Opinion: Europe should partner with Ukraine to develop two very-low cost Patriot alternatives. 2 because contingency is smart and best case they complement each other. Europe to include Switzerland and UK Switzerland and Denmark particularly Avoid stupid requirements arguments and politics

There are also some areas for routine local Northern Fleet activity and what possibly could be test activity in the White Sea. Both SLBM and ICBM to Kura with overlapping time-frames might indicate a coordinated event, but there might also be alternative explanations.

It looks busy, but: Those for SS-N-23 from the Barents to Kura have been issued again, for the 15th to 20th. Those from the Barents into Chiza have also been reissued for next week. New today indicating Yars from Plesetsk to Kura, 14th to 20th.

So, look, I'm not even going to try and explain this. @thelookout.bsky.social please help!

Sanctioned vessels OCEAN II (9233777), KLEVER (9411331) and ELYTE (9345623), presumably were all on the menu for Irish Air Corps C295 MSA (#284) patrol today.

On 12 May Il-76MD-90A(E) CANDID (with air-to-air refueling capability) RA-78650 took off from Moscow (ZIA) and was last tracked flying towards Novaya Zemlya with a possible destination of Rogachevo Airbase. Coincidentally (or not) Il-114 RA-54116 also appears to be en route to Rogachevo.

RF Navy Deployed Days in 2026 (as of 10 May) = 4,217 - ships/subs deployed (on 10 May): 30 - daily average of ships/subs deployed (1 January-10 May): 32 - daily number of ships/subs deployed (1 January-10 May): lowest = 27 / highest = 37

Swedish Air Force SAAB 340 SVF665 👀

My interactive declassified satellite image gallery now contains over 800 entries from all over the world. spacefromspace.com/declassified... Some recent additions include the Lop Nur Nuclear Test Site in China and Tiksi, Russia.

An epic webcam capture of the sun skirting the horizon at Utqiaġvik, Alaska, this morning. @alaskawx.bsky.social

fair play to Martin, using RIP dot ie the way the lord intended #speirgorm

Interestingly, I think Irish Air Corps C295 MSA (#284) took a look at VENGERY (IMO: 9451642) today. @galwaybaywatch.bsky.social @vesselspotter.bsky.social

Excellent @armscontrolwonk.bsky.social podcast on the current state of the war… podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

Complete with gps jamming jitters.

This 1952 memo from the Pentagon UFO files is superb There is no point preparing for aliens ‘because no one of consequence is going to take this rubbish seriously unless it happens. At that point, our policy will be determined in the traditional manner of grand panic.’ 🤣 www.war.gov/medialink/uf...

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HMCG Beech King Air taking a look at Iranian flagged NORA (IMO: 9259408)

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...PM-82 conducted a southbound transit of the Great Belt during the 18:00 local hour today

An Irish Army team has won gold in the Sullivan Cup, an international competition run by the US Calvary Corps. They won the Bradley competition which is quite impressive given most of the participants probably never saw a Bradley until last month

Absolutely comical stuff here - apparently a H145M cannot lift "groups of soldiers". Someone needs to explain that to the German's I guess. The H145M is not a replacement for the existing AW139s. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...

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So is this a glitch, or is someone replaying Stargazer's (IMO: 9190212) previous journey data back into VesselFinder?

Ok so no it wasn’t a mistranslation it’s real and it’s happening www.turkiyetoday.com/nation/turki...

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Norwegian AF P-8 & RAF RC-135 Rivet Joint both active off west coast of Norway.

Ireland has signed the Artemis Accords, becoming the 66th country to do (and the last of the 23 ESA member states). I was invited to the ceremony at NASA HQ but couldn't make it. Even so, I'm proud that Ireland has joined this group of nations in pursuit of the peaceful exploration of space!

[2/3] According to Kommersant newspaper, Yaroslavl Shipyard has found funds to pay BaltSpetsFlot to raise Balk-class oceangoing tug Kapitan Ushakov, which capsized at Baltic Shipyard (St. Petersburg) on 8-9 August 2025

Note the "destination" field for DSS GALATEA

Director General of Roskosmos' Krasmash plant, the manufacturer of the Sarmat ICBM and Block DM space tug, arrested in corruption probe. DETAILS: russianspaceweb.com/sarmat.html#...

Perhaps DSS Galatea is on shadowing duty for PM-82.

A while since a "Lago di" vessel transited the Irish sea: Lago di Ledro & Lago di Como made *slightly* odd stops off Dublin when coming from Russian ports in previous months. Lago di Cancano (IMO: 9659787) is currently transiting north from Algeria to Murmansk. None of the vessels are sanctioned.

Russian Navy Repair Ship PM-82, RBDF, sent a weather report on 6324 kHz CW 04MAY2026 at 1233 UTC to Russian Navy Baltic Fleet HQ in Kaliningrad, RMP RBDF at position 54.1N 04.6E heading South West at 11-15 knots RMP answered on 3745.5 // 6362 // 8737 kHz goo.gl/maps/6fgxs4V...

NASA just dropped more than 12,000 photos from the Artemis II mission. It'll take me a few days to go through them all, but so far it's one stunner after another. Link: eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos... Credit: NASA/Artemis II Crew (h/t @jonostrower.com)

Russian Navy Repair Ship PM-82, RBDF, sent a weather report on 6324 kHz CW 03MAY2026 at 1807 UTC to Russian Navy Baltic Fleet HQ in Kaliningrad, RMP RBDF at position 56.7N 07.3E heading South West at 11-15 knots RMP answered on 3745.5 // 6362 // 8737 kHz goo.gl/maps/VQNmkef...

He just wanted a beer

I wonder if this guy (Il-76? SKIP?) has been sitting still on the southern apron at Rogachevo since the fun ended last year.

Russian Navy Maritime Patrol Aircraft Morse net active 12 UTC. Ground Control on 4651 and 6752 kilohertz CW. Aircraft callsign NGEA sending radiograms on 6552 kilohertz CW. Aircraft Morse recording. vocaroo.com/1eg6CLvLc1mP

I know it's unlikely and incredibly niche, but god I would love to hear this iteration of InfoWars back on shortwave 😂

tbh I think the years he spent promoting the "birther" idea that Obama wasn't the legitimate president of the US, was about as overt as it gets.