Department of War, Playing Underwater ‘Seek & Hide’?
Hegseth, saying hello to your ‘mini me’ torpedo? Your version of a “Tommy Gun” or UCAV?
Looking for a ‘thunderbolt’? What my Persian friends call a Saeqeh.
My Sensei says not ideal for a ‘Little Boy’ and ‘Fat Man.’
Seeking to ‘kill two birds with one stone’ – test UCAV prototypes & deter cutting sub cables?
Any way you cut it, its damn overkill!
‘Warrior’ playing ‘follow the leader’ is old, dumb, and full of shit!
Second strike gave it away! Moving target vs Static programed hit as Japan’s ‘striking force’ in Pearl Harbor.
Just as your SIGNALS supplied position of U.S. Navy Pilots and access to systems network.
Recall F/A-18 fiasco last year? American warship in the Red Sea shot down an F/A-18 Super Hornet. Navy pilot “saw his life flash before his eyes.” Friendly Fire or Fuck-up?
Kaboom! tiny ‘Titanic.’ SRM to blow-up on contact or via magnetic sensors. Just “fire and forget” it!
Launching is easy: Self-propelled submersible or CAPTOR mine. Magnetic deal with Vulcan sure comes in handy.
SpektreWorks, it doesn’t look like U.S. is deploying “Shahed-136 Clones” to Middle East warning Iran as noted by The War Zone (TWZ).
Sure, the little shit drones are @ $35,000 a pop. But if what you want is to end war in Ukraine gotta send the one big $Tommy.
Kiev to Moscow is @ 1,900km. Hell, all you need to do is send a Tomahawk with a 3,900km range.
Vlad, no worries. U.S. is intent on striking easy targets – South America.
Replay of ‘Iran Contra’? Only this time you and Israel are ‘reverse engineering’ the Arms from Iran and selling it to Ukraine, UAE, Saudi Arabia…?
Hegseth, does Casper and Oliver North come to mind. One wore the uniform, but its unclear if with honor. The other, a LTC Colonel appears to have been guilty of ‘following orders.’
Will Venezuela too be a Nicaraguan Fiasco, termed a ‘Firewall’?
Playing reverse Sardine? Key is not ALL but ONE discovering your ‘hidden’ spot.
You mean no ONE has gone out to the Caribbean or East Pacific to see what lies beneath and conducted reconnaissance?
Hegseth, “Unleashing U.S. Military Drone Dominance” is NOT about taking out civilian targets of opportunity with an enemy’s weapon.
Appears you’re itching to ‘go Winchester’ as TALON ANVIL claiming ‘self-defense.’
Sure you want to play Robert McNamara’ card of “Fog of War”? Unbeknownst to you, past House Counsel for the Military worked with Defense Secretary.
Best you speak to Joseph A. Califano, Jr., appointed Special Assistant to the Secretary and Deputy Secretary of Defense on April 1, 1964.
Being “A Whiz Kid in McNamara’s Pentagon,” Califano can tell you first hand of “Getting Fidel.” Specifically CIA and “Operation Mongoose.”
Or, read his 2004 book, Inside, A Public and Private Life. “A series of covert actions were mounted to disrupt and destroy Cuba’s sugar crop, oil refineries, electrical systems…psychological warfare.”
U.S., as to sending your “Kit and Kaboodle” to islands north of Venezuela, says Califano:
“Defense, in collaboration with CIA… with a story of invasion plans sufficiently convincing to cause the Communist regime to begin an alert of the militia.”
Unsure which drone prototype to choose? In chapter, “Troubleshooting for McNamara,” Califano notes:
“In 1965, when the Navy proposed to call a new submarine-based missile Polaris II, McNamara erupted. “Joe, get your ass down there and find a new name for this missile. I’ll be damned if we’re going to let them name it Polaris II.”
I wonder what McNamara would say about the“Low-Cost Uncrewed Combat Attack System (LUCAS) kamikaze drones, a design reverse-engineered from the Iranian-designed Shahed-136.”
The War Zone points out that according to a U.S. official, the Task Force Scorpion Strike (TFSS) “has not employed its LUCAS drones in real combat operations, but they have been launched at test targets in the region to demonstrate their capabilities.”
Testing in Caribbean Sea?
Face it, Hegseth. Only thing you’re ‘ready to fight’ is an easy target.
Marines, you call yourselves ‘Devil Dogs.’ The days of ‘Dogs of War’ are long gone. More like what the Venezuelans call “Devil’s Excrement.” Yep, that damn oil is a curse. Ask Iran & Bush.
War Profiteers
U.S., call yourself advanced? Neither your Grim Reaper nor Silly Sentinel prop up against Iran’s UCAVs.
