The arrival of drones over various EU countries should act as a further spur to the UK to make the improvement of surveillance and interception systems its greatest defence priority. The UK has early warning of foreign fighters, bombers and missiles coming in. We now need an upgrade to give us the best systems, capable of detecting the smaller unmanned drones and sending up counter measures.
As no country or interest claims responsibility for the unannounced drones there can be no objection to destroying them where and when it is safe to do so. The UK cannot get into a situation where unwanted drones can turn up without permission and occupy airspace we need for peaceful civilian purposes. Clearly hostile incoming vehicles and missiles are best destroyed before they cross the coast. Nor can we allow any chance of an attack from hostile sources getting through our defences if a terrorist group or a hostile state that does not play by the rules decided on an attack.
The UK as a good member of NATO will spend above the minimum and needs to make faster progress to matching the more exacting aspirations set out by the US and NATO recently. The UK should also remember the importance in the NATO founding Treaty that each member state should see to its own self defence. The support of other members is important, but that is not any state’s first line of defence. Other states expect a state under attack to have prepared and to lead the fighting.
In a world where non state actors can get access to dangerous and sophisticated weapons, and where drones can be made for modest sums and launched in great numbers, the UK needs to look to its aerial defences. The government has said it will accelerate the development of Uk drone technology and increase the UK’s ability to make them at home. This too is an urgent priority. The war in Ukraine has shown us the importance of the drone and the vulnerability of conventional weapons like tanks and ships to drones and missiles.Finding an effective response to massed drone attacks is not proving easy.
October 3, 2025
Sir John
I missed something there, if the UK is Sterling shouldn’t the US be dollar?
October 3, 2025
No, it’s more the UK will have the “flat cap”. We won’t be able to deliver a proper dome.
October 3, 2025
Well we cannot have a golden one as (save the World economic illiterate) Gordon Brown sold all the gold for a song. We will struggle to afford a silver one or an aluminium foil one or even a papier machė one! It cost £100 billion+ and takes 20 years to build 100 miles of railway line in the UK. Plus it will need to be battery powered, bat and newt friendly, build mainly female and “diverse” engineers no more “useless white ones” as the RAF put it and be “sustainable”. These worker will be able to claim unfair or constructive dismissal from day one and reasonable adaptation for their disabilities. This as so many quangos, courts, net zero, sustainability laws etc. to comply with.
See the excellent book Gordon is a Moron for a good summary of what a disaster he was!
October 3, 2025
So yesterday we saw Two Tier, rarely here, free gear, Kier in all his disgusting two faced glory! Will the Jewish population even welcome condolences from such a man?
Did Starmer discuss at his Cobra meeting all the many errors his government has made in rewarding and encouraging Muslim terrorism and the clearly often largely illegal and anti-Semitic protests! Will the police be telling people not to look too “openly Jewish” this weekend? His pandering to Muslim voters will not even win him many votes in the end – they will find their own parties and people to vote for.
October 3, 2025
Mozlems are not upset only by the Jews. They disapprove of Christians and atheists as well.
October 3, 2025
LL, excellent comment and it’s more true than we’d like to believe.
October 3, 2025
Well said!
But not just over-feminisation of economy but also of society in general where men are being emasculated in relationships etc (and where there are a plethora of wimpish ‘nice guy’ in the younger generations). I strongly believe we need to restore National Service which would turn the tide quite a bit in terms of our society being over-feminised. Society throughout the ages and world has always had some form of military service. Primarily as a way to man-up young men in general (not just for war) – like a kind of finishing school.
3 months national service. And it already exists in other European countries.
October 3, 2025
Sir John
You are of course correct and right. In essence defence is not about the bare minimum to get by with fingers crossed someone will ride to the rescue, its doing what is necessary to defend the Nation in all situations. In the first instance it should be as a stand alone entity, no one can predict tomorrow when tomorrow comes it is always to late.
That is also why so-called defence spending as a percentage of GDP is total political speak nonsense thought up by the inept. Defence is just that, and from Government that means ensuring every thing is their to keep the Nation safe and secure.
Giving up the UK’s defence capability as 2TK has done with the Chagos forward base to protect our supply routes is utter lunacy.
