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had one of these come in hot a few hours ago.
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Quite the right turn clyde then dropped alt for approach.
Japan hails Britain's plan to send aircraft carrier group to Asia
Japanese Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi on Thursday welcomed Britain's plan to dispatch an aircraft carrier strike group to waters in the western Pacific amid China's growing maritime assertiveness. During a video conference with his British counterpart Ben Wallace, Kishi said Japan will work closely with the country for the dispatch of the strike group, centered on the aircraft carrier Queen Elizabeth, according to the Defense Ministry.
The carrier, commissioned in 2017, is Britain's largest warship, weighing 65,000 tons and measuring 280 meters in length. It is expected to carry out joint exercises with Japan's Self-Defense Forces and the U.S. military during its stay in areas including off the Nansei Islands chain in southwestern Japan. Kishi and Wallace agreed that the two countries will "strongly oppose" any unilateral attempt to change the status quo in the East and South China seas through force, according to the Japanese ministry.
China has aggressively pressed its territorial claims in those bodies of water, raising tensions with Tokyo and a number of other Asian countries. Kishi and Wallace agreed to strengthen a free and open Indo-Pacific and defense cooperation, and work toward holding "two-plus-two" talks involving their countries' foreign ministers at an early date, the ministry said.
They also reaffirmed they will work toward the goal of North Korea ridding itself of weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles in a "complete, verifiable and irreversible manner," it said.
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20210115/p2g/00m/0na/018000c
THUNDR07 USAF Sentry AWACS se out of Tinker
IRON01 US Navy E-6B Mercury was doing runway shots at Ellington Airport-data cleaned up to show it.
Still doing it
New Zealand central bank says cyberattack resulted in 'significant data breach'
The Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) on Friday said an investigation into the cyberattack that hacked its data systems earlier this week revealed it was dealing with a significant data breach. The breach was first announced earlier this week and RBNZ said a file sharing service provided by California-based Accellion was illegally accessed. “The ongoing investigation makes it clear that the breach is serious and has significant data implication,” Governor Adrian Orr said in video statement released to the media.
“While a malicious third party has committed the crime, and we believe service provisions have fallen short of our agreement, the Bank has also fallen short of the standards expected by our stakeholders,” Orr said in an accompanying written statement. “Personally, I own this issue and I am disappointed and sorry,” Orr said.
Accellion has said in its media responses that it was made aware of the vulnerability in mid-December and released a patch within 72 hours to the less than 50 customers affected. The system that was breached has been secured and closed, and New Zealand’s financial system remains sound and open for business, RBNZ said.
Apart from the forensic cyber investigation underway, the bank also appointed an independent third party to undertake a review of the incident. Orr said he could not provide any further details as it could adversely affect the investigation and the steps being taken to mitigate the breach.
The breach comes just months after New Zealand’s stock exchange operator was targeted in a series of distributed denial of service attacks that overwhelmed its website, preventing trading for several days.
https://www.reuters.com/article/newzealand-cyber/update-2-nz-central-bank-governor-apologises-after-cyberattack-resulted-in-serious-data-breach-idUSL1N2JQ02J