[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.]

@FennellJW Avatar @FennellJW JamesFennell MBE

JamesFennell MBE posts on X about command, norway, germany, naval the most. They currently have XXXXX followers and XXX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.

Engagements: XXXXXX #

Engagements Line Chart

Mentions: XX #

Mentions Line Chart

Followers: XXXXX #

Followers Line Chart

CreatorRank: XXXXXXX #

CreatorRank Line Chart

Social Influence

Social category influence countries XXXX% finance XXXX% luxury brands XXXX% automotive brands XXXX% travel destinations XXXX%

Social topic influence command #563, norway #643, germany 2.94%, naval #326, built in #627, ukraine #2079, hms #24, the first 1.47%, rolls royce 1.47%, italy XXXX%

Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @pompeyweilian @rickjames147288 @trenchgun91 @facelessmantwit @pegge49 @valkstrategy @yozz38887229 @andy9716 @davidrobjant @publiclaw637 @veterangameruk @navylookout @drgarethmottram @fauserkarl27793 @rabientissimus @totherchris @seektruthfromfx @bazzdgrogan @paulsmyth2015 @navalhistorian

Top Social Posts

Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours

"7./ British SME Flyby is also building a new drone factory in Swindon which is rapidly becoming a drone hub. Flyby will produce an improved version of their VTOL Jackal attack drone which has previously been built in Turkey"
X Link 2025-12-10T14:47Z 4866 followers, 1157 engagements

"Not all new weapons are produced in multimillion pound new factories Modini currently the UK's only manufacturer of one-way effectors (long range attack drones) is based in a tiny workshop behind a Wiltshire business park - they get XXX cyber attacks a day"
X Link 2025-12-10T15:55Z 4866 followers, 10.5K engagements

"85 Base Group was equipped and organised differently for its role protecting the advanced airfields from the Luftwaffe. Its day fighter squadrons were given the RAF's 'hot rods' the Griffon-powered Spitfire XIV and the brand new Hawker Tempest"
X Link 2025-12-11T15:48Z 4866 followers, XXX engagements

"@trenchgun91 Buy interate evolve that's what we need to do - its a truck to drop off payloads they can buy some and some of the Herne too and get on with in. We don't have time"
X Link 2025-12-11T19:12Z 4867 followers, XX engagements

"Neptune and the weather plus the gazillions of $$$ needed to overcome them"
X Link 2025-11-29T22:22Z 4853 followers, 4091 engagements

"Noting that Dauntless the first T45 with PIP upgrades performed well this time around. None of the T45 mechanical failures that marked CSG21"
X Link 2025-11-30T09:43Z 4861 followers, 21.3K engagements

"5./ Even before it got a Merlin USAAF wanted it but could not get out of contracts with Bell Lockheed and Curtis-Wright so they simply redesignated it a dive bomber to use an unspent budget line and NA obligingly fitted dive brakes and bomb racks"
X Link 2025-12-04T01:54Z 4862 followers, XXX engagements

"It was the very antithesis of the overthinking 'system of systems' nonsense of present day weapons design. North American were asked to build a P-40 and said they could do better and in XX days they did. Rolls Royce knew a good thing when they saw it and how to make it better"
X Link 2025-12-04T02:32Z 4861 followers, XXX engagements

"2./ joint SOF (RM and Norwegian SF) based in the Arctic citcle at Bardofuss for littoral ops supported by Merlin CS and CSAR helicopters. 3./ joint MCM and subsea maritime infrastrcuture protection on the continental shelf including joint procurement of Norwegian Vanguard OSVs"
X Link 2025-12-04T14:03Z 4861 followers, 1752 engagements

"The Baltimore Whore. The Martin B-26 Marauder was a misunderstood much maligned but ultimately successful medium bomber with the lowest combat loss rate of any USAAF bomber 0.5%. Its story demonstrates both the pitfalls and opportunites of rapid rearmament"
X Link 2025-12-04T23:07Z 4851 followers, 1088 engagements

"Because they were fighting in Italy and Burma and flying Spitfires over the beaches"
X Link 2025-12-07T22:50Z 4856 followers, 25K engagements

"Atlantic Shield - - first autonomous air defence escort in the water within X years Atlantic Strike - - first autonomous fast jet demonstrator off the deck of a carrier next year working closely with RAF. - Commando force re-rolling for High North to protect Norwegian coast"
X Link 2025-12-08T12:04Z 4853 followers, 2211 engagements

