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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...

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy83x20l3nzo

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

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)...

https://spacenews.com/virgin-galactic-and-redwire-partner-on-suborbital-research-capabilities/

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...

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...

A Marx toy TSR2 lookalike on sale on Ebay UK...

https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/mark-phelan/2024/11/09/jaguar-car-brand-models-future-production/75974428007/

https://euro-sd.com/2024/10/major-news/41022/laser-self-protection-system/

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...

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...

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

The British aviation historian Michael J F Bowyer died recently, aged 95. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/sep/30/michael-bowyer-obituary

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...

The UK/US base will remain. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c98ynejg4l5o

It was a brief run. In other news, people pedaling bicycles attached to generators is being discussed. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y35qz73n8o

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...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/09/27/boris-johnson-diary-covid-vaccine-invade-netherlands/

https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADP010844.pdf Note that the mention of 'battleships' in the paper is likely a reference to the Arsenal Ship concept which was in vogue at the time. Incidentally, this paper was part of a larger NATO sponsored report called the Concepts de systemes pour la...