austin

Marine Hardware & protocol Hacking | maritime & risk consultant by day, security researcher by night | GICSP |

[austin @aggieislander]

@BDHerzinger I always suspected you were a fellow man of culture

[austin @aggieislander]

@evan7257 Nothing says Galveston Bay like a cloud of benzine or some other chemical washing over you as you sit in traffic on 146 turning into Kemah.

As a (fmr) local this felt like a regular occurrence.

[austin @aggieislander]

All my homies defend Taiwan no matter who's president.

[Vess @VessOnSecurity]

@robertgraham The top American principle being the selling of weapons?

[austin @aggieislander]

@JoshuaSteinman I need you to intro me to the folks funding shit like this because I have better ideas.

[austin @aggieislander]

@amirhusain_tx Apples and oranges - Barracuda M is cheap TLAM alternative not our response to shahed/garan.

The folks who built the LUCAS have that one covered.

[austin @aggieislander]

@andrewmccalip Would you be open to chatting about it? I can drop you a message to set something up

[austin @aggieislander]

Hurricanes, typhoons, waterspouts, multi day gales taking down power,

Spookiest have been microbursts.

But also fuck hurricanes. #BuildTheIkeDike

[Mandy Simard @MandyLSimard]

What’s the most unhinged weather event you’ve personally experienced?

[austin @aggieislander]

@suuuoppp I should have studied agriculture

[austin @aggieislander]

@johnkonrad Let's finish a US built ship on time before we add nuclear propulsion maybe?

[austin @aggieislander]

@mdburnell The brosint crowd when mixed with the fudd maritime "Intel" firms on here and LinkedIn become an unlimited energy machine powered by hot air and bullshit that could create enough output to dig that Canal through the desert Gingrich and those clowns wanted to build

[austin @aggieislander]

Huzzah for a model that puts ships in service this side of '30 while planning for domestic production beyond. Anyone who's worked with US & foreign shipyards in the last decade knows the US is operating at a disadvantage and we don't have time for anything but getting hulls asap

[austin @aggieislander]

@BDHerzinger Those responsible for increasing hull count should look internally at parties stateside who have impacted and slowed production

Signed someone who has supported small parts of a dozen + new build projects in 3 years globally.

[austin @aggieislander]

@BDHerzinger Good write up.

So much of the other disc. around US shipbuilding revitalization has missed 2 things| 1 - Requirements/contracting & 2 - build spec & class requirements .. Capacity and workforce won't solve a broken procurement and project management process set by legacy orgs

[Kane 謝凱堯 @kane]

California High Speed Rail will cost more than Japan’s new maglev and the new Artemis moon mission combined.

[austin @aggieislander]

@johnkonrad This post is giving a team of engineers in Houston heart palpitations - I love the idea but like others and you know these things are clunkers

[Steve Lookner @lookner]

The Washington Post is also reporting that US destroyers are now escorting two Iranian oil tankers, the Sevin and the Dorena, that had departed Iran before the blockade. "A U.S. official declined to say where the Dorena or Sevin will be escorted."
https://t.co/3MNIdMqsAf

[austin @aggieislander]

Stop relying on AIS to track ships in war zones.

[*Walter Bloomberg @DeItaone]

ONLY ONE OIL TANKER HAS PASSED THROUGH THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ TODAY - CNN CITING SHIPPING DATA

Shipping data shows only one oil tanker transited the Strait of Hormuz so far today, according to a CNN analysis of MarineTraffic AIS data. The vessel, the US-sanctioned, Botswana-flagged Mab 5, passed through earlier in the day.

Two other ships—a Panama-flagged bulk carrier and an India-flagged cargo vessel—also moved through into the Persian Gulf, while an India-flagged sailing vessel exited into the Gulf of Oman.

However, AIS tracking gaps mean additional ships could have passed undetected if they turned off signals.

Traffic remains far below normal levels since the recent US-Iran ceasefire announcement, compared with a typical average of about 107 vessels per day, underscoring continued disruption in one of the world’s most critical oil chokepoints.

[austin @aggieislander]

@johnkonrad With Americans dead, the Pentagon should be giving answers. You have that press pass. Americans want you to use it for their betterment.

[austin @aggieislander]

@johnkonrad Were you there John? Are you getting answers to what you have asked here? On the threat to TSP ships and other logistics concerns you have written about in the past?
Genuine questions not baiting