Silent Hunter UK

Only 12 aircraft to be ordered

The Aviationist

Tu-22M3M? Bit of a mouthful. Why not Tu-22M4 or something like that?

Global Security

Global Security

Adapted by Robert Holmes, one of the best Doctor Who writers and filmed in the same place as Doc Martin. Very interesting.

Best to ask the SITREP people, I'd say.

Excellent to see this!

British Ministry of Defence say discussions at advanced stage

Nice of them to clean up after themselves.

BBC News

What did these mean?

When/why did NATO go from referring to these by letter (Y-Class) to spelling the name out (Yankee class)? 1967 CIA Report 1986 document

Never stopped the USSR from putting one on the "Typhoons".

The worlds' biggest submarine Still only a design, mind.

The Royal Navy does not come out of it looking very good (I have so far been unable to find the full document).

Wouldn't the ability to engage on the other side of terrain partly be based on the position of the radar tracking you?

Nothing is completely stealthy. However, I strongly suspect, knowing the Israelis have mad skillz in that department, that the S-400 infrastructure would be hacked as part of any operation.

Don't think, once the F-35s are in play, that the Israelis will be overly worried about Syrian SAMs.

Yes and this is true of any place, not just Syria. Intervening terrain or the horizon will affect any radar detection and engagement, something that HCE unfortunately tends to gloss over. Although ANW and Command don't, I believe?

Could an AEGIS ship?

He needs a distraction constantly from his own deranged train-wreck of an administration, the investigation into his possible collusion with V.V Putin and the fact the Congressional GOP are slowly losing patience with him. The DPRK didn't make him make those remarks about 'fire and fury'. Why would Kim follow through on a nuclear first strike? He isn't suicidal; Korea doesn't have that sort of culture, IIRC.

Korea is frankly going to be the least of Trump's legacy problems. He's engaging in the classic practice of sabre-rattling to distract from other failings.

Well, there's not conceding and then there's making belligerent threats on social media, which the President of the United States or any world leader worth taking seriously should not do. The sooner Trump is gone, the better frankly.

That and Donald Trump has stopped tweeting about the place. (When I was typing that, I mistyped "stopped" as "stropped"... Freud in the house?)