It was noted in the Media in recent days that the Government is at War with the People in a big way, They have now ensured there are more Parking Wardens trapping and fining the motorist than they have service personnel in the Army able to protect the Country. Hence the criminal invasion each day that gets rewarded while the motorist has to pay. Which is the bigger crime stealing what is not yours or infringing time limits? 2TK has the answer it is the UK Citizen every-time, or as he calls them the right-wing raciest
October 3, 2025
The usual non topic related diatribe. Why?
October 3, 2025
The enemy is within our borders, even within our walls, the prison walls, and drones appear to be supplying the inmates with their tea bags of choice unobstructed.
October 3, 2025
Correct …..and well within their rights according to the ECHRs
October 3, 2025
Good morning.
The UK is no stranger to the affect of guided weapons. ie The V1. First launched from ski like ramps and then He111 bomber aircraft these were deadly terror weapons.
I do not see drones like the ones in Ukraine as a likely threat to national security as we are too far away from a potential adversary and, such drones would have to cross a vast distance over other nations territory. Only a mass attack launched inside the UK against a civilian target would be of some affect as, like the aforementioned V1’s, they serve as more a terror weapon than anything else.
I believe it is far better not to seek enemies and conflict than looking for and trying to prepare for one.
October 3, 2025
Recent drone attacks have been launched from ships stationed offshore and (by the Ukrainians) from commercial lorries driven into the enemies country. It is therefore very complacent to think we are “too far away”.
October 3, 2025
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October 3, 2025
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October 3, 2025
Yes Roy, think how many shipping containers arrive in this country every day…
We currently have two large aircraft carriers sans aircraft. With a single F35-B costing about $115M, I wonder how many fast attack drones we could build for that money?
Reply Our carriers go to sea with our planes and allies planes depending on the mission
October 3, 2025
“It is true the low number of F-35B Lighting IIs available is a problem. Britain, as of mid-2023, had received 32 of 74 F-35Bs on order. The Queen Elizabeth class was designed to carry three squadrons of 12 aircraft each (with a surge capacity for over 70). This means, in theory, the UK has only ordered enough aircraft to just about fill each carrier. But these aircraft must, of course, be shared with the Royal Air Force.” (Council on Geostrategy)
However, Sir John, I was making the point that even at about £500K each, where a single F35 costs $115M – then 200 ‘strike’ drones might be a much better investment. The Ukrainians have apparently developed a ‘V1’ style weapon that can carry a 1 ton payload and I bet that it doesn’t cost £500K. If they can build these weapons perhaps we should be looking to fund something similar using one of our soon to be redundant car plants. The clock is ticking…
October 3, 2025
Exactly.
October 3, 2025
@Roy – You make the key point – distance and buffer states/zones are no longer a factor and haven’t been for a long time – drones/cruise missiles have been used since WWII. It’s just that ploticos and the MSM are slow to grasp realities of technologies as usual.
October 3, 2025
State actors and others who would wish us harm are already developing solutions to crossing countries and seas.
Complacency will be our undoing.
October 3, 2025
The state actor who wishes us most harm does not need to cross a sea.
October 3, 2025
I did mention complacency!
October 4, 2025
What about defence against the State Actor which is harming us?
October 3, 2025
It’s no good having an Iron Dome to protect the skies when daily we import a fifth column via the channel
A Taliban commander and 7 of his family allowed to settle courtesy of the left wing judiciary
We are like 1939, totally unprepared for a sustained attack.
October 3, 2025
Yes, indeed, not much point in securing the skies when those wishing to do us harm can just walk straight in. Post 1997 we have been really stupid.
October 3, 2025
This is nothing like 1939 or any other year in history. We have never had ‘the Afghan Tigers’ on every street in the U.K. before.
October 3, 2025
Agree – Our Royal Artillery Air Defence missile assets have been reduced by 90% over the last three decades, relying upon the reduced Royal Air Force to intercept any missile threat …..we currently don’t have any UK based assets that can intercept enemy ‘drones’; and if we did they’d be positioned around ‘key-point’ infrastructures
October 3, 2025
The only effective defence against drones is to destroy the manufacturing facilities used to assemble them. The most important requirement for modern defence is intelligence and spy networks in hostile countries.
