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@TrentTelenko
Oct 2 • 10 tweets • 4 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
For those who are unfamiliar with HIMARS, the cab of the launcher in the photo below is of one of the early DARPA paid for Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration (ACTD) chassis that I was responsible for accepting at the Sealy Texas TVSLP plant.

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This is another view of those early HIMARS launchers.

The cab you see here was only hardened for the rocket blast, not for artillery fragments, bullets and mines.


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This is another view of those pilot production HIMARS before cluster munitions became forbidden on the GMLRS rockets (photo left).

These launchers were used in combat at the 2003 Battle of Haditha Dam. (photo right)

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During Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) the small numbers of early HIMARS launcher trucks were operating out of "Special forces theme parks" within Iraq complete with C-130 strips and helicopters.

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The idea of many of these "theme parks" was to project SF boots on the ground combined with a fast reaction 300km range strike capability to prevent launches/destroy Iraqi mobile Scud launcher infrastructure.

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The full story of all the special forces involved is little told.

For instance, U.S. Navy SEa-Air-Land (SEAL) and Special Boat Teams, supported by AFSOD-S, UK Royal Marine commandos, and Polish SOF troops from their GROM unit were all active.
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There were also a number of US Special forces operating out of Turkey to protect the Kurdish populations north of the Green Line...

...and to keep and eye on the Kurdish and Peshmerga insurgents so Turkey didn't cut them off from that 1st mission.🙄

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Given how Ukrainian Special Forces have used thermobaric armed Tochka-U and SMERCH launchers, the special forces training Royal Marines have given them, and potentially ATACMS in the near term.

I have to wonder if we will be seeing the Ukrainians...
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...will be playing similar SF games in Southern Ukraine & Crimea that the SOFCOM did in 2003 Iraq.🤨🤔😉

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Oct 1
This Russian behavior in replacing Elite VDV combat manpower was seen in 2014-2015.⬇️

Unlike the Soviets, who husbanded the Guards formations, and used the trash troops for "myaso" or cannon-fodder human wave attacks, the Putin regime has played the opposite game, with no...

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...regard for short, medium or long term consequences.

This pattern of Russian behavior in the Russo-Ukraine war is only a surprise to the DC Ukraine haters that make up the Escalation Management faction.🙄

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I mean, the data was there for anyone to see if the DC yo-yo's in question ever bothered to pay attention to reality as opposed to their secular religious dogma.🙄

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Oct 1
The underperformance of the US DoD in it's core contract administration function upstream from the Defense Contract Management Agency is strictly due to the politics of the executive branch.

I lived the low signature armored cap (LSAC) & the mine resistant armor protected...

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...(MRAP) programs from 2005-to-2008.

I have dealt with three MRAPs professionally: the Force Protection Cougar, the BAE/TVSLP Caiman and the failed Textron Armored Security Vehicle (ASV M1117) variant.

The ASV was an armored vehicle and it failed on cost and production
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...schedule grounds. The Cougar and Caiman were two ends of the South African armored anti-mine truck technological spectrum.

I saw DCMA contract officers cutting half a billion dollar orders in days, when they were turned loose from the DOD comptroller...

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Sep 29
I've told people about Russian reflexive control infowar over and over, and how it's biggest target was the Russian people.

This thread details how Putinist infowar has used Russian popular culture outlets to dehumane Ukrainians, British & Americans to the Russian people.

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This is why you have seen the RuAF playing the Imperial Japanese games at Saipan and Iwo in Zaporozhzhiye.

The Russian suicides to prevent capture, attacks under surrender and the Russian wounded trying to use grenades on AFU soldiers are all the result of decades long
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...cultural conditioning that @sumlenny laid out.

The so-called "Realists/Escalation Management"clique controlling Ukraine policy in the Biden Administration simply pretends such loser behavior does not exist in the world.

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Sep 28
I'm going to greatly disagree with @nicholadrummond here.

This:

"...are revolutionary only in that they have democratised air power"

...is all about the cost of electric/propeller drone munitions being in the high 100's to low 1,000's of dollars.

Drone revolution🧵
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For the $4.15 million price and weight (29,000kg or 63,600lb) of a single M109A7 SP gun, ammo, and crew, you can have several light wheeled vehicles and over a thousand precision FPV munitions reaching up to 20 km, with each of the M109A7 crew being drone operator.
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The two orders of magnitude (100 times) increase in the density of indirect fire sensor/shooter complexes on the battlefield means indirect drone firepower will be the dominant firepower.

Rotary wing firepower.

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Sep 28
This is something a lot of people have forgotten about Ukraine's "Death of a Thousand Cuts" logistical strategy aimed at Russia's ground lines of communications.

Coherent Change Detection software sees patterns of Russian tire tracks by satellite very easily

Domino effect🧵
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And Ukraine has had almost year to train similar artificial intelligence tools for its drones -- which Radio Free Europe told us all about in October 2022 -- to better detect RuAF trucks traffic & ammo depots.

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This is the link to the Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty article I clipped from in the previous post.

The high AFU kill rates of Russian artillery and trucks is downstream from this AI tech mapping the RuAF truck delivery supply chain.

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Sep 27
This is a useful thread on the ground lines of communications (GLOC) in Southern Ukraine and what Ukraine getting into GMLRS range of them means for Russia⬇️

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The inadequacy of truck routes alone for RuAF logistics in Southern Ukraine can be seen with this ALONA MAZURENKO article titled:

"Russians build rail links to Mariupol, Volnovakha and Donetsk"

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A lot of OSINT accounts on the X-Platform are skeptical of Ukrainian fires being able to logistically starve the RuAF.

I'm not for reasons of RuAF operational attrition.

Trucks with tires like this aren't going to be moving in the Ukrainian mud season
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