❌🛳️ The naval parade for Russian Navy Day will not be held in St. Petersburg this year, — reports Fontanka.
The parade has been held annually in St. Petersburg since 2017. The event traditionally took place at two locations — the Neva River aquatorium and the Kronstadt roadstead.
The cancellation of this high-profile traditional event is a telling indicator of the security risks Russia faces in its own territory. Due to the persistent threat of Ukrainian strikes, even symbolic demonstrations of naval power in one of Russia’s most important cities have become too dangerous to organize. This further highlights the growing reach and impact of Ukraine’s long-range capabilities on Russian military prestige and routine activities.
🇺🇦 The Ukrainian surface unmanned boat TRITON, capable of carrying a variety of weapons, was presented in Paris
The main equipment includes a system for remotely launching drones or air-to-air missiles.
The platform can be equipped with a remotely controlled automatic turret with an ammunition load of 500 rounds and an optical module.
In the kamikaze drone configuration, the TRITON is equipped with a 7.5 kg warhead.
A built-in warhead initiation system is provided for the platform’s self-destruction.
The TRITON represents another significant achievement of Ukraine’s domestic defense industry in the field of unmanned naval systems. Its versatility — combining reconnaissance, strike capabilities, and the option for kamikaze missions — makes it a highly effective tool for operations in the Black Sea. The ability to launch drones and air-to-air missiles from a surface platform adds a new layer to Ukraine’s asymmetric naval warfare tactics.
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Successful launch of a Penguin air to ground guided missile conducted by a NZNavy Seasprite helicopter.The missile’s 120kg warhead has a delay fuse so it’s designed to detonate inside a vessel – not on impact.
"A rare photograph documenting the moment a wooden Soviet bridge collapsed under the weight of a German Sturmgeschütz III self-propelled gun, while crossing during military operations on the Eastern Front
Meet the French Renault FT, the first modern tank.
Although lightly armed and with a crew of just two, it's 360-degree rotating turret would become a standard on all future tank designs.
Costing a fifth as much as larger tanks of the era, designers imagined massed "bee swarms" of Renault FTs overwhelming the enemy.
More were produced in the last two years of WWI than all other tank models in the conflict combined — 3,000 in all.
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USS Hornet 5-Inch Gun Firing Tests 🇺🇸⚓
Powerful color footage captures the Essex-class aircraft carrier USS Hornet conducting structural firing tests with her twin 5-inch/38 caliber gun mounts.
The Hornet (CV-12) was attacked 59 times during her wartime service and relied heavily on these powerful batteries to repel Japanese aircraft.
This intense preparation proved vital in countering Japanese air attacks and the growing kamikaze threat across the Pacific.
Footage from the crash site of the Tu-22M3 bomber in the Irkutsk region
The Tu-22M3 is a long-range supersonic missile-carrying bomber.
Its serial production ended back in 1993. According to estimates, Russia currently still has up to 30 such aircraft in service.
These aircraft are part of the long-range aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces. It is part of Russia’s nuclear triad, although the Tu-22M3 is also used for strikes with conventional weapons, including cruise missiles.
Ukraine's border guards just sent 23 Russians a one-way ticket home
"Hart" Brigade met an enemy assault with drones, artillery, and mortars, and the occupiers discovered that Ukraine's frontier is not an invitation
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Domestically manufactured Kanonenjagdpanzer tank destroyer, Leichtes Artillerieraketensystem multiple rocket launcher and Leopard 1 tank on parade along with US-made weapon systems at the Nürburgring celebrating the 20th anniversary of the formation of NATO in 1969
During the major ground campaign in Europe from June 1944 to May 1945, Allied forces laid an estimated 2 million miles of communication wire. A significant portion of it was dispensed from C-47 aircraft flying low over the battlefield as ground units advanced.
This remains one of the more unusual solutions developed to maintain communications during rapid advances.
Magna Carta: Přelomový krok k ústavnímu právu
Dne 15. června 1215 došlo na louce u Runnymede k události, která měla zásadní dopad na vývoj ústavního práva. Angličtí šlechtici zde přinutili krále Jana Bezzemka, aby přijal a svou pečetí stvrdil dokument známý jako Magna Carta Libertatum, neboli Velká listina práv a svobod.
Tato listina je považována za klíčový milník v historickém procesu, který nakonec vyústil v moderní ústavní uspořádání. Jejím hlavním významem je, že šlo o vůbec první dokument, který zákonně omezoval moc panovníka vůči jeho poddaným.
Magna Carta sice navazovala na Listinu svobod (Charter of Liberties) z roku 1100, kde se král Jindřich I. dobrovolně podřídil zákonům, avšak posunula toto omezení moci o krok dál. I když v samotném středověku neměla praktický dopad na každodenní výkon královské moci, stala se v době občanské války silným symbolem. Pro ty, kteří se snažili prosadit myšlenku, že i král podléhá zákonu, představovala Magna Carta významnou oporu.
Agriculturalists in the Irkutsk region have complained about a shortage of diesel fuel
The deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Irkutsk region, Stepan Frantenko, reported on an acute shortage of fuel needed to complete the sowing campaign in the region.
"For all attempts to negotiate with suppliers, there are two answers: either they simply don't have fuel, or they have a task to supply to western Russia. If we don't set limits now, there will be no fodder. This means there will be no grain. We can just prepare for the closure of all agriculture in the Irkutsk region," he said.
This photo was taken on May 26, 1945, at Bansei Air Base in Japan.
The boy in the middle holding the puppy is 17-year-old Yukio Araki, surrounded by four other young pilots of the 72nd Shinbu Squadron.
The photograph was taken the day before he flew a kamikaze mission.
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It is always good to have multiple options.
But jammers powerful enough to mess with Starlink at meaningful distances are pretty rare (and very expensive), so I dont expect them to get common.
Also, they radiate so much RF that any home-on-jammer weapons will love them.