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Oct 30, 2026
Jerome StarkeyHOST
Ukraine has hit Russia's Samara oil refinery with a record drone attack after back-to-back storm shadow strikes on the Russian arms industry.
Jerome StarkeyHOST
It's been a week of nuclear posturing, but cool heads insist there is no escalation.
Jerome StarkeyHOST
The siege of Aleshky at last is lifting and seven Russian tankers are steaming towards America, but it's unclear yet if any US oil companies are going to buy their diesel.
Jerome StarkeyHOST
As we record, the Samara oil refinery is burning.
Jerome StarkeyHOST
Extraordinary footage showing six, at least six large plumes of smoke billowing over that plant.
Jerome StarkeyHOST
That is one of the first major strikes that Ukraine has launched on refineries this week because it's been dominated by strikes on the russian arms industry but we'll start in samara 600 miles inside russian territory firepoint the maker of ukraine's flamingo missiles they have claimed that it was their fp-1 long-range drones behind this attack and the local russian governor fedoroshev has said that this was a record strike of ukrainian drones and the ministry of defense saying that across Russia, some 1,000 drones were shot down.
Jerome StarkeyHOST
But at the Novoy Kuybyshev plant in Samara, which can refine about 8.8 million tonnes, it puts it in the top 20 of Russia's major oil refineries.
Jerome StarkeyHOST
A suggestion from those Russian officials that that plant, that area, faced the largest strike in its experience of the war so far.
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the Australian Defence Magazine podcast, serving the business of defence.
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With Grant McHerron, Nigel Pittaway and Ewen Levick.
Grant McHerronHOST
Hi everyone and welcome back to the show.
Grant McHerronHOST
We've got a few things to discuss in this news review, but we're going to kick it off, Nigel, with a quick review of land forces and the ADM Western Australia Summit.
Nigel PittawayHOST
Good morning, Grant.
Nigel PittawayHOST
Yeah, it was an interesting week or so the team had over in WA, firstly for land forces and then rolling straight into the West Australian Defence Summit, our own conference over there.
Nigel PittawayHOST
I have to say both events were better patronised than I expected.
Nigel PittawayHOST
The industry was talking before we went about how quiet land forces was expected to be and some companies reduced the amount of floor space required Having said that, the floor space was full to the point where there were stands outside the auditorium or outside the exhibition area, also on the mezzanine level.
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the Australian Defence Magazine podcast.
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Serving the business of defence with Grant McHerron.
Grant McHerronHOST
Hi everyone and welcome back to the show.
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Grant McHerronHOST
And Mark, there's a lot of training going on I would imagine to have that AI accustomed to working in the Australian environment.
Mark GainsfordGUEST
Yeah, I think that's just starting actually and the word you use there is important, training.
Mark GainsfordGUEST
I think fundamentally the Australian Army and Defence more broadly is coming to terms with the new technology but how are they going to implement that technology? How are they going to train not only the systems but the people that are interfacing with it? How do they learn and grow trust with those systems? No different if you've got a new staff member or a new soldier.
Mark GainsfordGUEST
You don't give them the hardest task on day one.
Mark GainsfordGUEST
You let them build their skills.
Mohammed Aba-AjiGUEST
you very much.
Juliet DobsonHOST
And Mohamed's article, Increasing Defence Expenditure May Cost Us Our Security, that he co-wrote with Nason Marnie, is also available on bmj.com. Mohamed and Nason also wrote for our Arms Industry as a Commercial Determinant of Health series, and we've linked to both of those articles in the podcast notes.
Juliet DobsonHOST
All of the other articles in our climate edition are also free to access.
Juliet DobsonHOST
So have a look at bmj.com now.
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much.
Juliet DobsonHOST
And Mohammed's article, Increasing Defence Expenditure May Cost Us Our Security, is also on bmj.com. And he also wrote earlier in the year for our arms industry as a commercial determinant of health series.
Juliet DobsonHOST
And we've linked to both of those articles in the podcast notes.
Juliet DobsonHOST
I just wonder, Mohammed wrote this with a co-author, Nason.
Juliet DobsonHOST
Yeah.
Juliet DobsonHOST
A Mohammed's article that he co-wrote with Nathan Marnie on a hang on.
Juliet DobsonHOST
And Mohamed's article, Increasing Defence Expenditure May Cost Us Our Security, that he co-wrote with Nason Marnie, is also available on bmj.com. Mohamed and Nason also wrote for our Arms Industry as a Commercial Determinant of Health series, and we've linked to both of those articles in the podcast notes.
