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[Andreas @ichbin_Andreas]

#Israel greift zivile Gebäude wie Fernsehsender und Krankenhäuser an

Jeder, der sich dafür einsetzt, ist von der israelischen Lobby gekauft und seine Meinung ist nicht anders als Propaganda, denn dieses Ausmaß an Missachtung der Zivilbevölkerung ist eklatant

[Andreas @ichbin_Andreas]

@mercoglianos Didn't you say Iran lacks capability to stop ships from sailing the Strait?

https://t.co/FqjtTQlbgN

[Sal Mercogliano (WGOW Shipping) 🚢⚓🐪🚒🏴‍☠️ @mercoglianos]

@DI313_ ⚡️BREAKING🇺🇲

Iran has limited capability to damaging any ship, let alone stopping them from sailing the Strait.

[Andreas @ichbin_Andreas]

@amuse https://t.co/yQZSg5G28E

[Andreas @ichbin_Andreas]

@amuse "One might still wonder why the media framed the buildup as an anti cartel mission."

Maybe because the US admin, starting from Trump, said so?

"Trump justified the strikes by asserting that the United States is engaged in an “armed conflict” with drug cartels"

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

The problem of cosmetic "democracy" is that the voting system can be gamed by lobbies.

[Andreas @ichbin_Andreas]

Interesting post in Japanese technical competence in defense industry ("mastery over matter")

[Patricia Marins @pati_marins64]

The U.S. Has Effectively Outsourced Its Most Critical Missile Defense Capability to Japan

After decades of failed programs and tens of billions wasted, Washington now depends on Tokyo to deliver the only interceptors capable of defeating Chinese and Russian hypersonic threats.

The United States has finally stopped pretending that every complex missile problem can be solved in Huntsville, Alabama, or Tucson, Arizona.
The real expertise is in Kobe and Nagoya.

The two most important U.S. missile defense programs of the past fifteen years, the SM-3 Block IIA and the Glide Phase Interceptor (GPI) , are officially called “co-development” efforts with Japan.

In practice, they are American programs that only succeeded or will succeed because Japan agreed to build the critical components that U.S. contractors repeatedly failed to deliver, and did so better, faster, and cheaper.

The SM-3 Block IIA remains the classic example
In 2006, after the total failure of the SM-3 Block II program (canceled due to insurmountable motor and diameter problems), the Missile Defense Agency arrived in Tokyo hat in hand.

The deal was simple: the U.S. would fund 70–75 % of development, Japan 25–30 %, and in return Japan would get licensed production, jobs, and a missile capable of engaging hypersonic threats within the Aegis system.
Japan took on the hardest parts:

- Separable advanced composite nosecone
- Second- and third-stage rocket motors
- Dual-color infrared seeker
- Most of the Solid Divert and Attitude Control System (SDACS) of the kill vehicle

In reality, Japan built almost the entire upper part of the missile. Raytheon’s role was essentially limited to providing the Mk 72 booster and final integration.

The result speaks for itself: 4.5 km/s burnout velocity (vs. 3 km/s of the U.S.-only Block IB), 2,500 km range (vs. 700 km), and the only interceptor in the world that has ever destroyed an ICBM-class target in a realistic test.

Washington liked the result so much that it doubled down and went even further.

In May 2024, the U.S.-Japan Glide Phase Interceptor co-development agreement was signed. Once again, the truly difficult hardware is Japanese:

- Second-stage rocket motor and thrust vector control system
- Steering gear for the kill vehicle
- Seeker window (the critical thermal protection for the infrared seeker operating in plasma)

The first-stage booster is the proven Mk 72 from the SM-3 Block IIA (American), the third-stage motor is supplied by L3Harris (American), and Northrop Grumman (selected as prime contractor in September 2024) handles the primary seeker, kill-vehicle outer shell, guidance electronics, overall integration, software, and flight testing.

The components that must function reliably at Mach 15+ in plasma conditions, the very parts American industry has repeatedly failed to master, are once again Japanese. In November 2024, Japan awarded Mitsubishi Heavy Industries a $368 million contract precisely for these critical subsystems.

There is still no viable U.S.-only alternative program.
HBTSS is only a sensor layer. SM-6 Block IB is far too short-ranged. The canceled RKV, ARRW, and other programs speak for themselves.

Put simply: the Glide Phase Interceptor, America’s only credible near-term hope of intercepting China’s DF-17 or Russia’s Avangard in the glide phase will succeed or fail based on Japanese hardware.

[Patricia Marins @pati_marins64]

The U.S. Has Effectively Outsourced Its Most Critical Missile Defense Capability to Japan

After decades of failed programs and tens of billions wasted, Washington now depends on Tokyo to deliver the only interceptors capable of defeating Chinese and Russian hypersonic threats.

The United States has finally stopped pretending that every complex missile problem can be solved in Huntsville, Alabama, or Tucson, Arizona.
The real expertise is in Kobe and Nagoya.

The two most important U.S. missile defense programs of the past fifteen years, the SM-3 Block IIA and the Glide Phase Interceptor (GPI) , are officially called “co-development” efforts with Japan.

In practice, they are American programs that only succeeded or will succeed because Japan agreed to build the critical components that U.S. contractors repeatedly failed to deliver, and did so better, faster, and cheaper.

The SM-3 Block IIA remains the classic example
In 2006, after the total failure of the SM-3 Block II program (canceled due to insurmountable motor and diameter problems), the Missile Defense Agency arrived in Tokyo hat in hand.