BTW, as Data Centers, do drone manufacturers in Indiana, Arizona and Costa Mesa have 2 sites?
Reportedly you obtained a version of a HESA Shahed 136 (Geran-2).
Hmm, of the three guidance systems, I’m guess you did not use in Caribbean or Pacific the one for static targets or aerial combat as employed by Ukraine-Russia and Israel-Iran.
From your creative footage, appears you opted for the one with infrared camera sensors where a ‘sharp shooter’ at a command center fired away. Putting in slow-motion helps.
Hegseth, hear you praised the ‘Flame of the West’ as ‘Patriotic’ on your visit to Anduril in Costa Mesa. Of course, isn’t Palmer a friend of Peter Thiel?
Luckey, how’s your office working out in Taiwan? Guess it’s easier getting chips from TSMC.
Also heard L3Harris hooked up with Palantir. I guess discovery of a Geran-3 made you snuggle up. Samir and Mike, let me be the one to tell you, time is not on your side.
Anduril, are you as patriotic as the Carlyle Group Inc., American company who invested in British defence technology company QinetiQ?
Let’s ask Carlyle Group co-founder David M. Rubenstein. Appears he’s busy attempting to change his persona to a ‘man of books’. David, you will always be known for your private equity pinstripes. BTW, viewers do not appreciate seeing you on all three CSPAN channels. Go back to Bloomberg.
Admiral James George Stavridis (Ret.), it appears “Where you stand depends on where you sit.”
Vice chair, global affairs, and a managing director-partner of The Carlyle Group? Judging the War Secretary for striking fish boats seems pretty disingenuous coming from a war profiteer.
Didn’t forget Mr. “Panam Captain” aka the anonymous private donor to Department of War who calls himself a “patriot,” how about putting your billions where your mouth is and give directly to VETERANS.
In any case, it’s all “CASANEGRA Dirty Deals & Pentagon Costly War Crimes.”
Kaboom! U.S. Testing SRMs and ‘Other Energetics’
Department of War is not only shooting down foreign civilians but its dirty contractors are blowing up Americans in its fight to “safeguard” national security.”
YOUR routine explosive missile testing keeps failing.
As Bruce sings, “You can’t start a fire without a spark!” Appears this Energetic Systems gun was for hire. Shame it didn’t hold true to its name “Accurate.”
Marsha Blackburn, U.S. Senator of the State of Tennessee, on the morning of October 10th, did you see the faces of those blasted to smithereens at Accurate Energetic Systems (AES)?
Risk? Highly explosive!
AES, I read the “US Department of Defense awarded Accurate Energetic Systems a contract for nearly $120 million “for the procurement of TNT” one month before explosion!
And by the looks of your workers, or what’s left of them, it was them who got a hold of TNT.
Marsha, looks like your State ‘got burned.’ As you said in the Oval Office, “What you see are the components to make these cars.” More like unstable components. Careful when mixed.
You gave your speech on “Priorities Secured in 2026 National Defense Bill”:
“This year’s national defense bill will help safeguard U.S. national security and support our men and women in uniform by ensuring we are prepared for the formidable threats posed by foreign adversaries.”
Wench, appears you did NOT safeguard the security of Tennesseans. If you can’t keep your people safe from your own contractors, how will you prepare for ‘formidable threats’?
Testing, Testing, Testing…
In Interesting Engineering, we see “US and NATO allies test AI-powered anti-jamming tech to fortify defenses.” Where? Tennessee’s Vanderbilt University’s ADSR and the Pathfinder program.
Israel-U.S. partnership, RAFAEL and Kratos, Prometheus Energetics is a ‘plant project’ headquartered near a US Navy and Army facility in Crane, Indiana. SRMs and ‘other energetics’ or ‘logistics’?
All did not heed my warning, the punishment of Prometheus for stealing fire was long lasting.
Pentagon, looking for more missile launchers? Or, just a booster for your drones? Ask NASA.
Of course, their solid propellants are highly volatile; especially when you add a little bit of this and that and whala, you got a High-energy composite (HEC).
‘Maritime Choke Points’
Hegseth, ready to strike all the fish in ocean? Or are you ‘choked up’ at confronting this feat?
Unlike Drug, Tobacco, Alcohol and Guns Cartels, the International Organized Criminals see real targets of opportunity: submarine communication cables. Ask leaders of all seven continents.
Cut or stolen, these cables are an easy ‘catch of the day’ for ‘fishing’ boats.
It’s not about drugs.
It’s about power sources.
And Venezuela’s got lots of resources! Ask Iran.
South China Sea-Australia as Russia-Europe power clash is about cables.
Hegseth, ‘stand your ground’ not only works both ways but from many directions.
Of all the families of fish you blew up, do you have any idea which ONE is gonna come back and bite you in the ass!