The third FDI frigate for the Hellenic Navy, HS Formion (F603), started her first sea trials on June 22nd setting sail from the Lorient shipyard. According to Naval Group, the FDI HN program is progressing smoothly and 2026 marks several miletones 🇬🇷 www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2...

This reminds me of an ADB short story about the Black Templars (Imperial Fists successors who have a crusading Teutonic knight thing going on) and the Celestial Lions (Imperial Fists successors who have an African thing going on) where it’s cool to see the aspects of Dorn reflected differently.

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💥 Border guards in the south hit a boat, a car, a ground robotic complex and five enemy communication antennas.

❗️🇷🇺Russian channels claim that 🇺🇦Ukraine used 🇺🇸American AGM-188 Rusty Dagger missiles against the 🇷🇺Voronezh plant — new long-range high-precision cruise missiles that were specially developed for the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

this article is obviously meant to be an anti-brexit call to arms, but the author has accidentally stumbled on the fact issues are much deeper than Brexit and the EU

🇪🇺🇮🇹 Meloni on EU-Russia negotiator: It would be very difficult to propose a person coming from one of the large European countries. I think that would make reaching an agreement more difficult, so I would look instead toward the medium-sized powers of the European Union.

This is pretty astonishing stuff - I think we forget how many cold cases are eventually solved due to technology advances and just good solid hard work by police. www.lbc.co.uk/article/mult...

🇺🇦👀 In Kyiv, people dragged a double bed into the metro during nighttime shelling

We had the conversation. Your side lost.

For the record, Lauren Edwards MP has not consulted any disabled-led organisation, all of whom oppose this Bill, but has spent considerable time closeted with the secretive multimillionaire lobbyists behind this suicide bill. Her priorities are obvious.

watching prominent journalists try and boost Restore because they support the burnham faction is something to behold

somewhat bonkers Intelligence services found a Chinese tracker in the PM's car back in 2022 and we're still going ahead giving them that giant new embassy

[Opinion] If you only provide aid to Ukraine to get reimbursed by the European Peace Facility, then your aid should be credited to the EU as a whole.

probably something about being more actively involved in UA

See this is exactly why I'm a Burnham-sceptic. Same ideological vacuum as Starmer, mildly more charismatic than Starmer, but significantly more willing to give in to stupid ideas to appease his party.

A lot of this is downstream of the massive information space coup the Russians pulled off in 2015 to justify the War in Donbas and their intervention in Syria by boosting all the skeptic/crank anti-establishment types with bylines in RT or other "independent newsrooms"

What has changed is that Putin has also started drinking the ideological sewage.

that thing looks ten years out of date

Rest in peace JB.

The U.S. military campaign against Iran revealed a problem: troops needed better drones to practice shooting down. The Army spent $68M to fix that, ordering next-gen aerial targets for air defense training. defence-blog.com/u-s-army-buy...

Hugely sad. We've lost John Blanche. It's hard to know where to begin. He set fire to a generation's imagination, and those fires show no sign of stopping burning. His work very much illuminated the darkness.

Bring back Bazball

🔥 The road to occupied Horlivka is blocked, a truck was attacked.

Ukrainian drones hit a Russian patrol boat while moving near occupied Crimea - one of seven targets in a single operation near Yurkine. Also struck: Pantsir-S1 air defense, radio navigation system, locomotive, transformer stations, fuel storage. One sortie. Seven targets.

Some real “Evacuate? In our moment of triumph?” nonsense

Politics as a Hearts of Iron mod.

"I don't think you have, mate"

another very normal anecdote, and one that naturally never got mentioned until now

Very sorry to see that Sir Alex Younger has died of cancer, aged just 62. Younger's wife 'was shocked that he had never told his mother he was a spy, and so he did. “Yes, darling, so was I,” his mother replied.' www.thetimes.com/uk/obituarie...

The most influential artist you’ve never heard of died a few days ago. John Blanche was hired by Games Workshop in the late 1970s to illustrate the first British version of Dungeons & Dragons, then Warhammer and Warhammer 40k…

“But how did the zombie apocalypse start, daddy?”

Remember when two tier keir wanted a piece of fiction shown in schools to combat real world issues, but now there is a real world incident he's against politicizing stuff funny old world

Irish neutrality latest

Is it too much to hope that while in Moscow Andrew Tate gets pressganged into the Russian army?

Henry Nowak’s parents call for ‘common sense’ to be brought back to policing after their son was arrested moments before dying

❗️BMP-1/2 vehicles equipped with the 🇪🇸Spanish remote weapon station Guardian 30 armed with a 30 mm automatic cannon have been spotted in combat units of the 🇺🇦Ukrainian Armed Forces (AFU).​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Mark Levin, who is close to President Trump and has a friendship with Prime Minister Netanyahu confirms the accuracy of Axios’s reporting.

🇺🇦✈️ F-16 shot down Russian Kh-101 missile!

Read 'em and weep

I continue to not know what my problem is.

Russia built Shahed to hit Ukraine. Ukraine just built the answer. Behemoth: 300 km range, 75 kg payload, 200 km/h, Starlink comms, tandem warhead. FPV or autonomous. Ukraine didn't just study the threat. It replicated the logic and upgraded it.

ed miliband put ukrainian blood on our hands

"At the Dalian Shipyard in northern China, construction is underway on China’s fourth aircraft carrier. Speculation about the vessel, known as the Type 004, is widespread, but many details pertaining to its size, propulsion, and capabilities remain unclear." features.csis.org/hiddenreach/...

The U.S. Army is adding real-time casualty tracking to its battlefield command system. Soldiers' medical status and supply needs will now appear on the same screen commanders use to run the fight. defence-blog.com/u-s-army-add...

🇺🇦 Ukrainian ground drone almost completely destroyed a huge building with Russians in Kostyantynivka using 300 kg of explosives.

After the Ursa Major sank off Spain’s coast last Dec, a Russian spy vessel parked over the wreck for 5 days before more underwater blasts were detected, CNN reports. Investigators believe Russia was trying to destroy evidence of its cargo: 2 submarine nuclear reactors bound for North Korea.

Congratulations to the Benn family, as Viscount Stansgate returns to the Lords on a life peerage!

Atun-Shei just looks ill throughout his lastest video the tangents about how everyone is guilty for climate change therefore having kids is evil probably doesn't help the look

Yes, I've just been told that Andy Burnham is at Chiswick roundabout.