It's been a busy newsweek, but let's not miss this story: China has demonstrated the first commercial-scale passive cooling of a high temperature nuclear reactor with a pebble bed module. They intentionally turned off the cooling and the reactor cooled itself down, no problem.

Basically.

O destaque desta semana 🌊 O projeto “Trator do Mar” que visa o desenvolvimento, construção, experimentação e emprego operacional de uma plataforma não tripulada de superfície marítima foi realizado inteiramente por militares da Marinha, com apoio da Indústria Nacional.

🇵🇹NRP Dom Francisco de Almeida inbound to Glasgow this afternoon #SNMG1 #strikewarrior Via Sheila Weir

A 🇵🇹 Marinha assina no dia 17 de Dezembro com a 🇹🇷, o contrato para a construção de dois navios reabastecedores de esquadra e logísticos no âmbito do projeto NRE+.

Santa Claus has left the North Pole 🎄! Watch Santa's journey as he delivers presents to children worldwide with the NORAD Santa Tracker 🎁🎄 x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

"E finalmente percebes que mundo queres. Não é para meninos. Não é para meninas. É para quem quer abraçar a coragem de chegar longe." Junta-te a nós! ⚓🇵🇹🫡 Candidaturas abertas para diversas áreas. Sabe tudo em marinha.pt

The US Navy released a new photo of USS Preble (DDG-88) firing her HELIOS laser weapon.

Last year, Portugal donated a number of out-of-service Ka-32A11BC firefighting helicopters to Ukraine. Ukraine refurbished and returned them to flying status, and today, those Ka-32s worked to put out fires from Russia’s massive overnight air raid on civilian targets in Kyiv.

Once again, Iran appears to only target population centers and civilians in Israel. Really shows how desperate they are right now, likely hoping that mass casualties in Israel will force them to halt their strikes in Iran.

'Fancy algorithms are slow when n is small, and n is usually small.' -- Rob Pike

Nota de pesar É com profundo pesar que a Marinha comunica o falecimento do Subtenente Tiago Rafael Simões Reis. Neste momento de dor e profunda tristeza para a Marinha, enviamos as nossas sentidas condolências à família, aos amigos e aos seus camaradas.

This goes so hard

#FrigateFriday © Étienne Péran - Eorglas studio

Japan and Germany were devastated during WW 2 Their children didn’t become terrorists Stop making excuses for terrorists

The US Navy´s Great White Fleet in 1911

Power projection comes through proper preparation. The Marine nationale has one nuclear-powered aircraft-carrier. We make it count. © Étienne Péran - Eorglas studio

When the SR-71 feels threatened, it will perform a “deimatic display” in which it spreads out its frill, making it appear larger to its natural predators, such as the Air Force Budgetary Committee.

The first helicopter of the Portuguese Air Force. Sikorsky UH-19A, placed at the Air Base nº 4 of the Lajes Azores in 1952, registered with the number of tail 9101.