"@the_mantress @Geordie_Brigand @mikecosgrove45 Sea time can be made more attractive - more command opporutinies and more actual just below the threshold work to do at sea. Also cross decking with Norwegians and opportunites to deploy to Norway Iceland etc. Need to be creative"
X Link 2025-12-08T12:43Z 4855 followers, XXX engagements

"@trenchgun91 Huntingdon Inglis - US shipbuilder. They are bidding to replace Constellation"
X Link 2025-12-08T15:46Z 4859 followers, XXX engagements

"This can't hold. It will encourage Putin put Ukraine in jeopardy and make further instability in Europe more likely. The government has to fund the SDR and do it now. Kicking defence into the long grass hoping growth will magically increase 'next year' puts us in danger"
X Link 2025-12-08T16:35Z 4859 followers, 9484 engagements

"@pegge49 Have you factored in the exponential increaae in BAES and Babcock's shipbuilding workforce and apprentices and new build hall at Govan and putting Hall B in Portsmouth back into service and maybe increasing block production at Cammel Laird by moving RFA refits to Inchgreen"
X Link 2025-12-08T18:52Z 4853 followers, XX engagements

"@Hugin_1977 Agreed the UK's Trinity House agreement with Germany includes collaboration on ASW with P-8s and probably submarines so hopefully that is also on the cards"
X Link 2025-12-08T19:30Z 4861 followers, XX engagements

"@VeteranGamerUK @PompeyWeilian Large amounts of that off-shoring went into Lithuania Poland and Romania - essentially part of an extended German industrial ecosystem (a lot used to be Germany). They can harness that better than offshoring to China (which BTW was largely to do with cost not birthrate)"
X Link 2025-12-08T20:40Z 4856 followers, XX engagements

"If we need a war leader and we may do very soon Al Cairns may be the man for Labour or even a National Govenrment"
X Link 2025-12-08T21:26Z 4860 followers, 11.5K engagements

"@DisavowedWilly Which is why I mentioned the Carribean - my point was about lifting the colour bar in 1939 and that both Imdian and other non-white aircrew could and did serve in the RAF. I believe one Indian was a test pilot at RAE too"
X Link 2025-12-08T23:11Z 4859 followers, XX engagements

"Facinating series by @TheRestHistory on Jack the Ripper and late 19th century London. Especially apposite is the role played by immigration in newspaper coverage. London and New York had seen mass immigration of European Jews after Russian"
X Link 2025-12-09T10:47Z 4861 followers, XXX engagements

"@Grepsul We suffered from obsolescent shipbuilding methods however. Welding did not really become the norm until post war (also affected tank production). We have a chance to skip to the latest machine tools and methods now as Germany did post-war"
X Link 2025-12-09T10:53Z 4861 followers, XX engagements

"Bangladesh to buy Typhoon in deal with Italy"
X Link 2025-12-09T12:51Z 4861 followers, 7688 engagements

"@PompeyWeilian @Albrochier @DuxVul Many post-2000 universities have entered the top ten in areas e.g. Edge Hill for paramedics Harpury for sport its not only about overall rankings - small universities have limited sets of courses and can't compete with Oxford or London but are specialists in niche areas"
X Link 2025-12-09T13:25Z 4863 followers, XX engagements

"@PompeyWeilian @Albrochier @DuxVul Education in general is one of the few recent success stories funding is however hamstrung but not encouraging universites to leverage their research through start-up investment funds"
X Link 2025-12-09T13:27Z 4855 followers, XX engagements

"@PompeyWeilian Bangladesh has experienced good growth in recent years it has money"
X Link 2025-12-09T13:30Z 4856 followers, XXX engagements

"@seektruthfromfx @bazzdgrogan @Thomas977673521 I doubt it although it could have transformed the campaign in 1944. 2nd Division and X Cdo brigade were available and trained for amphibious operations but the quality of the Japanese in Burma and Malaya was very good. It needed Spitfires and more jungle trained divisions"
X Link 2025-12-09T17:13Z 4851 followers, XXX engagements

"@bazzdgrogan @seektruthfromfx @Thomas977673521 The Manchurian Army in China was pretty much a law to itself and rather like the British Indian Army not a modern force in the same way as those used for the operations to expand the Empire in 1941. Those in South East Asia and the Pacific were both better equipped & trained"
X Link 2025-12-09T18:47Z 4852 followers, XX engagements

"You would need to be locked inside a sound proofed room not to draw this conclusion"
X Link 2025-12-10T10:30Z 4863 followers, XXX engagements

"@PaulSmyth2015 We will undoubtedly continue to contribute via Cyprus and forces in Kosovo and Romania but it will not be the focus"
X Link 2025-12-10T11:02Z 4861 followers, XX engagements

