One B-52 Stratofortress taking off is loud. Two of them lined up on the taxiway at RAF Fairford is an absolute earthquake. 🛩️💥
Watch the wake turbulence and exhaust heat from the lead aircraft hitting the one right behind it. It takes incredible pilot coordination to manage massive bombers this close on the ground.
Fun question for the real aviation experts here: When these beasts taxi in close sequence, what is the biggest operational hazard the second crew has to watch out for? 👇
#Aviation #AvGeek
🚨“Sayın yolcular, ben kaptanınız. Sağ tarafınıza baktığınızda göreceğiniz üzere bir Virgin Atlantic A340 bizimle yarışmaya hazırlanıyor. Emniyet kemeri ikaz ışığını açtım çünkü birazdan işler kızışabilir!”
İki dev Airbus A340 gökyüzünde yan yana…
Kaptanın esprili anonsu ise manzarayı adeta bir hava yarışına çevirdi. 😄✈️
Gökyüzünde dostça bir rekabet, kabinde ise unutulmayacak bir uçuş anısı…
#VirginAtlantic #AirbusA340 #A340 #Aviation #Havacılık #Pilot #KaptanPilot #Flight #Airliner #WideBody #AvGeek #AviationLovers #Uçuş
Prof. Theodore Postol: ‘Iran could build NUCLEAR WEAPONS IN WEEKS if pushed.’
‘What Iran does not want to do is provoke its neighbours like Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Egypt, some of the Gulf states, the GCC states into getting nuclear weapons or developing nuclear weapons programmes because Iran’s security would be greatly reduced if it was surrounded by nuclear-armed states.
So what the Iranians very cleverly have devised as a strategy is to bring themselves to a point where they can obtain nuclear weapons if they choose to. In other words, relatively quickly but not step across the line.
To build a few nuclear weapons from what they have initially, you could imagine it being done in weeks or months easily, and maybe even in weeks.
They have the 60% enriched uranium hexafluoride. What they have to do is enrich it to 90%. That takes almost no time given the centrifuges. They have maybe a week.
Then they have to convert the uranium hexafluoride, which is a special material. It looks like it’s a gas a lot of the time and sometimes a solid that looks like a salt. You have to convert it to uranium metal. You have to get the fluorine out of it.
It’s a straightforward process. And that could take literally, again, a few days even, if they’re set up to do it. And you would expect them to have the equipment set up.
If I were advising an Ayatollah and I were asked in a position to advise them, I would say let’s not do it. Let’s be prepared to do it. Let’s find a really deep underground facility or several of them, all of which, each one of which are capable of doing the job. Set them up.
We already have the equipment. We set them up so they’re ready to go. And we don’t do it though. And we just let people know that we don’t want to do it.’
—Former US Chief of Naval Operations Adviser at the Pentagon Prof. Theodore Postol
روسيا تُعلن تعرضها لأكبر هجوم أوكراني منذ بدء الحرب قبل 4 سنوات ونصف...
عمدة العاصمة موسكو وصف الهجوم بأنه «غير مسبوق» و «الأكبر على الإطلاق» على العاصمة.
قالت روسيا بأنها أسقطت 1100 مسيّرة في ليلة واحدة لكن العديد من المسيرات الأخرى تمكنت من ضرب أهدافها.
⚡️ 360° camera footage and a red carpet: see how Russian President Vladimir #Putin was welcomed in India
The President’s visit will continue until 13 September, when he will take part in the 18th #BRICS Summit
🇷🇺 Russia's 'car diplomacy' is a real thing
🤝 Sharing a ride signals a special rapport between Russian President Vladimir #Putin and another global leaders, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
#NeverForget the US used 9/11 to invade Iraq and kill 1 million Iraqis, despite Iraq having no involvement in 9/11 and no weapons of destruction.
IT WAS ALL BASED ON A LIE AS EVERY US WAR IS.
4.5 million people have been killed by the US in post-9/11 wars. Their lives mattered.
The September/October 2026 issue of @ForeignAffairs is now available.
The latest issue provides analysis on the future of U.S. alliances, the threat of a global economic crisis from Chinese overcapacity, the dangers of synthetic pathogens created with AI, and more.
Start reading: https://t.co/6QPkrvMPfx
A Pakistani content creator offered ordinary Pakistanis a wad of cash to burn the Indian flag.
Every single person refuses.
You can manufacture outrage. You can monetize hatred. But sometimes ordinary people remind you that patriotism does not require dehumanising your neighbour.
That is the Pakistan I recognise.
Happy Independence Day, Pakistan! The United States was proud to be one of the first nations to recognize Pakistan’s independence. Over the past eight decades, our friendship has only grown stronger. To our friends across Pakistan celebrating today, we wish you peace, joy, and a wonderful day with loved ones. From Chargé d’Affaires Natalie A. Baker and the U.S. diplomatic mission in Pakistan: Jashn-e-Azadi Mubarak! #USAinPakistan
یومِ آزادی مبارک! امریکہ کو یہ فخر حاصل ہے کہ وہ قیام پاکستان کے بعد اسے تسلیم کرنے والے ابتدائی ممالک میں شامل تھا۔ پچھلے اسّی سالوں میں ہماری دوستی اور بھی مضبوط ہوئی ہے۔ آج جشن آزادی منانے والے پاکستان کے سب دوستوں کے لیے ہماری طرف سے امن، خوشی اور اپنوں کے ساتھ ایک زبردست دن کی نیک تمنائیں – ناظم الامور نیٹلی اے بیکر اور پاکستان میں امریکی سفارتی مشن کی طرف سے جشنِ آزادی مبارک !