@SamuelFByers @_chandlerl KUKA style robot on forecastle to grab VLS tubes slung by mh60s and place them into VLS tube
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This is an area where unmanned vessels can pick up quick wins/proof of concept if there is the political will to buy them
If a DDG can fire off weapons carried by a trailing USV instead of onboard, the depth of the magazine approaches bottomless, because USVs can shuttle back to port when empty as fresh weapons arrive
The(REAL)IntelFrog@TheIntelFrogbu
One limiting factor in any potential US Navy escort operation is the number and type of munitions expended during each run. An Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer has 90-96 vertical launch cells. Typical loadouts are roughly 1/3 each air defense, land strike and self defense/anti submarine (adjusted based on mission). These cells can not, yet, be reliably reloaded while at sea, so once the ship hits a critical level, they must disengage and return to port. Until Operation EPIC FURY, Naval Support Activity Bahrain was the prime Middle Eastern location for VLS cell restock. Now, ships will have to sail to Oman or Saudi Arabia in order to be restocked.
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@droneforge Awesome. Recently was trying to use the AirSim plugin for modeling the seeker view of a projectile and. The drone model and the camera views looked familiar
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🚨 New Drone Sim:
4.22.26 CARLA-Air: Unified Simulation for Aerial-Ground Embodied Intelligence
Researchers built a single simulator where drones and ground agents coexist with real physics -- introducing a level of realism the UAV industry has needed for some time.
CARLA-Air unifies CARLA (the standard urban driving simulator) and AirSim (multirotor flight) into one Unreal Engine stack, so drones can interact with traffic, pedestrians, and dense environments without hacks or crazy domain splits.
Great for UAV autonomy validation and R&D.
Check out the paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2603.28032
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I believe the men and women who valiantly serve our democratic and lawfully governed country deserve to have access to the best technology.
Andreas Kirsch 🇺🇦@BlackHC
I'm speechless at Google signing a deal to use our AI models for classified tasks. Frankly, it is shameful. For HR, I'm not speaking on behalf of Google but in my personal capacity, quoting public information from a well-sourced article of a reputable publication
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my biggest gripe with the defense industry is the fucking performative vocab.
warfighter, the customer, fires, kinetics, color of money.
feels like your college roommate getting you to say “unhoused”
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Meta AI is up to #6 in the App Store overnight, and still growing :)
Also who knew the 7-Eleven app was so popular
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Nasa is less than 1% of the budget, but has revolutionized diagnostic scanning for health prevention, lasik surgery, cancer treatments, health monitor wearables, memory foam products, cell phone sensors, power tools, etc.
People's lives have improved because of a space program.
TMZ@TMZ
Anthony Anderson Says Moon Mission's Wasting Money, Fix Earth Problems First tmz.me/U07VrD3
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@blob_watcher For saluting the leak of critical munitions quantities….yes!
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pov: i retweet and screenshot a bloomberg article and now i'm getting called a commie
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@blob_watcher Commie coded post
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whoever leaked the exact JASSM-ER quantities to Bloomberg...I salute you!
Bloomberg@business
The next steps in the US military campaign against Iran will commit nearly its entire inventory of stealthy JASSM-ER cruise missiles, drawing them from stockpiles devoted to other regions. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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@dmbkparker Patriot. Thank you to you and your family for serving this country.
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April is the month of the military child. These two were just turning 4 and 2 when I first stepped foot onto the 160th compound. They lived their entire youth with me coming and going constantly.
Late nights, missed major events, having no idea where dad is or when/if he’s coming home. They’ve done it all and they’ve done it with grace and excellence. On one occasion an alert went off when my son was completing his first hole of a major golf tournament. I hugged him and said “I love you and I’ll see you when I see you” only to return 32 days later.
This April is their last month as military kids as I transition from terminal leave to retirement. I couldn’t be more proud of who they’ve become. Military kids are tough, they love hard, and they endure more than any kid ever should have to. I love you both, I’m proud to be your dad, and America is lucky to have kids like you.
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@JakeWoodwardAir I like how some units use the no fear logo. 160th puts it on the front of some of the MH-6s and AH-6s
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First time receiving patches in exchange for pictures. Got a couple heading this way for other catches but stoked about these🤘🏽
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@PalmerLuckey @davidu If you watched the podcast interview it was blatantly obvious you were referring to pepper spray. It was deliberate and willful negligence to describe it in any other way.
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@davidu It gets even crazier. The editor is fully behind it and goes even further, lamenting that I am still walking around because I think pepper spray should be legal for military use.
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Alex Skopic@alexskopic
New from @NathanJRobinson - a look at Palmer Luckey, the tech billionaire who's pushing an arms race with China and says it's a "huge mistake" that the U.S. doesn't use chemical weapons. Disturbing that people like this are just walking around the world.
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Doubt I’ve ever seen a story with more falsehoods and deceptive language in the first two ‘graphs in my life. What an absolute trash piece. We need more @PalmerLuckey’s and less liars like Nathan. Can’t believe an editor let this out. I care because people read it and believe it.
Nathan J Robinson@NathanJRobinson
I realize the title of "worst billionaire in America" is highly competitive, but I wrote about why I think Silicon Valley "war king" @PalmerLuckey deserves the prize: currentaffairs.org/news/palmer-lu…
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@desert_burner This model is several years old at this point, I hope we’ve improved them a bit since then?
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@229thTacticalFS @SR_Planespotter Previous Iranian ballistic missiles have had hazmat associated with them. Ref the attack on Al Asad Air Base after we killed soleimani.
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Walking into the mall with this vest
The Bulwark@BulwarkOnline
Vance suggests Iran could have used nuclear suicide vests: “You talk about people who walk into a crowded supermarket and have a vest on, and they blow up the vest and a couple of people get killed, and that's a terrible tragedy. What happens when what's on the vest is not something that can kill a couple of people, but can kill many, many tens of thousands of people?”
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@SyedFar45805350 @chrisschmitz Looks like he’s testing air platforms against the E7 wedge tail to determine the range at which they are detected in CMO
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$20K per small recon drone...
The US DoD doesnt seem to be even trying to get decent value for money.
Skydio@SkydioHQ
BREAKING NEWS: The @USArmy just placed a $52M+ order for over 2,500 Skydio X10D drones. This is the largest single-vendor tactical sUAS order in Army history and went from bid to award in under 72 hours. Full story: skydio.com/blog/u-s-army-…
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Lotta people using Claude to build software that already exists
Ryan Leachman@RG_Leachman
I asked Claude to build my daughter an app that plugs into our piano, can read live key strokes, can show her sheet notes and key view and ends with a Guitar Hero style game. All while giving progressively harder songs. Today she’s using It and crushing It.
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