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by Gtal
03 Mar 2024, 06:22
Forum: Deployments
Topic: Exercise Steadfast Defender 24.
Replies: 6
Views: 470
Germany

Re: Exercise Steadfast Defender 24.

Just to spell it out: UK POLITICIANS AND GENERALS ARE GOING ALL ALARMIST TALKING UP RUSSIA THREAT; AT THE SAME TIME UK VJTF LEAD DEPLOYMENT ACTUALLY HAS NO TANKS AND IFVS!!!! All the talk is completely conradicted by it's action and every military in Europe can see this ver clearly. Oh, and of cours...
by Gtal
03 Mar 2024, 06:10
Forum: Political Discussions
Topic: Brexit - The UK's EU Referendum & Withdrawal
Replies: 4600
Views: 117534
Germany

Re: Brexit - The UK's EU Referendum & Withdrawal

I look forward to Gtals response...... Oh don't. Seeing as I don't think I've ever gotten a single "response" in this waffle house farce that's actually engaged substantively with me and not just entirely ignored the factual content of my posts and changed the subject instead I'm no longe...
by Gtal
03 Mar 2024, 05:59
Forum: Political Discussions
Topic: CSDP
Replies: 66
Views: 3294
Germany

Re: CSDP

https://www.ft.com/content/20099233-e8e7-480f-b559-80bca89500d8 Brussels power grab on defence irks industry and EU capitals Hah, you know what I reeeaaaallyyy don't get? What exactly is the fucking FT thinking it's doing with this kind of inappropriate coverage, pretending it's still a domestic me...
by Gtal
03 Mar 2024, 05:43
Forum: Political Discussions
Topic: Geopolitics and the global economy
Replies: 188
Views: 16092
Germany

Re: Geopolitics and the global economy

Reading what Nicolai von Ordanza has to say about the EU is a waste of time. In 2018/19 this guy was advocataing for giving the UK special access to EU defence initiatives as if he wasn't aware that the UK had been often singlehandedly(with US support of course) blocking and disrupting all initiativ...
by Gtal
03 Mar 2024, 05:28
Forum: Political Discussions
Topic: UK - EU cooperation
Replies: 8
Views: 159
Germany

Re: UK - EU cooperation

How many times ist this same "paper" going to be written by some Pax Americana thinktank? The rules for third country participation in all of the EU efforts initiated since 2017 are entirely consistent, strategically, structurally as well as ideologically coherent and not up for debate. No...
by Gtal
05 Feb 2024, 02:32
Forum: Joint Service
Topic: F-35B Lightning (RAF & RN)
Replies: 6067
Views: 1724569
Germany

Re: F-35B Lightning (RAF & RN)

If the F35 is such a good deal financially then why has either the MOD or LM or *somebody* managed to answer, on several occasions in person, the Defence Committees ask to be given just a rough ballpark guesstimate of the likely costs to the UK taxpayer, wether up until this point or through life or...
by Gtal
29 Jan 2024, 01:36
Forum: Political Discussions
Topic: CSDP
Replies: 66
Views: 3294
Germany

Re: CSDP

CER of course being a LONDON BASED THINKTANK RUN BY BRITS!?

Why are they even still operating honestly, not like they're gonna have any influence now for sure..
by Gtal
29 Jan 2024, 01:34
Forum: Political Discussions
Topic: Brexit - The UK's EU Referendum & Withdrawal
Replies: 4600
Views: 117534
Germany

Re: Brexit - The UK's EU Referendum & Withdrawal

Lol. How authoritative! Carnegie thinktank of course being literal Washington beltway foreign policy cabal insiders who desperately want to go back to the 1950s but instead see even the status quo slipping away in front of them.. All that's left is the UK hugging the US extra tight and spinning the ...
by Gtal
05 Jan 2024, 23:44
Forum: Political Discussions
Topic: Geopolitics and the global economy
Replies: 188
Views: 16092
Germany

Re: Geopolitics and the global economy

Worth a read. https://carnegieeurope.eu/strategiceurope/91309 Europe’s Dangerous Comfort Zone JUDY DEMPSEY Reluctant to change the status quo, the EU has failed to adapt to today’s unstable world. In the new year, it must answer tough questions about its security and global role. December 21, 2023 ...
by Gtal
12 Nov 2023, 21:00
Forum: Defence Elsewhere
Topic: Franco-German-Spanish FCAS/SCAF Programme News and Discussion
Replies: 63
Views: 4680
Germany

Re: Franco-German-Spanish FCAS/SCAF Programme News and Discussion

Truly mindblowing. I've lost count, but it's got to be 15+ separate occasion over the last 3-4 years where the imminent demise of the program has been announced in major media campaigns on claims coming from "thinktanks" and "analysts" aka antlanticist shills... Yet somehow knowo...
by Gtal
12 Nov 2023, 20:26
Forum: Royal Air Force
Topic: Eurofighter Typhoon (RAF)
Replies: 2804
Views: 764000
Germany

Re: Eurofighter Typhoon (RAF)

The claim that Eurofighter ECR will amount to a few pods being strapped to a couple existing airframe ist completely made up! Just like Tornado ECR was a dedicated EW platform with all the EW gimmicks included the EF ECR will be dedicated new build full spectrum EW platforms. Tornado ECR was moderni...
by Gtal
13 Oct 2023, 11:19
Forum: Defence Elsewhere
Topic: Main Ground Combat System (Franco-German)
Replies: 11
Views: 809
Germany

Re: Main Ground Combat System (Franco-German)

