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John Krempasky

@johnkrempasky

10 years

"Where are the other 15 install disks for Wing Commander?" http://t.co/g2uJxkjKBT”

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John Krempasky

@johnkrempasky

1 year

@OSPyoutube @medievaldaniel The "knockout gas" trope is a fun one and similar. In reality the line between "doesn't knock you out" and "you are dead" is unbelievably fine, which is why anesthesiologists make huge salaries (and the Russians found this out in that terrorist incident in a theater)

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John Krempasky

@johnkrempasky

7 months

Folks, if you think USVs will transform naval warfare and render surface ships obsolete, wait until underwater ships with people on them start shooting fast exploding UUVs at surface ships

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John Krempasky

@johnkrempasky

8 months

About THAT article: 1) The PRC has an unbelievable array of highly advanced missiles that are part of an absurdly frequent test program and the vast majority appear to work really, really well. 2) The majority of their missiles use solid, not liquid fuel.

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John Krempasky

@johnkrempasky

3 years

F-35s are great and all, but have you considered the advantages of dominating the Baltic with nuclear submarines?

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@Andr3jH

3 years

You see her sitting alone in a club at 4 am. How do you open?

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John Krempasky

@johnkrempasky

7 months

Remember all the people here for years that doubted Chinese ASBMs could hit a moving ship?

U.S. Central Command

@CENTCOM

7 months

On Jan. 15 at approximately 4 p.m. (Sanaa time), Iranian-backed Houthi militants fired an anti-ship ballistic missile from Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen and struck the M/V Gibraltar Eagle, a Marshall Islands-flagged, U.S.-owned and operated container ship. The ship has

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John Krempasky

@johnkrempasky

1 year

The breakout from Normandy in 1944 was literally delayed for months by...shrubbery.

John Helin

@J_JHelin

1 year

Really? Really!? Shrubbery is to blame. I would love it if we in the west did not borrow the Russian cope-train and instead had an honest discussion on the failures of Ukrainian counteroffensive.

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John Krempasky

@johnkrempasky

1 year

Remember folks, the lesson of the Titan and MH370 is technology and computer processing are making the oceans transparent and submarines will soon be doomed.

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John Krempasky

@johnkrempasky

3 years

Sometimes, what looks like the buildup to a massive invasion actually is….a buildup to a massive invasion. People might be getting too clever by half in the punditry world.

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John Krempasky

@johnkrempasky

2 years

So a giant US-China naval war will be like today times 100 with vastly less information.

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John Krempasky

@johnkrempasky

2 years

@general_ben Honestly being pro-Russian is out of touch with almost all Americans of Eastern European descent, not just Ukrainian-Americans

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John Krempasky

@johnkrempasky

11 months

One of the many reasons we need a "Red Storm Rising" movie updated to the PRC as the enemy so we can see a CGI US CSG dumping entire VLSes simultaneously against a massive ASM attack.

ハク Mason

@mason_8718

11 months

This is perfectly show how the SM-2 long range surface to air missile trajectory. Salvo missile fire of the South Korean ROKN Sejong the Great class Aegis destroyer.

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John Krempasky

@johnkrempasky

2 years

Should Ukraine have an "International Maintenance Legion" as # of complex Western systems increase? I'd imagine some retired military maintainers with Bradley, Marder, etc. experience wouldn't want to man a Bakhmut trench line, but would risk working at a forward repair base

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John Krempasky

@johnkrempasky

2 years

@RALee85 Also remarkable datalinks not jammed

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John Krempasky

@johnkrempasky

2 years

Wars basically never happen because of some accident that gets out of control. This actually is a dangerous myth based itself on a political shibboleth that simply having weapons and militaries that operate spontaneously causes wars.

Sky News

@SkyNews

2 years

China and the US say they do not want to go to war over Taiwan, but rising military activity around the territory risks an accidental exchange that escalates out of control. Sky's @haynesdeborah 's explains. Watch the full report 👉

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John Krempasky

@johnkrempasky

1 year

This raises the interesting question - if I'm Jeff Bezos and I want to spend $20B to completely re-create a fully functioning Yamato - is there any legal restriction on having ship with fully-functional 18.1" guns and shells in, say, US waters?

