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I believe LUCAS is one of the potential Launched Effects Battery assets likely to be deployed by DivArty. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-cost_Uncrewed_Combat_Attack_System $35,000 32 kg dry 80 kg prepped for flight with a 20 kg payload 5 mins to prep for launch in the field 800 km range 6...

Cannon battalion (M119 or M777) converts to 16 HiMARS launchers and a Launched Effects Battery for loitering munitions and OWADs with the saved manpower. ... https://www.army.mil/article/291673/25th_infantry_division_advances_transformation_with_himars_precision_strike_and_divarty_integration...

Take this new toy as an example. ... "Hellhound S3 Packs Anti-Tank Firepower Into a Soldier’s Rucksack "Built using 3D printing, the Hellhound S3 is a turbojet-powered, vertically launched system that can be reconfigured for a wide range of mission profiles. "Operators can adapt it as a...

Most of the "just in case"is ultimately focused on making problems disappear. Which is a preferred solution? Another box of link on your electric mule? A CQ with a drone to deliver another box of link? Or a cab rank of loitering munitions circling overhead with an array of payloads and...

We have had discussions about where this IAMD and GBAD stuff goes, the relative roles and importance of fighters, missiles, army GBAD and CUAS, about threats from missiles and threats from drones, about what is needed to defend civil infrastrure like ports and airports. The subject, like the...

An unsecured power pole in a small village was sabotaged. That shut off power to a pumping station on a pipeline which resulted in two major refineries being denied oil for three days. The problem was handled before the refineries ran out of stock on hand...

https://nextgendefense.com/us-army-robotic-mule/ This dicussion almost invariably brings out the comment that when the army moves to lighten the load with lighter kit the 100 lb ruck becomes filled with 100 lbs of light stuff. Looking at these pictures it seems that even when the troops...

I failed to express myself clearly. I agree with you and understand you. The rest of my post essentially argued for a national defence strategy with a gas turbine assist, a plan for sprinting when national survival becomes an issue and we can no longer let ourselves jog along at peace time pace.

Is there not another aspect to this? The Arab states and the West have had a rather ambivalent relationship over the decades, particularly the last couple. Qatar's financing of the Islamist culture in the West has not improved the West's, or America's opinion of the Arab world generally. And...

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/09/iran-war-oil-saudi-arabia-east-west-pipeline.html I guess if the Persians can't ship oil then the Arabs can't either.

You are free to.

And staying light on the feet... https://news.err.ee/1609991037/estonia-halts-500-million-combat-vehicle-procurement-to-fund-air-defense

Understood and agreed. Hence the rest of my post.

In defence of @YZT 's position that the future is catching up to the A-10 https://defence-blog.com/france-tests-mq-9-reaper-for-drone-intercept-role/ Hellfires from Reapers. Given that the APKWS II was developed as the low cost alternative to the Hellfire for the AH-64, and uses the same...

how many private bomb shelters were built in canada during the cold war While the Canadian government encouraged private citizens to build fallout shelters, very few private, purpose-built underground bomb shelters were constructed during the Cold War. The high costs and the government's focus...

But if we aren't preparing for national survival then why are we bothering at all? Why do your frigates have those silly gas guzzling turbines and ridiculously expensive combining gears? Surely you can make like the Absalons and jog along on a pair of diesels? Who really needs to exceed 35...

Salesfolk use both carrots and sticks. They both discomfit their potential client by pointing out the disadvantages of their current situation, and offer hope of a better future if their solution is purchased. The Mafia are salesfolk after a fashion. As are the Chinese and the Russians.

You do yourself no favours by your focus on Trump while ignoring 400 years of American and European history and the lasting support of 40% of Americans. The constraints of a regulated state do not sit comfortably with everybody. They are quite happy to see somebody bolt and rip down the fences.

The issue is one of coercion. Can the state coerce the individual to be good? The enlightened hope was that individuals, having the means to do evil, would choose to do good. Regardless of the best intentions of the state coercion is counter-productive. After a century of religious wars a...

That can and may thing I alluded to elsewhere? They may only build one a year, as in that is they are allowed to build. What can they build a year, as in what are they capable of, is an entirely separate question.