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40 years ago today: a collision occurred between USS Georgia (SSBN-729) & harbor tug USS Secota (YTM-415). The entire incident caught on video, which every submariner since has watched as part of lessons learned training, the unfortunate comment about the mail becoming infamous. Georgia had just completed a personnel transfer approximately 3nm south of Midway when USS Secota lost power. The powerless 100-foot tug became entangled with the boomer's stern plane while the boat's screw was still turning, causing the tug to quickly flood & sink. While ten crewmen were rescued, two tragically lost their lives. USS Georgia suffered only minor damage to its stern plane & returned to port for repairs.

Harrison Ford has done press interviews for 50 years and almost never looks like he’s enjoying himself. Then a British TV host who hadn’t even seen his film made him laugh harder than anyone ever has on camera. In 2017, Ford and Ryan Gosling sat down on ITV’s This Morning to promote Blade Runner 2049. Interviewer Alison Hammond opened with a straight face: “Bleak. Dystopian. An absolute nightmare to be honest with you.” Both actors braced. Then she added, “that’s just my interviewing techniques.” Ford cracked. Gosling broke completely. Within a minute, Gosling had opened a miniature bottle of whisky and poured himself a glass. Hammond then admitted she’d never seen the original Blade Runner. She asked Gosling if he’d brought his knitting needles to set. He looked down at his sweater and said, “Yeah, this is what I did on set. I knitted this.” Ford tried to give a serious answer about the film. Hammond poured herself a drink. Ford grabbed Gosling’s glass and took a sip. The whole thing lasted four minutes. Almost none of it was about the film. Hammond left thinking she was going to be sacked. The clip passed 19 million views on YouTube. Ford walked up to her afterward and said she’d made his day. When they did a follow-up Zoom days later, he didn’t recognise her. He later requested her by name for his next press tour.

You are at the beach in the UAE and see a Shahed-136 flying overhead, and later a UAEAF F-16 firing a Sidewinder to shoot down the drone. That’s how crazy the war in the Gulf region is nowadays.

The Tokyo Maritime Self-Defense Force Band's "Space Battleship Yamato" performance is epic! 🎶 Their passionate rendition of the iconic anime theme is truly captivating. ✨

B-1B Bombers coming from Operation Epic Fury divert to Germany due to bad weather in the UK this morning. Callsign: MOLT 11 x 3 B-1Bs diverted to Ramstein Air Base due to fog at RAF Fairford. 1 B-1B declared an emergency and advised ATC they had hung ordnance.

When the US glide bomb struck the IRIS Shahid Sayyad Shirazi near Qeshm Island on March 4, the impact triggered an involuntary event that nobody in the coverage has fully examined: the stricken corvette spontaneously launched one of its own anti-ship missiles. The weapon fired itself. Not as a last act of defiance from a crew executing a terminal order. The structural damage from the strike activated the launch sequence without human input. That detail is the most technically significant event in the naval dimension of this war. The Shahid Sayyad Shirazi is the third vessel of the Soleimani-class, the IRGC Navy’s most advanced surface combatant. Pennant FS313-03. Commissioned February 2024. The class was Iran’s answer to the problem of contested littoral warfare in the Persian Gulf and Strait of Hormuz: a wave-piercing catamaran hull approximately 65 to 68 meters in length, composite construction designed to reduce radar cross-section, four indigenous diesel engines producing confirmed speeds of 32 knots with promotional claims reaching 45, and an armament package that makes every other ship in its weight class irrelevant by comparison. Six anti-ship cruise missiles of the Noor, Ghadir, or Nasir class on deck launchers. A vertical launch system carrying between six and sixteen Sayad surface-to-air missiles plus additional cells for Abu-Mahdi long-range cruise missiles. Six 20-millimeter Gatling guns. A helipad for a medium combat helicopter. Capacity to deploy three fast-attack boats simultaneously. On a 600-tonne displacement hull. Iran built this ship specifically for the Hormuz chokepoint. The catamaran design provides speed and stability in the confined, shallow waters of the Gulf that a conventional monohull cannot match. The composite hull reduces the radar signature that adversaries need to acquire targeting solutions. The VLS integration gives a vessel of this size a defensive envelope against air attack that most navies reserve for ships four times the displacement. The speed and fast-boat deployment capacity fit exactly into the IRGC Navy’s doctrine of saturation from multiple simultaneous vectors. A US aircraft dropped a single glide bomb. The ship caught fire. It spontaneously launched a missile. CENTCOM confirmed the strike. Multiple cameras captured the burning hull offshore Qeshm Island with smoke rising through the Strait of Hormuz. The spontaneous missile launch is the detail that defines the engagement. A VLS or deck-launched anti-ship missile under normal conditions requires crew input, targeting data, and deliberate firing authorization. When a strike disrupts the electrical and structural integrity of the vessel sufficiently to trigger an unintended launch, the weapon system designed to protect the ship becomes a hazard launched into the Strait of Hormuz at whatever bearing the launcher happened to be pointing. Every tanker, patrol boat, or allied vessel within the weapon’s acquisition envelope during those seconds faced a missile fired by a ship that no longer had a crew in control of it. No second-order casualties were reported from the spontaneous launch. The missile either failed to acquire a target, impacted water, or flew a trajectory that missed occupied vessels. The outcome was fortunate. The mechanism was not controllable. Iran commissioned this ship fourteen months ago. It was designed to be their most dangerous surface unit in the world’s most contested waterway. It fired its own weapon at the waterway it was built to control before going down. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

Holy fuck! First combat use of the ADCAP!!!!!

Marco Rubio realizing he’s the new Supreme Leader of Iran.

This immortal film was shot here in the Philippines (in fact Dick Israel played a rapist here.) A fun topic to explore would be the history of foreigners making films here in the PH because we've had that since we've had cinema.

"Can we get rid of this ayatollah T-shirt? Khomeini died years ago." "But, Marge, it works on any ayatollah-- Ayatollah Nakhbadeh, Ayatollah Zahedi. As we speak, Ayatollah Razmara and his cadre of fanatics are consolidating their power." "I don't care who's consolidating their power."

This is an absolutely phenomenal piece of James Bond media. Sean Connery (on the set of GOLDFINGER) explaining the real life inspiration for changing 007s firearm of choice. You don’t get behind the scenes videos like this anymore.

United Airlines flight narrowly avoids disaster during landing at Orlando International Airport (MCO) after nose wheel appears to detach from landing gear

Beautiful lighting on this Airbus A320 of Philippines AirAsia wearing the PUREGOLD special livery.

he was genuinely over there slapping his knees and shit

Armée de l'air et de l'espace in Manila. A400 F-RBAW from Evreux via Quebec, SFO, HNL and Guam. Meanwhile C-130H 382-4589 has been stranded here since December after another aircraft struck its tail while parked at the ramp.

BREAKING: First photo released of SEAL Team 6 Operators that took part in the US liberation of Caracus (Colombia) in Operation Tangerine Boom Boom. Left to Right Maj Crash, Lt Col Orangu-Tann, Capt Slow Photographed from a Canberra

RP-C8933 is Philippine Airlines' latest narrowbody addition to the fleet. Delivered in 2013 to VietJetAir, said aircraft arrived in the Philippines on December 2025 and is the first A320SL to wear the sunriser livery on the sharklets like those seen on the A321 and A321neo fleet.

British Airways A380 Super Jumber G-XLEK is in Manila for maintenance at the Lufthansa Technik Philippines.

See Miracles In Life Everyday. This Christmas, don’t forget to smile.

@CaptBob_Nomadic Am probably the first user from the Philippines! Good luck on Kittyhawk, Bob. And see you there!

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