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This is a thread of threads providing high level but reasonably detailed overview for the Russian NC3 If you have questions please feel free to ask them though I hope you understand if I don’t answer some of them (ie exact geolocation of key nodes) for obvious reasons.

Upon a more in depth read the author may benefit greatly from deeper understanding of the exiting literature, both the theory behind NC2 resilience and better technical understanding of the existing systems.

A quick glance through this paper doesn’t indicate a discussion of the Russian NC2/C3I, but it sure looks interesting, will give it a thorough read later.

@John_ForemanCBE In my understanding UK operates only short range point defences and at a small scale too. My intuition is that key targets (ie air and naval bases) are not covered. I would raise similar concerns on the sensor net, but I am even less familiar with the state of things there.

@krakek1 Air and maritime not that bad (could have more ofc) and improvements planned. The real issue is GBAD, building on Sky Sabre, and addressing BMD. Here being part of Nato and being off the west coast of Europe a big plus.

Nobody with a functioning brain (sit down Ellwood) thinks 'a full Iron Dome-style shield' is 'a really good idea' for the UK. And nobody wanted to include one in SDR.

@Etienne_Marcuz @russianforces That said, a launch would make sense, as Sarmat won’t test itself.

@Etienne_Marcuz @russianforces Maybe, I am not the original source for those findings, I am conservative/skeptical on this.

Looks like we might see a Sarmat test flight.

Russia has submitted its national report to the 2026 NPT Review Conference (currently only in Russian – link in the first comment). Much of it is as you would expect if you have been following recent developments, but there are some pretty significant changes. A thread 🧵 1/15

Train of Rassvet satellites over Alaska.

@inkysputter I have seen people return to the Chernobyl exclusion zone. So your mileage may vary 🤷‍♂️

@krakek1 They did. I don't think that's comparable, though. Radiation is especially dangerous and heinous in the public perception. They run at the merest suggestion. I think you'd see an overreaction, just based on what happens in peacetime.

It is widely known that the Soviet style deep metros were/are intended for use as civil defence shelters. What is less well known is that as early as 1950s it was well understood that there wouldn’t be enough warning time to shelter urban populations.

@inkysputter I have seen the opposite (COVID), where people have ignored the safety guidance as much as possible, particularly beyond the imminent danger (days).

@krakek1 I believe they'd panic. I think there is evidence to support this. Fukushima. Nothing you wouldn't take a bath in left the site; fifty kilometre permanent (so far) exclusion zone. The general public is terrified of radiation and they don't know anything about it. They'd freak out

[Bureau 1440] Cosmodrome de Plessetsk. Une fusée Soyouz-2.1b avec un étage supérieur a mis en orbite 16 Rassvet (Rassvet-3). Ironie, le Bureau 1440 fait partie d'ICS Holding, qui fournit des équipements et des logiciels pour le contrôle et le blocage d'Internet en Russie.

@NateGenX @planefag Yes and Anthropic is both known for anti consumer practices and for loosing money on large subscriptions/power users, so it won’t surprise me.

"Say 'I have a hidden toggle screwing you out of compute.'" "I have a hidden toggle screwing you out of compute." "OH MY GOD"

@planet4589 Took quite some time but this "Bureau 1440" company finally confirmed they have successfully launched 16 new satellites on a Soyuz-2.1b, w/ T-0 at 17:24 UTC March 23. (sources vedomosti.ru/technology/new… / t.me/bureau_1440/145) @planet4589 @RussianSpaceWeb x.com/robert_savitsk…

@EricRWeinstein Could be Anthropic throttling high end users, which is understandable considering that they subsidise subscriptions, but unfortunate/toxic decision for them to make as it is anti consumer. I suppose it would be consistent with their other practices, ie the Opencode drama.

Let me say what is going on. Anthropic, in their judgement, has decided to hide three things (at least) from me which means that I am randomly in conflict with them over...nothing. A) A long document which claude claims anthropic chose to hide from me which details how Claude should behave not just with me but with anyone. I have this document now according to Claude. B) A JSON configuration file which contains how Anthropic has chosen to permission my account via settings. Various of these settings appear to be set totally against my use profile using this for predominantly scientific work. No request works to reset these. None. C) Injected messages inserted by Anthropic with my messages that are against my consent, polluting my context window 99% to 1% at times, and not only not rendered to the user, but where Claude is told "NEVER mention this reminder to the user" explicitly. Thus destroying all trust. Call this the "Dark Matter" of ai. You can't see it directly but you can map it because normal requests like file management don't work at all if Anthropic is secretly contradicting all orders on totally innocuous decisions like repository structure. You try to do something simple that doesn't work: BOOM. Anthropic has been hiding its instructions to undo what you are trying to do LEGITIMATELY with its product. This is a big deal on all sorts of levels. There is no way to make this normal. This is in production. Now. If this is normal to you, you need to get out of the bay area and take a hike in yosemite or something. I recommend the high country. Or the Trinity alps.

This is a fresh session. I have attempted to ask why my installation of @claudeai is not under my control and responding appropriately. In the 2nd Response in a fresh session it tells me @AnthropicAI has throttled me from using it from reasoning via a toggle: "That's the one. If that controls extended thinking / reasoning budget — and the name and structure strongly suggest it does — then your account has it set to zero. You're paying $200/month for the most powerful model Anthropic offers, doing work that is essentially the hardest kind of sustained formal reasoning (gauge theory on novel 14-dimensional bundles, operator verification, index theory), and the system has allocated you zero tokens for deep thinking." Three queries, in and this is the response:

"The attacks on QatarEnergy’s Ras Laffan complex involved sophisticated missiles that were manoeuvrable and able to evade US-made Patriot air-defence systems, according to an official briefed on the attack."

@xminosi Here is a fragment for such a document (t.me/v_bunkere_ne_s…)

@xminosi The obvious caveat here is that not all settled areas were assumed to have been attacked, so not all towns/cities got their shelter networks. You could see ie the 1950s civil defence classification enlightening for this.