# ![@ValkStrategy Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::1669064915045195797.png) @ValkStrategy Bill Sweetman

Bill Sweetman posts on X about white house, acquisition, maga, vichy the most. They currently have [-----] followers and [----] posts still getting attention that total [-----] engagements in the last [--] hours.

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### Social Influence

**Social category influence**
[countries](/list/countries)  [finance](/list/finance)  [stocks](/list/stocks)  [us election](/list/us-election)  [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations)  [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands)  [celebrities](/list/celebrities)  [technology brands](/list/technology-brands)  [luxury brands](/list/luxury-brands)  [currencies](/list/currencies) 

**Social topic influence**
[white house](/topic/white-house), [acquisition](/topic/acquisition) #154, [maga](/topic/maga), [vichy](/topic/vichy), [money](/topic/money), [canada](/topic/canada), [air force](/topic/air-force), [murder](/topic/murder), [has been](/topic/has-been), [sweden](/topic/sweden)

**Top assets mentioned**
[Boeing Co (BA)](/topic/$ba) [Lockheed Martin Corporation (LMT)](/topic/lockheed-martin) [Costco Wholesale Corporation (COST)](/topic/costco)
### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"@Hush_Kit Short Sturgeon r u srius Some candidates. P6M F-16XL and F-16U (delta) P.1121 F-107 SR.177 F8U-3 Valiant B.2 ISINGLASS Mirage [----] AQM-91 Compass Arrow"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1674546547910950915)  2023-06-29T22:33Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@CcibChris STUPRECC CUBSTUN (or death)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1681805749301702657)  2023-07-19T23:18Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@LucySweetman @Indigo_Girls @TramshedCF Lawks Remember you visiting when that had just come out"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1692275133950373954)  2023-08-17T20:40Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@AriDrennen And at New College their "affirmative action" amounted to handing out $$ to student athletes notwithstanding the minor technicality that there are no teams"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1692561690972279195)  2023-08-18T15:38Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@varma_ashwin97 @jonostrower A good idea. Nobody wants anything bigger than 777/A350 and that market's slow. A smaller airplane fits better into infrastructure and is closer to the tanker size"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1692660636713394180)  2023-08-18T22:11Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"It can be revealed that Yevgeny Prigozhin's private jet crashed after a birdstrike. In other news a newly discovered Russian bird species goes Mach [--] and carries a 30-kilo blast-frag warhead"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1694459627084153243)  2023-08-23T21:20Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"NASA announced another SST project this week. I'm not sure why"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1695802867683123271)  2023-08-27T14:18Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"@R_P_one There was a similar proposal from Northrop. And as well as the Navy 1950s tailsitters there was the Ryan X-13 which worked well enough to be demonstrated at the Pentagon taking off and landing at the River Entrance./1"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1697360998561116444)  2023-08-31T21:29Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@R_P_one The problem was that with prevailing engine thrust/weight and fuel consumption a useful payload and range was out of reach. (A barrier that was only passed with the P.1127/Harrier by using short vs. vertical takeoff.) The X-13 was the only US-built aircraft with an RR Avon./2"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1697361858703843797)  2023-08-31T21:32Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@JRubinBlogger Every interview every presser should begin with "Is Joe Biden the legitimately elected POTUS" and no other question should be asked until the answer is "yes" or "no". If the latter the candidate is asked for independently verified evidence"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1698358388151779577)  2023-09-03T15:32Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@CalumDouglas1 Interesting but requires a few counterfactuals. Development of poppet-valve Hercules and Centaurus equivalents would have had to start around the same time as the BMW [---]. Assuming that such an engine was available as an alternative to over-subscribed inlines/1"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1698440196335817143)  2023-09-03T20:57Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@DefAeroNews @FTusa284 and the much less urgent needs of AdlA who with post-CW cutbacks were hip deep in relatively new M2Ks. And they kept larfing as they stuck to their F1/F2/F3 plan and schedule (stability saves a ton of cash) while UK and Ge arm-wrestled over every Tranche and upgrade./3"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1698844833492689184)  2023-09-04T23:45Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@DefAeroNews @FTusa284 The point is that shared programs save you some $ on the front end (R&D and production start not as much as you'd like) less on production (Saab Dassault build slowly. not at a massive premium) and not much on sustainment and upgrade which is where the money really is./ends"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1698845834740195368)  2023-09-04T23:49Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@BillKristol The point that Bump misses: "Bidens gaffes and fumbles have spawned a cottage industry of media attention." Cottage industry my arse. The leading GOP candidate is three years younger than Biden but far more advanced in age - lazy fat emotionally unstable/1"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1699188300001730669)  2023-09-05T22:30Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@BillKristol posting incoherent paranoid rambles in the small hours apparently incapable of understanding anything beyond his emotional needs. But GOP power billions in loot for the wealthy and Putin's hold on power hinge on his re-election. Cottage industry/2"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1699189126858523103)  2023-09-05T22:33Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Ukraine drones: hit selected aircraft and missile launchers Russian drones: can't hit the right country"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1699516433925799997)  2023-09-06T20:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@UnwantedBlog Or "how we started with the Vickers OR.330 design spent as much as they did on Concorde and ended up with a mockup and ten years behind on commercial FBW.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1700514257035780391)  2023-09-09T14:19Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@johnastoehr Very true. Biden is surprisingly enough no older today than one would have predicted in [----]. His administration has been more energetic and effective than expected see Ukraine holding the line at the midterms and emerging from negotiations with @SpeakerMcCarthy/1"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1700559107110195705)  2023-09-09T17:17Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@TheRickWilson Well yes because the idea that someone could break TFG's hold on the #GQPutinParty was always a pipe-dream. Also since no Dem ticket is going to dent MAGA and MAGA has maxed its base the q is how best to fight for the middle./1"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1700666200915628413)  2023-09-10T00:23Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@daxe The TORYGRAPH"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1701721844158439912)  2023-09-12T22:17Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@radleybalko Da (and I cannot emphasize this too strongly) FUQ "The Hindenburg's latest transatlantic voyage was an exemplary complete success all the way to the final moments of mooring at Lakehurst.