Administrative, History, Technology and Society, War Commentary

Still On The Road

June 22, 2025 Rand Simberg 7 Comments

ISDC is over, and I’m flying to DC in the morning. Driving down to Norfolk from there on Thursday to do a presentation on equatorial LEO at CRASTE. But I’ll have more time to check in this week once I’m ensconced there. I heard something about a bomber raid in Iran.

[Monday-afternoon update]

What next with Iran? Ten questions from VDH.

Administrative, Space

On The Road Again

June 18, 2025 Rand Simberg 17 Comments

I’m heading off to Orlando for the International Space Development Conference. I’ll check in from there.

Technology and Society, War Commentary

I’m No Munitions Expert, But…

June 17, 2025 Rand Simberg 48 Comments

OK, so I understand that if you want to quickly bust a bunker, you need a bunker buster. But what if there's no hurry? Because you completely dominate the skies? Why can't Israel just keep dropping more-conventional bombs, one after another, in each consecutive crater? Wouldn't…
— Not-So-OK Boomer (@Rand_Simberg) June 17, 2025

Business, Economics, History, Space, Technology and Society, War Commentary

El Segundo

June 17, 2025 Rand Simberg 6 Comments

Ignoring the dumb headline, Joel Kotkin has an interesting story on the new tech hub in the South Bay. I helped set up some of the plant visits for it.

History, Media Criticism, Political Commentary, Technology and Society, War Commentary

The Real War Has Finally Begun

June 13, 2025 Rand Simberg 26 Comments

A good analysis of what’s been happening over the past day in Iran.

1. The Israel-Iran war: The first day.
We are now about 15 hours after Israel launched what it labels a *preventive strike* against the Islamic Republic of Iran – targeting its nuclear facilities and ballistic missile sites.

Here’s a short recap of what’s happened – and what…
— נדב איל Nadav Eyal (@Nadav_Eyal) June 13, 2025

It seemed pretty clear that something was going to happen when we evacuated embassies in the region.

[Update early afternoon]

Iran has been waging war on us for over 45 years, while we've been pretending they weren't so we didn't have to do anything about it. We got away with it because they hadn't yet developed the capability to hurt us other than killing our soldiers in the region (it certainly wasn't…
— Not-So-OK Boomer (@Rand_Simberg) June 13, 2025

Iran has been launching retaliatory missile strikes against Tel Aviv, with most of them intercepted. I don’t think I’d want to be on Kharg Island on any day, but definitely not today.