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Important RAF News
Probably the most important RAF news you will read this year - RAF pilots can now take Tunnock's teacakes into their cockpits once again after 60 years. The RAF Centre of Aerospace Medicine has done exhaustive testing on this vital issue. Freezing them before take-off seems to be the answer (or... -
Post 1945 'International Air Force'
I am not a fan of ATL./AH. scenarios but found this article in a 1946 issue of ATC. Gazette proposing a 'World Organisation' 'International Air Force' of interest. Who knows such an idea may have led to a UN. with teeth and negated the need for organisations such as NATO. etc. :)- TsrJoe
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- air training corps alternate history great britain late 1940s post wwii post-world war ii royal air force united kingdom united nations
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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.- Grey Havoc
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- 2025 airports civil aviation cold war ii heathrow airport london heathrow airport north hyde electrical substation fire united kingdom
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- Forum: Aviation & Space
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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/...- Grey Havoc
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- battle of britain battle of france british commonwealth british empire british expeditionary force cold war éire european theater of operations french third republic great britain mediterranean and middle east theatre mediterranean theater (wwii) north atlantic treaty organisation post-world war ii raf fighter command royal air force st. patrick's day the few united kingdom world war ii
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- Forum: Aviation & Space
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Banksy take on Vettriano work sells for £4.3m (BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn7vd63z2zpo- Grey Havoc
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- 2025 artist banksy bbc jack vettriano scotland united kingdom
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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- Grey Havoc
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- cold war ii disaster maritime administration north sea united kingdom united states united states air force united states navy
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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...- Grey Havoc
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- 2020s atla bmt bmt group ltd cold war ii japan japan marine united japan maritime self-defense force japanese maritime self-defense force jmsdf jsdf landing craft united kingdom
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- Forum: Secret Naval Projects
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Ridge Hill Airfield
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy83x20l3nzo- Grey Havoc
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- 2025 airfield civil aviation grass strip landing strip light aviation united kingdom
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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 -
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)... -
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Virgin Galactic and Redwire partner on suborbital research capabilities
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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...- Grey Havoc
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- 2025 heathrow airport london heathrow airport united kingdom
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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... -
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Jaguar kills off its model line, with no clear plan for the future
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Team Pellonia Airborne Laser Self Protection System
https://euro-sd.com/2024/10/major-news/41022/laser-self-protection-system/- Basil
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- defence science and technology laboratory (uk) defensive aids system dircm dstl laser laser-based airborne self-protection system lasers leonardo s.p.a. leonardo uk manpads ministry of defence royal air force team pellonia thales group thales uk united kingdom
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- Forum: Aviation & Space
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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...- uk 75
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- air defence ballistic missile defense british army cold war cold war ii cruise missile interwar period nuclear battlefield raf fighter command raf strike command royal air force royal navy strategic bomber strategic defence sub-strategic nuke tactical nuke uk air defence region united kingdom world war i world war ii
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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... -
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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- Maro.Kyo
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- 2024 cold war ii federal republic of germany north atlantic treaty organisation ukrainian crisis united kingdom
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- Forum: Aviation & Space
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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 -
Sealion 19?
Between 1945 and 1990 the UK's only source of potential foreign invasion was the Soviet Union. Whereas Germany's Sealion plans of 1940 are the subject of numerous books and wargames, there is little or nothing about Soviet plans for Britain in the event of a war. With most of Britain's army...- uk 75
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- cold war english channel great britain north atlantic treaty organisation nuclear battlefield united kingdom warsaw pact world war iii
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- Forum: Alternative History and Future Speculation