🇷🇴🤝🇧🇬 How do you smuggle perfume & cigarettes over communist borders? With MiG-19s. Sometime in the 1960s, Bulgarian MiG-19PMs flew north over the Danube, in a visit to the Romanian Air Force base of Deveselu, home of the 91st Fighter Aviation Regiment, which also was operating MiG-19PMs.

Swedish navy is trying out firing torpedoes from an unmanned CB90 (Combat Boat 90), to assess its utility in the mission of sinking hostile ships in port/near coast/archipelagic environments. @covertshores.bsky.social there you go. x.com/Swedish_Navy...

**BREAKING** New Mystery Submarine Signals China’s Rapid Undersea Expansion www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2...

Gotta love the timing. Starting day of the StPb economic forum 😆

The Pentagon has appointed a former Citadel cadet and J6 convict to one of the most sensitive top-secret posts in the DoD. He has none of the relevant experience that would make him eligible for the 40-person team. wapo.st/437arYG

We had a similar thing happen in Sweden. The subs from a child channel over a political debate. ”I will build the largest sand castle of the galaxy”

Throwback to when a TV station in Iceland accidentally aired an episode of Teletubbies with subtitles from the Sopranos 👌🏼

Feels like a good addition to this: “The key to deterring Moscow lies not at the top of the escalation ladder, where nuclear weapons are in play, but on its lower rungs, where conventional weapons are what matters.” www.foreignaffairs.com/russia/comin...

Okay, so a lot of people are anxiously wanting me to see the photos of Russian vehicles in dazzle camouflage and desiring my opinion. And as usual I’m only too happy to disappoint. Caveat: I am not an expert. 🧵

It all seems a bit of a pyramid scheme. SpaceX, nifty, ran out of customers to justify the launch cadence.. --> add Starlink, who runs out of paying customers.. --> add grok to put data centres in space...

#OTD in 1942 the GABTU put out a report criticizing the KV-1 and requesting a new 30 ton heavy tank. The KV-13 showed that this was possible, but too many compromises had to be made. A year later, Soviet heavy tanks were back to 45 tons. #tanks #history #WW2 #WWII

Trump might want to delink his war with Iran from Netanyahu's but that doesn't mean he can - and he can't if Iran doesn't want to delink it too.

31 May 1916 // Cruiser HMS Defence, flagship of the 1st Cruiser Squadron, sank with all hands (907 men) during the Battle of Jutland when two salvoes of shells from German battleships caused her magazines to explode. (Imperial War Museum image: Q 75287) #RoyalNavy #WW1 #NavalHistory

1 June 1940 // Destroyer HMS Keith, flagship of Rear-Admiral Wake-Walker, was sunk by intense German air attacks off Dunkirk. 131 of her crew were safely taken off, but 36 lost their lives. The Admiral transferred his flag to MTB.102 (this vessel survives today). #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory

Ett så kallat tjuvtrick. Två avgörande beslut har lett till dagens situation: tillfälliga uppehållstillstånd ska vara regel (2015) samt borttagandet av ”särskilt ömmande skäl” 2023. KD stod bakom 2015 och styrde 2023; S stödde den ändringen.

Men för helllllll.... vilken hycklare hon är.

"En bok som varje journalist borde plugga in inför kommande valrörelse för att kunna ställa relevanta frågor och kräva svar. Och en bok för alla som vill ha fakta istället för svepande åsikter byggda på känslor som alltför ofta levereras från politikerhåll." Ett fint omdöme från @mymlan.bsky.social

Fighting Hamas in Gaza was always going to be a fraught and brutal endeavour. But it is quite clear from this testimony and others that IDF crossed the line into atrocities. www.economist.com/interactive/...

Man kan ha olika bilder av hur det är med Academedias utdelning. Kommunikationschefen säger en sak i Dagens samhälle idag och Dagens samhälles egna journalist säger en annan.

Ansvaret för detta ligger också hos public service. Att välja den "lättare" vägen är ett stort svek mot allmänheten. Public service kan bara överleva genom att skilja sig från kommersiella alternativ. Tyngd, djup, kritisk positionering.

Texas steals some of silicon valley's thunder.. no reason why EU cannot pull something similar off. Except political will of course.. www.economist.com/business/202...

Okay, a PSA, especially to everyone in the business of defending #Europe and #democracy - and to journalists: I thought I knew that the tiniest slip-up may let the bad guys geolocate a picture or a video, but a presentation I saw blew my mind nevertheless. Be VERY careful if #OPSEC is a concern.

My first visit to China was in 1986, and I spent well over a decade of my life there. The wisest and most important thing the government did there was to get out of the way. Even it doesn’t understand that.

www.bbc.com/news/article... "Poland's seaside resort called Hel is getting its 666 bus service back"

Detta liknar ju ett haveri. 10milj för en första installation och 4milj för följande verkar tyda på att man gått fel någonstans. Det finns ingen anledning till att detta ska vara högre än för det gamla ATC-systemet: 2milj resp 500k. jarnvagar.nu/dyr-ombordut...

