Recent content by Colin Parkinson

From listening to shipyards talk, experience and better design equipment allows them to push prefitting to higher levels, a French yard was able to push theirs from 65% to 80%. As these blocks are likely 1 to 1 as the UK's Type 26, I suspect Irving is getting coaching from BAE on what can be...

Always surprised that JT government was so short sighted that they could not see the benefits of building AOR's and still keep their left wing types mostly happy.

Not to mention, where are they going to go politically?

China may take one of the smaller islands to test defenses, tactical concepts and reactions

Mind you Taiwan is also learning and adapting. China sees how the Russian navy has fared and is likely worried.

Release the AI Memes bots!!

Apparently struck a mooring buoy at speed, problem with fast RHIB's is they often go faster than the operators can process the information from their senses and navigation tools and they lose awareness of where they are.

I don't spend a lot of time on what he says, as it will change week, from week.

But we are boxed in by likley infrastructure limitations and likley manning challenges in the future.

Not yet, but I have to question the title, which makes me wonder if I should even bother.

Canada upping it's drone game https://www.truenorthstrategicreview.ca/p/arcanus-aerial-systems-receives-formal?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2850706&post_id=194329334&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=29j1hx&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Tad early to be writing the after action report, when really it was just one act in a play that is not done.

A regime that slaughtered 50,000 of it's own people in 2 days gets nominated by Canada? Disgusting.

You still need marine assets to deploy the unmanned systems. In places like the Strait, you could use docks and cranes if you are using systems like the UK is starting to use. Basically a 35-20' unmanned vessel to deploy the ROV to hunt the mines.

and the tank cleaning that needs to be done prior to any cutting.