Recent content by Kirkhill

https://militarnyi.com/en/news/ukrainian-drone-engines-to-be-produced-in-europe-as-an-alternative-to-chinese-engines/ This may turn out to the major outcome of the Ukrainian war effort. Ukraine was forced to build electric motors cheap, fast and well with avalable resources. Other non-Chinese...

Is this the ultimate counter-measure? Cover drones in photo-receptors? The more you shoot at them the longer they stay in the air? https://interestingengineering.com/military/laser-could-beam-power-to-aircraft Lasers as range-finders, as radars for mapping, as dazzlers, as LOS communicators...

https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2025/12/more-firepower-f127-frigates-to-be-armed-with-96-vertical-launch-cells/ What is the purpose of a ship?

Does it have the networking capability described? And how similar is it to the TAPV RWS?

"According to reporting by the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA), the Taiwanese government requested the purchase from the United States of forty (40) new M109A7 Paladin self-propelled howitzers, along with a significant package of support vehicles intended to perform ammunition...

I was meaning another post. You're right it is the first sale and I wouldn't consider Kosovo a first line customer. Still, everybody has to start somewhere.

Too much LNG capacity? A Louisiana LNG project shelved to spend the money on more domestic pipelines. https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Energy-Transfer-Cancels-LNG-Project.html

Further to the thought If C-UAS is a cross-domain problem then perhaps cross-domain solutions are a possibility. The RS4 protector seems to be essentially the RWS on the TAPV as well as many other vehicles. The PROTECTOR RS4 a highly flexible system designed for small and medium caliber...

Fair point. But what other route is there available to cost effectively bring into service the additional sailors necessary to fight a war? I note that a good chunk of the force at sea in WW2 was RCNVR. I believe we will need more people at sea. I believe at least some of them can be sailing...

The word is "eventually". Not popular with politicians because it is hard to claim credit.

Drone fibres

https://www.businessinsider.com/ukraine-interceptors-production-goal-drone-warfare-russia-shahed-2025-12 1000 C-UAS drones a day $1600 apiece https://militarnyi.com/en/articles/exclusive-ukraine-s-techno-taras-budget-interceptor-drone-detailed-to-militarnyi/ $2500 apiece...

Shadow fleet in Singapore https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/19/rogue-tankers-in-singapore-what-are-shadow-fleets-and-who-uses-them Singapore is a member of the 5 Power alliance Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, New Zealand, UK...

https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/18/1130148/china-ev-battery-recycle/ And what do you do when your car's battery won't hold a charge? You get rid of the car as well as the batteries. And when does that happen? When your battery capacity has dropped by 20% and wll only hold 80% of the...

Other end of the spectrum - the US Army is looking for a lot of low cost AIM 9 Sidewinder analogs for the SHORAD layer. Anduril thinks it can build lots of solid fuel rockets cheaply. Seekers may be a different matter. But those are Boeing's problem...