The ancient Romans often figured that the longer you put decisions off, the better; and the delay in outlining the defence requirements of the UK might be one of the outgoing PM's better decisions, albeit for the wrong reasons. For defence is a pork-barrel, and existing suppliers to the military-industrial complex will ever be looking to push an agenda that effectively supports the status quo... in their favour.
But one of the few benefits of war for those on either end of it is that it does upend the pork-barrel when it comes to altering ways of thinking. There's enough news out there about the Royal Navy abandoning big ships for small; and the Army and RAF will have to follow suit given successive government efforts to abandon an industrial base for a ~ literal ~ welfare state.
The drones however are even coming to roost for residents of Moscow, where fuel shortages are beginning to bite now that they've range and wherewithal to target oil storage facilities. Previously it would have required bombs dropped from a great height, most of which would miss: especially ineffective in view of the number of bombers that would be lost in the circs.
That's all gone now, for a reduction in the cost of computing and communication has meant there's a half-dozen different means to guide drones to distant targets at affordable cost and some ~ try it on a three-year old ~ can be taught chimpanzees.
Liquid product has generally to be stored in bottles or tins, because as the Romans discovered, circular structures best withstand internal and external forces. So it is that LPG is transported in pressurised spheres. They're not the easiest to make and so liquids at pressures deriving only from gravity are better made of a cylinder with a lid on top. And as there has still to be an element of pressure for expansion and so forth, that lid best approximates a dome... like that atop St Pauls cathedral.
The problem with this is that for modern aerial drones, it's a game of bubble-wrap. Take a look at Europe's largest storage and refinery facility at Rotterdam and see if your child can spot the dots? And it gets easier as destruction progresses, as drones progressively turn those white dots black.
In terms of computing, it's something Alan Turing could do ~ and likely did ~ before bedtime.
