Exercising my free will to the fullest extent

A Tomahawk can sit sealed inside its launch canister for years. Its jet engine has never run, and its flight battery isn't sitting there permanently charged. When the missile is finally selected, the ship supplies power, loads the mission details and wakes up a machine designed around the assumption that almost everything has to work correctly the first time. Then it changes character completely. A dormant lithium thermal battery activates, and a Mk 135 booster burns roughly 146 kg of solid propellant to throw the 1.5 tonne launch package out of the ship. Within a few seconds the wings are out, the booster is gone and a tiny Williams F415 turbofan has taken over. Once running, even the battery is no longer needed, a generator driven by the engine powers the missile's electronics. The F415 produces only about 650 lb of thrust. That sounds nowhere near enough for something this heavy, but the engine isn't carrying the Tomahawk. At cruise speed its small wings generate the lift, the turbofan only has to replace the drag. Roughly 500 kg of dense JP-10 fuel gives it the endurance to keep doing this for more than 1,000 km while flying extremely low. Tomahawk has also kept getting smarter without changing that basic architecture. Modern versions can be retargeted after launch, loiter, and even send back an image from an area they pass over. More than 2,300 have been fired in combat since 1991. That may explain its longevity better than any specification. America has spent four decades upgrading the electronics, navigation and payloads inside Tomahawk because the machine underneath still works just fine. With those upgrades, it remains one of the most capable weapons in the subsonic cruise missile class.

The conflict has been a strategic disaster for Washington. foreignpolicy.com/2026/09/17…

If you need to, I quote, weigh of you can supply such small scoped mission with more than 1 TRILLION in defense budget and can't just say 'D'uh!' you are down to reserves

Down to reserves....

some random joe finding out drill next month is SRP and not AFT time.

The US Army Reserve is studying which units could support potential operations against Cuba within the next few months -CBS Units requested include a combat sustainment support battalion, medical brigade, forward surgical detachment, and a military police brigade.

U.S. military lays groundwork for potential action around Cuba, with the Army Reserve assessing forces that could be needed within 90–120 days, according to an internal Army message reviewed by CBS News. The document also seeks medical, surgical, military police, engineering and logistics units, but no deployment orders have been issued.

Hemos trasladado los restos de Francisco Morazán a un nuevo mausoleo, construido especialmente para custodiarlos por siempre. El mausoleo se encuentra a un costado del Palacio Nacional, dentro del nuevo Jardín Centroamérica. Estará abierto al público a partir de mañana, jueves 24 de septiembre, a las 7pm. La entrada será gratuita.

holy shit i asked claude to make a video on western civiization

Everyone is spilling the tea. He had religious bias on killing, esp babies and should not have been on the jury.

It's time we got back to serious debate in the #DungeonsAndDragons world........

Just absolute babies all the way down. I have 11 anthrax jabs on my service record and not a single service member died of anthrax. Now how many people died from COVID? It seems the future force wants to be modeled after when you and your homies died from preventable diseases

Zero dark thirty is any time so early the sun hasn’t even considered coming up. The mission might be important, or it might just be PT. Either way, you’re awake before most civilians even hit snooze.

Canada has the support of the world now. Besides, the US does not have the manpower to cover the vast nation of Canada. It would just be another disaster worse than Iran.

Canadian PM Carney reportedly prepared for the ‘risk’ that President Trump might order a U.S.-led invasion of Canada.

Three unidentified men climbed out of a Manhattan manhole at 4:35 in the morning just steps from the hotel where Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to stay. The three emerged on Park Avenue near East 61st Street, got into two vehicles and drove north. And this isn't the first time. Video from today's incident shows the three emerging one after another wearing dark overalls with their upper bodies bare and lights strapped to their heads. This is the latest in a string of unusual incidents involving people entering or emerging from New York City's underground infrastructure in recent months. Just last week, a man emerged from a Queens manhole around 4 a.m. and fled with four other men. Weeks earlier, three people wearing headlamps were filmed emerging from a manhole near Penn Station and Madison Square Garden. There were also two separate sightings earlier this year in Williamsburg and Gravesend. The Loews Regency, where Netanyahu is expected to stay during the U.N. General Assembly, is right down the block from this latest incident. NYPD says it has seen people enter sewers after storms looking for valuables and scrap metal. But because of the U.N. General Assembly and the sensitivity of this location, police are conducting additional security sweeps with federal partners. Nobody has identified the three, and police have not linked the incident to Netanyahu or the U.N. But the same question remains after yet another early morning manhole sighting: Who are these people, and why do they keep going underground? See the link to the article in the comments.

I'm already envious of the first Army guy who gets to call in an orbital drop of an exosuit in the middle of a battle