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1702763617446236273)  2023-09-15T19:17Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@VKAbramowicz @wildbluejester @CalumDouglas1 A big piece (going back to Mossie/Lanc) was that it totally changed the way you did offensive air ops and if you used it that way it didn't take any magic to answer the C2 ROE and human-in-the-loop questions. But as for the naval aviation community. I told my boss/1"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1703382467271385569)  2023-09-17T12:16Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@VKAbramowicz @wildbluejester @CalumDouglas1 that it was all over the day that the beast lined up behind the boat and nailed a perfect three-wire first time like it was Winkle and Randy and Tom Cruise all rolled into one. Because carrier landings are hard because things are changing all the time but the VMS/2"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1703383472176288114)  2023-09-17T12:20Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"To: Commander@beaufort.marines.mil From: info@foundyajet.com $150m Dogecoin to ZL4d1MJhb325twz2eh12hvCjexvBu or the next call I make starts with +86 capisc' ol' buddy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1703847953717211453)  2023-09-18T19:06Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@Aerossurance @GarethJennings3 @SundogD That and using the canards in elephant-ears mode + inboard elevons to add drag and downforce on the wheels. But no Viggen-type reverser - it's heavy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1704587137213964796)  2023-09-20T20:03Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@SydneyFreedberg @R_P_one Yes. You're fiddling the Breguet range equation by changing the empty weight and surface area (drag) mid-mission. On the B-58 it was done with a huge fuel tank which also had a nuke in it. (Also that is indeed the XB-70.)/1"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1706688529189777416)  2023-09-26T15:13Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@DefAeroNews @AlexLuck9 @GarethJennings3 and possibly (undecided yet) a new PTMS. They will be sole source and the costs are undefined. Everyone needs to read the GAO report on sustainability. Service maintainers have to ask contractor reps for parts numbers./3"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1707392244632690933)  2023-09-28T13:50Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@DefAeroNews @AlexLuck9 @GarethJennings3 Subs are providing inadequate repair manuals because they are protecting their data from the prime. Contractor reps are being flown to ships because the maintainers don't have access to the data needed to perform repairs./4"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1707392690025800173)  2023-09-28T13:51Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@DefAeroNews @AlexLuck9 @GarethJennings3 Meanwhile the DoD is investing $40bn R&D up to [----] in follow-on combat aircraft NGAD and F/A-XX. Since being "committed" to [---] F-35s in [----] with a strong implication that Typhoon would not see [----] the UK has performed an epic reverse-ferret/5"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1707394297052471362)  2023-09-28T13:58Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@DefAeroNews @AlexLuck9 @GarethJennings3 PS - When you read the GAO report think about how where and at what annual rate and unit cost the program expects to put nearly [----] TR2 jets through the most extensive and costly MLU in history"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1707435828366983235)  2023-09-28T16:43Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"The self-gaslighting is important here. Fact: Russia Is Losing the Ukraine WarBadly - https://www.19fortyfive.com/2023/09/fact-russia-is-losing-the-ukraine-war-badly/ https://www.19fortyfive.com/2023/09/fact-russia-is-losing-the-ukraine-war-badly/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1707520237141176404)  2023-09-28T22:18Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@megbasham @TheAtlantic @drmoore Chick it's worth noting how many snide petty comments to this post are being made by "Xtians""  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1707847119007039489)  2023-09-29T19:57Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@BulwarkOnline @CathyYoung63 The only thing less reality-based than Tim Scott's opinion about Israel is Tim Scott's girlfriend"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1712094077548658849)  2023-10-11T13:13Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@Aviation_Intel Apparently that's Vidsel base [----] m runway - certainly doesn't look like "a roadway" or any Swedish road base"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1712502387376603378)  2023-10-12T16:16Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@RowlandWhite @Hush_Kit @iamnickcook Kelly could have pinched the idea from Howard Hughes who covertly built a high-speed wooden-structure bomber/recce prototype the D-2 and assembled and tested it on a remote dry lake. Another connection - USAAF recce commander and Mossie fan Elliot Roosevelt/1"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1713640739404456088)  2023-10-15T19:39Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"All but one were KIA within weeks of this photo. My Mum would simply say much later that of her contemporaries "the ones who went into the RAF were all killed.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1715872816728293503)  2023-10-21T23:28Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"@slparker17 @CalumDouglas1 They did and the idea was reconsidered in the 1980s as an approach to G-LOC which then-standard suits did not resist well. (G-LOC was associated with rapid onset rates and the suits did not respond fast enough.) There was a U.S. project called Atlantis Warrior followed/1"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1716080079762067589)  2023-10-22T13:12Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@slparker17 @CalumDouglas1 in the 1990s by the Swiss-developed Libelle The latter was practical and evaluated by various air forces but was adopted in [----] by the Red Bull air race series as the G-Race suit. AFAIK they are still using it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1716081091277177009)  2023-10-22T13:16Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@CalumDouglas1 Guys talking about engineering make them all hot and bothered"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1717166664007999513)  2023-10-25T13:10Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@JonA2i @pinstripedline I expect it's easier on the Apache. It's not as if there's any sensitive signature data baked into it. On the other hand UK would need active Boeing and US Army support to integrate Brimstone and LockMart would be doing its job (for the shareholders) by opposing it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1717861104486130150)  2023-10-27T11:09Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@BeaverWestminst @MtarfaL @NavyLookout Fixed recurring costs and lower non-recurring costs always look attractive. But then you find out that you have no bargaining position next time around"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1719346482824855719)  2023-10-31T13:32Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@tempest_books The best fighter design (cost/capability) of that era had an Avon so the UK should have been able to produce something comparable. But given that the most practical Brit concepts of the time were the P.1121 and (Gawdelpus) the SR.177 the RAF was lucky to get the Frightening"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1720766084293247180)  2023-11-04T11:32Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@tempest_books Super Javelins. F.155T. That sort of nonsense"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1720766464829932015)  2023-11-04T11:34Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@AeroPaleo And this is the F-16U as proposed to UAE 1994-95 with some fuselage stretch. Also modeled with diverterless inlet and chevron nozzle. UAE wanted USAF to buy one wing of them. Nope we're doing JSF. Eurofighter guy much later: "It would have killed us.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1721327342159589753)  2023-11-06T00:43Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"@GarethJennings3 If only there was a real no-kidding fighter available that used the same engine as a T-7 is actually supersonic and doesn't have those weird Me 163-style fixed slots on the outer wings"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1721512795588419910)  2023-11-06T13:00Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"@AeroPaleo It appears that back in the day the Russians did release performance data on civil aircraft- including the Tu-114D from Strouds Putnam book. Note that the LR cruise speed is much more typical prop-like than the max speed which is attained at lower altitude"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1721666230325502029)  2023-11-06T23:09Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@JayMcvann That's weird. I heard that from a report by a test pilot"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1725613964908810482)  2023-11-17T20:36Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@roger_grafton @trotskybaby @tempest_books I will concede that point in part. I don't think anyone expected to be fighting an air force based on the Channel coast. On the other hand the Defiant approach depended on predictable tactics so that the crew could coordinate and that might have been a problem"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1726289447363498398)  2023-11-19T17:20Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@JonA2i It says something for USAF acquisition that the US invented the flying boom monopolized its development and use for [--] years is by an order of magnitude its largest user and still somehow manages to be trailing in AAR