I know it, but the photos from that tweet are too similar to what I capture in G Earth. I don’t think the twitter user had better imagery or analysis, as other organizations have made public in the past.

The issues with the Kuznetzov are a reflection of a large part of the Russian forces: Designed and build in the Soviet Era, but plagued with age problems, lack of maintenance, and issues with renovation programs.

Looks like a fake. This is a screenshot from Google Earth Pro of that point and it doesn’t like they have a S-400 there:

That are two different issues. In the case of China, their manmade islands aren’t recognized as land by international law and therefore they can’t exercise rights as the 12NM of territorial waters (UNCLOS).

Russia had systems derived in Soviet Era tecnology: Oko US-KS (in HEO) and US-KMO (in GEO), but last year they lost the last US-KMO satellite (launched in 2012) and this year they lost the last two Oko systems (launched in 2006 and 2008).

About the tri-border, apart of the drug market, nothing else much. Now Argentina, Brasil and Paraguay are trying to make that place a tourist zone; and the idea of a terrorist hotspot is kind of weird. There could be some trouble (most from issues related with Iran presence) but far far less that in any other place in…

Two dumb things said in the debate last night:

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Because through that islands are important shipping lines. If China can control that area they can control the economies of many of the countries of the region, including Japan and Taiwan. You could also say that US allies in Asia should invest way more (also Europe should do this) in their defense, alone and…

The cost of each blimp is 175 million dollars.

The trouble is that reducing forces overseas would mean also reducing their influence in some other areas apart of defense.

The Russia military capabilities aren’t near of the USSR times. Now they are wasting resources in two conflicts (Syria and Ukraine), and nobody in Europe (with the exception of Belarus) is going to help them. Also, they don’t have monetary resources or a industrial base to sustain a large conflict. They issue of not…

All the GPS satellites have an atomic clock, so they have a extremely precise internal time. So, if any satellite have a precise start point, velocity, direction and orbital parameters (provide by ground stations) and precise amount of time since then, they can calculate their own positions in space. Also, the…

That was here in Chile, and also the pilot requested permission to the ATC: “Officaly the remains of the “Connie” are a floating piece of metal and not an Aircraft Carrier, that’s why the ATC dind’t find anything wrong with us about getting so close to the “Connie”.”

The issue is to have a flexibility of options. A hypersonic fighter wouldn’t be flexible enough in some instances, also awfully expensive and could give a lot of time to enemies to do changes on the run if they discover to where is it flying.

There was a plan in the Bush Administration about that, to put conventional warheads in Trident SLBMs, but they stopped it because the problems that could cause with other nuclear nations.

That is the CVN-71 Theodore Roosevelt in a shock test in 1987. I imagine that the bomb was designed to be be use only for that kind of test.

The announce was to calm some of the US allies, both strong (Korea and Japan) and weak ones like Philippines, about the commitment of the US military in that area.

The path isn’t totally random, because there are some persistent factors in our enviroment (temperature, presence of water, radiation from the sun, etc) that make more probable some process than others. Also, the more common is a gene across all species, the most probably it with survive.

But if all mammals disappear,…

There are two issues in the China - North Korea relations. The most immediate is if NK collapses, there would be a lot of refugees crossing the border with China, and they don’t want that.