Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 @ColbyBadhwar
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This is the second of three threads on the national security supplemental that passed Congress last week. Today I'll be explaining the $26.4 billion Israel Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024 (ISSAA). 🧵 1/34
This is the second of three threads on the national security supplemental that passed Congress last week. Today I'll be explaining the $26.4 billion Israel Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024 (ISSAA). 🧵 1/34
Almost certainly a misstatement. They are presumably referring to GLSDB. If GMLRS were rendered completely ineffective by Russian GPS denial, we would not have provided additional rounds in the most recent PDA package
Almost certainly a misstatement. They are presumably referring to GLSDB. If GMLRS were rendered completely ineffective by Russian GPS denial, we would not have provided additional rounds in the most recent PDA package
Correction: Per SIPRI, Israel received 4 Patriot batteries from Germany as well, which would make a total of 7. 👀 The US & Europe need to come together to get these back from Israel so that they can be sent to Ukraine.
Correction: Per SIPRI, Israel received 4 Patriot batteries from Germany as well, which would make a total of 7. 👀 The US & Europe need to come together to get these back from Israel so that they can be sent to Ukraine.
Well I’ll be damned, it was a 9M723K with submunitions. Very curious if there is any footage of the booster impact. Breaking up so dramatically is somewhat unusual.
Well I’ll be damned, it was a 9M723K with submunitions. Very curious if there is any footage of the booster impact. Breaking up so dramatically is somewhat unusual.
So for all his talk about troops on the ground and nuclear deterrent, @EmmanuelMacron will not give a single Euro to the Czech ammunition initiative that’s providing a lifeline to Ukraine. And seemingly France won’t allow a common EU contribution
❗️🇺🇸🇺🇦 In a House Armed Services Committee Hearing, Congressman Wilson (R) [SC-02] tells Secretary of Defense Austin & Chairman Brown that the United States should provide Ukraine with AGM-158 JASSM air launched cruise missiles for their F-16s.👀 I believe this may be the first…
🇺🇲🇪🇸🚀 Following last week's PAC-3 MSE announcement from Lockheed, Raytheon has now awarded a subcontract for the PAC-2 GEM-T missile. Spanish company Sener will produce the control section of the GEM-T for the COMLOG joint venture between Raytheon & MBDA Germany, which is on…
Holy shit did this guy actually become a paid Russian asset? Almost impossible otherwise that a scholar that mostly works with the historical method and once published respectable work makes such unhinged claims. 1/2
Holy shit did this guy actually become a paid Russian asset? Almost impossible otherwise that a scholar that mostly works with the historical method and once published respectable work makes such unhinged claims. 1/2
🇱🇹🇳🇴🇺🇲 Lithuanian Defense Minister @LKasciunas tells @HudsonInstitute's @peterrough that he would like to order a 3rd NASAMS medium range air defense battery from Kongsberg.
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2K Followers 71 Following @IndiaMunitions is an Official Twitter Account handle of Munitions India Limited (A Government of India Enterprise)@ColbyBadhwar Yes, the IDF/AF was operating multiple Patriot battalions at one time, so the total number of batteries is almost certainly higher than 3
Almost certainly a misstatement. They are presumably referring to GLSDB. If GMLRS were rendered completely ineffective by Russian GPS denial, we would not have provided additional rounds in the most recent PDA package
The Kyiv-based Centre for Defence Strategies think tank reported two days ago that "Ukrainian Defense Forces ceased the deployment of GLMRS on the battlefield due to GPS signal suppression by the enemy." I am not sure whether the cessation is complete, but Russians significantly…
@ColbyBadhwar Germany has donated a Patriot bttry with 8 lchrs to Israel. Now would be a good moment to return it to the donor, who in fact could transfer the unit to UKR immediately
Well I’ll be damned, it was a 9M723K with submunitions. Very curious if there is any footage of the booster impact. Breaking up so dramatically is somewhat unusual.
The moment of yesterday’s russian attack on Odesa with a ballistic missile with a cluster warhead. They perfectly knew what they were doing. They wanted to kill and wound as many people as possible.
