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Defence systems and energy infrastructure

Long-form analysis of the physical constraints that govern complex systems: structure, power, thermal budgets and the design trade-offs underneath the strategy. Whether the system is a defence platform or the energy infrastructure behind AI, the physics decides what is possible.

Defence strategy, 2025

MQ-28A Ghost Bat: engineering modularity for autonomous airpower

Why the Ghost Bat's real significance is its modular nose, the size, weight and power constraints it imposes, and what that means for Australian sovereign capability under AUKUS.

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Defence industryAnduril and the software-defined defence primeHow mass-manufactured hardware, the Lattice autonomy stack and a faster procurement model let Anduril challenge the traditional primes.
Energy systemsAI's physical ceiling: power, heat and the gridCompute scaling is bounded by thermodynamics and energy supply. Builds on my liquid-cooling research proposal.