Kevin Phipps

Die NATO will mehreren übereinstimmenden Medienberichten zufolge ihre Flotte von AWACS-Flugzeugen des Typs E-3A in Zukunft durch Syteme des Typs GlobalEye von Saab ersetzen. hartpunkt.de/nato-will-glob…

NATO selects Swedish Saab GlobalEye to replace 14 E-3 AWACS planes in historic shift from the U.S.

Thank you to all who made this year's Integrated Air and Missile Defence Conference a resounding success. If you weren't able to attend or want to revisit some of the insights shared during the conference you can now watch the first session 'Confronting the Evolving Missile Threat in Europe'. Speakers: Major General Anders Jernberg, Chief of the Norwegian Defence Logistics Organisation @Jack_Watling, Senior Research Fellow, RUSI @Sam_Cranny, RUSI Associate Fellow Chair: Air Cdre Paul O’Neill, Senior Associate Fellow, RUSI Watch the first session: bit.ly/4sPN14n

Delighted to launch #StandEasy, Ireland’s new #defence & #security #podcast. Episode 1 drops Friday morning — links coming soon.

Officially, it can be said that the FIRST of the 18 FA-50M Fighting Eagles have completed production, per recent published photographs of the PTU with RMAF FA-50M.. Welcome to the Royal Malaysian Air Force, M58-01

@Mupper41 We're a decidedly UNserious defence outfit.

2 years from order to delivery.... We're in what?, year 5 of deciding if we'd like to get anything... defensenews.com/global/europe/…

@NiallJournal_ie @roy_kinsella What town 😨😨😨😨

This is what remains of Bint Jbeil in South Lebanon. The town is about five kilometres by road from the Irish camp UNP 2-45 near At Tiri. A lot of Irish people have been in the town, myself included. Very hard to see this as anything other than ethnic cleansing.

Israel has destroyed the last bridge linking southern Lebanon to the rest of the country. via @reuters

Ukrainian Air Force F-16 Spotted Leaving an airport in Belgium instagram.com/_belgian_spott…

Polska załoga wykonała pierwszy lot AH-64D Apache @MON_GOV_PL @SztabGenWP @DGeneralneRSZ zbiam.pl/pierwszy-samod…

14.04.2026🇵🇱FA-50PL z🇺🇸pociskami AIM-120 #AMRAAM 🇰🇷Producent potwierdza: „Współpraca z rządem🇺🇸USA ws. integracji AIM-120 z FA-50 przebiega bardzo pomyślnie" "#KAI przygotowuje się do szybkiej integracji zgodnie z decyzją🇵🇱rządu" @Maciej_Szopa @Defence24pl defence24.pl/przemysl/produ…

@TomClonan 20/20 tom 🤣🤣

@kevpipps Eagle eyed Kevin!!! I’m v impressed 😂😂🫡🫡

Ha! Got Snapped In City Centre On Commute! #BikeSafe #YamahaSR400 #MidLifeCrisis (?) 😂

@CllrPioSmith Indeed

Imagine what a similar report would say about Irish politicians

Ireland is one of Europe’s richest countries, yet struggles to translate that into sufficient infrastructure & services. This excellent article makes a strong case that the issue isn’t resources - it’s how effectively they’re turned into real outcomes.

The protests in Ireland are not about just fuel! They are about the distance between Ireland on this graph and every other modern and developed economy. Ireland is second wealthiest but gets waaaaay less than any other country for that wealth. By a golden mile. That visual gap in this graph? That’s what people are protesting. It’s a lack of infrastructure and the everyday enshittification of services, the economy, and the additional difficulty of trying to live, relative to peers in any other country. It also highlights why people don’t get uniformly listened to! - because there is no government architecture to engage meaningfully across this huge gap. That gap is a three hour drive to work in traffic, a 14 month wait for an MRI, buses that don’t arrive, trains that don’t exist, schools that have no places for your kids, houses that are unaffordable, pubs that close before midnight, €12 sandwiches, expensive fuel. People feel this gap, even if they can’t explain it precisely. And that builds into resentment, and ultimately protest. Fuel just happened to be the next thing that could be pointed to, today.

The enshittification of Ireland and the hollowing out of our institutions is the single largest threat to Irish civil society and prosperity. In this damning piece, I'm going into more detail about the graph I posted yesterday: why it's happening in Ireland, why the way we're thinking about the protests is entirely wrong, and what this means for our collective governance. Link to the article is below!

🏆 Rory McIlroy just won the Masters… AGAIN He’s always credited strength training as a turning point for his career The power, stability & longevity keeping him on top 💪⛳ Fixed his posture, added distance, protected his back — strength training built his body to last!

Preview of the Portuguese AF 🇵🇹 Academy's forthcoming @tecnam P-Mentor fleet livery, should it follow the same scheme as its predecessor, the @dehavillandAIR Chipmunk Illustration: Eduardo Cruz

Speaking of which do our PC-12"Spectres" do their actual spectre-ing job..?