#  @thinkdefence Think Defence Think Defence posts on X about defence, $6586t, dewalt, op the most. They currently have 105,579 followers and 2597 posts still getting attention that total 29,042 engagements in the last 24 hours. ### Engagements: 29,042 [#](/creator/twitter::90350594/interactions)  - 1 Week 515,700 +195% - 1 Month 1,235,295 +318% - 6 Months 4,556,554 -41% - 1 Year 12,304,191 -40% ### Mentions: 50 [#](/creator/twitter::90350594/posts_active)  - 6 Months 300 -63% - 1 Year 1,063 -0.84% ### Followers: 105,579 [#](/creator/twitter::90350594/followers)  - 1 Week 105,572 +0.27% - 1 Month 105,572 +0.91% - 6 Months 105,572 +4.30% - 1 Year 105,572 +12% ### CreatorRank: 235,366 [#](/creator/twitter::90350594/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence [#](/creator/twitter::90350594/influence) --- **Social category influence** [countries](/list/countries) [finance](/list/finance) [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) [stocks](/list/stocks) [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands) **Social topic influence** [defence](/topic/defence) #159, [$6586t](/topic/$6586t) #23, [dewalt](/topic/dewalt) #38, [op](/topic/op), [dominican republic](/topic/dominican-republic), [barbados](/topic/barbados), [cayman islands](/topic/cayman-islands), [decent](/topic/decent), [all the](/topic/all-the), [ukraine](/topic/ukraine) ### Top Social Posts [#](/creator/twitter::90350594/posts) --- Top posts by engagements in the last 24 hours "@MisterQuintus I can two lanes lane 1 for comms and ecm and lane 2 for everything else. For lane 2 we already have makita in the supply chain might as well exploit"  [@thinkdefence](/creator/x/thinkdefence) on [X](/post/tweet/1945597712008618368) 2025-07-16 21:33:36 UTC 105.6K followers, 15 engagements "This is the range of a Chinook from the Cayman Islands Barbados and the Dominican Republic"  [@thinkdefence](/creator/x/thinkdefence) on [X](/post/tweet/1943294431848792503) 2025-07-10 13:01:11 UTC 105.5K followers, 16.5K engagements "People in defence talking about national resilience generally have zero clue what they are talking about Discuss"  [@thinkdefence](/creator/x/thinkdefence) on [X](/post/tweet/1944034956952375497) 2025-07-12 14:03:46 UTC 105.5K followers, 9878 engagements "Why does the Royal Artillery not have three dozen of these in service"  [@thinkdefence](/creator/x/thinkdefence) on [X](/post/tweet/1944751717498658990) 2025-07-14 13:31:55 UTC 105.6K followers, 34.8K engagements "Has any nation managed to figure out what to do with retired very senior officers such that their expertise and experience can be used without getting close to the wind by them getting involved with the defence industry and that provides them with decent career opportunities"  [@thinkdefence](/creator/x/thinkdefence) on [X](/post/tweet/1943728526307234303) 2025-07-11 17:46:08 UTC 105.5K followers, 8149 engagements "Having a brew courtesy of Mr Makita always a good idea"  [@thinkdefence](/creator/x/thinkdefence) on [X](/post/tweet/1945561893948555430) 2025-07-16 19:11:16 UTC 105.6K followers, 2201 engagements "What effect would withdrawing carrier strike in its entirety have on the defence of the UK"  [@thinkdefence](/creator/x/thinkdefence) on [X](/post/tweet/1943766372775047475) 2025-07-11 20:16:31 UTC 105.5K followers, 15.7K engagements "That's the look when your wife asks if you are going to be carrying all the shopping bags from the car 😀"  [@thinkdefence](/creator/x/thinkdefence) on [X](/post/tweet/1944516368495435868) 2025-07-13 21:56:44 UTC 105.6K followers, 11.1K engagements "Perhaps the most significant difference between power tool batteries and defence batteries is their operating environments. Defence has much more demanding emissions wider operating/charging temperature ranges and shock/water resistance often described in their standards"  [@thinkdefence](/creator/x/thinkdefence) on [X](/post/tweet/1945561837170246136) 2025-07-16 19:11:03 UTC 105.6K followers, 201 engagements "With all our Hawks out of service soon wonder if we have any Aden pods lurking around the place. Could they help Ukraine in counter Shahed role"  [@thinkdefence](/creator/x/thinkdefence) on [X](/post/tweet/1944116849752334494) 