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The Irish Sun
02-05-2025
- Politics
- The Irish Sun
Trans snooker players face ban from women's game following football and cricket crackdowns
TRANS snooker players are set to be banned from the women's game. The move follows 2 Trans snooker player Jamie Hunter won the US Women's Snooker Open in 2022, but faced a backlash The World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA) is reviewing its policy after Former world No 1 Maria Catalano, a cousin of ace Ronnie O'Sullivan, welcomed the review . She has refused to play for three years since chiefs allowed trans women with reduced Maria said: 'Women cannot compete at the level the men do. They might win the odd match against biological men but for me, winning one match is not competing. There's a reason why they started a women's tour.' READ MORE ON SPORT The WPBSA said its position 'has always been that its policy would be subject to immediate review should there be a change in circumstances'. Its statement added: 'This is a complicated issue as the WPBSA has to ensure it complies with equality legislation around the world as well as in the UK.' In 2022, trans snooker player Jamie Hunter won the US Women's Snooker Open but was hit by an online backlash. Yesterday the England and Wales Cricket Board confirmed trans women will no longer play in any competitive women's and girls' cricket 'with immediate effect'. Most read in Snooker They had already been banned from the top two tiers. The FA said on Thursday that Trans women are NOT women, Supreme Court rules in win for anti-woke campaigners after battle over female-only spaces 2 Trans snooker players are set to be banned from the women's game Credit: Reuters
Yahoo
08-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
MQ-35 V-BAT's Capabilities Grow, Micro Guided Munitions Coming Next Year
Shield AI continues to make major enhancements to its versatile V-BAT vertical takeoff and landing drone, as well as the Hive Mind autonomy software that underpins its operations. From a successful combat trial in Ukraine to expanding V-BAT's connectivity and even getting kinetic strike options, our Jamie Hunter got the low-down on the future of the increasingly popular unmanned system from company co-founder Brandon Tseng on the floor of Sea Air Space 2025: Contact the editor: Tyler@
Yahoo
13-03-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
F-15EX Production Heats Up
TWZ's Jamie Hunter recently caught up with Robert Novotny, Boeing's executive director for F-15EX business development, who provided the latest on the U.S. Air Force's newest fighter, the Eagle II, which was recently the subject of high praise in the latest annual report from the Office of the Director, Operational Test & Evaluation (DOT&E). Right now, Boeing is preparing to start to deliver Lot 2 of the Air Force's F-15EX order, and the first aircraft in this batch — tail number 9 — flew earlier this month. Meanwhile, delivery of the eight Lot 1A and 1B jets was completed in June 2024, with six of those aircraft going to developmental testing at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, and two for the type's first operational unit, the 142nd Wing of the Oregon Air National Guard in Portland, Oregon. As Novotny discusses in the video, some of those Eglin F-15EXs recently took part in the latest edition of the Bamboo Eagle exercise off the California coast, which you can read about here. The large-force exercise series has quickly become one of the most important for the U.S. military, as well as key allies, and has a clear eye on preparing for a future coalition fight in the Pacific with China — a potential conflict in which the F-15EX would very likely play an important role. Novotny also alludes to teaming with unmanned aircraft and the F-15EX's ability to carry outsized weapons, which is something else that TWZ has looked at in detail in the past, as well as its current installation of the Eagle Passive/Active Warning Survivability System, or EPAWSS, which you can read more about here. Finally, there are some very interesting items on Novotny's 'wish list' for future F-15EX capabilities, namely smart expendables, a towed decoy, and enhancements to the infrared search and track sensor available to it. The video below, shot at the Air Force Association's 2025 Warfare Symposium in Aurora, Colorado, last week, gives us the full view on where the F-15EX program is at right now. Contact the author: thomas@
Yahoo
10-03-2025
- Yahoo
AI-Enabled Cognitive Electronic Warfare Capability Plugs Into F-16's Existing Radar Warning Receiver
TWZ's Jamie Hunter recently talked with Bryan Rosselli, President of advanced products and solutions for Raytheon, to get the lowdown on the AI-infused Cognitive Algorithm Deployment System (CADS) that is made to work with the company's AN/ALR-69 digital radar warning receiver (RWR). The biggest user of this RWR currently is the F-16 Viper fighter, but pairing it with CADS could work with many aircraft if AN/ALR-69 is integrated on them. Currently the RWR is also installed on KC-46 tankers and C-130 cargo planes, and will be on the Navy's upcoming MQ-25 Stingray tanker drones. CADS will also be able to plug into other types of systems to provide other AI-focused tasks. In CADS, we are seeing the emergence of cognitive electronic warfare — the ability for an electronic countermeasure and radar warning system to autonomously adapt to radio frequency threats, including those that are not even loaded into its threat library. Clearly, the convenience of being able to install CADS on F-16s and other aircraft already equipped with AN/ALR-69 makes it a very attractive option that could really impact survivability of these platforms in future fights. The video below, shot at the Air Force Association's 2025 Warfare Symposium in Aurora, Colorado, last week, gives us a broader look at CADS and what it is supposed to do: Contact the author: Tyer@
