"All of Vlad's forces and all of Vlad's men, are out to put Humpty together again." (89 Viewers)
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fubar57
General
We'll see if this goes throughor not..... US sanctions major Russian oil companies and calls for Moscow to accept immediate Ukraine ceasefire – live
fubar57
General
Now let Zelenskyy hit Russia with Tomahawks, Finland tells Trump
Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo tells POLITICO Ukraine must be equipped to match or exceed Russia’s capabilities because Vladimir Putin only responds to strength.
www.politico.eu
Let me guess...takes place in 2wks?
Admiral Beez
Major
I call
before the month's out.
SaparotRob
Unter Gemeine Geschwader Murmeltier XIII
Didn't Putin bulldoze his Socha palace before UFA could claim its destruction?
cammerjeff
Tech Sergeant
I think this is the 1st of many such deals that will cost my countries military suppliers sales, due to our current administrations policies.
Thumpalumpacus
Colonel
I think this is the 1st of many such deals that will cost my countries military suppliers sales, due to our current administrations policies.
Cutting off aid to Ukraine has meant less money going to factories here in America. Current policies are very short-sighted. Supporting Ukraine -- which is acting as a bulwark against Russian aims in Central Europe -- while at the same time infusing resources into our own infrastructure is a clear win-win.
You'd think anyone wanting to build American industrialism up again would support this injection of capital into an industry that (let's face it) when China gets feeling funky, we will need. Shells, drones, powder, reconstituting airframes.
MiTasol
Major
I think this is the 1st of many such deals that will cost my countries military suppliers sales, due to our current administrations policies.
Yep. Mr 10% surcharge is revitalising all non US manufacturers of mil hardware. I suspect many of these competitors are emphasising another advantage they now have and that is there is no guarantee of parts availability for any US goods any more as those sales must also be approved by Mr 10% surcharge. Plus Mr 10% surcharge is also known as Mr another day, another policy and military and government customers require certainty.
Escuadrilla Azul
Master Sergeant
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- Feb 27, 2020
Like FDR in the late 30s.
Get the factories started before the shooting starts, not let the shooting starts and then start the factories
Glider
Major
About flaming time.
Bell Textron ready to supply helicopters to Ukraine
Bell Textron, a major American aerospace manufacturer, has confirmed its readiness to supply its AH-1Z Viper and UH-1Y Venom helicopters to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Militarnyi reported. The development follows the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding in Washingtondefence-blog.com
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Thumpalumpacus
Colonel
Trump could use Ukrainian aid in the same way US aviation got a huge boost from British and French orders 1939-40.
Thumpalumpacus
Colonel
Behind the scenes, the Financial Times reported that Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's lunch meeting on Friday at times devolved into a shouting match over Zelensky's pleas for Tomahawks. Prior to his appearance with Rutte, Trump rejected a Wall Street Journal report saying the U.S. had given approval for Ukraine to launch missiles deep into Russian territory.
The Ukrainian president said during a video address on Tuesday that once it became clear that Ukraine might not have access to the long-range missiles from the U.S. anytime soon, "Russia's interest in diplomacy faded almost automatically."
GrauGeist
Generalfeldmarschall zur Luftschiff Abteilung
Currently, the U.S. has about 1,000 Tomahawks of all variants in their inventory. These are divided up across all branches.
As an example of past deployed numbers in a comflict, the U.S. used just over 800 Tomahawks against Iraqi targets during Desert Storm.
To be honest, I would really like to see Tomahawks raining down on Putinland, but the reality is, that there just is not enough to share with Ukraine while maintaing effective stocks to counter any potential f**kery in the Pacific.
As an example of past deployed numbers in a comflict, the U.S. used just over 800 Tomahawks against Iraqi targets during Desert Storm.
To be honest, I would really like to see Tomahawks raining down on Putinland, but the reality is, that there just is not enough to share with Ukraine while maintaing effective stocks to counter any potential f**kery in the Pacific.
Admiral Beez
Major
The Gripen has a lot of US tech and US revenueI think this is the 1st of many such deals that will cost my countries military suppliers sales, due to our current administrations policies.
Glider
Major
Unfortunately he is doing the exact opposite. Only selling equipment to Ukraine via Europe, and then with a ten percent mark up. As a result Europe is getting the huge boost in their military investment, research and orders.
Only in the last few days we have the example of 100-150 orders for the JAS 39 Gripen fighters. The details have to be finalised but I personally believe that the only thing that might stop it is if Trump puts an export blockage on the engine. Even then that might be the trigger to quickly develop the RR engine version. For an order of that size it would be worth the investment. Think also of the impetus this would give to further sales of the Gripen.
Yet all Trump (and to be fair Biden) had to do was say yes to the request for second hand F16's when it was first made.
You can also look at the plethora of AA weapon systems, both guns and missiles, developed in Europe and supplied to Ukraine. You can also look at the drone development, production and supply done by Ukraine and Europe as well as the attack missiles supplied by Europe to Ukraine.
Edit- In addition Ukraine has of course developed very effective longer ranged attack missiles on their own. I should have included this when first posting the message.
There is I believe a significant danger that the USA is being left behind in a number of critical area's. Finally when you get left behind, your influence diminishes.
It is fair to say that there are areas where the USA is still predominant such as intelligence from most areas, in particular satellite and targeting information, so it is far from the truth to believe that the USA are unimportant, but they are less important than they used to be.
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It will be interesting to see if this is wise in the drone era.