"6./ Rolls Royce did some inspired tinkering to drop in a Merlin XX. Even the Heath Robinson Mustang X prototype could make 440mph at 26000ft. 35mph faster than a Spitfire IX. 7./ NA and Packard picked up the baton rapidly and redesigned the airframe for the Merlin 61"
X Link 2025-12-04T01:59Z 4862 followers, XXX engagements

"Even though the P-51 was thrown together in a couple of months and then spiral developed through the exegencies of wartime experience and inspired tinkering it nevertheless ended up both a war winnin machine and a timeless classic the last leaving operational service in 1982"
X Link 2025-12-04T02:25Z 4862 followers, XXX engagements

"4./ Joint P-8 operations and joint purchase of Stingray Mod X torpedos and possibly joint operation of MQ-9B Sea Guardian/Protector alongside P-8. 5./ Forward support base for the Army's Strategic Reserve Corps Joint purchase of AW149 CS helicopters for both armies"
X Link 2025-12-04T14:10Z 4861 followers, 2521 engagements

"Solutions for short or zero length take offs and landings from carriers should be easier to implement on drones than crewed aircraft. They can tailsit or perform other extreme attitude changes have extra space for lift engines and are smaller and lighter than conventional fast jets"
X Link 2025-12-10T11:34Z 4861 followers, 1089 engagements

"@robjohnsonrj1 There could be some useful trade-offs for UK i.e. we could buy the German Peregrine Sigint platform in return and the Swedish Global Eye AWACS if they join too"
X Link 2025-12-06T16:52Z 4863 followers, XXX engagements

"Babcock pitching a concept to the RN to partner Type XX as a command vessel for the Hundingdon Inglis Industries Romulus family of LUSVs or Atlantic Bastion ASW ops. Making Type XX ASW capable as an autonomous systems command ship would offer the RN a route to increased mass"
X Link 2025-12-08T19:36Z 4863 followers, 14.4K engagements

"6./ Ukrpecsystems will produce the new Octopus interceptor drone jointly developed by the UK and Ukraine at their new Mildenhall factory from next year for a range of European armed forces as part of the Drone Wall along Europe's frontiers"
X Link 2025-12-10T14:41Z 4863 followers, 1198 engagements

"@paul_bamford35 Some of this is the result of government policy basically insisting that anything MOD buys for Ukraine is built in the UK"
X Link 2025-12-10T15:08Z 4863 followers, XXX engagements

"When I was last in Afghanistan it was Titantic that was all the rage now it seems Brummie 'Yow yow' culture has gripped the nation"
X Link 2025-12-10T19:19Z 4863 followers, XXX engagements

"@night_waker @MilitaryBanter @thepagey @thetimes Yes they should have gone with BAE and CV90 but gov was having a fight with BAE over a scandal in Saudi at the time. This whole mess has been due to not using the experienced contractor"
X Link 2025-12-11T22:03Z 4867 followers, XXX engagements

"Military procurement disasters. 1./ HMS Captain. At a time of rapid technological change to steamships like the current AI boom the navy split into camps around the use of turrets and fixed batteries. Cowper-Coles an advocate of the former was allowed to design a warship"
X Link 2025-12-12T10:05Z 4867 followers, 1046 engagements

"Pivoting training to Europe and the Arctic is necessary"
X Link 2025-12-09T09:35Z 4865 followers, 6357 engagements

"@PaulSmyth2015 Nope - UK's geography is critical to defending the North Atlantic and the French will provide the Strategic Reserve for the southern Flank. With a US pull back Norway Sweden Denmark Canada Finland and the Baltics will need us"
X Link 2025-12-10T11:01Z 4865 followers, XXX engagements

"@agbdrilling Yes major warship deficits are the slowest problem to reverse as they take so long to build. We restarted building battleships in 1935 but they were not comissioned until 1941-2. This makes Ajax even more shocking as an armoured vehicle should not take longer than a warship"
X Link 2025-12-11T12:56Z 4866 followers, XXX engagements

"The subsequent court martial concluded that ""the Captain was built in deference to public opinion expressed in Parliament and through other channels and in opposition to views and opinions of the Controller and his Department""
X Link 2025-12-12T10:26Z 4866 followers, XXX engagements

"The inquiry concluded that the Glatton design was unsuitable for use as a monitor due to its deep draft and the numerous design changes had not resolved that issue but resulted in bodged conversion work to meet deadlines which endangered the ship"
X Link 2025-12-12T11:31Z 4867 followers, XXX engagements

