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Preparing for Power-Grid Challenges In The Summer of 2025

Posted on 24 March 2025 by The Tactical Hermit

Preparing for Power-Grid Challenges In The Summer of 2025   Bracing for Blackouts As the summer of 2025 approaches, the stability of the U.S. power grid remains a pressing concern. With extreme weather forecasts, an aging infrastructure, increased cyberattack threats, and politically motivated sabotage, the risk of blackouts and brownouts is at an all-time high….

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NERC sounds alarm over winter gas supplies

Posted on 23 September 2024 by The Tactical Hermit

NERC sounds alarm over winter gas supplies, potential grid impacts   Almost two years after Winter Storm Elliott forced the largest recorded manual load shed in the history of the Eastern interconnection, the North American Electric Reliability Corp. said Friday it “remains concerned about maintaining sufficient natural gas supplies to address extreme winter conditions.” NERC’s…

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Another Attack on Power Grid Infrastructure in NC

Posted on 12 June 2024 by The Tactical Hermit

Gunfire attack on Duke Energy equipment causes Durham County fire, power outage near Raleigh   NC has been an active state for both power grid sabotage and Chechen’s getting shot at SF Officer’s homes on May 3rd (Same day as the attack on Fort Knox). See in that what you will, but there are no…

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What a Grid Crisis Could Look Like

Posted on 30 May 2024 by The Tactical Hermit

What A Grid Crisis In The U.S. Looks Like   We don’t need a dramatic movie to give us a sense of what things would look like if we had a grid crash.  Facebook is showing us in real time. As of this post, Power Outage reports almost 14% of electricity customers in Dallas are without power…

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Ghost Fleet

Posted on 6 May 20248 May 2024 by The Tactical Hermit

Military unveils New Underwater Technology   For those of you out there who have not yet read P.W. Singer’s 2015 WW3 novel Ghost Fleet, I highly recommend it. The rapid development of drone tech just in the last decade is both amazing and scary: Navy Releases Videos From Mysterious Drone Swarms Around Warships Off California Russia’s…

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Comms are Down, You got a Plan B?

Posted on 23 February 2024 by The Tactical Hermit

AT&T outage caused by software update, company says   We are all one “glitch” away from getting knocked back into the Stone Age. It could be a so-called software update, a trojan horse malware hack or an EMP attack. Regardless of the cause the real question is this: Do you have a PACE plan for…

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The Evolution of the The QuadCopter in Modern Warfare

Posted on 3 January 2023 by The Tactical Hermit

The Evolution of the QuadCopter in Modern Warfare   The pinnacle of this tactic is a Chinese-made DJI Mavic quadcopter – easy to procure, easy to fly/ navigate, it became absolutely indispensable for ISR, target spotting, artillery correction and combat missions like “kamikaze attacks”, dropping small bombs and grenades.    

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Texas News: Mysterious GPS Disruptions Spread In Texas Near Fort Hood

Posted on 19 October 2022 by The Tactical Hermit

Mysterious GPS Disruptions Spread In Texas Near Fort Hood   GPS interference is being reported around the Dallas-Fort Worth Metropolitan Area airports, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. The first reports of signal degradation occurred about 24 hours ago. “Significant GPS interference being reported by pilots in the Dallas area. Aircraft being rerouted onto non-RNAV…

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Land Navigation

Posted on 22 July 2022 by The Tactical Hermit

Green Beret Tips on Land Navigation   Drill Time. We just got an EMP dumped on our heads so your precious cell phone and GPS are nothing but expensive paperweights. All is not lost however, because you DO have a compass and a good set of maps including a Randall Road Atlas (remember those?) Time…

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The Coming Blackouts. DO NOT say you were not Warned.

Posted on 22 June 2022 by The Tactical Hermit

H/T WRSA The Coming Blackouts. DO NOT say you were not Warned.   As we discussed last week, this won’t just impact California and Texas. A minimum of 14 states will be hit by this in a rolling sequence. As water levels fall, you eventually reach the point where your ability to produce hydroelectric electricity from…

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