The spy networks currently operating in the UK for foreign hostile parties is greater today than at any time in our history. The irony is, we fund many of these hostile agencies through government grants and claim it will make them friendly?
More unknown boat passengers, anybody?
October 3, 2025
We welcome tens of thousands of Chinese to this country believing them to have value to our educational institutions.
Putting internet hacking and sabotage to one side, there must be hundreds intent on identifying what can be gained while here.
October 3, 2025
I would have thought that almost all the technology used by our “enemies” will have originally been stolen from western nations in the first place.
It’s notable that it was only the US, Europe, and Japan that were able to develop the internal combustion engine due to the complicated engineering but now that electric cars are de rigueur it’s chemical engineering which such as China can easily develop.
October 3, 2025
but but but …they’re legal migration …..our politicians love china; it was only a couple of years ago we welcomed russians (Evgeny Alexandrovich Lebedev sits in the house of lords)
October 3, 2025
@Rod Evans
Drone manufacturing and assembly facilities are reported as being capable of being replaced within a matter of days. Apparently, Ukraine found that destroying Russia’s oil refining sites have much more effect as the complex apparatus needs much time, expertise and difficult-to-obtain specialist parts to replace.
October 3, 2025
We are safe then, we have no oil refinery sites.
October 3, 2025
I can forsee that drones may go the way of firearms: ordinary citizens will be severely restricted from using them, but the state and criminals will have almost free access.
The recent last minute ban on the Raise the Flag protest organisers’ permission to use 4 drones to monitor and record the march was presumably to stop them accurately estimating the crowd numbers, and publicising the event. Drones can be used for peaceful purposes that the government doesn’t like. They can also be used for nefarious purposes by governments to control their own citizens. There is always (always!) government overreach.
A “Sterling Dome” sounds as patriotic as a “Brit Card”, but we may come to regret it as much as the digital ID card (which it might even be linked to).
October 3, 2025
Solar energy became the main source of electricity in the EU for the first time in June, accounting for 22% of total generation; Source; BBC
This surpassed nuclear energy at 22%, with over half of the EU’s electricity in the second quarter of 2025 coming from renewables. Source FT
Denmark, Latvia, and Austria led European countries, generating over 90% of their electricity from renewable sources, with Luxembourg and Belgium seeing the largest year-on-year increase. Source; FT
The United Nations reported a “positive tipping point” in the global shift to renewable energy, heralding the “dawn of a new energy era” Source; FT
Trump criticised the clean energy transition as a “green scam” – while the oil and gas industry reportedly spent ( heavily ed)to influence him and other Republicans since his inauguration Source; WSJ
Reply Mr Trump was anti Net Zero before much of that “lobbying”. The green side also spent lots of money to promote their cause.
October 3, 2025
When renewables repeat the achievement in January, rather than June, please come back and tell us.
In the meantime, all the ‘dirty, fossil fuel’ generators need to be maintained and kept on standby….
October 3, 2025
@SG. What are the figures for the remaining 11 months of the year?
October 3, 2025
Solar, Nuclear – Denmark, Latvia, Austria,Luxembourg and Belgium generating over 90% of their electricity from renewable sources, not exactly high industrial usage. What was the percentage after dark?
October 3, 2025
Austria gets around 66% of its electricity from hydro.
October 3, 2025
So 34% is not hydro. What about the other countries?
October 3, 2025
You really need to watch Harry’s Farm on Youtube SG.
The one titled “Are solar panels & heat pumps worth installing? Here’s what I’ve learnt after several years of use”
Unless I missed something, Harry thinks Solar is virtually useless in the winter months and only pays for itself if you have a swimming pool to heat in the summer. He thinks wind is better in Winter but the capital costs outweigh any savings. He highly rates his ground based heat pump and under floor heating – but then most folk don’t have a field to bury the pipes in (and the digger to do it) or the money to build a new highly insulated Cotswold Manor house. He gives the numbers to back up his views too. Harry is clearly very highly organised, which (judging by his car collection) might be why he seems a lot wealthier then me! 🙁
October 3, 2025
There are reportedly many ground source and air source heat pumps in the south west but the ambient temperature and ground are warmer than the rest of the UK.
