. I recently came across the pro-hard kill BMD (= trying to shoot down incoming ballistic missiles) argument that goes like this: The Houthi...

. Russia has begun fitting fuel depots with a purpose-built anti-drone shield called "Web," developed by Rostec subsidiary RT-P...

. 8 1/2 years ago I wrote about a kind of proposal how to get lean yet purposeful Belgian armed forces . Here's what I would do differen...

. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/08/29/russia-cheap-fast-missiles-cut-ukraine-sea/ The Ukrainians scared the Russian Black Sea...

. About 20 years ago people thought giving semi-active laser guidance to a 70 mm hydra missile would cut costs, for Hellfire misiles were e...

. Turkey* used to behave a bit bloc-free despite being in NATO. There was the famous S-400 arms purchase from Russia, for example. They were...

. It's one thing that the interests of the rich get overrepresented in a democracy, but foreign influences have become too harmful as we...

. There are two land-to-land ballistic rocket design philosophies in the SRBM and MRBM brackets: One is the kind we in the West have known...

. I did recently write about an optimal escort (GP frigate) and a minimum escort (GP frigate or corvette) .  I also wrote about modern (nav...

. Suppose a navy would want the cheapest viable general purpose warship design rather than an optimal one. Compromises have to be made, esp...