Trent Telenko
@TrentTelenko
Married father of four great kids, Retired US DoD Civil Servant, Section 22 Special Interest Group list admin, Chicagoboyz-dot-net history blogger
@Bis18marck70, @MilHiVisualized, @CBI_PTO_History I don't know if any of you have seen the following video, but it is the best summary of 5th AF Air campaign from Aug - Oct 1943 around. Mission to Rabaul - Nonstop action in the South West Pacific 1943 youtube.com/watch?v=sSp4RA…
BYD fleet of seven car carriers are operating on a global service, delivering Chinese Electric Vehicles (EVs) to Mexico, Brazil and Europe. On the latter, three ships - Xian, Hefei and Shenzhen are going through the Red Sea, even though most car carriers avoid the route due to…
Chinese car carrier using the Suez, Red Sea, and Bab el-Mandeb with little concern about the Houthis...yet they sail their containerships around Africa.
The West having the institutional and industrial process supply chain experience of mass-producing drones in the millions per year is the only "success metric" that matters in the coming war with "#DragonBear" over Taiwan. 5/5
I will find the time.
Written a 16 part long read series on field defences, if anyone has time. Link in reply
This is massive truth. I struggled with math my whole life until a really good NCO finally got me to understand WRM. Width equals range times mils. Which means width over range equals mils. Etc. After that, math just got EASY. To the point I later aced calculus. If I hadn't…
Human brains are neural nets and neural nets work by context. Mathematicians don't understand this, and it's why they are terrible math teachers. They do not understand that "What is this used for?" does not mean "Tell me vehemently that it's important." It means "Give me a…
This is a "Hard Truth" that is coming for Western Flag ranks⬇️
Someone will come up with small submersibles & semi submersibles drones. GPS/FPV guidance; AI targeting; Solar charging. They loiter in lanes undetected for weeks. Or pop up bobber torpedos that maneuver into position submerge then rapid surface when needed. Blue water drones.
Radar range depends on its radiated power, computational power and its line of sight. Put a "cheap Chinese interceptor radar" hanging under a balloon 150 meters high and you reduce the numbers required by 1/2 at least.
russian news is going crazy about a 7-20 brigade army ukraine is building up for the summer offensive.. lots of talk about it attacking soon... good
Ukraine 🇺🇦 has up to ~20 ATACMS missiles remaining that it could use against key Russian targets, up to 300km away The US 🇺🇸 restricts Ukraine from using those ATACMS and has yet to send a single ATACMS missile to Ukraine since Trump took office. The US has +2000 ATACMS