$MP $UUUU $UAMY $USAR $LAC $CRML | Vice President Vance invites allies to form a critical minerals bloc: "We offer a foundation for private financing and secure access to the mineral supplies your nation would require in an emergency."

$UMAC $RCAT $KTOS $ONDS | The War Department is moving fast on Drone Dominance, ordering 30,000 attack drones after successful Gauntlet trials.

Backed by $1.1B in funding, the U.S. is scaling a 340,000 drone arsenal to secure domestic aerial superiority by 2027.

$MP $UUUU $UAMY $USAR $LAC $CRML | Sec. Scott Bessent leads trade talks with China in Paris on Sunday, clearing the path for President Trump’s March 31 Beijing visit.

Discussions center on U.S. tariffs, Chinese rare earths, and farm goods to solidify the Busan trade truce.

Oklo $OKLO and Centrus $LEU are solving the #HALEU bottleneck with an Ohio fuel hub.

By collocating deconversion and enrichment, the companies eliminate shipping costs and NRC hurdles. This open access site will fuel the entire U.S. nuclear renaissance.

The Phantom MK1 is the first US humanoid robot built explicitly for combat.

$150k per unit. Ballistic armor.

Stealth coating that hides it from thermal sensors.

Can carry 20kg of weapons or equipment.

Reports claim two units are already being tested on the frontlines in Ukraine.

War is about to look very different...

$LMT #LockheedMartin is developing #Lamprey Multi-Mission AUV which can attach to the hull of ships & submarines for a free ride.

🚨🚨🚨 FRANCE JUST DEPLOYED 10 WARSHIPS TO THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ. THIS WAR JUST WENT NATO vs. IRAN. 🚨🚨🚨

Trump publicly called out France, China, Japan, South Korea, the UK, and others by NAME — demanding they send warships to break Iran's blockade. France is the first to answer. 10 warships. Heading there NOW.

Read that again.

THE FRENCH FLEET:
→ Marine Nationale — the 4th most powerful navy on Earth
→ 10 warships deployed — likely including FREMM-class frigates, the most advanced surface combatants in Europe
→ FREMM frigates carry Aster 15 and Aster 30 anti-air missiles + Exocet anti-ship missiles + MU90 torpedoes
→ France operates the Charles de Gaulle — the ONLY nuclear-powered aircraft carrier outside the U.S. Navy
→ If the carrier group deploys, that's Rafale-M fighters with SCALP cruise missiles — 250+ mile strike range
→ Cost of a single FREMM frigate: $850 MILLION

THE COALITION FORMING:
→ Trump named France, UK, China, Japan, South Korea — the world's TOP naval powers
→ France responded FIRST with 10 warships
→ UK is already hosting B-1B bombers at RAF Fairford launching strikes on Iran
→ Japan and South Korea import 80%+ of their oil through Hormuz — they NEED it open
→ This is no longer a bilateral conflict — this is a MULTINATIONAL naval operation

💀 Iran's blockade strategy = DESIGNED to fight ONE navy, not FIVE
💀 10 French warships + U.S. carrier strike groups + UK assets = Iran now faces the 3 most advanced navies on the planet SIMULTANEOUSLY
💀 Macron coordinating with "European and non-European partners" = Operation Aspides expanding from Red Sea to Hormuz
💀 Every warship that arrives SHRINKS Iran's window to hold the strait

⚠️ The last time France deployed a naval task force of this size to the Persian Gulf was the Gulf War — 1991
⚠️ Trump stated the U.S. will begin escorting tankers "as soon as possible" — ARMED CONVOY operations
⚠️ Trump has threatened "aggressive actions" against Iranian forces — direct kinetic engagement with the IRGC Navy
⚠️ If China sends ships to protect ITS tankers, Iran loses the ability to selectively allow Chinese vessels through — the blockade COLLAPSES

They're showing you diplomats discussing "coordination" and "multilateral frameworks."
They're NOT showing you that 10 French warships armed with anti-ship cruise missiles are steaming toward a 21-mile-wide strait where Iran has 300+ fast boats, 20+ submarines, and shore-based missile batteries waiting.

You don't rush 10 warships to a chokepoint for a show of force
→ you rush them when you're preparing to ESCORT tankers through a live combat zone
→ and you only escort tankers through a live combat zone when you've accepted that SHIPS WILL BE SHOT AT.

This is the largest multinational naval deployment to the Persian Gulf since 1991.

