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Public and manufacturer-facing reporting consistently lists the Gripen E’s maximum attainable speed as roughly Mach 2 at altitude, but available sources do not provide a single, authoritative figure f...
The UK’s military budget has risen sharply since 2022 and is now among the world’s largest, running to tens of billions of pounds and equivalent to well over 2% of GDP in current estimates; NATO expec...
The claim that the UK is offering is not supported by available reporting or official documents; recent coverage instead shows government payments of up to and routine changes to welfare or historical...
Since its founding by presidential decree in 2018, the Military Innovation Technopolis has become ’s flagship institutional attempt to speed by centralizing research, embedding military scientific uni...
Freetown Christiania persisted through a patchwork of informal tolerance, periodic legal normalization measures, and negotiated compromises that gradually folded the squatter commune into Danish frame...
Finland’s HX competition concluded that, when measured across acquisition, sustainment and lifecycle development within Finland’s chosen financial framework, the F‑35A was the most cost‑effective opti...
Reports that Palestine Action permanently disabled two RAF planes at Brize Norton are contradicted by at least one outlet which says one aircraft was back in service within about two weeks; Declassifi...
The publicly available reporting supplied does not include an authoritative headcount for the ; the UK government maintains a long‑standing policy of not commenting on , and open sources describe unit...
The clearest, government-backed headline is that ’s contribution to the Trident II (D5) missile service-life extension was put at £821.5 million in 2023, while the capital replacement programme for th...
and have been the focus of reporting about from aging pipework at Coulport and a range of (NSERs) at , including a Category A event in early 2025; regulators — chiefly the and nuclear regulators worki...
is a state‑led “military Silicon Valley” created by presidential decree in 2018 to accelerate defense-focused R&D by knitting together , defence firms, universities and research institutes . Since its...
There is no clear evidence in the provided reporting of formal national audit office (NAO) reports from Sweden, Brazil or other Gripen E operators that publish audited, ex‑post figures for the actual ...
Saab’s claims that the Gripen E has a low cost per flight hour are repeatedly stated in company materials and summarized by analysts, but clear, public independent government audits that validate the ...
Yes: using powers granted by the Enabling Act, the Nazi government moved in January 1934 to end organized Freemasonry in Germany—issuing directives that led to the formal disbandment of lodges and the...
Donating UAH 50,000 to buy military equipment for a sibling sits within a broad, well-documented ecosystem of state and private fundraising and procurement channels: Ukraine’s DOT‑Chain Defence platfo...
Public reporting shows wide, inconsistent figures for cost‑per‑flight‑hour (CPFH/CPLH) for Gripen and Typhoon rather than firm, agreed “real‑world” numbers: multiple industry summaries and forums cite...
Radioactive contamination linked to radium-containing luminous aircraft dials was discovered at Dalgety Bay in 1990 and more than 1,600 contaminated items have been removed from that foreshore over ye...
The UK is dismantling decommissioned nuclear submarines at Rosyth as part of the Submarine Dismantling Project; seven decommissioned, defuelled boats are at Rosyth and the demonstrator HMS Swiftsure i...
The supplied materials do not contain any information about the Nigerian government’s response under President Bola Tinubu (2023–2025) to attacks on Christians or security challenges in the Middle Bel...
The most specific, recent reporting identifies as the damaged equipment during the Palestine Action protest, with the incident described as spray‑painting that caused of damage, according to a BBC acc...