We know what’s coming and we are prepared.
— 🇺🇸/🇮🇱 List of NATO, U.S. Navy and UN ships currently in the Mediterranean:
🇺🇸 Ford Carrier Strike Group:
USS Gerald R. Ford CVN-78
USS Thomas Hudner DDG-116
USS Ramage DDG-61
USS Carney DDG-64
USS Roosevelt DDG-80
USS Normandy CG-60
🇺🇸 Ike Carrier Strike Group:
USS Dwight D. Eisenhower CVN-69
USS Gravely DDG-107
USS Mason DDG-87
ITS Virginio Fasan F-591
USS Philippine Sea CG-58
🇺🇸 Bataan ARG:
USS Bataan LHD-5
USS Mesa Verde LPD-19
USS Carter Hall LSD-50
🇺🇸 USS Mount Whitney LCC-20 Maritime Command Ship
🇺🇸 Non ARG-assigned U.S. ships:
USS Stethem DDG-63
USS McFaul DDG-74
USS Arleigh Burke DDG-51
USS Paul Ignatius DDG-117
USS Bulkeley DDG-84
🇺🇸 U.S. Navy auxiliary ships:
USNS Laramie T-AO 203
USNS Medgar Evers T-AKE 13
USNS Yuma T-EPF-8
USNS Trenton T-EFP-5
🇬🇧 Littoral Response Group South:
RFA Argus A-135
RFA Lyme Bay L-3007
🇫🇷 Tonnerre ARG:
FS Tonnerre L-9014
FS Surcouf F-711
FS Alsace D-656
🇺🇳 UNIFIL Maritime Task Force:
HS Adrias F-459
TCG Heybeliada F-511
FGS Erfurt F-262
FGS Oldenburg F-263
BNS Sangram F-113
KRI Sultan Iskandar Muda 367
NATO Maritime Group 2:
🇬🇧 HMS Duncan D-37
🇮🇹 ITS Carlo Margottini F-592
🇪🇸 ESPS Méndez Núñez F-104
🇹🇷 TCG Yavuz F-240
🇩🇰 HDMS Niels Juel F-363
🇬🇷 HS Psara F-454
🇩🇪 FGS Frankfurt am Main A-1412
🇪🇸 ESPS Patiño A-14
🇩🇪 FGS Baden-Wuerttemberg (F-125) [en-route]
Credit: SchizoIntel on X
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Yanis Varoufakis (former Greek Minister of Finance) describes AI as a new form of capital that produces not goods, but behavioral modification. This is achieved by engineering perceptions.
The answers provided by ChatGPT, or the images rendered by StableDiffusion — as these increasingly inform our perceptions, they in turn define the reality we experience.
This is what makes AI so powerful — he who controls the AI, defines the reality of tomorrow.
⚡️🇺🇸 Some more things coming out for the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
Under the preliminary drafts of the bill, the USAF is requesting a release of $57,000,000 USD ($57.0 Million) to retire all remaining 162 A-10 Thunderbolt IIs in current service. Apart of the 2023 NDAA, there was a clause for a few million dollars to be released every so often to gradually retire the (then) 250 airframes by 2034; however due to the push by the Dept of Defense to ‘shed’ obsolete or obsolescent airframes that cannot be overhauled or upgraded further without a whole new airframe, it appears the USAF wants to retire all 162 remaining A-10s by the end of 2026.
The USAF plans to fully divest the 340-total remaining A-10s entirely, including those that currently serve in a handful of Air National Guard units in some states; which will be replaced by F-15EX Eagle IIs (like what is already happening with the Michigan State Air National Guard’s A-10s), or F-35A/Bs.
Included ...
My older sister lives in the country in between Velma Oklahoma and Duncan Oklahoma near the Fuqua Lake area, this story was told by a rural mail delivery woman who delivers the mail in the country.
The incident happened while she was on her route, when she came upon to the mailbox a male Chinese nation came out brandishing a, AK-47 rifle being very hostile,
I don't know if he pointed it at her since it is against the law to do so but she was terrified and said she was never going back and that the location that had a guard tower. Was the sheriff department notified, I don't know, did she notify her supervisor, don't know. But word is from the country folk who live in the area they have seen the guard tower at the pot place;
I refuse to call it a farm because it is an insult to farmers.
And yes she was traumatized by that ordeal