The Ghost of the Nautilus

@ThatdamAmerican

1 year

I have a sudden and urgent need to build a 1:1 replica. Who here is secretly a billionaire and can fund it

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John Krempasky

@johnkrempasky

8 months

This is the billionth example of small boats being helpless against aircraft; same will be true of USVs

U.S. Central Command

@CENTCOM

8 months

Iranian-backed Houthi small boats attack merchant vessel and U.S. Navy helicopters in Southern Red Sea On Dec. 31 at 6:30am (Sanaa time) the container ship MAERSK HANGZHOU issued a second distress call in less than 24 hours reporting being under attack by four Iranian-backed

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John Krempasky

@johnkrempasky

1 year

@iAmTheWarax And said callsign which is invariably of the real-life variety will follow that person all the way to Flag rank.

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John Krempasky

@johnkrempasky

1 year

There also seems to be a burst of “Of course China will never invade Taiwan because that would be dumb.” Did people not learn anything from early 2022.?

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John Krempasky

@johnkrempasky

8 months

An operation consisting of piles of surface combatants milling about the Red Sea endlessly plinking UAVs and missiles without strikes on Houthi mainland is idiotic, unless goal is to deplete missile inventories so you have less to use vs. China or Russia later

Howard Altman

@haltman

8 months

Scoop: @SECDEF will announce Operation Prosperity Guardian next week, an international effort to protect Red Sea shipping, US military official tells me. Today, USS Carney downed 14 Houthi drones while HMS Diamond downed 1, all part of same wave.

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John Krempasky

@johnkrempasky

6 years

Translation without clickbait: the normal changes of commands every few years as commanders retire

The Hill

@thehill

6 years

Trump to make his most dramatic change in US military leadership yet: report

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John Krempasky

@johnkrempasky

1 year

@arawnsley Does he want to wear white, ski in forests and snipe?

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John Krempasky

@johnkrempasky

6 months

Weird people have orgasmic excitement over Huthi UxVs that have dome next to nothing other than be slaughtered, but seem utterly uninterested in Mach 5 ASBMs that genuInely are a warfare first, and ASCMs which almost hit US warship, simply because latter two aren’t “drones”

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John Krempasky

@johnkrempasky

7 months

Cue outrage from people who started caring about Naval warfare five minutes ago if it emerges that anything more expensive than a rock from a slingshot was used to shoot any of these down.

CNN Breaking News

@cnnbrk

7 months

US Navy shoots down 24 Houthi missiles and drones launched from Yemen over Red Sea, defense officials say.

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John Krempasky

@johnkrempasky

5 years

You can hate the Administration and hate that they pulled out from the JCPOA, and also believe Iran is behind essentially all of these attacks. They're not mutually exclusive.

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John Krempasky

@johnkrempasky

8 months

I have thought this for a while - people are mentally attributing the Moskva ASCM hit, and the in-port cruise missile hits, to USVs. UKR USVs haven't been particularly effective but desperation to declare "WARFARE TRANSFORMED" (though Germans fielded exploding USVs in WWI)

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John Krempasky

@johnkrempasky

5 years

A few media outlets should ask themselves why a "research" submarine has 7 Captains 1st rank and 2 heroes of Russia among the crew.

Lucian Kim

@Lucian_Kim

5 years

Putin dispatches defense minister to take charge of investigation of accident that cost lives of 14 crew members, 7 of them captains 1st rank and 2 Heroes of Russia.

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John Krempasky

@johnkrempasky

3 years

Here me out on this crazy theory…they were tested because NK wants to have long range cruise missiles and they wanted to see if they worked

NK NEWS

@nknewsorg

3 years

ANALYSIS: Why did North Korea test new missiles so soon after its latest parade? "There weren’t many [military components] featured in the parade, so showing the new missiles after successful tests would help boost morale," one researcher said.

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John Krempasky

@johnkrempasky

7 years

Every editor or journalist that calls a submarine a "stealth submarine" should be drawn & quartered

Engaging Strategy

@EngageStrategy1

7 years

*provided that said navy doesn't operate at any great distance from German bases.

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John Krempasky

@johnkrempasky

1 year

@zkCheeb Sarcasm; many very poorly informed think-tank types have a mistaken understanding of the trends in anti-submarine warfare and like to write pieces about how submarines are going to be easily found and destroyed (they tend to ignore the engagement piece, actually) in the future.