2025-07-12 19:29:11 UTC 105.6K followers, 10.6K engagements "HMS Medway at the Turks and Caicos to provide HADR support during hurricane season. Not denigrating HMS Medway and her crew but I think the British Army and RAF would be better suited to this task they would bring a much wider range of applicable capabilities"  [@thinkdefence](/creator/x/thinkdefence) on [X](/post/tweet/1943083749224116660) 2025-07-09 23:04:01 UTC 105.6K followers, 7706 engagements "@BearJFK @BenWallace70 @Tonkafanxv @MisterQuintus @Thomas977673521 Boxer was just finishing its development VBCI was just out of it and Piranha V was on the drawing board. So for the latter we accepted a proxy vehicle and trust me bro an earlier version of the design. Obviously Piranha V won"  [@thinkdefence](/creator/x/thinkdefence) on [X](/post/tweet/1944781701273526557) 2025-07-14 15:31:04 UTC 105.6K followers, 144 engagements "The kind of high trust society that would be needed for a coherent civil defence organisation and response no longer exists. When someone starts talking about that maybe we have can have sensible discussions. Until then it is just fantasy fleets"  [@thinkdefence](/creator/x/thinkdefence) on [X](/post/tweet/1944486112753602840) 2025-07-13 19:56:30 UTC 105.5K followers, 6768 engagements "In the context of a fifty odd billion pounds defence budget 10m a year would buy enough brushless motors for about 75k FPVs. Now is this enough arguably not but it could be a low impact hedge"  [@thinkdefence](/creator/x/thinkdefence) on [X](/post/tweet/1944419074827534683) 2025-07-13 15:30:07 UTC 105.6K followers, 5915 engagements "We struggle to keep a few air defence ships at sea and have a paltry ground based air defence capability how the bloody hell are we going to put air defence systems on critical national infrastructure sites"  [@thinkdefence](/creator/x/thinkdefence) on [X](/post/tweet/1944034319573336277) 2025-07-12 14:01:14 UTC 105.6K followers, 18.6K engagements "The Dewalt Flexvolt system can also automatically provide either a higher power or a longer duration depending on the tool. This is also used in the Powerstation product essentially an inverter/power bank product that uses Flexvolt batteries"  [@thinkdefence](/creator/x/thinkdefence) on [X](/post/tweet/1945561772938723730) 2025-07-16 19:10:48 UTC 105.6K followers, 363 engagements "How would the Victorians have dealt with the small boat migrant crisis"  [@thinkdefence](/creator/x/thinkdefence) on [X](/post/tweet/1940046252722229684) 2025-07-01 13:54:05 UTC 105.5K followers, 19.8K engagements "For FPV and small UAS if we did want to turn on the production taps how much of their supply chain exists in the UK Brushless motors injection moulded rotors carbon fibre struts controllers guidance systems and explosive devices"  [@thinkdefence](/creator/x/thinkdefence) on [X](/post/tweet/1944412087733670375) 2025-07-13 15:02:21 UTC 105.5K followers, 7078 engagements "@SpeciousOfficer We have so much potential only a hairs breadth away"  [@thinkdefence](/creator/x/thinkdefence) on [X](/post/tweet/1944492713560445255) 2025-07-13 20:22:44 UTC 105.5K followers, 331 engagements "A fantastic bit of US innovation the Advanced Ceramics Research Coyote now commonly known as the Raytheon Coyote. A sonobuoy dispenser launched drone for P-3C Orion aircraft to be used for hurricane research"  [@thinkdefence](/creator/x/thinkdefence) on [X](/post/tweet/1945468639747936266) 2025-07-16 13:00:43 UTC 105.6K followers, 3362 engagements "@Colne_Magna_X It would be great to have them beavering away building FPVs old ideas new concepts"  [@thinkdefence](/creator/x/thinkdefence) on [X](/post/tweet/1944754751003836709) 2025-07-14 13:43:59 UTC 105.6K followers, 56 engagements "A media clip illustrating an MBDA Fire Shadow loitering munition during trials in Sweden #ComplexWeapons"  [@thinkdefence](/creator/x/thinkdefence) on [X](/post/tweet/1945574408329814276) 2025-07-16 20:01:00 UTC 105.6K followers, 2290 engagements "I can imagine a Franco British Corps next composed entirely of forces we don't have but headquartered in Paris"  [@thinkdefence](/creator/x/thinkdefence) on [X](/post/tweet/1943422864667148653) 2025-07-10 21:31:32 UTC 105.5K followers, 18.3K