TUI as the new naval hegemon.

I also enjoy that the names are just "my ship" with a number, absolute chads.

A brief summary of the current situation: Hormuz is open and Hormuz is closed. There's a ceasefire but both sides are shooting at each other. There will be new negotiations in Islamabad but also there won't be new negotiations in Islamabad. Everything is going super well! Also, it's a disaster

Ukrainian drone operator controlled a Sting interceptor drone from 2000km away. Soon, many of Ukraine’s air defense operators may be able to operate from complete safety, or perhaps, from outside of Ukraine entirely.
The Sting is exclusively air defense and is not an offensive weapon.

This is the most incredible shit I’ve ever seen.

If you thought OH-58 drivers firing rifles and dropping grenades out of their cockpits was cool, wait until you get a load of Ukrainian pilots flying 1970s prop planes and blasting drones out of the sky.

I fucking love these crazy bastards.

Two donkeys with saddle bags filled with beer

TIL you can rent beer donkeys for events

My PhD defence is gonna be lit

Who would have imagined that between the US and Iran, it’s the latter that is winning the meme war?

The Strait of Hormuz blockade is causing a slow-moving food crisis A crisis in the making.

Around a quarter of US farmers did not lock in fertilizer prices last fall, and many are now scrambling to cover costs stemming from a war they didn’t anticipate.

This. They're not going to go right up to Hormuz to grab a ship. They'll track it and snatch it up later in open water. It's a distant blockade.

Ukraine deploys part of a private air defense system: how the technology works A segment of a private, innovation-driven air defense system is already operational in Ukraine. The system is based on remotely controlled machine-gun turrets. Journalists were shown a demonstration of how the system is operated, including the control workflow and its behavior in a practical setting. At the same time, the public reaction on social media […] Post Ukraine deploys part of a private air defense system: how the technology works at Root-Nation.com.

Ukraine deploys part of a private air defense system: how the technology works #Ukraine #AirDefense #Technology #Innovation #MilitaryTech

Important distinction: the U.S. is blockading Iranian ports not the Strait entirely. I know everyone on this here site wants to think everything the U.S. does is illegal but this isn’t.

We should also remember that naval mines and the possibility of naval mines are functionally the same thing when assessing risk to shipping, which is a big part of the reason why naval mines are such a powerful weapon in maritime chokepoints

Targeted Small Drone Attacks on Civilians: A Global OSINT Picture A global OSINT map of targeted small drone attacks on civilians since 2022.

Small drone attacks are killing more civilians around the world than ever before.

I made a map about it:

New Views Of Massive RQ-180 Stealth Drone Flying Over Greece

New, remarkably detailed videos of a secretive, stealthy high-altitude, long-endurance (HALE) drone commonly referred to as the RQ-180 offer insights into its sensor package and other aspects of the design.

Story: www.twz.com/air/new-views-of-massive...

Debrief: Pentagon’s Little-known DAWG Fetches $54.6B In Spending Plan | Aviation Week Network In a $1.5 trillion U.S. defense spending proposal for fiscal 2027 filled with superlatives, arguably no organization made out better than the Defense Autonomous Warfare Group (DAWG).

This is wild. The 2027 Pentagon Budget includes $54.6 billion—that's BILLION with a B—for the Defense Autonomous Warfare Group, aka "DAWG," which produces AI drones. That's 33% more than the budget for the entire Department of Justice ($40.8b).

aviationweek.com/defense/budg...

Ok on a serious note, it cannot be exaggerated how bad formalized Iranian control of the Strait is for the world. The entire global economy rests on an American guarantee of free commercial shipping. That guarantee is gone. We don’t know exactly what will happen but none of it will be good.

Well, this is what happens when you put Army strategists in charge of a naval campaign for key maritime terrain and they use the Air Force...

This photo was taken with a heavily modified GoPro HERO4 Black! NASA used old GoPros due to the die manufacturing process Amba/GoPro used on their earlier gen cameras which made them withstand radiation better than newer gen. Artemis was supposed to launch in 2020.

"artificial intelligence" was always an aspirational metaphor and a marketing term, so it's fine if "AI" dies with the grift and we use different and more precise terminology for the various machine learning, deep learning, LLM-based, predictive algorithm, etc etc. techniques and products.

Looks like drone motherships are no longer a garage experiment and will be deployed on a larger scale. Sternenko started a fundraiser today for "new breakthrough technology in the field of FPV drones", which aims to purchase 3.6k drones, and 30 носіїв/retrik combos.

🔥🚢 Unmanned Systems Forces drones struck the Russian Project 11356R frigate (Admiral Makarov or Admiral Essen) frigate in the port of Novorossiysk overnight on April 6 with the FP-1/FP-2 guided strike drones!

In a separate strike, the offshore drilling platform “Syvash” was hit by Ukrainian forces.

Absolutely superb thread on space shitters:

1/ Goldman Sachs analysts report that the biggest oil crisis in history is about to hit globally, with profound and highly destructive consequences. A new report asks ""Are We Running Out of Oil?", and concludes that the answer is yes. ⬇️

SEAD/DEAD going well.

It is fascinating to see how Iran has managed to deny the US/Israel air superiority *and* sea control without a functioning air force or navy.

Missiles, drones, bunkers.

Air BP Italia has issued NOTAMs (official aeronautical notices) announcing reduced or limited availability of Jet A1 fuel at four
northern Italian airports:

• Milan Linate (LIN)
• Bologna (BLQ)
• Venice Marco Polo (VCE)
• Treviso (TSF)

Iranian media has also released footage, with helicopter sounds audible in the background, claiming that U.S. forces are attempting a CSAR mission.

Someone in CENTCOM must be thinking the same. There's a crazy amount of footage of MQ-9s, fighters, CSAR HC-130s and HH-60Ws over Iran the last hour or so. The kind of equipment one would need for searching for downed air crew.

Incredibly dangerous moment for these pilots.

Video of what appears to be a C-130 and two Blackhawk helicopters conducting SAR operations near the 3 Balotak cable bridge in Khuzestan Province, Southwestern Iran.

Source: t.me/c/2213359076...

jonny (good kind) (@jonny@neuromatch.social) Attached: 1 image reminder that anthropic ran (and is still running) an ENTIRE AD CAMPAIGN around "Claude code is written with claude code" and after the source was leaked that has got to be the funn...

jonny over on masto doing god's work:

> anthropic [is running] an ENTIRE AD CAMPAIGN around "Claude code is written with claude code" and after the source was leaked that has got to be the funniest self-own in the history of advertising because OH BOY IT SHOWS.

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