History, Politics And Current Affairs

Please do not presume a deal with the French will be easy, fixed or in any way low maintenance. There is a reason the UK has repeatedly walked away from the French and it's not some prevailed francophic prejudice. This is why we're seeing Germany struggle with just such a relationship with France. D...

To be fair France has a lot to offer.
ArianeGroup's MBT missile with a potential 3,000km range for example.

There's a Hell in MI.....


What an I saying?

Of course there's Hell in MI

Usually we'd use that phrase after discussing something viewed as unlikely bordering on impossible. Like America threatening to take Greenland by force. Or that significant political figures be linked to a pedophile. "Oh yeah, that'll be when pigs fly" Only now......... So I guess we shoul...

Ok this is getting interesting. UK efforts seem to focus on industrial integration between UK and naval partner states. Something that seems to be happening with the Norwegian Type 26. In other words a much deeper relationship than just the ship. And is that a quid-pro-quo that happened over A26 to ...

NG is talking of triple packing CAMM-ER into Sylver silos.

If true it could be a game changer.

There was some indication that the Nordwestblock showed similarities with Aquitanian. But that's believed to be much later and an influence on West Germanic to Inguaevonic (North Sea Germanic). But this is quite interesting in adding to the number of pre-indo-european languages. Of which only Basque...

Ryan has gone into the saturation of ABM defence over on Secret Projects.

Revealing stuff with serious implications UK and French RV numbers.

Back in that 60's paper, it suggests just 135 Minuteman would be enough for 20 cities. I assume this was with single large Megaton warheads? I'll re-read it tonight. UK Granite Zones might just accommodate 120 silos so at 5km separation. But at China style 3km separation a maximum squeezing in might...

How many warheads be needed to destroy sufficient stuff/people in Russia or China to collapse their state? Currently both sides, US and Russia have active operational numbers of about 1,500 by Treaty. Is this enough? Back in the early 60's, when a alternative submission was made for Minuteman missil...

Interesting view on the Heathen concept of the afterlife. https://ingwine.org/the-hall-of-the-dead-in-early-germanic-and-anglo-saxon-thought/?fbclid=Iwb21leAPi0t1jbGNrA-LR22V4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHiiCf94eFTOn_27rrC8exIq0vuqS2DBmVJXtnFFgKaQ_m4TGn2XIE7Ygkd3V_aem_cpXzHRpfPpiC...

Ahh the good old Two Party State and it's partial Civil Service. Betraying the nation once again! When the LibDem is actually talking sense....isn't that one of signs of the end of the world? Well at least this time we're swapping the US for China. Land of mobile euthanasia and cremation vans, that ...

Well Happy New Year folks.

Yesterday even I celebrated the end of the first day with a good whisky.

"You must think in Received Pronunciation." So "Fiah reah missail" ;) Side note: I had an teacher in English for a couple of years (lovely lady) who was from Edinburgh. She’d insist that she spoke ”the Queen’s English”, which seemingly to her meant that she just didn’t use any S...

Poohbah wrote: ↑Sun Dec 14, 2025 3:26 pm

Nathan45 wrote: ↑Sat Dec 13, 2025 2:55 pm

Craiglxviii wrote: ↑Sat Dec 13, 2025 8:44 am Concorde?

That’s FIREFOX!!!

But this time the telepathic commands are in the Queens English rather then Russian....

"You must think in Received Pronunciation."

So "Fiah reah missail"

I would have thought CAMM not CAMM-ER as then there is compatibility with Visby class upgrade. The French may....I must stress may....be playing with fire here. CAMM and it's technologies is primarily under UK control and MBDA is part owned by BAE Systems who in turn is in it's UK side still with UK...

O.3 scale Olympus 593?
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So 9,390lb dry thrust?

So 18,780lb dry to power a 57,000lb aircraft?

And for good measure tje Thegns of Mercia have a well researched piece on Yuletide generally

https://www.thegns.org/blog/yule?fbclid ... ydjQQZ61yA

A nice exploration of the origin in Heathen Yuletide. https://ingwine.org/no-the-anglo-saxons-didnt-celebrate-yuletide-in-late-january/?fbclid=IwdGRjcAOo361jbGNrA6jfLGV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHt2P38fk0NoX5rCFz2tDpEWL_pUuxBjLgC2eQFl86aBCd1_29JFO8bL0yltL_aem_uzOUXoO6uX84sxFvKL...

Smells of strategic partnership and actual arguments for and against systems be more the window dressing than the substance. France can offer assistance with nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles. Swedens uranium supply and potential restart of nuclear weapons program is the obvious big issue no on...