technology"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1727459757173149701)  2023-11-22T22:51Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@AriDrennen GQPutinParty has a thing about genitals. Wilhelm Reich would not have been surprised at all"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1727467890561986613)  2023-11-22T23:23Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@AcepilotAV @RollsRoyce Can we have a Sabre next"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1728397698888278069)  2023-11-25T12:58Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@Dr_M_Davis Brings the choo-choo-heads out of the woodwork. The US is not only large but awkwardly distributed. Use the Great Circle Mapper and see what 500mi straight-line from Paris does - most of the way to Berlin Vienna and Prague and a large hunk of Northern Italy./1"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1728826953485217993)  2023-11-26T17:24Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@TotherChris @Zaphod2042 F-35 Partner Support Complex The PSC is made up three main flights; Australia/Canada/UK Reprogramming Lab (ACURL) with [--] British and [--] Australian military personnel working alongside [--] US personnel/1"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1729608333106029024)  2023-11-28T21:08Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@TotherChris @Zaphod2042 The Norway/Italy Reprogramming Lab (NIRL) with [--] Italian and [--] Norwegian military personnel working with [--] U.S. personnel; the MDx Reprogramming Lab (XRL) supporting all other F-35 nations and customers with [--] US personnel./2"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1729608503528964263)  2023-11-28T21:09Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@TheTechEng @idontwa86202030 @83dollaroring That wasn't a bad idea but as @kaptrice points out their timing was fortuitous because Crimea took Atlas V and Zenit/Sea Launch out of the picture"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1729930880682983460)  2023-11-29T18:30Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@FoxTwo2022 @GarethJennings3 Weren't they pretty much compelled to go F-35 since the US wasn't going to make anything else dual-capable And yes they get Block [--] with their delivery dates but they'll still need the engine upgrade. Indeed the problem with the F-35 is that your capabilities/1"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1730142515154563415)  2023-11-30T08:31Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@FoxTwo2022 @GarethJennings3 are within the OML and the OML and internal layout are driven by STOVL and ship compatibility and when we say "ship" we include the Invincibles. But also you have the highly integrated ICP architecture (openly abandoned for more recent US aircraft) combined with security./2"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1730143416736956429)  2023-11-30T08:35Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@FoxTwo2022 @GarethJennings3 That's not to say it's the entire story but I don't think you can ignore that aspect of a nation's defense choices and still inhabit Realityville. Add to that the fact that the operating costs are hugely dominant for an export customer but are highly dependent on assumptions./5"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1730146103968833860)  2023-11-30T08:45Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@FoxTwo2022 @GarethJennings3 And when it comes to evaluating alternative force-on-force scenarios one being LO-centric and the others based on EA what non-prime nation is in a position to do that When the US tells your leaders that your air force will get massacred unless they go F-35./6"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1730147227803193550)  2023-11-30T08:50Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@JonahDispatch [--]. He's simply unable to accept that he lost [--]. It needs to be widely accepted that a Bernie Sanders/AOC ticket would be in all ways preferable to Trump 2"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1731099516714008747)  2023-12-02T23:54Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@DavidLarter OK the silly old fart who pretends to be a 39-year-old millionaire and dissed Dolly Parton is at it again and of course he posts this head everywhere"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1731323590501372144)  2023-12-03T14:44Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@William_E_Wolfe Basically the family policy of every fascist and totalitarian regime ever. I don't always say "why don't you bugger off to Saudi Arabia" but when I do some FoxWit thoroughly deserved it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1731337337571848647)  2023-12-03T15:39Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@clark_aviation I don't know even TB2 could land at some rando disaster site without blowing a hole in the ground and beaning the onlookers with high-velocity shards of concrete. That blast field is pretty energetic from 150-200 feet up"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1731361257918271763)  2023-12-03T17:14Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@DrChrisCombs were funded on two conditions [--] - they had to be better economically and otherwise on NASA's rosy predictions for upgraded STS using the same R&D $ and [--] - anything beyond POC demo had to be commercially funded. Result X-33/VentureStar mission impossible./2"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1731798119061377510)  2023-12-04T22:10Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@DrChrisCombs And God (or White House) forbid that DoD get out of its lane and do TSTO partly or fully reusable although they did sneak X-37 originally one of the upper stages for Military Spaceplane through. NASA chopped its next-gen launch system proj. with DoD weeks before Columbia./3"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1731799008748752940)  2023-12-04T22:13Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@USAS_WW1 Southampton-Guernsey 1970"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1732012627541282818)  2023-12-05T12:22Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@TheRealDanSharp Did I order this book from Boeing Defense & Space or something"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1732388250109505849)  2023-12-06T13:15Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@nicholadrummond Well yes who wants to haul around a ton of dead weight and sacrifice [----] pounds of internal fuel half your bomb load and your gun for a capability you don't want But mixed fleet and tanking make it expensive. File under "we should have thought of that in the first place.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1733625137126134095)  2023-12-09T23:10Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@nicholadrummond The RAF's enthusiasm for land-based STOVL was never that strong. Post Cold War it diminished to the point where the James Webb Telescope would have a hard time detecting it at [--] meters even assuming that the B can do land-based short/austere worth ducky dung. Which it can't"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1733630144890220833)  2023-12-09T23:30Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@Bruaintmaga @wildbluejester @MaxK_J and getting an 18-inch double on an A330 with VA was a decent option. (3) Boeing's responsible for flooding the market with middles (one seat in three on the Screamliner four in ten on the 777) all narrower than the seats on a 737"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1734008308648841290)  2023-12-11T00:32Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@senatorshoshana This was the bit that got me from the WaPo story: "The arena built in [----] is one of the older facilities in the NHL and NBA." How many schools were built more recently than that Seriously **** the sportos and let them pay for their own playgrounds"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1734735199731114351)  2023-12-13T00:41Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@ask_aubry Made entirely from flat sheets of bulletproof stainless steel and can tow your Porsche at [--] mph"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1735577462942085130)  2023-12-15T08:28Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"The larger question is why we pay the vast direct and indirect costs of assuming that [---] billion passengers are potential terrorists and need to be searched when our phones can ID our faces and detailed background checks take minutes and cost cents/1"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1735668808675643615)  2023-12-15T14:31Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@JonA2i @paul_tremelling @Hush_Kit @BAESystemsAir True dat. I was thinking of the US acquisition engine however"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1736888256858403327)  2023-12-18T23:16Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@SundogD @theliamnissan Blood unpolluted by Commie crap such as oxygen"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1737305521609208257)  