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[No Need To Hide @Steph_Chrstn]

A jamais gravée cette nuit du 09 au 10 mai 2019… #CommandoHubert #FS #KHB #Otages

[Iran Embassy SA @IraninSA]

The way the United States closed the Strait of Hormuz.

[TomTheFlyer @Tom_Flyerr]

The most Epic pass I've ever seen🔥🇫🇷

[No Need To Hide @Steph_Chrstn]

@Generations7080 C'est clair !!! J'y ai laissé quelques dents de lait également à l'époque !!😄

[No Need To Hide @Steph_Chrstn]

@Generations7080 J4adore ! Surtout de voir des personnes s'engager dans la recherche de ce type d'anecdotes !! Merci à vous !!

[Ⓖⓔⓝⓔⓡⓐⓣⓘⓞⓝⓢ60708090📼🎙️✨ @Generations7080]

📍Voici l’endroit où le chef Chaudard, Tassin et Pithiviers se sont baignés lors du tournage du film « Mais où est donc passée la 7e compagnie ? » 😅 L’une des scènes les plus cultes de la trilogie.

👉 Il s’agit du Grand Étang du bois de Kabiline, situé dans le département des Yvelines (78). D’ailleurs, une grande partie des scènes a été tournée dans ce département.

[No Need To Hide @Steph_Chrstn]

@LesNews Flippant de réalisme quand même ! 😳

[No Need To Hide @Steph_Chrstn]

@lo_sice @alexysiktrice Joke is supposed to be funny, isn't it ?

[Rishabh @Rixhabh__]

A man spent 50 years teaching at MIT.

Near the end, he knew time was running out. So he recorded one final lecture, everything he learned distilled into one hour.

He passed away 5 months later.

This is that lecture. Bookmark it.

[No Need To Hide @Steph_Chrstn]

@Fs_francaises_ J'étais au dessus en appui de la mission...Et 8 jours plus tard, de même pour cette mission avec DPP et Bébert....Mois de mai 2019 bien pourri...

[No Need To Hide @Steph_Chrstn]

@JP_Grumbach Ce charisme de fou déjà...!

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

Everyone is talking about the oil. Almost nobody is talking about the machines.

When Iranian missiles hit Ras Laffan on March 18 and 19, they did not just knock out LNG production. They struck the most concentrated node of cryogenic industrial infrastructure on earth. And the reason QatarEnergy’s CEO told Reuters that repairs will take three to five years is not because the buildings are hard to rebuild. It is because the machines inside them are nearly impossible to replace.

The core technology in every LNG train and helium extraction unit at Ras Laffan is the brazed aluminium plate-fin heat exchanger, known in the industry as a BAHX. These are not off-the-shelf components. They are custom-engineered cryogenic cores weighing up to 470 tonnes, standing 60 metres tall inside insulated cold boxes, manufactured by exactly five companies on earth: Chart Industries in the United States, Fives Cryo in France, Kobe Steel in Japan, Linde in Germany, and Sumitomo in Japan. That is the entire global supply per ALPEMA, the manufacturers’ own association.

Current lead time for a full mega-scale air separation unit built around these exchangers: three to four years from contract to commissioning. Lead time for the BAHX cores alone: 12 to 18 months with order books already full before the war started.

Here is why field repair is so difficult.

Aluminium has no fatigue endurance limit. Every thermal cycle accumulates irreversible damage. The brazed joints crack under thermal stress, and ALPEMA’s Integrity Operating Windows cap temperature changes at below 1 degree Celsius per minute during normal cycling and below 5 degrees per minute even during startup events.

When a joint cracks, the only field repair is layer blocking: welding shut the distributor openings of the damaged layer while leaving adjacent layers open. Chart Industries, the primary manufacturer, recommends a maximum of two blocks before the entire core must be replaced. Each block reduces heat transfer efficiency. Each block increases stress on remaining layers, accelerating the fatigue cycle.

Shell confirmed on March 20 that Pearl GTL Train 2 will take approximately one year to repair. The LNG trains S4 and S6, with 12.8 million tonnes per annum combined capacity, will take three to five years per QatarEnergy. The difference in timelines reflects damage extent, not repair difficulty. Both face the same physics.

And both face the same logistics problem. Every replacement module, every specialist welder with an ASME R-stamp authorization, every 470-tonne cold box shipment must transit the Strait of Hormuz. The same strait where 90 percent of the world’s ocean-going tonnage has lost war risk insurance coverage. The same strait where the IRGC operates a selective vetting corridor with at least two confirmed yuan-settled payments per Lloyd’s List. The same strait where premiums have surged from 0.125 percent to 7.5 percent of hull value.

