Phalanx is self defense only. The weapons used to protect nearby ships are ESSM and SM-2 missiles. Which should to work fine to intercept cheap drone, artillery and ballistic missiles. (Tho very expressive to intercept artillery with missiles)

The navy has used those systems recently to defend ships during the Houti crisis in the red sea.

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So basically it’s the opposite of what the navy need. The navy has needed a cheaper more numerous hull to complement the Burke class. Something that they have failed with the LCS program and the recently canceled Constellation.

The Trump class is so large they might have to be built into the same dockyard as carriers. I don’t know if Bath iron works can accommodate ships that large. So it would have to be Newport News Shipbuilding or Ingalls Shipbuilding, both of which are already very busy.

It also means that the dockyard for smaller ships still don’t have any work and some of them could eventually shutdown from bankruptcy, further reducing the number of dockyard and production facilities for the navy.

Edit: I am also going to add, since we have the design for the FF(X) ship that is going to replace the cancelled Constellation class. The FF(X) if it’s built as planned is significantly worse than Constellation and will not fill the role that the navy needs. But it’s probably a nice bit of money for Ingalls Industries.

Ah yes. This surely will have no long term consequences.

Yeah except right now the biggest issue the Bundeswehr faces is equipment and troop readiness. A report came around 2022 and made noise. After a short exercise 18 modern Puma IVF had been out of action for lack of spare parts on relatively minor issues. And that was on the 10th Panzer division which was earmarked for deployment in Lithuania, not a low priority unit.

More bodies are nice for an army. But those come after the infrastructure has been fixed for what already exist

If you have an article or maybe remember more details about that story?

The closest I could find is this.

Ukraine doesn’t really operate western helicopter in general so the story may have been about something else. We have reports of the Russian using captured American armor vehicles. So no kill switch in those.

Well then they are fucked. Maybe France’s Snecma is an option and the Japanese also have engines. Pretty much everything else is Licensed copy of American engine or Chinese/Russian which are obvious no.

I think turkey was looking into making their own jet engines. But Erdogan Turkey is about as good of an option as trump USA.

Okay so just to clarify what the software lockdown on F-35 means is that other country except the USA aren’t allowed to create update to the software. Exception for Israel and maybe the UK (don’t quote me) are allowed to modify the software themselves.

It doesn’t mean a instant kill switch. But it does mean that if the USA decides to block someone from update it’s much harder for a country to make their own update.

South African authorities said 23 of the Palestinians had traveled onwards to other countries, without naming those countries, but 130 remained and were allowed in after intervention from South Africa’s Ministry of Home Affairs and an offer by an NGO called Gift of the Givers to accommodate them.

“Even though they do not have the necessary documents and papers, these are people from a strife-torn, a war-torn country, and out of compassion, out of empathy, we must receive them and be able to deal with the situation that they are facing,” Ramaphosa said.

I need 1000 Bitcoin to control the totally real AGI you should be scared of. Like really real and scary. Just around the corner guys. And it says I need those 1000 Bitcoin to control it.

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Revive the Nike-X you cowards. I want to die from the sonic boom of a missile accelerating to mach 10 in 5s

I’m listening to YouTube music with addblock. Which I am surprised isn’t a more common setup because it’s zero effort.

And a lot of burned CD of YouTube to MP3 because my car still has its 2000s radio player which doesn’t have USB.

Yeah as it should be. The current system is happy to cut healthcare and retirement. All the while giving away 200 billions to companies with so little accountability the Senate struggled to figure out where the money went.

Idk. Maybe It’s more about its unusual shape messing with a target identification software?

Meh. I have a 10 VI. The phone is good, compact and great battery which is all I want. Except the software is bad. And it’s a software issues the hardware isn’t slow enough to explain why it takes a couple second everytime I unlock the phone before I can actually interact with the screen. Or lock the phone again.

Makes something like replying a simple “ok” to a message a chore. L

https://leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2025/07/fact-check-trump-stole-winners-players-medal-club-world-cup.html

It’s fake. Kinda? He didn’t steal a medal.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/did-trump-keep-the-fifa-trophy/

Apparently he did give a fake/new trophy and the FIFA gave him the real one/old one.

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Canada and irc Japan got hit by tariffs or threatened to… I’m realizing with all this will they, won’t they, I don’t know what tariffs ended up in place.

Point is being a close ally isn’t saving you from the look of it.

The UK has nukes. Tho it’s not entirely sovereign as their ballistic submarines use American Trident II missiles. Which are on lease and maintained in the US. Still independent launch, just not long term.

https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/heres-how-britains-nukes-are-operationally-independent/

Also they want to purchase F-35A to drop nuclear bombs but that would be Americans B61 and not even on lease. just straight up only work if the US wants to. Also the F-35A can’t be refueled by existing UK tanker aircraft because American jet use boom refueling while everyone else use drogue refueling.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c335406gxdvo