It sure is nice to see the USAF flag ranks realize that if they don't get F-16's on Ukraine's side in its war with Russia very soon.

That the F-35 will lose it's budget war for the battlefield air interdiction mission to US Army drones & 150km GMLRS extended range👇
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The USAF certainly realizes the F-35 is in a very tough budget position here since a GBU-53/B Stormbreaker 250lb guided bomb on the F-35 costs twice as much as a GMLRS round.

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GBU-53/B_… Image
And a M142 HIMARS launcher costs a whole lot less than a $80 million F-35 for the same strike capabilities w/in GMLRS 100km - 150km range.

I must admit I am really enjoying this very public knifing of the "Deconfliction factions" in various Western governments by the USAF.

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Like nation's, US Military services never have permanent political allies.

They have permanent interests.

Those interest are always DoD roles & missions budget wars über alles.

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Jul 20
This is a GMLRS bridge damage/map/missile thread. 🧵

The Antovosky Bridge at Kherson was damaged so badly that no Russian AFV's are going to be crossing that bridge without major repairs.

Nor can the Russians recover AFV's past Kherson using that bridge.👇
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A single UK provided M270 launcher with two six-round GMLRS pods can cut that bridge even if the Russians use overbridge structures to temporarily repair it.

For all we know, Ukraine SF teams may have a remote camera watching that cut waiting for Russian engineers to show
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...up to call another GMLRS strike to kill them.

It also demonstrates several things to the military professional.

1st, in the age of long range guided artillery, armies without counter rocket, artillery, & mortar (C-RAM) air defense capability will be losing armies.
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Jul 20
,@SashoTodorov1 is absolutely right here about real next peer war being an medium intensity artillery war and not cyber horses--t.👇

He & @ww2tv did a wonderful youtube stream titled:

The Red God of War? Soviet Artillery in WWII
The link below has @SashoTodorov1 power points and narrative.

I learned a great deal from it about the logistical realities of medium intensity (No nukes, gas or bugs) war.

He explained in context that there is a lot more to war than just fighting.

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The following is my reply to @WW2TV on how good @SashoTodorov1 stream was:

""I cannot begin to describe how many "ah-hah" moments your guest Sasho Todorov delivered in his presentation. I have the @adam_tooze book on the German economy, but missed the part about the

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Jul 19
This is a Western intelligence🧵based on a DM observation of a Russian SAM launch sent to me:

"So in a recent launch from Kherson, 2 out of 8 RU missiles exploded after launch (25%)"

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t.me/hueviyherson/2…
The thing about Russian high tech isn't that it is 🥔 & that causes detonations & screw ups.

Russians are cheap about what costs their economy a lot -- be it mechanized logistics or good electronic human interface -- & substitute it with conscripted/involuntary manpower.

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Soviet style high tech military systems rely heavily on the smarts of their operators.

Russians' military leaders of the Soviet era cherry picked conscripted STEM grads in physics, engineering, maths to run their integrated air defenses (IADS).

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Read 19 tweets
Jul 15
The interview I did with TVP World on the battlefield impact of HIMARS/GMLRS in the Russo-Ukrainian War, & the reasons why the Russian S-400 was incapable of stopping GMLRS strikes, has been posted at the link.
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Since I've gotten a lot of pushback to the effect that "Trent Telenko can't be an expert on everything."

I am going to start by agreeing with that criticism. I'm not an expert.

An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less.
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I'm a retired DoD quality auditor & amateur historian.

A large part of a DoD quality auditor's skills set is developing audit methodologies to test 'expert badges' and see if they applied to the relevant contract technical specifications.

The questions you ask an
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Jul 15
Russian Army 2010 era ammunition storage practices photo thread🧵shot with a DC Elite stupidity, money & power politics on parade chaser.

All the photos are from this link:
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russiatrek.org/blog/army/stor…
This is another view from May 26, 2010.

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Russian 125mm tank rounds.

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Jul 14
The Ukrainian crowdsourcing of intelligence to a cellphone app early in the Russo-Ukrainian War, and the non-mechanized/forced labor nature of Russian logistics, have combined to give US provided GMLRS rockets a lot of logistical targets to destroy.👇
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This is one of a list of reasons why Russia is forcing Russian cell phone sim cards on Ukrainians in the occupied territories and has rerouted all landline internet in the occupied territories through Russian servers.

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Yes, there are a lot of other intelligence, surveillance & reconnaissance assets involved in targeting Russian depots and command centers.

But lots of Ukrainian cellphone "eyes on the ground" early in the war built an operational template of Russian Army logistics for those
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