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Mike Black Profile picture
@MikeBlack114
Jun 8, 2022 • 6 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X
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I found some planes
And some rockets
And some more planes
Hey @overdesigned it's a baby harrier
If you happen to be at Langley/Hampton/Newport News area, Air Power Park is a cool little feature

Last time I was out here everything was in extremely rough shape so glad to see they got some resources to put a new coat of paint on everything and on sticks to avoid puddles
Also afaik this all came from the city of Hampton which is impressive

Video if you want a status of what it looked like as of a couple years ago (as of a couple years before that as the video alludes to the planes/missiles were in roooooough shape)

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Mike Black Profile picture
Sep 25, 2024
If you've been looking for what I can best describe as an air domain focused version of Littoral Commander, do I have the game for you Image
From Phil Bolger at the AF Wargaming Institute at Maxwell

The board is primarily range based, w/interaction between units being solely range-band based (vs hex/geography). It's an interesting dynamic for an air-focused game, one way to get around the inherent disconnect between a geographic based board and range/timing of airpower Image
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Sep 16, 2024
Gonna be great watching a bunch of idiots go googoogahgah over this while no one asks whether physics is still physics
GA-ASI is really good at wringing every bit of efficiency out of any design, usually at the expense of other attributes (which is fine within the tradespace) and their design obviously reflects that

Fury is a scaled up no range target drone that is somehow going to fly from Guam most of the way to Taiwan without requiring a human centipede string of tankers because Anduril invented antigravity, I guess
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Apr 1, 2024
These people are mentally ill
The folks who are suffering from an ailment (psychosomatic or otherwise) and have convinced themselves not only is it the work of the Kremlin but the USG is deliberately covering it up are one thing, but the folks grifting off of this are the lowest of the low, beyond contempt
Real life is not a 70s conspiracy thriller
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Feb 3, 2024
Nukes, notably the only weapons system area within DoD where folks have been saying the last 25 years "there's a bow wave coming that's gonna cost $," oh wait
Which is my overarching point with this...no one is willing or able to take a holistic look at the investment choices needed to maintain a given overall national security posture, balance that against the topline, and make real choices, with real consequences
Aka the definition of strategy. Instead we write "strategy" documents that are just a wish list of systems and posture that barely can even be bothered to prioritize any of the posture or problem sets, that the establishment ignores for whatever they were going to do anyway
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Jul 8, 2023
I've had folks hit me up asking for sources/background on the DPICM/UXO rate discussion. Unfortunately there's not one good gold standard source, because it's not like anyone is doing peer reviewed studies on the UXO rates of US submunitions
And the people who should know best (DoD) can't exactly be trusted given their demonstrated repeated obfuscation and repetition of incorrect statements on the subject

So this will attempt to lay out the facts as best anyone knows them and provide some of the technical background
For starters read @johnismay, he's been on this "beat" (I think he's the only one) for several years, and he's got the technical background to understand this topic specifically intimately well

Here's his piece on DPICM:

nytimes.com/2023/07/07/us/…
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May 21, 2023
This is like the domestic politics version of tHe MiLiTaRy Is ApOlItIcAl

The idea that invoking a constitutional provision, however argued, is an 'end run' around the 'political process' while what the GOP is doing is politics as usual is peak busted ass DC pundit brain
The wild thing is consider what assumptions are baked into the "be careful what the GOP will do with this" bit

Because we all know he's not saying anyone should be worried about a future GOP President threatening to unilaterally raise the debt ceiling
The implication there is they will take unilaterally exercising a fairly straightforward (if contested) Constitutional provision and use it as an excuse for some facially absurd action like "well actually the 10th says it's now legal to murder trans people"
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