The USA has finally realised that if it doesn’t send sustained military aid to Ukraine it will fall. A victorious Putin will be an emboldened Putin. If succeeds in Ukraine he won’t stop there. And when Russia attacks another former Soviet satellite state or conducts vicious grey

Between 8 - 10 July 1986, HMS SOVEREIGN conducted an intelligence gathering mission (known as E111) in the Barents Sea.

Pilot Officer Walter Sinclair Kennedy of 47 Sqn RAF inspects the damage to his Vickers Wellesley Mk.I, (K7715) 'KU-H', at Agordat, Eritrea.

The former HMS SWIFTSURE.

According to the National Archives file titles, in 1986 as part of Op MASCLE, she was engaged in some very sneaky intelligence collection work in Norwegian and Greenland sea vs Soviet forces...

Britain has 77,000 former troops liable for call out - Britain has 22,676 Army Regular Reservists with recall liability under Section 22 of the Reserve Forces Act, and approximately 55,000 ex-Regular personnel subject to recall under the same act.

ukdefencejournal.org.uk/britain-has-77…

Find out how seemingly ordinary looking aircraft were utilised with great success by the The Army Air Corps on counter terror Operations during Op BANNER in Northern Ireland and beyond. Join George Bacon at ArmyFlyingMuseum at 10am on Thursday 23 May to learn more: bit.ly/3IvJ3ZV

It may take more than the weekend to complete this - to date I've identified over 30 Intelligence missions done for the DIS by OBERON class Boats in the 1980s alone from Falklands to Med to Baltic to GIUK gap...

Sqn Ldr ‘Dickie’ Millward AFC flying a Meteor NF.11 between hangars at RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor in 1966, celebrating his final day in the RAF.
Dickie was an 'old boy' at my old ATC Squadron in Chichester. He was quite a character who flew the BAC 221 experimental delta.

For you Third Man film fans: The Third Man fan’s guide to Vienna. An Orson Welles pilgrimage.

#TheThirdMan #OrsonWelles #vienna

spectator.co.uk/article/the-th…

Today, Russians sent around $50,000,000 in missiles to Ukrainian ports in effort to destroy containers of grain that were about to be shipped to Africa.

Now remember, it was 9 months ago that Russia threatened to create a global food crisis by using their warships to blow up

*Sighs*

Jack Bowsher - Forgotten Armour Dr Maureen Wright @drmaureenwright.bsky.social Chalke History Festival Robert Lyman 🇺🇦 Dr Peter Caddick-Adams #StandwithUkraine Paul Beaver @ Beaver Westminster Guy Walters 🇺🇦 Dr Kate Vigurs Dan Jones James Holland If you’re into WW2, WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk fest also fabulous!

ISIS burned alive 19 Yezidi girls who refused to convert to Islam and become sex slaves.

None of the Muslims organized a march for them!

Booked my tickets for the BEST WEEK OF THE YEAR Chalke History Festival.
Books, meringues & rosé will be bought & consumed at regular intervals! Bring it on!!! 🍓 🍷 📚
Robert Lyman 🇺🇦
Dr Peter Caddick-Adams #StandwithUkraine
Paul Beaver @ Beaver Westminster
Guy Walters 🇺🇦
clare mulley
Dr Kate Vigurs
Dan Jones
James Holland

Kemi Badenoch is absolutely right. This isn’t just a fight in a dusty corner of academia, this is a fight over the narrative of a nation and - in the end - over our future as a nation.

The big question is why so many on the Left are desperate to bring us down?

Now with the number of HQs reduced, and possibly to make things ‘simpler’ they’ve gone down the dumbed down path of having the names ‘Americanised’. Imho.

#Podcast
Classified!
Antonia Senior interviews Nigel West
On SpyMasters
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Read Classified! The Adventures of a Molehunter
amazon.co.uk/dp/1785908537/

Shane - Spybrary Podcast Host

#spies #espionage #biography

Friday Quiz - Let's put your aviation knowledge to the test! Can you identify the aircraft from these four cockpits? ✈️

Comment below with your answers!

At the RAF Club on 17th April 2024, Air Marshal Clare Walton CB KHB unveiled a portrait of Corporal Daphne Pearson GC, the first female recipient of the George Cross.

Read our full write up of the unveiling and Daphne's story through the link below.
rafclub.org.uk/portrait-daphn…

Not only was Iran's reckless attack a total failure, but they've revealed to the world their true nature as the malign influence in the region.

Today, alongside the US, we are sanctioning leading Iranian military figures and entities as we continue to hold the regime to account.