October 3, 2025
SG :
Would this be the solar energy produced by cheap Chinese solar panels using slave labour? Earlier this year an excess of solar on the Spanish grid meant there was a lack of grid inertia, which comes from thermal generation (nuclear, fossil fuels and hydro) and this caused the grid to become unstable and the Iberian blackout. As a result 11 people died. Imagine the furore if 11 people had died from a radiation leak from a nuclear power plant. Or just a single death. There would be calls for all nuclear power plants to be closed down. The climatic condition at the time of the blackout were Goldilocks conditions. Imagine if we have a similar blackout in the UK in mid-winter. Why have these Iberian deaths not resulted in calls for renewable energy to be closed down? There is no point to renewable energy as the “consensus science” that CO2 causes runaway global temperature is entirely false.
October 3, 2025
Solar energy is fine in June with some long sunny days but we really need more electricity in dark winter days when you get virtually non. It is not remotely cost effective or practical to store it. It makes more sense in hot countries that need summer air conditioning electricity.
If Ed Milibrain gets his way and forces us all onto heat pumps rather than gas, oil, solid fuel heating we will get a huge extra cold day winter demand for electricity. This will demand huge investment in wind (as virtually no winter Solar) and grid capacity and gas back up – all this huge investment wasted for circa 75% of the year. The policy is economic, environmental, defensive & totally impractical lunacy! But perhaps his team of Classics, PPE or Law graduate energy “experts” have not grasped this yet?
October 3, 2025
In the the very good article you recommended, the guy said that the electric car does not pose a threat to the fossil fuel industry (hardly any – not anything the fossil fuel companies can’t handle – I agree). I think anti-Nero-ites (I’m a moderate one) need to communicate clearly that they are not defending the fossil fuel industry (as this is what a lot of greenies think) but genuinely are concerned that Net Zero will bust our economy (and I stand by this argument, to a degree, although I also see great potential for high tech entrepreneurs here in UK for green tech and related tech and to become leaders in this).
And as you rightly pointed out, before, being anti Net Zero does not mean being anti electric car (but that unfair subsidies should not be given to this industry and related green industry in general).
So my point is I think anti-Net-Zero-ites need to make these points more clearly to win more support.
October 3, 2025
We don’t need to win support, reality will kick in on our side sooner rather than later. At that point you will choose half you argument, – the part that supports the winning side, and discard the other half.
We have seen this all before. People who will accept anything so long as they are on the winning side.
That’s why Britain is Broken.
October 3, 2025
‘We don’t need to win support’ – then why do people complain so much about Net Zero if not to win support? That’s just whining. Moaning. Self-indulgence.
October 4, 2025
Ed we are complaining about Net Zero because Britain will be unable to manufacture anything, unable to defend ourselves, unable to do any of the things which you half-support.
We don’t want Britain reduced to Mozambique standards. Do you know Mozambique? It’s the poorest country in the world. I used to holiday in Lorenzo Marques.
But I know you will half support Britain emulating Mozambique – well not fully – not in every respect, but in all the good respects, who can disagree with that?
One good thing is that Mozambique feeds lions. That’s great isn’t it? We all appreciate lions don’t we? The migrants follow the electricity pylons to South Africa, the lions have noticed. They lie in wait, they let some escape into trees, eating them only when they fall out. Well that’s fair isn’t it?
And you are RIGHT, if there were no electricity pylons or trees this would not happen😂
So I can see you have half a point, well some of a point.
October 3, 2025
The reason for Net Zero has nothing to do with CO2 causing a climate crisis, for as the climate activists themselves know, there is only a negligible if any connection between CO2 and the planet’s temperature. The real goal of Net Zero is not CO2 reduction but electrification as electrification enables individual control using smart meters of every person’s domestic heating, cooking, transport and communications.
October 3, 2025
….and one enemy drone can destroy a field of solar panels in minutes
October 3, 2025
or even hailstones
October 3, 2025
“The government has said it will accelerate the development of Uk drone technology and increase the UK’s ability to make them at home.”
“The government” can’t accelerate or develop anything as the history of defence procurement shows.
October 3, 2025
An absurd Government claim, rather like the housebuilding feel-good nonsense.
