A short, concise, informative video from @HJS_Org and @james_rogers. Intelligently detailing Britain’s historic geographical advantages, and as a result, our contemporary global reach. What is the geography of British power? piped.video/nQcT9wYmXZk

2/3s of 🇬🇧 SIGNIT force Committed ⬇️ to operations to monitor 🇷🇺 movements, usually based @RAFWaddington. raf.mod.uk/aircraft/airseeke…

Good to see. Not without challenges, but a worthwhile investment to return a capability to sea. Short term: Recover CSG solid stores capability. Medium term: Prepare crews for FSS joining the fleet in the early 2030s, prevent skill atrophy. Bonus ⛽️❓ With @RFAFortVictoria’s capability to act as a tanker too, perhaps free’s up a Tide for a few years too?

RFA Recovery❓ Positives building: 💷 - Recent pay deal. 7️⃣ - @RFAFortVictoria likely returning to service as a 7th crewed vessel. 🛠️ - FSS in build @Navantia_UK across Appledore & H&W Belfast. 👨🏻‍🔧 Apprenticeship demand, proving career remains attractive ⬇️ Pre FSS a crewed mix of: - x3 Tides - x2 Bays - Fort Victoria - @RFAProteus To my mind is a credible mix to support operations.

King Charles III is head of state of the following countries 🇬🇧 United Kingdom 🇨🇦 Canada 🇦🇺 Australia 🇳🇿 New Zealand 🇵🇬 Papua New Guinea 🇯🇲 Jamaica 🇧🇸 Bahamas 🇬🇩 Grenada 🇰🇳 Saint Kitts and Nevis 🇱🇨 Saint Lucia 🇦🇬 Antigua and Barbuda 🇻🇨 Saint Vincent and Grenadines 🇸🇧 Solomon Islands 🇹🇻 Tuvalu 🇧🇿 Belize

Devolution is an absolute Disaster. - ❌ accountability - 👉🏼 pointing - Fractured & divided Faux ‘leaders’ playing politics, its pathetic.

Stories From The Eyes In The Sky On 9/11 Recollections from a RAF E-3 Sentry air controller and a USAF F-16 pilot, both of whom plowed the empty skies on 9/11. From the TWZ vault: twz.com/stories-from-the-eye…

🇬🇮 Gibraltar National Day Map ⬇️ created by my brother H/T @UKLanguageMaps The spirit of the image is to highlight the vital military value 🇬🇮 provides 🇬🇧 and the vast historical ties that bind us. A wealth of information is included, covering military, census information, previous borders etc. 🇬🇮🤝🏻🇬🇧 *C.2025, so some information dated such as HMS Trent currently. @dparody @key2med @Gibdan1 @86SirRoge @BritishOverseas

In 1984 the Royal Navy faced difficult choices on whether to deploy submarines to covertly spy on Argentina, or track Soviet submarines in the Atlantic. New Pinstripedline blog on the challenges of submarine operations in the late Cold War. tinyurl.com/mw7meuk7

🇬🇧 Forces South Atlantic 🇫🇰 A reminder in the 🎦⬇️ what capability 🇬🇧 maintains in the South Atlantic (@BFSouthAtlantic). @RoyalAirForce - x4 Typhoon - x1 Atlas - x1 Voyager @BritishArmy - Infantry company - Sky Sabre air defence battery @RoyalNavy - @HMS_Medway

✈️⛽️ Boom! A welcome development as Defence Minister @LukePollard has confirmed that 🇬🇧 will add boom refuelling capability to the @RoyalAirForce. An excellent means to maximise the growing number of platforms in RAF service, which can only refuel via this method. - P8 Poseidon - E7 Wedgetail - Rivet Joint/Airseeker - C17 - F35A to be procured - Tempest in future likely As well as contribute to wider allied operations.

The proposed Chagos deal is not dead. With talks set to resume, the Government now has an opportunity to think again and put the Chagossian people, the security of Diego Garcia and the long-term future of the islands first. We urge them to take it. 👇

NATO Eyes on Russia Continues Two RC-135 "Rivet Joint" SIGINT platforms and at least 2 P-8A "Poseidon" aircraft are operating out of the UK & Iceland today in the high north, watching across the border into Russia, supported by US tankers: 🇬🇧 RC-135W "ASCOT7202" ZZ666 #43C39D 🇺🇸 RC-135W "JAKE17" 62-4139 #AE01D0 🇬🇧 P-8A "?" ZP806 #43C91D 🇺🇸 P-8A "?" ? 🇺🇸 KC-135R "RAKE67" 63-8878 #AE05B1 @MATA_osint @ArmchairAdml @UKDefJournal

Potential T23 OSD clue 👀 As @NavyLookout indicates, contract length ⬇️ perhaps gives a steer on T23 future service. Potentially we can stretch Kent (2000 & mid refurb), Portland (2001) and St Albans (2002) to 2033, but its going to be tight 🫣 🤞we could expect x3 T26, x4-5 T31 to enter service before 2031. Rough average T23 service length: Argyll 33 years Lancaster 33 Iron Duke 32 Monmouth 29 Montrose 29 Westminster 30 Northumberland 30 Richmond 30

After a two year refurbishment programme the SNI wharves are complete and back to full use. Seen here with HMS SPEY in background. @ukinsingapore @royalnavy @CSOC_MOD @Ukdefjournal

Busy Sunday for the RAF Quite a significant number of RAF Assets up across Europe this afternoon, seemingly including a number of recently arrived assets to RAF Akrotiri travelling back the other way: C-17A "RRR6403" ZZ178 #43C208 C-17A "RRR6995" ZZ174 #43C174 C-17A "RRR6628" ZZ171 #43C171 Shadow R.1 "RFR7140" ZZ416 #43C2B2 Shadow R.1 "RFR7141" ZZ507 #43C908 A400M Atlas C.1 "RRR4270" ZM408 #43C5E2 A400M Atlas C.1 "RRR4215" ZM407 #43C5E1 A400M Atlas C.1 "RRR4200" ZM409 #43C5E3 A400M Atlas C.1 "?" ZM417 #43C5EB Voyager KC.3 "RRR9958" ZZ333 #43C6F6 Voyager KC.3 "RRR9303" ZZ335 #43C6F8 Voyager KC.3 "RRR2270" ZZ338 #43C6FB Typhoon FGR.4 "DRAGON01" ZK317 #43C6CF @MATA_osint @ArmchairAdml @UKDefJournal @UKForcesTracker

🪄 @JohnHealey_MP ‘Defence Spendus Expelliarmus’ Magic’s away the 3% commitment, along with his principles. Hollow.

Wedgetail getting closer... WT002 with complete livery ⬇️ and will join WT001 at @RAFLossiemouth. Incidentally a recent CSD FOI: 2⃣ additional radar sets acquired by the @RoyalAirForce remain in control of the MoD 👀 🤞I had concerns the two 🇺🇸 prototype conversions taking place in 🇬🇧 may have used them, so hope remains that the fleet may expand in future to five. gov.uk/government/news/jobs-… ✈️ WT003 will be the new build @BoeingDefense aircraft, after the first two were ex commercial 737s. 🔜 IOC could not be shared, but hopefully soon with some notable progress now.