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Zach @thrustwr.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Tried recreating this Ad for a video segment. Still struggling to find the font of the lower text. An entire afternoon with Adobe Fonts didn't turn up anything close.

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Zach @thrustwr.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

KH-31's rear control surfaces give me vestigial X-wing vibes.

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Zach @thrustwr.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Cooking and tracing targets that were last publicly discussed when Reagan was in office and some uglies.

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Zach @thrustwr.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A bit confused right now. In what way is Budanov saying "NK is learning and gaining a lot of experience from fighting in Ukraine that will then translate into difficult times on the Korean peninsula" a wish by Ukraine for war to happen on the Korean peninsula?

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Zach @thrustwr.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Tired of living through history-making years.

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Zach @thrustwr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

One of the things that really worried Allies on the lead-up to the Gulf War was that by all accounts Iraqi ground-crews and pilots sometimes were putting up insane metrics (aircraft readiness which was at 70-75%, aircraft turn-around times, sorties per day).

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Zach @thrustwr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Iraqi pilots were getting medals from Saddam himself for not wastefully dropping bombs during the Iran-Iraq war (due to Iraqi bomb shortage).

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Zach @thrustwr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

€630M, spread 4 ways, about €157M per country. The current Finnish government has wasted more than on subsidies to their poltical buddies. Additionally, we can stand-up production of the kits in the north and pull money across these countries. So you can frame this investment as coming back.

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Zach @thrustwr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Each of these jets can carry any where from 4 pods carrying 7 of these APKWS systems. So about 28 of these per plane, about 4-6k across the total aircraft inventory. Each of these costs about €21k, which is a lot, but buying 30k of these across Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Finland would be about

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Zach @thrustwr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Working together by pulling all Nordic fighter aircraft (about 230-250 aircraft) equipped with cheap systems like AKPWS. Would be the best method to reduce the size of the first raid.

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Zach @thrustwr.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Well this hit 100k yesterday and a nice way to celebrate this number was touching 1 km of rock, mud and grass for every 10k views. A nice day hike that was 12 km. Nice views, nice air, nice people, nice animals.

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Zach @thrustwr.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"Jump air gap by running a CPU hot and reading the temperature" Do people just not know anything about computers anymore?

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Zach @thrustwr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

So this is why DTIC hasn't been working on months? It has been bothering so much but this is bleak as hell. DOT&E reports being killed off as well. Total retreat of really useful (journalistic/history/news wise) resources the DoD had. Whats next? Dvids is only available with CAC?

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Zach @thrustwr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

50K is like two divisions or like 9-12 brigades? Many battalions to say the least!

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Zach @thrustwr.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The MPQ twins and their overachiever brother (TPY-2)

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Zach @thrustwr.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

SPY-1D (V) and the guy he tells you not to worry about (SPY-6). I think this should have about 4k element slots, but i didn't stop to count. The dimensions are for the array face populated by the elements.

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Zach @thrustwr.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Here's a still version of this: (this is how all my animations start out)

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Zach @thrustwr.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Pulling this out to show the Commander why that lone INDOPACOM early PAC-2 battery using rounds smuggled from CENTCOM (NK style) is not making it against those incoming DF-26s.

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Zach @thrustwr.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Didn't spend 2 years researching patriot to not know this

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Zach @thrustwr.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Improve the missile density of your battery with this one simple trick!

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Zach @thrustwr.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The things a properly equipped Ukrainian force would have done to this convoy is just something.... In the early days, the Russians kept doing a million of these things that a well equipped Ukraine would have absolutely punished so heavily.

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Zach @thrustwr.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

In any case, changing back to steam has little to do with speeding up production. At first, it would require a major redesign to include steam generation systems, piping and retraining of both navy personnel and yard workers. So delivery would go down and construction time would go up. As would risk

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Zach @thrustwr.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

In addition to that the Nimitz and Ford are pretty different classes so ofc the first class of an entirely new design incorporating many new and unproven technologies is going to take much longer to enter the fleet. In any case, it took about 8-10 years for Nimitz carriers to go from keel to USN.

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Zach @thrustwr.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Indeed, it is a fairly normal and common thing today. So normal and widespread that the US anticipated 30 yrs ago that "course changing" missiles would proliferate so all current PATRIOT variants have been tested against them using the US' own "course changing missile" (the original MaRV)

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Zach @thrustwr.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

This was good, 800+ pages as well and a good accounting from someone on the front.

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Zach @thrustwr.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Anyway, wishing a fiery end for all Russian Flanker pilots.

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Zach @thrustwr.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

So this is the closest we Europeans are ever getting to the Superbowl experience. I think this world cup was very fun.

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Zach @thrustwr.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

This is the main yard (Ingalls), it had two LHAs (bigger than WW2 carriers), three LPDs, and four destroyers fitting or under construction at the same time. This is close to 200k tons of vessels under construction/fitting out.

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Zach @thrustwr.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

This is a satellite image I commissioned in 2024. It shows more (7) modern destroyers under construction at Bath Iron Works (one of the smaller US military yards) than any single Korean shipyard has ever built.

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Zach @thrustwr.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

My money is on France now.

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Zach @thrustwr.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Well that's 4 hours that aren't coming back

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Zach @thrustwr.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

There's always something else hiding out of view

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Zach @thrustwr.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

The missile uses a simple ball and socket nozzle setup. It was designed by United Technologies's Chemical Systems Division. It was later made by Hamilton Sundstrand but it might be made by someone else.

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Zach @thrustwr.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Little bit of THAAD rear end stuff with TVC and other bits and pieces.

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Zach @thrustwr.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Tfw have to use a 2 KT warhead because the MSR has a resolution basket measured in hundreds of meters. Spartan flying into the heavens with a 5 MT warhead and a rough idea (down to a mile) of where the warheads are:

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Zach @thrustwr.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

LoADs/HibEx were even smaller funkier/smaller Sprints but still had nuclear warheads. HEDI (which wad mostly for experimentation) was effectively a HTK Sprint (it reused many parts from it). THAAD's seeker/other stuff come from this program.

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Zach @thrustwr.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Gigan is asking for a 2 KT enhanced radiation warhead.

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Zach @thrustwr.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Used PAR and MSR (the radars from Safeguard) to show what simplified command guidance of then looked like.

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Zach @thrustwr.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Out here doing little bit of tracing for some stills of the Spartan and Sprint missile (from the safeguard system) for the upcoming video (I briefly mention them)

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Zach @thrustwr.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Graphic design is my passion

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Zach @thrustwr.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Hardest shit I have ever made.

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Zach @thrustwr.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

FDD guys for the last 20 years:

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Zach @thrustwr.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

>comeback after being offline for a monthish >A strain of algea is waging a successful campaign against the Trump Admin >We are on the 16th round of negotiations and peace deals that get broken daily >Adobe is telling me the price of my subscription plan has gone up 100%

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