The machines cannot be repaired without parts that cannot be shipped through a strait that cannot be insured.

This is the machine layer that connects the helium shortage to the semiconductor shortage to the AI compute shortage. Qatar produces one-third of the world’s helium as a byproduct of LNG processing through these exact machines. Helium spot prices have doubled. Samsung and SK Hynix hold six months of inventory. There is no substitute in cryogenic semiconductor applications per the USGS.

The market priced the oil shock. It has not priced the machine shock. The timeline is measured in years, not weeks.

https://t.co/32ixeQpN7N

[China pulse 🇨🇳 @Eng_china5]

JUST IN AND UNUSUAL
CHINA is recording the US war live!

The US attacks on Iran have become a veritable military intelligence laboratory for China.

More than 300 Jilin-1 satellites are recording every detail, second by second, from munition refueling to missile trajectories.

China is turning US war doctrine into a database, including refueling times and air defense responses.

According to experts, this data could give China a military research and development advantage that will last for decades.

US war tactics are being thoroughly analyzed.

[Alok Kumar @Alokkumarzz]

WhatsApp has more than 1.9 billion users worldwide.

But 97% of people don’t know its true potential.

Here are 15 essential tricks you should know:

[🎣 #killAraujo 🇦🇷 #b2b #victorylap @n0thatdeep]

suicide bombing in an age where drones exist, pure love for the game, you have to respect this dedication

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

They did not bomb Iran. They waited for Iran’s entire leadership to sit down in the same room and then they bombed Iran.

Months of intelligence. Thousands of hours of surveillance and signal intercepts. One variable: the moment the Supreme Leader, the President, and senior military command gathered in a single location at the same time.

That moment was 8:15 this morning. Daylight. Every previous Israeli strike on Iran came at night. June 2025 launched in darkness. October 2024 after midnight. Iran’s entire air defense doctrine is built around the assumption that Israel attacks in the dark. Israel attacked in broad daylight because the target was not infrastructure. The target was a meeting.

Reuters confirms strikes targeted Khamenei and Pezeshkian. CNN confirms months of joint US-Israeli planning. Israeli officials confirmed the strike hit the location where Iran’s top officials were gathered. Whether Khamenei was moved before the strike or extracted after is the most consequential unknown on the planet right now. If before, someone inside Tehran’s inner circle told Jerusalem when and where the meeting would happen. If after, the strikes hit the room and he survived. Both scenarios are catastrophic for the regime.

Because Iran’s leadership now knows three things. Israel knew where they were meeting. Israel knew when they were meeting. Israel knew who would be in the room. And everything we watched over the past month, the F-22s at Ovda, the tankers at Ben Gurion, Al Udeid emptied to zero, 270 transport flights, all of it was the delivery architecture for one precision strike on one gathering.

Every future meeting of Iran’s senior leadership now carries one question: does Israel know about this one too.

This is not a military operation. This is the destruction of institutional trust inside a regime. Every general who sits with Khamenei tomorrow will wonder who told Jerusalem about today. Every IRGC commander who receives a meeting summons will calculate whether attendance is duty or a death sentence. Every secure facility in Tehran has been proven insecure.

In June 2025 Israel killed 30 generals in the opening minutes. That was brute force across dispersed targets. This was a scalpel. One meeting. One moment. Months of patience.

Iran fired missiles at six countries in retaliation. Most intercepted. One civilian dead from debris in Abu Dhabi. Saudi Arabia responded by pledging all its capabilities against Iran. The Gulf coalition that did not exist yesterday exists today because Tehran built it by attacking everyone simultaneously.

Israel traded one morning of precision strikes for the permanent destruction of Iran’s command cohesion.

That is not a battle. That is checkmate disguised as a first move. https://t.co/BrzGRrU3VW

[Clash Report @clashreport]

WATCH: Patriot air defence system failed to intercept an Iranian missile over Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar.

[WarMonitor🇺🇦🇬🇧 @WarMonitor3]

Remarkable video of an Iranian missile being shot down at close range over Ali Al Salem Air Base in Kuwait.

[Defense 280 @Defense137]

#soutienBrigitteBoucher

[No Need To Hide @Steph_Chrstn]

@VittoreMorgane Je vois ça !