Mark Piesing
@MarkPiesing
I write on tech, history + books @airandspace @BBC_Future @HISTORY @spectator | WINNER Aerospace Media Awards 2025| Finalist 2024 |Author N-4 DOWN @marinerbooks
I was gobsmacked to win an award at the Aerospace Media Awards in Paris last night for my article for @airandspace Quarterly on the Secret History of Drones. Thanks to the editors and curators who made it possible! #PAS2025 #ParisAirShow2025
This thread on 'Armageddon Scenario' - the secret UK plans to evacuate over 1 million people from Hong Kong may interest @marcogiann @haynesdeborah @jeromestarkey @larisamlbrown @UKDefJournal @MarkPiesing @BeaverWestminst @nicholadrummond @Sandbagger_01 @TomSharpe134 @shashj
A dark day in RN history- betting the farm for a future that is yet to arrive.
#OnThisDay 20 years ago MOD announces that 12 ships will be paid off. T45 order reduced from 12 to 6, personnel reduced by 1,500. 1SL at time said 'I am confident that these changes will leave the Navy better organised and equipped to face the challenges of the future.'
This sounds like an excellent summer read! The Blood in Winter — Jonathan Healey’s gripping prelude to civil war ft.com/content/9a97b8… via @ft
This is a must read. North Korea’s military is being transformed on the battlefields of Ukraine – so why is Seoul silent? theguardian.com/world/2025/jul…
I am just waiting in the beautiful @Dauntbooks for @Iain_MacGregor1 and Sinclair McKay to talk about the excellent Hiroshima Men!
“We are dealing with a level 10 super Godzilla….But the bureaucracy only sees a tiger.” #NorthKorea
This is a must read. North Korea’s military is being transformed on the battlefields of Ukraine – so why is Seoul silent? theguardian.com/world/2025/jul…
Cannot emphasise how bad this is. Our costs for electrification are dire entirely because we only do it in boom and bust bursts. If you have to train a workforce of 1000s every time you want to do a project it’s always going to lead to cost blowouts as they start from scratch!
Midland Main Line electrification teams to be stood down this year as project is paused railmagazine.com/news/midland-m…
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This is the only surviving footage of Anne Frank, #OTD July 22, 1941. Anne is seen leaning out of the window of her house in Amsterdam to get a look at a couple who is celebrating their wedding day. Anne Frank was murdered in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945.
I wish I had seen this at @airtattoo ! youtube.com/watch?v=uk6eD5…
Liz Kendall complains that almost half the country isn't saving ANYTHING towards retirement. That's because they don't have ANYTHING left over each month after paying their bills, Liz. 🙄
Those three flew that rocket to the Moon, and with Mike orbiting, Neil and Buzz walked on the surface 56 years ago today. One of the greatest achievements in all of history, it still inspires the world.
Australia has successfully delivered dozens of M1A1 AIM Abrams MBTs to Ukraine, as part of the first tranche of 49 pledged tanks.
The Mission: The CIA in the 21st Century — intelligence in an age of evolving tech and Donald Trump ft.com/content/4e6448… via @ft
Great pics from the Aerospace Media Awards last month with some v worthy winners! #avgeek #pas25