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The pit lane entry has changed due to the additional garages for Cadillac. It allowed corner cutting, so is being said. The surface break up didn’t look that bad, just some chips of aggregate coming detached from the tar. It’s not unusual for gravel to be on track, Davidson made a big thing of...

Nowak had been stabbed half a dozen times and his chest was filling with blood. He had minutes to live, probably was frightened and confused. I wouldn’t imagine someone who died in the US when he was 10 or 11 was at the forefront of his mind. I’d imagine he said he’d been stabbed and couldn’t...

Family friends live in Sydney. They have A/C but very little heating and insulation. It’s the reverse of the UK, they only have a few days where heating is truly necessary. Surely new houses with solar panels make running A/C quite efficient? if I was building a new house now I’d have solar...

The TV direction was particularly dire. Over at “The Race” podcast they were suggesting that the TV crew are told to get certain advertising hoardings in shot a minimum number of times during the race. Some of the new pano and drone shots seem to be designed with this in mind. With a busy race...

I don’t understand why BAe hasn’t come up with a modernised Hawk replacement. I can see the UK sales may be a relatively small number but current Hawk users would surely be interested. I agree the T7 Red Hawk looks like the most likely offering but it’s expensive and seems to have excessive...

Agree completely. Hinkley Point C is supposed to be costing an inflation adjusted £45-50bn. That’s just for one, undeniably large, but still just one, power station.

How much of the cost over run is due to successive governments not providing enough cash to get the job done smartly? Surely the longer it takes to build the longer you have to keep everyone employed on the job and material costs rise just due to inflation. Of course each current...

Just a heads up. Miami race start moved forward to 18:00 BST (13:00 local) because of forecast extreme weather in the afternoon.

Incidentally it’s the same hotel where the 1981 attempted assassination of Ronnie Reagan took place. The assassin survived the 1981 attack also.

It seems they landed a ground force to to secure the area and the HC-130s brought small M/AH-6 helicopters for air support. There appears to be at least one burned out M/AH-6 in the pics of the extraction site. With top air cover, CAS, tankers, AWACS, jamming etc you can believe the 100+...

I do wonder if and expectation of future pressure from China has forced Israel and Trumps hand. China is building long range stealth aircraft, nuclear submarines and probably nuclear powered aircraft carriers. You don’t invest in nuclear submarines and carriers for them to stay at home. If 10...

Aye, the Goalhanger “Battleground” podcast has been saying similar in its weekly Ukraine episodes. They suggest that drones are now causing most of Russian casualties directly and are being used heavily for tasks like clearing buildings to save Ukrainian troops. Both sides are now using short...

Could be wrong but I really doubt they are routinely using the gun against aerial drones. The rounds are dumb, relatively few per burst reducing hit probability, massively explosive and designed for ground targets. The A10 can carry a lot of APKWS rockets, individually guided, better suited for...

I do enjoy the A10 in DCS but this sounds a bit desperate. As the A10 has no radar it must be very difficult to find anything. I suppose you could data link airborne targets from a ground or radar equipped aircraft, but then you could as easily guide another drone or ground based missile on to...

You can take a bus tour from Vegas to see it :E

And Putin.

A ground penetrating casing for the B61 device was created in the 1990s. Officially development stopped, but who knows what’s available now really. It’s interesting that nuclear weapons development continued even after the various arms proliferation treaties were signed...

I mean the weapon would bury its self as in penetrating the earth or concrete before exploding. Basically a nuclear GBU-57. That way you could use a relatively small nuclear warhead.

It would presumably be underground as the weapon would have buried its self before exploding, like an underground nuclear test. If you get a collapse and make a crater, like Sedan in 1965, then you would get area contamination and a fallout plume, although the Sedan weapon was very large...

I assume the nuclear weapons angle would mean using deep penetrating low yield nuclear weapons to destroy Iran’s deep bunkers/storage facilities. Conventional weapons don’t really have the energy for the job. https://www.csis.org/analysis/options-targeting-irans-fordow-nuclear-facility