2023-12-20T02:54Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@A45Y_UK People The Reliant Scimitar was not that great of an idea. Why do people (Volvo BMW Ferrari and now Aston) have to reinvent it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1737949538634125546)  2023-12-21T21:33Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@bellingcat @USAID Dude I've seen Cold War May Day parades in Moscow with fewer red flags than that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1738189545718353952)  2023-12-22T13:27Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@Hush_Kit in "Supersonic Flight". Farren had specifically mentioned compressibility in his lecture. Hallion didn't have the meeting minutes (if there were any). The AAF issued a "confidential technical instruction" calling for a transonic research aircraft in Jan. 44/3"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1738564262946050249)  2023-12-23T14:16Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@Hush_Kit The M.52 was Secret but that would not necessarily mean that Farren couldn't talk about it in principle to US researchers particularly if a joint program was being considered. And it would have been big news for NACA to be told that RAE had a design that they thought/4"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1738564813209342205)  2023-12-23T14:18Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@RonFilipkowski @ScooterCasterNY I can see how he relieved a bunch of investors of their surplus cash with a meta-study his Mom did that contradicted all the other studies"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1738568227494453592)  2023-12-23T14:32Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@hws5mp @Bruaintmaga @Hush_Kit Kourou is a fall-out of the prime directive for French imperial conquest to wit "so where are the hot chicks at" (Caribbean Tahiti Vietnam Cambodia Cameroon Mauritius need I say more) My French friends' only counter-argument is St Pierre et Miquelon"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1738687907806724214)  2023-12-23T22:27Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@KCRCC TFG was offered the opportunity to use one of those in his nation's defense not only free of charge but paid with room and board. He declined I believe. As for you ammosexual tw@s you earned this fair and square"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1739396224183161333)  2023-12-25T21:22Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@CombatCavScout On the flip side of this is Army/Navy-aligned social media (inc veteran retired and Walt) going "air force Holiday Inn air conditioning wifi lol" and never wondering if that might influence people's choices"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1739790760600383862)  2023-12-26T23:30Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"@ndkirschmann Exactly. Maybe too Army/Navy-aligned social media (veteran retired and Walt) might think that going "air force Holiday Inn room service air conditioning wifi lol" might influence people's choices"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1739812677482864887)  2023-12-27T00:57Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@Doha104p3 Stealth is valuable. Contrary to this chart there are different levels of LO but the highest has not so far been attainable on a "strike fighter". Now consider how long it has taken to even get properly started on a stealth-majority tactical fighter force./4"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1740119190445682786)  2023-12-27T21:15Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@Doha104p3 That started in 1984-86 with ATF. By comparison HMS Dreadnought was commissioned in [----] the last battleships to be completed were ordered in [----] and most of the battleship fleets of the world were retired in [----]. This is no way to run a railroad or equip an air force./5"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1740120139096265212)  2023-12-27T21:19Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@thinkdefence An interesting idea but the large gunship is such an odd balance of lethality vulnerability cost and scarcity that it is a niche asset which only the US can afford"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1740391590001258767)  2023-12-28T15:17Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@RonFilipkowski The civil war started because the South depicted Lincoln as the harbinger of abolition and miscegenation. Had they not seceded they could have preserved slavery for decades. Today southern bigots depict Biden as the gateway to Communism and mandatory Drag Friday in schools"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1740458436578709959)  2023-12-28T19:43Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@the_engi_nerd This is good too as part of the history of acquisition rules (which are essentially a series of unintended consequences going back to the Civil War)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1740968909568917942)  2023-12-30T05:31Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@henrydodds @scottiebateman A great demonstration of the fact that the Sovs were pretty damn competitive when it came to spaffing acquisition money up the wall on total neverwozzers"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1741950754099810757)  2024-01-01T22:33Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@USAS_WW1 It's in Orstraylia mate (last few seconds) yer safe from the drop bears but if yer wanna skinny dip watch out for the crocs and the platypuses"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1741955991279706204)  2024-01-01T22:54Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@ProjectLincoln This seems to be like admitting to an attempt to overturn the election which would result in Trump ruling in the place of the winning candidate. Insurrection indeed. The election being rigged is his defense so he just has to prove that to be the case./1"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1742266595542552909)  2024-01-02T19:28Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@ProjectLincoln The first interview question for every GOP candidate at every level must now be "Is Joe Biden the legitimately elected president" and if the answer is not an unequivocal "yes" the rest of the interview must be "why do you believe that and on what evidence"/ends"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1742267365084061805)  2024-01-02T19:31Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"Meow. POOT If I were a bookie I'd be taking bets right now on how soon the first major debacle caused by Cat I Farted will come. https://t.co/8tA4LtbUps If I were a bookie I'd be taking bets right now on how soon the first major debacle caused by Cat I Farted will come. https://t.co/8tA4LtbUps"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1742284233513529791)  2024-01-02T20:38Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@patriottakes Maybe he's thinking about where he's going to be on NYE 2024"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1742368053948522502)  2024-01-03T02:11Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@RonFilipkowski The question Mango's got to be asking himself: which VP prospect is not already talking to cabinet candidates and Senate leadership about pulling the 25A trigger maybe over the [----] holiday season"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1742373311797948496)  2024-01-03T02:32Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Russia importing ballistic missiles is like Russia importing vodka"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1743098462936117360)  2024-01-05T02:33Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@jonostrower If it says Boeing I ain't going"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1743467776197402782)  2024-01-06T03:01Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"@JonA2i @RpsAgainstTrump There are (I believe) a lot of Trumpists who don't listen to him talk or watch his rallies. He's a cartoon symbol for them who stands up against the things they hate and fear. And I'm sure you could have found similar people in Germany in 1933"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1743823105594638736)  2024-01-07T02:33Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@Artemisapphire Eff me John Cleese straight out murdered the shit out of the guy for putting a dent in his Land-Rover and he's going to be in court with his jaw quivering from grief while the QC says "It is quite clear mlud that the trigger of the gun was inadvertently caught on the fence.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1744111243122668013)  2024-01-07T21:38Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@RonFilipkowski What TFG should think about is which VP candidate is not planning maybe over the [----] holiday to be going "My fellow Americans it is with sadness I say that the burden of fighting the Deep State has taken a toll on the hero you elected and that in accordance with the 25th.