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Jimmy Spets
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@smileyplankton @BohuslavskaKate You should hear his German, it’s even better than his English.
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@BohuslavskaKate The general is correct.
[Also, worryingly, he speaks English better than I do! 😳]
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🇸🇪 GEN. CLAESSON: After traveling 3,000 kilometers through Ukraine and meeting with dozens of military leaders, my main conclusion is that it is not a broken country. They are tired, for obvious reasons, but not broken. We must maintain our focus on Ukraine.
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I think a part of the explanation is that both Sweden and Israel have conscription-based militaries built on a decentralized, initiative-driven approach inspired by the German concept of Auftragstaktik.
This means a large share of young people receive practical leadership training early in life. The emphasis is on understanding the what and why, with greater freedom in the how. Everyone is expected to understand the mission—and to step up if a leader is not present.
The result? A culture of shared responsibility and a strong, mission-focused mindset.
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Sweden and Israel are #2 and #1 in the world at producing unicorns per dollar of GDP
Not the US. Not the UK. Not Germany
Most people explain this away with "great engineers" or "strong ecosystems." That's lazy
The real answer is uncomfortable: both countries have been forced to build. Israel because of existential threat
Sweden because we're small, export-dependent, and have had to punch out of our weight class for 200 years. IKEA, H&M, Spotify, Klarna, Ericsson
None of these were built because conditions were easy
Necessity breeds a particular kind of founder. One who doesn't wait for permission. One who assumes the market is global from day one because the domestic market is too small to matter
The countries falling behind aren't lacking talent or capital. They're lacking the chip on the shoulder and the right prerequisites
What's your read on why Sweden specifically?
Genuinely curious what people outside Sweden think
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@MajorOcelot45 @shivvnp @KobeissiLetter I bought a SAAB 900 turbo from a Swedish Air Force pilot who used to fly the SAAB 37 Viggen when I was young.
youtu.be/_xKyN_VZlAA
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@J_Spets @shivvnp @KobeissiLetter Pretty cool.
You know about BMW right? Made airplane engines before motorbikes and cars.
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BREAKING: Volkswagen is in talks with Israel’s Iron Dome maker over a deal that would switch production at one of their factories from cars to missile defense, per FT.
The German government is actively supporting the proposal.
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@MajorOcelot45 @shivvnp @KobeissiLetter SAAB was a military aircraft manufacturer from the beginning, before they started making cars.
The name comes from:
Svenska = Swedish
Aeroplan = Aeroplane
AB = Limited
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@isostar79 @SorvariT @asekerailija Min morbror hade licens på salutkanon här i Sverige när jag var barn.
Han hade dessutom byggt den själv.
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@SorvariT @asekerailija Föredömligt 👌 Men hur får man licens på kanon och granatkastare som privatperson i Finland? 🤔 Har svårt att se att vare sig jakt eller sportskytte kan vara motiveringen 💥
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Källa: @asekerailija
Riktig intressant statistik.
I Finland förfogar enskilda privatpersoner över
1.477.932 stycken registrerade licenspliktiga vapen. I den arsenalen finns bla 113 kanoner, 18 granatkastare, 8 granatgevär och över en halv miljon hagelbössor...
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@MariaWestman9 @BuschEbba @holmstrom_goran @LarsFlodberg Att flyga ett välbyggt plan i luften vid vackert väder är enkelt.
Landning i busväder och att slåss med en fiende som försöker skjuta ner dig är svårt.
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@BuschEbba @holmstrom_goran @LarsFlodberg Du har väl inte utbildning för det? Är väl en sån där film som de på Kim Jong Un som påstås vara född kunnig i att flyga såna plan.
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Took the Gripen out for a ride yesterday.
Strong, smart and at supersonic speed - Sweden!
X – won’t you help me? Send this to someone who also should get themselves a piece of world class engineering and innovative adaptable software.
Welcome to Sweden, we are open for business.
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@J_Spets Som anställd med tjvapen har jag aldrig upplevt det på en garnison. Boka banan och gå dit.
Det är för Hv -med 3h enkel väg till både kasun och närmaste FMbana problemet uppstår.
Förr hade Hv hemförvaring och massa avtalsbanor men inte längre.
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Interflex, Operation Legio, FMU osv.
Hemvärnets instruktörer har växlat upp.
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Men fortfarande finns en rädsla för att låta dessa personer få ett intyg att köpa ett eget gevär civilt för att bibehålla & utveckla sin skjutskicklighet.
