Buds nowiser

@mattfle02898557 @NavyLookout @AeralisJet This thing wasn't going anywhere funding or not. It's a bloody trainer just buy off shelf.

@NavyLookout @AeralisJet this is a terrible shame, the RAF is in dire need of a replacement, especially for the red arrows and this would be have been ideal and home grown. Another huge fumble from the government.

.@AeralisJet which developed a British fast jet trainer solution, has gone into administration - partly a casualty of the delays to the Defence Investment Plan, combined with 'geopolitical factors affecting funding' See also navylookout.com/pioneering-a-s…

@UKForcesTracker Pretty much every F35B delivered needs the TR3 block 4 update and I highly doubt the MOD will pay what will be eye watering sums to retrofit the fleet. For most of the aircraft I suspect this will be as good as it gets.

UK to buy Raytheon GBU-53 StormBreaker 'Small-Diameter Bomb' glide bombs from the US to provide an interim standoff strike capability for F-35. Integration of Spear-3 and Stratus cruise missiles not expected until after 2030. (Src: theaviationist.com)

@blagden_david @RFAHeadquarters Well at least one positive from this is that it will still be available instead of razor blades if it was needed. But yeah absolute joke that successive govs have been allowed to destroy the RFA.

Yes, you’re reading that right. An ex-@RFAHeadquarters tanker - still in good working order - will still be resupplying NATO navies…but on an outsourced contractor basis, after successive British govts made such a mess of RFA manning. 1/2

@theiaincameron Ohh that looks fun think I'd want my axe tho

If you know anyone who’s heading to Glen Coe this weekend to climb Bidean nam Bian, advise them to avoid the headwall at the top of the Lost Valley (Coire Gabhail), unless they fancy clawing their way up the snow like these two intrepid guys a couple of days ago.

@petite_michelle Because the system is dead just like in America. No consequences.

And how is that possible he is not under investigation?

@ListerLawrence Doubt there are a great deal of people interested in that sort of thing anymore sadly.

My classic Fiat 500 Vignale Gamine ends in less than 24 hours. I paid £17,546 from Historics in 2022 for this car and it’s currently only bid upto £3500!! Is this the state of the classic car market these days?! 😩 carandclassic.com/auctions/1971-…

@RAeSTimR @DefenceEye_news Even just flying the fucking aircraft pretending something was happening would be better than this. You can't fuck up an existing airframe that badly that it can't fly, surely??

Moving "at pace" - if the pace is that of an asthmatic ant with heavy shopping, climbing a glacier. First Wedgetail AEW&C not flown since November(!) and delivery to RAF this year looks set to slip. @DefenceEye_news #avgeek #defence defenceeye.co.uk/2026/05/14/wed…

@thinkdefence This is all so easy and sensible so of course it'll a war to do it😑

Inspired by that earlier post about the Romanian tractor manufacturer turning one into a high capacity UGV. A JCB Fastrac AI mashup Start with a forward control version, remove the cab, paint it green

@FredWoodard19 @UKDefJournal @DefenceGeek @geoallison They're not fit for anything but peacetime.

@UKDefJournal @DefenceGeek @geoallison 24 aircraft is fine for peacetime

UK sent a carrier to sea with 24 F-35s but spare parts for only 12 as Public Accounts chair calls it "entirely unacceptable incompetence". | @geoallison for @ukdefjournal ukdefencejournal.org.uk/uk-sent-carrie…

I think labour just shot itself in the face.

@thinkdefence I'm actually warming to badenoch fuck my life

Am I the only one rooting for Starmer 😀

@thinkdefence These jets on the carriers are next to useless and the sooner they face up to that the better, the whole program has failed.

All a bit depressing

@ianvisits If you think he'll do anything different think again.

It could be possible.

@CalumRaasay Did you climb the devil's ladder?

Just got home from our round trip of Ireland. 18 days with our 11 month old baby and dog. Here’s our route. What a trip! 😮‍💨

@joshsimonsmp You absolute idiot.

For decades, Westminster has overseen the managed decline of towns like mine. We have talked big, then acted small, stuck in a politics of incrementalism that cannot meet the moment. We have lost the trust of those our party was built to serve. It is my unwavering belief that nothing short of urgent, radical, courageous reform will make a difference. That must start with a change in leadership. Today, I am putting the people I represent and the country I love first and will be resigning as MP for Makerfield. I am standing aside so that Andy Burnham can return to his home, fight to re-enter Parliament, and if elected, drive the change our country is crying out for. This has not been an easy decision. This is my family’s home, where only a few weeks ago, doctors and nurses at Wigan Infirmary saved our newborn son’s life. But we all must make choices and in recent days I found myself with a difficult one: defend the status quo or step forward and act. I have made my choice. I am in politics because politics is how you change lives for the better. My party has one last chance to do that: deliver for the people and places I represent, drive economic growth, secure our borders, reform our state and politics, and change a status quo that is not working. That is the fight. I believe Andy is the one to lead it.

The more I listen to her the more impressed with her I become, whether she'd actually be any good is another question.

@Gabriel64869839 Sounds like they'll bin off the archers when this comes into service because of course they will.

Mobile Fires Platform contract is finally announced. Confirmation of the bare minimum figure of 72 guns, widely expected. 19 RA, 1 RHA and 4 RA are the regiments due to receive it. A fourth regiment would be needed to at least field 1 per Brigade. gov.uk/government/new…

@UKForcesTracker NSM should be a priority for what's left of the active fleet

Not much Strike for a Carrier Strike Group... Of course there are reasons, but only offensive weapons here are torpedos, Sea Venom, and guns. ukforcestracker.substack.com/p/uk-carrier-s…

@BjorkBrodern @ToAllAndSundry 😂😂 probably my skill level tbf

@Inventingfanneh @ToAllAndSundry Duplo is a Lego brand for toddlers lol.

That's a lot of high quality plastic parts really cheap. Lego has to be manufactured to perfect standard with tolerances at 0,002 mm. Then they have to be sorted, counted, packaged etc according to instructions. The set includes 8278 pieces, so that means it costs 12 cent per piece, excluding the cost for packaging and royalties to the Embracer Group who owns the merchandising rights via Middle-earth Enterprises. I don't think you could buy a plastic part to that standard at that price from any company on earth other than Lego.