We know what’s coming and we are prepared.
⚓️ 🇺🇸 🇨🇳 2023 EOY review of commissioned surface combatants by both numbers & tonnage of USN vs. PLA/N.
🔶️ The USN numbers in the past 5 years are 2/3 LCS. Based on decommissioning rate of LCS, some of these won't be in the 2024 EOY review
🔶️ Avg age of surface combatants still in commission by year, USN v. PLA/N. We're twice as old.
🔶️ PLA/N has built nearly 3x the number of USN surface combatants in the past decade.
🔶️ Population pyramid of the two fleet's surface combatants by year commissioned (of those that haven't been decommissioned)
🔶️ Total tonnage of USN Surface Combatants commissioned 1987-2023 by class (still active)
🔶️ This will look worse next year as more CGs and LCSs are decommissioned.
🔶️ Total tonnage of PLA/N commissioned surface combatants since 1987, still in commission.
🔶️ Comparative tonnage of surface combatants commissioned since 1985 that are still active.
🔶️ Comparative total tonnage of commissioned surface combatants since 1985, still active.
🔶️ comparative of total tonnes of surface combatants commissioned in past 10 years that are still active.
📎 Claude Berube
Police in Winona Minnesota are stunned after every single one of their Flock cameras were suddenly removed in a single night.
According to the police department, all 8 of the town's cameras were cut down and hauled away.
Police are asking for the public's help to identify the individual, but the public has been responding with comments such as:
"The Flock cameras tore themselves down"
"Whoever did it, was fishing with me"
"Whoever it was, was at Bible study with me"
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Nearly 20,000 people are publicly vouching for a man accused of cutting down Flock cameras in a small West Virginia town.
People commented:
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"He was saving my neighbor's dog from a fire all day, couldn't be him."
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"This man is innocent. I saw him serving at a soup kitchen."
-"Couldn't be him. He was helping me replace the roof on a homeless shelter."
The man, Wesley Jackson, has pleaded Not Guilty.
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