I väntan på nationella riktlinjer…
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@bockfot Det är det som är problemet, varför ska en militär som säkerhetskontrollerats och utbildats för att hantera vapen inte få gå till skjutbanan som i vissa fall är inne på området.
En nyexaminerad polis behöver väl inte ha med sig befäl för att gå till skjutbanan?
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@J_Spets Den möjligheten finns också men är så inni h***te krånglig. Det är GT, förvaring osv osv…
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@Morogoth35 @Saab Don’t forget more time on the ground for maintenance.
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@Morogoth35 @Saab Why use a rotating disc that is a huge mechanical and aerodynamic problem?
You have to choose what issues are the most pressing.
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@Technop54777070 @FrankRi68868220 @ToddBonzalez5 @Dagnum_PI RPGs are harder to source.
Sad part is that any drone is enough to disrupt civilian air traffic.
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@roman_koshchei @OriflammeTech @GrandpaRoy2 They both have to low bandwidth and to simplistic routing.
The simplistic design is a good solution for short messages but doesn’t scale.
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@OriflammeTech @GrandpaRoy2 Can Meshtastic nodes be used for drone video or they have too low bandwidth?
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A closer look at the Chinese-sourced radio mesh modems that along with cameras are used in Russian “Geran-2” (Shahed) strike UAVs and “Gerbera” reconnaissance UAVs.
A radio network can be established leading back to an operator in Russia who directly controls the UAV.
Roy🇨🇦@GrandpaRoy2
Some Russian “Shahed ” (Geran-2) strike UAVs continue to be found with cameras and radio mesh modems. This allows the drone to be manually guided by an operator to the target. Depending on distance the radio connection requires UAV repeaters, or a local receiver on the ground.
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@StihlUser @chiefofautism Or he refers to the aeronautical meaning of canard where you put a small wing in front of the big one.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canard_(a…
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@chiefofautism Why Project Canard?
Canard means a lie, a falsehood
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someone built a $96 3D-PRINTED MANPADS rocket that recalculates its mid-air trajectory using a $5 sensor and piano wire
its called Project Canard
it integrates with distributed camera nodes to triangulate airborne targets and update flight paths in real-time
it proves the barrier to advanced hardware has completely collapsed, moving precision weapons from defense labs to consumer garages
the entire launcher and interceptor frame is 3D printed in PLA and runs off a standard off-the-shelf ESP32 microcontroller
it even spins up a local Wi-Fi network so you can monitor live telemetry and arm the system directly from your laptop
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@TheMattBeebe @_MG_ From a quick read of the Swedish regulations I don’t think it would be a problem with pulsed.
I have to modulate my callsign into the protocol and give the specs to the proper authorities so they can decode, but outside of that there shouldn’t be an issue.
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There is nowhere you can turn this on without a quick visit… or, depending on location, eating a HARM.
I am all about doing things Just Because™, but the open source angle is… curious. I’m over here refusing to open source my exploding USB drive for the last 9 years.
Is the goal just to get recruited by the defense industry? Reduce the cost for entities who still rely on 80s tech?
chiefofautism@chiefofautism
someone built an OPENSOURCE MILITARY RADAR that tracks multiple targets up to 20km away its called AERIS-10, full github repo schematics, PCB layouts, FPGA code, python GUI, everything under MIT license commercial phased array radar starts at $250,000. military surplus is $10,000-50,000 but its decades old analog junk with no electronic beam steering this does electronic beam steering at 10.5GHz, pulse compression, doppler processing, multi-target tracking on a real time map two versions: 3km range with patch antenna array, 20km range with 32x16 slotted waveguide array and GaN AMPLIFIERS custom frequency synthesizer, 16 front-end chips, FPGA doing all signal processing, GPS and IMU for ACCURATE target coordinates when the platform moves all gerber files included so you can order the PCBs and build it yourself one person built what defense contractors charge a quarter MILLION for and open sourced it
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@_MG_ I know HAM operators who transmit over 300km on the 10Ghz range
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@_MG_ My license allows me to use a lot more power than that radar, even in its strongest configuration.
As long as I do not interfere with others.
Ham radio operators regularly talks all over the world.
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@TorbjornEgil @DetrimentoSumus Jag har sett lösningar åt det hållet när jag bodde i Bolivia.
Vid ett tillfälle fastspänd last under DC3
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@J_Spets @DetrimentoSumus Precis, de drog ett spännband runt kroppen och var glada med det.
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En överhoppad punkt i checklistan.
Turbine Traveller@Turbinetraveler
Aerosucre doing Aerosucre things. Who didn't close the main cargo door?
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