midlandrailwaystudycentre.org.uk/mystery/RFB722…

#railtwitter

Has the Guardian reported this fairly? My belief is that this is structural, not temporary (yes, Mon-Fri will pick up further, but it will stall well short of pre pandemic) .

Is the railway facing up to this?

RAIL magazine Philip Haigh

theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/o…

The cynic in me would ask Francis Tusa to map Tory target seats against the Typhoon supply chain. That might tell us how credible the story is twitter.com/raestimr/statu…

How robust is UAV control in contested airspace? Greg Bagwell Tim Robinson Tyler Rogoway twitter.com/stratsentinel/…

Paging Think Defence. Tasty one here twitter.com/greatestcapita…

Read this. More clear-headed and stimulating than a thousand twitter exchanges twitter.com/lawdavf/status…

So US UK Open Skies talks suspended because the US only offering a standard bilateral deal. The long long process of our country being systematically screwed outside the EU begins - courtesy of the Farageist Conservative party.

Chris Cavas Chod 'In order to be eligible for CD (Conceptual Design), offerors must have a parent design from which to start. A parent design is defined as a design of a ship that has been through production and demonstrated (full scale) at sea' That's why Type 26 is not a contender

Type 26 not currently a contender for the USN’s new frigate twitter.com/cavasships/sta…

Calling Chris Bolton twitter.com/greyfunnelline…

Think Defence USS America? Although that has the primary role of amphib assault. Cavour oddly wasn't. No other operators at the moment.

Opinion: How could any senator justify a vote for a bill this bad? wapo.st/2tO4JZF

And finally, for this batch of Escort Services, can't get enough of the Soviet perspective...

@mrrogerln Navy Lookout AncientSubHunter 🇺🇦 🇮🇱🌻 What do you make of the apparent problems the RCN has had with availability? Were they reliable boats in their brief RN service?

@IanDProctor Chris Bolton How many in flight top ups did it take to get a Lightening to Cyprus?!

No FF/DD on APTS APTN NATO. With 19 ships. We talk of overstretch, can we ask about efficiency and planning?

RN has 19 escorts. Standing tasks are FRE/TAPS, APTS, APTN, NATO, EoS, JEF(M). At moment it can only sustain 1 of the overseas tasks. /2

@Type26ProgDir David Bober I'm betting Fs!

Thoughts on Forts. my limited understanding is Vic combines 2 roles EofS: tanker & AsAC platform. Former relieved by Tides, latter by HMSQE