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Imagining micronaval warfare.
Dec 21, 2021 14 tweets 6 min read
BREAKING: Democratic Republic of the North Pole (DRNP) inks $2.5 trillion infrastructure pact with People's Republic of China.

Facing an existential threat from climate change, the Kringle regime ensures its long-term survival through a strategic partnership with the PRC. @CovertShores @HeikoBorchert @saltwatersteve @David_Hambling @DavidLarter @tshugart3 @DocTallis @SamBendett @EBKania
Nov 15, 2021 14 tweets 5 min read
Providing some additional perspective as the sabotage theory continues to spread.

Thread.

@CovertShores @David_Hambling @annapagnacco @saltwatersteve Undersea cable breaks happen all.the.time. There are 100 breaks on average during the course of a single year. The main culprits: anchors, trawls, and earthquakes.

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Apr 19, 2021 8 tweets 5 min read
What if great power competition extends to the ocean moons of the solar system? 🤔

-NEW POST-
"Mission Europa: The Atom-class XE"
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#FICINT
#autonomous #submarines in #space

(A thread - 1/8) Beijing's agenda for deep space exploration derives from sweeping and unchecked expansionist policies here on Earth, which could in turn drive the nature of deep space strategic competition. 2/8

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Sep 1, 2020 17 tweets 5 min read
The implications of DARPA's AlphaDogfight for air warfare are obvious. But what is perhaps not so obvious, yet equally significant, are the implications for undersea warfare.

[A thread.] Last month, DARPA organized an aerial dogfight competition between AI systems operating virtual F-16s, the winner of which was selected to face off against a human pilot (flying a simulator). The winning AI, developed by @HeronSystems, subsequently defeated the pilot 5-0.