A request for help that looked designed to be refused
Scotland's justice secretary had already been told the RAF had no waterbombing helicopters in the UK to send, but he asked anyway and then made a point of the refusal, which is not how military aid between two governments is supposed to work.
Maritime autonomy: the race is on for the Navy of the future
Anthony Kirby, Group Chief Executive of Serco, argues that the race to build effective autonomous naval fleets will be decided by how quickly governments, industry and the military can integrate new technology at scale.
Why the underwater battlespace demands urgent innovation
Cables cut in the Baltic, Russian ships over UK pipelines. The underwater battlespace is back, writes Tim O'Neill of BAE Systems, and subsea communications are the weak link.
The lesson from Ukraine the Defence Plan left out
The Defence Investment Plan funds the drones but hesitates over the spine they depend on, writes Thomas Santini of Lodestar.
Budgets don’t build defence: Britain must join defence bank
Budgets don't build factories, industrial capacity does. As allies sign a new defence bank's Charter next month, Alex Baker MP asks: can Britain afford to stay outside?
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