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John Krempasky

@johnkrempasky

1 year

@ChristopherJM @amnesty Even the review seems like silliness almost as comically detached from military reality as Amnesty; the idea that a defending force against an overwhelming invasion by a nation-state needs to constantly avoid being in…buildings…is laughable.

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John Krempasky

@johnkrempasky

1 year

I am sort of astonished that people on my timeline are excitedly diving into analysis of the PRC defense budget as if the numbers are real

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John Krempasky

@johnkrempasky

3 years

So here is the bifurcation on RU/UKR on my timeline: 1) RU bluffing/eagerly agreeing with Zelensky: Journalists, think tankers that are politically focused 2) RU not bluffing: People with actual military expertise, journos, think tankers interested in people with mil expertise

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John Krempasky

@johnkrempasky

2 years

Me Today

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John Krempasky

@johnkrempasky

2 years

Holy shit, this is amazing. Make a rap song about the Mk 48 torpedo

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John Krempasky

@johnkrempasky

1 year

@OAlexanderDK Also could exhaust and wear out the PLA by permanently stationing the Speaker of the House in Taiwan

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John Krempasky

@johnkrempasky

7 months

@shashj adding uncrewed vehicles generally increases personnel requirements. Ukrainians have a massive requirement for FPV drone operators and maintainers, C2, comms and counter-UAV EW operators that simply is additive to all the infantry, armor, and arty personnel needed

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John Krempasky

@johnkrempasky

8 months

If you want to provide comprehensive area air defense against UAVs, ASCMs, and ASBMs for ships other than yourself you need a big-ass radar and a shit-ton of missiles. Aren’t really any lower cost work-arounds now or in the future.

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John Krempasky

@johnkrempasky

11 months

I have a bit of a crazy idea but it is in the spirit of disruptive transformation we see here… What if you took this launcher and actually installed it WITHIN THE SHIP when you designed and built it? more protected from attack, you could use the helo deck for hellos, etc.

USNI News

@USNINews

11 months

Army Long Range Missile Launcher Spotted on Navy Warship - USNI News

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John Krempasky

@johnkrempasky

6 months

Defense journalists and think-tankers, please stop simple-minded recommendations to replace all platforms of a military service with swarms of “small, cheap, drones” 1) They won’t be as cheap as you imagine 2) What you imagine will be militarily useless in may scenarios

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John Krempasky

@johnkrempasky

1 year

@UberSteve @MatBabiak So you believe every restaurant in America was closed for the entirety of World War II?

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@johnkrempasky

7 months

@SydneyFreedberg Don’t forget armament with lots of inexpensive guns with simple round kinetic penetrators instead of exquisite missiles.

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John Krempasky

@johnkrempasky

7 months

@VictorK1862 @Iron_Man_Actual The people that doubted the ASBMs work, and the people that believe every surface ship that enters a PRC ASBM range ring on a map are instantly vaporized are all idiots in different ways.

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John Krempasky

@johnkrempasky

6 months

@TheKimulation There was a discovery channel show “Future Weapons” in the 00s and I think everything on it was Army FCS stuff that was canceled

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John Krempasky

@johnkrempasky

1 year

@SaltyFrenchBoi I don't think it is "requires" - we just have a lower bar for correction. I wear glasses but could basically function without them.

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John Krempasky

@johnkrempasky

6 months

Laying a handheld machine gun on a rail is a hopeless method of countering a small craft attsck

Capt(N)

@Capt_Navy

6 months

#War An impressive video of the battle of the 🇷🇺crew of the landing ship Caesar Kunnikov with 🇺🇦naval drones.

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John Krempasky

@johnkrempasky

1 year

@Aviation_Intel Those are actually classed by the classification society that Oceangate deliberately avoided

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John Krempasky

@johnkrempasky

2 years

@DavidLarter With targeting provided by a certain three-letter agency.

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John Krempasky

@johnkrempasky

5 years

@DavidOAtkins No, its because California has been very lucky on quake location for decades. People were smugly prattling about Japanese quake preparation and building codes, as you are for California, before over 5,000 were killed in the Kobe earthquake.

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John Krempasky

@johnkrempasky

7 months

A good chunk of the world's surface combatants can't engage an ASBM at all, including pretty much all of your "small" and "affordable" ones.

