Necro Mancer (Twitter)

RT @lucky__soldier: Приїхали люди мобілізовані

Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)

Operationally, Epic Fury has been a success, but not without fault. Losses incurred by US & partner forces could have been minimized had the Trump Admin been more open to Ukrainian support; and the US Army more nimble in reforms.

Here are the receipts to prove it. 🧵 ⬇️

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Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)

Last August the Ukrainians pitched the White House on a defense industrial cooperation deal focused on Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) and counter-UAS (cUAS). Ukraine has immense technical and operational expertise in this area. They made this presentation, obtained by Axios.

2/25

Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)

Ukraine even emphasized the threat Iran posed to US forces in CENTCOM. After meeting with Zelensky, Trump told his team to work on it, but they did not follow through. US officials have told Axios that this was a big mistake on the Administration's part.

3/25

Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)

Another US official told Axios that US military personnel have "been wanting to go to Ukraine and pull the tech and the tactics from [them] ... so that we're innovating and learning."

If you don't believe it, just listen to the US military themselves, here's LG Whitney:

4/25

Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)

Here's then EUCOM Commander General Cavoli testifying that he initially doubted the Ukrainians ability to use PATRIOT, but they have become so proficient with it that the US Army is now learning from them.

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Rob Lee (Twitter)

@HydeDefinition: But then you will face the anti-interceptor-interceptor-interceptor.

Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)

BG Curtis King, commandant of the ADA School explains how Ukraine & Russia are using UAS to target air defense systems, and that's "something we haven't talked about a lot that I need to make sure this group understands, we've got to look at our survivability against UAS."

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Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)

"One of the things we'd heard [...] with the Ukrainians recently was: when do you learn *not* to shoot."

"It pertains directly to our survivability, of our soldiers, our systems, and of our interceptors, to ensure that we have the magazine depth that we need."

8/25

Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)

This is a crucial point. ADA units must conduct their engagements prudently to preserve interceptors; both to maintain self defense against further imminent threats, and the overall depth of the stockpile for all units. You don't want to be baited into Winchester.

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