Naval Group presents the SCX 26

The return of high-intensity conflict and the emergence of hybrid naval warfare require a new vision. Naval Group answers with a new concept ship: SCX 26. #Euronaval https://t.co/x76gVeLKSh

— Naval Group (@navalgroup) November 3, 2026

Yeah he's engagement farming, saying outrageous shit...I get it. He's also funny

Bro!!!!!!! 😮 😂 https://t.co/M84N6TyInv

— Man Tonai (@MTonai62045) May 30, 2026

Near disaster with military fly over of the Bears-SeaHawks game?

THIS IS AWFUL: Another terrifying angle from a fan OUTSIDE Lumen Field shows fireworks exploding dangerously close to a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter during the #Seahawks-#Bears pregame flyover. This was WAY too close to being a disaster. 😳😳😳 https://t.co/yykABtv98G

— MLFootball (@MLFootball) November 3, 2026

I don't think a few fireworks would have done TOO much damage but yeah, its way too close for comfort.

Airplane trackers are noting a virtual air bridge to the Middle East

US MILITARY cargo aircraft FLYING NONSTOP with equipment bound for Israel and Middle East https://t.co/LfXdLd8kLy

— RT (@RT_com) November 3, 2026

This fucker right here is the biggest example of black people living on the Dem plantation and so called black leaders leading them there

Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed visits Michigan polling station https://t.co/90RVWTYhmy

— Reuters (@Reuters) November 3, 2026

If you spend more than 5 minutes listening to this joker speak. Listen to former President Obama endorse his sorry ass. Spend a few minutes thinking about all the other so called black leaders back this dude...then you know that black americans have gone from a fucking physical plantation into a mental one. FUCK MAN! A fucking jihadist that hates everything about this country and has a special hatred for black people? How Muslims pulled a black chic out of a vehicle and beat the dog shit out of her and on one said shit except a few gang bangers? Punching walls dude.

Still don't know what's going on in Poland but it appears the military took a side....

Jeżeli doniesienia Stanisława Janeckiego się potwierdzą, będziemy mieli do czynienia z politycznym skandalem bez precedensu. W czasie kryzysu wokół TK miano rozważać przekierowanie samolotu prezydenta Nawrockiego poza Warszawę, aby odizolować go od wydarzeń w stolicy. Według Janeckiego plan udaremnili wojskowi. Jeśli to prawda, armia stanęła na straży Konstytucji, a nie politycznych interesów rządu Tuska. Kto wydał polecenia? Kto za tym stał?

— Piotr Kusznieruk (@PiotrKusznieruk) October 31, 2026

This is gonna be unremarkable to most of you but I found it interesting....

Yeah I thought it was just a bookmark too!

All these years, I've always thought it was a bookmark https://t.co/gPmiqP8ghM

— Özer Dölekoğlu (@wrzl) November 2, 2026

Open Comment Post. 3 Nov 26/Election Day Edition

Just a quick note. Get out and vote. This is part of the American experience AND DUTY that many of you signed up to guarantee. Where ever you are, no matter your politics, get out and vote. It is your patriotic duty.

The things they're doing with AI with regard to scifi is amazing! Asia led in anime and they're gonna kill Hollywood

https://t.co/i1Uu64gWLM

— Look at my shining eyes (@GothicOrnate) November 1, 2026

I keep saying it but let me repeat. Hollywood is the walking dead. Once AI advances just a little more...once they get to the point where you can't tell real or memorex (if you're too young look it up) then its all over. Not just for Hollywood but for actors. Their time in the sun is almost over. No more movie/tv stars. Just AI and computers and people with imagination.

Koreans know exactly what they're doing when it comes to monsters. https://t.co/c7b60epTFl

— Gift_ED🌸🦋 (@Gift_ED117) October 30, 2026

Conspiracy theories about the Lear Jet crash are running wild

the plane crash near Mar-a-Lago is a complete historical and statistical anomaly: > Learjet 60s have existed for 33 years > 3 fatal crashes on record: all on takeoff, approach, or landing > then one fell from 35,000 feet near Mar-a-Lago > 11 prior U.S. Learjet 60 accidents > 6 on landing. 2 on approach. 1 on takeoff. 2 while taxiing. > 0 en route > worldwide: 3 prior fatal Learjet 60 crashes on record: 1. Brazil — 2022, overran the runway. 2. South Carolina — 2008, overran the runway on rejected takeoff. 3. Venezuela — 2013 struck terrain on landing approach. > 0 fatal crashes from high altitude > 0 crashes during cruising phase of flight > oct 23 — NORAD confirms air defenses around Mar-a-Lago > nov 1 — Bahamas-bound Learjet 60 goes into a dive from ~35,000 ft over South Florida > closest tracked point to Mar-a-Lago — 3.9 miles away, still at ~21,000 ft > hits the ground 5.7 miles from the estate > ~27,000 ft gone in 65 seconds > 13,000 of those feet gone in 20 seconds > average over that stretch — 39,000 ft/min > the tracker's vertical-speed readout tops out at 32,640 > closest same-model case I found was in 2023 > Learjet 60 at 41,000 ft near thunderstorms. crew loses pitch and roll control > captain estimates 10,000 ft/min down, recovers at 38,500 ft. everyone lives > the 3 previous fatal Learjet 60 crashes I could find worldwide killed 7 people combined > this one killed 9 > first, most deadly, and only high-altitude Learjet crash in 33 years of service, within 4 miles of brand new short range air defense at Mar-a-Lago bonus fact: > In October 1980, a Learjet 25 pitched up and stalled at 45,000 ft over Missouri. Both engines flamed out. The jet began responding to the pilots again around 32,000 ft. They restarted the engines between 24,000 and 28,000 ft and landed in Wichita https://t.co/BCPnqWdzuU

