That blowed up reel gud!"
Posted on 09/02/2025 9:39:11 PM PDT by Morgana
You can clearly see the bales of drugs in the center of the boat.
Looks like there’s some job openings for Tren de Aragua gang members - I think Trump can help with that as well!
Are these judges against a poor workin man having a job? Let ‘em go so they can start providin for their families...
Manos arriba!”
Who likely voted for Kommie.
Illegally, of course, using a dead man’s registration.
And threatening apartment tenants to give their rent checks to Tren De Aragua.
They hit it with either a hellfire or a 700mm guided rocket both are prolific in the Navy arsenal, everything from Super Cobras or Huey Venoms, to UH60s , drones of all flavors, F18, F35 pretty much if it has 30 inch lugs and can hold 100lbs or more it can carry pods or rails for either.
There are inert warheads for each my fav is the flying swords hellfire but they also have a reduced blast carbon fiber warhead cased version that only blasts a few feet of killzone and no shrapnel. Looking at both videos the one of this hit and the one of TMZ I would say it was a AGM-114R9X probably from a drone. From the Iwo Jima which is as big as any aircraft carrier not a USA super carrier and larger than WWII fleet carriers it for sure has the the deck space for large drones like a reaper and it h as F35s that replaced its Harriers
Here is the list of assets off Venezuela.
USS Gravely
USS Jason Dunham
USS Sampson
USS Iwo Jima
USS San Antonio
USS Fort Lauderdale
USS Lake Erie
USS Minneapolis-Saint Paul
USS Newport News
https://www.twz.com/air/bladed-hellfire-missile-seen-in-action-for-the-first-time
This turns the 70mm hydra into a sub 3 foot CEP killer with a solid 13lb warhead there is no boom at all it just smashes the target. There also is flachette warheads that break open and shower the target with metal darts pop, poof, smash.
https://www.baesystems.com/en-us/product/apkws
Forgot the milpr0n link to the STOL reaper made specifically to take off from USS Iwo Jima sized ships this was 2022 its in the field now and you can bet the Navy loves having persistent loitering ISR with hellfires at seconds notice. Click , woosh , boom.
https://thedefensepost.com/2022/05/13/general-atomics-stol-mq-9b/
Thanks. I thought the Hellfire only had Big Boom warheads.
Did not know —> Inert warheads for each. Flying swords hellfire.Reduced blast carbon fiber warhead cased version that only blasts a few feet of killzone and no shrapnel
I wish the U.S. Navy wasn’t over run with the carrier mafia in the admiralty...we could have put and still can put 12 to 18 degree 140 foot long ski jumps on all 11 of our “amphibious deck ships” which are really fleet carrier sized ships with 1000 foot long decks. Each one can hold 30-50 aircraft and double or triple that in smaller fold up drones. A regular F18 can jet off the deck in under 450 feet fully loaded that leaves half the deck behind it for helo ops a simple blast wall that’s movable is all that is needed then. The F35 can jump off in under 300 feet also at MTOW not reduced weight for STOL or even more losses payload for VTOL ops. Total not needed with a ramp up front MTOW jumps happen in 300-450 feet for either aircraft. Drones can use the ramp at 200-300 feet run ups and double their payloads and time in station.
It gets really interesting when you add C130s to the group a C130 can already do a sub 1000FT STOL but only at reduced weight give it a ramp and 500-600 feet and you can load it to the max. The C130 makes a fine gunship and with middle slinging pallets now in service it can bombtruck dozens of JSAMs or JSOWs into stand off ranges.
Adding ski jumps adds 11 full carrier op capable ships for the cost of the ramp , blast wall and for F18 ops use the portable aggressor wire system already deployed on land for short runway ops. It’s past the time to demand the Navy put jumps on those ships.
They don’t because it would show how a ship half or 1/4 the displacement of their golden cash cows of super carriers can do the job with drones and cheaper aircraft than the F35 by using F18s, or better bring back an A6 sized jet in drone form and with the option for a cockpit for a drone leader pilot who flys with the flock as it’s human in the loop.
Really AI and Starlink soon to be Starshield the DOD version makes human pilots obsolete. It’s virtually unjammable, tight ghz beams pointed up with phased arrays and tens of kilowatts of signal strength = millions of watts ERP in that tight beam even if you were directly in line from UAV to sat that much ERP is effectively jam proof plus that beam is sweeping across the sky at 7+ kilometers per second no way an airborne jammer could stay in the beam for a few seconds of more even at hypersonic speeds. So you have gigabit per second streaming data plus millisecond latency= no need for human pilots ever to be airborne they can be in Nevada half a world away safe and sound.
https://www.twz.com/watch-f-a-18-super-hornets-complete-ski-jump-tests-for-indian-navy
We have inert warheads for most of our missles and smart weapons they are called reduced collateral damage munitions.
We have concrete filled JDAMs of all sizes, carbon fiber cased warheads for hellfires, hydra, javelin, and a few others not in public sphere. We have kinetic energy warheads for hydra and 5 inch rockets basically metal darts. Some CBU also have kinetic energy warheads that disperse over a given area. The GPS tail kit guides it to the right altitude over the target spins it a the prescribed speed and opens the case to spin out all the metal spikes. Higher + more spin = wider area of killzone it’s nasty stuff the KE of a metal darts falling is equal to a 50 cal BMG bullet it will penetrate a human from head to toe absolutely lethal and no EOD left behind, those spikes make short work of engines , fuel tanks too. Mixing in some phosphorus cased spikes means incendiary effects when they hit something hard enough to bust open the thin metal outer case. American engineers are world leaders in coming up with creative ways to kill humans.
The amphibious deck ships landing TRACKS are along the length of the ship, and are not angled for hook misses and fly-arounds. Those should be added.
A downside of a ski jump is that the aircraft is trading off some launch speed for not only the angle and vertical velocity, but also for potential energy in the form of height. There have been proposals to give catapult-launched aircraft an vertical displacement kick at the end of their launch (perhaps with an electromagnetic system). Have you ever seen the drop test video of the F-18? Dropped from 20 feet, which leads to a velocity of almost 36 feet per second. Hopefully, the pilot’s seat is well-padded :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prLkerS_ofA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGPseVNfZO0
isn’t it about time that the European A400 turboprop transport is tested for its landing and launch capabilities from full-fledged nuclear supercarriers?
To explicitly state it, if the F-18 can take a 36 feet per second landing, it should be able to take a kick upward of 36 feet per second.
Have you ever seen Thailand’s aircraft carrier, the HTMS Chakri Naruebet? Only 11,670 tons displacement :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTMS_Chakri_Naruebet
That’s what they were doing? I saw them kicking the doors of tenant. Unbelievable act of treason opening that border and nothing happens to Biden. Trump leaves office and he gets indicted 9000 times on BS, Biden leaves office and he gets his rear end kissed.
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