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Alleged Plot On White House UFC Fight Puts Drone Threat In The Spotlight
Whether those arrested could have feasibly pulled off such a complex attack is unknown, the threat is very real and growing.
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As strikes are launched against Iran once again, be wary of old and misattributed videos as well as images being shared on X, Telegram, and other social media platforms which falsely claims to be of tonight’s operation in Iran.
American strikes targeted the naval base in Sirik, air defense sites near Bandar Abbas, a coastal missile site near Minab, – Qeshm coastal missile position and possibly the Qeshm Port.
#IranWar
Secret Service HAWKEYE Pelagos LHD unit watch on the stage last night. Counter Assault Team - (CAT aka Hawkeye) commissioned a custom Tudor Pelagos LHD "unit watch" with a red HAWKEYE on the dial and the Team’s insignia of a CAT's paw around a Secret Service Star on the caseback.
For the first time in decades, three aircraft carriers are operating in the Middle East at the same time. Accompanied by their carrier air wings, the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72), USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) and USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) include over 200 aircraft and 15,000 Sailors and Marines.
BREAKING: Iran's parliament speaker Ghalibaf has resigned from the negotation team following the "intervention from the Revolutionary Guards [IRGC]", according to Channel 12
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Major development: #UAE's Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed spoke to #Iran's Parliament speaker Mohammad-Bagher #Ghalibaf about ways to reduce escalation in the region.
UAE was a major target of Iranian attacks.
🚀🇩🇪🇳🇱 German defense giant Rheinmetall and Dutch technology company Destinus announced the creation of a joint venture, Rheinmetall Destinus Strike Systems, which will focus on the mass production of cruise and ballistic missiles.
The production facility will reportedly be based in Unterlüss, Germany, and is scheduled to launch in the second half of 2026.
The technological core of the project will be Destinus, which has considerable experience in the aerospace sector and has both successful experience using its platforms in Ukraine and the resources, including engineers, to develop its own missiles.
Rheinmetall, in turn, will provide large-scale production capacity, manage major programs, certify weapons according to NATO standards, and potentially distribute the weapons if the program is successful.
Lloyd's of London had a $200 million problem floating 210 miles above Earth. So they called NASA and said: go get our satellites back.
NASA charged them $5.5 million. For that price, they got two astronauts in nitrogen jetpacks, flying untethered at 17,500 mph, manually stopping spinning satellites by jamming a spike into their rocket nozzles, then having a third astronaut swing them into the shuttle cargo bay with a robotic arm.
The first retrieval went wrong. The grapple fixture didn't work. Joe Allen had to hold a 9,600-pound satellite over his head by its antenna for an entire 90-minute orbit while Gardner bolted an adapter to the bottom. His wife radioed from Houston: "Make sure there are no pigeons on your shoulders."
They did the second satellite two days later. Ran an hour ahead of schedule.
When Discovery landed at Kennedy Space Center, a Customs official (arranged by NASA pranksters) confronted the crew about duties owed on $200 million in imported satellite equipment. Lloyd's awarded them silver medals, flew them to London on the Concorde, and arranged tea with Prince Charles.
Gardner held up a "For Sale" sign next to the satellites. The jetpack he used was permanently retired. No human has flown untethered in space since.
$5.5 million for a $200 million repo. The best ROI in insurance history came from two guys in jetpacks.
@chrisklomp Dankjewel Chris dat je dit met ons durft te delen. Ik en de volgers waarderen het. Tja Chris ik ken je verder niet persoonlijk, ik waardeer je schrijfwerk enorm. Sterkte kerel voor jou en je naasten! Hopelijk komt alles goed. Dankje Chris!!