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Laar
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avgeeknologist.bsky.social
This writeup isn't too bad:
www.flyingpenguin.com?p=74567
6,000 Airbus Jets Grounded, Because Nobody Tested for the Sun | flyingpenguin
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November 30, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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chriso-wiki.bsky.social
In honour of its proponents, I suggest that the Dmitriev-Witkoff proposal should henceforth be called the Dim-Wit Plan
November 23, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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anderspucknielsen.dk
My take on Trump's peace plan, and why he can't pressure Ukraine into capitulation.
Trump's ultimatum and the limits of US leverage over Ukraine
YouTube video by Anders Puck Nielsen
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November 22, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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vcdgf555.bsky.social
Every now and then I have to step back and appreciate where we are at as far as open-source availability...

The Ford CSG was geolocated using publicly available 10m imagery a little under 3.5 hours after the imagery was taken.
November 22, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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rebel44cz.bsky.social
A new video from @CovertCabal and @Jonpy99 about Russia pulling a lot of old tanks from storage

www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_Ft...
Russia Has Began a MASSIVE withdraw of ancient T-72 Ural and A variant tanks
YouTube video by Covert Cabal
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November 22, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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rebel44cz.bsky.social
#UkraineWar: Overview of Russian equipment losses added on 19/11/2025

Full list: oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02/atta...
November 19, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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rebel44cz.bsky.social
#UkraineWar: Overview of Ukrainian equipment losses added on 19/11/2025

Full list: oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02/atta...
November 19, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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deaidua.org
My latest piece → Information made public today by Rheinmetall CEO Papperger reveals that all four Skynex air defence systems pledged by Germany have now been delivered to #Ukraine, while the first Skyranger 35 is scheduled to be delivered next week.

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Rheinmetall has completed Skynex deliveries to Ukraine | GAU
Information announced today by Rheinmetall CEO Papperger reveals that all Skynex systems financed by Germany have been delivered to Ukraine.
deaidua.org
November 18, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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deaidua.org
(🧵 1/11) — As it has often been requested, I decided to compile a list of weapon systems, ammunition and more that Germany has verifiably supplied or pledged to #Ukraine since April 2025 – i.e. since the German government has mostly stopped publishing details about military aid.
November 16, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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deaidua.org
My latest piece → By the end of the year, the German defence company HENSOLDT expects further orders for the production of TRML-4D air surveillance and target acquisition radars intended for #Ukraine.

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HENSOLDT expects further TRML-4D orders for Ukraine shortly | GAU
By the end of the year, HENSOLDT expects further orders for the production of TRML-4D air surveillance and target acquisition radars intended for Ukraine.
deaidua.org
November 11, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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rebel44cz.bsky.social
#UkraineWar: Overview of Ukrainian equipment losses added on 10/11/2025

Full list: oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02/atta...
November 10, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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rebel44cz.bsky.social
#UkraineWar: Overview of Russian equipment losses added on 10/11/2025

Full list: oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02/atta...
November 10, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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rebel44cz.bsky.social
Perun-o-clock: Algeria & The African Arms Race You've (Probably) Never Heard Of - Surging Budgets & Russian Weapons

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Algeria & The African Arms Race You've (Probably) Never Heard Of - Surging Budgets & Russian Weapons
YouTube video by Perun
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November 9, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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atomicanalyst.bsky.social
At 8:50 AM today in 1979, data from a simulated massive Soviet nuclear decapitation attack running at NORAD were somehow sent to live warning displays there, SAC, the National Military Command Center, and the ANMCC at Raven Rock, triggering a false alarm and a ~6-minute threat assessment conference.
A black and white photograph of a room inside NORAD filled with tape-driven computers and printers. A black and white photograph of an operations room inside the NORAD command post circa 1982. Two large projection screens dominate the wall in the back (one of which displays the NORAD emblem) while in the foreground officers sit at desks with multiple buttons, switches, and large circular digital display screens. A color photograph of the dimly lit Strategic Air Command underground command post showing officers sitting at a long row of consoles in front of which are five nearly floor to ceiling display screens. A color photograph of the National Military Command Center (NMCC) inside the Pentagon. Six large display screens dominate a wall in the background while in the foreground a male officer sitting at a T-shaped conference table equipped with microphones and various switches and phones is on the telephone.
November 9, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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dankaszeta.bsky.social
OK, as promised, here's my thread about the links between tear gas/pepper spray and the arms trade and gun industry.
Tear gas in use during a strike in the 1930s
November 5, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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rebel44cz.bsky.social
Perun-o-clock: Russia's new "Skyfall' Missile - Evaluation & the Danger of "Superweapon Syndrome"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0t8...
Russia's new "Skyfall' Missile - Evaluation & the Danger of "Superweapon Syndrome"
YouTube video by Perun
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November 2, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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navalnews.com
[VIDEO] Rare access inside an Italian Navy Navy Type 212A Submarine 🇮🇹
Naval News takes you on a tour aboard Italian Navy submarine ITS Romeo Romei (S 529), with the Commanding Officer and XO. Romeo Romei is the final Todaro-class Batch 2 submarine.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNX2...
Rare access inside an Italian Navy Type 212A Submarine
YouTube video by Naval News
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November 1, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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rebel44cz.bsky.social
#UkraineWar: Overview of Ukrainian equipment losses added on 31/10/2025

Full list: oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02/atta...
October 31, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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rebel44cz.bsky.social
#UkraineWar: Overview of Russian equipment losses added on 31/10/2025

Full list: oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02/atta...
October 31, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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gigansprogress.bsky.social
This is such a good piece
www.rusi.org/explore-our-...
Emergent Approaches to Combined Arms Manoeuvre in Ukraine
Ukrainian forces have begun to develop novel approaches to combined arms manoeuvre, incorporating new capabilities, that bear scrutiny for NATO armies.
www.rusi.org
October 28, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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rebel44cz.bsky.social
#UkraineWar: Overview of Ukrainian equipment losses added on 28/10/2025

Full list: oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02/atta...
October 28, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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rebel44cz.bsky.social
#UkraineWar: Overview of Russian equipment losses added on 28/10/2025

Full list: oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02/atta...
October 28, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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atomicanalyst.bsky.social
Today in 1973, in response to CIA reports that the Soviet Union was shipping nuclear weapons and troops to Egypt to intervene in the Yom Kippur War, Strategic Air Command, Continental Air Defense Command, European Command, and the Sixth Fleet all moved to DEFCON 3 for the first time since 1962.
A black and white aerial photograph of a shiny B-52D bomber with a white-painted belly (to better reflect the heat from a thermonuclear explosion) in flight above a field of cumulus clouds. Painted on the fuselage underneath "U.S. AIR FORCE" is "1ST WICHITA BUILT B-52D STRATOFORTRESS."
October 25, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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rebel44cz.bsky.social
#UkraineWar: Overview of Ukrainian equipment losses added on 25/10/2025

Full list: oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02/atta...
October 25, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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rebel44cz.bsky.social
#UkraineWar: Overview of Russian equipment losses added on 25/10/2025

Full list: oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02/atta...
October 25, 2025 at 7:36 AM