engagements "Well you didn't think they would use a Makita did you"  [@thinkdefence](/creator/x/thinkdefence) on [X](/post/tweet/1944177709107540379) 2025-07-12 23:31:01 UTC 105.6K followers, 3072 engagements "A dozen questions on the data leak and resettlement issue 1. Will anyone face sanctions in the MoD and associated organisations either currently employed or formerly employed 2. Was an impact assessment completed on the wider implications of giving in to blackmail threats 3. Was an impact assessment completed on the likelihood of sex or other crimes against UK residents from the influx of Afghan nationals 4. If an impact assessment was completed will it be published 5. If an impact assessment was completed were any mitigating actions detailed and when were they implemented 6. Has there been"  [@thinkdefence](/creator/x/thinkdefence) on [X](/post/tweet/1945498757677584551) 2025-07-16 15:00:24 UTC 105.6K followers, 11.6K engagements "Having a brew courtesy of Mr Makita always a good idea"  [@thinkdefence](/creator/x/thinkdefence) on [X](/post/tweet/1945561884645552307) 2025-07-16 19:11:14 UTC 105.6K followers, 196 engagements "@FennellJW Maybe details often get confused in these breaking news type stories dont they"  [@thinkdefence](/creator/x/thinkdefence) on [X](/post/tweet/1945118675440165119) 2025-07-15 13:50:05 UTC 105.5K followers, 268 engagements "@BearJFK @BenWallace70 @Tonkafanxv @MisterQuintus @Thomas977673521 We then dithered and cancelled that as well pivoting to FRES SV what eventually became Ajax. Once the dust had settled we looked again and third time lucky selected Boxer"  [@thinkdefence](/creator/x/thinkdefence) on [X](/post/tweet/1944782149925699826) 2025-07-14 15:32:51 UTC 105.6K followers, 126 engagements "Defence port handles military vehicles and cargo for loading onto a roll-on roll-off Ro-Ro ship at Marchwood Military Port in the UK. Exercise HEDGEHOG is the deployment of 4LBCT to support the Estonian Defence Plan under Op RAZOREDGE"  [@thinkdefence](/creator/x/thinkdefence) on [X](/post/tweet/1944804237117968754) 2025-07-14 17:00:37 UTC 105.6K followers, 3682 engagements "This is a ground attack version of ASRAAM called Typhoon. It was entered into the Brimstone completion but lost out. Could we resurrect this and integrate with F-35B for a quick win"  [@thinkdefence](/creator/x/thinkdefence) on [X](/post/tweet/1944019863992689015) 2025-07-12 13:03:48 UTC 105.5K followers, 19.4K engagements "Germany has contributed the most financially from Europe the UK arguably the most significant in terms of timeliness and influence France the least. de Gaulle would be proud"  [@thinkdefence](/creator/x/thinkdefence) on [X](/post/tweet/1943412155866309095) 2025-07-10 20:48:59 UTC 105.5K followers, 12.8K engagements "An emerging requirement for magic murder missiles Explore the options ➡"  [@thinkdefence](/creator/x/thinkdefence) on [X](/post/tweet/1945060905345015817) 2025-07-15 10:00:31 UTC 105.6K followers, 3243 engagements "The power tool battery market is vast in 2020 it was worth $21 Billion and is projected to reach more than $41 Billion by 2030. Volumes like this mean two things; costs will be under constant downward pressure and innovation will be rapid"  [@thinkdefence](/creator/x/thinkdefence) on [X](/post/tweet/1945561745906368731) 2025-07-16 19:10:41 UTC 105.6K followers, 225 engagements "By standardising on one civilian power tool battery platform though there are plenty of less critical applications that can exploit them especially eliminating 240v in command posts"  [@thinkdefence](/creator/x/thinkdefence) on [X](/post/tweet/1945561872779919468) 2025-07-16 19:11:11 UTC 105.6K followers, 197 engagements "90% of the civil defence discourse is based on an idealised notion of society that maybe existed in the past but certainly doesn't today"  [@thinkdefence](/creator/x/thinkdefence) on [X](/post/tweet/1944475634035548280) 2025-07-13 19:14:52 UTC 105.6K followers, 33.4K engagements "How many of these can our 13 billion 27 year Voyager airborne tanker fleet PFI refuel"  [@thinkdefence](/creator/x/thinkdefence) on [X](/post/tweet/1943715673579917416) 2025-07-11 16:55:03 UTC 105.6K followers, 13.1K engagements "With a modern fire control system