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Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 (Twitter)
Russian military hit by FPV while climbing a high tree to instal a Wi-fi bridge. https://twitter.com/bayraktar_1love/status/2023786987505741964#m
Russian military hit by FPV while climbing a high tree to instal a Wi-fi bridge. https://twitter.com/bayraktar_1love/status/2023786987505741964#m
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Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)
@hawk_ix @CoupartPry: If vertically integrated production facilities delivered better results then they would be used, but they rarely do.
@hawk_ix @CoupartPry: If vertically integrated production facilities delivered better results then they would be used, but they rarely do.
Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)
Thanks!
Despite UAS & cUAS dominating the defense discourse, defense policy is still catching up. It has more to do with tactics, techniques and procedures than procurement too. The Ukrainians have a lot to teach us, but there is still resistance to learning, especially in US.
Thanks!
Despite UAS & cUAS dominating the defense discourse, defense policy is still catching up. It has more to do with tactics, techniques and procedures than procurement too. The Ukrainians have a lot to teach us, but there is still resistance to learning, especially in US.
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Federico Borsari فێدریکۆ بۆرساری (@federicoborsar1)
I cannot recommend enough this @cepa piece from colleague @ColbyBadhwar on Ukriane's unique expertise in C-UAS and how the US and many Western countries have neglected or even dismissed these "cards" at their own peril.
Aces High: Zelenskyy Plays His Hand…
Aces High: Zelenskyy Plays His Hand…
Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)
@steventduffy @FRHoffmann1: Orders are not what they should be, but they aren't totally absent.
@steventduffy @FRHoffmann1: Orders are not what they should be, but they aren't totally absent.
Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)
@IbrahimJalalYE: Sources: Organizations that do not understand the Foreign Military Sales program.
CRS an exception but they aren't publishing LoAs in their reports.
@IbrahimJalalYE: Sources: Organizations that do not understand the Foreign Military Sales program.
CRS an exception but they aren't publishing LoAs in their reports.
Status-6 (War & Military News) (Twitter)
Ukrainian FPV drone strikes a Russian soldier climbing down from the top of a tree.
Ukrainian FPV drone strikes a Russian soldier climbing down from the top of a tree.
Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)
RT @michaeldweiss: “The biggest cover-up of my adult life”: Inside the CIA’s attempt to make Havana Syndrome disappear theins.ru/en/inv/290088
RT @michaeldweiss: “The biggest cover-up of my adult life”: Inside the CIA’s attempt to make Havana Syndrome disappear theins.ru/en/inv/290088
The Insider
“The biggest cover-up of my adult life”: Inside the CIA’s attempt to make Havana Syndrome disappear
In 2024, The Insider and its investigative partners at 60 Minutes and Der Spiegel uncovered evidence showing that “Anomalous Health Incidents,” also known as Havana Syndrome, were likely the result of a directed energy weapon wielded by members of Russian…
Ukraine Battle Map (Twitter)
@WarMonitor3: Wow, I wonder what would’ve helped stop those drones?
Another thing that could be a massive kill box for US troops would be fiber-optic or FPV drones, if US lands on any islands or are near Iran. They could’ve worked with Ukraine on Fiber Optics, too, but Trump did not want to.
@WarMonitor3: Wow, I wonder what would’ve helped stop those drones?
Another thing that could be a massive kill box for US troops would be fiber-optic or FPV drones, if US lands on any islands or are near Iran. They could’ve worked with Ukraine on Fiber Optics, too, but Trump did not want to.
Ukraine Battle Map (Twitter)
@WarMonitor3: They are likely providing more than just intelligence. Russia is, for a fact, providing components for Iranian drones
@WarMonitor3: They are likely providing more than just intelligence. Russia is, for a fact, providing components for Iranian drones
Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)
Good historical context. ⬇️
The point that @AirPowerNEW1 & I are emphasizing is the disconnect between the rhetoric & actions of European governments.
In 2022 they could have decided to make unprecedented investments specifically for Ukraine, but they decided not to.
The Biden Admin similarly decided not to do this, and made more modest investments. Though collectively the USG & US industry have invested more than Europe, and they were starting from a point far ahead, as Phoenix highlights below.
Good historical context. ⬇️
The point that @AirPowerNEW1 & I are emphasizing is the disconnect between the rhetoric & actions of European governments.
In 2022 they could have decided to make unprecedented investments specifically for Ukraine, but they decided not to.
The Biden Admin similarly decided not to do this, and made more modest investments. Though collectively the USG & US industry have invested more than Europe, and they were starting from a point far ahead, as Phoenix highlights below.