October 3, 2025
Can they stop submarines snipping or exploding all the undersea power links to Europe and the wind turbines. Can they even stop cyber attacks on the NHS, Heathrow, M&S, our defence systems and navigation systems… It should surely be against the law to pay ransoms to these criminals! As this just encourages and funds even more attacks!
October 3, 2025
I agree. We need to respond to new arms developments especially in Russia. Little point in detecting in coming missiles if we cannot destroy them! We also need to develop our civil defences along the lines that Finland has developed. We need to do it NOW, Russia is NOT going to give us six months notice of an attack, or perhaps, has it already done so!
October 3, 2025
Russia has spelt out the actions the U.K. need to continue to guarantee and attack.
It would be good if the Government learned the normal meaning of words, then they must desist.
Fortunately Russia is a law abiding country and will target military infrastructure.
That is a warning to anybody who lives near military infrastructure. Of course they will also give warning of the attack as they do in Ukraine, as Israel does in Gaza, and time for civilians to evacuate.
From what I have seen of the U.K. military – a General wrote a hilarious piece for Conservative Woman recently – the sooner they are demilitarised the better. They will get us all k1lled.
October 3, 2025
‘Fortunately Russia is a law abiding country and will target military infrastructure.’
Tell that to the Chechans who are still alive.
October 4, 2025
You mean the Chechens who fight value try for Russia?
October 4, 2025
‘Valiantly ‘ – not ‘value try’.
October 4, 2025
What a load of nonsense from Kremlin girl.
October 4, 2025
It’s FACT. The warnings before attack by both Russia and Israel are public. Why don’t you listen to what Lavrov or Putin say? So far their word as been iron.
October 3, 2025
As I understand it, most of these drones are flying relatively slowly and at low altitudes. The Ukanians have adapted other drones to hunt them, some equipped with ‘shotguns’. Having seen displays of drones dance around in the sky, I would think a swarm (wall) of small, cheap drones would be very effective too. The attacking drone is a one way weapon, the defensive swarm could return to it’s nest after sacrificing a few of its number. This battle seems to be an economic one too, we need a weapon that is mass produced, cheap and reusable – unlike an expensive air-launched missle.
In WW2 small/home workshops were used to aid the war effort. Small drones could be 3D printed & assembled by citizens. I have such a 3D printer, as do many hobbists these days. Time to reform the Civil Defense? 🙂
October 3, 2025
We need a Home Guard more than anything else!
October 3, 2025
I’m sure they would accept me into Dad’s Army Lynn – I even have my own broom handle!
( so Ursula von der Leyen would certainly approve me) 🙂
October 4, 2025
Might be all any of us have soon Ian. We will have to learn how to use them.
October 3, 2025
Drones v drones is all very Blade Runner but is the way forward, costs very little to man and can be scaled up relatively quickly.
If we are really concerned about our security maybe we should try to have fewer people who do not like our way of life or culture described as British national from xxxxx descent in our midst.
I have worked with (and lived among) many immigrants and the first generation tend to be strivers, the second generation are aware of the struggle and try to continue the legacy whereas the next generation are trouble. That is historic immigration, we are now importing the trouble in the first generation in many cases.
October 3, 2025
Agree – We can’t stop the boats ….We most certainly wont be able to stop the drones
October 3, 2025
As Trump might say ‘ Border controls and mass deportation’.
October 3, 2025
+1
October 3, 2025
Yet another area in which a complete reset is needed. Reform are going to have enormous challenges on their hands. We really need to get behind them, including this column. Anyone else is just not going to be full on in resolving these many different themes across government. It really will only work if at least 50% of the population are behind it. It will also take Labour to financially fail first, to show to all that voting Labour won’t keep the bennies going.
October 3, 2025
I agree that a soveriegn state is responsible for its own security.
Why, therefore are we letting in unvetted people into the country?
October 3, 2025
Not just “allowing” but putting them into paid hotels, paying them, feeding them, giving them medical care, bikes, lawyers, translators, i-phones to publicise the benefits, driving lessons… so as to encourage ever more to come each day!
What could possibly go wrong?
October 3, 2025
Yes, just what event will be finally necessary to happen for our Civil Service and judiciary to take seriously mass legal and illegal immigration from alien cultures who openly and clandestinely despise the our way of life?