So for all his talk about troops on the ground and nuclear deterrent, @EmmanuelMacron will not give a single Euro to the Czech ammunition initiative that’s providing a lifeline to Ukraine. And seemingly France won’t allow a common EU contribution
@aidefranceukr @jana_puglierin @EmmanuelMacron @SebLecornu The Czech government is saying that France has done neither of these things. Others, like Germany, which committed over 500m, or Belgium, which gives 300m, have.
@ColbyBadhwar The Dutch have already said they will buy systems from other countries and give them to Ukraine. 🤞
Lithuania wants to have 3 NASAMS. That's exactly what he said. @ColbyBadhwar @peterrough
🇱🇹🇳🇴🇺🇲 Lithuanian Defense Minister @LKasciunas tells @HudsonInstitute's @peterrough that he would like to order a 3rd NASAMS medium range air defense battery from Kongsberg.
Although I don't believe this will happen it is something to try
🚨🇮🇱🇺🇸🇺🇦 The IDF will retire it's US made Patriot air defense systems over the next two months! They have long planned to replace them with Iron Dome & David's Sling. Per SIPRI, the IDF has 3 Patriot batteries in the PAC-2 GEM+ configuration, which have been locally upgraded as…
The funniest thing about Mearsheimer still is that if he had just stuck with his theory of Offensive Realism, the war in Ukraine would have made a good case for it. Instead he's become a conspiracy theorist and tanky. What a downfall. 2/2
Holy shit did this guy actually become a paid Russian asset? Almost impossible otherwise that a scholar that mostly works with the historical method and once published respectable work makes such unhinged claims. 1/2
I see Mearsheimer has completed his transformation into a boilerplate tankie. We'll see David Sacks saying, "Actually, Stalinism was good" any moment now.
Deliberately publishing disinformation about a professional field does tend to make those who work in said field agitated. I would have a marginal amount of respect for Hans if he was honest and just said “this book is good because it makes the people I disagree with mad.”
Here’s another review of @AnnieJacobsen’s new book Nuclear War: A Scenario. Given how much coverage she’s getting - and how much time nuclear advocates are spending discrediting it - she has clearly hit a nerve about nuclear fears in our time. politico.com/news/magazine/…
@ColbyBadhwar I've seen twitter experts saying PAC-2 was dead, and PAC-3 MSE would be the only Patriot missile going forward. People are uninformed. Thank you.
@ColbyBadhwar @AirPowerNEW1 @mucha_carlos @Kalpak2015 Why wouldn’t the Admin request more to begin with 🫥
@DarthRevan1999 Smarter to ride the US production ramp wagon and increase European share of component production. Joing PATRIOT (GEM/T and MSE) capacity of 1K per year by end of decade is very much possible if smart investments are made.
@DarthRevan1999 They are producing PAC-2's. Where's the demand to justify PAC-3 MSE production? With LM already ramping up to 650 missiles a year, someone in Europe would have to be willing to pay min 2x the cost per missile to produce domestically.
@DavidSacks A real expert --@ColbyBadhwar notes "When you compile all the security assistance to Ukraine made available by the bill, both actual funds & the new Drawdown authority, it's only $23.6b. Excluding PDA, you're left with the actual funding for their defense: $15.8b, out of $60.8b.…
JUST RELEASED: Research from AEI's @MEaglen estimates that China's true military spending is $710.6 billion. This calculation is 3x larger than Beijing's self-reported totals and several billion dollars higher than estimates from the US intelligence community.
Boeing has done similar rapid spiral development for JDAM-ER as has Lockheed Martin for GMLRS. These firmware/software updates have mitigated Russian GPS denial, but there is still a large burden on Ukrainian mission planning to suppress Russian EW assets to achieve good effect
Another US precision-guided weapon falls prey to Russian electronic warfare, US says | A U.S. defense official would not provide specifics, but is likely referring to Boeing’s Ground-Launched Small Diameter Bomb. buff.ly/4dgHvRE via @samuelskove