We can’t keep firing million dollar missiles to down drones. The cost to defend cannot dwarf the cost to attack. Time to scale interceptors. ⬇️
The evolution of modern warfare has seen the skies proliferated with drones and missiles. Precision is no longer the preserve of the superpower – low cost drones and missiles are
Are we getting bang for buck? As our key ally pushes for greater Defence spending what is the cost effectiveness of our current contribution? ⬇️
We’d like to commend to you a white paper authored by Independent Consultant Peter F Robinson that we will add in the comments. Before setting up his own shop Peter
Change is constant in the crucible of combat. When observing innovation in War we should ask is this evolutionary, revolutionary or an anomaly? ⬇️
Gen. Jim Rainey, the Commander of Army Futures Command General Jim Rainey joined Ryan Evans on a recent ‘War on the Rocks’ podcast that canvassed ‘How to think about the
The brutal reality of supply constraints of the consumables of combat is this: if you don’t make it onshore, you can’t guarantee surety of supply. ⬇️
POLITICO is reporting that the Pentagon has made the difficult decision to prioritise keeping key consumables of combat in its war stocks and has cancelled shipments of much needed missiles
Back to the drawing board for Australia’s plans to manufacture 155 mm high explosive rounds onshore. ⬇️
In the last few weeks there has been a bit of news about munitions and in particular that key consumable of combat the 155 mm high explosive rounds fired by
Ukraine has used the small, the smart and the many to damage or destroy Russian high value targets that cannot easily be replaced. ⬇️
Operation Spiderweb was a combination of classic spycraft and special operations and once again demonstrated the utility of drones to render exquisite platforms vulnerable. It was a high low mix
The proliferation of fibre optic drones in Ukraine gives a great glimpse of what we need to be ready for in large scale combat operations. ⬇️
No doubt you’ve heard of first person view (FPV) drones – small, cheap and fast drones controlled remotely by a pilot flying from real time vision. These were everywhere –
If the US and allies are to compete in the Indo Pacific, the quantity and quality of the combined naval fleets will matter. ⬇️
RAND has an interesting read calling for the US to partner with the leading democratic shipbuilders in Japan and South Korea to scale the force in being. The article mentions
While the focus has been on first person view drones, long-range low-cost drones like the Shahed continue to cause widespread destruction. ⬇️
Using lessons learned in combat, Russia has evolved Iran’s Shahed into a domestically manufactured Geran-2. Russia has scaled manufacturing of the Geran-2 and is waging what Center for Strategic and
In WWII the Arsenal of Democracy built thousands of Liberty ships. Australia’s shipyards played our part – but here the priority was to repair. ⬇️
Those of you who have read Arthur Herman’s masterclass ‘Freedom’s Forge’ may recall the legend of Henry Kaiser who managed to disrupt the entire shipbuilding industry during WWII. Herman’s latest