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@TrentTelenko
May 26, 2022 • 7 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
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Getting MLRS guided rockets in either M142 HIMARS wheeled or M270 tracked launchers represents a phase shift increase in artillery capability for Ukraine.👇

MLRS Technology Thread🧵
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American Guided MLRS artillery rockets are a combat proven precision guided weapon (thousands fired) with a 200lb (90.7kg) insensitive explosive warhead equipped with multi option fuzing that is set electronically.

They use GPS & inertial guidance for 3 meter accuracy.
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Both the US move away from cluster munitions & the 30 year rocket age have seen early MLRS unguided rockets disposed of.

And while pilot quantities of GMLRS were built with cluster munitions in the early 2000's. Most (>99%) GMLRS built have unitary warheads.
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To restore lost lethality of cluster munitions against radars, towed artillery & missile launchers in peer combat, a modified version of GMLRS has been given a much improved fragmentation warhead.

This "Alternate Warhead" will be available for GMLRS ammo shipments to Ukraine.
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Given the bad memories of losing soldiers to unexploded M26 rocket cluster munitions in 1991's Desert Storm operations. The US Army spend a lot of money to make the GMLRS fuze as reliable as possible, in addition to being multi-option.

It functioned 74/75 times in testing.
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It is accurate to say that the arrival of GMLRS missiles, and their launchers in numbers similar to the M777, in Ukraine's hands will overwhelm both Russian artillery and the railway logistics it in the Donbas.

The USA has over 40,000 GMLRS missiles available in stock.

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This is the Lockheed-Martin video celebrating the 50,000th GMLRS produced.

The recent lot 14 production award was for 9,500 GMLRS unitary and alternative-warhead (AW) rockets and over 300 low-cost reduced-range training rockets.

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Jul 31
As voter rolls are used for Jury duty...Lancaster County, as well as other PA State, county & municipal criminal and civil justice systems will be utterly crippled for years.

It would be legal malpractice for every PA trial attorney involved in a jury trial not to file an immediate appeal based on their being non-citizens on the jury in cases they were involved with.

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This will require the PA state county & municipal justice systems to either prove their were not any non-citizens on the trial juries or overturn the criminal and civil verdicts.

We are talking thousands to tens of thousands of cases over since motor voter laws were passed.

2/
And this mass over turning of criminal and civil verdicts due to non-citizens in the jury pools will be true in every state where illegal aliens were included on voter rolls and were called for jury duty.

3/
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Jul 30
It is sad to see Ukraine is again in 2026 where it was in 2023.

Specifically, Ukraine is failing to use available barge alternatives to move grain through Odesa to the wider world markets.

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I pointed this out in a couple of posts in 2023, before the Black Sea grain deal put it on the very back burner, explaining what could be done.

Here is one post
2/
And here is another in a larger Russian truck, port clearance & barge logistical 🧵

3/
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Jul 29
It's nice to see the US National Security establishment in July 2026 _FINALLY_ getting around to putting in print what I was writing about between April 2023 and Nov-Dec 2024.

Drone Revolution vs DC elites 🧵
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April 2023:

How drones have made Western intervention light infantry obsolete.



2/
January 2024:

“Distributed computing means distributed area denial military power in the age of drones.

We saw this in Armenia in 2020… Ukraine since Feb 2022… and… Yemen in 2024.”



3/
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Jul 19
Sadly for Grikin, the damage done to Russia's energy transport sector is already permanent.

We are ~six months from a Russian systemic economic collapse just from Ukrainian damage inflicted to date.

Russian collapse 🧵
1/7
The additional accumulated damage - beyond revisits to already damaged refineries - to the Russian power grid and POL supply chain in the next two months may speed this up to four months, to late November 2026, AKA just in Time for the US elections.

Russia lost 83 power
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...sub-stations since 1 July 2026 in occupied Ukraine.

Russia will have to strip its own unique power grid to replace these losses, shutting down supply in "less significant" parts of Russia.


3/7ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/414…
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Jul 11
I've been advocating that Ukraine strike Russian tugs as part of a larger campaign against Russian riverine and littoral maritime traffic since 2022.

Ukraine has delivered on all my expectations of what that would accomplish in the last five days.

Brown Water logistics🧵
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This is where I underscored the historical Russian use of barge logistics in WW2 as a basis for what they would be doing in occupied Ukraine

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This 2023 post is where I posed the question of how large Russian riverine/littoral/brown water logistical efforts were to support Russian occupation forces in southern Ukraine.
3/
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Jul 10
Given the massive Ukrainian victory in the "Battle of the Azov Sea."

We can say Ukraine has achieved “Usable Drone Air Superiority" over the Sea of Azov in exactly the way the Chinese would in the waters around, & air over, Taiwan when it invades.
🧵

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 united24media.com/war-in-ukraine…
The "Battle of the Azov Sea" shares a lot of historical elements of both the WW2 "Battle of the Bismarck Sea" and the slaughter of Allied oil tankers in 1942 during Operation Drumbeat (Paukenschlag) and Operation Neuland.

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The Battle of the Bismarck Sea was the slaughter of 12 ships of a 16 ship Imperial Japanese convoy of eight IJA freighters and eight IJN destroyers moving 6,900 IJA troops.

Tipped off by IJN seaplane deployments & radio intercepts, only 2,700 IJA troops arrived w/o weapons or ammo.
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