and air burst ammunition how effective would these be against slow flying drones like the Shahed"  [@thinkdefence](/creator/x/thinkdefence) on [X](/post/tweet/1944028234393219241) 2025-07-12 13:37:04 UTC 105.6K followers, 15.7K engagements "Red Arrows performing a flypast for the Kings Birthday over London today (14/06/2025). A world-first flypast using a combination of more environmentally-friendly fuels has been performed by the Red Arrows over London for His Majesty The King 90% of UK SAF comes from China"  [@thinkdefence](/creator/x/thinkdefence) on [X](/post/tweet/1944468985887543480) 2025-07-13 18:48:27 UTC 105.5K followers, 8942 engagements "UK troops on quadbikes are seen here deployed in Estonia. Exercise Hedgehog (ExHH25) from 9-24 May 25 is part of the Op Razoredge group of deployments"  [@thinkdefence](/creator/x/thinkdefence) on [X](/post/tweet/1945045838201241602) 2025-07-15 09:00:39 UTC 105.6K followers, 3371 engagements "A video clip illustrating the beautiful British invention that is the Ski Jump oh and F-35B"  [@thinkdefence](/creator/x/thinkdefence) on [X](/post/tweet/1943754742535954809) 2025-07-11 19:30:18 UTC 105.6K followers, 6490 engagements "@Szlater2 I was thinking of deleting it to make it clearer 😀"  [@thinkdefence](/creator/x/thinkdefence) on [X](/post/tweet/1945145648778461640) 2025-07-15 15:37:16 UTC 105.6K followers, 313 engagements "The first flight of Meteor was in 2005 from a French Navy Rafale F2 aircraft. Gripen and Typhoon firings were carried out as a part of the broader development plan. In 2012 production began and exports followed in 2013"  [@thinkdefence](/creator/x/thinkdefence) on [X](/post/tweet/1941943005750911064) 2025-07-06 19:31:06 UTC 105.6K followers, 2242 engagements "It doesn't matter which government budget the relocation scheme is coming from it is coming from you and me"  [@thinkdefence](/creator/x/thinkdefence) on [X](/post/tweet/1945104212494266662) 2025-07-15 12:52:37 UTC 105.6K followers, 9217 engagements "A media clip illustrating the Dorsal Aircraft Corporation idea for converting a C-130 into a hybrid uncrewed aircraft"  [@thinkdefence](/creator/x/thinkdefence) on [X](/post/tweet/1945196893685821582) 2025-07-15 19:00:54 UTC 105.6K followers, 4517 engagements "Why are modern quad bikes the size of a Jeep and half as capable"  [@thinkdefence](/creator/x/thinkdefence) on [X](/post/tweet/1944044717370470455) 2025-07-12 14:42:33 UTC 105.5K followers, 10.1K engagements "Whilst everyone is fawning over that video of the Rheinmetall Skyshield plinking Shaheds can I just remind everyone that we have a load of surplus 40mm CTAS from Warrior CSP bought and paid for"  [@thinkdefence](/creator/x/thinkdefence) on [X](/post/tweet/1944055192321745096) 2025-07-12 15:24:11 UTC 105.6K followers, 62.3K engagements "Or about 100000 FPV motors War Footing latest"  [@thinkdefence](/creator/x/thinkdefence) on [X](/post/tweet/1944420561611850171) 2025-07-13 15:36:02 UTC 105.6K followers, 9095 engagements "An observation from my timeline. There are two narratives on the Afghanistan issue one from officers one from other ranks and they are very different"  [@thinkdefence](/creator/x/thinkdefence) on [X](/post/tweet/1945620269290131795) 2025-07-16 23:03:14 UTC 105.6K followers, 7022 engagements "War footing latest Or nearly a quarter of a million FPVs"  [@thinkdefence](/creator/x/thinkdefence) on [X](/post/tweet/1944795397664190874) 2025-07-14 16:25:30 UTC 105.6K followers, 7999 engagements "Can I suggest we start with spreadsheets and email"  [@thinkdefence](/creator/x/thinkdefence) on [X](/post/tweet/1945121132538888699) 2025-07-15 13:59:51 UTC 105.6K followers, 3694 engagements "We can't build a railway tunnel without it costing a gazillion pounds because of the bats how the bloody hell are we going to build a national network of air raid shelters"  [@thinkdefence](/creator/x/thinkdefence) on [X](/post/tweet/1944032424326815894) 2025-07-12 13:53:42 UTC 105.5K followers, 9776 engagements "The Dewalt Flexvolt and Makita LXT/XGT are just two examples of such innovation both allowing larger tools to use batteries especially those more traditionally powered by internal combustion engines"  [@thinkdefence](/creator/x/thinkdefence) on [X](/post/tweet/1945561755972780339) 2025-07-16 19:10:44 UTC 105.6K followers, 248 engagements "The elimination of two-stroke internal combustion engines is a significant safety and convenience advantage and in some locations California for example portable tools that use petrol (gas) are scheduled to be banned in a few years"  [@thinkdefence](/creator/x/thinkdefence) on [X](/post/tweet/1945561766957592719) 2025-07-16 19:10:46 UTC 105.6K followers, 238 engagements "To summarise there are definitely defence applications for power tool batteries and not just for power tools but there are limits. END"  [@thinkdefence](/creator/x/thinkdefence) on [X](/post/tweet/1945561899669627212) 2025-07-16 19:11:18 UTC 105.6K followers, 2169 engagements "UK Military security staff at Wimbledon on 10th July 2025. Visitors to Wimbledon might be surprised at the number of military personnel and wonder if there's a heightened security issue. The Armed Forces presence dates back more than 70 years. Wimbledon suffered bomb damage during the Second World War with a bomb hitting Centre Court in October 1940. This destroyed part of the roof and enough seats to reduce capacity by more than 1000. When The Championships resumed in 1946 service personnel were involved in helping direct people to their seats around the bomb damage. That was the beginning"  [@thinkdefence](/creator/x/thinkdefence) on [X](/post/tweet/1944437675672387646) 2025-07-13 16:44:02 UTC 105.6K followers, 5935 engagements "It is easy to blame ministers civil servants and the treasury for all that ails the armed forces. Whilst they carry some blame the very senior officers in charge of each of the services carry just as much blame if not more"  [@thinkdefence](/creator/x/thinkdefence) on [X](/post/tweet/1944431710847877615) 2025-07-13 16:20:20 UTC 105.6K followers, 11.3K engagements "What NATO strength cock up are we going to be treated to today. Its every day isn't it"  [@thinkdefence](/creator/x/thinkdefence) on [X](/post/tweet/1945462825440157714) 2025-07-16 12:37:37 UTC 105.6K followers, 2695 engagements
@thinkdefence Think Defence
Think Defence posts on X about defence, $6586t, dewalt, op the most. They currently have 105,579 followers and 2597 posts still getting attention that total 29,042 engagements in the last 24 hours.
Engagements: 29,042 #
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- 1 Month 1,235,295 +318%
- 6 Months 4,556,554 -41%
- 1 Year 12,304,191 -40%
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- 6 Months 300 -63%
- 1 Year 1,063 -0.84%
Followers: 105,579 #
- 1 Week 105,572 +0.27%
- 1 Month 105,572 +0.91%
- 6 Months 105,572 +4.30%
- 1 Year 105,572 +12%
CreatorRank: 235,366 #
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Social topic influence defence #159, $6586t #23, dewalt #38, op, dominican republic, barbados, cayman islands, decent, all the, ukraine
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Top posts by engagements in the last 24 hours
"@MisterQuintus I can two lanes lane 1 for comms and ecm and lane 2 for everything else. For lane 2 we already have makita in the supply chain might as well exploit"
@thinkdefence on X 2025-07-16 21:33:36 UTC 105.6K followers, 15 engagements
"This is the range of a Chinook from the Cayman Islands Barbados and the Dominican Republic" @thinkdefence on X 2025-07-10 13:01:11 UTC 105.5K followers, 16.5K engagements
"People in defence talking about national resilience generally have zero clue what they are talking about Discuss" @thinkdefence on X 2025-07-12 14:03:46 UTC 105.5K followers, 9878 engagements
"Why does the Royal Artillery not have three dozen of these in service" @thinkdefence on X 2025-07-14 13:31:55 UTC 105.6K followers, 34.8K engagements
"Has any nation managed to figure out what to do with retired very senior officers such that their expertise and experience can be used without getting close to the wind by them getting involved with the defence industry and that provides them with decent career opportunities" @thinkdefence on X 2025-07-11 17:46:08 UTC 105.5K followers, 8149 engagements
"Having a brew courtesy of Mr Makita always a good idea" @thinkdefence on X 2025-07-16 19:11:16 UTC 105.6K followers, 2201 engagements
