Strategic Trends

The second source Ive seen asserting the WSO was rescued. I pray to god this is authentic. There isn't better news than this today. Lets go.

CW3 Marzan, SFC Amor, SFC Tietjens, SGT Coady, MAJ O'Brien, CPT Khork, SGT Pennington. Each of these Soldiers gave their lives in service to their country. Not to mention the ~250 other Soldiers who have been wounded in action.

🇺🇸🇯🇵 "It's unclear whether there is a risk the US would miss the overall March 2028 deadline to complete shipments" Always funny when the text contradicts the headline. Now, let's talk about Tomahawk. Japan just received their first missiles last month. If deliveries are scheduled for completion in March 2028, that's 200 missiles per year. Raytheon has production capacity for 600 per year, which is being increased to 1000 per year. Production capacity is shared between new built Block Vs and recertification/upgrade of Block IVs to Block V. The US orders very few new Block Vs for itself, so FMS orders are key to meeting the production line's Minimum Sustaining Rate of 90/year. Bloomberg claims that in 2025, 100 new Block Vs were produced and 240 recertifications. The delivery schedule on the P-1 has 165 new Block Vs for the US and 208 recertified Block Vs in FY2025. Either way we're talking about a little over half of total production capacity. That still leaves room to deliver all of Japan's missiles with some left over for US orders, which still haven't even increased. The US does not need more production capacity for themselves until they place some significant orders. This will likely only happen if Tomahawk procurement dollars are boosted for FY2027, which is not imminent. If the US feels that it needs to replenish its Tomahawk inventory more quickly because of INDOPACOM requirements, they are better off just delivering the missiles to Japan, because CENTCOM can't steal those. Tomahawks in JSDF inventory honestly provide greater deterrence in the region.

This will be incredibly damaging to serious efforts to sustainably increase defense spending. Especially if cutting healthcare and other services is on the table. It will further polarize defense into a partisan issue.

@GBU39SDB Silence my son

The Wildcat really deserves the namesake of the Navy's F/A-XX/NGF the more I think about the F4Fs legacy. Hear me out. Silly thread. I grew up on IL-2 Sturmovik: Forgotten Battles/Aces Expansion Pack/Pacific Fighters/1946. In fact I still play to this day, making over 25 years..

For these reasons alone; the critical role it played for duration of an extremely vulnerable time for the US Defense Industrial Base to produce platforms that could win the war, say nothing of the campaign themselves; it deserves the new F/A-XX program. The Wildcat II.

much of this time period were in the battles and campaigns that broke the strategic inertia of the Japanese and eventually wrestled the imitative to the allies. The F4F Wildcat was central to these.

@prodigalsoniv Appreciate you homie

@StrategicTrends Glad it allowed you go gain more confidence for the future Godspeed 🫡

And they rejected me. Not that beat up about this one, took them over 6 weeks to get back to me and wasn't really something I was truly passionate about. If anything getting confidence doing interviews at this point, which is important. The grind continues

@KBP9a91 That window has passed at this point, if I'm gonna serve the country its gonna be through public service

@StrategicTrends Join the military. You’re not better than military service.

KICK ASS GO TO SPACE REPRESENT THE HUMAN RACE

@GansoConABomba @planefag Not worth it brother

@planefag @StrategicTrends “Fix the war you didn’t start”

>threaten to invade allies >say they are useless >humiliate them in the WH >start a war without them cause you don't need them >have no idea what you're doing >they don't provide assistance >somehow shocked and outraged that they aren't helping you You really cant make this up

@Lunakerrigan Been touching a lot of grass and limiting my time here

@StrategicTrends Hey, it's good to have you back regardless.

At least there's pretty good job postings again that I'm qualified for that makes me happy

@SA_Defensa USA Jobs is actually the 8th layer of Hell

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