All posts by Matthew Powell
Ukraine war: high cost of replacing military hardware will change the nature of the conflict
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. The amount of ammunition being consumed in the Russo-Ukrainian conflict has surpassed all estimates. This is starting to put pressure on the production and supply chains involved in the manufacture of ammunition for artillery guns among other weapons…
Big defence projects are usually late and over budget – here’s what we can learn from the build-up to WW2
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. UK defence minister Alex Chalk visited Rosyth shipyard in Fife, Scotland a few days ago to kick off construction on the second ship in a new class of frigates for the Royal Navy. The navy is buying five…