Sean Spoonts

About the author

Sean Spoonts is a former Navy Anti-submarine Warfare Operator and Search and Rescue Aircrewman in SH-2f LAMPS II Sea Sprite. Graduate of Naval Aircrewman Candidate School Pensacola, AW "A" School NATTC Millington, HS-1 SAR School NAS Jacksonville, FASOTRAGRUDET SERE NAS Brunswick. Duty with HSL-30, NAS Norfolk and HSL-36, NAF Mayport.
Air Force Sends A-10s to Guam in Dynamic Force Deployment

Air Force Sends A-10s to Guam in Dynamic Force Deployment

The U.S. Air Force has deployed a squadron of A-10s to Andersen Air Force Base, Guam during a routine Dynamic Force Employment Operation. These A-10s are from the 23rd Expeditionary Wing at Moody Air Force Base in Georgia. Dynamic Force Employment is a strategy of introducing unpredictability into the deployment of US forces oversea for […]

There Is No Easy Way To Counter Iranian Drones Striking Ukraine

There Is No Easy Way To Counter Iranian Drones Striking Ukraine

Despite the very limited damage, these Iranian-built drones are capable of inflicting, Ukraine will have a very hard time effectively countering them in the near future for various reasons, not the least of which is the cost of Counter UAS systems.

SITREP: China Coup, Navy Nixed 5 Cruisers, New Air Defenses for Ukraine

SITREP: China Coup, Navy Nixed 5 Cruisers, New Air Defenses for Ukraine

We think rumors of a coup in China are nonsense, the navy has decommissioned 5 of our most powerful warships in the face of a growing naval threat from China and Ukraine has received a long-awaited boost to its air defenses that may have just given Russian air forces a black eye.

The Alleged ‘Leak’ of a Rand Report is an Obvious Fake. Here’s why.

The Alleged ‘Leak’ of a Rand Report is an Obvious Fake. Here’s why.

A bogus Rand Report is going around claiming the US planned the entire Ukraine war prior to January 2022 to destroy both Russia and the economy of Europe. We detail why faked report done in a cartoonishly amateur way doesn’t really matter to people it is trying to convince.