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John Krempasky

@johnkrempasky

8 months

What if I told you….navies have had DRONEZ that can fly hundreds of miles, reach speeds up to Mach 3, automatically do radical terminal weaves to evade defenses, can be launched in waves for simultaneous impact…and have had them for DECADES?

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John Krempasky

@johnkrempasky

8 months

@Matt_Schrader_ The crazy thing is that it would appear that the Bhutanese government would really rather everyone ignore the whole thing; there are going to be fascinating cases where OSINT reveals aggression that victim governments would prefer to ignore.

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John Krempasky

@johnkrempasky

1 year

@opinonhaver It is a massive deal in terms of practical applications

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John Krempasky

@johnkrempasky

1 year

Shocked, SHOCKED I tell you! Again, think tankers, please stop listing hotlines in your recommendations in all your reports on relations with the PRC.

NewsWatch Plus PH

@newswatchplusph

1 year

The PH could not reach China when it tried to contact Beijing through the hotline established between the two countries when Chinese vessels fired water cannon and blocked PH boats at Ayungin Shoal in the West Philippine Sea last week, the DFA says.

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John Krempasky

@johnkrempasky

1 year

There was an entire internet forum devoted to nukes being fake 15-20 years ago. Multiple sub-forums devoted to weapons, power, etc. Had an idiot sub shipyard worker (who obviously didn't work on back of boat) convinced reactors were fake because of the diesel auxiliary power.

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@conanwhatisbest

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@GeraldC_Brown I have to admit I did not have “nukes don’t exist” on my bizarre conspiracy theory bingo card

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John Krempasky

@johnkrempasky

6 years

Russia is Cthulhu?

Paul D. Shinkman

@PDShinkman

6 years

. @statedeptspox : "Russia has long arms. Russia has lots of tentacles ... It’s a beast from the deep sea.”

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John Krempasky

@johnkrempasky

5 months

Cue terrible Youtube video with AI thumbnail “US sending a BATTLESHIP to BLAST the Houthis?1?!?!?!?”

WarshipCam

@WarshipCam

5 months

Battleship New Jersey (BB-62) passing under the Walt Whitman Bridge in Philadelphia on the way to Philadelphia Naval Yard drydock - March 21, 2024 #ussnewjersey #bb62 SRC: FB- Norm Kerr

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John Krempasky

@johnkrempasky

1 year

@BeijingPalmer ACKSHUALLY remember it was the Czech AND Slovak legion

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John Krempasky

@johnkrempasky

6 years

Periodic reminder that I've never, ever heard anyone in the USN call a KILO the "Black Hole."

Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance

@MissileDefAdv

6 years

Meet the Submarine the U.S. Navy Calls the “Black Hole” (from Russia)

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John Krempasky

@johnkrempasky

7 months

@andyjward The day I see a headline with "Ship hit by kamikaze exploding drone submarine " will be the greatest day of my life

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John Krempasky

@johnkrempasky

1 year

@saintjavelin Russia is invading Russia to prevent Russia from joining NATO

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John Krempasky

@johnkrempasky

7 years

@paulythegun In Brooklyn they don't do any of this cellphone warning crap. An artisanal town cryer would run around ringing a handcrafted bell for a missile alert.

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John Krempasky

@johnkrempasky

8 months

CENTCOM is calling them ASBMs, folks.

U.S. Central Command

@CENTCOM

8 months

On December 18, at approximately 9:00 (Sanaa time), there were two Houthi militant attacks against commercial shipping in the Southern Red Sea. The chemical/oil tanker motor vessel SWAN ATLANTIC was attacked by a one-way attack drone and an anti-ship ballistic missile launched

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John Krempasky

@johnkrempasky

2 years

@ThreshedThought Bombing of a maternity hospital is just Russian standard operating procedure, not some three-dimensional chess move.

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John Krempasky

@johnkrempasky

11 months

When does her song advocating doubling MK 48 torpedo production drop?

Pop Base

@PopBase

11 months

Travis Kelce jerseys saw a nearly 400% spike in sales after Taylor Swift attended his game, TMZ reports.

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John Krempasky

@johnkrempasky

2 years

The time of the Model UN types is over. The time of the wartime consiglieres has begun. If you are a young person interested in foreign policy, get a broad basic understanding of all warfare domains, and military geography.

