cold war ii

Via Slashdot: https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/exclusive-europe-braces-mobile-network-blackouts-sources-2022-09-29/ Things may be even worse than they think, there are a fair few computer systems that rely at least in part on mobile phone networks, not to mention reliance on...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-63084876 This is liable to severely annoy (at best) both London and Wellington.

Some quick background on this, in particular the ICV, via an old post in another thread (note that the info on the Type 16 MCV procurement & deployment may be out of date, there seems to be still some momentum within the MOD/JGSDF on replacing proper tanks on active duty with MCVs according to...

Good Day All - Interesting story/image posted that implies the Ukranians are using naval drones: https://www.navyrecognition.com/index.php/naval-news/naval-news-archive/2022/september/12227-a-mysterious-ukrainian-naval-drone-discovered-off-crimea.html Any ideas on where the design is from...

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/09/23/europe/russia-official-anatoly-gerashchenko-death-intl/index.html In the news for fatally falling down stairs. Other than being Rector of the Moscow Aviation Institute, I can't seem to find anything on who he was or what was his significance. I see his name...

According to information published by Военный Осведомитель on September 19, 2022, new pictures have been released of the Turkish-built Ada (MILGEM) corvette Hetman Ivan Mazepa (F-211) under construction for the Ukrainian Navy at the RMK Marine shipyard in Istanbul. The Ada class is a class of...

https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2022/09/saab-receives-orders-from-sweden-for-submarine-upgrades/ HSwMS Östergötland isn't mentioned in the article, but presumably it will receive the same upgrade as HSwMS Södermanland in due course.

or Smart Upper Stage for Innovative Exploration, The human/cargo transport capsule imagined for Ariane6 ! Presented on IAC2022 in Paris Unclear if European ministers council will approve this proposal.... It land vertical

I bet some thought this project was dead. View: https://twitter.com/andrewparsonson/status/1570328144871137280 Also this from a little while back: View: https://twitter.com/andrewparsonson/status/1551447284071686144

Youtube footage of some of Ukraine's 35 British Spartan carriers in the field

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2208.11215.pdf

First images of an iranian Shahed-136 kamikaze drone/loitering munition in ukraine,tho interestingly now with the russian name Geranium-2,tho whether this is just a local in service renaming of a foreign procured weapons system,or evidence of actual licensed production in russia is unknown at...

They’ll be based in Canada using the 100% Ukrainian Cyclone-4M medium lift launcher. https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2022/09/mls-spaceport-nova-scotia/

Saw a video a while back that caught the missile just before impact. Thought, "that's a Kitchen" but never heard any mention of it. Then this pops up: View: https://twitter.com/lfx160219/status/1535850776782057473 Hadn't heard anybody mention it so I thought I'd post it. (This one blew up...

First Ohio, and now this. Don't they realize that Idaho is known for growing potatoes? :) https://www.thestreet.com/markets/micron-unveils-plans-for-15-billion-chip-manufacturing-plant-in-idaho

ORIGINAL CAPTION: An illustration of a small attack drone (Provided by Defense Ministry) Defense Ministry is asking for attack drones in 2023 budget (The Asahi Shimbun)

https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZQOUA265VN0W2A820C2000000/ In the record breaking 5.6 trillion yen 2023FY budget request, the Japanese MoD has put in a request for a class of 2 new ships to utilize the SPY-7 systems originally planned to be used as AEGIS Ashore systems. The current outline...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/royal-navy-christens-new-experimental-ship-the-xv-patrick-blackett/ar-AA1075di?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=717285f21e704ffb8edc86108381c8a7

Ukraine doesn’t really have a military application for its access to space, could an ASAT weapon based on an old Soviet missile, commercial rocket, air launch, directed energy, or electronic attack be useful in cutting Russian space assets and forcing them into a better position to face...