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[Daniel Bogdanoff @DanielBogdanoff]

Rough BOM cost check in the US:
LTC5552 = $60 x 2 = $120
ADAR1000 phase shifters = $195 x4 = $780
ADTR1107 front end = $225 * 16 = $3600
ADTXC7A100T FPGA = ~$200

Excluding boards, maybe ~$5k in chips/parts

The "10 Watt" version needs power amps:
QPA2962TR7 = ~$450 * 16 = $7200

[Naftali Hazony @nhazony]

Satellite imagery shows something curious: While the United States and Israel dropped over 7,000 bombs on Iran over the past week, not a single munition struck the underground complex of Iran’s nuclear site in Isfahan.

Why?
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[Dimko Zhluktenko 🇺🇦⚔️ @dim0kq]

My unit deleted Tor M2 aka SA-15 Gauntlet.

I suggest to follow this account, and we will be sharing more Russian air defense pieces being deleted. Good stuff!

[MT Anderson @MT_Anderson]

SYSTEMATIC DISMANTLING: Post-Strike BDA of 🇮🇷Jask Naval Base

OSINT Analysis (Mar 4 Imagery): The strike campaign included Jask, the headquarters of the Iranian Navy's 2nd Naval Region.

A review of the aftermath from the March 2 strikes reveals a highly precise, asset-focused bombardment.

1. The Harbor (FAC Fleet Neutralized): A Sentinel-2 timelapse showed ~12 vessels moored along the jetty as of Feb 28. March 4, they are completely gone.

The port infrastructure is largely intact, but a massive pile of debris has been pushed up against the breakwater. It appears the wreckage of Iran's Fast Attack Craft (FAC) and patrol boats was simply "bulldozed" aside.

With the Strait of Hormuz commercial traffic stalled, their fast boat swarm capability here has been neutralized.

2. The Airfield (Precision Targeting): The adjacent airfield took heavy, calculated hits.

C2/Storage: Multiple buildings show distinct munition entry points through the roofs.

Hidden Assets: There are specific impact craters along the airstrip and peppered through a nearby treeline. This heavily suggests deployed equipment (likely air defense systems or mobile launchers) was hiding in the trees and systematically rooted out.

Operation Epic Fury isn't just cratering runways; it is surgically removing Iran's ability to project force into the Gulf of Oman.

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@Schizointel

[Apple Lamps @lamps_apple]

Everything you said about the current state of the Navy's mine countermeasures capability is wrong. Not a little wrong. Completely, embarrassingly, dangerously wrong....

"The four ships we had dedicated to doing this we just decommissioned." The Avengers in Bahrain... Devastator, Dextrous, Gladiator, Sentry. Wooden-hulled ships from the 1980s. Ships that were pushing 40 years old. You know what replaced them? Three Independence-class Littoral Combat Ships... Canberra, Santa Barbara, and Tulsa… all three already deployed to U.S. 5th Fleet, all three operating in the Persian Gulf and Arabian Gulf right now, today, as you wrote this little rant. Not in San Diego. Not in drydock. In theater. Carrying the most advanced mine countermeasures mission package the Navy has ever fielded.

USS Canberra arrived in Bahrain in May 2025 as the first LCS with a full MCM mission package. USS Santa Barbara is in the Arabian Gulf conducting mine countermeasures operations with unmanned surface vehicles… and, by the way, just made naval history by executing the first-ever at-sea launch of a LUCAS one-way attack drone from a littoral combat ship under Task Force 59. USS Tulsa is right there alongside them. Three ships. In the Gulf. Doing the mission. While you say the Navy "is absolutely not ready for this."

These are fundamentally different platforms. Autonomous mine-hunting sonar… the AN/AQS-20C… towed by unmanned surface vehicles so sailors stay outside the minefield. Airborne laser mine detection systems on MH-60 helicopters. Unmanned influence sweep systems for acoustic and magnetic minesweeping. The old Avengers sent sailors INTO the minefield on wooden boats. The new systems keep them OUT of the minefield using robots... something you call a "downgrade"

And while Santa Barbara hunts mines, she's operating under armed overwatch from A-10C Warthogs out of Jordan… loaded with JDAMs, laser-guided APKWS rockets, and enough firepower to shred any fast boat or drone swarm the Islamic Regime throws at them. The Avengers never had anything like that.

