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Tom Sharpe

  • Red Sea missile war: Navy helicopters are making air-to-air kills like fighters

    Door gun not Topgun, in the new world of slow drones

    Tom Sharpe
    Tom Sharpe 26 Mar 2024, 4:45pm
    Video from the embarked helicopter of a French warship, as the helicopter prepares to target a slow flying Houthi drone with gunfire. International warships in the Red Sea are seeking more and more to hold back their missiles for more difficult targets
  • The US Navy is in a desperate struggle against drone stealth fighters

    American ones, of course

    Tom Sharpe
    Tom Sharpe 22 Mar 2024, 8:53am
    Aviation history is made as a US Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet refuels in the air from an unmanned MQ-25 Stingray drone in a 2021 test
  • The huge, resource rich territory China will snatch while the West dithers

    As a former Royal Navy icebreaker captain, I’m one of just a few who have been there

    Tom Sharpe
    Tom Sharpe 19 Mar 2024, 4:12pm
    video: The huge, resource rich territory China will snatch while the West dithers
  • Round the Mulberry bush: The US operation to build a Gaza aid harbour will not be easy

    A case of do what you can, not what you should

    Tom Sharpe
    Tom Sharpe 14 Mar 2024, 7:09pm
    Soldiers from 7th Transportation Brigade (Expeditionary) wave goodbye to the crew of US Army Vessel Monterrey as she pulls out from port on a humanitarian mission to Gaza, on Tuesday, March 12. The seagoing soldiers face a tricky task
  • Putin’s arms shipments no longer dare enter the Black Sea. Russia is losing the logistic war

    Vessel ‘Sparta-IV’ turns away from the Bosporus. No more Tartus weapons to Novorossiysk?

    Tom Sharpe
    Tom Sharpe 12 Mar 2024, 6:29pm
    A fuel tank burns in the Sevastopol naval base last year. Successful Ukrainian strikes of many kinds have pushed the Russian Black Sea Fleet out of Sevastopol and east to Novorossiysk. Now even this is seen as too dangerous a destination for Russian arms shipments
  • How the Ukrainians are defeating Russia

    Western navies are much better at drone defence, but the masterclass is in offence

    Tom Sharpe
    Tom Sharpe 9 Mar 2024, 10:07am
    Ukrainian drone footage shows Russian warship Sergei Kotov after a drone strike. Such operations show the way for Western navies
  • Iran’s Houthi pawns are shooting randomly like the mad dogs they are

    The idea that a ‘British ship’ has been sunk by the Red Sea Houthis is absurd

    Tom Sharpe
    Tom Sharpe 5 Mar 2024, 10:03am
    Belize-flagged, Marshall Islands owned, Lebanon operated and Saudi chartered vessel Rubymar before she sank in the Red Sea at the weekend. The vessel's links to the UK were tenuous at best
  • Trump is simply telling Nato nations what US presidents should have told us decades ago

    Like him or loathe him, he’s right. We and the Europeans need to start paying our way

    Tom Sharpe
    Tom Sharpe 1 Mar 2024, 7:04am
    Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump pumps his fist. Trump has been critical of Nato allies' failure to pay for their defence
  • Russia may have just carried out its first direct action against the West

    Nord Stream is one thing, but not many nations could do covert underwater intrusion in the Red Sea

    Tom Sharpe
    Tom Sharpe 27 Feb 2024, 5:19pm
    video: Russia may have just carried out its first direct action against the West
  • The huge difference between nuclear and conventional subs in defending Taiwan

    The Australia-Pacific geography demands submerged range and speed

    Tom Sharpe
    Tom Sharpe 23 Feb 2024, 9:26am
    US Navy SEALs operating with Virginia-class attack submarine USS New Mexico. All Virginia class boats are equipped to deploy SEAL frogmen while submerged
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  • We must be honest about Trident if we want it to be a deterrent

    The Government must be clear and concise about what happened... the credibility of our most important defence asset depends on it

    Tom Sharpe
    Tom Sharpe 21 Feb 2024, 7:30pm
    Trident
  • History has been made as ballistic missiles finally used against warships for real

    Perhaps at last the 'aircraft carriers are obsolete' mantra will cease

    Tom Sharpe
    Tom Sharpe 16 Feb 2024, 7:18am
    video: History has been made as ballistic missiles finally used against warships for real
  • HMS Prince of Wales beat her 30-day notice to sail by 22 days. This is not a failure

    US carrier Eisenhower was a day later than expected, too. Everyone just calm down

    Tom Sharpe
    Tom Sharpe 13 Feb 2024, 6:18pm
    video: HMS Prince of Wales beat her 30-day notice to sail by 22 days. This is not a failure
  • It’s quiet in the Red Sea. Too quiet

    The Houthis will presently have missiles again if they don’t already

    Tom Sharpe
    Tom Sharpe 9 Feb 2024, 12:58pm
    video: It’s quiet in the Red Sea. Too quiet
  • The US, France, Russia and now Britain. Everyone has carrier problems

    This is why you don't just have one

    Tom Sharpe
    Tom Sharpe 5 Feb 2024, 5:59pm
    video: The US, France, Russia and now Britain. Everyone has carrier problems
  • Britain literally can’t send a carrier ‘to replace’ America’s in the Red Sea

    HMS Queen Elizabeth is on standby. The Houthi threat is real – it's time to let go of our peacetime mindset

    Tom Sharpe
    Tom Sharpe 1 Feb 2024, 5:43pm
    video: Britain literally can’t send a carrier ‘to replace’ America’s in the Red Sea
  • The Houthis have a major advantage in battle for the Red Sea

    A massive coalition of military stakeholders desperate to keep the shipping route secure are nonetheless politically divided

    Tom Sharpe
    Tom Sharpe 31 Jan 2024, 6:02pm
    Houthi fighters rallying in support of Gaza
  • The Red Sea fighting shows the humiliating difference between the US and Royal Navies

    There's no way to decribe our current situation as anything other than a disaster

    Tom Sharpe
    Tom Sharpe 29 Jan 2024, 10:08am
    video: The Red Sea fighting shows the humiliating difference between the US and Royal Navies
  • One US Navy captain shows how our armed services could fix their recruiting problems

    Our embattled forces are out of sight, out of mind

    Tom Sharpe
    Tom Sharpe 24 Jan 2024, 8:29am
    A US Navy F/A-18 Hornet launches for operations against the Houthis from US carrier Dwight D Eisenhower in the Red Sea. The ship's captain, 'Chowdah' Hill, is prominent on X / Twitter
  • I commanded four warships. Let’s take a look at this Royal Navy crash in Bahrain

    Ship handling can be a tricky business, even with twin screws and bow thruster

    Tom Sharpe
    Tom Sharpe 23 Jan 2024, 8:07am
    video: I commanded four warships. Let’s take a look at this Royal Navy crash in Bahrain
  • Can the Marines and their Navy assault ships survive in the modern world?

    You have to admire the USMC's political savvy

    Tom Sharpe
    Tom Sharpe 19 Jan 2024, 2:13pm
    Royal Marines demonstrate boarding techniques on a Royal Navy warship in the Middle East. The Littoral Response Group (South) is in the Eastern Mediterranean
  • The Houthis have probably lost radar coverage in the Red Sea. This will limit them

    The UK and even more the US have delivered telling blows, but this isn't over

    Tom Sharpe
    Tom Sharpe 14 Jan 2024, 7:21pm
    video: The Houthis have probably lost radar coverage in the Red Sea. This will limit them
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