Slashdot reports that the US defence industry (according to recent allegations the only industry the USA has left) has developed a gigantic bomb with a view to engaging hardened underground targets, such as the nuclear endeavours of the Iranians.
I could not help but notice that the bomb is said to contain 5,300lb of HE.
Barnes Wallis’ [...]
Archive for the ‘defence’ Category
An offer they can’t refuse
Posted in defence, tagged huge bombs on 4 August, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Fortification
Posted in defence, tagged fortification on 23 May, 2009 | 2 Comments »
David Davis, at the Libertarian Alliance, reveals that fortification may not be his strong point*.
Shelling the position of wh00ps, who has elected (as we say in the accident reports) to occupy a tower block, he says:
But you’d better hope your assaulters have not got artillery of any kind, I suppose. That the lifts might be [...]
Air ‘force’
Posted in defence, tagged availability, Tornado on 21 April, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I would hate further to disappoint the already depressed Obnoxio the Clown, but personal experience of the merry ways of aeroplanes and the people who look after them suggests strongly to me that if there are a total of twelve Tornado aircraft left to defend Britain then the continuous availability of eight would be an [...]
Blanco them ******* rocks
Posted in defence, tagged strategy on 19 October, 2008 | 4 Comments »
David Davis, at the Libertarian Alliance, posts some aircraft carrier films and scolds:
Not enough time has yet been spent discussing how a libertarian state (if that is not a tautology) might defend itself against possibly hostile neighbours in its first years.
He’s right, of course. It’s not a very attractive prospect, that’s all. If we consider [...]
I didn’t come all the way up here to be shot by a bloody traffic warden
Posted in defence, tagged civil defence, emergency planning on 7 October, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Ian Parker-Joseph remarks on counter-insurgency preparations in Germany and the UK. He asks:
Are they really expecting the population to begin rioting?
Answer: yes. Since the start of the First World War all British emergency planning (I can’t speak for the Germans) has been based upon the principle of the population as the government’s most serious problem [...]
Defence of the realm
Posted in defence, tagged navy on 26 September, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
At the Libertarian Alliance, David Davis reflects on the need to defend the new libertarian Britain:
…if a libertarian nation was to come into being, I imagine it would face immediate threats from most quarters. Its very existence would expose, mortally, the now-dangerous hideousness of ordinary modern states…
Agreed.
…the fledgeling libertarian state would need some kind of [...]
“I see no signal.”
Posted in defence, tagged history on 14 September, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Once more from The Lone Voice, a story about HMS Victory, Nelson’s former flagship.
This vessel is still in commission and is therefore maintained (at colossal cost, and enormous expense) by the MoD, who are ‘putting up a thin, peevish kind of fuss’ [Saki] about this, and suggesting that perhaps as an historic artefact, rather than [...]
No room at the inn
Posted in defence, tagged bigotry, boycott on 4 September, 2008 | 7 Comments »
David Davis, at the Libertarian Alliance, is outraged at this story about a member of the Armed Forces who was denied accomodation by an hotel on that basis alone. This seems to be today’s micromeme.
While I think that most of the present deployments of the Army are very ill-advised I am in general a [...]
Another pro-Swiss
Posted in defence, tagged Swiss on 12 August, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I see that the forthright Old Holborn is also persuaded of the virtues of the Swiss Method.
He says:
…I propose that we do what those smart Swiss people do. Tell everyone to fuck off and mind their own business. Give anyone with a record of paying tax a nice shiny gun to keep in the Everest [...]
What’s wrong with islands?
Posted in defence, libertarianism, tagged budget, navy on 11 August, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
One might suppose that living on an island was even better, from the defence point of view, than living somewhere very spiky and reliably accessible only through tunnels. All one has to do is to manage one’s affairs with a reasonable degree of economy and to rely upon the sea as one’s moat. Patrolling the [...]
