William "Balloon Guy" Kim
@TheKimulation
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NatSec, memes, and NatSec memes. High-altitude balloon enjoyer and #1 fan of the CSIS AI-generated tank. Views/memes are my own
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Prigozhin: I'm not going to storm Moscow
Everyone:
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"Nuclear disarmament consultant" is the funniest job title I've ever heard.
“A world without nuclear weapons is totally possible,” says
@Emma_Pike_
, a nuclear disarmament consultant and activist. She shared her thoughts with Times Opinion on TikTok:
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🚨🚨 New footage has emerged that reportedly shows the Houthi F-5 shooting down multiple F-22s. Big if true.
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Hello A-50, I've been waiting for you
The FighterBomber channel appears to confirm the A-50 AEW&C loss yesterday. Russian sources say that the Il-22 was damaged but managed to land.
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Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman when the nuclear disarmament consultants bring back conventional great power wars
“A world without nuclear weapons is totally possible,” says
@Emma_Pike_
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The Houthis’ F-5 is not combat effective, a U.S. official tells me.
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This is a thread that will explain the implied poor Burning Man truck maintenance practices based on this photo of a golf cart's right forward pair of tires below & the operational implications during the Nevada mud season. 🧵
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The European mind cannot comprehend this
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I'm not sure people realize how big of a deal this is. High-altitude balloons might not be as sexy as autonomous weapons or hypersonics but I think they have the potential to be just as revolutionary for warfare, if not more so. 🧵 1/10
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THE CHIEFS CLAIM VICTORY! GLORY TO SUPREME LEADER SWIFT!
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The Houthis’ F-5 is not combat effective, a U.S. official tells me.
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Come join us, ERCA
The U.S army has canceled its ERCA program which is capable of firing certain shells over 110KM. The army cited excessive barrel wear in prototypes. I’m unsure what this means for the future of U.S artillery or the new timeline for these capability’s.
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The countries used warship and submarine-launched Tomahawk missiles and fighter jets to take out Houthi missile storage sites and launchers.
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RIP the one Houthi F-5
@RashidMaarouf
There is a fire reportedly at the al-Dailami airbase near the Yemeni capital Sanaa.
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PLAAF pilot's first encounter with Lockheed Martin's sixth-generation flying death machine™ over Taiwan
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How people think SOUTHCOM is reacting to Guyana vs their actual reaction
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“What kind of munitions did you use?” INDOPACOM asked calmly
Breaking: The US has begun conducting strikes on targets in Iraq and Syria, the start of what will likely be a series of larger scale US strikes on Iranian-backed militias who have carried out attacks on US troops in the Middle East, according to two US officials.
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New structure spotted in the South China Sea
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I have a date tonight and it's going to take every ounce of my strength to not bring up the Houthi F-5
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Come join us, Il-76
Footage reportedly of the Russian Il-76 crashing and its wreckage from Russian Telegram channels.
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If you doubt the US's ability to retrieve intel from the Chinese balloon payload, check out the time the USN retrieved a Soviet supersonic missile that had smashed into *millions* of pieces, none larger than 6 inches, from the sea floor and managed to reverse-engineer it.
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Temu airing multiple ads while Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman haven’t had one yet is proof we need to raise the defense budget
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Shipbuilders when you tell them that they can attract more workers if they pay more than McDonald's
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@LeeHudson_
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Tell me you don’t know how NORAD works without telling me you don’t know how NORAD works
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CENTCOM! WHAT KIND OF MUNITIONS DID YOU USE? WE NEEED THE TLAMS FOR CHINA! CENTCOOOOOOMMMMM!
U.S. CENTCOM Destroys Two Houthi Terrorists' Anti-Ship Missiles
On Jan. 24 at approximately 2:30 a.m.(Sanaa time), U.S. Central Command forces conducted strikes against two Houthi anti-ship missiles that were aimed into the Southern Red Sea and were prepared to launch. U.S.…
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You're against bombing the Houthis because you think missile attacks on international shipping are "protests." I'm against bombing the Houthis because I wanted their one F-5 to live. We are not the same.
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You: zomg the B-21 costs $750 million each, we won't be able to afford it!