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John Krempasky

@johnkrempasky

2 years

Couple thoughts 1) doing inside 12 mi limit deliberate; don’t want to declare open season on everything in International airspace 2) water still really shallow there good chance of getting sensor package parts which likely sink

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John Krempasky

@johnkrempasky

7 months

This article emphasizes that many of the intercepted Huthi UAVs are large ISR ones, at long ranges from the firing ship; so many "cheap" ways to intercept people want to imagine won't work at those ranges.

Defense News

@defense_news

7 months

French navy defends use of million-euro missiles to down Houthi drones

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John Krempasky

@johnkrempasky

5 years

High-end expensive, exquisite platforms defeat drone swarm

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John Krempasky

@johnkrempasky

7 years

I read this as India is starting a Kickstarter for nuclear-powered attack subs

9DASHLINE

@9DashLine

7 years

#India kickstarts process to build 6 nuclear-powered attack submarines

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John Krempasky

@johnkrempasky

2 years

@cgberube @iAmTheWarax I keep suggesting promotion by single hand-to-hand combat to the death in every organization I'm in but strangely it never goes anywhere.

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John Krempasky

@johnkrempasky

6 months

I GUARANTEE a many thousand-word essay on how the Russian nuclear ASAT 1) is no big deal and 2) is somehow the fault of the US, is coming from an author or journal that was in a panic over the US fielding a few low-yield warheads or an upgraded gravity bomb.

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John Krempasky

@johnkrempasky

5 years

It's a bit weird that one nation state launching a massive cruise missile attack on another nation state causing billions of dollars of economic damage isn't a bigger deal.

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John Krempasky

@johnkrempasky

2 years

@RpsAgainstTrump @SollenbergerRC @thedailybeast Next revelation has to be he's a Russian Illegal named Georgi Santosov.

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John Krempasky

@johnkrempasky

6 years

Once more, we play our dangerous game, a game of chess against our old adversary

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John Krempasky

@johnkrempasky

2 years

I propose @mgerrydoyle and @BDHerzinger write a Clancy-esque techno-thriller based on the Hong Kong floating restaurant not being what it appeared to be.

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John Krempasky

@johnkrempasky

2 years

@UAWeapons Actually MANPADS survival is pretty common for anything not a helicopter (which are incredibly fragile) I think the single engine fighter/attack survival rate is 50% or so. The warhead is pretty small.

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John Krempasky

@johnkrempasky

9 months

If you actively want to have less knowledge of US nuclear deterrence and weapons programs after you are done than when you started, please read all this worthless drivel.

Scientific American

@sciam

9 months

The U.S. is beginning an ambitious, controversial reinvention of its nuclear arsenal. The project comes with incalculable costs and unfathomable risks. Read our Special Report to learn more

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@johnkrempasky

1 year

Submarines are harder to find than you can imagine and the trend has been for them to get harder, not easier to find in last decade.

gryphoneer

@OneRadChee

1 year

YOU THERE. YES, YOU. WHAT'S A LITTLE-KNOWN FACT ABOUT YOUR PROFESSION THAT WOULD MAKE OTHER PEOPLE LOSE THEIR SHIT?

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9 months

You will get lots of highly effective weapons through spending vast amounts of money developing highly effective weapons and then buying lots of them. There are no “disruptive” Silicon Valley Tech bro workarounds.

Inside Defense

@insidedefense

9 months

Think tankers suggest paths for 'disruptive' DOD innovation

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John Krempasky

@johnkrempasky

2 years

@EliotHiggins @KurtPelda Should add “blowing up ammo dumps in NATO countries”

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@johnkrempasky

5 months

@point_luck @CostaLefty65147 @TimOnPoint Detectable and targetable are two different things

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1 year

@DrChrisCombs Adhesive for these has been an epic materials science battle

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John Krempasky

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8 months

@shashj Basically none of these shootdowns are OWA UAVs attacking the ship shooting it down; either they are heading to attack something else or more commonly they are ISR UAVs providing ASBM or ASCM targeting…you thus can’t get around using missiles for such longer range engagements

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John Krempasky

@johnkrempasky

6 years

This might be the dumbest naval tweet ever.

Michael Lea

@mikesmlea

6 years

@UKDefJournal @Gareth1958 Can the female personnel on HMS Queen Elizabeth defend the ship if attacked by a determined boarding party? Hand-to-hand fighting against fully fit trained invaders requires serious fighting skills. Deeply embarrassing if Russian sailors commandeer HMS Queen Elizabeth.

