Ian Black

“Will the contract for the next phase of the project be signed before the Defence Investment Plan is published?” Keir Starmer didn’t answer. GCAP is running out of money. The contract for the next phase of the project months delayed and our trilateral partners in Italy and Japan losing patience, the delay to the uncosted Defence Investment Plan is continuing to hold back our progress in rearming to meet current and emerging threats on every front.

During the 1960s, FAA and USAF conducted sonic boom structural response tests at White Sands Missile Range as part of the Supersonic Transport Project. F-104D Starfighters made repeated low supersonic passes over instrumented buildings, towers, and mock homes. Technicians operated sensors, inspected damage, and clapped near equipment for calibration. Vets checked chick embryos post-boom for effects. One thing discovered was that high overpressures caused mostly extension of existing plaster cracks rather than new structural failures.👀

You literally cannot make this up. The Prime Minister's Chief of Staff had his phone "stolen" with all his messages to Lord Mandelson, and conveniently there is ZERO backup. They are treating the public like absolute fools.