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Defence and Freedom retweeted
Uh are Iranians just white people??
🔴عکس و فیلمای وایرال شده از یه باشگاه ورزشی زنونه توی بالاشهر تهران. بوی پول و سلامت روان از پشت موبایل حس شد💸
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ça y est, on les a ! (les fameuses datas du hack de Rosstat) attention les amis, infos spéciales concernant les pertes Russe ! Accrochez vous, petit fil à suivre...
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Defence and Freedom retweeted
Was literally explaining the, "society falls when old men don't plant trees they will never sit under" to my neighbor (boomer) He said he didn't get it and why would he plant trees if won't be around to see them
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A bit of a rant grown into a blog post: "We need a different way of war" defense-and-freedom.blogspot…
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APKWS uses semi-active laser homing and has short range. The fighter needs to get close, then illuminate the target with the laser. An AIM-9X can lock on from much longer distance and is fire&forget. /1
"Aircrews found the airspace and timing were often too tight for APKWS employment in the Strait of Hormuz and Persian Gulf, so they have ended up relying on AIM-9s. But defensive counterair for base defense has featured APKWS." airandspaceforces.com/articl…
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The offence-defence spiral goes on. In the end, one needs to understand that you take blows in war and you better be able to tolerate those. The American Way of War has been for 40 years to pretend 'overwhelming force' and 'airspace domination' et cetera can give immunity. /5
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That's bollocks and its pursuit requires excessive expenditures. /done
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Defence and Freedom retweeted
They tried to do WHAT ☠️☠️☠️☠️
"Aircrews found the airspace and timing were often too tight for APKWS employment in the Strait of Hormuz and Persian Gulf, so they have ended up relying on AIM-9s. But defensive counterair for base defense has featured APKWS." airandspaceforces.com/articl…
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Defence and Freedom retweeted
Big new leak of Russian combat deaths, based on death certificates: nearly half-a-million. Adds credence to other estimates. According to various studies, the ratio of deaths to serious woundings among Russian combatants in this war ranges from 1 : 1.7 to 1 : 2.2. Applied to this data, that implies between 1.2M and 1.4M men killed and seriously wounded. That's between 1.8% - 2.1% of all Russian men.
A group of hackers published classified data on Russian soldiers killed in the war, from Russia's statistics agency Rosstat. In late August, the total was 450,100 (around 100k per year). It is in line with other independent estimates. There is also a regional breakdown.
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Well, .45ACP is not a very strong cartridge in terms of penetration. Weaker penetration than 9x19, MUCH weaker than 7.62x25. 20 layers aramid/kevlar was what flak vests of the 80s/90s used. Those were rated for most fragments of HE, but no pistol calibres.
Команда инженеров воссоздала пуленепробиваемый костюм Джона Уика в реальной жизни. После множества тестов с разными тканями для костюма они остановились на варианте из 20 слоев кевлара, шерсти и особого вида тонкого пластика. Выдерживает стрельбу патронами вплоть до 45 калибра
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Unattributed content from youtube @hacksmith youtu.be/Eeb4aZObp-
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Defence and Freedom retweeted
Zero trafień na 1500 metrów. Ten wynik prób modułu z Tarnowa obiegł już media, również za granicą. A co wyszło w drugiej serii strzelań? Według relacji z poligonu A3B strącił małego drona z kilkuset metrów, zużywając mniej niż dziesięć pocisków. Później miała zawieść głowica PCO, a Agencja Uzbrojenia miała nie dopuścić ręcznego wprowadzenia nastaw, choć moduł ma taką funkcję. W drugiej serii A3B miał już spełnić wymagania wojska. Warto spojrzeć na kolejność. Z dokumentów opisanych przez WNP wynika, że wojsko zarekomendowało norweski moduł do K2PL, zanim A3B trafił na poligon. Chciałbym więc zobaczyć wyniki obu serii i usłyszeć od Agencji Uzbrojenia, czy Protector RS4 sprawdzono według tych samych zasad. Jeżeli Norwegowie okazali się lepsi w porównywalnych próbach, pokażmy, w których i o ile. Z jednego nieudanego strzelania zdążyliśmy już zrobić historię o klęsce polskiej zbrojeniówki. Te nagłówki czytają także ludzie, którym potem próbujemy sprzedać polski sprzęt. I to producent będzie musiał tłumaczyć zagranicznemu klientowi, co się wydarzyło na poligonie, choć wyniki obu serii powinna wyjaśnić @AgencjaUzbr . To wyglądda na jeden wielki skandal.
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Defence and Freedom retweeted
BBC presenters have been ordered to do a defence of Israel. It happens whenever guests mention the genocide or extremism of its government. Imagine they did this on behalf of Russia. Unthinkable!
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Defence and Freedom retweeted
AIPAC done got themselves a new name y’all.
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Defence and Freedom retweeted
The real architect of the disastrous Iran War has gotten off completely scot free. He deserves to be punished alongside Hegseth - if only anyone knew his name: kenklippenstein.com/p/the-re…
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Defence and Freedom retweeted
Rentenniveau nur 48%? Das ist eine Rechengröße. Nach Steuern und mit allen Einkünften haben Menschen ab 65 in Deutschland 83% vom Einkommen der Jüngeren (Median, Eurostat 2025). Der Weg von 48% zu 83% in drei Schritten 🧵
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Defence and Freedom retweeted
It bears repeating that Operation Epic Fury was not about Iran’s nuclear program. That program was significantly set back in the June 2025 strikes. The remaining facilities are too deeply buried to be eliminated militarily. If you want evidence, just look at the target set of OEF—of the over 13k strikes, maybe 5 were against nuclear sites, most of which were already struck in 2025 (and it’s unclear whether it was Israel or the U.S. who hit them in 2026). Don’t be gaslit into believing that the recent war was necessary to deny Iran the bomb.
Trump tells reporters he had no choice but to launch the Iran war despite midterm loss "I think it's largely true ...But at the same time if I had to do it again, I'd have to do it again, because long term it's the only answer. You can't allow Iran have a nuclear weapon."
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Defence and Freedom retweeted
When researchers analyzed how Pegasus spyware infected iPhones without the user tapping anything, they found something wild. The attackers sent an iMessage with a fake GIF that targeted Apple's image decompression engine. The decompression math was so flexible that the exploit chained arithmetic operations together to construct a literal, functioning software CPU using over 70,000 segment commands that defined logical bit operations (AND, OR, XOR, XNOR, etc.) entirely inside the image parser. This created a small computer architecture with registers, a full 64-bit adder, and a comparator, running raw code before the phone even buzzed with a notification
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