What a bastard. The French have played the Rafale game quite cannily. They have been absolutely scrupuleux about keeping the FASF Rafale fleet all consistent and current in terms of config and softwa… (View Post)

Structural adhesive is very common in car manufacture now. It's cheaper and lighter than mechanical fasteners and is also good at bonding dissimilar materials. Polestar, in particular, use it a … (View Post)

In hindsight what Australia should have done was persisted with the conventionally powered Attack class. Even if it were 5 years late, they still would have started getting them before 2030. The cost… (View Post)

Turkiye already has F-35, six of them, it's just that they are locked up in hangar at Luke AFB and they can't get back the $1.4bn they paid for them. The Senate kicked them out of the F-35 … (View Post)

In other military industrial complex news, I note that Trump's new Secretary of the Navy has designated Virginia hulls 814 and 815 (the first Block IV boats which were going to the the Australia… (View Post)