There's a "Happy Russia" at the moment ? (View Post)

Plants to build solid rocket motors are very expensive; the motors themselves take well over a year to "cure"after they've been poured. The seeker heads require a radar set, which agai… (View Post)

Sovereign capacity doesn't mean autarky, but it does mean having sufficient capacity not to be held to ransom, as (for example) China has been able to do with rare earths (and might be about to … (View Post)

So the UK/Norway gas pipelines, and the high voltage interconnects with the continent are points of considerable vulnerability ? Absent a change of regime for the better, the "Russian threat&quo… (View Post)

Well, yes. Certainly Europe should have that capacity, and we should aim to be part of that. The reality is that there isn't a vast amount the UK can do, purely on its own, in the technologies a… (View Post)