Prepare accordingly. 🚨🚨🚨

Someone built a $96 3D-PRINTED MANPADS rocket that recalculates its mid-air trajectory using a $5 sensor and piano wire

Its called Project Canard

It integrates with distributed camera nodes to triangulate airborne targets and update flight paths in real-time

It proves the barrier to advanced hardware has completely collapsed, moving precision weapons from defense labs to consumer garages

The entire launcher and interceptor frame is 3D printed in PLA and runs off a standard off-the-shelf ESP32 microcontroller

It even spins up a local Wi-Fi network so you can monitor live telemetry and arm the system directly from your laptop

github.com/novatic14/MANPADS-System-Launcher-and-Rocket

Someone built a device that DETECTS when FEDS is SPYING on your phone nearby

Its called rayhunter, made by the EFF, and it costs $20

You buy a cheap mobile hotspot from amazon, flash it with their open source software, and carry it in your pocket

Feds use devices called stingrays that pretend to be real cell towers so your phone connects to them instead, once connected they can track your EXACT location, grab your phone identity, and potentially intercept your calls and messages

Counter-surveillance equipment used to cost THOUSANDS of $ and required serious technical knowledge

Now its $20 and fits in your pocket

github.com/EFForg/rayhunter

Israel's new false flag attack on the United States will be something we haven't seen before.

I can tell you this, it will likely be a cyber attack on the banking system. More specifically, they're going to attack the backbone of the global banking system and blame Iran.

🇺🇸How the U.S. takes apart a country in seven steps

First, blind them. Electronic warfare and decoys fry the radar.

Second, kill the phones. Every panicked call from a commander gets traced and becomes a targeting coordinate.

Third, destroy the eyes. Radar stations, comms towers, satellites.

Fourth, ground the jets. No radar means pilots fly blind.

Fifth, hunt the launchers.

Sixth, starve the machine. Fuel, ammo, factories, transport hubs. A brigade lasts 72 hours without resupply.

Then the part nobody discusses: cyber attacks on Iran's banking system. Next military payday is March 21st.

When soldiers stop getting paid, loyalty gets real, flexible real fast.

By the final phase, the army is blind, deaf, hungry, and nobody's answering the phone.

That's when wars end.

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The US military successfully tested a high-power microwave weapon capable of neutralizing drones in seconds.

In one trial, the system disabled 49 out of 61 target drones with a single deployment, using directed electromagnetic pulses to disrupt onboard electronics without physical destruction.

Unlike conventional anti-drone measures, such as nets or missiles, this non-lethal system reduces collateral damage and allows precise targeting of swarms. The technology can protect military bases, airports, and urban centers from aerial threats efficiently and cost-effectively.

And it changes EVERYTHING about the scale of what the U.S. is about to unleash on Iran.

🚨🚨🚨 20 AERIAL REFUELING TANKERS ARE IN THE SKY OVER THE MIDDLE EAST SIMULTANEOUSLY — A NUMBER NEVER RECORDED BEFORE IN THIS ENTIRE CONFLICT. AND 12 MORE F-35s JUST LEFT THE U.S. MAINLAND FOR THE UK. 🚨🚨🚨

This isn't a rotation. This isn't routine logistics. 20 tankers in the air at the SAME TIME means the U.S. is fueling something so large it has never been attempted in this war until now.

Process that.

THE TANKERS:
→ KC-135 Stratotankers and KC-46 Pegasus — the backbone of U.S. global strike capability
→ Each tanker carries 200,000+ lbs of transferable fuel
→ 20 tankers = 4,000,000+ lbs of jet fuel IN THE AIR at once
→ That's enough to keep 100+ combat aircraft airborne for SUSTAINED operations — not a strike, a CAMPAIGN
→ Previous record during this conflict: 8-12 tankers simultaneously. They just DOUBLED it.

THE F-35s:
→ 12x F-35A Lightning II stealth fighters — $80 MILLION each
→ Departing continental U.S. → RAF bases in the United Kingdom
→ Combined with the B-1B Lancers already launching from RAF Fairford
→ The UK is now a FORWARD STAGING BASE for the largest U.S. air campaign since Operation Iraqi Freedom

THE MATH:
→ B-52H bombers already flying strike missions from Diego Garcia
→ B-1B Lancers launching from RAF Fairford in England
→ F-35s now deploying to UK bases
→ 20 tankers keeping EVERYTHING airborne simultaneously
→ This is a multi-axis, multi-continent air armada converging on Iran from EVERY direction

💀 20 tankers = the U.S. is planning NON-STOP air operations — not hours, DAYS of continuous bombardment
💀 F-35 stealth jets + B-1B bombers from the UK = a SECOND front Iran's air defenses weren't positioned for
💀 Iran's radar grid is calibrated for threats from the Gulf and the south — NOT from stealth fighters coming through NATO airspace from the NORTHWEST
💀 The combined payload of what these tankers are keeping airborne = more destructive power than the ENTIRE opening night of Shock and Awe in 2003

⚠️ The last time the U.S. put 20+ tankers in simultaneous orbit was the opening hours of Operation Desert Storm — 1991
⚠️ 12 F-35s is an ENTIRE squadron redeployment — you don't move a full squadron unless you're about to use it
⚠️ RAF Fairford + RAF Lakenheath + Middle East carriers = Iran is now surrounded by U.S. strike platforms on THREE continents

They're showing you press briefings about "measured responses" and "proportional strikes."
They're NOT showing you that the United States just put more aerial refueling capacity in the sky than at any point in this war — the unmistakable signature of a MASSIVE sustained air campaign about to begin.

