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“Sou algarvio e a minha rua tem o mar ao fundo” (já não sei que o disse, mas era poeta) - aviso à facharia - é block imediato
Fáre! Katılım Temmuz 2012
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@Drecas_2000 Fiz SMO em 92 e sim… havia muito pouca munição quer para o M114 e para o M109 praticamente não se faziam ou eram muito poucos os exercícios com fogos reais e no chaparral então prefiro nem comentar que aquilo nunca serviu para nada 😅
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NATO on the Portuguese Army, 1985:
"The level of war reserve stocks of ammunition of the Portuguese Army is well below the 30 day requirement. National budget allocations are barely sufficient to cover training requirements, thus there is complete reliance on external assistance to redress the present situation.
Tank ammunition is at 14% with an increase to 37% by end 1989, 155mm howitzer ammunition is planned to move from three to four days following an increment of 1,000 rounds next year.
These appear to be the only improvements foreseen and as a consequence no change is to be expected to the current and projected critical ammunition posture of the 1st Brigade.
The status of stocks of expendable and non-expendable supplies is no better. Only 11 out of 42 items of major equipment satisfy the 30 day operational stock requirement. Critical deficiencies are also reported for spare parts for some armoured vehicles."

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Os militares que tem ido habitualmente para as TVs comentar, desde a invasão da Rússia, tem sido um terror de horrores. Não se aproveita um.
Uns defender os crimes da Rússia e outros os de Israel.
Carlos Esperança@ponteeuropa
Guerra no Irão: «Mandar três bombas atómicas no sítio certo e a guerra acaba de um dia para o outro». (General Serronha) Não esperava viver para ouvir isto.
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This is the most important piece of technology analysis published since the war began. Read every word. My good friend @veronken just connected a chain that nobody in Silicon Valley, Wall Street, or the Pentagon has connected in a single document.
The chain: a missile hits a gas facility in Qatar. The gas facility produces helium as a byproduct of LNG liquefaction. Qatar produces 33 percent of the world’s helium. All three Ras Laffan helium plants have been offline since March 2. QatarEnergy’s CEO confirmed the strikes reduced helium export capacity by 14 percent with repairs taking three to five years. One-third of the world’s supply of a gas that cannot be manufactured, only extracted from billion-year geological decay, removed from the market by the same missiles that took out 17 percent of global LNG.
Helium is not a balloon gas. It is the most critical process gas in chipmaking. Its thermal conductivity is six times nitrogen. In plasma etching, the step that carves nanoscale circuits into silicon, there is no deployed substitute at scale. The chips do not get made without helium. The AI does not train without the chips.
South Korea imports 64.7 percent of its helium from Qatar. South Korea is home to SK Hynix, which holds 62 percent of the global High Bandwidth Memory market, the single component NVIDIA cannot build an H100 or Blackwell without. NVIDIA accounts for 27 percent of SK Hynix’s total revenue. The $54.6 billion HBM market that Bank of America calls a 2026 supercycle depends on fabs that are now losing their helium, their oil, and their LNG from the same chokepoint simultaneously. Seoul imposed fuel rationing on March 25. QatarEnergy declared force majeure on South Korean LNG contracts on March 24.
Here is where Veron’s analysis goes beyond anything I have seen from Fortune, Bloomberg, Fitch, or any institutional research desk. South Korea does not just make the memory. South Korea builds the ships. Korean shipyards delivered 83.8 percent of global LNG carriers over the past five years. They hold two-thirds of the global orderbook. The world needs more LNG carriers to replace Qatar’s lost output. The country that builds those carriers is the same country being energy-starved by the loss of that output. The feedback loop is closed. The energy crisis hits the shipyards. The shipyard delays worsen the energy crisis. The energy crisis hits the fabs. The fab delays worsen the AI supply chain. One country. Three vulnerabilities. One chokepoint.
The buffers are real and Veron states them honestly. SK Hynix holds six months of stockpile. Samsung’s recycling system cuts consumption 18 percent. Over 70 percent of leading fabs recycle 80 to 95 percent of process helium. These buy time. Not immunity. If the strait reopens within 60 days, the supply chain exhales. If closure extends past six months, stockpiles thin and the structural deficit has no solution because the US cannot rapidly scale and Russia’s Amur plant faces sanctions.
This is the Nitrogen Trap applied to silicon. The same thesis this series demonstrated for diesel, sulfuric acid, and fertiliser now applies to the noble gas that makes AI physically possible. Jensen Huang’s roadmap runs on atoms before it runs on bits. The atoms are helium. The helium comes from Qatar. Qatar is offline. And the country that fabricates the memory and builds the replacement ships is being triple-starved by the same strait that Fink says determines whether we get $40 oil or $150 oil.
Read @veronken’s X Article. It is the best piece of supply chain analysis I have seen this year so far. The AI boom was built on an assumption so fundamental nobody stated it: that the physical world would cooperate. The physical world has stopped cooperating. The atoms are stuck. And the bits cannot move without them.

Veron Wickramasinghe@veronken
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Mas o outro é que gasta muito em almoços 😜
Observador@observadorpt
Cozinheiro foi contratado para prestar "apoio técnico especializado". Pedro Marques vai auferir um total de 33.600 euros em dois anos. Vai "confecionar refeições com serviço de qualidade superior". Saiba mais no link nos comentários. (📸 Lusa) #CarlosMoedas #Chef #CML #Lisboa
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@_migfon1906 @observadorpt Quero ver quando o primeiro helicóptero for abatido
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@observadorpt Faltava a estes porcos a ameaça do crime de pirataria… tal como os americães já o fazem e à cara podre!
Ocorre-me assim de repente 3 cogumelos como o outro disse no outro dia… tipo em Londres, Manchester, Birmingham.
Serronha e trump já deram a lamiré
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Esta incompetente nao tem vergonha nenhuma na tromba, mas a culpa não é dela #MonteDeEsterco

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@canixlupus @GNRepublicana Vai lá comprar explosivos para desmonte de rocha e dp vai passear com eles no bolso para a marginal!
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Mafra – Detido em flagrante por posse de arma proibida
Detivemos em flagrante um homem por posse de arma proibida, na vila da Ericeira. shorturl.at/2pKit

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O vice-presidente da Cruz Vermelha portuguesa e "especialista militar" Marco Serronha sugeriu lançar bombas atómicas sobre o Irão.
Carlos Esperança@ponteeuropa
Guerra no Irão: «Mandar três bombas atómicas no sítio certo e a guerra acaba de um dia para o outro». (General Serronha) Não esperava viver para ouvir isto.
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