The British Army is in the same crisis mode as the Royal Navy; they're a post-imperial military basket case that could not fight an invasion of Sports Illustrated swimsuit models. They would be defeated. Across the board with the possible exception of the vaunted Special Air Service and the Royal Marines, the British military project is a shambles. It can't float submarines that do the right thing, it can't deploy its conventional-fueled aircraft carriers and it has experienced a steady decline in manpower across the board. Per the Ajax Infantry Fighting Vehicle (IFV): Health & Safety...

So pardon me for a rather technical discussion that points out yet another flaw in the haunted and ridiculously poorly performing F35 program. Why was Shipborne Rolling Vertical Landing (SRVL) EXTREMELY important for the UK carriers? The SRVL capability needs as little as 10% of the F-35B entire fuel capacity during the landing process. During SRVL, the F-35B nose is pitched up and the fighter glides to a landing by friction on wheels only, with no outside assistance. As good as this capability is at conserving fuel, it is very difficult and dangerous, there is no guarantee SRVL will work...

I suspect the Israeli military force losses are even greater than they let on. The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) last won a war in 1973; everything else has been a stalemate or a near-run defeat. This latest massacre machine against defenseless humans may be the last gasp of an always overestimated military entity. During two years of Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza, the military lost 923 troops and saw 6,399 wounded, while roughly 20,000 soldiers suffer from post-traumatic stress, according to Israeli media citing army data. Under heavy military censorship, the army faces accusations of...

2028. The plan is to spend four trillion more before they can deliver on proving where the money is going. You can't make this up. I read the GAO reports so you don't have to. If fraud was a Ferris wheel, it would be shaped like the Pentagon. The Marine Corps is the only organization to complete an audit and they comprise one percent of all DoD spending. One percent. As previously discussed, the Marine Corps was able to obtain and sustain a clean audit opinion in fiscal years 2023 and 2024 largely through a substantive-based audit approach and manual effort. The Marine Corps’ auditor noted...

No one knows how to innovate better than the actual users of end-items and the Congress has manged to throw another bone to a bloated and ineffective bureaucracy by destroying right to repair for the services. US lawmakers have removed provisions in the National Defense Authorization Act for 2026 that would have ensured military members’ right to repair their own equipment. The final language of the NDAA was shared by the House Armed Services Committee on Sunday, after weeks of delays pushed the annual funding bill to the end of the year. Among a host of other language changes made as part...

Vanguard class nuclear submarine But with all the scientists and engineers imported from Africa into the UK, how is this even possible? On a more serious note, it is high time for America to suspend its maintenance program of the Trident systems the UK uses. Yet another Islamic nuclear armed nation is not in the interests of the US. The replacements should have been coming into service in 2024, not 2032 like they are. The issues are mainly about the Royal Navy's ship and submarine R+D design center at Bristol being closed in the early '90s. Which meant that ship manufacturers who had...

The Ukraine and Russian forces have been building drones for less than three thousand dollars and the "Affordable Mass"  efforts in the US had an original floor price of three hundred thousand dollars because that is the way the American "defense" acquisition system rolls. Quantity does have a quality all of its own but the US is way behind the power curve. The future is drones in peer combat in the 21st century. The future is missiles in peer combat in the 21st century. The future is salvo competition in peer combat in the 21st century. The future is a war of leakers in peer combat in the...