The deal was simple: the U.S. would fund 70–75 % of development, Japan 25–30 %, and in return Japan would get licensed production, jobs, and a missile capable of engaging hypersonic threats within the Aegis system.
Japan took on the hardest parts:

- Separable advanced composite nosecone
- Second- and third-stage rocket motors
- Dual-color infrared seeker
- Most of the Solid Divert and Attitude Control System (SDACS) of the kill vehicle

In reality, Japan built almost the entire upper part of the missile. Raytheon’s role was essentially limited to providing the Mk 72 booster and final integration.

The result speaks for itself: 4.5 km/s burnout velocity (vs. 3 km/s of the U.S.-only Block IB), 2,500 km range (vs. 700 km), and the only interceptor in the world that has ever destroyed an ICBM-class target in a realistic test.

Washington liked the result so much that it doubled down and went even further.

In May 2024, the U.S.-Japan Glide Phase Interceptor co-development agreement was signed. Once again, the truly difficult hardware is Japanese:

- Second-stage rocket motor and thrust vector control system
- Steering gear for the kill vehicle
- Seeker window (the critical thermal protection for the infrared seeker operating in plasma)

The first-stage booster is the proven Mk 72 from the SM-3 Block IIA (American), the third-stage motor is supplied by L3Harris (American), and Northrop Grumman (selected as prime contractor in September 2024) handles the primary seeker, kill-vehicle outer shell, guidance electronics, overall integration, software, and flight testing.

The components that must function reliably at Mach 15+ in plasma conditions, the very parts American industry has repeatedly failed to master, are once again Japanese. In November 2024, Japan awarded Mitsubishi Heavy Industries a $368 million contract precisely for these critical subsystems.

There is still no viable U.S.-only alternative program.
HBTSS is only a sensor layer. SM-6 Block IB is far too short-ranged. The canceled RKV, ARRW, and other programs speak for themselves.

Put simply: the Glide Phase Interceptor, America’s only credible near-term hope of intercepting China’s DF-17 or Russia’s Avangard in the glide phase will succeed or fail based on Japanese hardware.

[Andreas @ichbin_Andreas]

@hsu_steve cool, but how to know that the AI isn't just making stuff up when writing one of those articles? (I know human journalists also make mistakes and some do make stuff up, but one expects that the info is mostly correct)

[Martyr Made @martyrmade]

Mindless support for Israel after what that country has done since Oct ‘23 is a litmus test for whether a politician is capable of acting independently, or is shackled to special interests. Trump made it easy by just bragging about earning Adelson’s $ w/his Israel policy.

[Andreas @ichbin_Andreas]

@pati_marins64 I see it the other way around, if one country has only one supplier, then it is dependent on the supplier for instance for spare parts

[Sahra Wagenknecht @SWagenknecht]

Und was bitte tut die Bundesregierung, um diese Hölle auf Erden zu beenden? Die Anerkennung von #Palästina verweigern und #Israel weiter Waffen für die Vernichtung und Vertreibung der Palästinenser in #Gaza liefern? Diese Doppelmoral ist unerträglich!

https://t.co/rQ5lZKG74u

[ɖʀʊӄքǟ ӄʊռʟɛʏ 🇧🇹🇹🇩 @kunley_drukpa]

🇫🇮 New Finnish Study on the Net Financial Costs of different immigrant groups. It replicates the findings of the famous Danish and Dutch studies - almost all immigrant groups are net costs to Finland. Migrants from the Middle East and North Africa are the biggest financial drains

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

🇷🇺: Illegally annexes

🇮🇱: Announces settlement

[Scott Horton @scotthortonshow]

"These wars aren't just killing people overseas. They're corrupting our national soul." @martyrmade and I discuss how decades of conflict have desensitized Americans to violence and suffering. What happens when a society can no longer feel horror at atrocities?

[Croatian Football  @CroatiaFooty]

It's something, but maybe you could ban them.

Like you did to Russia

[Andreas @ichbin_Andreas]

@NiloticValor @AnalyticaCamil1 unfortunately I think you're right

[TCN @TCNetwork]

“Death traps.”

That’s how retired U.S. Green Beret Tony Aguilar describes aid sites in Gaza. He would know. He’s one of the few Americans who’s been to them.

After 25 years in the military, Aguilar signed up to distribute aid to Palestinians suffering through their region’s latest war. He proceeded to witness something worse than anything he had seen in a dozen combat zone deployments.

Humans treated like animals. Machine guns and tank rounds fired into crowds. The slaughter of civilians.

The ugly and underreported truth is that the Israeli government is committing these atrocities, and the United States is supporting them.

Watch the full episode below.

[Andreas @ichbin_Andreas]

@confehrenbach @bopanc unsere eigene Verteidigung vorbereiten OK, aber nicht diese Waffen ins Ausland schicken

[Andreas @ichbin_Andreas]

@OliverFranke10 @derspiegel Sie haben es bereits getan, sie haben den Waffenstillstand akzeptiert, es war Israel, das ihn gebrochen hat

https://t.co/zI8jydKv0s

[Andreas @ichbin_Andreas]

@confehrenbach @bopanc Dies setzt voraus, dass die Russen eine Bedrohung für Deutschland darstellen. Bis wir ihren Feind bewaffneten, war dies nicht der Fall. Die Russen waren froh, uns als Kunden zu haben.