As the UK raises its defence spending https://stuartmcgurk.bsky.social investigates the £6bn splashed on two aircraft carriers. It's a monumental piece of reporting https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/policy/defence-news/69333/britains-aircraft-carriers-a-national-embarrassment
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Coincidentally, they were to be built in the parliamentary constituency next to his.
Opportunity
Work with our European friends to build eurocarrier groups.
Adapt carriers to become drone launch and control platforms.
But who am I to be listened to?
It gets worse. >
From this day, every £ spent is a £ wasted. >
PS: no point hanging on in hope of new US govt in 4 years. Trump & co have no interest in free & fair elections.
War with Russia in the Baltics.
Explores UK carrier capabilities and those of the escorts we have. Neatly illustrates why US carrier battle groups are what they are.
Small cheap drones are necessarily short range, LDEW such as Dragonfire may provide an equally cheap counter.
If China thinks its missiles make carrriers obsolete, why is it building carriers?
India is too, and has to worry about China.
It's an ambiguous and therefore misleading term, and its use (particularly by Russia) can skew into propaganda.
from @csis.org missile defence:
https://globalsentinelng.com/complex-air-defense-countering-the-hypersonic-missile-threat/
tl;dr: everything is vulnerable in some circumstance, finding vulnerabilities in wargames is a step towards mitigating those vulnerabilities
https://thinpinstripedline.blogspot.com/2024/11/no-royal-navy-is-not-about-to-scrap.html