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Andreas Wiedenhoff @andreaswiedenhoff.bsky.social · 1d

Travelling by train between #Sicily 🇮🇹 and mainland #Italy includes a #ferry crossing, one of the highlights of the trip. The carriages are loaded on the ship. During the sailing, passengers can enjoy some fresh air on the upper decks and try out the famous #Arancini from the ship’s buffet.

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Daniel Håkansson @danielhaknsson.bsky.social · 5h

Sure, there may be a point in attacking bottlenecks if one could find them. E.g. centre wing box manufacturing is likely not done in so many locations but it will take time for such a strike to have. Likely years and workarounds can be found in this time.

Daniel Håkansson @danielhaknsson.bsky.social · 5h

The idea would not be to hit the airfields themselves but rather key aircraft AEW, bombers etc or strategic munitions stocks like cruise missiles.
Factories seems too large and dispersed, it would require 100s of missiles to make a large dent in the capabilities.

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Daniel Håkansson @danielhaknsson.bsky.social · 9h

As Arthur Herman puts it in the heritage article you linked:
“All you had to do was put in the orders, finance the plant expansion, then stand back and let things happen.”
So yes, you would have to provide finance for the expansion.

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Daniel Håkansson @danielhaknsson.bsky.social · 9h

High case 30x90=2700 missiles in inventory. Low case if mid-life refurbishment to new standard are also considered in the production numbers 15x55=825missiles

Daniel Håkansson @danielhaknsson.bsky.social · 10h

Well, it would require them to buy more.. those rates do not even sustain the current inventory with shelf lifes of 15-30y depending on how it is interpreted so they must have produced more in the past.

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Daniel Håkansson @danielhaknsson.bsky.social · 11h

Ok, modernization to block V may be the entire inventory. That's not realistic then but say half should be possible.
The capacity freed up when not needing to refurbish to block V can be used for new production instead.

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Daniel Håkansson @danielhaknsson.bsky.social · 11h

Yes, it would require the US to play along and not ask too stiff a price and like there will be some more cost for launchers and ancillary equipment but I think 4000 Tomahawks would make an appreciable impact in the war.

Daniel Håkansson @danielhaknsson.bsky.social · 11h

But even though buying weapons of the US isn't really the way to go to support Ukraine on a large scale I think this would be a good idea.
One could perhaps buy the ~4000 Tomahawks slated for modernisation to block V standard for say 1M a piece. 4B is just a few percent of the EU budget.

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Daniel Håkansson @danielhaknsson.bsky.social · 11h

My guess would be targets would be military airfields, electricity infrastructure and just maybe critical transport infrastructure.
Most of the rest seems too hardened, too numerous, too hard to find or equally vulnerable to other weapons to be suited.

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Tank Archives @tankarchives.bsky.social · 1d

The experimental Carro Armato M 13 was shown in Rome #OTD in 1939. This tank would kick off a family of tanks that would be built into 1944, even after Italy exited the war and was occupied by Germany. #tanks #history #WW2 #WWII

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Mujtaba Rahman @mijrahman.bsky.social · 2d

🇫🇷 Macron told his cabinet that censure motions are dissolution motions. In other words, there will be elections if Lecornu is toppled. Far right & hard left have already tabled censure votes on Thurs. Socialists say they will table their own if Lecornu does not give way today when he speaks at 3pm

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Corporal Frisk @corporalfrisk.com · 2d

Four years ago I wrote a long text on the Swedish A26 Blekinge-class that ended with the phrase:

"The A26 is great, but that doesn’t mean it’s a great choice for Sweden."

Sunken Costs and Good Enough – the A26 Blekinge-class

Let me start by being absolutely clear: everything points to that the A26 Blekinge-class submarine will be a stellar piece of engineering, highly adept at its mission, and by quite a margin the sub…

corporalfrisk.com

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Daniel Håkansson @danielhaknsson.bsky.social · 2d

I am actually even more annoyed by the delay then the cost overruns. I doubt the boat would look like this if designed today.
I think a smaller boat with a focus of anti shipping would have been a better choice today.

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Daniel Håkansson @danielhaknsson.bsky.social · 2d

As much as like the Swedish subbuilding capability this investment is sensible only if the intention is to build subs continuously.
Recurrent pricing is likely not to far off from a 212 but the nonrecurring is unsustainable if only two boats are built.

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Daniel Håkansson @danielhaknsson.bsky.social · 2d

Och när det gäller tullare i Skåne var detta så klart min första tanke..

Daniel Håkansson @danielhaknsson.bsky.social · 2d

Jag märkte det på mig själv när vi Finland i somras..

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Daniel Håkansson @danielhaknsson.bsky.social · 2d

It is not so unusual. Crews have been that size since the 60s.

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Daniel Håkansson @danielhaknsson.bsky.social · 2d

Visst är det fint att cykla på Åland men nog tyckte jag att en av de stora nackdelarna där var att man väldigt ofta måste ut på landsvägen. Nu är det iofs ofta inte så mycket trafik men att cykla på 70-väg med ungarna känns onödigt spännande

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Krister Isaksson @kristerisaksson.bsky.social · 2d

Åland - en underbar plats att cykla på. Och de gör det vi sällan klarar av - de bygger cykelvägar utmed landsvägarna. alandsradio.ax/nyheter/alan...

Åland satsar över 200 000 på Bike4Baltic

Landskapsregeringen har beslutat att skicka in en ansökan om att delta i projektet Bike4Baltic.

alandsradio.ax

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Stanley Pignal @spignal.bsky.social · 2d

Germany is finding creative ways to get retirees to re-join the workforce.

France looks like it will scrap a much-needed increase of the retirement age from 62 to 64.

One continent, two visions of economic reality

www.ft.com/content/b39d...

Germany to allow retirees to earn €2,000 a month tax-free

Chancellor Friedrich Merz seeking to reignite economy and address challenges of a shrinking workforce

www.ft.com

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Daniel Håkansson @danielhaknsson.bsky.social · 2d

Borde iofs vara lättare att undvika oönskade marginaleffekter med ditt system..

Daniel Håkansson @danielhaknsson.bsky.social · 2d

Alltid bökigt att samtaxera. Skilsmässa barn som växlar boende, 16 åringar som arbetar etc, etc.
Tror det är lättare att binda taxeringen och grundavdrag till den egna lönen och försörja eventuella barn över riksnormen. Är dock inte säker..

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Daniel Håkansson @danielhaknsson.bsky.social · 2d

Crazy if this would work.

Sarah Kirchberger @sarahkirchberger.bsky.social · 3d

“Undersea fiber-optic cables, which stretch over 1.2 million kilometers (750,000 miles) across the ocean floor, are being used in a new way for anti-submarine warfare. A developing technology called Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) is making this possible.”

#ASW

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US, EU navies to use 750,000-mile cable network to track submarines

Undersea fiber-optic cables, which stretch over 750,000 miles across the ocean floor, are being used in a new way for anti-submarine warfare.

interestingengineering.com

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Daniel Håkansson @danielhaknsson.bsky.social · 2d

Det här är en riktigt bra idé. Det eliminerar många negativa marginaleffekter.
Kanske bör man t.o.m räkna in normen för barn i hushållet i avdraget även om det är lite komplicerat.

Tore Kullgren @torek.bsky.social · 3d

Det är rätt tid att sänka skatter på löner.

Men vi borde börja med höjt grundavdrag.

Löner, pensioner och transfereringar bör vara skattefria upp till socialbidragsnormen.

Det blir ett lyft för nästan alla hushåll, särskilt för de med låg inkomst.

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