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Anonymous ID: 43653b Feb. 28, 2023, 3:02 p.m. No.18425583   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5664 >>5935 >>6015

PlaneFag CONUS Update

 

Potato in no callsign 82-8000 747 >>18424503 pb returned to JBA from NAS Oceana from muh hussien care pimping and will do the same thing in Baltimore tomorrow

 

SAM258 C-40BJanet Yellenfrom Rzsesow Airport (Shannon Ireland refueling stop) >>18423589 pb, VM374 and VM767 C560s from a Ft. Lauderdale Exec. Airport stop of about 90m and VM374 C-560 stopped at Houma-Terebonne Airport in southern LA >>18424000 pb

 

PAT953 C-560 went to McGuire AFB from Scott AFB

 

Cap#3 current Activity

CLUCK64 (mirror that for 46) E-6B Mercury heading to Tinker from an off-shore Pax River depart FIRK66 E-6B Mercury NE from Tinker and

PAT774 C-12V Huron NE from Little Rock-Bill and Hillbags Int'l Airport stop of 5h from Blue Grass Aiport, KY stop of 35m and departed from Aberdeen Proving Ground earlier today

PAT100 C-26B Metro east NW from Jefferson City Memorial Airport after about 4h 20m on ground from Raleigh, N.C.

PAT099 C-12V Huron east from Ft. Leonard Wood stop of about 40m and prior at Evansville, IN for 30m

Anonymous ID: 43653b Feb. 28, 2023, 4:03 p.m. No.18425725   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5739 >>5768

Virgin Galactic says first customers headed to space soon

 

Billionaire Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc. said it’s on track to take an Italian Air Force research crew to space in the second quarter of 2023, kicking off the company’s long-awaited commercial service. The company will need to take several steps before it reaches the milestone, including ground testing of its primary spaceplane, VSS Unity, and carrier aircraft, VMS Eve, Virgin Galactic said Tuesday. It also plans to conduct a full-powered test flight with Virgin employees on board.

 

Virgin Galactic gave the update along with its fourth-quarter results, which were mixed. Revenue reached US$869,000, higher than the US$564,000 analysts expected. However, the company lost 55 cents a share, more than the 50-cents-a-share loss anticipated by Wall Street. “Our near-term objective for commercial spaceline operations is to safely deliver recurring flights with our current ships while providing an unrivaled experience for private astronauts and researchers,” Chief Executive Officer Michael Colglazier said in a statement.

 

The shares reversed a postmarket gain of as much 6.4 per cent to fall 1.6 per cent as of 5 p.m. in New York. (Probably have a filing soon from one of his shell Co's with a sale of shares) The stock was up 65 per cent so far this year, through Tuesday’s close, to US$5.74 a share but down 90 per cent from its February 2021 peak. The company is aiming to deliver regular quick trips for customers on VSS Unity, which climbs to the edge of space after dropping from its carrier aircraft and then glides to a runway like a plane. Last year it reopened ticket sales to the general public at an increased price of US$450,000. The first customers to pay for flights many years ago initially agreed to pay us$250,000 per ticket.

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/virgin-galactic-says-first-customers-headed-to-space-soon-1.1889441

 

Cap#2 is from July 11th '21 when it reached NOT Space at 62k ft-totally gake and fhey

Anonymous ID: 43653b Feb. 28, 2023, 4:03 p.m. No.18425858   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5943 >>6015

China’s Imports of Russian Uranium Spark Fear of New Arms Race

 

On the same day in December when Chinese and US diplomats said they’d held constructive talks to reduce military tensions, Russian engineers were delivering a massive load of nuclear fuel to a remote island just 220 kilometers (124 miles) off Taiwan’s northern coast. China’s so-called fast-breeder reactor on Changbiao Island is one of the world’s most closely-watched nuclear installations. US intelligence officials forecast that when it begins working this year, the CFR-600 will produce weapons-grade plutonium that could help Beijing increase its stockpile of warheads as much as four-fold in the next 12 years. That would allow China to match the nuclear arsenals currently deployed by the US and Russia. “It is entirely possible that this breeder program is purely civilian,” said Pavel Podvig, a Geneva-based nuclear analyst with the United Nations’s Institute for Disarmament Research. “One thing that makes me nervous is that China stopped reporting its civilian and separated plutonium stockpiles. It’s not a smoking gun but it’s definitely not a good sign.”

 

China’s burgeoning capacity to expand its atomic weaponry comes as the last remaining treaty limiting the strategic stockpiles of the US and Russia is on the verge of collapse amid spiraling confrontation over the war in Ukraine. President Vladimir Putin announced Feb. 21 that Russia is suspending its involvement in the New START agreement, a decision US President Joe Biden condemned as a “big mistake.” In a Dec. 30 videoconference, Putin told Chinese President Xi Jinping that defense and military technology cooperation “has a special place” in their relations. “Clearly, China is benefiting from Russian support,” said Hanna Notte, a German arms-control "expert". The risk for Beijing is the US may expand its own stockpile in response to China’s build-up as well as the Kremlin’s abrogation of arms-control treaties and “the discrepancy will just grow again,” she said. US Department of Defense officials have repeatedly raised alarm over China’s nuclear-weapons ambitions since issuing a 2021 report to Congress. Military planners assess that the CFR-600 is poised to play a critical role in raising China’s stockpile of warheads to 1,500 by 2035 from an estimated 400 today.

 

Pentagon officials say Russian state-owned Rosatom Corp.’s Dec. 12 supply of 6,477 kilograms (14,279 pounds) of uranium is fueling an atomic program that could destabilize Asia’s military balance, where there are growing tensions over Taiwan and control of the South China Sea. China possesses few means to increase its plutonium stockpile for nuclear weapons after its original production program closed down in the 1990s, experts say. China rejects the US’s concerns. The Foreign Ministry in Beijing said China “strictly fulfilled its nuclear non-proliferation obligations” and voluntarily submitted “part of civil nuclear activities” to the International Atomic Energy Agency. Defense Ministry spokesman Tan Kefei said in a Feb. 23 briefing the US repeatedly hyped up the “China nuclear threat” as an excuse to expand its own strategic arsenal, while China maintained a defensive policy that includes no first-use of nuclear weapons.

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/china-s-imports-of-russian-uranium-spark-fear-of-new-arms-race-1.1889462