— KEMOSABE (@KEMOS4BE) November 1, 2026

An audio recording of the communication between Air Traffic Control and the private jet that crashed in Florida has been released. https://t.co/aFB3L5sLVT

— Mukhtar (@I_amMukhtar) November 1, 2026

251st Marine Corps Birthday Message

The GPU race is nothing. Wait till you see the "memory" race!

Everyone is watching the GPU race, but another part of the AI infrastructure is becoming increasingly difficult to secure: memory. Elon Musk reportedly described the current memory supply shock as unlike anything he has seen in his lifetime. There is a reason this matters. Micron reported an 87% gross margin in fiscal Q4 2026, reflecting extraordinary pricing power in a market facing tight supply. AI models need more than computing power. They need enormous amounts of high bandwidth memory to process data efficiently. You can have thousands of powerful GPUs, but without enough memory, scaling AI becomes much harder. The next major AI infrastructure bottleneck may not be computing power. It may be memory.

— CHIIIDEX 💔💔 (@chiidex277) November 1, 2026

ESPN's latest poll has the Tigers at #5

 

NEW: Updated ESPN FPI after week 9 of the College Football season📈📉 https://t.co/zykpo9cGWa

— On3 (@On3) November 1, 2026

But the AP & Coaches polls have us at 15! I mean seriously? The SEC commissioner is on crack. The SEC is eating its own while you have teams on both coasts just cruising because they don't face real competition till the playoffs. SERIOUSLY! Look at some of the teams ahead of us and make it make sense!

South Carolina & LSU could be the two most dangerous teams in the country… Texas is too high https://t.co/Les5ghQn8t

— Chase Daniel (@ChaseDaniel) November 1, 2026

An editorial is written saying we need more C-17s. That's wrong. WE NEED modern high speed sealift!

 

The National Interest (here) has an article calling for the production of more C-17s.  The arguments put forward make sense.  Additionally the C-17 has in essence replaced two aircraft.  The C-5 and the old C-141.  Its awesome.  That can't be denied.

But America's military has a preoccupation with air power in all its forms to include logistics.

I blame the Navy for that.  It suffers from that malady too.

For some reason our sea service refuses to look beyond its carriers and destroyers and subs.  Everything else seems to fall by the wayside and that's a huge mistake.

Sealift has suffered and that is the real solution to all of our resupply efforts in all future theaters.

From the NI article.

Air Force C-17s are the linchpin of any major movement of troops and equipment. In the weeks leading up to Operation Absolute Resolve, the seizure of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro from Caracas, open-source data identified 83 C-17 flights arriving at Caribbean bases over a 16-day period. At least 160 transport aircraft were observed moving through Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Middle East in the 13 days before the Operation Midnight Hammer strikes of June 2025.

Impressive yes.  Necessary?  No.  One sealift ship (I'm talking about the soon to be scrapped fast logistics ships) could accomplish the same cargo movement in the same time and with fewer (much) trips.

Take for example the ARC ship shown above.  This is what it did in one lift.

 The ARC Endurance, carrying 1st Combat Aviation Brigade, 1st Infantry Division equipment, helicopters, and vehicles, arrives at the Port of Dunkirk in on March 06, 2021 in support of Atlantic Resolve and Operation Mousquetaire in Dunkirk, France.

This is the seventh Atlantic Resolve aviation rotation and the second rotation for 1 ID CAB. The unit is bringing approximately 1,800 personnel, 50 UH-60 and HH-60 Black Hawks, 10 CH-47 Chinooks, 20 AH-64 Apaches and 1,800 wheeled vehicles and pieces of equipment.

This Atlantic Resolve rotation in conjunction with Operation Mousquetaire at the port of Dunkirk and the Calais Airport offers a unique opportunity for the US military and French allies. An operation of this scale is a truly historic event and offers the ability to demonstrate a shared bi-lateral ability to work side-by-side to receive U.S. Army equipment, stage it, and move it efficiently and safely.

Whole brigades being moved in one lift?  Pretty damn awesome but this ability is being atrophied in the belief that it can be reconstituted from civilian sources in time of war.