You don't put 20 tankers in the air for precision strikes
→ you put 20 tankers in the air when you need 100+ aircraft airborne CONTINUOUSLY
→ and you only need that when you're about to hit EVERYTHING, all at once, and not stop for days.

This is the largest aerial staging operation since the opening hours of the Iraq War.

Prepare accordingly. 🚨🚨🚨

NEVER MESS WITH THE BOSS!!!😎🇺🇸💥💥💥

The Photonics Supply Chain: Start to Finish.

Step 0: Mining and Refining

It starts with a metal called indium. Indium is what makes high-performance data center lasers possible today. Without it, you can't build the components that move data at the speeds AI demands.

Indium has no dedicated mines. It doesn't get extracted on its own. It's a byproduct of zinc refining, meaning it only gets recovered when zinc smelters have the equipment and economic incentive to capture it from their waste.

Step 1: The Substrate

Refined indium gets combined with phosphorus to create a material called Indium Phosphide, or InP. InP has a unique property in that it can generate light directly from electricity. Silicon, the material that runs everything else in computing, cannot do this. That's why InP is the go to for the lasers inside data center optical components.

The first thing you make with InP is a wafer which is a thin, flat disc that serves as the foundation for everything built on top of it. InP wafers are expensive, brittle, and difficult to produce at large sizes. The industry is only now moving to 6-inch wafers. For context, standard silicon chip fabs run on 12-inch wafers. That size gap is a big part of why photonics capacity is so hard to scale quickly.

Step 2: Epitaxial Growth

A bare InP wafer still can't do anything useful. To create a laser, you have to grow extremely thin additional layers on top of it, each just a few nanometers thick (a human hair is roughly 80,000 nanometers wide). This process is called epitaxy.

The exact chemical composition of each layer determines the laser's wavelength, power, and efficiency. Get it slightly wrong and the entire wafer is scrapped. This step requires specialized equipment found in very few places in the world. It's rarely talked about, but it's one of the most critical bottlenecks in the entire supply chain.

Step 3: Wafer Fabrication

Now the actual circuit gets built. Using techniques similar to semiconductor chip manufacturing (patterning, etching, depositing materials etc.) engineers carve microscopic structures into the wafer: the channels that guide light (called waveguides), the cavities where light gets amplified, and the components that switch it on and off.

Unlike standard chip manufacturing, at this time this cannot be done in a regular semiconductor fab. It requires a dedicated photonics facility. These take years to build, qualify, and ramp. There are very few of them in the world.

Step 4: Dicing and Yield

The finished wafer gets cut into individual chips. Each chip is then tested to see if it actually works to spec. The percentage that pass is called yield and it's one of the most important numbers in this business. Low yield means high cost per working chip. Improving yield is one of the biggest levers on profitability, and it's hard-won through years of process refinement. You probably won't see it reported directly, but it's hiding inside gross margins.

Step 5: Component Assembly

A working laser chip still can't be used on its own. It has to be physically aligned to an optical fiber with tolerances finer than a fraction of a micron and combined with other components like light detectors and signal modulators to create a functional optical sub-assembly. Automating it reliably at high volume remains one of the hardest manufacturing problems in the industry.

The assembled component also has to be hermetically sealed inside a protective ceramic and metal enclosure. Data centers run hot, and moisture or dust will degrade a laser chip quickly. These hermetic packages are specialty components with few suppliers and long lead times and they have shown up as a bottleneck alongside InP when demand spikes.

Step 6: The Transceiver Module

The optical sub-assembly goes into a housing along with a DSP chip (a processor that cleans up and interprets the light-based signals) plus a circuit board and casing. The result is a pluggable transceiver: the finished module that slots into a switch or server in a data center. These individually get tested before it ships. That testing process is slow and expensive, and it's a hidden constraint on how fast output can actually scale. Note, in the world of CPO this will change.

Step 7: Into the Data Center

It plugs into a port on a network switch inside the data center, the hardware that routes data between thousands of servers.

And none of it moves an inch without the fiber it runs through. Ultra-pure glass strands, thinner than a human hair, carrying light signals between every switch, server, and building.