The US Marines’ China-fighting, island hopping Q Ship plan is in trouble
You might think a ship designed to look like a merchant vessel would be cheap like a merchant vessel ...
![US Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (GMLRS) missiles firing during joint drills in Shoalwater Bay, Australia, in 2023. The US Marines plan to use these and other long-range weapons in an island-hopping campaign in the event of war with China](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/news/2024/07/04/TELEMMGLPICT000343505878_17201211497640_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqxAHgvSpW8b5g6-J_2-NZhtSnbwnXtdS-f_tyXgPnamw.jpeg?imwidth=350)
You might think a ship designed to look like a merchant vessel would be cheap like a merchant vessel ...
Sometimes, it’s quality that has a quality all of its own
Russian ballistic missiles are pounding Zelensky’s air bases
It’s hard to see the sense in it, as fifth-generation opposition emerges in Russia and China
Secretive ‘dual use’ space planes and satellites are jockeying for advantage above us
A long road back to their former combat power
No point having more guns if you haven’t got enough bullets
A development which will be monitored closely in Taiwan
The rickety old Kuznetsov seems unlikely to put to sea again
Each new generation of tanks is heavier than the last. Not this time
Biden finally unties the Ukrainians’ hands, and Belgorod comes under the hammer
So expensive that even America is having to compromise
Open warfare would create an environment in which nothing could survive
Shades of the Yamato and Musashi, biggest-ever battleships of WWII
Late and unserviceable, just a quarter of the promised Leopards 1s have actually been delivered
When the foreign drone swarms come, we’d better hope this works