F35 JETS PRICE INCREASE
One of the most sophisticated warplanes ever made is the F-35. Modern international security relies heavily on the fighter jets produced by Lockheed Martin Corporation (NYSE:LMT). Not only can the stealth combat aircraft carry out successful strike missions, but it also has intelligence, reconnaissance, and surveillance capabilities. The F-35 is Continue Reading
George “Johnny” Johnson, Last Surviving Dambuster Dies Aged 101
George Leonard “Johnny” Johnson, the last surviving original member of RAF 617 Squadron’s famous “Dambusters” raid of 1943, died peacefully at his care home in Westbury on Trym, Bristol, on Wednesday night surrounded by his family. On his 101st birthday, Mr Johnson received an MBE from the Queen for services Continue Reading
Sisters are Doing It For Themselves – The Greenham Common Peace Camp
The Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp was a series of protest camps established to protest nuclear weapons being placed at RAF Greenham Common in Berkshire, England. The camp began in September 1981 after a Welsh group, Women for Life on Earth, arrived at Greenham to protest against the decision of the British government to Continue Reading
Typhoons Hit Sound Barrier to intercept private plane
A sonic boom has been heard over London and Cambridge after two RAF jets were scrambled to intercept a private plane. The aircraft was travelling from Germany and had lost communication with air traffic controllers. It was diverted to Stansted Airport by the Typhoon jets, which took off from RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire. Several people Continue Reading
HMS Anson – 5th Gen Navy Submarine
Fifth hunter-killer submarine named Anson Anson, the Royal Navy’s latest Astute Class attack submarine, has officially been named in a virtual ceremony at BAE Systems’ Barrow-in-Furness shipyard today. Anson is the fifth Astute-class submarine being built by BAE systems. Astute Class submarines are the largest, most advanced and most powerful Continue Reading
Tutte and Flowers – Bletchley Park’s Lost Heroes
It all started with the German Lorenz machine – Hitler’s state of the art encrpyting communications machine – Enigma had been broken in 1941, but this time his new machine was almost un-decypherable The Lorenz SZ40, SZ42a and SZ42b were German rotor stream cipher machines used by the German Army Continue Reading
Sisters Are Doing it For Themselves : The Greenham Common Peace Protest
Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp was a series of protest camps established to protest nuclear weapons being placed at RAF Greenham Common in Berkshire, England. The camp began in September 1981 after a Welsh group, Women for Life on Earth, arrived at Greenham to protest against the decision of the Continue Reading
UK Government response to Syrian Security
Urgent Question Syria: Security Situation 24 February 2020 Volume 672 – Hansard 3.32 pm Mr Tobias Ellwood (Bournemouth East) (Con) (Urgent Question): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on the security situation in Syria. The Minister for the Continue Reading