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Phoenix_jz (@phoenix_jz)
(1/9) Fundamentally, this is an issue of scale.
Patriot has 17 operators with >240 fire units (FU) sold to date.
SAMP/T has 3 with 17.5 FUs delivered, and if you count naval systems (9 users) & equivalent number of missile tubes, you can claim equivalent…
Patriot has 17 operators with >240 fire units (FU) sold to date.
SAMP/T has 3 with 17.5 FUs delivered, and if you count naval systems (9 users) & equivalent number of missile tubes, you can claim equivalent…
Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)
The 10,000 drones in question, the Merops, is made by US company Perennial Autonomy. Merops was developed with and continues to benefit from significant Ukrainian input, but they aren't coming from Ukraine.
WSJ reported that the Ukrainians will help train US personnel use them. https://twitter.com/steven_pifer/status/2032988477386805453#m
The 10,000 drones in question, the Merops, is made by US company Perennial Autonomy. Merops was developed with and continues to benefit from significant Ukrainian input, but they aren't coming from Ukraine.
WSJ reported that the Ukrainians will help train US personnel use them. https://twitter.com/steven_pifer/status/2032988477386805453#m
Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)
🇺🇸🇰🇷 A lot of accounts very confidently claimed that the entire THAAD battery was redeployed to CENTCOM. Good opportunity to cut some bad information sources out of your feed. https://twitter.com/ArmsControlWonk/status/2033245799543718375#m
🇺🇸🇰🇷 A lot of accounts very confidently claimed that the entire THAAD battery was redeployed to CENTCOM. Good opportunity to cut some bad information sources out of your feed. https://twitter.com/ArmsControlWonk/status/2033245799543718375#m
Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)
RT @shahpas: 🇫🇷🇶🇦🇦🇪🇺🇦 One of the big problems with procuring many non-American weapons is that non-American production line capacity/volumes are often incomparable with those of analogous American designs. The likely depletion of Emirati and Qatari MICA air-to-air and surface-to-air missile stocks will likely take multiple years to address (simply returning to pre-war stocks, let alone expanding said stocks beyond pre-war levels).
This is one of the problems with procuring the French Rafale fighter aircraft. The American AIM-9 missile, pan-European IRIS-T, British ASRAAM, and the longer-range American AIM-120 are not integrated onto the Rafale, and the French state has a longstanding vested interest in keeping it that way so as to maintain the unique selling proposition of French armaments.
Regarding the Ukrainian angle, a more limited supply of French-built MICA missiles, in terms of both extant missiles and future production, will affect Ukraine's small but expanding Mirage 2000 fleet, which can make use of only so many older R.550 Magic air-to-air missiles.
https://www.latribune.fr/article/defense-aerospatiale/defense/1121911587305114/conflit-au-moyen-orient-crise-des-missiles-a-paris#selection-1197.0-1303.14
RT @shahpas: 🇫🇷🇶🇦🇦🇪🇺🇦 One of the big problems with procuring many non-American weapons is that non-American production line capacity/volumes are often incomparable with those of analogous American designs. The likely depletion of Emirati and Qatari MICA air-to-air and surface-to-air missile stocks will likely take multiple years to address (simply returning to pre-war stocks, let alone expanding said stocks beyond pre-war levels).
This is one of the problems with procuring the French Rafale fighter aircraft. The American AIM-9 missile, pan-European IRIS-T, British ASRAAM, and the longer-range American AIM-120 are not integrated onto the Rafale, and the French state has a longstanding vested interest in keeping it that way so as to maintain the unique selling proposition of French armaments.
Regarding the Ukrainian angle, a more limited supply of French-built MICA missiles, in terms of both extant missiles and future production, will affect Ukraine's small but expanding Mirage 2000 fleet, which can make use of only so many older R.550 Magic air-to-air missiles.
https://www.latribune.fr/article/defense-aerospatiale/defense/1121911587305114/conflit-au-moyen-orient-crise-des-missiles-a-paris#selection-1197.0-1303.14
www.latribune.fr
Conflit au Moyen-Orient : crise des missiles à Paris
La forte consommation de missiles air-air MICA utilisés par les pilotes de Rafale de l'armée de l'air française pour intercepter les drones iraniens Shahed dans le ciel des Émirats Arabes Unis crée de vives tensions à Paris. Une réunion de crise est convoquée…
Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)
@jj_smither @AirPowerNEW1: It's what many European customers are choosing to order.
@jj_smither @AirPowerNEW1: It's what many European customers are choosing to order.