"3./ Farragut class destroyers. Due to Washington naval treaty limits the US Navy significantly overarmed a series of destroyer classes during the interwar period in an attempt to match larger Japanese vessels. Although well armed on paper the Farraguts were deemed unstable"
X Link 2025-12-12T11:45Z 4867 followers, XXX engagements

"What is the difference between STRATUS LO and RS Range - LO 1000km ship launched RS 500km - air launched will be lower 650km and 300km Speed - LO high-subsonic RS mach XXX. Mode - LO stealthy RS manouvring Role - LO anti-ship/land attack RS anti-ship/SEAD/Air-to-Air"
X Link 2025-12-02T13:15Z 4864 followers, 6290 engagements

"@MikeyFourth Don't be mean spirited. Small numbers mostly recruited from PoWs captured in Malaya fought for the INA but dwarfed by the vast volunteer Army that fought for the British. Just as small numbers of Irishmen fought for the Germans but vastly more for the British in WW1"
X Link 2025-12-08T11:19Z 4863 followers, XXX engagements

"Today 1SL Gywn Jenkins spoke about 'The Atlantic Fleet'. Atalntic Bastion - sub surface defence Antlantic Shield - naval contribution to air defence. Atlantic Strike - attack and destroy"
X Link 2025-12-08T11:40Z 4866 followers, 13.1K engagements

"@TorbenSchust The uplift to XX SSNs has been announced. Above that its about getting back to 20-24 DDG/FFG and the big uplift should be adding 40-50 500-1000 ton uncrewed vessels. Around XX OSVs are needed to support autonomous MCM and for subsea protection replacing some current hulls"
X Link 2025-12-08T14:34Z 4864 followers, XXX engagements

"@71Tonka Yes your are right. The Canadians pioneered them by removing the guns from their M7s and plating over the aperture. Halftracks were considered too flimsy to accompany tanks in an assualt. But 79th Division would not get Ram Kangaroos until after the Great Swan"
X Link 2025-12-10T11:42Z 4864 followers, XX engagements

"Helsing and Kongsberg cooperating on the development of an ISR and Targeting satelitte constellation for Norway and Germany"
X Link 2025-12-10T17:58Z 4866 followers, XXX engagements

"@MtarfaL @MrHarryCole To be fair he was responding to a question which began by stating that Labour started Ajax (they started FRES) but it was the Coalition that signed the contract for Ajax with GDLS"
X Link 2025-12-11T11:48Z 4864 followers, XX engagements

"Three RAF 'Groups' were assigned to 2TAF. These were the equivalent of USAAF 'Conmands'. XX Group and XX Group were newly formed Fighter Groups containing units detached from Fighter Command and X Group comprised tactical light ad medium bombers detached from Bomber Command"
X Link 2025-12-11T14:07Z 4866 followers, XXX engagements

"The ORBAT was designed so that XX Group could directly provide tactical air support to 1st Canadian Army and XX Group to 2nd British Army with command embedded with those Army HQs. 2TAF HQ and X Group command elements were attached directly to Montgomery's 21st Army Group HQ"
X Link 2025-12-11T14:14Z 4864 followers, XXX engagements

"85 Group also operated six squadrons of Mosquito XII and XIII night fighters both for base defence and as night intruders and a wing of barrage balloons to protect captured towns and ports. Mosquitos were first into action over Luftwaffe airfields on the night of D-Day"
X Link 2025-12-11T15:57Z 4866 followers, XXX engagements

"Order some more Or is M-subs going to sit on its hands now while we do two years of trials"
X Link 2025-12-11T17:26Z 4867 followers, 5268 engagements

"Canadian businessman's balanced view of UK. Very interesting"
X Link 2025-12-12T09:32Z 4867 followers, 3407 engagements

"The Director of Naval Construction was not involved and warned that Cowper-Coles while an expert on turrets was not a naval architect however he used his influence to get his own way. Captain capsized and sank in a gale with the loss of XXX lives including Cowper-Coles"
X Link 2025-12-12T10:20Z 4866 followers, XXX engagements

"The HMS Captain debacle led to the creation of a committee to examine naval design to which were appointed external scientific advisers for the first time improving the standards of design and testing of warships. It did however delay the introduction of turrets on RN ships"
X Link 2025-12-12T10:33Z 4867 followers, XXX engagements

"2./ HMS Glatton. Glatton was a coastal defence ship laid down for the Royal Norwegian Navy in British yards in 1914. After the war started Glatton and her sister - both still incomplete - were bought from Norway for use by the RN as bombardment monitors"
X Link 2025-12-12T10:38Z 4867 followers, XXX engagements