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Do not be afraid. Fear is the mind killer. Technology 💻 Aerospace 🚀 Interesting Stuff 🧠 and Humor 🤣

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Trump Class Battleships Could Get Megawatt Lasers: Navy’s Top Officer The dream of laser weapons has not materialized nearly as fast as the Pentagon once thought it would, but the Navy's top officer wants to overcome that. story: twz.com/news-features/…


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An Electronic Advanced Ground Launcher System (EAGLS) counter-UAS fires an Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System (APKWS) Hydra 70 rocket during an Exercise Sky Shield live-fire event in Kuwait, Dec. 4, 2025.(📸Joseph Kumzak)

AirPowerNEW1's tweet image. An Electronic Advanced Ground Launcher System (EAGLS) counter-UAS fires an Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System (APKWS) Hydra 70 rocket during an Exercise Sky Shield live-fire event in Kuwait, Dec. 4, 2025.(📸Joseph Kumzak)

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Marine XQ-58 Valkyries With Landing Gear Will Launch Via Rockets Or Runways Rocket-launched USMC XQ-58s will still need to touch down on runways after their missions, presenting opportunities and a few tradeoffs. Story: twz.com/air/marine-xq-…


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SpaceX is going to produce Starships like they're Aeroplanes With a $250 million Gigabay at Starbase, the company is accelerating Starship production. The 700,000-square-foot facility is designed to manufacture up to 1,000 rockets per year.


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Starlink is beginning a significant reconfiguration of its satellite constellation focused on increasing space safety.  We are lowering all @Starlink satellites orbiting at ~550 km to ~480 km (~4400 satellites) over the course of 2026.  The shell lowering is being tightly…


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Firefighting drones that autonomously extinguish fires: I love it. Regardless of numerous benchmarks or robots doing MMA, it's about real-world use cases. And drones that extinguish fires are a great idea. We need more of them!

China's new firefighting drone system... it's incredibly advanced.



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Chinese Cargo Ship Packed Full Of Modular Missile Launchers Emerges China has packed a deck of a medium-sized cargo ship with 60 containerized vertical launch cells, radar, and close-in weapons. Story: twz.com/sea/chinese-ca…


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Pentagon To Contract Fleet Of Seaplanes For The Pacific The lack of an American amphibious aircraft capability has become more glaring as the possibility of a conflict with China looms larger. Story: twz.com/news-features/…


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Trump Class Battleship Construction Won’t Begin Until 2030s With Trump class ship construction many years off, the survival of a program to build such large and expensive warships is even more questionable. Story: twz.com/sea/trump-clas…


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More YF-23 eye candy from NMUSAF archives

Fighterman_FFRC's tweet image. More YF-23 eye candy from NMUSAF archives
Fighterman_FFRC's tweet image. More YF-23 eye candy from NMUSAF archives
Fighterman_FFRC's tweet image. More YF-23 eye candy from NMUSAF archives
Fighterman_FFRC's tweet image. More YF-23 eye candy from NMUSAF archives

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What We Know About The Trump Class “Battleship” The USS Defiant would be the first Trump class battleship, but major questions remain about affordability and logic of such a massive design. Story: twz.com/sea/what-we-kn…


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YFQ-48A ‘Fighter Drone’ Designation Given To Northrop Grumman’s Talon By USAF The USAF says the Talon drone is a "strong contender" in its Collaborative Combat Aircraft program, Increment 2 of which has now kicked off. twz.com/news-features/…


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Exclusive👀🚨⚓️: Navy’s New Frigate Will Not Have Vertical Launch Systems For Missiles FF(X) will initially have the same armament installed as the Littoral Combat Ships, relying on uncrewed platforms and modular payloads for expanded capability. twz.com/sea/navys-new-…


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The Legendary F-117 Nighthawk First Went To War 36 Years Ago Today With clear parallels to the U.S. standoff with Venezuela today, it's worth remembering the F-117's combat debut over Panama in 1989. Story: twz.com/air/the-legend…


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Marines Seeking 10,000 First-Person View Drones At $4K A Pop The USMC just issued a call for 10,000 FPV drones to be delivered in a one year, a small step toward fielding this capability across the force. Story: twz.com/air/marines-se…


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Raytheon was awarded a contract from the Air Force to put its air-cooled, compact PhantomStrike fire control radar into the X-62 as part of its upgrades. defensenews.com/air/2025/12/19…


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This Will Be The Navy’s New FF(X) Frigate The Navy is leveraging the Coast Guard's Legend class National Security Cutter to plug the gap left by axing the Constellation class frigate. Analysis and unanswered questions: twz.com/sea/this-will-…


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YF-23 photo dump bonanza continues! Via NMUSAF FB

Fighterman_FFRC's tweet image. YF-23 photo dump bonanza continues! 

Via NMUSAF FB
Fighterman_FFRC's tweet image. YF-23 photo dump bonanza continues! 

Via NMUSAF FB
Fighterman_FFRC's tweet image. YF-23 photo dump bonanza continues! 

Via NMUSAF FB
Fighterman_FFRC's tweet image. YF-23 photo dump bonanza continues! 

Via NMUSAF FB

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