October 3, 2025
……because, under international treaties, and our woke governments etc etc
We let in un-vetted people because our politicans choice too
October 4, 2025
To be. Fair Starmer, whose wife was born Jewish, has said we must stamp out anti-semitism.
So he calls on us to defeat Islam?
October 3, 2025
So whilst “The UK cannot get into a situation where unwanted drones can turn up without permission…” recall that it is entirely permissiable even encouraged for bogus asylum seekers to do so. Drones have rights too and we in the drone alliance condemn your heartless words.
October 3, 2025
The drones are less dangerous than the asylum seekers and fellow travellers.
October 3, 2025
As they found out in recent conflicts it needs a missile costing perhaps £50,000 to £100,000 to shoot down a £100 drone. But what about the enemy within?
October 3, 2025
Can we not get a slightly faster £300 drone to drop a nets over the £100 drones and save the £50k to £100k or perhaps a few people with shotguns, lazor guns or similar. Or radio frequency blocking devices. Must be cheaper methods!
October 3, 2025
Actually it takes two missiles – the Patriots are fired in pairs. Of course those missiles aimed at a drone come down with the same velocity as they went up, and if they hit somewhere there is deflection, so it’s a bit like bombing your own civilians.
Drone nets etc are now all old hat. Vast numbers of films all over the internet of the front line in Ukraine with all the variations. Some soldiers can actually shoot down a suicide drone as it stalks them.
October 3, 2025
They said during the blitz that though many shells were fired at the bombers hardly any caused them a problem and probably caused more damage on the ground.
October 3, 2025
Patriots missiles can be fired individually at a target, or indeed in pairs or groups of three missiles at a single target, and the velocity of falling missile, after successful engagement, is at the speed of gravity
October 4, 2025
In Ukraine they are firing patriots in pairs.
October 4, 2025
I have checked. They come down with the same velocity as they went up. Same with bullets fired into the air.
October 3, 2025
Apparently the eastern part of Ukraine is covered with miles of fibre optic cabling which has been used on drones to overcome the electronic blocking.
October 3, 2025
but to a very limited range of course.
October 4, 2025
Horses for courses.
October 3, 2025
Your technical / engineering-minded. Is it not possible to create drones where one drone could jam a cluster of enemy drones in the vicinity? If possible, problem I guess would be bombs from the enemy drones exploding on the ground perhaps on suburban houses. So would that means these ramming clones would have to be positioned on the coast?
(Part of Sir John’s Dome which I fully agree with but engineers would need to explain more how it could work). And then we have to think about hypersonic missiles too. Big issue.
October 4, 2025
You don’t need drones to jam. That is done technically with an impliment called a ‘computer’ which works out the codes that the missile obeys. It means the enemy can down your missiles in places they don’t do damage, change the course or speed.
It takes a few goes before the jamming information is perfected, so the first few missiles ‘get through’.
October 4, 2025
Thanks – interesting and useful.
October 4, 2025
We don’t have hypersonics missiles 8n the west. The USA hope to have one by 2030. Russia has an array of hypersonics missiles the ‘Oreshnik’ being the latest brought into service.
Zelenskiy’s lies about shooting down hypersonics have now been admitted. Nobody can stop them, Israel could not.
BTW, two days ago the ‘drone wall’ deployed by Ukraine failed.
You need to monitor this real-time weapons test in Ukraine instead of floating old ideas which have been tried and failed.
We need to see what has WORKED and start from there.
October 4, 2025
I agree. I haven’t a clue about these weapons. Lots of people don’t. But they are a threat / impending threat that we have to work out what to do with.
It’s a bit extraordinary how even the USA has spent a fortune on defence but overlooked the potential threat from hypersonic missiles.
October 4, 2025
Ed socialists believe that money solves problems. They think if they have the most expensive tank, it’s the best.
What we have seen is that brains solves problems. Russia has shown us that protecting your personnel is the most important part of modern warfare, and having equipment that allows them to fight ‘remotely’ even on the battlefield is the winning formula.
