Dimitris Dranidis
@dimitrisd.bsky.social
Director of Professional Development at Matrix Pro Sims. Creator of "Command: Modern Operations" and "Command Professional Edition".
https://command.matrixgames.com/
https://command.matrixgames.com/
C: MO - Testing if Helicopters are good Anti-SAM weapons
YouTube video by P Gatcomb
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December 5, 2025 at 4:40 PM
"The sea is unforgiving. Concepts that ignore that simple truth usually don’t survive their first storm."
Hybrid Navies and the Uncrewed Temptation: Are We Ready for Fleets Without Sailors? - By Vice Adm (Ret) George Floros, HN: www.linkedin.com/pulse/hybrid...
Hybrid Navies and the Uncrewed Temptation: Are We Ready for Fleets Without Sailors? - By Vice Adm (Ret) George Floros, HN: www.linkedin.com/pulse/hybrid...
Hybrid Navies and the Uncrewed Temptation: Are We Ready for Fleets Without Sailors?
It’s everywhere in the news: the world’s major navies are marching toward the “Hybrid Navy” concept — a mix of crewed ships supported (or augmented) by uncrewed surface and subsurface platforms. The n...
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December 2, 2025 at 12:31 PM
"The sea is unforgiving. Concepts that ignore that simple truth usually don’t survive their first storm."
Hybrid Navies and the Uncrewed Temptation: Are We Ready for Fleets Without Sailors? - By Vice Adm (Ret) George Floros, HN: www.linkedin.com/pulse/hybrid...
Hybrid Navies and the Uncrewed Temptation: Are We Ready for Fleets Without Sailors? - By Vice Adm (Ret) George Floros, HN: www.linkedin.com/pulse/hybrid...
C: MO - Using the F-35 and F-15EX For an ambush
YouTube video by P Gatcomb
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November 27, 2025 at 8:34 PM
C: MO - Understanding Aircraft Operations
YouTube video by P Gatcomb
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November 24, 2025 at 9:36 PM
An excellent example of the impact of GNSS disruption: www.forbes.com/sites/davidh...
Already a feature in #CMO since v1.08: command.matrixgames.com?p=5825
And explicit GNSS jamming (discrete platforms & jam/spoof-emitters) coming in v1.09.
Already a feature in #CMO since v1.08: command.matrixgames.com?p=5825
And explicit GNSS jamming (discrete platforms & jam/spoof-emitters) coming in v1.09.
How ‘Spoofing’ Is Diverting Russian Missiles Into Empty Fields
Ukraine's Night Watch unit is spoofing the navigation systems of Russian hypersonic Kinzhal missiles and decoying them away from targets.
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November 21, 2025 at 6:19 AM
An excellent example of the impact of GNSS disruption: www.forbes.com/sites/davidh...
Already a feature in #CMO since v1.08: command.matrixgames.com?p=5825
And explicit GNSS jamming (discrete platforms & jam/spoof-emitters) coming in v1.09.
Already a feature in #CMO since v1.08: command.matrixgames.com?p=5825
And explicit GNSS jamming (discrete platforms & jam/spoof-emitters) coming in v1.09.
We're again at I/ITSEC this year! Find us at stand 1635 and see for yourself how #CommandPE and FPC-PE transform your analysis, training, simulation, and PME capabilities.
Book a meeting: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Book a meeting: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
November 20, 2025 at 6:10 AM
We're again at I/ITSEC this year! Find us at stand 1635 and see for yourself how #CommandPE and FPC-PE transform your analysis, training, simulation, and PME capabilities.
Book a meeting: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Book a meeting: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
C: MO - Manual Time on Target Calculation
YouTube video by P Gatcomb
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November 16, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Join us on the MPS YT channel next Wednesday 12 November at 4PM GMT / 11 AM EST for our free #CommandPE Livestream : www.youtube.com/@MatrixProSims
November 10, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Join us on the MPS YT channel next Wednesday 12 November at 4PM GMT / 11 AM EST for our free #CommandPE Livestream : www.youtube.com/@MatrixProSims
@tonystark.bsky.social Someone's been reading Ex Supra: www.twz.com/space/arc-or...
Arc Orbital Supply Capsule Aims To Put Military Supplies Anywhere On Earth Within An Hour
Deorbiting small cargo-laden spacecraft on demand to troops in need is the vision of Inversion Space and its Arc spacecraft. The U.S. military has a longstanding interest in concepts for transporting ...
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November 7, 2025 at 5:41 PM
@tonystark.bsky.social Someone's been reading Ex Supra: www.twz.com/space/arc-or...
C: MO - Understanding Chaff, Flares and other countermeasures
YouTube video by P Gatcomb
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November 5, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Modeling the Adversary — Seeing the World Through Someone Else’s Eyes: www.linkedin.com/pulse/modeli...
Modeling the Adversary — Seeing the World Through Someone Else’s Eyes
We spend endless hours trying to understand the adversary. We collect data, intercept signals, run simulations, and hope to predict what they’ll do next.
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November 2, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Modeling the Adversary — Seeing the World Through Someone Else’s Eyes: www.linkedin.com/pulse/modeli...