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John Krempasky

@johnkrempasky

2 years

@cdrsalamander I think the most important datapoint of the war is the 200+ ASW weapons used by the RN task force with no Argentinian subs sunk (and very few of the weapons likely actually fired at a genuine sub).

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John Krempasky

@johnkrempasky

1 year

@Faytuks Lol…”drove away.” Anything other than it anchoring there for six months is “drove away.”

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John Krempasky

@johnkrempasky

3 years

Basically it's whether you've sat and watched a Tik Tok of tanks and SAM launchers on a train from Russia's Pacific coast to Belarus and either already knew or bothered to find out what they were, instead of just reading diplomatic statements

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John Krempasky

@johnkrempasky

2 years

@francis_scarr @maxseddon Not wearing a black turtleneck a big mistake by Lukashenko

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John Krempasky

@johnkrempasky

7 years

They demanding Qataris stop propaganda against Austria-Hungary, dissolve Narodna Odbrana, and cooperate in investigating Archduke's murder?

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John Krempasky

@johnkrempasky

7 years

"Air Pirates of Guam" is going to go on someone's unit patch....

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John Krempasky

@johnkrempasky

2 years

Credit to NYT authors to drawing attention to the Russian Black Sea Fleet sub force. Basically nothing the Ukrainians can do about those (unless they can manage to hit them in port) and I could easily see scenarios where they torpedo grain ships and try to pin blame on UKR mines

Collin Koh 🇸🇬🇺🇦

@CollinSLKoh

2 years

Chalk one more victory for sea denial. By definition, denial means one may prevent others from using a certain geographical area for military ops while being unable to use it either. Snake Island is likely going to be "no man's land" for a while.

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John Krempasky

@johnkrempasky

1 year

Actually the main lesson, I believe, is to NOT believe that warfare is suddenly being revolutionized by magic-tech. 155mm shell production rates in dark satanic mills of molten steel are more critical to the war than every UAV and cyberweapon combined.

Kevin Baron

@DefenseBaron

1 year

Peter Singer's lessons from #Ukraine : "New technology points the way to the future of war... once it has been introduced, there is no going back." via @DefenseOne

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John Krempasky

@johnkrempasky

1 year

I now am estimating $30 Billion given the need to build new foundries for the guns, armor, etc. and a training facility for the crew. I probably wimp out and go with diesel or diesel/gas turbine propulsion instead of an exact copy.

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John Krempasky

@johnkrempasky

2 years

@copesint @wartranslated Yep. All the Russian turrets catastrophically blowing off notwithstanding, most of the time a tank is disabled or destroyed some or all of the crew survives, historically. And tanks simply break down a lot as well.

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John Krempasky

@johnkrempasky

5 years

It's not "non-state drone capabilities" if the drones are from a state.

James Patton Rogers

@DrJamesRogers

5 years

1/6 Big drone news coming out of Saudi Arabia this morning! Houthi #drones have allegedly targeted the Aramco oil processing plant near Dammam causing substantial fires. This is no easy feat and if confirmed marks a sea-change in non-state drone capabilities. Here’s why-

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John Krempasky

@johnkrempasky

6 months

Of course an ASCM in reality is just a kamikaze drone that isn’t slow and shitty

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John Krempasky

@johnkrempasky

3 years

1) US converts few warheads to low yield: Panic, highly destabilizing 2) US replacing early 70s ICBMs: Panic, highly destabilizing 3) China builds zillion ICBM silos: “In this essay I will explain this both isn’t a big deal and is US fault anyway”

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John Krempasky

@johnkrempasky

5 years

1) Given all delivery platforms from Cold War need replacement, at some point some budget was going to spend more than any other year since 1990 2) Quite confident a Clinton 2021 nuclear platforms and weapons budget would have looked far more like this than many would admit

Stephen Schwartz

@AtomicAnalyst

5 years

Donald Trump is on a nuclear weapons-spending binge using your money. His new budget calls for nearly $50,000,000,000 for nuclear weapons in fiscal 2021, which is more in inflation-adjusted dollars than at any time since 1990 and the end of the Cold War.

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John Krempasky

@johnkrempasky

5 years

Can someone explain to me why China isn’t treated imternationally like apartheid South Africa was?

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