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Zelenskyy Says Ukraine Sent 2 North Korean Prisoners of War to South Korea
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Ukraine has sent two North Korean prisoners of war to South Korea, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday, following months of consultations between Kyiv and Seoul after the soldiers were captured in Russia’s Kursk region in 2025. South Korea’s Foreign Ministry did not directly confirm Zelenskyy’s comments but said it…
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Dual UK-Iranian National Arrested Over Security Incident at US-Run Air Base in England
LONDON (AP) — Police on Thursday arrested a dual U.K.-Iranian national on suspicion of plotting a terror attack following a security incident at a U.S.-run military air base in England that British authorities have linked to Tehran. The 27-year-old man was arrested in London on Thursday, and police have searched…
At Mach 3.2, Standard Jet Fuel Would Have Exploded Inside the US Air Force SR-71 Blackbird’s Tanks. Shell’s JP-7 Flashed at 140 Degrees, Boiled at 550 and Cooled the Whole Jet
The SR-71 Blackbird is the fastest aircraft ever flown, with two immensely powerful jet engines running on fuel specially formulated not to burn. Taken together, these two things seem self-contradictory: jet engines running on fuel designed not to burn. SR-71 Blackbird Sideview. Smithsonian Display Photo Taken by 19FortyFive on 9/30/2026.…
Jet-Powered Drones Outpace Ukrainian Defenses as Manufacturers Race to Build New Interceptors
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia's new class of jet-powered drones rip across the night sky in Kyiv at hundreds of kilometers per hour, leaving Ukrainian air-defense units only moments to intercept them. It's rarely enough time. With many of the drones getting through to the capital, defense manufacturers are scrambling…
‘The Captain Was in the Shower’: The Royal Navy’s $1.5 Billion Nuclear Attack Submarine HMS Astute Ran Aground Off Skye 2 Months After Commissioning. The Crew Had No Chart, the Radar Off and No Binoculars
How a 2010 Submarine Accident Shows How Serious the Royal Navy’s Training and Leadership Has Declined: Britain’s Royal Navy once ruled the waves. Now, the legendary maritime service struggles to maintain its attack submarines. Take the October 2010 incident involving the HMS Astute (S119), one of the Royal Navy’s most…
My App Automatically Imports Your Shot Timer Data
I am very excited to release Armorer.app V. 1.8 today. The major focus for this update was making it faster to log what you shot. Armorer is the firearm maintenance app I built. It keeps a service log for every gun, tells you when a service interval is coming due,…
Russia Was 40 Percent Done With a Nimitz-Class Style Aircraft Carrier That Might Have Been 94,000-Tons and Had 4 Nuclear Reactors When It Was Scrapped
Summary and Key Points: When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Ulyanovsk sat 40% complete at the Black Sea Shipyard in Mykolaiv. Designed with four KN-3 reactors, two steam catapults, and a 68-aircraft air wing, the 1,054-foot ship would have been the largest the Soviet Navy…