I shouldn't waste my time on it, but I can't help wondering - these NATO thinktankers like Heisenbourg have spent the last 4-5 years reporting on a monthly basis just how oh soo bad things are between France and Germany and that FCAS will fail any day now! So, now they're starting on the tank-progra...
by Gtal
13 Oct 2023, 10:52
Forum: Royal Air Force
Topic: Eurofighter Typhoon (RAF)
Replies: 2804
Views: 764000
Germany

Re: Eurofighter Typhoon (RAF)

Yes I'm wondering what France is thinking Frankly, and with respect, as a Brit who has spent the last 17 years in Belgium, France and Germany I have to intervene here and just point out how much those in the UK still misunderstand their neighbours even after everything that has happened and make th...
by Gtal
06 Aug 2023, 11:12
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: The future form of the Army
Replies: 642
Views: 115250
Germany

Re: The future form of the Army

250 person wagame.. Meanwhile the French recently held an exercise with apparently 10000 active personnel taking part.
by Gtal
06 Aug 2023, 11:03
Forum: Royal Air Force
Topic: Airbus A400M Atlas (RAF)
Replies: 392
Views: 155453
Germany

Re: Airbus A400M Atlas (RAF)

Certainly the RAF appears to have so far treated the A400s a bit like an unwanted step-child.. If you compare the progress of operationalizing it's full capabilities and general activity to France and Germany, the UK has been quite a bit slower in getting stuff like parachuting and air drop task lin...
by Gtal
19 Jul 2023, 02:02
Forum: Royal Air Force
Topic: Future UK Combat Aircraft (Project Tempest)
Replies: 4067
Views: 951055
Germany

Re: Future UK Combat Aircraft (Project Tempest)

Hahahahaha! How many times has it been now? How many times has some thinkttank or other US propaganda plant anounced the death of SCAF??? It's just laughable, how do people manage to not feel at least a little stupid when they read the exact same nonsense for about the 12-15th time in 4 years?!? I m...
by Gtal
30 Apr 2023, 03:07
Forum: Royal Air Force
Topic: Future UK Combat Aircraft (Project Tempest)
Replies: 4067
Views: 951055
Germany

Re: Future UK Combat Aircraft (Project Tempest)

Welp.. Rusi's lead aviation analyst Justin Bronk, often cited on this forum as an authority on the subject has cottoned on to the lack of realism behind the performative marketing effort around Tempest. https://rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/global-combat-air-programme-writing...
by Gtal
05 Mar 2023, 23:55
Forum: Defence Elsewhere
Topic: Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Replies: 43
Views: 3289
Germany

Re: Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Ah yes, those democratic, liberal, likeminded allies HMG waffles on about..
by Gtal
05 Mar 2023, 23:49
Forum: Royal Air Force
Topic: Future UK Combat Aircraft (Project Tempest)
Replies: 4067
Views: 951055
Germany

Re: Future UK Combat Aircraft (Project Tempest)

In particular I see India as a possible buyer because I can see its 5G AMCA project never reaching its Mk2 stage due to lack of a suitable engine being available. The plan is for the IAF to receive 40 underpowered AMCA Mk1 (98kN engines instead of the 110kN the design requires), to be followed by 8...
by Gtal
27 Feb 2023, 20:15
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: General UK Defence Discussion
Replies: 1842
Views: 184066
Germany

Re: General UK Defence Discussion

105mm and Jackal? What year is it, 2012? If Taliban insurgents were still the main focus that would be fine..
Frankly underwhelming considering the context.
by Gtal
18 Jan 2023, 18:37
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Harry for God's sake please shut up
Replies: 17
Views: 1069
Germany

Re: Harry for God's sake please shut up

The book comes across as somewhat inappropriate because it wasn't primarily targeting the UK audience. This is about Harry's new live in America and building/enhancing his brand there. At this point they apparently didn't care too much how it would land at home. Not many people inside the UK seem to...
by Gtal
20 Nov 2022, 16:54
Forum: Royal Air Force
Topic: Future UK Combat Aircraft (Project Tempest)
Replies: 4067
Views: 951055
Germany

Re: Future UK Combat Aircraft (Project Tempest)

Seriously, this transatlantic (but especially UK) alnst obsessive PR campaign around these future fighter programs reaaally reminds of Brexit lol.

It's like some people think they can make something real by just by repeating it often enough.. :!:
by Gtal
09 Jul 2022, 08:46
Forum: Political Discussions
Topic: UK Politics - General News & Discussion
Replies: 412
Views: 19005
Germany

Re: UK Politics - General News & Discussion

You would think they all would have there ducks in a row before telling him to resign, must be a different set up to Australia as the cabinet is ready to rumble when they knife a sitting PM in AU Seriously, forget all this stuff about restructuring devolution or a proper written constitution or eve...
by Gtal
09 Jul 2022, 08:24
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: General UK Defence Discussion
Replies: 1842
Views: 184066
Germany

Re: General UK Defence Discussion

https://twitter.com/geoallison/status/1542208536230465536?s=21&t=F7UkKzX5iM7WUYlXR2pXew Sorry for double post, but I have to ask! What contribution might the PoW realistically make in the baltic or black sea against land power Russia, whose only genuine worldbeating capability seems to be missi...
by Gtal
09 Jul 2022, 08:13
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: General UK Defence Discussion
Replies: 1842
Views: 184066
Germany

Re: General UK Defence Discussion

Friend partner, allies, bully? https://www.defensenews.com/global/europe/2022/07/07/british-government-clears-sensitive-ultra-electronics-sale-to-us-based-advent/ The government similarly scrutinized the purchase of Cobham, a U.K. defense and aerospace company acquired by Advent in 2020, weighing r...