‌Colby Badhwar (Twitter/X)

RT @the_engi_nerd: NIXON: Bob, they’re telling me we need the E-7 Wedgetail. Big airplane. Radar on top. Looks like a 737 with a canoe strapped to it.

HALDEMAN: That’s the general configuration, Mr. President.

NIXON: Don’t get technical with me.

HALDEMAN: I’ll try not to, sir.

NIXON: And then the eggheads from Chantilly come in. Charts, folders, little arrows going around the planet. Space-based AMTI, they say. Persistent tracking, they say. Global coverage. Bob, any time a man says “global coverage,” he’s either selling you satellites or shaving cream.

HALDEMAN: Which eggheads from Chantilly, sir?

NIXON: What do you mean, which eggheads?

HALDEMAN: NRO or SDA?

NIXON: That’s exactly what I mean. Too many outfits. Too many letters. We used to have departments. Now we have alphabet soup with clearances.

HALDEMAN: The NRO people would be the quiet ones. The SDA types would be the ones saying “proliferated architecture.”

NIXON: Proliferated architecture. Sounds like a disease you get from a federal building.

HALDEMAN: It’s contagious in budget hearings.

NIXON: I don’t like it. I don’t like any of it. First they put cameras in space. Then radars. Then they tell me the airplane is obsolete. Then some damned Colonel with a slide rule says we need a Space Force.

HALDEMAN: That term may test poorly.

NIXON: Test poorly? Bob, it sounds like a toy line. Space Force. They could make a television show to sell the toys; the boys at Mattel would make an absolute killing.

HALDEMAN: The Air Force would object to that characterization.

NIXON: The Air Force would object to breathing if the Navy got appropriations for lungs.

HALDEMAN: That’s probably true.

NIXON: They’re out to get me, Bob.

HALDEMAN: The Air Force?

NIXON: The whole blue-suiter crowd. The bomber crowd, the missile crowd, the fellows who sit around drawing arrows over Poland. They want a new branch, new uniforms, new generals. And once they get space, they’ll look down at the White House and say, “There he is.”

HALDEMAN: From Earth orbit, sir, the White House is a fairly small target.

NIXON: Don’t reassure me with geometry.

Colby Badhwar (Twitter/X)

RT @AirPowerNEW1: PSA: OSINT is geolocating a tank from satellite imagery or scrubbing hundreds of public documents for relevant facts. SLOPINT (Scraped, Lifted, Other-people's Posts as INTelligence) involves scrolling some 400 follower account on social media, bookmarking or screenshotting their post, and filing it as your own reporting or throwing their content into a monetized youtube video. Two very different jobs.

‌Colby Badhwar (Twitter/X)

🇺🇸🇺🇦 Security Assistance provisions of the Ukraine Support Act include restoring the authorization for Lend Lease (thru FY28) and authorizing $8 billion in Foreign Military Financing loans to Ukraine & NATO allies in FY26.

It would eliminate the authorization for USAI in CY28 & 29 though. The FYAA NDAA extended thru CY29 and this would amend that to thru CY27.

Once this gets on the floor the House needs to amend that.

Necro Mancer (Twitter/X)

@Wespe1927: События с нулевой вероятностью тоже случаются

Status-6 (War & Military News) (Twitter/X)

Ukrainian Air Force claims the interception of 710 (!) Russian strike drones and decoys throughout Wednesday.

According to the Ukrainian side, the Russians launched at least 753 OWA-UAVs of various types (Shahed/Geran, Italmas, Gerbera + decoys) against Ukraine today.