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[Franck3E @Franck3E]

@SolaSixMillion @WhiteHouse Friendly advise: You may consider changing your usertag @SolaSixMillion before impersonating yourself as Jewish. Nice try Abdul

[Phil Metzger @DrPhiltill]

I don’t know if this is orange deposition from ablated material upstream, or if most belly tiles were stripped off, but FWIW, on the Space Shuttle program we used to worry about a “zipper effect”, where — in theory — losing one tile could result in the hot plasma getting under the next one behind it, pulling it off, and so on until all the tiles get pulled off in sequence like a zipper.

We were worried this could result in loss of vehicle/loss of life (a “Crit 1 failure”). We were happy to find that losing just one tile didn’t automatically result in a zipper effect. Many missions we lost one tile here or there, while the neighbor tiles remained in place.

So if this was a zipper effect — hypothetically speaking since it might’ve just been ablated material deposited on the tiles — then it is interesting because the vehicle survived and completed the mission despite the zipper.

Either way, it looks like the stress test of Starship was completely successful. They pushed its limits, it survived, and the buoy-cam got imagery of the results so they can better estimate vehicle margins.

[Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian @manniefabian]

Footage from the Hamas attack on an IDF encampment in southern Gaza's Khan Younis this morning shows a tank of the 74th Armored Battalion ramming into a RPG-wielding operative.

[Decker Eveleth @dex_eve]

https://t.co/ieVS7RMghC
I may have written 12K words on the war, Iran's missile performance, and where we go from here. I hope it is illuminating.

[Laurent Lagneau @zonemilitaire]

La Roumanie envisage l’achat de systèmes antiaériens auprès de l’israélien Rafael pour 2 milliards d’euros https://t.co/ByAFFdnpZw

[WarMonitor🇺🇦🇬🇧 @WarMonitor3]

Romania to spend 5 billion on acquiring spider and Iron Dome air defence systems from Israel.

[Fascinating @fasc1nate]

The US fire a 15-kiloton Nuclear artillery shell, 1953

[Franck3E @Franck3E]

@MosabHasanYOSEF No as they'll turn this territory into a terror hub next door to Israel and destabilize Egypt further. Ideally their sponsors Qatar, Turkey and Iran should take them. Alternatively non-arab muslim states like Somalia, Indonesia, Malaysia could absorb them for quiproquo deals w/🇺🇸

[Adam Kredo @Kredo0]

NOTE: CNN did not disclose in its report that the DIA intel assessment was low-confidence and based on satellite imagery https://t.co/XNoCMhA91A

[Adam Kredo @Kredo0]

JUST IN: Iranian Nuke Program Decimated by US-Israeli Strikes, Uranium Entombed Beneath Rubble, Intel Analysts Say -- "They don't have the scientists, and they don't have the centrifuges, and they don't have the infrastructure' https://t.co/XNoCMhA91A

[Franck3E @Franck3E]

@IsraelRadar_com Yes but use the remaining time window to unleash the whole IAF firepower in order to finish what is still standing in Arak, Fordow, Isfahan and Natanz.

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

Meme of the day.

[David Patrikarakos @dpatrikarakos]

Reports that John Mearsheimer has fled Tehran.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Q: Your intelligence community says they have no evidence that Iran is building a nuke

TRUMP: Then my intelligence community is wrong. Who said that?

Q: You director of national intelligence Tulsi Gabbard

TRUMP: She's wrong

[Franck3E @Franck3E]

@ajaltamimi That what an iranian official would say.

[Franck3E @Franck3E]

@TuckerCarlson Too long diarrea to read

[Franck3E @Franck3E]

@JewishWarrior13 Obama's sunset clauses were supposed to end this decade. If Trump can add one or two decades, why not? Moreover, the deal will only become a treaty if 2/3 of Congress vote for it.

[Franck3E @Franck3E]

@Malbrunot On parle de discussions sur une potentielle révision. La révision c'est 27 pays sur les 27 en consensus.

[Franck3E @Franck3E]

@ColbyBadhwar @John_A_Ridge Could a niet spark the development of Israel's own stealthy long-range ALCM program?