Juliet DobsonHOST
All of the other articles in our climate edition are also free to access.
Joseph Solis MullenGUEST
He's over at the Independent Institute, which used to be great, but which is, you know, on its way down, unfortunately.
Joseph Solis MullenGUEST
Understanding the War Industry.
Joseph Solis MullenGUEST
This is one that really illuminates how a lot of these things are interconnected.
Joseph Solis MullenGUEST
where the money is coming from, uh, specifically to which think tanks to author, which studies and where did these people work before and how many of them have ties to the military? Because it's, it's surprising to a lot of people who, who aren't involved in this line of work that, Oh my gosh, that policy paper saying that we need more Typhon missile systems in China was written by a guy who used to work for, uh, uh, patcom and who used to be on the board of raytheon and raytheon is also funding the institute that's writing these studies but when they go on fox news or msnbc or something to argue for this you just see policy expert so and so is telling you that we are in grave danger and we have a missile gap basically uh and you know that's why we need this thing um And then another good one is The Spoils of War.
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the Australian Defence Magazine podcast.
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Serving the business of defence with Grant McHerron.
Grant McHerronHOST
Hi everyone and welcome back to the show.
Geoff KnoxGUEST
And New Zealand are now going to be using our product in their next phase of evaluation.
Geoff KnoxGUEST
It really is an important win, Bede.
Bede GalvinGUEST
Yeah, so they've taken on our counter drone capability, which is actually an extension of what has been given to the Australian Defence Department.
Bede GalvinGUEST
So they're following, as we've seen previously, it looks like New Zealand is going to continue to follow the acquisition strategy in Australia too, which is really exciting for us.
Bede GalvinGUEST
It increases their interoperability, makes it really easy for them to follow that capability on.
Chris VossHOST
Today, an amazing young man on the show.
Chris VossHOST
We're gonna be talking about his book and insights on his life, with his book entitled Fires in the Sky: 50 Years of Experiences in the United States Defense Industry by Richard Janik.
Chris VossHOST
He joins us on the show, and we're gonna get into some of the details about it and why you should be buying this darn book so you can learn some stuff.
Chris VossHOST
Probably even more interesting since we're mid-war with Iran.
Chris VossHOST
Or I, I'll just say we're in the first year, so if you're still watching this 10 years from now, we're still in the war with Iran.
Chris VossHOST
Maybe we can learn something.
Chris VossHOST
[laughs] Richard Janik is a defense industry consultant with over 50 years of experience successfully managing the development of advanced defensive and offensive weapon systems for the US military and several international customers.
Chris VossHOST
The majority of his programs have gone to production, ranging from thermal imaging night sights to drone and ballistic missile interceptors.
Ross CoulthartSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
There are certain companies, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman among them, who are basically sitting on retrieved non-human technology and are reluctant to make an admission about the extent of what they've done with that technology to the government.
Cristina GomezHOST
Journalist Ross Cotard alleged that two of the largest defense contractors in America hold recovered non-human technology.
Cristina GomezHOST
If Ross is right, the most valuable technology on earth may be sitting on the books of private companies outside the reach of voters, shareholders, and most of Congress.
Cristina GomezHOST
And that would make disclosure much more than just secrecy.
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Cristina GomezHOST
And that approach would miss transcripts, audio, video, and astronaut interviews describing anomalous objects in orbit that never use those labels.
Cristina GomezHOST
His view is that Isaacman means well, but he's badly informed, and that a keyword search is not full disclosure.
Cristina GomezHOST
Ross is naming defense contractors, proposing amnesty, and describing a White House working around its own agencies.
Cristina GomezHOST
The scientists appointed to study the issue cannot get classified data, and NASA didn't answer a direct question.
Tapa StricklandHOST
Defence ETFs have been on a road to nowhere since the beginning of the year.
Tapa StricklandHOST
ETFs such as the VanEck Global Defence ETF, DFND, are down 13.5%, as is the BetaShares ARMR, down by 9.1%.
Tapa StricklandHOST
Good morning.
Tapa StricklandHOST
It's Wednesday, hump day.
Tapa StricklandHOST
I'm Tapper Strickland, Chief Market Strategist for Moomoo.
Tapa StricklandHOST
Let's get to it.
Tapa StricklandHOST
Today's In Focus topic is on Defence.
Tapa StricklandHOST
Pertinent after Northrop reported last night and its shares rose 4.6%.
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