There's also been some additional commentary on YouTube (up for a few days now) here:



And also a follow-up video with the new crash footage:

Quite a scary but impressive video:

An interesting little Christmas distraction:

Just a short piece of take-off footage, but brought to life.

But that's always been the case with satellite photography. The Zephyr doesn't intend to solve that, but does make it a more versatile capability. To be clear, I'm not knocking it at all, just trying to understand the limitations. But a satellite can accept much heavier sensors and so perhaps with ...

This all looks impressive. But unless I'm missing something, it does seem very dependent on clear skies for most (all?) of its imagery. So, fine for the Arizona desert, but less so for eg wintertime NW Atlantic conditions.

https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/03/ ... ngry_post/

Focus is on the USAF but comments on the UK too. Not too sure how they would fix the problem though.

I do think you're all rather missing the point here. The strategic mistake was ever to think that neocon nation-building was a viable proposition for such a tribal Islamic 'state'. The whole history of the region tells of the impossibility of this task. Plus it's, relatively speaking, the backyard o...

An idle curiosity question: do modern RN ships have any significant armour or has it been designed out as a waste of time/money/weight etc against modern weapons? Reason for asking is that I've been watching some of the many new videos on YT about the US New Jersey battleship (that is now effectivel...

Not sure what the origin of this YT video might be, but seems to be a further exercise update:

SKB wrote:Not space. Didn't get to 100km (Karman line).

Debatable. The Kármán line is only one definition of space (and not a very precise one at that). The US military definition of space is 50 miles/80km altitude so VG did achieve space flight, in US eyes at least.

Obviously not RAF use, but the US-built WB-57 Canberra is still in active use by NASA. Last time I saw mention of it was monitoring one of the earlier Spacex Starship test flights (SN11 maybe?). (Talking of which, I wonder if they really are going to try to refly SN15?. Strong winds yesterday seemed...

https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/c ... r-20444102

Hopefully the damage by the Osprey is fairly easy to put right!

Don't know whether or not this is available outside the UK, but the full session video is at: https://parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/ec608b3f-283d-4a0a-9b0d-955dafc7e8f5 NB The first 10 minutes or so deals with the Ukraine situation, but thereafter the session moves on to RN etc. Worth a watch IMO fo...

Anyone care to comment on today's Times preview of what to expect from the IR part 2? An amateur reading of the broad generalities presented suggests nothing too surprising but it would be good to see a more informed critique.

Latest update video released today from Tokamak Energy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzbSrAzVG8Q I think this is a really exciting, world-leading, UK-based (near Oxford) future energy project that is poised to make its next leap forwards, hopefully later this year. Many other previous short video...

- are you both saying that the 22 bn pounds were pretty much wasted? I'm not saying it was wasted exactly but if that sort of estimate is right then it does seem to have been an extraordinary amount of money for what's been achieved. I'd like to see a breakdown of where the spend has gone. Basicall...

The PM has made some serious and well-structured announcements, but some bits 'missing in action' ... he completely failed to mention in his speech was the NHS Test and Trace system . Which, Yahoo News notes was once hailed by the government as the route out of England’s lockdown. "The scheme,...

And it may now be “possible to do all the research, development, preclinical testing, and Phase I trials for new viral pandemics before those new viruses had even emerged — to have those vaccines sitting on the shelf and ready to go when they did. They also thought it was possible to do this for ne...

Brief report in the local rag:

https://www.elystandard.co.uk/news/raf- ... -1-6944829

I see Pfizer are submitting an EUA (Emergency Use Authorisation) to the US FDA today . This is the last step in the chain before mass vaccination can start, subject of course to the FDA approving the EUA, which will probably take days to 2-3 weeks for a decision. This is for the US. There is no soli...

And the mln $ question: treats symptoms only or also effectively suppresses spreading? That's a tricky question for a trial to answer - suspect it will be 6-12 months before we know that. But personally I don't see that as a big deal. If there's enough vaccine supply then anyone (in an eligible gro...

In other news, the first interim analysis results of the Moderna Phase III trial should be imminent - I'm guessing there might be an announcement Monday morning before the US markets open but we'll see. And, here we go: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20201116005608/en/Moderna%E2%80%99s-COVI...

If – and it remains an “if” – the vaccine does not prevent asymptomatic transmission, its value would be somewhat limited says Eleanor Riley, an immunologist at the University of Edinburgh: “We’re not going to get rid of the virus with a vaccine like that.” It would mean health services would still...

School vaccination teams could theoretically help but they have a massive backlog to catch up on because schools were shut for such a long period. Schools are unlikely to figure at all on 2 counts: First, serious COVID infection in school age children is very rare so it's not a priority from that p...