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1744139313615405159)  2024-01-07T23:29Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@RonFilipkowski And with Vice-President Miller and Speaker Johnson at my side I say God Bless America"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1744139668621336709)  2024-01-07T23:31Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@senatorshoshana Wait until they merge with OnlyFans"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1744139818794123745)  2024-01-07T23:31Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@scottiebateman Welcome to the Happy Birthday Air Force Club. 😂 PS pretty cool airplane more together than the crappy underpowered Bone"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1744164267207602386)  2024-01-08T01:09Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Cool podcast with @iamnickcook and @AvWeekGuy reminiscing about secret airplane hunts"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1744719512119984626)  2024-01-09T13:55Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@maz_jovanovich Truth. As for the anti-DEI bros - when was that component designed"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1745272063848222806)  2024-01-11T02:31Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"Please repost widely it's a good evening for exploding heads"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1745943569330733286)  2024-01-12T22:59Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Tinseltown is literally *alive* with the hot news that Maverick will be a sixty-something Air Force drone operator in his 60s the romantic lead will be Dylan Mulvaney and eventually both will team with a PLA-AF colonel to save the world from nucular-powered global warming. TOP GUN is now a trilogy. TOP GUN [--] with Tom Cruise returning as Maverick is reportedly in development at Paramount. TOP GUN still has a long ways to go to catch Cruise's MISSION:IMPOSSIBLE franchise which is set to release its 8th film in [----]. https://t.co/iZrg3rqEKd TOP GUN is now a trilogy. TOP GUN [--] with Tom Cruise"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1745944577876328627)  2024-01-12T23:03Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Please repost widely it's a good evening for"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1745945078860779623)  2024-01-12T23:05Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@ConsWahoo You have a point. The megacontractors are now so big and sitting on so many franchises that nothing is existential for them. If the customer recompetes my program is looking for a price that I don't see any margin on and someone else does bid I may say "knock yourself out"/1"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1746215054842659230)  2024-01-13T16:58Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@Bruaintmaga @gregalegi @RAeSTimR @BoeingAirplanes Hmph. Of course the [---] was a success. And the [---] was initially sold as point-to-point vs. the hub-and-spoke A380 and what happened Mostly the major global hubs are still hubs but the big twins ruled. Airbus learned their lesson and built the A350./1"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1746540133199835530)  2024-01-14T14:29Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@Bruaintmaga @gregalegi @RAeSTimR @BoeingAirplanes I don't see the [---] revolutionizing P2P however. It's a (gruesomely uncomfortable in the back) lower-end big twin and the early fantasies of Minneapolis-Lisbon (that was their example) with big 8x seats remain just that./2"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1746542733571821715)  2024-01-14T14:40Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@david_alman @mercoglianos @usairforce Debate about carriers is academic because the inertia of the CVN program is greater than political authority. The only options are to continue or stop and accept decline and the chances of the latter are zero./1"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1746568893945061574)  2024-01-14T16:24Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"In good shape after falling from [-----] feet. Reminds me of George Carlin talking about crash recorders: "So why don't they make the whole airplane out of that stuff" Leani Benitez-Cardona NTSB aerospace engineer and Matthew Fox NTSB chief technical advisor for materials unpacking the door plug Sunday from Alaska Airlines flight [----] a Boeing 737-9 MAX in the materials laboratory at NTSB headquarters in Washington D.C. https://t.co/rrvxW6EzCT Leani Benitez-Cardona NTSB aerospace engineer and Matthew Fox NTSB chief technical advisor for materials unpacking the door plug Sunday from Alaska"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1746628722881429806)  2024-01-14T20:21Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@PIC_Colleen Six On Six Delta Papa do you want to declare an emergency -- Negative Tower I just said I was in a pickle"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1746655934431080499)  2024-01-14T22:10Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@varma_ashwin97 The 7J7 was at best risky and at worst a ploy to mess up the A320. But as it proceeded two things happened. Reagan got the Saudis to cut oil prices to squeeze the Soviets. And the 737-300 and A320 started selling so GE lost interest in the new engine"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1746975036144005293)  2024-01-15T19:18Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@R_P_one Probably because (1) Havoc was well known as an Apache analogue and (2) Ka-50 was single-seat and US Army was locked into tandem two-seat for attack helos. As for me I always favored crop-dusters with downward-Schrage-Musik GECAL [--] Gatlings to get rid of pesky Mi-24/28s"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1747068705354260555)  2024-01-16T01:30Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@AlexLuck9 @MichaelShurkin Not really. The latest Fr contract for [--] Rafale is $131m and TOA cost (per budget) for the F-35A is $110m. (B and C are much higher.) But you're not going to have to buy an engine and PTMS upgrade for the Rafale"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1747392125644210577)  2024-01-16T22:55Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@AlexLuck9 One Q. If the F-35 Block [--] is so freaking good why isn't the USAF going to take up the adaptive engine option and give it more range for WestPac"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1747394680772329874)  2024-01-16T23:05Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Iowa results: if I know Trump's going to win anyway I have to be a super-dedicated Haley or DeSantis supporter to go out on a freezing night to lose to the most obnoxious bumptious fanbase in living memory. If Trump has an incumbent mindset his first show of force did about as well as any incumbent who went on to lose the general 🔓 https://t.co/ub4QCrUZoG If Trump has an incumbent mindset his first show of force did about as well as any incumbent who went on to lose the general 🔓 https://t.co/ub4QCrUZoG"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1747412122680623146)  2024-01-17T00:14Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@TheAtlantic Boeing wasn't some prelapsarian engineering paradise before the McDonnell Douglas acquisition. It was having trouble with the minor issue of building airplanes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1747418090516701245)  2024-01-17T00:38Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Boeing wasn't some prelapsarian engineering paradise before the McDonnell Douglas acquisition. It was having trouble with the minor issue of building airplanes. For about [--] years Boeing basically functioned as an association of engineers Jerry Useem wrote in [----]. But two decades ago that suddenly changed: https://t.co/T6B7vXOoVN For about [--] years Boeing basically functioned as an association of engineers Jerry Useem wrote in [----]. But two decades ago that suddenly changed: https://t.co/T6B7vXOoVN"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1747418267726073922)  2024-01-17T00:39Z [----] followers, 13.7K engagements


