My Facebook feed seems to suggest it didn’t take Mr Amorim long to get a new job…

Quite. Those of us Europeans who remember the Buccaneer, Jaguar and Tornado (latter still going in Italy & Germany of course) can't comprehend why he thinks this is 'low'... www.youtube.com/watch?v=lteL... - approx 2:15-2:35 refers ("I said below their radar, Bloggs - not their sonar!")

"Well, they tell me mail in means aliens can vote too easily, and I saw what they did, you know, to that astronaut, John Hurt, I think his name was, so going somewhere aliens can't steal elections protects our great space force men and women much more than Sleepy Joe did... <extemporises bafflingly>

It's like the ghost of Sir Hugh Trenchard has entered the room... (before shaking his head sadly and leaving)

Blaming international treaties from which you (or the side you support) have withdrawn and claiming that they mean that proper force protection planning is not possible takes coping to interesting levels. A very helpful thread from Frank Kuhn explains thus:

Approaches to Offensive Counter Air, 2025. RAF (top) Ukraine (below)...

Recently-declared National Security Threats to the United States of America #1 & #2:

I have a feeling that NBC Sports may have written & posted this in about the 87th minute of the match, somehow...

Hello all, I will be more active here moving forward. Cross-posting my newest research on Russian military reconstitution. carnegieendowment.org/research/202...

Can't see that working as the new Top Gear presenting line up, to be frank...

In the same spirit as this excellent post - a collection of (alleged) comments on Confidential Reports for officers of the armed services. A couple have multiple variations and some have almost certainly gained a little gilding over time, but...

I must be doing something wrong, but this site seems far harder to use than you-know-where. I get posts from 39 minutes ago halfway down my feed; posts from 3 days ago at the top, and an array of replies to posts to which I can't find the originals for. It's not exactly welcoming...

🌌🔭How dependent are we on space? In a new article for FASI, @nuclearbalm.bsky.social defends the importance of space systems and explores the need for better communication around our critical dependence on space. Read here🔽 www.kcl.ac.uk/space-depend...

On the basis that this may be of interest to some followers - in my not-so-secret life as one of the Directors of the Freeman Air & Space Institute at King's, here's a piece of research from Julia Muravska on European air and missile defence. ow.ly/upJO50Q1wYF

<Blinks rapidly> Well this all seems awfully civilised (for now...)