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@Aviation_Intel
Sep 9, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
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A trio of fighters are making a run on a ship and/or fighters. They came from Miramar. Likely fleet adversary, not a contractor.
Resetting or possible RTB.
OK getting on as SNIPER now so probably VMFT-401 F-5Ns
These guys took a nice little flight over NASNI, the bay and then did a steep 270 descent east of Miramar and entered the overhead at 450knots
This was interesting, they did a sort of offset pattern after the break as traffic (likely hornets) were on final and then if this data is to be believed, they flew extremely close at the same alt to a helo over the highway:

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Aug 28
The missing link for the USAF is and always has been (for basically a decade and a half+, a proper very low-observable, long-range, 4,500lb payload-class UCAV. We can only hope that's what's hiding in the darkness. It's HIGHLY doubtful it exists in any significant combat mass if it is out there, it's more likely it is being rushed into service... Finally.

Fingers crossed. 1/X
Full background on this issue you need to read. This was published in 2016 (date stamp is wrong). twz.com/3889/the-alarm…
And no you don't need AI to make this concept work. Total bullshit shell game I hear often without real backing. Much harder to pair these things with manned aircraft and operate tactically tethered. DoD buried this and it remains a total mystery to this day.
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Jun 2
People on here stating “see I predicted China could launch drone swarms from ships off the coast two years ago!” are so funny. Bro some of us have been on this for well over a decade. And in great detail, not a tweet. The cruise missile threat from a similar vector tis literally a 25 year old issue the DoD has been working. You think F-15s got AESA radars 20 years ago just because it’s just a better radar for shooting down fighters?
Everyone suddenly a drone expert. It’s like clockwork. Love the guys that shit on it or dismissed it for years now suddenly all knowing visionaries on it.
So much bad info out there on this. People use a lot of big, fancy, complex terms but their knowledge base is totally hollow, that's always the #1 red flag with anything like this. Be aware, we have to back out so much bad info. Youtube is probably the worst in this area.
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Jun 1
For over a decade I have outlined the exact scenario as we just saw in Russia. It could happen in the U.S. tomorrow. This was a pivotal event. U.S. military and political leadership cannot live in partial denial of this threat anymore. Our most prized aircraft are sitting ducks.
I have focused on this issue above all else in my career. I care deeply about it. The failure of the DoD to foresee what was totally foreseeable, with obsessions with yesterday's threats is such a failure. We need to educate our non military leaders on what this is, a huge issue as well (see New Jersey). So much work to be done. Hardened aircraft shelters is still be debated in the Pacific. We are really in a bad spot here.
The biggest challenge with this issue is education. Many just don't take the time to learn the ins and outs of the UAS threat, there are many layers and nuances, emerging technologies. There are high up people in the military that don't even really understand these basics. Then really terrible assumptions fill the gaps. Our pilots, our troops, our generals, our local officials, need a crash course on all this NOW.
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Mar 22
Lockheed’s NGAD entrant revealed!
For the FH-45 Skunk Works came to the conclusion that airfield independence was MOST important, paired with stealth, supersonic cruise and unlimited magazine depth!
Airframe was derived from a previous mothballed development program that was ran out of a particularly shady group within the Agency. The demonstrator was revived and proved breakthrough advantages against triple digit SAMs and other brightly pained helicopters with laser weapons
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Mar 17
Absolutely nothing that has happened in terms of drones over US bases is a surprise. The DoD and other agencies totally failed on this and my team have documented this in extreme detail for a decade+.

Thank you 60 Minutes for giving us the credit we deserve.
It took Langley AFB to get invaded for them to really wake up (and we broke the Langley story just like all the other incursion stories, but it was later stolen/repackaged without credit by WSJ months later). This should be very alarming and troubling.
We have more coming on what can be done. The problem is about to get far more complex as well. For a primer on what I mean by this, read: twz.com/news-features/…
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Mar 10
Posted this in January. You don't need a 'kill switch' to severely hamper the utility of an exported weapons system, you just stop providing support for it and it will wither away, some systems very quickly. The more advanced the faster the degradation. This is in addition...
the impact from being locked out of centralized cloud-based system like F-35's ODIN (ALIS) that does so many things, including mission planning w/threat intel integration. Your jets would be far more vulnerable to loss without it...
let alone all the other stuff it does to keep the F-35 flying. Israel has invested in and made a deal for cutouts regarding these vulnerabilities. Nobody else has this deal or capabilities.
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