It's getting ugly again.

The number of double entendres in this piece is seriously impressive.. www.economist.com/business/202...

With so much paper set to hit the markets over the next few months—across both bonds and equities—it's worth keeping an eye on the potential sources of cash available to absorb this supply. In this context, here is an interesting take from the FT's Lex column. #bonds #stocks #investing #investors

Satellite imagery shows Iran has reopened 50 of 69 tunnel entrances at 18 underground missile facilities struck by the U.S. and Israel during recent fighting. Heavy equipment has been observed at multiple sites, indicating active repair operations are underway.

The Israeli Defense Force was officially formed #OTD in 1948. The newly formed nation couldn't be picky regarding its military hardware, resulting in a very heterogeneous armoured force featuring many obsolete WW2 era tanks. #tanks #history

Perun-o-clock: The New U.S. Navy Shipbuilding Plan - Nuclear Battleships, FF(X) & America's Naval Buildup www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXlQ...

This stretch between Crimea and Donbass is very exposed with the back against the water in the face of a Ukraine with substantial midrange strike capability. Hopefully it will turn out to be impossible to hold.

JUST DROPPED: For years I thought industrial electrification potential was limited. How wrong I was. Engineering studies point to 90%+. Long term scenarios support this. Technology is much further ahead than we think. Question is whether policy keeps up. janrosenow.substack.com/p/industry-f...

Bra skrivet och jag hoppas (och tror faktiskt) att man hâller ögonen på sådant. Och man ska naturligtvis även se på de möjligheter man själv har att nyttja det offensivt.

Tänk så mycket enklare klimatomställningen skulle bli om vi bara satte ett enhetligt pris på koldioxidutsläpp (genom skatt eller marknad) och bara undvek punktskatter, stöd och detaljregleringar..

Have you, like me, spent the last 26 years worrying if the Canadian Potato Museum STILL has the display of various potato diseases with potatoes in little coffins? Stop worrying. I checked today. Still there.

I'm guessing underwriters balked or walked?

The Amiot 143 (1934) resulted from a ‘Multiplace de Combat’ specification issued in 1928. It was initially intended to perform multiple tasks including day/night bombing, recon and escort duties. By the time it entered service in 1935, however, the aircraft was viewed exclusively as a bomber. 🧵1/7

And I know you're wondering... yes, this is the nozzle design that gave the J79 that characteristic howl. Video from spencergeorge6469 on YouTube.

J79 Low Base-Drag Nozzle🧵 I see the J79 & B-58 as being made for each other, even though it might not look as so, when considering that the XJ79 first ran on 8 June 1954, and the XB-58 first flew on 11 November 1956. But the J79 was indeed meant to be, since inception, the B-58's engine.

Absolutely amazing, both the nifty solution and that they have made it work again.

Å ena sidan transparens är bra för en fungerande marknad. Å andra sidan finns ingen anledning att ha andra rapporteringsregler för datacenter än andra förbrukare. Det vore den sorts överreglering och byråkrati som dödar europeisk ekonomi.

Egentligen borde EU ta upp lån på 3% av BNI årligen som länderna proportionellt får använda för stöd till Ukraina. Tillsammans med Ukraina gör man upp vilka produkter eller tjänster de olika länderna kan bidra med.

”Amerikanska techjättar hävdar att deras molntjänster är säkert krypterade. Men enligt en intern rapport som cirkulerar bland svenska säkerhetsmyndigheter är det en ”falsk trygghet”.” www.svt.se/nyheter/inri...

MiG-23 aerial victories Short🧵 I'm not someone who pays much attention to counting aerial kills. Firstly because I'm more interested in engineering & flight performance, secondly because counting kills means little without understanding the circumstances under which the kills occurred.

Israel's international isolation is deepening fast. What can stop this slide? RAND's Shira Efron discusses: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/28/opinion/israel-palestinians-boycott-eurovision.html?unlocked_article_code=1.l1A.held.IcEaDdjlCbu2&smid=url-share

Ukraina har vänt många negativa trender och soldaterna vid fronten ser högsta optimismen på tolv månader. En viktig del är vad Ukrainas försvarsminister kallade ”logistisk förnekelse” med Ukrainas mid-strike (20-200km). Dök upp i Aktuellt.

in which @deadcarl.bsky.social reviews THE WAR PEOPLE, and highlights "the particular manifestation of a continuous force in history: the demands of the fighting man for recognition and compensation" worth reading www.deadcarl.com/p/rights-and...

New report on Fast Jet Training Modernisation options and important factors to consider Based on almost two years of research work, including visits to many OCUs, training squadrons and flights in most of the main new trainer options. Download full report free here: www.rusi.org/explore-our-...

Så här ska det inte vara. Klart att det sparas när ekonomin är knapp om det inte ställs några krav (eller vinsten ska vara stor..). Och kraven finns ju i äldre text, man har alltså tagit något fungerande och gjort det sämre. Bara att ta fram de gamla texterna igen. www.vilarare.se/praktisk-est...