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B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 1d

Ok, I figured out what happened. Will make this a thread but TL;DR is some one on the gunline put the wrong time on a time fuze which made the shell function early.

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Naval News @navalnews.com · 3d

A Framework Arrangement for setting the scope for the Naval Mines Cooperation has been signed by Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden and Poland 💥
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Finland to lead Naval Mines Cooperation - Naval News

A Framework Arrangement for setting the scope for the Naval Mines Cooperation has been signed by Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden and Poland.

www.navalnews.com

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Kent Lavis @kentlavis.bsky.social · 3d

What's the relation between being an SJW and Germany Frigates? Are you dense? This is what people followed for "Chinese military enthusiast?"

If you can't even map military decisions and planning that led to the F-125, I believe you'd better off shutting your mouth instead of yapping.

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 3d

Minus Russian SU-30SM over Crimea.

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Kent Lavis @kentlavis.bsky.social · Sep 15

Tools are just tools; what matters most is how you utilize them, so that in the end your naval strategy yields results. Guns, aircraft, missiles, you mention it, are just ways to defeat your opponents. That's why it's ridiculous to overly romanticize a certain way of fighting.

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Kent Lavis @kentlavis.bsky.social · Sep 15

Mahan is great for the general concept of naval power, like you said, and I personally think it's a mandatory prerequisite reading before one can start yapping on naval security & defense matters because it really tells the audience when one hasn't (lmao).

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · Sep 7

mahan is great at big-picture strategy but a terrible prophet of what was coming next. he thought the new hotness might be torpedo boats, by which he meant little steam boats with bombs strapped to the front

the point is command of the seas, not how you get there

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Zach 🇺🇦 @thrustwr.bsky.social · Sep 10

Uh, here's the video I have been busy working on for a few months now: youtu.be/CmWQgNSEtdw

The Threat of Ballistic Missiles

YouTube video by Vermillion

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Zach 🇺🇦 @thrustwr.bsky.social · Sep 8

Finally we got bookmarks.

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Zach 🇺🇦 @thrustwr.bsky.social · Aug 23

Trialing rust is also not a very very big issue. Crews clean up after these ships immediately once they go in for a short maintenance period. This is what DDG 55 looked like after being at sea for 215 days (4 years ago) due to covid. Sailors cleaned her up in 2 days back to shiny new.

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Kent Lavis @kentlavis.bsky.social · Sep 1

And truth be told, I have left defense discussions on Twitter per August of 2024. It is much preferred for my sanity that I limit my discussion to friends with the same interests.

At most I just reposted what @mil-std.bsky.social posts on Twitter.
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Zach 🇺🇦 @thrustwr.bsky.social · Aug 23

I absolutely do not understand the people who stick around for defense discussions (or really any discussions there). Half the accounts are dead and the other half of your active followers are going "@grok is this true?" The only use it has is searching for materials on long inactive accounts.

Kent Lavis @kentlavis.bsky.social · Sep 1

I have been planning to leave Twitter the moment Elon bought it. However, I have concluded that my existence on Twitter is detrimental for a certain group of people, and it has been my justification for staying.

Zach 🇺🇦 @thrustwr.bsky.social · Aug 23

This has been my life everyday since I left Twitter.

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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · Jul 9

Brought to you from Ukrainian internet

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Kent Lavis @kentlavis.bsky.social · Apr 11

Baudrillard approach to reality, symbols, and society where you can't distinguish between appearance and reality is beautifully applicable to almost any situation.

Kent Lavis @kentlavis.bsky.social · Apr 11

So, in a society where optics eclipse truth, the victim's role is not to suffer, but to convincingly not suffer.

Every public appearance reinforces the simulation of loyalty—and their complicity in it. And they are never permitted the authenticity of their own pain.

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Kent Lavis @kentlavis.bsky.social · Apr 11

“The Hyperreal Punishment”
Pain exists only as performance—both in its infliction and its erasure. Even their suffering becomes a manipulated signifier.

"The torture mark is no longer a wound; it is the absence of one."

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Kent Lavis @kentlavis.bsky.social · Apr 11

A lot of modern torture articles, especially in physical torture often underlines the fact that modern form of torture rarely leaves physical marks that can help identify or even confirm it was a torture at all. Yet, the victim cannot let themselves exposed despite the suffering they experience.

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Zach 🇺🇦 @thrustwr.bsky.social · Apr 9

It's that time of the year, go follow the little guys:

@virtualbayonet.bsky.social, @linkplumeria.bsky.social, @usili.bsky.social, @whatismoo.bsky.social,
@midlifesuezcrisis.bsky.social, @giledpallaeon.bsky.social, @baa43a3ahy.bsky.social, @massiasthanos.bsky.social, @chen-yenhan.bsky.social

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Kent Lavis @kentlavis.bsky.social · Jan 26

I'd like to know more about IBCS and mainly its sensor integration.

Kent Lavis @kentlavis.bsky.social · Dec 9

This might prove to be interesting.

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · Dec 2

The “Pentagon Papers” hold a significant place in American culture, but their value as an analytical work is often overlooked. The volumes on Rolling Thunder, in particular, were essential for this article! If you haven’t read them, I highly recommend it!

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Kent Lavis @kentlavis.bsky.social · Dec 2

Aviation Week released a supplementary article just a week ago on this on-going saga, but I don't have access to it. This might explain all the questions I am having.
aviationweek.com/defense/miss...

Redacted Complaint Details Raytheon’s GPI Lawsuit Against MDA | Aviation Week Network

A lawsuit from Raytheon seeks to overturn a decision by the MDA to select Northrop Grumman as the sole bidder for the Glide Phase Interceptor (GPI) program.

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Kent Lavis @kentlavis.bsky.social · Dec 2

“On Sept. 25, the MDA shut down’s Raytheon attempt to win the GPI program, announcing that only Northrop would continue work beyond the preliminary design review.”

Interesting, as one day later Defense News published an article talking about the same topic. It still lacks information but expected.

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Kent Lavis @kentlavis.bsky.social · Dec 2

I was completely out of the loop and surprised when Aerospace Digest hit my email box and presented me with this report by Steve Trimble. There is not much information to glean on except MDA want to move things quickly.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · Dec 2

the MCRN stare: that look of pure analyzing, coupled with a slight sardonic smile that makes people uneasy

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Kent Lavis @kentlavis.bsky.social · Nov 30

What I really like about Adobe Acrobat is liquid mode that allows dynamic resizing.