
Steve
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"It was the highest ever on record last year, and the year before... we're still talking one phone stolen in London every seven minutes" Lawrence Newport, founder of Crush Crime, on the scale of phone theft in the UK. #Newsnight







Concorde Bomber for real. And no, it´s not @RAF_Luton "In the early 1960s, and during the peak of the Cold War, the RAF discussed the slightly insane idea to convert a Concorde into a nuclear missile carrier. The idea focused on using the aircraft's sustained Mach 2 speeds to effectively outrun contemporary interceptors, while also banking on its ability to be modified to carry a reasonable amount of payload, on the inside and outside of the airframe. This idea also came about after the TSR-2 bomber project was cancelled, and the British V-bombers kept getting picked up on Soviet radars and locked onto by ground forces. The suggestion was ultimately abandoned due to the strategic prioritization of the UK’s nuclear submarine fleet and the simple reality that Concorde’s massive radar signature would have made it far too easy to detect". (Note also the small canards, not present in the civilian version) 📷 Credit: Secret Projects Forum ℹ️ Concorde Legacy (FB)





















