New development - whiskers on Geran-4 (improved jet-powered Shahed) are for striking suspension bridges and similar cabled structures
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Your reminder that the Prime Meridian goes North-South through Greenwich in United Kingdom. Presumably this is some lesser meridian.
My first outing in the New York Times, which hits different for this longtime Americaphile 🇺🇸 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/w...
How Ukraine’s Naval Drones Are Remaking War at Sea
They began as modified motorboats. Now, Ukrainian sea drones act as miniature aircraft carriers, and other countries want in.
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Today’s favourite #warart Dazzle-ships in Drydock at Liverpool, by Edward Wadsworth, 1919 Craig Moore on Facebook @dreadships.bsky.social #navalhistory #maritimehistory
In case anyone was wondering how the U.S. has lost the war it started with Iran Embarrassing
Christoph Harig@charig.bsky.social · 2d ago'we must address the structural mechanisms that have allowed civilian academic norms to dilute our focus on lethality,” Hegseth said in a one-page memo' thehill.com/policy/defen...
Note that the anti-drone cages are removed (as expected of course), but there still appears to be a pintle-mounted heavy machine gun in the navigation bridge on top of the fin (sail)
Massimo Frantarelli@mrfrantarelli.bsky.social · 3d agoThe Lada-class SSK B-587 "Velikiye Luki" departed from Baltiysk(Kaliningrad region)for the Baltic Sea. Photo by S. Minikeeva
Report about Ukraine’s efforts to find answers to the jet-powered Geran drones. Let’s hope they are indeed as advanced as suggested here www.tagesschau.de/ausland/euro...
Russlands Krieg gegen die Ukraine: Wettlauf der schnellen Drohnen
Gelingt es der Ukraine, den russischen Vorsprung bei schnellen, mit Jetantrieb ausgestatteten Drohnen aufzuholen? Die Antwort entscheidet über Leben und Tod vieler Menschen. Von Kai Küstner und Stefan...
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Excellent photos
@saturnax1.bsky.social · 6d ago#SubSaturday #Submarines German Navy Type 212A-class Batch II diesel-electric/AIP attack submarine U-36 (S-186) coming into Leith, September 24, 2026. Photos by Dave Cullen. @sarahkirchberger.bsky.social @rstirn.bsky.social @covertshores.bsky.social @mikeplunkett.bsky.social @johannu96.bsky.social
Ukraine’s 93rd Mechanized Brigade has released footage showing heavy multirotor drones airlifting and deploying unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) behind Russian lines. This is the very method recently revealed by the 3rd Army Corps as part of Operation Vivaldi on the Lyman axis.
The "Great Russian Naval Fleet". In Makhachkala, a Project 21630 Buyan-class river-sea small artillery ship was seen with protective measures. #Russia
Cope in Russia 👀 Moscow is preparing its oil infrastructure for future strikes.
The Belgian Ministry of Defense has awarded a contract valued at nearly €9.9 million to Exail Robotics Belgium for the supply of TRIDENT mine countermeasure platforms to support the Ukrainian defense forces 🇧🇪 🇺🇦 www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2...
Belgium Procures TRIDENT Mine Warfare Systems for Ukraine via Exail - Naval News
Belgium has awarded Exail a nearly €9.9 million contract to supply TRIDENT mine countermeasure platforms and K-STER C systems to Ukraine.
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I’ll do an updated guide to the different types of ‘camouflage’ Russian vessels have adopted since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine
spectre crouton@spectrecrouton.bsky.social · last wk.RF Coast Guard Svetlyak-class patrol craft Almaz - before (July 2023) and after (September 2026)
"...a wider 2027 defense budget proposal totaling approximately 8.07 trillion Argentine pesos (roughly $5.3 billion) (...) remains outpaced by domestic inflation recorded between budget cycles." The glass remains near empty for Argentinian defence deals. www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2...
Argentina Eyes New Submarines and Frigates
Argentina plans to acquire three submarines and two frigates under its 2027 budget, aiming to rebuild critical capabilities and secure financing.
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🚨🚨🚨 300 Russia-linked vessels in 11 weeks. 🇺🇦 Ukraine says its drones have disabled hundreds of vessels associated with 🇷🇺 Russia's shadow fleet across the Black Sea and Sea of Azov. 💥 134 vessels disabled in the Sea of Azov 💥 166 vessels hit in the Black Sea
You haven’t seen a ship like this before(!): China’s New Giant Submarine Drone Mothership www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2...
China's New Giant Submarine Drone Mothership - Naval News
A new vessel spotted at a Chinese shipyard is likely the world’s first mothership designed to deploy submarine drones. It represents the latest piece in the puzzle of China’s undeclared effort to deve...
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More AI Slop. Recent image (still from vid) of one of Russia’s Pr. 11661 Gepard Class light frigates from the Caspian Sea covered with large anti-drone nets, Sep 2026 Then 2 fake AI Slop 'enhancements' which look better at first glance but are hallucinaions. It's just nets
Russian Dark Fleet Tactics on the Northern Sea Route maritime-executive.com/article/russ...
Russian Dark Fleet Tactics on the Northern Sea Route
With the opening up of the Russian Northern Sea Route, exploiting the reduction in ice in the sea corridor running across Russia’s northern coastline,...
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#OTD 18/9/1918 #RememberRCN -During the night of 18-19 September German U-cruiser, U-155 cuts one of the underwater telegraph cables off Sable Island linking Canada with Britain. #WWI #FirstWorldWar
China's Innovative new Uncrewed Submarine Mothership - Covert Shores version... www.hisutton.com/China-XXLUUV...
China’s Innovative new Uncrewed Submarine Mothership
China is building a new form of drone mothership, one large enough and specially shaped and equipped, to carry drone submarines. The vessel is under construction at the Hudong-Zhonghua shipyard in Sha...
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Russia killed the captain of a Tanzanian-flagged civilian ship and injured 3 crew members in a drone strike in the Black Sea. The vessel was heading to a Ukrainian port, as Russia continues attacking foreign-flagged ships and putting international crews at risk. euromaidanpress.com/2026/09/17/r...
Russia kills captain of Tanzanian-flagged ship in latest attack on civilian shipping in Black Sea
Russia has repeatedly attacked civilian shipping around Ukraine’s Black Sea ports, putting international crews and maritime trade at risk.
euromaidanpress.com
🚢 ❗️Russia attacked a civilian ship in the Black Sea: captain killed On September 17, while en route to one of the Ukrainian ports, a ship under the Tanzanian flag was attacked by a Russian UAV. The ship's captain died as a result of the strike, and three other crew members were injured.
🗓️ #OTD in 1943 – COPP's Nigel Willmott tells D-Day planners that he'll need no fewer than four X-craft midget submarines (📸 IWM A 22899) if his men are to properly recce Normandy beaches right up to the currently-planned D-Day in early May '44. #NavalHistory 🧵 ▶️ buff.ly/HVUbXqB
One of the two Caspian Sea Flotilla Gepard-class frigates, likely TARTARSTAN based on the CIWS arrangement aft.
🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦@specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 2w agoOne of Russia’s warships in the Caspian Sea covered with large anti-drone nets. Russia has increasingly added this kind of protection after Ukrainian long-range drones began repeatedly reaching Kaspiysk in Dagestan, around 1,000 km from the frontline.