"What effect would withdrawing carrier strike in its entirety have on the defence of the UK" @thinkdefence on X 2025-07-11 20:16:31 UTC 105.5K followers, 15.7K engagements
"That's the look when your wife asks if you are going to be carrying all the shopping bags from the car 😀" @thinkdefence on X 2025-07-13 21:56:44 UTC 105.6K followers, 11.1K engagements
"Perhaps the most significant difference between power tool batteries and defence batteries is their operating environments. Defence has much more demanding emissions wider operating/charging temperature ranges and shock/water resistance often described in their standards" @thinkdefence on X 2025-07-16 19:11:03 UTC 105.6K followers, 201 engagements
"With all our Hawks out of service soon wonder if we have any Aden pods lurking around the place. Could they help Ukraine in counter Shahed role" @thinkdefence on X 2025-07-12 19:29:11 UTC 105.6K followers, 10.6K engagements
"HMS Medway at the Turks and Caicos to provide HADR support during hurricane season. Not denigrating HMS Medway and her crew but I think the British Army and RAF would be better suited to this task they would bring a much wider range of applicable capabilities" @thinkdefence on X 2025-07-09 23:04:01 UTC 105.6K followers, 7706 engagements
"@BearJFK @BenWallace70 @Tonkafanxv @MisterQuintus @Thomas977673521 Boxer was just finishing its development VBCI was just out of it and Piranha V was on the drawing board. So for the latter we accepted a proxy vehicle and trust me bro an earlier version of the design. Obviously Piranha V won" @thinkdefence on X 2025-07-14 15:31:04 UTC 105.6K followers, 144 engagements
"The kind of high trust society that would be needed for a coherent civil defence organisation and response no longer exists. When someone starts talking about that maybe we have can have sensible discussions. Until then it is just fantasy fleets" @thinkdefence on X 2025-07-13 19:56:30 UTC 105.5K followers, 6768 engagements
"In the context of a fifty odd billion pounds defence budget 10m a year would buy enough brushless motors for about 75k FPVs. Now is this enough arguably not but it could be a low impact hedge" @thinkdefence on X 2025-07-13 15:30:07 UTC 105.6K followers, 5915 engagements
"We struggle to keep a few air defence ships at sea and have a paltry ground based air defence capability how the bloody hell are we going to put air defence systems on critical national infrastructure sites" @thinkdefence on X 2025-07-12 14:01:14 UTC 105.6K followers, 18.6K engagements
"The Dewalt Flexvolt system can also automatically provide either a higher power or a longer duration depending on the tool. This is also used in the Powerstation product essentially an inverter/power bank product that uses Flexvolt batteries" @thinkdefence on X 2025-07-16 19:10:48 UTC 105.6K followers, 363 engagements
"How would the Victorians have dealt with the small boat migrant crisis" @thinkdefence on X 2025-07-01 13:54:05 UTC 105.5K followers, 19.8K engagements
"For FPV and small UAS if we did want to turn on the production taps how much of their supply chain exists in the UK Brushless motors injection moulded rotors carbon fibre struts controllers guidance systems and explosive devices" @thinkdefence on X 2025-07-13 15:02:21 UTC 105.5K followers, 7078 engagements
"@SpeciousOfficer We have so much potential only a hairs breadth away" @thinkdefence on X 2025-07-13 20:22:44 UTC 105.5K followers, 331 engagements
"A fantastic bit of US innovation the Advanced Ceramics Research Coyote now commonly known as the Raytheon Coyote. A sonobuoy dispenser launched drone for P-3C Orion aircraft to be used for hurricane research" @thinkdefence on X 2025-07-16 13:00:43 UTC 105.6K followers, 3362 engagements
"@Colne_Magna_X It would be great to have them beavering away building FPVs old ideas new concepts" @thinkdefence on X 2025-07-14 13:43:59 UTC 105.6K followers, 56 engagements
"A media clip illustrating an MBDA Fire Shadow loitering munition during trials in Sweden #ComplexWeapons" @thinkdefence on X 2025-07-16 20:01:00 UTC 105.6K followers, 2290 engagements
"I can imagine a Franco British Corps next composed entirely of forces we don't have but headquartered in Paris" @thinkdefence on X 2025-07-10 21:31:32 UTC 105.5K followers, 18.3K engagements