"@AlexLuck9 @MichaelShurkin On the F-15 matter the vice-commander of ACC said differently in [----] and again in testimony (having moved to acquisition IIRC) in [----]. USAF desired to hold F-35 rates until Block [--]. The Euro sales indeed tell a story maybe not the one you think it does"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1747604601145381284)  2024-01-17T12:59Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@AlexLuck9 @MichaelShurkin Consider the impact of this message today: We couldn't let stand the view that the choice didn't matter for the relationship. We opted for "choosing the JSF will maximize the relationship" as our main public line. In private we were much more forceful"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1747655372939170225)  2024-01-17T16:21Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@AlexLuck9 @MichaelShurkin Well of course but a Wikileaks-style message out of Paris let alone Stockholm. some governments are more equal than others. As for cost - future O&S is much bigger than procurement"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1747657264679284931)  2024-01-17T16:28Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@ned_christie Built one didn't work didn't build any more. Agile acquisition"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1748095208946798643)  2024-01-18T21:29Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@haltman What main armament doing Having a 125-mm gun that can drop your adversary with one shot is not that much of an advantage unless you outrange the autocannon that can wipe out your weapon sights and chew up everything outside the armored citadel"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1748113027415548400)  2024-01-18T22:39Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@ned_christie @DrChrisCombs Lofty claims lead to a fork in the road where one sign says GENIUS and the other says SUCKERS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1748173527902011766)  2024-01-19T02:40Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@Hush_Kit Oi Thats my F-16U pic. Some snotnose punk from stuck the LMTAS tag on it years ago and now its all over the web like that. Story here:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1748691710819942411)  2024-01-20T12:59Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"An interesting alternative to modified trainers or cropdusters that doesn't put the wing and the engine between the crew and the target area. Several Mwari aircraft in various stages of production at our state-of-the-art factory. #avgeek https://t.co/8KMGx31Yp3 Several Mwari aircraft in various stages of production at our state-of-the-art factory. #avgeek https://t.co/8KMGx31Yp3"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1749448763138032125)  2024-01-22T15:07Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@AeroEng37 Very nice but don't tell me that it's a WIG except in the most transient sense. It's using surface effect to get off the water with a little less drag. Although that's what's needed. Ekranoplans are highly problematic"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1749546134052217274)  2024-01-22T21:34Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@shashj @tomwithington Holy carp. I wouldn't touch a [----] US assessment with a bargepole. It assumes that China has to detect and track using OTH and NOSS - no overhead EO or radar./1"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1750164269922996410)  2024-01-24T14:30Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@shashj @tomwithington Combined with the [----] (Jebus on a bloody Vespa) estimate of kill radius - note [--] in the RAND report - of course you get an abysmal Pk. Now consider what LEO constellations can do and update what a radar on the RV (Pershing II analogue) and the biggest hole in the capability/2"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1750165152098296065)  2024-01-24T14:34Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"I'll give you five new nuclear weapons programs minimum right off the bat. Cornel Wests anti-war plans would immediately spark like thirty genocides around the world https://t.co/yxKs45qDy8 Cornel Wests anti-war plans would immediately spark like thirty genocides around the world https://t.co/yxKs45qDy8"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1750382222647943453)  2024-01-25T04:56Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@HNTurtledove Colonel Pillbore"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1750659274919846247)  2024-01-25T23:17Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@mexic0la_ Dutch is essential. Leonardo DiCaprio can't have nookie with his whore on a yacht without it. Although it's really German after two or three healthy bong hits"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1750664789276164382)  2024-01-25T23:39Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"AND THEN THE LAWYERS ARRIVED GCAP industry partners 70% through negotiations' BAE official says https://t.co/hYbbLYbRv6 https://t.co/Vu9gl9aqWA GCAP industry partners 70% through negotiations' BAE official says https://t.co/hYbbLYbRv6 https://t.co/Vu9gl9aqWA"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1752006524195483990)  2024-01-29T16:31Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@atrupar "We've already heard enough about Taylor Swift" (Proceeds into insane rant about Taylor Swift.)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1752075934046236869)  2024-01-29T21:07Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@RonFilipkowski There is a scenario that involves a couple the nation's most popular stage and sports performers in a simple video saying: To women and men who love women and to fellow believers: We cannot put a rapist in the White House. This might explain the meltdown"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1752402350960992470)  2024-01-30T18:44Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@Timodc They are scared ****less that Kelce will win the SB that Swift will remain unmatched and that they will at some point make a video as a couple that critiques the idea of electing an adjudged rapist as President"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1752444200346353931)  2024-01-30T21:30Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@Artemisapphire MAGA is scared ****less of the idea that Kelce and Swift will become America's Sweethearts and then tell all their eleventy bazillion fans that having a rapist POTUS is a Bad Thing. Celebrity can launch political careers and also unmake them"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1752455835450585113)  2024-01-30T22:16Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@taiwaneseprick @Hush_Kit Special Award: Taking The Piss. Docked five points for failure to mention this:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1753447176909250735)  2024-02-02T15:55Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@CalumDouglas1 Every time I draw my clean-sheet Sabre-powered Unlimited the exhaust gets ducted into the aft-fuselage radiator"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1753916922452648170)  2024-02-03T23:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@Rainmaker1973 @RAF_Luton to the thread please"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1754257905929388306)  2024-02-04T21:37Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@Molson_Hart @RobertMSterling Don't forget it could get worse"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1754610427818906090)  2024-02-05T20:58Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@AeroEng37 @GripenNews @KTHuniversity Air- or zero-length launch and parachute recovery perhaps"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1755609404316283308)  2024-02-08T15:07Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@the_engi_nerd @JRobOp Way to open Pandora's can of worms. Thought experiment: Back in the day lots of folks bought F-4s. Did they lose more wars than the people who bought MiG-21s or Mirages"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1756144548420452795)  2024-02-10T02:34Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@the_engi_nerd @JRobOp What's the risk on either side of the decision (And as the decisionmaker what risk might I be held to account for before I collect my pension "Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM" as they used to say*.)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1756147221429412006)  2024-02-10T02:44Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@the_engi_nerd @JRobOp *I had a boss who bought a $20k DisplayWriter that did the same thing as my $3k CP/M setup. He got a nice golden handshake"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1756147813170213256)  2024-02-10T02:47Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@mexic0la_ @RepLuna What she's wagged around at Fort Walton Beach t***y bars is like a popgun vs. errm certain other ladies' A-10 Gatlings bless them"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1756165198405054965)  2024-02-10T03:56Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@MitchellStudies published its report on Collaborative Combat Aircraft on Tuesday. As an author I had some thoughts first installment here. @beverstine @Aviation_Intel @FTusa284 @Justin_Br0nk @JonA2i @DefAeroNews @haynesdeborah @Rotorfocus"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1756795508067037236)  2024-02-11T21:41Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@TyphoonTornado @JonA2i @MitchellStudies @beverstine @Aviation_Intel @FTusa284 @Justin_Br0nk @DefAeroNews @haynesdeborah @Rotorfocus If you're not doing "wingman" do you need supersonic or just launch them ahead On WestPac sorties there's not much chance to use supersonic speed anyway. On the other point the idea that there will be multiple vendors and faster acquisition cycles is baked into the concept"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1757118613947871428)  2024-02-12T19:04Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@RandomRambler15 @johnkonrad @TrentTelenko Of all people navalists should understand the relative size of different nations. They should also