Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)
@FranklinHGrimes: Well Lockheed is who makes the F-16, so sustaiment has to come from them & their approved vendors.
@FranklinHGrimes: Well Lockheed is who makes the F-16, so sustaiment has to come from them & their approved vendors.
Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)
🇺🇲 The Department of Defense has awarded AeroVironment a 5-year Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity contract with a ceiling of ~$1 billion for Switchblade 600 loitering munitions.
The FY25 budget request for SB 600 asks for $120.6 million to procure 54 systems, each of which are composed of 1 Fire Control Unit, 8 All Up Rounds, and 2 ISTAR components.
🇺🇲 The Department of Defense has awarded AeroVironment a 5-year Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity contract with a ceiling of ~$1 billion for Switchblade 600 loitering munitions.
The FY25 budget request for SB 600 asks for $120.6 million to procure 54 systems, each of which are composed of 1 Fire Control Unit, 8 All Up Rounds, and 2 ISTAR components.
Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)
@Econwatc_h: Ya you're right, they should buy FPV drones for $100 each instead. That will definitely defeat China.
@Econwatc_h: Ya you're right, they should buy FPV drones for $100 each instead. That will definitely defeat China.
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Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)
@Econwatc_h: Neptune is a shitty missile that lost to Harpoon in the Ukrainian military's own competition. Why on earth would western countries want to build that?
You need to consider that cheap systems can actually be extremely cost ineffective because they are so easy to defeat. The DoD has requirements for things like EW resilience and low observability that increase costs but also increase effectiveness.
@Econwatc_h: Neptune is a shitty missile that lost to Harpoon in the Ukrainian military's own competition. Why on earth would western countries want to build that?
You need to consider that cheap systems can actually be extremely cost ineffective because they are so easy to defeat. The DoD has requirements for things like EW resilience and low observability that increase costs but also increase effectiveness.
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Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)
NAVAIR attempting to cook for once. Hopefully they don't burn the kitchen down. https://twitter.com/AirPowerNEW1/status/1828847414704271617#m
NAVAIR attempting to cook for once. Hopefully they don't burn the kitchen down. https://twitter.com/AirPowerNEW1/status/1828847414704271617#m
Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)
🇺🇸🇺🇦💥 155mm production ramp-up ahead of schedule! 💥
Assistant Secretary Bush says that 155mm ammunition production will reach close to 80,000/month this fall (Q1 FY25). The previous target was 70,000/m. He also adds it will exceed 100,000/m next summer; the current target for that is the end of the summer/end of Q4 FY25, so that may or may not be a revision to the schedule.
I edited the graph to show the revision. They are basically going to be ~9 months ahead of schedule for 80k/m.
Link in alt text.
🇺🇸🇺🇦💥 155mm production ramp-up ahead of schedule! 💥
Assistant Secretary Bush says that 155mm ammunition production will reach close to 80,000/month this fall (Q1 FY25). The previous target was 70,000/m. He also adds it will exceed 100,000/m next summer; the current target for that is the end of the summer/end of Q4 FY25, so that may or may not be a revision to the schedule.
I edited the graph to show the revision. They are basically going to be ~9 months ahead of schedule for 80k/m.
Link in alt text.
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Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)
@trutadocavado @KyivKing: Already been deleted. Very dubious. You should wait for official statements before repeating something like this.
@trutadocavado @KyivKing: Already been deleted. Very dubious. You should wait for official statements before repeating something like this.
Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)
@StijnOerde: Probably another AeroVironment product like Puma; we already know it can data link with SB.
@StijnOerde: Probably another AeroVironment product like Puma; we already know it can data link with SB.
Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)
@t64_bv @nutella__TR @Econwatc_h: They were absolutely not expected to make a huge impact in Ukraine. That's nonsense. That was political spin from the Biden Admin that was amplified by clueless people.
@t64_bv @nutella__TR @Econwatc_h: They were absolutely not expected to make a huge impact in Ukraine. That's nonsense. That was political spin from the Biden Admin that was amplified by clueless people.
Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)
@DmitrijZinovev2: It is very foolish to assume that a war between the United States and China will look anything like the war between Russia & Ukraine.
@DmitrijZinovev2: It is very foolish to assume that a war between the United States and China will look anything like the war between Russia & Ukraine.
Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)
@LiekisSarunas: The USAF does not have enough fighter jets for their own operational requirements and a huge amount of their fleet is in desperate need of recapitalization.
@LiekisSarunas: The USAF does not have enough fighter jets for their own operational requirements and a huge amount of their fleet is in desperate need of recapitalization.
Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)
@61CygnaiSN1987A: Ukraine isn't even firing close to that many shells per day.
@61CygnaiSN1987A: Ukraine isn't even firing close to that many shells per day.
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Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)
@rob_lh: It is probably a combination of them forecasting the 3rd line at Mesquite being operationalized sooner than expected and GD-OTS' new LAP facility in Camden coming online.
@rob_lh: It is probably a combination of them forecasting the 3rd line at Mesquite being operationalized sooner than expected and GD-OTS' new LAP facility in Camden coming online.
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🇷🇺🇺🇸 | Russia bans 92 US citizens from entering the territory of the Russian Federation "in response to the Biden administration's Russophobic course", the Russian Foreign Ministry announced.
(TASS)
🇷🇺🇺🇸 | Russia bans 92 US citizens from entering the territory of the Russian Federation "in response to the Biden administration's Russophobic course", the Russian Foreign Ministry announced.
(TASS)
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