PS), increasing the currently authorized ceiling to $11.7 billion.
This amendment addresses an increase in requirements due to munitions acceleration activities [...] that were not incorporated in the previous cost estimates.
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