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Jan 26, 2023 12 tweets 3 min read
A few weeks ago I published a minimum weapons variety list for conventional warfare.
defense-and-freedom.blogspot.com/2023/01/a-mini…
You've got everything you need with this, all else is luxury IMO.
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I wrote as #6 "fibre-optic guided missile (5 km, tandem HEAT + preformed fragments warhead, MWIR seeker)"

This warhead is very conventional conceptually because I didn't want to argue details then.
A better choice for a warhead might be an EFP or (coaxial) tandem EFP.
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Oct 16, 2022 28 tweets 5 min read
I'll try to elaborate on my current post about MBTs./1 First, please make yourself familiar with the concept of opportunity costs. To buy a car for 10k € may look like a good deal, but maybe you could have gotten a better car for 9k €. The 10k € deal suddenly doesn't look so good anymore, right?/2
May 3, 2022 4 tweets 1 min read
A dirty secret of dictators is that they are weak, insecure and permanently eager to build and sustain a critical margin pf popular support. /1 Hitler was also weak and frequently faced disobedience. He did not dare total war until 1943 when the war was pretty much lost already. /2