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❗️According to Reuters, the UK, Norway and the US disrupted secret spring drills near Svalbard, where Russia’s Main Directorate of Deep-Sea Research (GUGI) practised a new technology to disable undersea cables without leaving traces. Allies tracked the submarines and deep-sea vehicles, stopped the exercise before any cables were damaged, and confronted Moscow with the findings. The operation targeted two 1,400 km fibre-optic links to mainland Norway, which run as deep as 2,700 metres and carry data from SvalSat, the world’s largest satellite ground station and part of NASA’s Near Space Network. Norwegian Defence Minister Tore Sandvik said the joint action showed Russia that covert attacks on critical infrastructure would be detected and met with consequences.
Not much improvement to the system from 2023.
Still no resilience built in.
gov.uk/government/speeches/c…
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Anyone who knows anything about me knows this hurts
He was the greatest actor of his generation,making comedy look simple and solid drama even more effortless
He was a rascal and I loved him…
Richard O’ Sullivan
RIP
I’ll just say….sausage rolls…….!
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Times for Stoke:
Depot: 4:40pm
@DenbighCastl : 5pm
The Rocket: 5:20
Junction 7: 5:30
We’ve got loads of seats available, please RT for us 🙏
Something new you learn everyday...
In September 1940 the Luftwaffe bombed the Spitfire factory in Southampton and claimed to have wrecked it. They had every reason to believe they had crippled British fighter production.
What followed instead was that the Spitfire was taken apart and hidden. Production was scattered into garages, laundries, bus depots and sheds across southern England.
Much of the work was done by young women in their teens and twenties.
This is the story of the Secret Spitfires..🧵1/5
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People who are treating @CountBinface like a ‘joke’ candidate should remember that an ice cream shop in Southend (just around the coast from Clacton) has already adopted one of his policies with great success …
Great Story...
There was a Royal Navy captain in WW2 whose real name was Johnnie Walker.
In 1939 the Navy had given up on him. Passed over for promotion, marked down by his own superiors, quietly being pushed toward early retirement. His career was a dead end.
Then the Atlantic turned into a graveyard. German U-boats were sinking Allied ships faster than they could be built, sailors were drowning in the thousands, and Britain was months from being starved into surrender. Suddenly the Navy remembered the one man who had spent years obsessing over exactly how to kill a submarine.
They finally gave him a ship. He became the deadliest U-boat hunter who has ever lived.
He didn't wait for U-boats to attack. He invented tactics to go get them. His "creeping attack" had one ship silently guide another over the target so the submarine crew couldn't hear death coming until the depth charges were already sinking toward them.
When he charged into battle he blasted "A-Hunting We Will Go" over the loudspeakers. He revived "General Chase," an attack signal so old it hadn't been flown since Nelson's day. And when depth charges weren't enough, he simply drove his ship straight over a surfaced U-boat and rammed it under.
His group once sank 6 U-boats in a single patrol. He helped clear the English Channel so the entire D-Day invasion fleet could cross safely. He was decorated four times, one of the most honored officers in the Royal Navy.
And he carried all of it while broken with grief. In 1943 his own son, a young submariner, was killed when his sub was lost in the Mediterranean. Walker got the news and went straight back to sea to keep hunting.
In the end the war didn't kill him. The work did. Years of standing on that bridge in every storm, refusing to rest, burned him out completely. He collapsed from a stroke and died at 48. The doctors called it exhaustion.
They carried his coffin through the streets of Liverpool while a thousand people stood in silence. Then a warship took him out past the harbor and buried him in the same Atlantic he had spent his life defending.
Uncounted thousands of sailors made it home because of him. His statue still stands on the Liverpool waterfront today, facing the sea, watching for submarines that will never come again.
His name was Johnnie Walker. Don't ever forget it.
Great Story...
This is one of the most famous photographs of the Battle of Britain. A Spitfire pilot on the wing of his fighter, with his German Shepherd beside him.
The dog was named Flash.
The pilot was a coal miner's son who had joined the RAF as a clerk, and became one of its finest aces.
They called him Grumpy.
This is the story of George Unwin..🧵1/6
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28 juin 1931. La sprinteuse Betty Robinson est déclarée morte dans un accident d'avion. Sa dépouille est transportée dans le coffre d'une voiture vers la morgue... où un médecin légiste l'entendra respirer. 5 ans plus tard, elle sera championne olympique du 4 X 100
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🚨 WATCH: A paraglider gets hit by a Cessna 172 near the Austrian town of Zell am See.
The paraglider was able to pull her rescue parachute and land safely shortly after the incident on Saturday.
According to police, the 44-year-old Austrian had started from Schmittenhöhe in the direction of Piesendorf. Above the Pinzgauer Hütte, she collided at 1:15 p.m. with the Cessna piloted by a 28-year-old.
The pilot of the Cessna, which flew from the Glemm Valley in the direction of Zell am See, was able to land the aircraft safely at Zell am See Airport.
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Wow, they will need 'G Suits' soon 🤯
345 mph!! WATCH @ShawnLangdon333 throws down the FASTEST pass in NHRA history!
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