Gideon 🇳🇱

BSc Security Studies student. Interested in military aerospace, intelligence and (large-scale) conflict.

[Nadav Pollak @NadavPollak]

A leading media figure from AlJazeera celebrates 1 year to October 7 saying: “that day brought back honor to the (Islamic) nation”
Sorry for my language, but go to hell

[Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian @manniefabian]

The IDF releases images showing F-15i fighter jets of the Israeli Air Force's 69th Squadron taking off from the Hatzerim Airbase to carry out the assassination of Hezbollah terror chief Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut on Friday.

Dozens of bunker busting bombs were dropped by the fighter jets on Hezbollah's underground headquarters in the Dahiyeh suburb of Beirut in the attack, according to the military.

[Strategic Trends @StrategicTrends]

Jumbled thoughts about US/coalition tacair during a Taiwan HIC:

I can't think through how to optimally support blue force tacair, F-15E/EX and F-35 will be *waves hands* less taxing than F-16 and F-22, but even then Kadena/Okinawa will essentially be

[Israel Radar @IsraelRadar_com]

❗️Reports from Lebanon: Dozens of Hezbollah members hurt as Israel uses advanced tech to blow up portable communication devices in Beirut & elsewhere. via @ynetalerts

[IntelWalrus @IntelWalrus]

Dear @DeptofDefense, please normalize the @usairforce showing off training missions in which they practice blowing up Chinese bases on illegally seized territory in the SCS.

[Abd @blocksixtynine]

Always bet on red.

[Cᴀʟɪʙʀᴇ Oʙsᴄᴜʀᴀ @CalibreObscura]

Russia is built up into a paragon of strength by those who allow it freedom of action and the ability to set the narrative. The Ukrainians are disrupting that.

Give them the tools.

As Churchill once said, action this day.

[Abd @blocksixtynine]

Rehash of a classic.

[Havoc @Havoc_Six]

Russians watching a combined arms/maneuver campaign supported by coordinated air & recon assets unfold on their own soil

[PLATracker @PLATracker]

Satellite imagery of Yanliang AB from 27 July 2024 captured by @SkyfiApp shows a new KJ-500/700 AEW&C aircraft and a new Y-20 transport aircraft.

Both Y-20 testbeds have likely flown since 6 July, one with a new engine.

[Cᴀʟɪʙʀᴇ Oʙsᴄᴜʀᴀ @CalibreObscura]

I know the F-16AM in Ukraine aren't a wunderwaffe and won't magically change everything, but I find the notionally credible people dedicating massive effort to insisting they will make zero difference to be far more tiresome than the hypers

[Emma Smith @ameliairheart]

The US withdrawal from two bases in Niger leaves a gap over Western Africa in MQ-9 surveillance coverage. A recent article from @lemondefr claims that the US is planning to move to the Ivory Coast, filling most of the coverage gaps.

[PLATracker @PLATracker]

New satellite imagery via @SkyFiApp shows new aircraft at Yanliang AB, the production and test site of Xi’an Aircraft Company, in China.

Visible are twenty-one Y-20 transport aircraft, eight H-6 bombers, and several fighter jets and turboprop transport aircraft.

1/4

[Andrew Parsonson @AndrewParsonson]

I found it. This is my favourite @Armee_de_lair photo of the inaugural Ariane 6 launch.

[PLATracker @PLATracker]

PLATracker DISPATCH - June Summary

Key headlines and data from the South China Sea and beyond. This month we witnessed a major incident at Second Thomas Shoal, progress on a BrahMos missile site in western Luzon, and more ⬇️

[Jan van de Vloot @JUitdeketting]

Reclassifying 2 of the Holland class to intel collection vessels and having them patrol the waters around Europe, instead of their current AO in the Caribbean, is therefore a logical step IMO and a cheap and easy way to gain an important strategic asset.

[Gideon 🇳🇱 @Gideon21593]

A successful spotting day from the backyard: the DC-3 Dakota (PH-PBA) and a RNLAF C-130H Hercules (G-781) returning from the Veterans’ Day flyover!

[Gideon 🇳🇱 @Gideon21593]

The uncropped version to illustrate the distance (still through a 300mm lens). Quite insane that the USAF roundel is still visible on the photo!

[Gideon 🇳🇱 @Gideon21593]

20 kilometres away, but happy to (finally) have spotted a RC-135V Rivet Joint again!

64-14841 as JAKE17 returning after a mission above eastern Romania.