Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)
RT @AirPowerNEW1: Six former Air Force Chiefs of Staff & seven other retired 4-star generals joined Air & Space Forces Association leadership in calling on Congress to triple the number of F-35A fighters for fiscal 2026 and to reinstate funding for the E-7 Wedgetail platform. 🔗 👇
RT @AirPowerNEW1: Six former Air Force Chiefs of Staff & seven other retired 4-star generals joined Air & Space Forces Association leadership in calling on Congress to triple the number of F-35A fighters for fiscal 2026 and to reinstate funding for the E-7 Wedgetail platform. 🔗 👇
Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)
RT @AirPowerNEW1: US Navy's FY26 budget docs reveal that the service was able to procure 374 ESSM Blk 2 missiles in FY25 vs 350 planned. The additional buys were due to a lower than anticipated unit cost. The service has requested 305 ESSM Blk 2 AURs in FY26 at a cost of $1.35 MM per missile. The ESSM Blk 2 Missile is the latest ESSM variant having achieved IOC in December 2021. Besides upgrading from an 8" to a 10" guidance section, Blk. 2 adds a Standard Missile 6 derived active RF seeker while still retaining the Semi-active guidance ability of the block 1 variant.
RT @AirPowerNEW1: US Navy's FY26 budget docs reveal that the service was able to procure 374 ESSM Blk 2 missiles in FY25 vs 350 planned. The additional buys were due to a lower than anticipated unit cost. The service has requested 305 ESSM Blk 2 AURs in FY26 at a cost of $1.35 MM per missile. The ESSM Blk 2 Missile is the latest ESSM variant having achieved IOC in December 2021. Besides upgrading from an 8" to a 10" guidance section, Blk. 2 adds a Standard Missile 6 derived active RF seeker while still retaining the Semi-active guidance ability of the block 1 variant.
Def Mon (Twitter)
RT @Tatarigami_UA: Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, Russia has launched 28,743 Shahed/Geran drones at Ukraine - 2,736 of them in June of this year, according to President Zelensky. Our team took a brief look at the Shahed numbers and noted the following trends and figures🧵:
RT @Tatarigami_UA: Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, Russia has launched 28,743 Shahed/Geran drones at Ukraine - 2,736 of them in June of this year, according to President Zelensky. Our team took a brief look at the Shahed numbers and noted the following trends and figures🧵:
Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)
🇺🇸🇺🇦 "Two sources said Trump promised to immediately send 10 Patriot interceptors — fewer than had been planned in the paused shipment — and help to find other means of supply." -Axios
Releasing just 10/30 of the PAC-3 MSEs isn't going to provide much protection from Russia's relentless attacks.
If Trump just delivers on all previously made commitments and opens the door to all of these third party financing deals, it would be a big step in the right direction. https://twitter.com/Archer83Able/status/1942373320047092077#m
🇺🇸🇺🇦 "Two sources said Trump promised to immediately send 10 Patriot interceptors — fewer than had been planned in the paused shipment — and help to find other means of supply." -Axios
Releasing just 10/30 of the PAC-3 MSEs isn't going to provide much protection from Russia's relentless attacks.
If Trump just delivers on all previously made commitments and opens the door to all of these third party financing deals, it would be a big step in the right direction. https://twitter.com/Archer83Able/status/1942373320047092077#m