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A metal forming got upgrade! 🪭 This method is called Hyperbolic Metal Forming and is hypnotizing to watch. Instead of shaping metal with slow mechanical force, HMF uses controlled shockwaves to form complex geometries at extreme speed, often without the need for heavy dies or post-processing. The result is... show more

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Lukas Ziegler

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🇺🇸🇮🇷 The U.S. military is burning through weapons it takes years to build... A Patriot interceptor isn't a bullet. It's a miniature spacecraft packed with specialized electronics, advanced guidance systems, and components sourced from supply chains that span dozens of manufacturers. An SM-3 interceptor has to track a warhead in space and collide with it at several kilometers per second. Each one costs up to $28 million and production runs in small batches, often only dozens per year. One night of Iranian missile defense can consume 2% of the entire annual Patriot production in under a minute. Factories can't scale overnight. They need multi-year contracts, skilled labor, and components that often come from a single supplier worldwide. Five weeks in, the Pentagon is cannibalizing missile systems from the Pacific and considering diverting Ukraine's weapons. The U.S. military was built for deterrence, not sustained high-intensity combat. This war exposed that assumption in real time. Source: Caspian Report YT

🇺🇸🇮🇷 The U.S. military is burning through weapons it takes years to build... A Patriot interceptor isn't a bullet. It's a miniature spacecraft packed with specialized electronics, advanced guidance systems, and components sourced from supply chains that span dozens of manufacturers. An SM-3 interceptor has to track a warhead in space and collide with it at several kilometers per second. Each one costs up to $28 million and production runs in small batches, often only dozens per year. One night of Iranian missile defense can consume 2% of the entire annual Patriot production in under a minute. Factories can't scale overnight. They need multi-year contracts, skilled labor, and components that often come from a single supplier worldwide. Five weeks in, the Pentagon is cannibalizing missile systems from the Pacific and considering diverting Ukraine's weapons. The U.S. military was built for deterrence, not sustained high-intensity combat. This war exposed that assumption in real time. Source: Caspian Report YT

Mario Nawfal

69,772 Aufrufe • vor 6 Monaten

It doesn’t matter what material you build your house from, when a fire, fueled by high winds hits, it’s not being saved. This is from a “small” recent fire in Gatlinburg area that got close to a house I owned. Took out quite a few homes. The wind just carries the sparks everywhere and often the fires start at the roof level (not the ground or side of the house). Once the roof area is hit, it’s all over. The fire will burn the house from the inside out. And it doesn’t matter if it’s a metal roof…think of all the wood components that metal roof attaches to and the eaves, soffits, etc. Just one spark can start a fire. When the wind is blowing at 60-80 mph gusts, you’re getting millions of sparks. The fires also get into the tree tops (especially of pine) and then balls of fire can also start raining down in clumps onto houses below as well. ICF, poured walls, concrete block….all irrelevant when you have a massive fire coming your way.

It doesn’t matter what material you build your house from, when a fire, fueled by high winds hits, it’s not being saved. This is from a “small” recent fire in Gatlinburg area that got close to a house I owned. Took out quite a few homes. The wind just carries the sparks everywhere and often the fires start at the roof level (not the ground or side of the house). Once the roof area is hit, it’s all over. The fire will burn the house from the inside out. And it doesn’t matter if it’s a metal roof…think of all the wood components that metal roof attaches to and the eaves, soffits, etc. Just one spark can start a fire. When the wind is blowing at 60-80 mph gusts, you’re getting millions of sparks. The fires also get into the tree tops (especially of pine) and then balls of fire can also start raining down in clumps onto houses below as well. ICF, poured walls, concrete block….all irrelevant when you have a massive fire coming your way.

BowTiedBroke

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