Recent content by Kirkhill

https://theaviationist.com/2026/05/16/anduril-to-supply-surface-launched-barracuda-500m-us-army/#deny 50 kg payload 500 NM 200 to 500 knots 16 to a 20 ft seacan ready to launch from the can. $216,000 Anduril Lattice AI seeker for autonomous targeting of stationary and moving targets.

Challenge https://breakingdefense.com/2026/05/in-latvia-military-robots-roll-across-a-new-communication-challenge-woodlands/ Solution https://defence-blog.com/ukraine-adds-mast-equipped-ground-drone-to-official-arms-inventory/ A roving RRB?

https://interestingengineering.com/military/military-tech-communication-contested-environments-jammers "A French company’s new solution can help maintain radio communications in increasingly contested electronic warfare environments. Thales’ TopStar Smart Receiver is a three-in-one...

I believe the old plan for the navy was OJT on vessels of ever increasing size tasked ever further from the shore. So the layered navy started with small crews on small vessels operating inshore on routine tasks like harbour patrols and then fisheries patrols. A larger patrol vessel with a...

For reference the Royal Artillery also fielded, for the field army 11 Survey Regiments 11 Light Artillery Regiments (Light, Mountain, Pack, Airlanding and Para) 16 Royal Horse Artillery Regiments (predominantly SP to support the armoured divs) 162 Field Artillery Regiments (25 pdrs) 58 Medium...

Got me to thinking Battle of the Atlantic - 1943 RAF Coastal Command operated about 850 aircraft, a mix of: Shorts Sunderlands Consolidated Catalinas Consolidated Liberators Boeing Flying Fortresses Lockheed Hudsons Bristol Blenheims Bristol Beauforts Bristol Beaufighters And many...

If you could make do with a dozen 15 knot, 55m OSVs for 30 years what could you do with a couple of dozen 40 knot versions of the same vessel. And one that only needs the crew of an Orca. And, as I said, if the Yanks don't appeal to you there are Dutch, Danish and Norwegian designs for the...

And if not the Swiftship solution then the Dutch solution. .... And PS, I really like the Newfoudland solution referenced The BAE Cellula Robotics XLUUV the Herne.

Just thinking. The 16 Multipurpose Vessels Seaspan is to build look a lot like the AOPS. I we want more arctic precence maybe we just bring the last two AOPS back to the RCN and arm a few of those MPVs.

Get the licence to build these, or perkaps a 70 m version, in Canadian yards and build a couple of dozen. https://swiftships.com/vessels/45-meter-fast-patrol-boat/ The NATO standard solutions come from NATO standard yards and supply chains that are already fully engaged. Swiftships has the...

I am going to add nothing to the rest of you post. WRT the Kingstons I can only agree. I would also point out that the Kingstons evolved from the Anticosti and Moresby - a pair of converted Offshore Supply Vessels. The very same type of vessels that the USN is busily acquiring for the...

Hope springs eternal at BAE https://en.defence-ua.com/weapon_and_tech/swedish_cv90120_light_tank_couldnt_find_buyer_for_25_years_now_gets_major_upgrade_as_slovakia_deal_looms-18501.html And fear stalks the RCAC.

In the search for mass, and assuming a current threat and a current gap in our ability to respond to many threats, is there not a requirement to define a solution that: can be produced with existing facilities (ours or offshore) can be produced in numbers can be produced rapidly can be...

Enbridge has been sitting at Smith's side as an adviser throughout all of this, as have the pathways/oilsands alliance. They already know what the P&L looks like.

I'll accept that. But I think the overall premise stands. It is line with what I have read from multiple sources over the years. Launches and whalers were not the preferred solutions for the navies of the day. Nor for that matter were the escort carriers based on cruiser or cargo hulls...