Some of the ‘drones’ are astonishing, huge and look like stealth fighters. Long range, they are expensive, they are not wasted, seldom miss their intended target. They are guided by orbiting satellites. The cheap drones including the ‘kamikaze’ drones are often operated by a man at a computer screen. They are becoming so good at it that they direct drones right into tanks through the hatches. The drones have cameras so the operator can see where he is, but that also provides a record.
Russia has fought a war of attrition. It has sat back in basically secure locations and allowed the Ukrainians to come to them.
Honestly, this has been a fascinating thing to watch.
We need to drum the dullards out of the Military and replace them with our best, our most inventive, inquisitive people.then we will have a chance in the new world which is to be nation-state based. It suits us PERFECTLY!
October 4, 2025
PS The USA did not ‘overlook’ the power of hypersonics. They have tested a few, they have thus far FAILED to produce one that works. MUCH more difficult to shoot them down, we don’t know if Russia can do that yet. We can’t test them because we can’t fire one.
Perhaps the new rules that get the Generals out of skirts and not having to apply lipstick all the time, the USA will recover. Thanks to Trump!
October 3, 2025
Our threat isn’t from intercontinental ballistic missiles, its from illegal immigration, international treaties and government net-zero wokeness, primarily undocumented/unknown migrants and undemocratic remain (Remain in Europe) policies that haven’t fulfilled the mandate of the peoples referendum. I despair that our direction of travel on all fronts is ‘off-track’ ….we have NO industrial or economic strategy/plan
October 3, 2025
It’s from both. But immigration first. What about Putin being behind helping to transport illegals to UK? A clever but horrible way to help destroy British way of life. And Putin also part of the threat of missiles and drones as well as acts of subtle terrorism on UK. He hates us from KGB days. Nutter.
October 4, 2025
Do you think it’s the RNLI helping to transport illegals to the U.K.? We have pictures. It is a clever and horrible way to destroy what is left of the British way of life.
Starmer is the financier behind the invasion.
Putin, if he did hate us (and the Royal Navy saved his family in St Petersburg during the war, with the astonishing Russian run to Murmansk which he acknowledges and even struck medals to award British crews) he would need to do nothing to destroy us.
As it is he has defeated the Globalists, which gives Britain a fighting chance.
We must take it. You should join the Armed forces, they will make a man of you.
October 4, 2025
‘You should join the Armed forces, they will make a man of you’ – are you boozing away on gin or something?
October 4, 2025
No I’m agreeing with your statement and applying it to yourself.
October 4, 2025
Indeed – Putin tried to push illegals into Poland a couple of years ago…..thank god Poland was strong and repelled them all
October 4, 2025
How did he do that? Or are you speaking of the Ukrainians who are sou welcome in Poland?
October 3, 2025
Around 60 years ago, satellites were capable of reading the headlines on a newspaper from outer space. Detecting the launch sites and paths of drones would be relatively easy. Why copy the tactics of an enemy by stepping up drone production ourselves? We should invent and develop something more advanced and efficient.
October 3, 2025
Russian satellites have been stalking British military satellites, according to the head of the UK Space Command.
In an interview with the BBC, Maj Gen Paul Tedman has for the first time set out the level of interference from Moscow against the UK’s space-based assets. He said Russia had also been trying to jam the UK’s military satellites with ground-based systems every week.
Last month Germany’s Defence Minister, Boris Pistorius, said Russia had been shadowing satellites used by their military. Gen Tedman gave details of how Russia was doing the same to the UK. “They’re interested in what we’re doing and flying relatively close,” he said. “They’ve got payloads on board that can see our satellites and are trying to collect information from them.”
Gen Tedman said UK military satellites had been fitted with counter-jamming technologies but added: “We’re seeing our satellites being jammed by the Russians on a reasonably persistent basis.”
When asked how often, he replied “weekly”. It was, he said, deliberate and the activity had increased since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Britain has half a dozen dedicated military satellites in orbit providing communications and surveillance.
In contrast, the US, China and Russia each have more than a hundred. The combined Russian and Chinese fleet of satellites has increased by 70% over the past decade.
Gen Tedman said Russia and China had both tested anti-satellite weapons. Both the UK and the US have warned that Russia has been developing the capability to put nuclear weapons in space.