"Well you didn't think they would use a Makita did you" @thinkdefence on X 2025-07-12 23:31:01 UTC 105.6K followers, 3072 engagements
"A dozen questions on the data leak and resettlement issue 1. Will anyone face sanctions in the MoD and associated organisations either currently employed or formerly employed 2. Was an impact assessment completed on the wider implications of giving in to blackmail threats 3. Was an impact assessment completed on the likelihood of sex or other crimes against UK residents from the influx of Afghan nationals 4. If an impact assessment was completed will it be published 5. If an impact assessment was completed were any mitigating actions detailed and when were they implemented 6. Has there been" @thinkdefence on X 2025-07-16 15:00:24 UTC 105.6K followers, 11.6K engagements
"Having a brew courtesy of Mr Makita always a good idea" @thinkdefence on X 2025-07-16 19:11:14 UTC 105.6K followers, 196 engagements
"@FennellJW Maybe details often get confused in these breaking news type stories dont they" @thinkdefence on X 2025-07-15 13:50:05 UTC 105.5K followers, 268 engagements
"@BearJFK @BenWallace70 @Tonkafanxv @MisterQuintus @Thomas977673521 We then dithered and cancelled that as well pivoting to FRES SV what eventually became Ajax. Once the dust had settled we looked again and third time lucky selected Boxer" @thinkdefence on X 2025-07-14 15:32:51 UTC 105.6K followers, 126 engagements
"Defence port handles military vehicles and cargo for loading onto a roll-on roll-off Ro-Ro ship at Marchwood Military Port in the UK. Exercise HEDGEHOG is the deployment of 4LBCT to support the Estonian Defence Plan under Op RAZOREDGE" @thinkdefence on X 2025-07-14 17:00:37 UTC 105.6K followers, 3682 engagements
"This is a ground attack version of ASRAAM called Typhoon. It was entered into the Brimstone completion but lost out. Could we resurrect this and integrate with F-35B for a quick win" @thinkdefence on X 2025-07-12 13:03:48 UTC 105.5K followers, 19.4K engagements
"Germany has contributed the most financially from Europe the UK arguably the most significant in terms of timeliness and influence France the least. de Gaulle would be proud" @thinkdefence on X 2025-07-10 20:48:59 UTC 105.5K followers, 12.8K engagements
"An emerging requirement for magic murder missiles Explore the options âž¡" @thinkdefence on X 2025-07-15 10:00:31 UTC 105.6K followers, 3243 engagements
"The power tool battery market is vast in 2020 it was worth $21 Billion and is projected to reach more than $41 Billion by 2030. Volumes like this mean two things; costs will be under constant downward pressure and innovation will be rapid" @thinkdefence on X 2025-07-16 19:10:41 UTC 105.6K followers, 225 engagements
"By standardising on one civilian power tool battery platform though there are plenty of less critical applications that can exploit them especially eliminating 240v in command posts" @thinkdefence on X 2025-07-16 19:11:11 UTC 105.6K followers, 197 engagements
"90% of the civil defence discourse is based on an idealised notion of society that maybe existed in the past but certainly doesn't today" @thinkdefence on X 2025-07-13 19:14:52 UTC 105.6K followers, 33.4K engagements
"How many of these can our 13 billion 27 year Voyager airborne tanker fleet PFI refuel" @thinkdefence on X 2025-07-11 16:55:03 UTC 105.6K followers, 13.1K engagements
"With a modern fire control system and air burst ammunition how effective would these be against slow flying drones like the Shahed" @thinkdefence on X 2025-07-12 13:37:04 UTC 105.6K followers, 15.7K engagements
"Red Arrows performing a flypast for the Kings Birthday over London today (14/06/2025). A world-first flypast using a combination of more environmentally-friendly fuels has been performed by the Red Arrows over London for His Majesty The King 90% of UK SAF comes from China" @thinkdefence on X 2025-07-13 18:48:27 UTC 105.5K followers, 8942 engagements
"UK troops on quadbikes are seen here deployed in Estonia. Exercise Hedgehog (ExHH25) from 9-24 May 25 is part of the Op Razoredge group of deployments" @thinkdefence on X 2025-07-15 09:00:39 UTC 105.6K followers, 3371 engagements
