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Apr 27 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Ahem, drones have been doing this role versus integrated air defenses very well since the 1960s Vietnam War.
This is the history of one Vietnam era drone program that did what is being done over Donbas right now.

The Secret Lightning Bug War Over the Vietnam War

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William Wagner's 1982 book "Lightning Bugs and other Reconnaissance Drones The can-do story of Ryan's Unmanned 'Spy Planes' details what 'Remotely Piloted Aircraft' did then and what we call 'Drones" do now.

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 amazon.com/Lightning-Bugs…
David Axe also wrote a book about this more recently.

There is very, very little done in war that hasn't been done decades before.

amazon.com/Drone-War-Viet…

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Apr 29
>>The qualities that make someone an effective and profitable thief preclude other skill sets.

The above statement is at the heart of Russia's shortcoming in Ukraine & possibly with Russia's nuclear arsenal.🧵

The idea that this situation goes from Russian Army platoon
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...Lieutenant to Putin himself plus every level of procurement supporting the Russian military still hasn't sunk deeply into the minds of Western Defense Analysts.

Specifically, the USA spends $10 million a year supporting each and every active nuclear weapon in it's arsenal.
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That's $10 billion a year.

Russia's entire 2021 defense budget was estimated at $41.6 billion for EVERYTHING.

The levels of corruption demonstrated in Ukraine are such that the West needs to deeply consider the strategic implications of the Russian nuclear arsenal being

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Apr 28
This is called "Preparing the Battlefield" by Ukraine.🧵👏👏👇

Let's talk about logistics, Starlink & Ukraine's southern front.
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Ukraine's destruction of these railway bridges require far more exposure of the declining Russian tactical truck fleet to Ukrainian ATGM/Mortar/Drone kill teams in the south.


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This is a defacto operational truck lift per day kill in terms of delivered supplies at Kherson.

It also exposes Russian Railway Troops trying to fix those bridges to Ukraine's new loitering munitions.
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Apr 28
The arrival of the M270 MLRS launcher in Ukraine's arsenal is a really big deal.

The M270 was designed as a counter battery reaper, an air defense killer, and like all MLRS, mass death for infantry in the open.👇

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The M270 launcher has access to the entire MLRS family of munitions.

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As of 2021, over 50,000 GMLRS rockets have been delivered to US and foreign militaries.

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Apr 28
You can compare the Bayraktar TB2 to a MQ-1 Gray eagle at this link:

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 armedforces.eu/compare/drones…
Where the MQ-1 comes into its own own & eclipses the TB-2 is the suite of signals intelligence and synthetic aperture radar sensors.

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 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_A…
The TB2 as a result is cheaper, smaller and it's MAM-C & MAM-L munitions are good enough to get the job done compared to a Hellfire missile on a MQ-12 Grey Eagle.

Hellfires do have much bigger warheads.

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Apr 27
Missile container thread 🧵note the wooden boxes used to move Russian Kornet large vehicle anti-tank missiles.

You can learn a lot about real history versus 'narratives' by paying attention to them.

This thread will demonstrate why that is.

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Now compare what you are seeing to this DoD video of missile containers I used in a previous thread:

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The US missile containers you saw in the video are the product of decades of improvement in mechanized logistics, human factors & experience with failed container technology.

Now the packaging technology teachable moment, TOW missile edition.

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Apr 25
If you have never seen efficient mechanized warehouse operations moving pallets from truck to a staging area.

This video is a treat👇

I'm going to use it as a teachable moment on American intelligence failure.🧵
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First a truck comes to a dock. It stops and a forklift brings out a commercial pallet with six missiles at the ~00:15 sec hack.

The forklift brings the missile pallet to a group of three standard USAF 463L cargo pallets where four of the missile pallets can be placed on
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...each.

The airmen secure the four pallet loads on the 463L cargo pallets, 24 missiles per 463L.

Then the forklift moves the consolidated load to a roller conveyor, which moves it inside the staging area.
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