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Trent Telenko

@TrentTelenko

8 Jul

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For those of you interested in WW2 electronic warfare, there are Paul Woodage's (@WW2TV) earlier presentations with Matt Bone's radar hunting Typhoons here:

The Radar War Before D-Day ()

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And Paul's presentation with Thomas Withington's presentation with RAF 100 Group here: ()

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Plus a 7 July 2021 one just posted by the History Indoor channel titled

The Darkest Moonlit Night: RAF Bomber Command's raid on Nuremberg 30/31 March 1944 here:

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Trent Telenko

@TrentTelenko

6 Jul

The Section 22 Special Interest Group's presentation on Gen MacArthur's secret radar hunters will be on WW2TV tomorrow, July 7, 2021.

Check it out.

https://twitter.com/TrentTelenko/status/1362812609192370178

Section 22 was a secret WW2 radar intelligence unit in the S.W. Pacific.

This tweet thread hosts an 82 slide information packet that was released over the six days prior to the Feb 2021 CIMSEC Bilgepumps podcast on Section 22.

https://twitter.com/TrentTelenko/status/1362812609192370178

https://twitter.com/TrentTelenko/status/1364239719572201474

These are the published articles of the Section 22 special Interest Group between Mar 2015 and Feb 2020.

https://twitter.com/TrentTelenko/status/1364239719572201474

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Trent Telenko

@TrentTelenko

18 Jun

@idreesali114

@idreesali114 General Mark Milley is deluding himself.

A UH-60M Blackhawk has a radius of action of 368 miles. The PLA Z-20 Blackhawk variant has improved 5-blade rotor system and more powerful engines.

It is 130 km from the Mainland to Northern Taiwan.

@idreesali114

@idreesali114 The capability of Mainland China to effect "bolt from the blue" coup de main vs. Taiwan grows with it's Z-20 fleet.

One hundred Z-20's isn't decisive.

Somewhere north of 300 Z-20's and things get dicey for Taiwan.

@idreesali114

@idreesali114 At 1,000(+) Z-20, PLA can air lift a light infantry division (11,000 troops) to Taiwan every six hours.

And some portion of those Z-20's will be stealth helicopters.

The PLA will have 1,000 Z-20 no later than 2025.
thedrive.com/the-war-zone/4…

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Trent Telenko

@TrentTelenko

16 Jun

@Drachinifel

@Drachinifel
@AC_NavalHistory
@ArmouredCarrier

So...individual human vertical envelopment in the maritime, amphibious, & urban combat environment is a near term thing.

What can a section of Marines debarking a Merlin onto 200kg hoverboards below the radar horizon at 20km do?

https://twitter.com/Fabriziobustama/status/1404649101036228611

Nor are squadies the only payload these multicopter "lift rings" can move around.

The Ukrainian “Thunder” loitering drone recce-ammunition uses the lift ring staging concept to lift it's munition and then acts as a radio relay
naturasigorta.com/ukrainian-loit…

Conceptually, staged drones are a partially disposable form of air to air refueling.

This reusable multi-copter staged munition drone concept certainly makes a USS Unicorn style VTOL aircraft & drone carrier a while lot more interesting.

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Trent Telenko

@TrentTelenko

15 Jun

@GreenSpike5

@GreenSpike5 @RALee85 While the idea of doing something like this to an Iron Dome is attractive. It falls apart on financial grounds.

The US Army's 227mm GMLRS runs $110,000 a round after 50,000 have been built and production lines are running at 9,000 units a year.

https://twitter.com/TotherChris/status/1389878703799377923

@GreenSpike5

@GreenSpike5 @RALee85 The US Army likes to keep upgrading the GMLRS baseline over time. So their whole mass production cost reduction curve gets d*cked to h-ll and gone.

Yet even if the US Army accepted 100m versus 10m CEP, you are still in the $25,000-to-$40,000 per rocket range.

@GreenSpike5

@GreenSpike5 @RALee85 Twelve Grad launchers with 40 rockets each is 480 rockets.

At $25K to $40K per rocket, you are talking about $12 million to $19.2 million for a saturation guided rocket attack.

That amounts to a virtual kill on your rocket ammo supply.

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Trent Telenko

@TrentTelenko

14 Jun

This thread is another visit into the pyrrhic victory known as Operation Iceberg, the Apr 1945 invasion of Okinawa.

This thread is based on my Aug 2013 Chicagoboyz column "Technological Surprise & the Defeat of the 193rd Tank Battalion at Kakuzu Ridge"
chicagoboyz.net/archives/38455…
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On 19 April 1945, the US Army’s 27th Inf Div launched an attack against the Kakuza Ridge position held by the 32nd Army on Okinawa with the 193rd Tank Btn's 30 tanks, S.P. assault guns, and attached armored flame throwers from the 713th Flame Tank Btn.
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When the battle was over, 22 of the 30 AFV had been destroyed in a coordinated ambush by Japanese AT- guns, artillery, mortars & suicide close assault teams. Among the dead was the commander of the 193rd, on whom blame was laid for attacking without infantry in close support.
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