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Perth Now
22-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Twilight star weds long-time love at intimate ceremony
Kristen Stewart is officially off the market after marrying her long-time partner, Dylan Meyer. The 35-year-old Twilight star and the 37-year-old screenwriter shared a sweet moment reading their vows during a simple and intimate ceremony at Casita Del Campo with close family and friends. The lovers opted for outfits that complemented each other, with Meyer wearing a short mesh dress and Stewart keeping it casual in a beige two-piece set. Stewart's messy blonde hair was left down while Meyer's matching blonde hair was swept up in a ponytail and secured with a back ribbon. Pictures also showed Stewart placing a ring on Meyer's finger and the loved-up duo sharing their first kiss as a married couple. Their wedding comes after the pair dated for six years and obtained a marriage license at a courthouse, according to TMZ. Pretty Little Liars star Ashley Benson and Bradon James Black were on the guest list and arrived with their Hermes wedding gift in hand. Stewart and Meyer first went public with their relationship in 2019, before Meyer popped the question in 2021. Kristen Stewart and longtime partner Dylan Meyer say "I do" during an intimate wedding. Credit: AKMG / Terma, SL / BACKGRID Stewart told The Howard Stern Show in November 2021: 'I wanted to be proposed to, so I think I very distinctly carved out what I wanted. And, you know, she nailed it. It was really cute. She did very well.' 'And we're marrying. It's happening. 'I want to stay home. Like, I want to be in L.A. so everyone can come. 'And, you know, I want it to be pretty chill. Like, I don't want anyone walking anyone down any aisles. Like, we're just going to, like, stand and, like, do vows and f**king party after. It's kind of just a great excuse to, like, get together and say, like, 'I love you' in front of all your friends.' Ashley Benson and Brandon Davis. Credit: AKMG / Terma, SL / BACKGRID The Spencer actress previously told Stern in 2019, she and Meyer met 'years ago' while working on a movie, but didn't reconnect until a friend's birthday party six years later. 'The first time I told her that I loved her it was like really late and we were in some sh**ty bar and her friends were there or whatever, and they like walked out, and I was just like, 'Oh man, I'm so f**king in love with you.' Like, done.' Stewart opened up about starting a family with Meyer, sharing in a March 2024 episode of the Not Skinny But Not Fat podcast that the two have 'done really annoying things like freeze our eggs and stuff.' 'So if we want to, we can,' the Love Lies Bleeding star said. 'Keeping that open.'
Forbes
26-03-2025
- Politics
- Forbes
Ukraine's F-16s Double As Radar-Hunting Spy Planes
Ukrainian F-16s. Seven months after their combat debut in August, Ukraine's Lockheed Martin F-16 fighters are flying sorties every day—sometimes several sorties per jet. Launching from a nationwide network of small airstrips, sometimes in conjunction with Ukraine's recently arrived Dassault Mirage 2000s, the nimble supersonic F-16s are shooting down Russian attack drones, jamming Russian radars with their underslung electronic warfare pods, dropping precision bombs—sometimes 'through someone's window,' according to one anonymous pilot—and apparently using their self-protection systems to pinpoint Russian air defenses. 'We constantly perform flights for aerial reconnaissance,' the unnamed pilot said in a recent official interview. 'We perform flights for electronic reconnaissance,' he specified. Among the thousands of F-16s in service around the world, there are some that are specially equipped for reconnaissance—with underbelly camera or radar pods. But Ukraine isn't known to have received any of these pods. Rather, the roughly 16 or so F-16s Ukraine has received—out of 85 surplus jets pledged by Belgium, Denmark, The Netherlands and Norway—normally fly with AIM-9 infrared-guided air-to-air missiles, AIM-120 radar-guided air-to-air missiles, Small Diameter Bomb glide bombs and AN/ALQ-131 E.W. pods, which broadcast radio noise that can clog up a radar operator's screen. The AN/ALQ-131 pods, which are programmed by a Florida-based team of U.S. Air Force specialists, can 'give you a pocket of air superiority for a moment's time to achieve an objective that has strategic importance and impact,' a USAF official explained. Ukrainian F-16s also have the option of carrying Pylon Integrated Dispensing System and the Electronic Combat Integrated Pylon Systems: PIDS and ECIPS. PIDS ejects metal chaff and hot-burning flares to spoof incoming radar- and infrared-guided anti-aircraft missiles. ECIPS houses passive defenses to complement the active chaff and flares, including the AN/ALQ-162 jammer for defeating radars on the ground, as well as an AN/AAR-60 missile warning system for triggering the passive defenses. Self-protection pylons on a Ukrainian F-16. The warning system connects to an electronic warfare management system, made by Terma in Denmark, that itself connects to a display inside the cockpit that shows the pilot where enemy radars are in relation to their aircraft. If Ukrainian F-16 pilots are flying electronic reconnaissance missions, they're probably leaning heavily on the Terma management system. This is a new and critical capability for Ukraine. The Ukrainian air force's older, ex-Soviet fighters—its Mikoyan MiG-29s and Sukhoi Su-27s—don't even carry jammers, to say nothing of taking to the air with integrated self-defense systems that can double as reconnaissance systems. The sequence of sorties is simple, if the unnamed F-16 pilot's explanation is accurate. F-16s fly recon missions, pinpoint Russian radars based on their emissions and then land so intelligence analysts can fold the fresh intelligence into strike planning. 'When all this is summed up, we plan flights for further action to defeat the enemy,' the pilot said. When the rearmed F-16s head back out, perhaps aiming to fling a glide bomb through some unfortunate Russian's window, their pilots know where to go, and not to go, to avoid Russian air defenses.
