Zach 🇺🇦
@thrustwr.bsky.social
Former NavalNews & USNINews writer, Track Fuser, R-1/P-1 Budget Reader.
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Zach 🇺🇦
@thrustwr.bsky.social
· Aug 11
The second edition of my introductory piece on the PATRIOT system is now public. I have once again put a lot of effort into this and added the necessary graphics, so go grab a copy (it is free!) and enjoy!.
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Two hours a night: Japan PM’s sleep schedule prompts concerns about work-life balance
Two hours a night: Japan PM’s sleep schedule prompts concerns about work-life balance
Takaichi caused a stir last week after she summoned aides to her office for a 3am meeting to prepare for a budget committee hearing
Japan’s prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, has said she gets by on just two to four hours sleep a night – prompting concern over her commitment to a better work-life balance among the country’s fatigued employees.
Pointing to the bags beneath her eyes, Takaichi told MPs that she survives on minimal sleep – a habit she shares with her political hero Margaret Thatcher – after being asked how she would tackle Japan’s notoriously long working hours. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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Hey all, if you like my work and would like to support me to continue this work (more videos + some digest volumes) you can support me over at: www.patreon.com/c/Vrmillion
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November 9, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Hey all, if you like my work and would like to support me to continue this work (more videos + some digest volumes) you can support me over at: www.patreon.com/c/Vrmillion
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The wonks think history bends to charts and confidence intervals, but the last hundred yards aren’t graphed—they’re clawed through mud, smoke, and screaming metal. You don’t calculate victory, you drag it bleeding across the finish line with grit under your nails and God in your teeth.
What a load of horseshit. "Victory is built on 85%" stopping 85% of a mass raid still means you die.
November 8, 2025 at 4:19 AM
The wonks think history bends to charts and confidence intervals, but the last hundred yards aren’t graphed—they’re clawed through mud, smoke, and screaming metal. You don’t calculate victory, you drag it bleeding across the finish line with grit under your nails and God in your teeth.
Immigration is such a "big problem" to them so their solution is to create a humanitarian crisis that will make this supposed concern much worse.
November 7, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Immigration is such a "big problem" to them so their solution is to create a humanitarian crisis that will make this supposed concern much worse.
Israel is a normal state that should be held to account the same as any other state. For the atrocities it has committed sanctions must be placed on it. It must also pay reparations to the people of Gaza and the West Bank. If it shall not comply, it should be cut off from the world.
On foreign policy I’d say the Democrats should aspire to elect Bellingcat Liberals, which is basically the same as a NatSec liberal but capable of seeing obvious facts about Israel
November 6, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Israel is a normal state that should be held to account the same as any other state. For the atrocities it has committed sanctions must be placed on it. It must also pay reparations to the people of Gaza and the West Bank. If it shall not comply, it should be cut off from the world.
Turns out you don't have to throw trans people under the bus to win. Eat shit Yglesias & Co.
November 5, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Turns out you don't have to throw trans people under the bus to win. Eat shit Yglesias & Co.
I don't understand Trump's obsession with steam catapults. Why tf would you want the Navy to deal with pressurized oil and hot steam systems that keep putting uneven strain on the airframes of aircraft thus worsening their aging?
October 29, 2025 at 7:17 AM
I don't understand Trump's obsession with steam catapults. Why tf would you want the Navy to deal with pressurized oil and hot steam systems that keep putting uneven strain on the airframes of aircraft thus worsening their aging?
New piece on FCAS that the DA team has been cooking: defensearchives.com/news/quo-vad...
Quo Vadis, FCAS? - Defense Archives
When Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel announced the Future Combat Air System (FCAS) in 2017, they envisioned a European flagship project: a joint sixth-generation air combat system, supported by Germ...
defensearchives.com
October 22, 2025 at 4:23 PM
New piece on FCAS that the DA team has been cooking: defensearchives.com/news/quo-vad...
Long time no post, today I have this rare image for you guys. This is a photo of Rockwell's Experimental Hover Vehicle for the KKV Hover Interceptor Test (KHIT). Following the start of SDI tech development in 1983, the USAF started working on future tech that would go into space-based interceptors.