"A video clip illustrating the beautiful British invention that is the Ski Jump oh and F-35B" @thinkdefence on X 2025-07-11 19:30:18 UTC 105.6K followers, 6490 engagements
"@Szlater2 I was thinking of deleting it to make it clearer 😀" @thinkdefence on X 2025-07-15 15:37:16 UTC 105.6K followers, 313 engagements
"The first flight of Meteor was in 2005 from a French Navy Rafale F2 aircraft. Gripen and Typhoon firings were carried out as a part of the broader development plan. In 2012 production began and exports followed in 2013" @thinkdefence on X 2025-07-06 19:31:06 UTC 105.6K followers, 2242 engagements
"It doesn't matter which government budget the relocation scheme is coming from it is coming from you and me" @thinkdefence on X 2025-07-15 12:52:37 UTC 105.6K followers, 9217 engagements
"A media clip illustrating the Dorsal Aircraft Corporation idea for converting a C-130 into a hybrid uncrewed aircraft" @thinkdefence on X 2025-07-15 19:00:54 UTC 105.6K followers, 4517 engagements
"Why are modern quad bikes the size of a Jeep and half as capable" @thinkdefence on X 2025-07-12 14:42:33 UTC 105.5K followers, 10.1K engagements
"Whilst everyone is fawning over that video of the Rheinmetall Skyshield plinking Shaheds can I just remind everyone that we have a load of surplus 40mm CTAS from Warrior CSP bought and paid for" @thinkdefence on X 2025-07-12 15:24:11 UTC 105.6K followers, 62.3K engagements
"Or about 100000 FPV motors War Footing latest" @thinkdefence on X 2025-07-13 15:36:02 UTC 105.6K followers, 9095 engagements
"An observation from my timeline. There are two narratives on the Afghanistan issue one from officers one from other ranks and they are very different" @thinkdefence on X 2025-07-16 23:03:14 UTC 105.6K followers, 7022 engagements
"War footing latest Or nearly a quarter of a million FPVs" @thinkdefence on X 2025-07-14 16:25:30 UTC 105.6K followers, 7999 engagements
"Can I suggest we start with spreadsheets and email" @thinkdefence on X 2025-07-15 13:59:51 UTC 105.6K followers, 3694 engagements
"We can't build a railway tunnel without it costing a gazillion pounds because of the bats how the bloody hell are we going to build a national network of air raid shelters" @thinkdefence on X 2025-07-12 13:53:42 UTC 105.5K followers, 9776 engagements
"The Dewalt Flexvolt and Makita LXT/XGT are just two examples of such innovation both allowing larger tools to use batteries especially those more traditionally powered by internal combustion engines" @thinkdefence on X 2025-07-16 19:10:44 UTC 105.6K followers, 248 engagements
"The elimination of two-stroke internal combustion engines is a significant safety and convenience advantage and in some locations California for example portable tools that use petrol (gas) are scheduled to be banned in a few years" @thinkdefence on X 2025-07-16 19:10:46 UTC 105.6K followers, 238 engagements
"To summarise there are definitely defence applications for power tool batteries and not just for power tools but there are limits. END" @thinkdefence on X 2025-07-16 19:11:18 UTC 105.6K followers, 2169 engagements
"UK Military security staff at Wimbledon on 10th July 2025. Visitors to Wimbledon might be surprised at the number of military personnel and wonder if there's a heightened security issue. The Armed Forces presence dates back more than 70 years. Wimbledon suffered bomb damage during the Second World War with a bomb hitting Centre Court in October 1940. This destroyed part of the roof and enough seats to reduce capacity by more than 1000. When The Championships resumed in 1946 service personnel were involved in helping direct people to their seats around the bomb damage. That was the beginning" @thinkdefence on X 2025-07-13 16:44:02 UTC 105.6K followers, 5935 engagements
"It is easy to blame ministers civil servants and the treasury for all that ails the armed forces. Whilst they carry some blame the very senior officers in charge of each of the services carry just as much blame if not more" @thinkdefence on X 2025-07-13 16:20:20 UTC 105.6K followers, 11.3K engagements
"What NATO strength cock up are we going to be treated to today. Its every day isn't it" @thinkdefence on X 2025-07-16 12:37:37 UTC 105.6K followers, 2695 engagements