I believe that is a huge mistake.

Additionally while everyone grabs at the time factor, in our American way of war we ALWAYS seem to telegraph our punch by takes weeks and sometimes months to get into place.

A war with China will be different but in that instance a logistics bridge of C-17s will not be able to mass enough beans, bullets and bandages to make a difference.

We need to bring back two things for a war with China.  

Prepositioned ships (sorry logistics warehouses are too vulnerable even if you harden them to infinity) and fast sealift transports! 

Open Comment Post. 1 Nov 26

Pavel (reader) has an update from the Polish President on the situation there...

Statement by the President of the Republic of Poland, Karol Nawrocki https://t.co/dzdHoFnw0E

— Kancelaria Prezydenta RP (@prezydentpl) October 31, 2026

Just plain wow. It's weird. I still don't have a handle on what's going on in Poland but whatever it is, its major! Poland has a political crisis. Germany is having rioting from its left wing. France is facing rioting from immigrants. The UK is its usual basket case (telling citizens to NOT trick or treat because it might offend immigrants?). Italy is facing the same issues as France. Oh and everyone is being told to stockpile goods in case of emergency. A little late for an Oct surprise so I guess the powers that be are going year round.

At some point we're gonna have to admit that we're behind in some tech...

This would be great for me to park in 10 secs. 😃 I want one please! https://t.co/F6HlE82I8k

— The Figen (@TheFigen_) October 31, 2026

The Chinese automotive market. Man! They're doing stuff with electric vehicles that would bankrupt US automakers in a year! We don't have to like it. We do have to accept that in some tech we're behind. We don't have to stay behind but we have to at least acknowledge it. The thing that kills me is that all the Western nations are engaging in protectionism to shield their auto industry against this rising giant. That's never the solution. Words need to match deeds. Remove the barriers and opt for free and fair competition. Use tariffs if they have govt funding but blocking the selling of foreign vehicles? Not good. Same for every other consumer product. Additionally, cause its really hurting our defense industry, we've got to face facts when it comes to automation. Workers will never outwork machinery. Our munition plants? We should fully automate them. Aviation industry? Same. Shipbuilding? FUCK YEAH! We've got to face the future and if we're really facing existential threats then we're hurting ourselves by protecting workers against the future. Change my mind.

12th MLR training with JGSDF troops. Have you noticed that the MLR's are pushing infantry training rather than the sea denial mission?

#Marines with 12th MLR and members of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force participate in force-on-force training as part of Keen Sword 27 at JGSDF Hijudai Maneuver Area, strengthening the ironclad U.S.-Japan Alliance. (@USMC 📸 by Cpl. Skilah Sanchez) https://t.co/CiwWpWtE5o

— 3d Marine Division (@3d_Marine_Div) October 31, 2026

Maybe its happening in the background. Maybe its being broadcast and I'm just not seeing it but it appears that the infantry side of the MLR is being pushed harder than the sea denial side. Additionally it seems that the resupply issue while being worked seems to be intractable. Still think its a bad idea. Still think its on theater specific. Still think that transforming the entire Marine Corps to the sea denial mission is a HUGE mistake but they're dug in.

US warns of mass casualty attack in Moscow???

 

The US warned Russia of a terror attack in Moscow. Russia shut down a palace. The US Embassy went public and named the site: "a credible threat of a mass casualty event" at the Tsaritsyno Museum Reserve. One palace. One street address. One day. Then the FSB told TASS it got the information from the US: a terror attack being prepared in Moscow. "We are taking appropriate action." Russian news agency RIA says the museum and park are temporarily closed and access is restricted. TASS says the reason is "operational measures." Guards told a reporter it was "technical reasons." Now look at March 2024. The same embassy warned of plans to hit large gatherings in Moscow, concerts included. Putin said Western warnings "resemble outright blackmail." 3 days later, 15 days after the alert, gunmen attacked the Crocus City Hall concert venue. 145 DEAD. This time the FSB says it is acting on the warning. Baza, a Russian Telegram channel close to the security services, says the site stays closed for at least 2 days. The day in the alert is now over in Moscow. No attack has been reported so far. No suspect has been named. Share this. Everyone should know about it.

— Taegun Lee (@TGLetter) October 31, 2026

The US has a responsibility to warn of terror attacks in ANY country (at least in my mind) but I have to wonder what group would be planning such an attack. Of course my mind immediately goes to Ukraine but then why would we warn? Then I think that Ukraine might be using Islamic "cut outs" to achieve plausible deniability. Which brings me back to the circle of ... then why would we warn? I just don't know what to think. Could be that its just radicals. Regardless we're still stuck in the land of mirrors and the public will learn in a few years or never.

WTF is going on in Poland????

 Seems like the Poles are going thru some type of crisis I can't quite put my finger on.  The Prime Minister stormed into their version of the Supreme Court or something like that, claiming that they were attempting to overthrow the country.

Man, I just don't know.

If anyone has a clear read on that situation I'd love to hear it.