Milstack Saturday (3 May 2025)
Milstack Saturday showcases the best articles on military subjects that I read in the past week.
In Manufacturing for the Mission, Maggie Gray and Glev Shevchuk explain the challenges faced by Neros, an American company that builds first person view (FPV) drones for the Pentagon. Having done that, they also provide a short course in the role that electronic warfare plays in the operation of these flying robots.
The Bears Old Warhorse – Russia’s Oldest Tanks Fighting In Ukraine and Italian Puma 6 x 6 APCs Surface in Ukraine tell techie tales of a different sort, steel-clad stories in which armored fighting vehicles designed to perform a particular task on the battlefield end up doing something else.
Why Japan’s Electromagnetic Railgun Succeeded Where the US Navy’s Failed completes our quartet of adventures in acquisition. Like its comrades-in-print, this piece makes me wonder about the wisdom of devoting so much time, trouble, and treasure to the optimization of a given piece of gear for a particular purpose, only to use it for work in which its hard-won super-power proves either superfluous or downright detrimental. (And, yes, QF 4.7-inch gun, I am looking at you.)
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