October 19, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Long time no post, today I have this rare image for you guys. This is a photo of Rockwell's Experimental Hover Vehicle for the KKV Hover Interceptor Test (KHIT). Following the start of SDI tech development in 1983, the USAF started working on future tech that would go into space-based interceptors.
It has been a long time since I last did an AMA, so I guess you guys should throw me some questions you have had for me?
October 11, 2025 at 4:45 PM
It has been a long time since I last did an AMA, so I guess you guys should throw me some questions you have had for me?
The only class of vessels in US inventory designed to take punishment are aircraft carriers.
October 11, 2025 at 4:27 PM
The only class of vessels in US inventory designed to take punishment are aircraft carriers.
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counterpoint: look at this modern battleship under construction
October 11, 2025 at 3:32 PM
counterpoint: look at this modern battleship under construction
Modern tanks have frontal arcs that are more protected (on a RHA equivalent) than Battleships of yore and they are still getting penetrated frontly by the cones of magic.
In reality, your armor belt doesn't matter so much when I can fly a 500 lb warhead straight into your bridge
In reality, your armor belt doesn't matter so much when I can fly a 500 lb warhead straight into your bridge
I know I'm late to the modern Battleship discussion thing, but it's a very stupid idea. This is the warhead from an AS-4 KITCHEN / Kh-22 Burya. It weighs ≈1000kg. That shaped charge looks somewhere between 500 and 750mm. At a conservative estimate of 2 cone diameters you cannot carry enough armor.
October 11, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Modern tanks have frontal arcs that are more protected (on a RHA equivalent) than Battleships of yore and they are still getting penetrated frontly by the cones of magic.
In reality, your armor belt doesn't matter so much when I can fly a 500 lb warhead straight into your bridge
In reality, your armor belt doesn't matter so much when I can fly a 500 lb warhead straight into your bridge
How are we doing here? What's going on?
September 30, 2025 at 10:01 AM
How are we doing here? What's going on?
Uh, here's the video I have been busy working on for a few months now: youtu.be/CmWQgNSEtdw
The Threat of Ballistic Missiles
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September 10, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Uh, here's the video I have been busy working on for a few months now: youtu.be/CmWQgNSEtdw
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Yeah. I used to believe we had to beat him "the right way." But here's the thing: We fucking lost. And because we lost, trans kids get to grow up in fear and millions of Africans lost their AIDS medication and underequipped Ukrainian troops were overrun and at some point, it's like...
I mean, we should recognize the turf we're playing on. Yes, there is no way to distinguish the age of that silhouette. But, also, yes, we should draw every inference we can to paint this kn the harshest light.
September 8, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Yeah. I used to believe we had to beat him "the right way." But here's the thing: We fucking lost. And because we lost, trans kids get to grow up in fear and millions of Africans lost their AIDS medication and underequipped Ukrainian troops were overrun and at some point, it's like...
Trying to get a video I have been working on since July out tonight. If only this test render wasn't taking so long.
September 8, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Trying to get a video I have been working on since July out tonight. If only this test render wasn't taking so long.
Finally we got bookmarks.
September 8, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Finally we got bookmarks.
I regret buying a USB microphone. Shit is so sensitive it is picking up the pipes in my walls.
September 8, 2025 at 10:47 AM
I regret buying a USB microphone. Shit is so sensitive it is picking up the pipes in my walls.
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mahan is great at big-picture strategy but a terrible prophet of what was coming next. he thought the new hotness might be torpedo boats, by which he meant little steam boats with bombs strapped to the front
the point is command of the seas, not how you get there
the point is command of the seas, not how you get there
September 7, 2025 at 1:19 PM
mahan is great at big-picture strategy but a terrible prophet of what was coming next. he thought the new hotness might be torpedo boats, by which he meant little steam boats with bombs strapped to the front
the point is command of the seas, not how you get there
the point is command of the seas, not how you get there
Then read more theory. It is funny that even when naval warfare is depicted it is usually always heavily gun focused. This is something that stopped being all that relevant in terms of engaging the enemy and killing him quickly after the aircraft carrier was created.
September 7, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Then read more theory. It is funny that even when naval warfare is depicted it is usually always heavily gun focused. This is something that stopped being all that relevant in terms of engaging the enemy and killing him quickly after the aircraft carrier was created.