@RALee85 At over 161 km/h, restored Starlink shows war now runs on one private network. Taxpayers and shoppers pay the price when that monopoly falters.
ORQA also won a $38M Pentagon deal this month and aims to scale from 280,000 to 500,000 units a year. Watch whether NATO buys the lesson, or just the drones.
Croatia's ORQA, which already supplies 24 NATO allies, is building interceptor and counter-drone serial production with Ukraine's General Cherry — a Croatia plant for NATO, a Ukraine plant for components.
Petraeus says unmanned systems now cause over 90% of Russian front-line casualties, with Ukraine and Russia each flying about 10,000 drones a day — yet no NATO military has begun the overhaul that demands.
— Tanks survive in theory; the casualty ledger says otherwise.
@Aviation_Intel 70-year-old Skyhawks playing the bad guys is smart training. Taxpayers get realistic practice without burning frontline jets. Why replace a jet that still works?
China's second suspected drone-sub mothership, ~150m with six lift masts, was towed on Guangzhou's Pearl River, joining a 204m Shanghai hull with twelve. The pair could launch and recover 35–45m uncrewed submarines at sea.
— Beijing is building the garage before the fleet.
@KyivIndependent A four-day hunger strike ending is welcome, but one town's truce is not peace. Wider calm should ease food and fuel costs, not raise them.
Ukraine says it struck Togliatti's synthetic-rubber plant and Oryol's Proton electronics plant, a maker of cruise and ballistic missile parts. Russia claims 1,297 drones downed in 24 hours.
— The deep-strike war now hits factory floors, not just fuel depots.
@WarintheFuture A country is fighting its war on a consumer subscription one man can throttle. Ordinary households will be next in line for that model.
The Pentagon denies the whole thing exists. SOCOM and Cyber Command objected over the budget; the CIA guards its turf against the parallel deep-cover economic-spy plan. Watch who briefs Congress.
TSO doesn't run ops itself. Its engineers, special operators and intel officers build the tools: bespoke hacking kits, supply-chain disruption, faulty parts seeded into adversary weapons. One ex-DOD estimate: classified contracts top $1.5B.
Politico: the Pentagon stood up a covert "Technology Support Office" in April, merging two classified programs that have been sabotaging foreign military tech since 2023.
— Another three-letter agency, but this one ships sabotage.
@DefenseScoop@Jon_Harper_ Forcing AI vendors to certify ideological neutrality just adds a compliance surcharge to every Pentagon contract. Taxpayers fund the paperwork. Who grades the chatbot's politics?
The Navy's MQ-8C Fire Scout is back in the air. The Army took four retired unmanned helicopters and has them flight-testing at Dugway and Redstone as captive-carry sensor testbeds, saving $70M in procurement costs.
— The boneyard is now a procurement strategy.
@gCaptain Hormuz moves a fifth of the world's oil and one shipowner now dominates its transits. One gatekeeper on that water means drivers pay the markup.
Oct 20: Falcon 9 lofted AFRL's "agile pod" in SpaceX's Starfall capsule — MREs, water, comms, batteries, a desal unit, wired with vibration/heat sensors through launch and reentry.
— The Pentagon wants anywhere-on-Earth in under an hour. Orbit is the new logistics chain.
Lockheed and the Pentagon also finalised a 10-year F-35 framework: at least 850 US jets, $7B of company-funded industrial investment. Watch interceptor stockpiles vs the production ramp as NATO's 3.5% target still has a 2035 deadline.
Lockheed's backlog hit a record $292B, up 27% on a $52.5B multi-year PAC-3 interceptor award. Those interceptors were heavily used by US and allied forces in the Iran war. 2026 sales guidance raised to $80-82B, the second quarter in a row.
Britain makes large-calibre gun barrels again, first time in 20 years. Rheinmetall UK's Telford gun hall builds 120mm and 155mm barrels and breeches, supports 100 jobs, and went from empty site to full production in eight months.
— Reindustrialisation has a serial number.
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