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Bill Sweetman @valkstrategy.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

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Bill Sweetman @valkstrategy.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Maybe it’s that Trump 2 is represented by so many creepy men with more red flags than a Moscow May Day parade, with a smattering of Cray Queen Bish women…

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Bill Sweetman @valkstrategy.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Multiple possibilities, but I would never add a third engine without a good reason.

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Bill Sweetman @valkstrategy.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Maybe GodlyBoi is one of the people in the files that Mad Madam Marge was gonna drop if they fingered her little Eraserhead pal.

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

I'd just like to remind you that the guys who have protected this man up until his last days in office tried to destroy teachers' lives for putting up a rainbow sticker.

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Matt Gaetz ethics report says his drug use and sex with a minor violated state laws

A report by the House Ethics Committee found former Rep. Matt Gaetz paid multiple women, including a 17-year-old girl, for sex.

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Bill Sweetman @valkstrategy.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

The key to this is semantic engineering. Nobody has yet defined 6Gen, any more than there is a coherent definition of Gen 1-3, so whatever horror has come out of Frank's requirements sausage machine can be labelled 6Gen. But LockMart won't like that one bit, because it will make their ATM sound old.

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Bill Sweetman @valkstrategy.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Should it be news that a program started 23 years ago is delivering aircraft on time? But here we bloody well are.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Not the point of this thread, but “do you think Trump’s win marks the defeat of identity politics” is SUCH a tell. His win is an absolute VICTORY for identity politics. If we accept that “angry white evangelical grievance” is an identity. Which is ABSOLUTELY is. Thru and thru.

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Dan Ancona @danancona.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

turning a new page for 2025

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Tony Stark @tonystark.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Wearing this shirt and bringing a bottle of Mezcal to a party tonight.

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Bill Sweetman @valkstrategy.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Someone has to be, until there's a vaccine against PLA-N submarines.

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Bill Sweetman @valkstrategy.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Journalistic English, where "polarizing" means "stark raving batshit".

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Bill Sweetman @valkstrategy.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

But he's something that rhymes with "trite fail" and that makes him much more sensible and smart than Michelle Obama. The Right wants to overturn the result of the Civil War.

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Bill Sweetman @valkstrategy.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia. Don’t like it ? Didn’t vote for KH? Welcome to the Leopards Eating Faces Party, snot for brains.

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Bill Sweetman @valkstrategy.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Two F-35s in the Mach Loop. One is on its way to a movie premiere with a champagne reception and the other is making a Tuesday afternoon dash to Tesco because it's out of oregano.

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Bill Sweetman @valkstrategy.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Women working at Kelvins (later Smiths) licking their paintbrushes to help them paint the numerals neatly on aircraft instruments, using paint loaded with radium.

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Bill Sweetman @valkstrategy.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

I missed Martinage's piece at the time. Quite a powerful endorsement.

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Bill Sweetman @valkstrategy.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

By the way, note the date on Martinage's piece... Everyone forgot about Musk's 2020 comments because we had Covid.

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Bill Sweetman @valkstrategy.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Autonomy helps. but there is an answer and I spent two years trying to make it happen. Key concept: 120 hours on station gives you most of the same benefits as 90 days.

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Bill Sweetman @valkstrategy.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

And why not? Read this, from a leading air power analyst... nationalinterest.org/print/blog/b...

nationalinterest.org

Elon Musk Was Right: The Manned Fighter Jet Era Has (Almost) Passed

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Bill Sweetman @valkstrategy.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

All in all, it made a lot of sense and there is no sign that it has ever been studied by anyone American./ends

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Bill Sweetman @valkstrategy.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Survivability combined RCS reduction with advanced jamming and TF/TA - the French govt. built an indoor RCS range that could measure a real fighter aircraft (not many people know that). They also designed a new 750-pound bomb family (Mk82-class with rocket motor) - six weapons on two stations./2

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Bill Sweetman @valkstrategy.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Balanced requirements. Good concept for an aircraft that carries a lot of external load for the edge missions. A configuration that was compact (no wing fold), efficient in flight, high lift for TOL. CATIA was matured for Rafale, so as to cope with carrier loads in the smallest number of parts./1

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Bill Sweetman @valkstrategy.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Very worth a read (the link seems to be paywall-free). I don't think this is a new problem. It's a newly identified problem.

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Bill Sweetman @valkstrategy.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

but with ground troops and football players, the idea that brain injury from repeated events can be cumulative, undiagnosable and the cause of seemingly psychological effects is more widely recognized. And does anyone really need to pull 9g anyway?

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Bill Sweetman @valkstrategy.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Reminds me a bit of when G-LOC emerged as a problem, because with the F-16 in particular you could get higher onset rates. Ways were found to avoid LOC, but you're still subjecting the brain to physical loads and transient loss of blood pressure. Somehow I don't think this is a new problem/1

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Bill Sweetman @valkstrategy.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

It was cool. But what the freaking actual foxtrot was NASP about?

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Bill Sweetman @valkstrategy.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Jack of Trumps, Stormy Christ and Jesus Daniels ftfy

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Bill Sweetman @valkstrategy.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

True of most bars and restaurants, where the basic "glass of [varietal]" is like an airline coach seat, which exists only to make you do what you need to do to get out of it.

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Misty Miller ☻ @mistymadonna.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

LIFE HACK: Answer your phone "Hello you're on the air" and 99% of the time people will just hang up.

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Bill Sweetman @valkstrategy.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

The interesting connects are "if x was real why didn't they do y?" and particularly in secret (black) projects that opens up a rabbit hole.

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Bill Sweetman @valkstrategy.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Mr Tinsley had a wide-ranging imagination and indulgent editors.

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Bill Sweetman @valkstrategy.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Actually, calling them Belgian fries would have been more wounding, and true.

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Bill Sweetman @valkstrategy.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

The oldest one in the line-up still plugs on.

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Bill Sweetman @valkstrategy.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Our next Navy secretary (grey sportcoat). Eat it, RW NavyTwitter. #IfThisWasADemocrat

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Bill Sweetman @valkstrategy.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Yeet the little fecker into the Cracks of Doom.

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Bill Sweetman @valkstrategy.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

This will result in a lot of government policy that aligns closely with the interests of Tech VCs. Here's how it will play out in defense. valkstrat.com/defense-refo...

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Defense reformation is coming – Valkyrie Strategic Solutions LLC

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Bill Sweetman @valkstrategy.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

What makes a prop a prop-fan? It's a fuzzy boundary, I think. An-70 MMax is 0.73, I think, but the remarkable Piaggio Avanti can clock 0.70, and I don't think anyone would argue that those are not propellers.

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Bill Sweetman @valkstrategy.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Sure, Ockie-Poo, whatever you say

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Bill Sweetman @valkstrategy.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Who are you again? I call you the Big Rocketman because you're not the Little Rocketman from Tschyna. Can you tell the nurse she's needed again?

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