. 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...

. A blog post about the real drone problem is overdue because I do not see ANY indication that the real problem is part of the public discou...

. I hope you muted the video in time. Anyway, I showed this thing from 2022 because I remember having asked ballistic helmet manufac...

. " Kraftfahrzeuge und Panzer " 1st Ed. by Werner Oswald (1970) has a nice list of the approximate prices of AFVs as of end-60...

. I keep looking at historical army equipment and it's fascinating how simple the equipment even of an entire infantry regiment can be....

. It's often said that the CVR/T tank family of the British was required to be narrow enough to fit between the rubber trees on Malaysia...

. This blog post will be close to maximum disrespectful towards general ranks. The two reasons for my disrespect are the reasoning I will la...

. Here's one thing that drones can do that manned aviation did not do in either world war nor in the Vietnam War: A huge q...

. The literature (including field manuals) usually discerns three kinds of artillery fires for lethal munitions*: Destructive fires, neutral...

. I wrote in the past about tanks that have a unusually high maximum elevation of their main gun and can be used for indirect fires and for...

. I like to cut things down to essentials, so I wrote in 2023 about a minimum weapons sset for an army. To have very few different weapons h...

. A string of twitter threads by different authors create an impression that this war is very different, kind of with different rules than ...

.   /2017/08/very-low-level-air-defence-against.html /2018/05/summary-modern-air-defences-for-europe.html One might increase the rate of fi...

. The FPV (kamikaze drone) threat is by now well-known to those who paid much attention to what's going on in the Russo-Ukrianian War. ...

. I'll deliver a critique of the nonsensical German army structure. It's the same bollocks as we've had for a long time, they j...