C: MO - 'Over the shoulder' shots with missiles and torpedoes
YouTube video by P Gatcomb
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October 28, 2025 at 3:44 PM
C: MO - Ship Screening Distance
YouTube video by P Gatcomb
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October 21, 2025 at 2:27 PM
C: MO - Setting up a Carrier Battlegroup and Combat Air Patrol
YouTube video by P Gatcomb
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October 16, 2025 at 4:48 PM
C: MO - How to calculate Torpedo Performance
YouTube video by P Gatcomb
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October 13, 2025 at 5:11 AM
C: MO - SAM Placement and Tactics
YouTube video by P Gatcomb
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October 9, 2025 at 11:44 AM
"Perhaps that is why some institutions resist wargaming altogether. Not because they doubt its value, but because they dread the mirror it holds up."
A Taste of Armageddon in Modern Diplomacy: www.linkedin.com/pulse/taste-...
A Taste of Armageddon in Modern Diplomacy: www.linkedin.com/pulse/taste-...
A Taste of Armageddon in Modern Diplomacy
Those of us in Generation X may remember a certain episode of Star Trek: The Original Series — “A Taste of Armageddon.” Two civilizations waged war entirely through computer simulations.
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October 6, 2025 at 8:29 PM
"Perhaps that is why some institutions resist wargaming altogether. Not because they doubt its value, but because they dread the mirror it holds up."
A Taste of Armageddon in Modern Diplomacy: www.linkedin.com/pulse/taste-...
A Taste of Armageddon in Modern Diplomacy: www.linkedin.com/pulse/taste-...
C: MO - R-27 Missile Overview and Tactics
YouTube video by P Gatcomb
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September 30, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Reposted by Dimitris Dranidis
v1 of the Command "Radar Detection Grid."
From bottom to top:
F-22, J-20B, SU-57, S-70, Orlan UAV, Drone, Shahed-129, GJ-11, J-35A, F-35A and...
Can you guess the Top Row?
Radar Platforms used: E-7, E-3 and A-50U. cc @dimitrisd.bsky.social
From bottom to top:
F-22, J-20B, SU-57, S-70, Orlan UAV, Drone, Shahed-129, GJ-11, J-35A, F-35A and...
Can you guess the Top Row?
Radar Platforms used: E-7, E-3 and A-50U. cc @dimitrisd.bsky.social
September 26, 2025 at 4:51 PM
v1 of the Command "Radar Detection Grid."
From bottom to top:
F-22, J-20B, SU-57, S-70, Orlan UAV, Drone, Shahed-129, GJ-11, J-35A, F-35A and...
Can you guess the Top Row?
Radar Platforms used: E-7, E-3 and A-50U. cc @dimitrisd.bsky.social
From bottom to top:
F-22, J-20B, SU-57, S-70, Orlan UAV, Drone, Shahed-129, GJ-11, J-35A, F-35A and...
Can you guess the Top Row?
Radar Platforms used: E-7, E-3 and A-50U. cc @dimitrisd.bsky.social
Reposted by Dimitris Dranidis
"Foxhound Inbound", a military grade simulation of the incursions of 3x Russian MIG-31 into Estonian Airspace on September 19th, 2025.
We also analyze IF they could have been shot down, given the "robust" Doctrine in place now.
youtu.be/pdwjtz_fAA8
We also analyze IF they could have been shot down, given the "robust" Doctrine in place now.
youtu.be/pdwjtz_fAA8
"Foxhound Inbound", a military grade simulation of 3x Russian MIG-31 into Estonia Sep. 19th, 2025.
YouTube video by OSINT-cschmitz
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September 24, 2025 at 7:16 PM
"Foxhound Inbound", a military grade simulation of the incursions of 3x Russian MIG-31 into Estonian Airspace on September 19th, 2025.
We also analyze IF they could have been shot down, given the "robust" Doctrine in place now.
youtu.be/pdwjtz_fAA8
We also analyze IF they could have been shot down, given the "robust" Doctrine in place now.
youtu.be/pdwjtz_fAA8
#CMO - Bunker-busting munitions: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcBm...
C: MO - Bunker Busting Bombs
YouTube video by P Gatcomb
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September 23, 2025 at 9:45 PM
#CMO - Bunker-busting munitions: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcBm...
"Good digital wargaming doesn’t eliminate uncertainty - it models it."
"[Digital games] don’t remove the human from the loop. They remove the human from the paperwork."
Wired for War (#Not): A Light-Hearted Defence of Digital Wargaming - by VAdm (ret.) G. Floros: www.halldale.com/defence/wire...
"[Digital games] don’t remove the human from the loop. They remove the human from the paperwork."
Wired for War (#Not): A Light-Hearted Defence of Digital Wargaming - by VAdm (ret.) G. Floros: www.halldale.com/defence/wire...
Wired for War (#Not): A Light-Hearted Defence of Digital Wargaming
Manual and digital wargaming are complementary approaches that together enhance training, realism, and decision-making for participants.
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September 20, 2025 at 7:17 AM
"Good digital wargaming doesn’t eliminate uncertainty - it models it."
"[Digital games] don’t remove the human from the loop. They remove the human from the paperwork."
Wired for War (#Not): A Light-Hearted Defence of Digital Wargaming - by VAdm (ret.) G. Floros: www.halldale.com/defence/wire...
"[Digital games] don’t remove the human from the loop. They remove the human from the paperwork."
Wired for War (#Not): A Light-Hearted Defence of Digital Wargaming - by VAdm (ret.) G. Floros: www.halldale.com/defence/wire...
September 17, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Reposted by Dimitris Dranidis
