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  1. Grey Havoc

    Heathrow disruption (March 2025)

    https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cly24zvvwxlt https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/03/21/heathrow-airport-closed-latest-news-fire-power-outage/ A right old mess, as the saying goes.
  2. Grey Havoc

    Last known Battle of Britain fighter pilot passes away

    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg1z42pkj8o https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2025/0318/1502596-hemingway/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/03/18/john-paddy-hemingway-last-pilot-battle-of-britain-dies-105/...
  3. Grey Havoc

    Banksy take on Vettriano work sells for £4.3m (BBC)

    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn7vd63z2zpo
  4. Grey Havoc

    Foul play not ruled out after US oil tanker crash in North Sea

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/03/10/oil-tanker-cargo-ship-collide-north-sea/ https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cgq1pwjlqq2t
  5. Grey Havoc

    High Speed Landing Craft (JSDF)

    https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2025/02/bmt-and-jmu-awarded-landing-craft-contract-by-japans-atla/ Not sure if this planned new class will be operated by the recently established Japan Self-Defense Forces (JSDF) Maritime Transport Group triservice unit or by the JMSDF. This article from...
  6. Grey Havoc

    Ridge Hill Airfield

    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy83x20l3nzo
  7. Flyaway

    Two Pharaoh’s tombs for the price of one

    You wait 100 years for a Pharaoh's Tomb to arrive and then two turn up at the same time. Last undiscovered tomb of Tutankhamun dynasty found https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5ym30v356po Archaeologists may have found pharaoh's second tomb https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg5elpzy9yo
  8. DWG

    Project CABOT

    See https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2025/02/uk-sets-out-project-cabot-ambition-to-deploy-autonomous-asw-screen-in-the-north-atlantic/ TLDR: Project Cabot proposes as Phase 1 "Atlantic NET" coverage of GIUK gap using a COCONO (contractor owned, contractor operated, naval oversight)...
  9. E

    Virgin Galactic and Redwire partner on suborbital research capabilities

    https://spacenews.com/virgin-galactic-and-redwire-partner-on-suborbital-research-capabilities/
  10. Grey Havoc

    Heathrow's third runway may finally come to fruition

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/01/29/rachel-reeves-heathrow-expansion-ftse-100-markets-latest-uk/ https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy8p579g5g5o https://news.sky.com/story/chancellor-rachel-reeves-announces-backing-for-third-heathrow-runway-13298590...
  11. uk 75

    Parallels between the decline of the USN and the RN

    Watching the decline in size and construction problems encountered by the USN since 1991 I am reminded of the fate of the Royal Navy after WW2. At first sight the US has done rather better. It still has the world's largest force of nuclear strike carriers and its nuclear submarines remain the...
  12. E

    Jaguar kills off its model line, with no clear plan for the future

    https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/mark-phelan/2024/11/09/jaguar-car-brand-models-future-production/75974428007/
  13. B

    Team Pellonia Airborne Laser Self Protection System

    https://euro-sd.com/2024/10/major-news/41022/laser-self-protection-system/
  14. uk 75

    Air Defence of Great Britain

    Ever since the first Zeppelin raids in World War 1 the vulnerability of the civilian population of the UK to attack from the air has been a major factor in shaping our armed forces. The tile "Air Defence of Great Britain" comes from the organisation set up to meet the only air threat imagined in...
  15. M

    ARM cancelling ISA licenses to Qualcomm

    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-10-23/arm-to-cancel-qualcomm-chip-design-license-in-escalation-of-feud Actual nuclear bomb. Probably wouldn't actually happen, since it sounds more like a big bargaining chip, but potentially a huge turning point for the chip industry, and especially...
  16. M

    Trinity House Agreement - new joint UK-Germany arms procurement framework

    https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-germany-trinity-house-agreement-on-defence https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-germany-trinity-house-agreement-on-defence-joint-communique
  17. Hood

    Michael Bowyer

    The British aviation historian Michael J F Bowyer died recently, aged 95. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/sep/30/michael-bowyer-obituary
  18. Flyaway

    UK will give sovereignty of Chagos Islands to Mauritius — NEWS ONLY —

    The UK/US base will remain. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c98ynejg4l5o
  19. E

    UK to finish with coal power after 142 years

    It was a brief run. In other news, people pedaling bicycles attached to generators is being discussed. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y35qz73n8o
  20. P

    UK's Project Brakestop

    Not really sure about this?? https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/britain-to-build-20-large-one-way-attack-drones-per-month/ The Ministry of Defence has revealed plans for a new long-range strike weapon under the codename Project Brakestop, which aims to produce a minimum of 20 units per month...
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