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Anduril is reportedly exploring another financing at a valuation around $120B.
The company says no decision has been made, so that figure shouldn’t be treated as a completed valuation.
This signals the scale of capital potentially required to build defense hardware ahead of orders.
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Foreign sabotage teams don’t need missiles when they can fly drones straight into the open garage and call it a mission kill. Door discipline is needed! HODOR!
Hardened Shelters Critical To Survival Of USAF’s Tanker Fleet: Study
An independent assessment calls for new action to prevent critical aerial refueling assets from being neutralized before they even get in the air.
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Industrial mobilization, it's so hot right now
Another Michigan auto firm enters defense industry as state tries to revive ‘Arsenal of Democracy’ breakingdefense.com/2026/10/…
Made by Kyle Briggs: linkedin.com/feed/update/urn…
DoW’s hypervigilance against vendor lock-in is colliding with the “pick winners” narrative of nontraditionals... and it's clearly playing out in unmanned systems.
AcqTalk is back! 🎙️
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This, from the Walter Isaacson biography, is both an underrated aspect of SpaceX’s success, and the perfect example of why “cost plus” manufacturing (used by many aspects of US Government) is a terrible idea
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“@VenusAerospace has developed the world’s first liquid-propellant rotating detonation rocket engine (RDRE) with a double-digit percentage increase in efficiency over standard regular engines, making the #HypersonicEconomy possible,” -CEO Sassie Duggleby bit.ly/467gYmy
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Even years into WWI, the UK's generals didn't understand the importance of machine guns, and Lloyd George had to force his generals to buy more than one machine gun per battalion.
What technologies today do civilians need to force the DoD to take their assement of needs and "square it, multiply that result by two - and when you are in sight of that, double it again for good measure"?
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IMPORTANT update in the debate over future amphib production. DoD has shown Marines specific (rough) drawings w/ ideas for scaling down the ship to save money. Marines rejected them all, saying it makes the flight deck and vehicle stowage areas too small to support MEU operations
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#HASC Hearing on FY24 DoD Budget:
Rep @RobWittman asks SecDef the questions about numbers & capacity.
"Please tell the American people what we are going to do to mitigate the threat."
@cgberube @ConsWahoo @Navy_Hipple @salisbot
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USAF says of every 10 F-15Cs it sends to the depot, only 2 come back.
Some background:
aviationweek.com/defense-spa…
Build up to WWII lessons in UK:
- no mods to requirements expect safety critical
- procurement officials stayed 5+ yrs
- multi-year budgets
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F-35 aircraft availability rates by age, compared to F-22 and F-15E, via CBO
cbo.gov/system/files/2023-02…
Israeli defense is serious about working with tech startups:
“They want to succeed and make a profit. We want someone who is hungry, with lightning in their eyes.”
The Innofense program allows startups to keep their IP and pays them up-front.
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Awful that AFC was pushed aside by bureaucrats and told to focus on irrelevant 2040. Accelerate or lose.
"To deliver capability by 2040 means fielding must begin in 2035, which means bending metal in 2030 and developing funding plans even earlier."
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Skunk Works Kelly Johnson: "we will have nothing to do with [EVMS] in any concern with which I am connected."
That's why he got engineering done, and why little is accomplished today.
Be sure to check out Kelly Johnson's advice on powerpoint here:
flighttestfact.com/kelly-joh…
#flighttest
Adm Hyman Rickover was given a converted ladies bathroom as his office and turned it into a source of pride.
He said a person who focuses on the job can do it anywhere, dont need luxury getaways in Hawaii to think. That's the sign of caring about impact. Envy is a mind disease.
