🇦🇺/🇬🇧/🏴 Defence analyst and journalist. All opinions are my own. Usual caveats.
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Charles Forrester retweeted
Algeria has released footage of the YJ-12BE (CM-302) hitting targets. Besides its high speed, penetration capability is actually its most critical feature; the missile has multiple penetration tactics including multi-trajectory flight and terminal anti-interception maneuvers.
Charles Forrester retweeted
The last diesel tanker which was still heading for US shores has turned around.
So in summary, Trump's diesel deal with Putin caused no diesel to arrive in the US, didn't drop diesel prices, and caused his party to badly lose the US Midterms.
The Art Of The Deal indeed. 📉💥
Charles Forrester retweeted
مصنع عسكري تركي جديد للذخائر المتوسطة والكبيرة والقنابل الجوية اكتمل إنشاؤه في الأردن🇯🇴🇹🇷 فماذا نعرف عنه؟
Charles Forrester retweeted
The chances of being killed by a landmine delivered by a bear are low, but they are never zero.
Charles Forrester retweeted
Copilot prompt: "can you find me any SAM targets in Kalingrad for F-35s?"
"Sure - I have found you a ball-bearing plant in Schweinfurt. Would you like help in planning that attack?"
The modern military should use AI instead of manpower wherever possible, the head of the Royal Air Force (RAF) has said
🔗 telegraph.co.uk/politics/202…
Charles Forrester retweeted
Türkiye and Syria have agreed a roadmap to strengthen the Syrian Navy, following a Turkish delegation’s visit to Latakia on 23 October 2026. Planned areas of co-operation include ship maintenance, modernisation, construction, training and infrastructure.
warsight.com/2026/10/26/turk…
Charles Forrester retweeted
This infographic highlights the scale and impact of Houthi attacks on civilian objects in Saudi Arabia following the breach of the truce on July 13, 2026. As of October 15, 2026, 42 attacks have been recorded, resulting in 19 deaths and more than 463 injuries, including 12 attacks targeting airports and 9 targeting energy infrastructure.
The data further illustrates the week-by-week escalation in Houthi attacks, with October 5–11, 2026, marking the deadliest week and accounting for all 19 deaths. Of the 11 attacks recorded during this period, 10 targeted airports, including a cruise missile strike on King Khalid International Airport that killed 12 people and injured 309 others.
Charles Forrester retweeted
أبراج قتالية مغربية لمدرعات 8×8 تبدأ التسليم للجيش في مارس 2027
أعلن المدير العام لشركة الصناعة العسكرية المغربية (MMI)، كادوري ناعور، على هامش معرض مراكش الجوي أن شركته ستنتج الأبراج والذخيرة المرتبطة بها لمركبات #تاتا الهندية المجمّعة في المغرب، مع نسخة مضادة للمسيّرات برادار صغير وشظايا تنغستن.
وتتحدث مصادر عن ارتباط MMI بشركة إلبيت الإسرائيلية دون توضيح علني من الشركة، فيما تتطلع إلى التصدير لدولة أوروبية عضو في #الناتو.
هل تنجح الرباط في بناء صناعة دفاعية وطنية حقيقية عبر هذه الشراكات؟
التفاصيل:
buff.ly/DGCdRA5
Charles Forrester retweeted
Me when people ask me how I still find the Balkans interesting after covering it for so long:
Charles Forrester retweeted
"So the Kremlin has an army of secret shitters and they're taking dumps in Finnish toilets and this is an escalation of..."
Russia has been accused of sending secret agents to defecate in the lavatories of Finnish MPs in a bizarre escalation of its hybrid warfare against the West
🔗 telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10…
Charles Forrester retweeted
Bell Textron has formally commenced manufacturing AH-1Z Viper attack helicopters for Nigeria as part of a Foreign Military Sales (FMS) programme approved by the United States in 2024.
defenceweb.co.za/aerospace/a…
Charles Forrester retweeted
The renegotiation of the US-Israel Memorandum of Understanding covering military aid could drive a greater Israeli push for localised defence industrialisation.
warsight.com/2026/09/18/pack…
Charles Forrester retweeted
The fact that the most powerful superweapon since the nuclear bomb is just being freelanced out of Silicon Valley is fucking insane. Imagine the money flowing into politicians that is allowing this to happen without any oversight.
BREAKING: Anthropic CEO calls for immediate slowdown in AI development
axios.com/2026/09/12/anthrop…
Charles Forrester retweeted
I have spent 23 years documenting the global LED transition of city lighting from space.
Across my 4 missions to the ISS, I have photographed every major city on Earth, building a data set of the gradual replacement of sodium vapor lighting with LEDs.
The warmer, yellow-orange of gas discharge lamps has been phased out worldwide to multi-colored LEDs, citing energy savings and environmental reasons.
Widespread adoption has markedly changed the way our cities look from orbit, and as many have pointed out, how they feel to those on the ground!
Here is a collection of the most striking before-and-after photos I have observed:
Charles Forrester retweeted
When we were shutting down bases in Afghanistan in 2013, one of the guys in my unit was told he needed to transport a TV back to Bagram because it was on the property book.
He carefully packaged it and after several days of driving, ensuring he didn’t break it, he got it there.
They were given instructions where to drop it off at. When they arrived, a man took their paperwork, signed it, and then destroyed the TV with a sledgehammer.
I think about that story a lot.
