Offshore Persistent Monitoring
This week, in one of the numerous Twitter feeds I follow was a story about Ocean power Technologies, a company in the USA, deploying an Autonomous Power Buoy with US Coastguard support.…
St Helena Airport
A reader (James C)asked for a short post with relevant information about the new airport at St Helena, due to open in 2016, built and operated by a South African…
How to Square the Circle for the Next Generation of Patrol Ship Designs
A paper called 'How to Square the Circle for the Next Generation of Patrol Ship Designs' from A Kimber, BEng, CEng, MRINA, BMT Defence Services Ltd, UK and B Thorne, BEng Hons…
Port Stanley Infrastructure Developments
As the oil and gas industry develops in the Falkland Islands the existing port infrastructure will be wholly inadequate. As I am in the middle of a ship to shore…
The Great Power Chess Game
I thought i would lighten the tone of all this Syria stuff with a piece of work produced a few years ago, one of my first bits of academic writing.…
Not Quite Thunderbird Two
An interesting article from CodeOne looking at Lockheed Martin's entry to DARPA's Transformer program. This looks like something that might actually get off the ground (ouch). http://www.codeonemagazine.com/article.html?item_id=118 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzkgkgaE_hY http://www.lockheedmartin.co.uk/us/products/Transformer_TX.html