https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/23/belarus-diverts-ryanair-plane-to-arrest-blogger-says-opposition
TLDR: Belarus ordered a Ryanair flight from Athens to Lithunia to land because of an alleged bomb threat. The real reason was to arrest a Belarussian dissident on board. There's going...
The Royal Marines appear to have become early adopters of the Daedalus flight pack.
View: https://mobile.twitter.com/AdmTonyRadakin/status/1388551547076894723
I'm pretty sure we had a topic on this already, but it has gone MIA.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/saudi-crown-princes-vision-for-neom-a-desert-city-state-tests-his-builders-11619870401
A story on it from 2019 (the project was first unveiled in 2017)...
According to Wikipedia there was an attempt to revive the project in the late 2000s (from 2006 onwards, and possibly into the early 2010s) in co-operation with the Russians. Initially at least this version of the plan included an air launch element. It appears to have been at this time when the...
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/coffee-trade-reeling-virus-faces-180243966.html
Oh joy. That's all we need right now, a global outbreak of Coffee Zombies on top of everything else. Fortunately, us tea drinkers tend to keep more of a stiff upper lip (and our sanity).
Hal and DRDO (/ADO) are developing a "5th generation" fighter. Takes off where the Naval Tejas failed.
See https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2021/03/indias-new-aircraft-carrier-vikrant-may-get-5th-generation-fighter/
Unofficial artist's impression but based directly on DRDO materials...
The Armidale-class should never have been built in the first place IMO. The Fremantle-class patrol boats should have been replaced by a Offshore Patrol Vessel (OPV) as was appreciated by the RAN - period!
Regards
Pioneer...
I`ve bumped into some interesting article and I wanna share it with you and hear your thoughts about that project. The world`s first space hotel is slated to open in 2027 . Orbital Assembly Corporation, the group behind Voyager Station, has announced plans to begin building the hotel in low...
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjxaJgxXavc
Note that this video was made before the current Covid-19 related model making renaissance had really gotten underway.
1970s
1980s
21stcentury
canada
cold war
france
search & rescue satellite aided tracking system
soviet union
space system for the search of distressed vessels
united states
Surprised that this wasn't being discussed or have its own thread but it regards militarization, icebreaker projects, living in cold conditions, transporting fuel, possibly another area of conflict later. Examples of starting off thread to get the general idea...
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