While the US sees China as the pacing threat, Gen Tedman sees Russia as the more immediate danger: “I would say the Chinese have by far the more sophisticated capability but the Russians have more will to use their counter-space systems.”
October 3, 2025
Major General Paul Tedman was commissioned into the Army Air Corps (AAC) in 1997 and was awarded his army flying badge in 1999.
October 4, 2025
Good man
October 4, 2025
so why not publish?
October 3, 2025
Gosh, I can see a lot of EU drones going down.
Would this surveillance be able to detect rubber dingies too? We might need to increase the fleet in certain areas to get to them before the drones sink them.
October 3, 2025
If it is the the Russians causing trouble with drone attacks then sooner or later they will be found out and that being the case we should be prepared with NATO to bring maximum defence to bear against such actions. We have only to look at the geo-political landscape to see how vulnerable Russia is because of the Ukraine war she is already closed off to naval ships passing at the Bosphorus/ Dardanelles so if Russian Naval or merchant ships are found to be the culprit in carrying drones from Russia then for security reasons close off the straits between Sweden and Denmark and that will leave them only with Murmansk as a port of access to the Atlantic? – sauce for the goose!
October 3, 2025
Why not block Murmansk as well? If you are intent on suicide best to be thorough.
Have you thought that the west could have a fleet looking at the bombed Nordstream pipeline in short order?
Blocking access to Russian territory, which includes Kaliningrad is an act of war.
October 3, 2025
Deliberately flying drones without permission over other peoples territories is also an act of war – it wouldn’t be the first time the Baltic Sea was mined I remember as a young trainee seafarer in 1964 and1965 the East German navy was still clearing the mines following WW2 – to hear the clang in the bottom of your ship then look out at the sea heaving up in the distance followed by a count of three four or five seconds to hear the bang depending how far away.
October 4, 2025
Are they Russian drones? Is this a false flag by the desperate Zelensky to get western boots on the ground?
Why would Russia need to send drones when it has eyes in the sky – satellites which can read the Times on Bond Street as described above.
Of course they want to be able to jam our missiles, especially the one with nuclear warheads. They don’t trust our politicians to behave like grown-ups, (do you?) so in worst case scenario they want to divert our nukes into space rather than blow up the world.
October 3, 2025
Israel has found that its Iron Dome is not completely effective against incoming ballistic missiles travelling at a steep angle at 20k mph.
With AI advancing, much cheaper drones can be assembled inside a country and programmed to travel undetected to an address or car and either self destruct or launch a weapon. A terrorist was found with manuals on making explosives. Politicians will need armoured houses and cars.
October 3, 2025
I think they shot down everything travelling at 20mph. The problem was dealing with a host arriving at the same time in amongst which were hypersonics.
So far nobody has anything that can shoot down a hypersonic.
We need to develop hypersonics.
October 3, 2025
” Clearly hostile incoming vehicles and missiles are best destroyed before they cross the coast. ”
Does that apply to boats full of unidentified military aged males?
October 3, 2025
The question is not what we should do now, but why we have not already done it. The lesson from Israel for many years, and now Ukraine/Russia, is that we need a reliable way to detect and shoot down drones and missiles. All major cities should be properly protected as a matter of urgency. The money can be found by halving every Quango budget now. Fat chance of this government taking any action!
Off Topic – The Manchester Synagogue attack is the result of allowing anti-Israel marches throughout the UK and appeasing Hamas by recognising a Palestinian state, and the constant appeasement of a minority over the interests of the majority. Respecting and supporting British Culture matters.
October 3, 2025
176 criminals were illicitly shipped, into the UK yesterday on the 2nd October from France…what was the governments plan B ?
October 3, 2025
Holidaying this year in a beautiful bay in Majorca,I was amazed when a drone hovered for about 10mins .It really did feel like sci fi stuff😊
October 4, 2025
The Anti-Tourism agitators? Counting aliens on their beaches?
October 5, 2025
The MoD spends significant sums to fund the Army maintaining so called “Ranger” units whose sole purpose is to spend time in Sub-Saharan African countries trying to persuade the locals to do some military training. We should close this whole thing down and spend the money on anti-drone defences. The whole “Rangers” thing is a complete waste of time and money.