Karen (Harris/Walz Alaskan Democrat)

ATSB: Cruise Ship's Chief Mate Distracted by ECDIS Ahead of Grounding The cruise ship Coral Adventurer ran aground on a reef off Papua New Guinea after the ship's ECDIS declined to load the chief mate's route plan, the...

ATSB: Cruise Ship's Chief Mate Distracted by ECDIS Ahead of Grounding

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Pritzker, 18 Other Democratic Governors Call on Congress to Block Trump Tariffs “We respectfully urge you to cast aside any efforts to codify the invalidated levies struck down by the Supreme Court and instead enact meaningful statutory constraints on presidential tariff power th...

Illinoisans can't afford more chaos from Trump.

The Supreme Court was clear that his tariffs were illegal — now it’s time for Congress to check his power.

I'm joining my fellow governors to call on them to block his tax on working families.

Drones Strike Russian Train Carrying Fuel and Ammunition in Luhansk Region Ukrainian drones caught up with and struck a Russian train carrying fuel and ammunition.The Unmanned Systems Forces reported that this train was supplying Russian troops.The 414th Madyar Birds Brigade...

💥 Ukrainian drones caught up with and struck a Russian train carrying fuel and ammunition.

The 414th Madyar Birds Brigade of Unmanned Systems used several drones to strike it.

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Australia steps up reliance on uncrewed surface vessels | The Strategist Expansion of Australia’s fleet of Ocius Bluebottle uncrewed boats is an important step, but it must not be the last in creating a larger and more powerful navy that mixes such systems with conventiona...

The persistent problem with drone-focused advocacy is that it represents as factual what is in reality speculative and subject to evidence produced as part of operational evaluation.
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Taiwanese interest in RBS-70 increases.

In WW1 Italy, who pretty much invented modern naval special forces, solved the problem of allowing boats to climb, see the Grillo. Their focus was harbour defences, but is this the solution to Omani mountains and the Straits of Hormuz problem?

#iran
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Various designs for submarine oil tankers through time

‼️ Russia: “Kazakhstan has abandoned Russian turbines for its power plants and decided to purchase Chinese ones.”

Russia could not/would not supply the equipment or the preferential loan.

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‼️ Russia: “Back to the 1990s: Muscovites started buying up pagers due to internet outages”

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Ukrainian Defenders share their childhood photos and photos of themselves today.

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I'm used to seeing Republicans humiliate themselves for Trump, but sometimes there's one who elevates the sacrifice of his dignity and self-respect to celestial heights.

ffs

This happened during Operation Iraqi Freedom. Several cruise missiles clobbered in Saudi and Turkey. The US had to suspend launches over Saudi and Turkey as a result. Here is a picture from Turkey in 2003.

Why The Navy Should Retire TLAM-N The Tomahawk Land Attack Missile, or TLAM, is named after the Tomahawk — a Native American axe. If you have ever seen a Western movie, the tomahawk [...]

I wrote this up in 2009 when there was a debate about whether to retire the nuclear-armed Tomahawk. One reason the Navy supported retirement was the concern of crashing nuclear-armed cruise missiles into countries like Japan and Korea.
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If the warhead is intact after the crash, that's a strong sign of clobbering -- the LACM was lost and, therefore, didn't make enough terrain matches to arm the warhead.

Since people are rediscovering "clobbering" of cruise missiles, let me explain: Tomahawks use "terrain contour matching" (TERCOM) to find their way to targets. For reasons, about 1-2% of Tomahawks "clobber" -- get lost and fly into the ground -- en route to target.

Rep Dan Crenshaw says culture of misinformation fueld his primary loss: "The truth didn't matter"

I Never Thought Leopards Would Eat My Face, Sobs Congressman Representing Leopards-Eating-Faces Party.

When Trump seizes Kharg Island and the oil but leaves the uranium at Isfahan, it will be the funniest thing ever.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but Tomahawk Block IV can dive vertically.

Again, this is a feature of Tomahawk route planning. Tomahawk doesn’t know where it is unless it makes a number of unique terrain matches over an ingress route that must extend for several hundred kilometers. In 2003 routes over Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Iran were used during strikes on Iraq.

Oman is evacuating ships from key oil terminal amid Iranian attacks.

172 million barrels is what we are releasing now. 400 million is what everyone is releasing now. 415 million is what we have in total, because Trump couldn’t be bothered to fill it before bombing Iran.

None of it enough if this keeps going.

Thank you!

William Shatner undergoes surgery after falling from horse William Shatner has undergone surgery after falling from his horse.

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Invisible, Lethal, Affordable, Unmanned: Reshaping Naval Warfare cloverops.substack.com/p/invisible-...

British Veteran Says Western Armies Better Be Learning From Ukraine’s Battlefield Playbook Ex-UK soldier Andrew Fox on Ukraine’s frontline tactics near Pokrovsk: small-unit urban fighting, discipline, and constant FPV drone threats.

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Meanwhile the Royal Marines are running commando exercises in an "Arctic fjord" off a German Navy Type 212A submarine. Source @RoyalMarines-account on the other site.

Brilliant sweepthestrait.com

The West’s military malaise The West’s response to new methods of warfare in Ukraine and the Middle East has been sluggish, revealing an adaptation process that is slow, risk-averse and underfunded.

“If western military organisations were too slow to develop counters to obvious operational problems in the past 4 years, what else might they have missed?” There is a systemic learning deficiency in western military organisations we need to fix. engelsbergideas.com/notebook/the...