đ¨WILD! Volkswagen is in talks with Rafael, the Israeli Iron Dome maker, over a deal that would switch production at one of their factories from cars to missile defense
â Raylan Givens (@JewishWarrior13) March 24, 2026
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Volkswagen â where Turkish workers assemble Polish parts into German cars!
Poor Israel â just wait until they find out the cost of replacement parts for those missiles.
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Glad thereâs no risk of sabotage during production by the usual âdiverse, inclusive, equitableâ types of Jew/Israel haters.
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Brave (Leo):
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Volkswagen is in advanced talks with Israelâs Rafael Advanced Defence Systems to convert its OsnabrĂźck plant in Germany from car manufacturing to producing components for the Iron Dome air defense system. The proposed partnership aims to save 2,300 jobs at the facility, which is scheduled to cease car production in 2027 due to cost-cutting measures.
If the deal is finalized and workers agree to the transition, production of defense componentsâincluding heavy-duty trucks, launchers, and power generatorsâcould begin within 12 to 18 months. While the German government is reportedly actively supporting the proposal, Volkswagen has clarified that it is not producing the missiles themselves, but rather the support systems for the Iron Dome.
- Key Components: Transport vehicles, launcher platforms, and electricity generators.
- Strategic Context: This move reflects a broader shift of the struggling European automotive industry toward the defense sector.
- Current Status: Discussions are ongoing with no final decision made; neither Rafael nor the German Ministry of Defense has officially confirmed the details.
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Now here is an interesting concept! Maybe it is equivalent to the delightful Iranian policy of driving kids into minefields ahead of the army as a cheap way of de-mining. Or maybe it is a smart use of obsolete equipment. One thing for sure â it is cheap! And resourceful!
China turning Cold War jets into budget Taiwan strike drones - Asia Times
â⌠China has stationed obsolete J-6 fighter jets converted into attack drones at six air bases near the Taiwan Strait, five in Fujian, and one in Guangdong, according to commercial satellite imagery and open-source intelligence analyzed by the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies, Reuters reported.
According to Mitchell Institute Senior Fellow J. Michael Dahm, the Peopleâs Liberation Army (PLA) has deployed 200 or more of the jets-turned-drones to support the opening phase of any assault on Taiwan, where they would be used less like remotely piloted aircraft than as cruise-missile-like weapons to strike Taiwanese, US or allied targets in large numbers. âŚ
Jerome Brahy, in an article this month for Army Recognition, notes that if China launches 700-1,000 J-6 drones in a short period and adopts a two-shot interceptor doctrine for Taiwan, Taiwan will require 1,400-2,000 missiles to fully engage.
Brahy estimates that with Taiwan having 1,200 to 1,800 interceptor missiles, saturation will occur when the number of targets exceeds what Taiwanâs air defenses can effectively detect, track, and intercept. âŚâ
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Iran managed to destroy an AWACS plane $300 million each) on the ground, along with hitting more aerial tankers. My immediate suspicion is that this is âturnabout being fair playâ, when it comes to the US, Ukraine and Russia. Russia has said for some time that thus US and NATO (did NATO actually so something??) were providing targeting intelligence and actually inputting data to weapons systems Ukraine was incapable of doing. Russia made it clear that use of Tomahawk cruise missiles would be tantamount to US.NATO entry into the war for this exact reason. I donât think they were ever transferred.
Anyway, it seems unlikely Iran is capable of such precise real time targeting. I suspect there are more then a few smirks in the bowels of the Kremiln. Sauce for the goose and all that.
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I donât know about that. Judging by the number of âNo Kingsâ Iran sympathizers in the US, it would hardly be surprising if there are Iran sympathizers in Gulf Arab countries who could be sending photos & coordinates from their cell phones to IRGC Central. It is not obvious that targeting would require Russian satellites.
Anyway, this is war â and both sides (all sides?) get in some lucky shots. The Brits could (should?) have given up after the disaster of Dunkirk and after the further disaster of losing âimpregnableâ Singapore to the Japanese. As we all know, they did not.
Our Western media treats every setback as the final defeat. But that looks more like their Trump Derangement Syndrome than a realistic assessment of the progress of the war. Notice how little coverage there is of the damage which Iran is taking from all the bombs & missiles raining down on them?
