Mike Alderson FRSA

RAF veteran, Senior Cop, former Royal British Legion County President. Interested in: news, politics, aviation, military, policing, veterans issues.

[Navy Lookout @NavyLookout]

.@Saab confirms £15M order for 'several' Sea Giraffe 1X radars to be integrated on Royal Navy's K3 Scout USVs.

The RN has confirmed that the radar is fully waterproofed and has proved it can be operationally useful in tests, despite being so low down and subject to significant motion.

https://t.co/gY9U9qgj4p

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

Kaja Kallas on the talks in Abu Dhabi:

What Russia wants out of these talks is the lifting of sanctions and also the release of the frozen assets.

These are European decisions. They can't be made by anybody else but Europe.

Of course, Russia does not want to talk to Europe, because it's easier to talk to the US.

[Hillel Neuer @HillelNeuer]

SHAME: The U.N. General Assembly just elected the murderous Islamic Republic of Iran to its Committee for Program and Coordination, the main body shaping the world organization’s priorities on Women’s Rights, Human Rights, Disarmament and Counter-Terrorism. 144 voted for Iran. 🧵

[UK Defence Journal @UKDefJournal]

Kristin Ven Bruusgaard, director of the Norwegian Intelligence School, has said allies must be prepared for Russia to cross the nuclear threshold. Click image for more.
https://t.co/QJLi55SaAw

[NEXTA @nexta_tv]

🇮🇹 Mikhail Andropov throws Italy into chaos — Meloni calls emergency meeting

Thousands of bomb threats have been sent to Italian schools by someone calling himself “Mikhail Andropov, leader of the Misogynistan Vilayat”.

According to Reuters, the messages were sent to 6,300 educational institutions. Hundreds of schools evacuated pupils and staff.

Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni called an emergency meeting.

Many schools in Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland received similar threats.

[Mike Alderson FRSA @OpenEyeComms]

Britain diagnosed: Over - spending, borrowing, taxing, regulated and spending too much on welfare.

Nailed it in a nutshell.

[Tom Scotson @_tomscotson]

💥Ex-PM David Cameron pretty scathing in chatter surrounding re-joining the EU from Andy Burnham

He tells @business: “I don’t think actually necessarily joining a customs union is the right answer. If you look at the economic problems we have today, I don’t really think they’ve got anything to do with Brexit at all.

"I mean, our economic problems are we are overspending, over-borrowing, over-taxing, over-regulated, and far too much being spent on working age welfare. Those are a set of problems that have nothing to do with Brexit."

[Mike Alderson FRSA @OpenEyeComms]

An enormous monument to ego

[Ben Page @Benpagelondon]

Wow the Whitehouse Ball room is….quite something. To put it mildly

[Mike Alderson FRSA @OpenEyeComms]

Police to target 500 chronic shoplifters in retail crime crackdown in England

Tactics to include GPS tagging for repeat offenders, high street bans and tougher sentences
https://t.co/dxH6WAZP7p

[Mike Alderson FRSA @OpenEyeComms]

The intent is clear. What's not clear, or imminent, is the long awaited UK defence funding. Next week the government will be getting its knickers bunched over NEET unemployment, yet defence funding and protection of the nation remains to difficult to address.

[Yaroslav Trofimov @yarotrof]

As they say in Russia, appetite grows while eating.
Russia’s top negotiator Medinsky says in Abu Dhabi that Moscow’s demands extend to all of Europe, far beyond Ukraine.
“The security system in Europe works very badly. The entire organism is sick. Ukraine is just an abscess that burst. The organism must be cured as a whole, a band-aid will not be enough.”
Dr Putin to the rescue of poor sick Europe…
The more Trump seeks to mollify Putin, the more megalomaniac the Russian demands become.

[OSINTdefender @sentdefender]

Iranian Supreme National Security Council Secretary Mohsen Rezaei has said that U.S. military bases in Europe will be targeted in the event of renewed U.S. military action against Iran. In addition to this, Secretary Rezaei also vowed to target unnamed islands with a U.S. military presence as well, almost certainly referring to U.S. facilities at Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean.

It should be noted that the U.S. is already conducting limited retaliatory strikes against Iranian targets in response to Iran’s targeting of U.S. aircraft and commercial shipping in and around the Strait of Hormuz, meaning that the aforementioned promise by Rezaei is likely referring to Iran’s response to a resumption of large-scale strikes.

[Mike Alderson FRSA @OpenEyeComms]

Doesn't sound terribly like they are very keen to negotiate anything. Could be wrong but...
Get ready Pike.

[Megatron @Megatron_ron]

JUST IN: 🇷🇺🇪🇺🇺🇦 Russia announced that that it will take the entire territory it considers Russian and will not cede even an inch

The main Russian negotiator Medinsky:

“As for the territorial issues...
Every inch of our land will be returned to Russia.
One way or another.
And let European newspapers continue to live in the world of their illusions.”

[UK Defence Journal @UKDefJournal]

General Sir Gwyn Jenkins, the First Sea Lord, has said Britain has an open border with Russia to its north through the Atlantic, and that Norway is its first line of defence. Click image for more.
https://t.co/AFrYYCJqhd

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Russia’s Geran-5 K5-K drone is basically a small cruise missile. It has a jet engine, a range of about 1,000 km and cruises at over 450 km/h.

Ukraine found 93 foreign electronic components inside one, including 52 from US and 10 from Swiss manufacturers, United24. 1/

[Mike Alderson FRSA @OpenEyeComms]

NATO seeks to prioritize fighting Russia and shrink forces for missions abroad

Members of the alliance are considering scrapping a requirement to provide extra troops for crisis management operations, as they focus resources on Russia.

https://t.co/FVMCs19TC8

[Adam Smith Institute @ASI]

An important announcement from the Conservatives.

As Westminster debates welfare savings this week, our Welfare Sustainability Tracker shows London is the only major city in England and Wales where income tax and NI receipts exceed welfare spending. 👇

[Mike Alderson FRSA @OpenEyeComms]

What is happening to this country? The government is becoming the enemy of the population, when its duty is to protect it.

[Guido Fawkes @GuidoFawkes]

EXC: Tax Snoopers to Photograph Homes Without Permission for Labour’s ‘Mansion’ Tax https://t.co/PVzpgyAebY

[UK Defence Journal @UKDefJournal]

Britain's First Sea Lord has said he will sign an agreement with Northrop Grumman to prepare its Talon drone for Royal Navy trials. Click image for more.
https://t.co/ZKdkwTGx1v

[UK Defence Journal @UKDefJournal]

Joint Expeditionary Force navy chiefs have signed an agreement taking forward the JEF Northern Navies Initiative on board HMS Prince of Wales in Oslo. Click image for more.
https://t.co/NvDuHek3RL

[Matthias Gebauer @gebauerspon]

News: Wegen Spionagegefahr verbannt die Bundeswehr alle chinesischen Kleindrohnen, die seit 2024 für die Ausbildung angeschafft wurden, aus den Kasernen. Auch für mehrere Autos chinesischer Hersteller wurde ein Kasernen-Verbot ausgesprochen. Alle Details: https://t.co/zm1hXY4lfz

[Mike Alderson FRSA @OpenEyeComms]

Good luck with that Antonia. Whitehall is far more resistant than even the Arsenal back four.

[Lord Hoot @Robyn4110122680]

@Independent deeply suspicious