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https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/large-parts-spain-portugal-hit-by-power-outage-2025-04-28/ Pretty massive outages. Regards,

April 26th 2025, a massive explosion occurred at the Shahid Rajaee Port near Bandar Abbas, by far Iran's largest sea port. In 2020's Beirut explosion, said to be a large stockpile of Ammonium Nitrate, there was initially a gray smoke cloud and then an explosion containing a dark red smoke. In...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/21/delta-plane-fire-orlando Regards,

https://www.defensenews.com/space/2025/04/21/boeing-looks-to-existing-production-lines-for-golden-dome-pitch/

And so their revenge begins. Unsecured penguin caused helicopter crash in South Africa https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn5xx036p4vo

https://abcnews.go.com/US/helicopter-crashes-hudson-river-new-york-city/story?id=120691975#:~:text=All%20six%20people%20on%20board,according%20to%20law%20enforcement%20sources. Regards,

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/modernizing-defense-acquisitions-and-spurring-innovation-in-the-defense-industrial-base/

https://www.workboat.com/trump-signs-executive-order-to-revitalize-us-shipbuilding-industry

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/faa-replaces-leadership-in-d-c-area-air-traffic-control-after-fight/ar-AA1CxZLR https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tim-arel-faa-air-traffic-chief-retires-faa-replacing-dca-managers/ Looks pretty messy............... Regards,

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/07/gm-corvette-ev-concept-car.html

From what it says at the end of this article it sounds like a completely pointless exercise. https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/04/de-extinction-company-announces-that-the-dire-wolf-is-back/

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...

3月28日14时20分，缅甸发生7.9级地震。确切的伤亡率仍不清楚，救援队正在行动。不过，根据实际情况，缅甸地震可能在7.9级以上，震地动山的强震区绵延500多公里。

https://www.defensenews.com/global/europe/2025/04/02/france-calls-for-new-eu-ammo-plan-speeding-up-satellite-constellation/

https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/politics/defense-security/20250330-246049/

The Italian Navy is currently performing its main excercise the "Mare Aperto 25" (Open Sea 25), in this occasion the Italian Navy is displaying the full landing attack capability with the joint deployment of the LPD Trieste and the all "Santi Class" LPD ships (San Giorgio, San Marco and San Giusto).

Via Slashdot: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/31/china_disguised_tech_companies_taiwan/

https://www.iiss.org/research-paper/2025/03/a-european-reassurance-force-for-ukraine--options-and-challenges/

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.

They give this up I cannot see the US ever getting it back. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/trump-admin-considers-giving-nato-command-exclusively-american-eisenho-rcna196503