Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards unveiled an underground missile base at an undisclosed Gulf location today, Iranian state media reported, at a time of heightened tension between Tehran and the United States. ‘The base is one of several bases housing the Guards’ Navy’s strategic missiles,’ the state media quoted the head of the Guards, Major General … Read more
Scientists are racing to find out if the new mutant strain of coronavirus is vulnerable to current vaccines. Ministry of Defence scientists at the secretive Porton Down laboratory, near Salisbury, Wiltshire, are looking into why the new variation spreads so rapidly, why it has become dominant, and if it can be fought off through current vaccines, … Read more
A US Air Force base in Germany faced an incoming missile scare after a false alarm went off telling crews to ‘seek cover’ from an aerial attack. Officials and reports say that it was was later found to be a training exercise that caused the warning at the Ramstein Air Base in southwest Germany, that lies … Read more
Magic moment! BASE jumpers leap off 650ft mountain on broomsticks in stunt inspired by Harry Potter’s Quidditch games BASE jumper Antony Newton leaps from the 650ft mountain in the Swiss Alps The group came up with idea for their 500th jump after watching Harry Potter One person shouts a spell from the movies before they … Read more
President Donald Trump said Monday that he is fighting his increasingly desperate effort to remain in office by finding a way to overturn the vote in battleground states on behalf of his supporters – not for his own benefit. Trump has maintained a drumbeat of unsupported claims of large-scale fraud through the Thanksgiving weekend and … Read more
Amazing new drone photos show a former nuclear weapons base which once stored up to half of Britain’s nuclear bombs during the Cold War hiding beneath the autumn foliage. The site at RAF Barnham in West Suffolk was active during the early 1950s and was one of only two such facilities ever built in the … Read more
‘We escaped from war to prison’: Migrants protest over conditions at ex-military base in Wales that was turned into massive camp for asylum seekers Asylum seekers housed at a former military camp protested over conditions One demonstrator held up a sign saying: ‘We escaped from war to prison’ Around 230 migrants were sent to the … Read more
‘We escaped from war to prison’: Migrants protest over conditions at ex-military base in Wales that was turned into massive camp for asylum seekers Asylum seekers housed at a former military camp protested over conditions One demonstrator held up a sign saying: ‘We escaped from war to prison’ Around 230 migrants were sent to the … Read more
Mystery ‘spy boat’ washes up near nuclear submarine base as Royal Navy set up elite unit to hunt for Russian drones near top secret sites Team understood to have been deployed to Faslane to track underwater drones Comes after an unmanned ‘spy boat’ found off the coast of Scotland last month Surge in Russian subs … Read more
Royal Navy chiefs set up elite unit to hunt for Russian spyware including underwater drones near UK’s key nuclear submarine base Team understood to have been deployed to Faslane to track underwater drones Comes after an unmanned ‘spy boat’ found off the coast of Scotland last month Surge in Russian subs in waters previously controlled … Read more