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.
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
unitedkingdom
world war ii
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...
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
unitedkingdom
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
15th century bc
18th dynasty
2025
ancient egypt
ancient world
arab republic of egypt
archaeology
egyptian kingdom
eighteenth dynasty of egypt
king thutmose ii
new kingdom of egypt
thutmose ii
unitedkingdom
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)...
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...
defense industry
early 21st century
great britain
late 20th century
post-cold war
royal navy
shipbuilding
unitedkingdomunited states
united states navy
war on terror
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
unitedkingdom
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...
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
unitedkingdom
world war i
world war ii
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...
2024
aerospace industry
cold war ii
computer architecture
computing
cpu
defense industry
electronics
interesting times
microprocessors
telecommunications
unitedkingdomunited states
20th century
aircraft history
aviation historian
aviation history
cold war
early 21st century
great britain
history
post-cold war
royal air force
unitedkingdom
world war ii
2024
20th century
british colony of mauritius
british empire
british indian ocean territory
cold war
cold war ii
early 21st century
great britain
indian ocean
naval support facility diego garcia
people's republic of china
post-cold war
republic of mauritius
soviet union
unitedkingdomunited states
united states navy
war on terror
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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