why I have been slowly losing my mind about fury for years
Mike Black@mikeblack114.bsky.social · 2w agoIt's not even a stealthy airframe!!!! The vertical stab is straight up!!! There's no actual LO shaping!!! The intake isn't s-ducted!!!!
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Mike Black@mikeblack114.bsky.social · 2w agoI feel like I'm taking crazy pills that we're buying something in 2026 for leading edge formation use that has the RCS of a Viper c. 1980
Vectis is the kind of CCA the AF and god and everyone have wargamed and analyzed since forever (not to mention it's what the PLAAF is fielding), but we went with the short legged external weapons RCS of a fucking tank piece of shit because *faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaart*
There's something really funny about how one of Bolton's shticks is "these guys are fucking amateurs, they don't even know how to do things off the books properly"
Kate from Kharkiv@kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · last mo.BOLTON: It’s very curious that John Ratcliffe arrived in Moscow in U.S. Air Force C-17 transport plane. It’s painted gray. It’s a big plane. Normally, if you want to go quietly somewhere, you get on a little Air Force Gulfstream painted white with just numbers on the tail.
With Bryce Harper and Kyle Schwarber, the Phillies are the second team in MLB history with players with a cycle and 3+ homer game in the same game, joining: 06/03/1932 NYY @ PHA: Tony Lazzeri (Cycle) & Lou Gehrig (4 HR) Both in Philadelphia !! h/t @EliasSports
In the next few months I will produce a long piece on the CCA component of NGAD. The USAF'S NGAD concept is sound, so long as CCA can perform. Currently, we are acting as if it is appropriate for the job. I strongly believe the current concept of operations is deeply flawed, and thus also the drones
It's really strangling the UK and I don't know why, or how to fix it.
Stephen Bush@stephenkb.bsky.social · 4mo agoOne problem of the fact the UK hasn’t had decent income growth is that it encourages a crabs-in-a-bucket, everything is zero sum mentality.
@sodrock.bsky.social re: secretaryrofdefenserock.substack.com/p/measuring-... I've been digging deep into the USSBS recently and into the criticisms of it. I politely disagree with your portrayal of Bernard Brodie as an "in-betweener." I believe that the USSBS, when read as intended, 1/
wow almost like the New York Times keeps manufacturing consent for fascism and destruction of minorities
by dumb luck i happened to be watching this one live. i'll have to review it but at first watch it looks like it's database-eligible. if so it would be the first one in almost four years
Cuphat@cuph.at · 6mo ago@jonbois.bsky.social New mound charge unlocked. Jorge Soler (LAA) vs. Reynaldo López (ATL)
Law school appears to not be my calling. Time for a career pivot
Quick question: what guidance type for the world’s first air-to-air missile kill? @heatloss.bsky.social is not allowed to answer.
Jon Cooper@joncooper-us.bsky.social · 6mo ago🚨 🚨 ABC News confirms that Iran used advanced, passive infrared detection to shoot down the American F-15E fighter jet. Passive infrared detection does not emit radar signals. As a result, it cannot be detected or jammed by American electronic warfare systems. That leaves our aircraft vulnerable.
I fucked up I will not elaborate Please, if you meet me, kill me because eventually the embarrassment will do it anyway and that's less pleasant
look, man. this might be controversial around these parts but it is okay to say that Miller is evil without saying that we have somehow given China reasons to do things. they are going to do it either way. they think Taiwan is rightfully theirs. nothing we do changes that, because it already is.
Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 9mo agoThis guy is basically inviting China to take Taiwan.
🧵 Thread of polls by the Taiwan Public Opinion Foundation released on 12/23/25 (with comparison to 11/2025): "Do you approve of President Lai Ching-te?" Approve: 43.4% (+5.5) Disapprove: 48.6% (-1.6) Unsure / No opinion: 8.1% (-3.8) TPOF / Dec. 23, 2025 n=1,077
Santa overshot Andrews by 15 miles. He went to Rock Creek Park, sir. Walter Reed Hospital is there. My father is there. No father should get presents before his son.
Mike Black@mikeblack114.bsky.social · 9mo agoYOU ARE BEING CONNED ON A LEVEL UNPRECEDENTED IN HOLIDAY HISTORY
NEW: Ukraine released the latest US-Ukrainian-European 20-point peace plan on Dec. 23. The Kremlin will need to compromise on demands it has long insisted on, including many that are incompatible with both the latest 20-point peace plan and the initial 28-point plan. isw.pub/UkrWar122425 More🧵⤵️(1/4)
Impressive images. "Interferometric synthetic aperture sonar images of the seafloor. (a) Wreck of a barge on a sediment substrate with boulders. (b) Offshore energy production infrastructure. » 🔗📷📑 tos.org/oceanography...
So the problem with the new ships is that they're oversized. But they're a big hull! So, bear with me for a moment. You know how the Air Force is doing Agile Combat Employment? We could do that too. So there's this ship, the Ise, and the Japanese put planes on it. If we put F-35Bs on the Defiant,--
my new conspiracy theory is that the navy has no real issues with programs, everything is just ruined by some external force.
Heatloss@heatloss.bsky.social · 9mo agoIt's not even the Navy's fault. They're doing their jobs as commanded so they don't lose their jobs. This is instead coming from the stupidest USDs in existence and random "people" on Twitter
It's not even the Navy's fault. They're doing their jobs as commanded so they don't lose their jobs. This is instead coming from the stupidest USDs in existence and random "people" on Twitter
Guy Bundestrivago@convolutedname.bsky.social · 9mo agoVery smart of the US Navy to chain themselves to a sub 40% approval President
Finally learned what gamergate was only to realize that it was one of the stupidest things to ever happen