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These are complications. But overall, I canât help but believe the Iranians are done. Russia helping them is stupid of Russia, since it ought to be obvious that Trump is against the continuation of the Ukraine fiasco. I would think Trump raising the sanctions on Russian oil ought to be enough self-interest for them to be interested.
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My suspicion is the USG, in the person of Donald Trump, has decided that the only kinds of outcomes you can assure by bombing, civil disorder or civil war, are better than having the Islamic Revolutionary Government in charge. If theyâre busy fighting it out for control of the government, theyâre probably not spending much resources on nukes. Theyâre also probably not selling oil to the Chinese and Russians. And that kind of situation provides plenty of opportunities for the spooks, which could give us a second kick at the can.
I believe USG would love to have a non-IRG regime that is US friendly, and theyâll encourage this as much as they can without major ground operations, but experience teaches us that it is harder than it looks. To be fair, Persians arenât Afghanis or Arabs, theyâve been civilized for a long time, but part of the problem with the IRG is they are more of an Arab thing, so they show the kind of incompetence and corruption that leads to Tehran running out of water. (Which I suspect is one of the reasons USG and the Israeli government thought the Iranian public mood was such that attacking might be successful now.) Make Persia Zoroastrian Again!
I donât think Putin, specifically, is entirely rational about it (edit: pulling back from Ukraine). But even if he was, climbing down from the current situation has a high probability of getting him killed. He tried to set a precedent of not doing bad things to ex-leaders by protecting Yeltsin, but the sense I get is that is unlikely to happen if he steps down, especially if they do not have an outcome in Ukraine that can be strongly spun as a success. A sign of this is that he has no formal successors. He really has hung a lot on getting Ukraine.
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They have only just begun. Much of their high value infrastructure is buried, deep, and completely intact. They have admitted to 11 bombs worth of HEU. They likely have much more. But what goes unsaid is all that HEU left them with U238. Much of that is now likely plutonium.
It is now just a matter of putting these in warheads if they already havenât.
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And we now know from the failed Iranian missile attack on Diego Garcia that the IRGC has been building long-range missiles capable of hitting most of the capitals of Europe â despite Iran denying for years they were making such missiles.
Iranian missile + nuclear warhead? Sleep easy, Messrs. Starmer, Macron, etc!
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These girly-men care nothing about their countries. Their allegiance is to GloboHomo: one ring to rule them all.
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GloboHomo Economicus
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The video title is clickbait. What the video is actually about is observing a mid-2025 capture of a town in Luhansk by UA forces and using that to illustrate how combined arms doctrine is expressed in the war in UA. No blood and gore shown due to youtube rules.
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There is some humor in the news today. After who knows how many zoom meetings, the Europeans have come up with their answer to the problems in the Strait of Hormuz â after all the fighting is over and no-one needs us, We Will Be There!
These are the same Europeans who are leveraging Orbanâs electoral loss in Hungary to keep pushing for a broader war against Russia. Some days, one gives up on the human race ⌠or at least on the Euros.
In more relevant news, a couple of snippets about the nature of future wars for which the Euros are completely unprepared:
China tests submarine cable cutter at 3,500-metre depth | South China Morning Post
Hmmm! So the power cables & internet fiber optic lines in the North Sea and Mediterranean on which Europe depends will be gone whenever China decides it has had enough.
Indonesia canât stay silent on Chinaâs UUV incursion - Asia Times
âThe discovery of a suspected Chinese unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) in the Lombok Strait is not a routine maritime incident. It is a breach of Indonesiaâs strategic space.
Found by a local fisherman inside Archipelagic Sea Lane II (ALKI II), the device â marked with âCSIC,â linking it to China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation â points to unauthorized undersea activity in one of the countryâs most critical maritime corridors.â
While President Xi publicly talks about peace and the primacy of international law, behind the scenes China is making sure it has high-tech options to do whatever it needs to do in the future.
Interesting times!
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If I was SecWar the temptation to mess up the signal by buying random pizzas or ordering from other untracked places would be hard to resist.
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Pepperoni pizza is not kosher?
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