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[Azide @Azide_IED]

@MSchroeder77 @fredgrs It's a way of maintaining some capability when you run out of serviceable BCUs.

[Azide @Azide_IED]

@MSchroeder77 @fredgrs The SA-14 has the same kinematic performance as the SA-7b. The coolant improves the sensitivity of the seeker, the additional supplementary power supply allows the missile to remain energised for significantly longer periods than can be achieved with the thermal battery alone.

[Azide @Azide_IED]

@MSchroeder77 @fredgrs It's possibly a supplementary power supply which replaces the thermal battery component of the SA-14 BCU, allowing the missile to be energised for longer periods than could be achieved with the BCU alone.

[Azide @Azide_IED]

@theiaincameron Keep on posting. Your material is a breath of fresh air compared to much which appears on this site.

[ICRC @ICRC]

Defining who is a civilian, who is a combatant, and what constitutes a lawful target is not just about semantics, but core to the protection of life and dignity in armed conflicts.

Every military action carries a legal and moral obligation. @CDroegeICRC, ICRC's Chief Legal Officer, explains 👇🏽

[Azide @Azide_IED]

@haynesdeborah Spot on analysis. The UK defence ecosystem, particularly for SMEs, is being slowly destroyed. This government is all talk and no action.

[Azide @Azide_IED]

@robert_lyman Small arms ballistics is always a compromise. The latest fad is the 6.5 Creedmoor, or 'need more' as one South African Professional Hunter I know calls it. Personally, I love my 375 Holland & Holland Magnum. Not sure it will make the cut for the next generation sniper rifle...

[ICRC @ICRC]

The laws of war are clear:

Hospitals, ambulances, patients, and healthcare staff are never targets.

Even wars have limits.

[Azide @Azide_IED]

A gun type device is much easier to engineer than an implosion device. The US had such confidence in the Little Boy design it was not tested before it was dropped on Hiroshima

[David Stockman @DA_Stockman]

I'll tell you what, Dinesh. Even if you had 400 kilos of 90% U-235 and a box of matches, the length of time it would take you to make a nuke is NEVER.
The fact is, 60% enriched uranium like the Iranians had isn't even 10% of the way to a bomb. The rest--- engineering, machining, fabrication and assembly of the watch-like innards of a nuclear implosion bomb---is the real hard part. And even that ignores the fact that no one in their right mind---even the mullahs---would attempt to launch against the USA a beginners bomb that had never been tested and which no Iranian missile could carry for the 10,000 kilometer trip to the US in any event. And that's to say nothing of reentering the atmosphere successfully under blistering heat and percussion. In short, Iran's possession of 10 bombs worth of HEUs was not remotely an imminent threat, and that's according to the repeated attestations of the 17 US intelligence agencies, including DNI Tulsi Gabbard's testimony to Congress in March 2025. So what in the hell are you gumming about in year pathetic, self-evidently barking ignorance?

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

I am deeply saddened by the recent escalation of attacks against Ukraine, which continue to afflict civilians. I express my solidarity with those who are suffering and assure all the Ukrainian people of my prayers. I renew my appeal for weapons to fall silent and for the path of dialogue to be pursued.

[Azide @Azide_IED]

@GrandpaRoy2 Thanks for sharing the link to the video Roy. I thought it a competently delivered render safe procedure by an EOD operator who clearly understands the hazards posed by this system. I like the prudent use of hook and line - not being there, IMHO, is always the best countermeasure

[Azide @Azide_IED]

@StigAbell Never tire of doing what is right. You make a great team and deliver what I think is the best news programme in the UK. Ignore the trolls.

[ICRC @ICRC]

A strike on oil or gas infrastructure disrupts fuel supply chains on which entire essential service systems depend. For example, water pumping stations lose power, safe water becomes scarce, and this could lead to disease outbreaks. Hospitals lose power and fuel, forcing surgeries to be canceled and life-support systems to fail.

The consequences spread silently, causing civilian deaths far from where the attack actually occurred.

🔴 In general, energy infrastructure benefits from a presumption of civilian status. In case of doubt whether a pipeline or refinery contributes to military action, it must be treated as a civilian object, not the other way around.

[Azide @Azide_IED]

@GuyPlopsky @FoxTwo2022 Absolutely correct, MXU-735 fitted to the nose fuze well.

[Azide @Azide_IED]

@Easybakeovensz Looking at the scale of the MXU-735 nose plug on the bomb, it looks more like a Mk84 than a Mk83; probably delivered with a GBU-31 JDAM guidance kit. I wonder what tail fuze was fitted?

[Michael Kofman @KofmanMichael]

Happy to share the latest. My views on the current battlefield dynamics and where the war stands in 2026. https://t.co/Wkrnmn3nE1

[ICRC @ICRC]

It doesn't matter how.

It doesn't matter who.

It doesn't matter where.

It doesn't matter why.

Torture is never acceptable and always illegal.

[Azide @Azide_IED]

@OSINTua I would advise keeping to hard surface roads and don't be tempted to enter partially destroyed AFVs.

[Azide @Azide_IED]

@ilona_turnbull @Mountain_Scot @ScotsMagazine @VisitScotland @rspb @ForestryLS @ScotWays Great pic of 'the eagle with the sunlit eye'

[Azide @Azide_IED]

I lost good friends and others I knew well whilst they were serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. I am beyond dismayed for the casual disregard shown by President Trump. I feel most though for the families of the soldiers and officers I lost.

[Stig Abell @StigAbell]

Hundreds of NATO troops died fighting after 9/11. Hundreds of British. It is shameless and immoral and disgusting to overlook this.