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Tom Cooper
Personal blog · xxtomcooperxx.substack.compoliticshistory
Tom Cooper writes Sarcastosaurus, a personal blog at xxtomcooperxx.substack.com about politics and history. Since 2023, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for posts on military aviation and air-defence claims, such as 'the AWACS scare', cited as evidence in a missile defence thread. Other comments discuss air incursions without linking it.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Personal Substack by Tom Cooper (from Austria; we've got no Kangaroos... except in a few zoos). Any misuse of the content by the mainstream media - no matter if in the USA, Italy, Germany, Austria on Mars or elsewhere - is strictly prohibited. wit
What Hacker News says?
>This was also confirmed by several independent international aviation experts not only the IAF. The S-400 achieved a record-setting engagement by shooting down a Saab 2000 AWACS aircraft from a range of greater than 300 km. Not a single credible source has reported this. >The only propaganda on this subject is sadly coming from yourself. Look, there are a plenty of actual photos of the IAF losses in this conflict.…
Comment linking /p/ukraine-war-29-june-2023
on “Germany votes to bring in voluntary military service programme for 18-year-olds”Submitted The F-35 as a Subscription Service as a story · 114 points
HN discussionThe Turkish incident is more complex: > On 15 October 2015, the Deputy Commander of the Russian Air-Space Force (VKS) visited Turkey to meet his Turkish counterparts. They’ve agreed that Russia would give at least twelve hours’ advance notice of any flight that would take VKS aircraft close to the Turkish-Syrian border. A hotline was also set up for the Turks to use to warn the Russian military if their aircraft cam…
Comment linking /p/the-russian-sloppiness
on “NATO Ended Russia's Estonian Air Incursions”Submitted Navigating with Starlink-Signals in GPS-Denied Environments as a story · 1 points
HN discussionLiterally a bunch, https://edition.cnn.com/2026/03/05/middleeast/radar-bases-us... https://xxtomcooperxx.substack.com/p/the-awacs-scare
Comment linking /p/the-awacs-scare
on “Missile Defense Is NP-Complete”Submitted Supply Chain at War and Critical Materials as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Saints, Thunders and Lightenings, Part 1 as a story · 1 points
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