"We lost all of our corporate knowledge." Really? The Navy spent a decade building, testing, qualifying, and deploying an entirely new mine warfare architecture specifically to preserve and advance that knowledge. They trained new crews. They ran operational tests on Cincinnati. They deployed the first operational package on Canberra. The Navy's mine countermeasures technical division ran this transition for years with deliberate overlap between old and new platforms. You lose corporate knowledge when you do nothing. The Navy did the opposite of nothing.

"Now we're running an experiment and it's gonna cost people their lives." Three combat ships, forward deployed in the most contested waters on earth, running mine countermeasures with unmanned systems, protected by close air support, integrated with Task Force 59's autonomous warfare network. That's the most capable mine warfare force the United States has put in the Persian Gulf since 1991.

Yelling "amateur hour" at people while getting the basic facts of the Navy's current force posture completely, demonstrably wrong… while three ships are literally in the water doing the job he says nobody can do… that IS amateur hour.

[The Angry Gunner @TheAngry53586]

Safe transit lane 1991. Pre-swept by MCMV but maximum speed about ten knots. Route marked with danbuoys. Outside to the right was a minefield.
Two of the ships in the distance subsequently ran onto mines.

Anyone gobbing off this is easy, has not done it for real.

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

By the way, speaking of Shahed-136s.

Back in 2022-2023, when Iran first supplied them to Russia and they were first used on a large scale against Ukraine, they were fairly simple loitering munitions -- a slow, buzzing two-stroke engine whining high in the sky like a moped, a 50-kg warhead, and often they could be shot down by machine guns mounted on pickup trucks.

Now, after several years of massive use, Russia has dramatically upgraded them. And they evolve all the time along with our defenses.

They can now carry almost twice the warhead -- sometimes even thermobaric. Experimental versions used jet propulsion.

They can fly high and then suddenly dive onto their targets, making them much harder to intercept. They can also fly extremely low, skimming just above the treetops. They’re painted black to make nighttime detection even harder.

Now they can carry cellular modems or Starlink terminals to transmit telemetry and video to operators and allow remote control. Some are equipped with infrared cameras and target-recognition systems. They can act as communication relays for other drones. There are also simple decoy drones designed purely to overload your air defenses.

And here in Ukraine we’ve even seen Shaheds carrying MANPADS, air-to-air missiles, and even another remotely controlled FPV drone.

And most importantly -- they are cheap, mass-produced, and there are a lot of them. Dozens or hundreds every night against your targets, together with swarms of decoys.

In other words -- welcome to the party, pal.

For four years, we Ukrainians have been begging on our knees for weapons, warning that endless appeasement and “escalation management" that give Russia and its totalitarian allies time and shielding Putin from defeat in Ukraine was a colossal mistake.

Now we are all reaping the consequences.

[Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan]

The reason we gotta spend $4 million per Patriot missile to shoot down a silly $20,000 Shahed drone is because Donald Trump refused to give Ukraine the Tomahawks necessary to take out the Shahed factories in Russia

[Тетяна Кагітіна NAFO member @tatyanaodesssa]

I don’t like when good news goes unnoticed.
In February, Ukraine regained more territory than it lost. I can only imagine how much blood, strength, and sweat stand behind that sentence.
Glory to Ukrainian Army 💛💙

[SpanishTapas 𝓕𝓮𝓵𝓵𝓪 🇪🇸🇫🇷 @Span1shTapas]

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[CHRIBB 🇸🇪🇺🇦 @ChristianHultb3]

I'm a Swedish NAFO Fella, and I support Ukraine🇺🇦until victory and beyond. Fuck yeah.🇸🇪💙🇺🇦 #NAFOExpansionIsNonNegotiable

[Coast of Life @coastoflife_od]

Today we sent 6⃣suplpies🥫🕯️. For fellas who love numbers:
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💸7⃣1⃣1⃣$ of your donations +🌻boost by Delta Wilmar made it possible.

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[UNITED24 Media @United24media]

Service dog Nick was killed in action. Nick suffered a shrapnel wound from a Russian shell and later passed away.

According to servicemen who worked with Nick, he was engaged in search operations.

📷: Viktor Odynytsia / Facebook

[Мартін @ChrmnMAO69]

Giving a huge shout out to a NAFO birthday girl! Sending birthday hugs to @eli_gilje! Be sure to wish her well on her special day!

[smolfellas @smolfellas]

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[Capt_Himars @Capt_Himars]

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[I am the fermiparadox @ActuallyMrWest]

Look what I took for a spin today in Microsoft Flight Simulator 😍

[I am the fermiparadox @ActuallyMrWest]

@Trierarch81 Two things:
I really like what you've done with the place. Very cozy!
That shoulder drape action is on point. I know a professional when I see one.