understand what a Trumpian isolationist defense policy implies for the Navy. Funny blokes navalists"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1757274986732044565)  2024-02-13T05:26Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@FTusa284 @MtarfaL @edwardkeyjf @thinkdefence @MrSnaplegs @BO3673 @TotherChris @NavyLookout @DrChrisParry @edwardstrngr @FennellJW @FNDMatt @pinstripedline @Gunbust09696378 @ian_blewett @UKDefJournal @BeaverWestminst @afneil The comparison with France is illuminating - French acquisition seems vastly more stable than the UK not just the insane way in which they seem to maintain a nuclear dyad without breaking a sweat but how Rafale has plodded along at a production rate that ought to be/1"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1757531426742829368)  2024-02-13T22:25Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@edwardstrngr @FTusa284 @MtarfaL @edwardkeyjf @thinkdefence @MrSnaplegs @BO3673 @TotherChris @NavyLookout @DrChrisParry @FennellJW @FNDMatt @pinstripedline @Gunbust09696378 @ian_blewett @UKDefJournal @BeaverWestminst @afneil The rules of an acquisition agency are that it: Has services as customers Is industry's customer Is accountable to DefenseGovernment Is graded by on-time on budget Is the expert on how long and how much programs will take and Treasury doesn't play games with its budget/1"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1757546052473729444)  2024-02-13T23:23Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@senatorshoshana Well Dot Wakko and Yakko were a Warner pi$$take on the Disney Universe but in a beautifully intelligent way"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1757946175188041838)  2024-02-15T01:53Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@Artemisapphire Costco rotisserie chicken/Panera mac and cheese upcoming"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1758962013294690709)  2024-02-17T21:09Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@R_P_one The gun business being kind of fringe to my main interests I don't remember ever getting a clear answer as to why ships never carried 155-mm"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1758963393933819936)  2024-02-17T21:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@TomcatJunkie It would have been useful in the MidEast for armed overwatch and a heck of a standoff ASCM platform"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1759701861823598940)  2024-02-19T22:09Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@LOLGOP Once again for the married and monogamous including the Godly: this means you. "Recreational sex" is not "fornication". Is your gas stove that important"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1759937917860888594)  2024-02-20T13:47Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@Otto_English My local WF carts lock if you push them off the property. And there's a special escalator for the carts. But sure it's just a Potemkin store to dupe mids like me. And it's not as if a city that had a Bentley dealer in [----] might have stores that cater to only some people./1"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1760011158604394991)  2024-02-20T18:38Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@dissident_the @JamesBosbotinis @AeroSociety @wavellroom It is. Which brings up another point: not enough people understand the extent to which Flynn Speaker Johnson and many others are utterly sincere in religious belief systems that are almost unthinkably extreme outside the United States./1"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1760297265837535318)  2024-02-21T13:35Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@DrHelenFry How much are you supposed to tip the robot"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1760822674996047887)  2024-02-23T00:23Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@JonA2i @pinstripedline America is heading to be less dominated by white men and the people who resent this are increasingly in an information bubble of Fox News and "Christian" religion a culture that is also sexually repressed and in love with guns. This guy had it figured out in the 1930s/1"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1761061058725257514)  2024-02-23T16:10Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@marauder2048 @JonA2i @pinstripedline He went a bit nuts later no doubt. (Not much more so than a White House adviser shrieking about "satanic pregnancies".) But he wasn't pushing that stuff in the 30s and 40s more applying Freud/Jung to politics"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1761158007855964195)  2024-02-23T22:36Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@nicholadrummond It's not just the RAF. Air forces worldwide spend most of their acquisition and operational budgets on multirole aircraft including the USAF with 20x the number of F-35s as B-21s in its plans. That's because with guided weapons and targeting pods the multirole fighter/1"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1761751399145116037)  2024-02-25T13:53Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@JonathanTurley Nothing to be done about "Prof" Turkey but seriously @TheHill and @TheHillOpinion whiskey tango actual foxtrot Do you pay _that_ much blind homage to GWU Law that you have to publish cod-eugenic nonsense"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1761774293153726696)  2024-02-25T15:24Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Nothing to be done about "Prof" Turkey but seriously @TheHill and @TheHillOpinion whiskey tango actual foxtrot Do you pay _that_ much blind homage to GWU Law that you have to publish cod-eugenic nonsense The Hill is out with my column in a recent discovery of the criminal history of the great-great-grandfather of Joe Biden. It turnsout that the evasion of accountabilitymay be something ofa familytrait acquired through generations of naturalselection. https://t.co/9dom68Dk3E The Hill is out with my column in a recent discovery of the criminal history of the great-great-grandfather of Joe"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1761774672834699675)  2024-02-25T15:26Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@Artemisapphire London Bridge Bank you can go in there any time of day every weekday for decades and you will always emerge somewhere you totally did not expect in a Costa's walk-in fridge or behind a stack of wheelie bins and it is the previous Tuesday and you have no pants on"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1762285035690877331)  2024-02-27T01:14Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Retired Lifetime Government Employee Who Got $5m Buyout Minges About Socialism Tommy Tuberville on Maria Bartiromo: "We have to take care of the mentally unhealthy we have to take care of our elderly our veterans -- everybody else needs to go get a job. They need to get off that couch . we are a socialist country headed to communism." https://t.co/Te7oCjdIdj Tommy Tuberville on Maria Bartiromo: "We have to take care of the mentally unhealthy we have to take care of our elderly our veterans -- everybody else needs to go get a job. They need to get off that couch . we are a socialist country"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1763265098594812287)  2024-02-29T18:08Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@Artemisapphire But no boots. Can I bring the bowler and [----] Bentley when you collect"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1763365510203273681)  2024-03-01T00:47Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@MasonFlakeAlpha @RobertTCornwell There were so many more Mustangs than anything else in flying condition for a long time that it's seen as the iconic WW2 fighter when in fact the P-51B didn't see combat in Europe until Dec '43 and the more famous bubble-hood D arrived in the spring of 1944"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1764059055008412029)  2024-03-02T22:43Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"True dat. If he has the immunity your guy says POTUS has he could have hired the Mossad and the SAS to grab you Spork Gaytz Gym Jim Cummer MoscowRonJon and the rest and toss you in an abandoned mine in Mongolia then gotten moving on running the country. REMINDER: President Biden traveled over [----] miles for a photo op at the border in a weak attempt to convince Americans hes trying to address the catastrophe he created. He could have done more to secure the border with the simple stroke of a pen. REMINDER: President Biden traveled over [----] miles for a photo op at the border in a weak attempt"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1764123258415202479)  2024-03-03T02:58Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@JeeperRick78 @chelidon23 @Ishii12321 @RonFilipkowski Putin has outmaneuvered and outthought Biden so amazingly well that his two-week special military op is in its third year and Sweden and Finland are in NATO. Four more years of such strategic dominance will see the 82nd Airborne leading the Victory Day parade through Red Square"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1764357491767349724)  