2025

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/

Worth saying again that you’ll still see Smiths at all the big train stations, in the hospitals, at the airport, it’s not vanishing completely and it’s not going online only. It’s just shedding its high street arm. 85% of its profits come from the travel arm, the high street bit has been a drag...

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

It sounds like a plane crash. There's more angles on this out there. View: https://youtube.com/watch?v=y0pYU1qNEQE Another angle. View: https://youtu.be/khY6XQNhuuI?si=rbjDUUA-0uiPruz7

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn7vd63z2zpo

https://eurospace.org/7026-2/

Les Echoes seem to have run a feature 'Airbus breaks the secret and announces the arrival of a new civilian helicopter', and then took it down again. https://www.lesechos.fr/industrie-services/air-defense/airbus-brise-le-secret-et-annonce-larrivee-dun-nouvel-helicoptere-civil-2153111 There was...

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce8v6len093o

Greetings from Dallas as here for Verticon 2025 (formerly Heli Expo for several decades) organised by the Vertical Aviation International (formerly Helicopter Association International) so privileged to be invited by Robinson Helicopter to see their revolutionary new R88. As a first it carries...

https://apnews.com/video/north-korea-unveils-nuclear-powered-submarine-for-the-first-time-f57346519d2b41a7af523627fe3d0da4

To summarise the article. This would decimate multiple existing science missions still productively producing data. It could mean killing missions that cost billions of dollars to make. It could be mean the death of missions in development. It would destroy the crown jewel of NASA, something...