| Sun, 28 Apr 2024 The UK will develop hypersonic missiles to ‘catch up’ with China and Russia
The UK is aiming to catch up with China and Russia (Pictures: Getty/Air Force) | The UK is aiming to develop high tech hypersonic missiles by the end of the decade in a bid to catch up with other countries. | Iain Boyd, Professor of Aerospace Engineering Sciences at the... | He replaced Mickey Mantle. Now baseball’s oldest living major leaguer, Art Schallock, is turning 100
Art Schallock poses for a photo Thursday in Sonoma, Calif. Schallock, the oldest living former Major League Baseball player, will celebrate his 100th birthday on Thursday. (Wendy Cornejo, Cogir on Napa Road via AP) | SAN FRANCISCO — Whether at home or on the road,... | UK’s top-secret plan to deploy British-made hypersonic missiles by 2030 – and weapon could hit ...
BRITAIN is reportedly planning to deploy homegrown hypersonic cruise missiles by the end of the decade. | The weapons, which already been deployed by Russia and China, will fly at five times the speed of sound to evade enemy defence systems. | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | UK militar... | Veterans column: Perry Miles, aboard USS Charleston, takes Spanish Fort San Luis in Guam
On June 20, 1898, 1st Lt. Perry Miles was part of a convoy traveling to the Spanish-controlled island of Guam. The transports the soldiers were on had no guns, so Navy escort ship USS Charleston led the way. | Miles wrote in his memoir “Fallen Leaves: Memories of an O... | China's submarine force is stressed by their more realistic training for combat
Chinese sailors at a demonstration at China's Submarine Academy in Qingdao. | Kevin Frayer/Getty ImagesChinese submarine crews are training to operate farther into the Western Pacific.The more intense training appears to be stressing them.The training also seems bent on... | Square dancing, fly fishing and WWII: 99-year-old Pace man longs to see Allegheny Mountains
Square dancing was always a love for 99-year-old Pace resident Tom Palmer, so it's fitting that's how he met his wife, Diane. But he also has a passion for the outdoors, which is why he and Diane spent years traveling throughout the western United States. | Palmer's cen... | As Saigon fell 49 years ago, my father flew us onto the USS Midway in a fraught escape
Navy Veteran recalls Operation Frequent Wind on USS Midway | Vietnam Veteran Bill Hawkins recalls his service in the Navy during Operation Frequent Wind on the USS Midway aircraft carrier. | Marilyn Chung/The Desert Sun | April 30 marks 49 years since the fall of Saigon... | UK navy downs Houthi missile targeting merchant vessel — ministry
LONDON — Britain's Royal Navy shot down a missile fired at a merchant vessel in the Gulf of Aden by Iranian-backed Houthis, the defence ministry said on Thursday. The Houthis said their missiles had "directly hit" a British ship. The HMS Diamond warship used a Sea Vip... | Keir Starmer needs to have a frank conversation with voters about the price of security
I’m not certain who minted the phrase, but it is an excellent one to describe the decade or so that followed the fall of the Berlin Wall and the subsequent implosion of the Soviet Union. The affluent liberal democracies were treated to “a holiday from history”. | ... | |
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