2024-03-03T18:29Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@CovertShores From this angle it accomplishes the not insignificant feat of bearing a closer resemblance to a KKK member than half the Texas GOP delegation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1766008703256510592)  2024-03-08T07:51Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@BrynnTannehill I was talking over beers to three guys from different European nations this week. All defense industry folks one of them retired military. To a man they asked: "Has everyone gone crazy over there""  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1766591254060564574)  2024-03-09T22:25Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@RadioFreeTom Da - and I cannot emphasize this too strongly - fuq Note the "tremendous" "the middle class has been." and of course "treated very very badly". These are pre-canned taped phrases that come out when his mind stops but his fat yap continues to run"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1767292454460326383)  2024-03-11T20:52Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@RobertMSterling Put a sock in it mate we all want GQPutinParty to run on killing social security and Medicare and telling everyone to tithe to their megachurch"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1767744850642780160)  2024-03-13T02:49Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@DarkMSolvent A new coherent policy-focused Trump will emerge to cut a swath through the swing voters. .and I will be named the rightful heir to the Duchy of Westminster and have a double date with Salma Hayek and Taylor Swift tonight"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1767754186622410963)  2024-03-13T03:26Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@BobSaietta For anyone but a prominent misogynistic RWer that would be an autobanhammer"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1767956862568169806)  2024-03-13T16:52Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@Only9built Looks like he pulled out in front of the Mazda who had to hit the brakes and honked at him. So he turned to give the up-yours and"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1768473047894208664)  2024-03-15T03:03Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@MargoGontar Two words: Mike Pence. More words: Mike Empty-Suit Hypocrisy Poster-Boy Holier-Than-Thou Spineless Sycophant Useless Muppet Waste Of Oxygen Pence"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1769073227240743194)  2024-03-16T18:48Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@DrtySexyHistory I write about the insanity of developing killing machines. I mean isn't this kind of purdy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1769908953603854348)  2024-03-19T02:09Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@DrtySexyHistory And my favorite music is often about highwaymen and random intimacy much of it written by my Wessex ancestors horny mfers they were"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1769910060090610090)  2024-03-19T02:13Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@DrtySexyHistory Give me a few beers and I will do that one a capella. Other tunes accompanied by Sir John (Fylde Falstaff Martin knock-off my mate since 1978)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1769910995470688710)  2024-03-19T02:17Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@eyeslasho @MpoukasNikos @ZachG932 So in other words Zack pulled the numbers out of his ear and you retweeted them without question because you're a lazy misogynstic fash snotweasel"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1771631182083412013)  2024-03-23T20:12Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@RabidTicat Guess I'll cop to Antifa(scist). Inherited it from my Dad (Royal Artillery Italy 1943-45)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1771969227240452376)  2024-03-24T18:36Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"I was called Antifa by some fash snotbag. I confessed to inheriting it from my Dad. (Royal Artillery Italy 1943-45)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1771972288046408099)  2024-03-24T18:48Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Ahem. Subject of course to the [----] Official Secrets Act and rulings of the D-Notice Committee Lightning Gen1 Harrier Sea Vixen and Scimitar have joined the chat. F-8 Crusader: Hey what am I chopped liver Luftwaffe F104-G. Multi-role aircraft and Germany operated 35% of all Starfighters built. A bad reputation was not totally deserved as the demands placed on the aircraft in often poor weather were contributions to a high accident rate. https://t.co/J5CUDfONEf Luftwaffe F104-G. Multi-role aircraft and Germany operated 35% of all Starfighters built. A bad reputation was not totally deserved as"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1772062903304114311)  2024-03-25T00:48Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Made it without a single inaudible. Boeing Latest Today we welcome news of management changes inside Boeing and look forward to working closely with Dave Calhoun and Stephanie Pope to eliminate delivery delays. Speaking from our Dublin HQ Michael OLeary had this to say: https://t.co/8Uu8WDfc1R Boeing Latest Today we welcome news of management changes inside Boeing and look forward to working closely with Dave Calhoun and Stephanie Pope to eliminate delivery delays. Speaking from our Dublin HQ Michael OLeary had this to say: https://t.co/8Uu8WDfc1R"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1772262517328236622)  2024-03-25T14:01Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@ShipboxGarage Since the demise of the choke the only innovations that make driving easier or more pleasant have been the Saab Night Panel (now sadly extinct) and the backup camera"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1772752885442281905)  2024-03-26T22:29Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@RonFilipkowski Sorry man boss says I can't serve you any more. You need to call someone get a ride home. no not the White House or the CIA somebody local"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1773135258239554026)  2024-03-27T23:49Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@mexic0la_ AREXIS is the Hitachi of EW and I cannot lie"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1773180931022438843)  2024-03-28T02:50Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@CcibChris THIS IS NO DRILL SEVERAL HUNDRED CANUCK CONSPIRACY CONNOISSEURS INBOUND TAKE SHELTER IF YOU VALUE YOUR MENTAL HEALTH"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1773392040501359018)  2024-03-28T16:49Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@FoxTwo2022 @aerohistorian @GE_Aerospace @prattandwhitney @AFResearchLab That was true of Concorde as well. No not as fast as the SR. But no need to refuel after initial climb to get the mission done far more range at supersonic speed and [---] pax quaffing Dom P"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1773834350661943333)  2024-03-29T22:07Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@FoxTwo2022 @aerohistorian @GE_Aerospace @prattandwhitney @AFResearchLab The [---] was related to the TSR.2 engine but as propulsion systems went they were very different. BTW with reference to the original post. there's a huge difference between the TF39/CF6 and today's engines"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1773840903414612359)  2024-03-29T22:33Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@DrChrisCombs It seems to be designed without the idea that people are of similar heights and I can't imagine there isn't aero noise from that roof beak trying to wobbleboard that flat roof"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1773899925236883560)  2024-03-30T02:27Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@JDVance1 and the horse you rode in on Wall Street pseud"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1773933996637815291)  2024-03-30T04:43Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@JenJudson Panera M&C is $7.99 for two one-pound tubs this week. Well on the way to hero status"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1773939864376946813)  2024-03-30T05:06Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Remember that all the people having fits about Trans Visibility and egg hunts this weekend are good virtuous Christians. Who want the nation to be led by a rapist who has literally made the Seven Deadly Sins his personal lifestyle brand. We call on Joe Bidens failing campaign @BidenHQ and White House to issue an apology to the millions of Catholics and Christians across America who believe tomorrow is for one celebration only the resurrection of Jesus Christ. https://t.co/xA3krhhlaM We call on Joe Bidens failing campaign @BidenHQ and White House to issue an apology to the millions of"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ValkStrategy/status/1774429350827307277)  2024-03-31T13:31Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

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