Plasma
@heliumfactory.bsky.social
Excavating forgotten ideas
from the ruins of shared memory
before they fade like tears in rain.
from the ruins of shared memory
before they fade like tears in rain.
The DMZ is a necessity but on the Russian side. With international forces.
December 12, 2025 at 11:52 AM
The DMZ is a necessity but on the Russian side. With international forces.
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December 10, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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There’s at least three not real ads in the current issue of the Onion that are stellar.
December 10, 2025 at 2:54 AM
There’s at least three not real ads in the current issue of the Onion that are stellar.
Disintegration. That's the goal.
December 10, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Disintegration. That's the goal.
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Tens of thousands of Ukrainians from territories occupied by Russia have been mobilized and forced by the Russian occupation authorities to fight against their own country - Ukraine.
December 10, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Tens of thousands of Ukrainians from territories occupied by Russia have been mobilized and forced by the Russian occupation authorities to fight against their own country - Ukraine.
He is actually our best chance to get rid of Americans.
December 10, 2025 at 4:27 PM
He is actually our best chance to get rid of Americans.
I totally agree. It's maddening to see such waste in such times. Below are two interesting papers on the subject by French and German researchers, followed by short biographies of their authors. The issue is not new, the German analysis dates back to 2020, when the FCAS was already in jeopardy.
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December 8, 2025 at 11:10 PM
I totally agree. It's maddening to see such waste in such times. Below are two interesting papers on the subject by French and German researchers, followed by short biographies of their authors. The issue is not new, the German analysis dates back to 2020, when the FCAS was already in jeopardy.
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From A400M to FCAS and MGCS, Berlin has repeatedly reshaped industrial roles, boosting MTU, adding Airbus Spain, inserting Rheinmetall, systematically reducing French leadership. It reads less like EU cooperation and more like Germany advancing its own industrial gains at everyone else’s expense
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December 8, 2025 at 3:43 PM
From A400M to FCAS and MGCS, Berlin has repeatedly reshaped industrial roles, boosting MTU, adding Airbus Spain, inserting Rheinmetall, systematically reducing French leadership. It reads less like EU cooperation and more like Germany advancing its own industrial gains at everyone else’s expense
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The result hasn’t just been a technical debate, but a political one over who sets future standards, which company gets integration leadership, and ultimately which country shapes the next-generation tank architecture.
The project has been so much delayed that it had been rebooted in 2025: MPC.
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The project has been so much delayed that it had been rebooted in 2025: MPC.
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December 8, 2025 at 3:43 PM
The result hasn’t just been a technical debate, but a political one over who sets future standards, which company gets integration leadership, and ultimately which country shapes the next-generation tank architecture.
The project has been so much delayed that it had been rebooted in 2025: MPC.
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The project has been so much delayed that it had been rebooted in 2025: MPC.
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Rheinmetall’s late entry also re-opened already-set design assumptions, especially on the main armament, leading to competing gun concepts, Rheinmetall pushing a 130mm evolution while Nexter has been developing the more ambitious 140mm ASCALON.
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December 8, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Rheinmetall’s late entry also re-opened already-set design assumptions, especially on the main armament, leading to competing gun concepts, Rheinmetall pushing a 130mm evolution while Nexter has been developing the more ambitious 140mm ASCALON.
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In MGCS, Germany insisted that Rheinmetall be brought into the Franco-German KNDS framework (originally just KMW + Nexter), which directly reduced Nexter’s influence and altered the planned industrial balance.
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December 8, 2025 at 3:43 PM
In MGCS, Germany insisted that Rheinmetall be brought into the Franco-German KNDS framework (originally just KMW + Nexter), which directly reduced Nexter’s influence and altered the planned industrial balance.
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Germany also backed Spain’s entry through Airbus, putting Airbus Spain beside Airbus Germany in the NGF pillar, effectively weakening Dassault’s position and giving Airbus a 2-to-1 advantage in decision shaping.
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December 8, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Germany also backed Spain’s entry through Airbus, putting Airbus Spain beside Airbus Germany in the NGF pillar, effectively weakening Dassault’s position and giving Airbus a 2-to-1 advantage in decision shaping.
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In FCAS, Berlin pushed to expand MTU’s role in the engine segment, turning Safran’s initial lead into a 50/50 JV (negotiated 2019, formalized 2021).
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December 8, 2025 at 3:43 PM
In FCAS, Berlin pushed to expand MTU’s role in the engine segment, turning Safran’s initial lead into a 50/50 JV (negotiated 2019, formalized 2021).
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A400M is the early example. Berlin pushed for a bigger MTU role in the TP400 engine consortium (MTU/Rolls-Royce/ITP/Safran), which contributed to complex industrial arrangements and engine-related delays that ended up dragging the entire program and driving the cost up.
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December 8, 2025 at 3:43 PM
A400M is the early example. Berlin pushed for a bigger MTU role in the TP400 engine consortium (MTU/Rolls-Royce/ITP/Safran), which contributed to complex industrial arrangements and engine-related delays that ended up dragging the entire program and driving the cost up.
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Not sure France has much responsibility here. Germany’s pattern in EU defense programs (A400M, FCAS, MGCS) has been pretty consistent: prioritizing national industry and workshare after agreements are signed, which complicates governance and often dilutes previously agreed leadership structures.
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December 8, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Not sure France has much responsibility here. Germany’s pattern in EU defense programs (A400M, FCAS, MGCS) has been pretty consistent: prioritizing national industry and workshare after agreements are signed, which complicates governance and often dilutes previously agreed leadership structures.
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They want our water to be polluted, our air to be poisoned, our food to be unhealthy, our children to be unvaccinated, our farming to be GM and our livestock abused, our governments in their pockets, oh and they also want our money.
December 7, 2025 at 1:58 PM
They want our water to be polluted, our air to be poisoned, our food to be unhealthy, our children to be unvaccinated, our farming to be GM and our livestock abused, our governments in their pockets, oh and they also want our money.