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FullMoon wrote: Tue Sep 30, 2025 5:44 pm Tankers last movement was before the strikes on Iran?
The top brass pep rally today seems pretty disconcerting.

FullMoon wrote: Tue Sep 30, 2025 5:44 pmIn a time of maximum danger in this crisis period, what kind of decision-making are we getting. Many of us had hopes that Trump would be the grey champion and we'd come out of this better than before.

Wave Of US Air Tankers Deploy To Europe

OSINT-focused X accounts cite flight tracking data that shows a wave of U.S. air tankers deploying to Europe. The timing coincides with President Trump's scheduled last-minute meeting with senior military leadership in northern Virginia on Tuesday. Historical precedent is very notable here: the last comparable mass tanker deployment (read report) preceded U.S. strikes on Iran's nuclear infrastructure by five days.

Notable and most credible X accounts have reported an immediate deployment of U.S. air tankers to Europe.

"Roughly a dozen U.S. Air Force KC-135R/T "Stratotanker" Aerial-Refueling Tankers are currently up from a number of airbases across the United States, heading northeast and preparing to cross the Atlantic towards Europe, with several appearing to be enroute to RAF Mildenhall in England," X account OSINTdefender said. The X user appears to have sourced Flight

Pentagon orders arms makers to ‘quadruple’ missile production amid push for war: Report

The US has been increasingly concerned that its stockpiles are not ready for a potential confrontation with China

The US Defense Department has ordered suppliers to double or “even quadruple” production rates on a “breakneck” schedule over fears about a depletion of stockpiles and a potential confrontation with China in the future, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported.

According to WSJ, “Military leaders are urging defense contractors to increase assembly of 12 critical weapons.”

The list includes Patriot interceptor missiles, long-range anti-ship missiles, Standard Missile-6 missiles, Precision Strike missiles, and Joint Air-to-Surface Missiles. Patriot is a particular priority, given Lockheed Martin's efforts to keep up with growing global demand.

Informed sources said there have been a series of recent high-level meetings between Pentagon officials and representatives of missile manufacturing companies.

US Deputy Defense Secretary Steve Feinberg is taking a direct role in this effort – called the Munitions Production Acceleration Council – and is calling company executives weekly to discuss the matter, according to the sources.

The Defense Department invited major missile suppliers to a roundtable meeting at the Pentagon in June to launch this effort.

The meeting was attended by US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and General Dan Keane, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. It included executives from several weapons manufacturers.

However, the report notes that stakeholders fear Washington’s goals are “unrealistic,” and that questions are arising about the funding needed to accelerate production.

Some suppliers have struggled to meet the new demands and are wary of overbuying orders that have not yet been funded by the government.

The WSJ report comes a few days after the Washington Post said an “unusual” meeting of hundreds of top US military leaders has been ordered by Hegseth.

“The highly unusual directive was sent to virtually all of the military's top commanders worldwide,” the newspaper wrote, citing more than a dozen people familiar with the matter.

The announcement comes months after Hegseth revealed plans to carry out a major consolidation of top military commands.

Hegseth's abrupt call for such an emergency meeting has led to concerns of a coming conflict.

A senior Pentagon official said, “In my 30 years in the US military, I have never seen anything like this. We might be on the brink of war.”

Monday’s report is not the first to note official concerns over low stockpiles.

During this year’s US campaign against Yemen, which ended in May, Washington burned through at least $1 billion in munitions. This raised concerns in the defense community that the US military would be left unprepared and would face “real operational problems” if a conflict with China were to erupt, according to the New York Times (NYT).

Analysts have also recently suggested the possibility of a new war between Israel and Iran, which Tel Aviv is likely to involve Washington in.

Israel was close to running out of interceptors during the 12-day war with Iran in June, which was mentioned in several reports. According to a WSJ report from June, Washington feared it would burn through its own interceptors while replenishing Israel’s stockpiles.

Trevor wrote: Fri Sep 26, 2025 5:14 pm Over the last couple weeks, I've been shocked at just how many people have been celebrating Charlie Kirk's assassination. These aren't political fanatics, but ordinary men and women convinced that he got what he deserved, that those who disagree should be silenced by force and murder.