Me, an intellectual:
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*slaps roof* you can fit so much deterrence in this bad boy.
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The Raptor demands to be fed
U.S. is tracking a high-altitude balloon flying over the Western part of the country, U.S. officials told
@CBSNews
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You pay taxes because it's the law.
I pay taxes because I want America to continue making cool weapon systems.
We are not the same.
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Y’all have no idea how hyped this got me
I miss when Northrop Grumman would pay for out of pocket Super Bowl advertisements in the DC area for the B-21
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crazy how this guy’s indirectly responsible for new jersey finally becoming a democracy
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By 1944 the US Army was qualitatively superior the Wehrmacht
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Here in CENTCOM AOR we've ruled by desert power, in the Indo-Pacific we will have to cultivate air power and sea power.
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When INDOPACOM asks where all the TLAMs went
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US Navy Delta Force operators prepare to flood Hamas tunnels with nerve gas (2023)
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Chad Tankie Pacific Posture vs Virgin Actual Pacific Posture
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Lloyd Austin after he got the green light to bomb the Houthis
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All right, one more
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When the NC3 suitcase arrives in Warsaw
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The M1 Abrams
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Abrams X
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If it turns out that CENTCOM blew up the Houthi F-5 with a TLAM I'm going to become the Joker
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In the stratosphere there's always a wind going in the direction you want it's just a matter of adjusting altitude. Sounds simple but it wasn't possible until recently. It's pretty amazing what these algorithms can do. 7/10
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Next Generation Air DOMinance is a family of systems
"Asked what most excites him about the NGAD, Kendall said it is the inclusion of a “family of systems” in the program, which includes autonomous escort platforms, new weapons—including the secret AIM-260 JATM—and “offboard sensors.”
Read more 👇
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WSJ: "Venezuela is backing up its threats to annex part of Guyana and secure access to some of the world’s largest oil finds in more than a decade by moving light tanks, missile-equipped patrol boats and armored carriers to the two countries’ border in what is quickly turning…
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Reminder that the Speaker of the House does not need to be a member of the House
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@RepThomasMassie
promises there are MORE GOP votes to remove Mike Johnson now than there were with McCarthy.
And if Dems save him? “He goes further in the hole with Republicans. He becomes toxic to the conference. For every Democrat who comes to his aid he’ll lose 2-3 more Rs.”
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You didn't see a missile attack. YOU DIDN'T! Because it's not there!
There have been no missile attack on Iran tonight, Iranian official tells Reuters
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How the R9X works according to the Internet
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You joke but the Army had an actual plan to do that
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CENTCOM! Houthis! Where is the F-5?
The U.S. has carried out additional strikes inside Yemen, this time targeting a Houthi radar facility, a U.S. official tells
@OrenCNN
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If they get hit, they don't pop like a party balloon. Rather they slowly leak coolant and can remain in the air for days. Once F-18s fired 1000 20mm rounds into a rogue weather balloon and it didn't come down for six days. 5/10
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Navy shipbuilders are losing the war for new workers to Amazon and fast-food chains who pay as much as shipyards but offer easier work - and they don't know how to fix the problem. w/
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BREAKING: U.S. military forces launched “necessary and proportionate” strikes in Iraq today, on three facilities used by the Iranian-backed Kataib Hezbollah militia group and other Iran-affiliated groups.
Strikes were “direct response” to attacks on U.S. troops, per
@SecDef
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On Jan. 30, at approximately 11:30 p.m. (Sanaa time), Iranian-backed Houthi militants fired one anti-ship cruise missile from Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen toward the Red Sea. The missile was shot down by USS Gravely (DDG 107). There were no injuries or damage reported.
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We must meet the threat with our valor, our blood, indeed with our very lives, to ensure that human civilization, not insect, dominates this galaxy now and always!
Remember we posted about 'spiders on Mars' last week? Well, here's a close-up of those features, seen from
@ESA_ExoMars
@ESA_TGO
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Balloons can basically do everything satellites do but better. No rocket launch means lower cost. Closer proximity gets better performance from sensors and comms. They can offer persistence measured in months. It's like a GEO satellite at lower altitude. 2/10
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