On the munitions side of things, I am quite surprised about the bridge on the lower Dnjepr is still standing (assuming that the news about the loss of it are accurate). - a couple of Toschkas (one might miss, and one arch could be prepared) should do the job If Ukraine has the capability to have a ...

The Telegraph pages have this "In response to Mr Kwarteng’s rejection of Russian demands, he [the CEO of Roscosmos] wrote: “OK. I give you two days to think. There will be no guarantees of non-military use of the system - [then] there will be no system.” The OneWeb satellites, worth around $40...

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1574690/Romanian-fighter-missing-helicopter-crash-Ukraine-Russia-war-updates-world-war-3 Did the Russians just shoot down 2 NATO aircraft ( Romanain Airforce?) https://twitter.com/EliasMezaCota/status/1499130011156164615?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%...

SW1 wrote: ↑01 Mar 2022, 13:18

The Russian economic move east

Insignificant trade deal - when you consider europe is buy billions of $ of oil and gas every day...

Little J wrote: ↑27 Feb 2022, 23:10 Would have been quite useful to have these around right about now...

Absolutely - the short term approach of the Mod and treasury is truly shocking. A few of the sentinels over Poland are worth their weight in gold right now!

It is a real shame that Ukraine lacks the current resources to do a fighter jet low level sweep of the convoy that is heading towards the capital. Brimstone would had a field day for sure. The anti-tank weapons are doing a fantastic job as are the Manpads. Russian Su-34s are having to fly at tree to...

BREAKING: EU states to provide Ukraine with fighter jets



Wow Wow Wow !!!!!

Mig29's / Su-25's and Su-27 - wonder where they are in the EU .. not much else Ukraine can operate.

Guessing these will all be delivered overland vi the Polish border. UK commited to help with logistics to move all these weapons to Ukraine.

2 aircraft shot down today(Russian speculated).

mr.fred wrote: ↑27 Feb 2022, 15:38

TheLoneRanger wrote: ↑27 Feb 2022, 15:33 but what can they offer in return for them to be removed ?

Leave Ukraine, including Crimea, Donetsk and Luhansk?

Honestly - I think that will be it. They will have to leave everything - well the negotiations will start from that position.

Given the range and depth of sanctions now on Russia and those coming - it is questionable how much of the terrority it has managed to occupy it will be allowed to hold onto in return for the removal of sanctions. The sanctions on the Central Bank, and Swift will hurt a lot and the Russians would wa...

- the third thing is that the highways seem to be freely usable by Russian forces. A massive mining operation should have been planned - not just blowing up bridges in the last minute The lack of military strategy or thinking by the UAF has been shocking - they did not "prepare for the worst a...

German Armed Forces are about to be flooded with cash....they will now hit 2% in 2024 (not aim for it...) and 100bn EUR (yes billion...) is being proposed as a strategic security fund. I agree with the analysis...F-35 for the nuclear mission is now nailed on, suspect Typhoon ECR is as well... https...

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/po ... 022-02-26/

I still dont understand why this took sooo long...

A sad day today for sure - I am however suprised how poorly prepared Ukraine is - the sight of helicopters having so much freedom to operate over Ukraines airspace is shocking - fast jets i get ... but helicopters ? Surely they mush have stocks of manpads?(obviously not). Russia is hoping a shock an...

Even though I definitely do not want Germany on tempest program ,to be fair to France I don't think France should be burdened with Germans as well , they can make a great fighter without them ,yes it will cost them loads but with after sales to Rafale customers it will ease the pain again like Rafa...

For every 1 article the Express publishes saying Brexit is a disaster - there is 1 article saying it is fantastic and we are sticking it to the EU and the future is wonderful... sometimes on the same day on the same home page. The truth is somewhere in between. They have a Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde to e...

Queensland or Victoria which needs more pork? The Germans are just not impressing me with their reliability, lately. I wouldn't want to have to rely on them for spares in any conflict with China. I completely agree with this - once this Ukraine situation is over (either way) we really need to reass...

Not sure if these match the Rafale, but will worry the Indian SYU-30MKIs. Problem is Pakistan will always lose in the number game, though India is not doing itself any favours by its fragmented replacement programme with many MiG 21 Bison still in service. Pakistan with its purchase of the JF-17 to...

https://twitter.com/atla_kouhou_en/status/1493496623439118336 This is why I firmly believe that the Tempest will be a better platform than the FCAS of the EU. The ability of the UK and the British to make good partnerships that benefit all - rather than the EU approach of wanting to have it all and...

delete me sir (?)

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/germany-eyes-lockheed-f-35-fighter-jet-no-final-decision-source-2022-02-03/ BERLIN/WASHINGTON, Feb 3 (Reuters) - Germany is leaning toward purchasing the U.S. fighter jet F-35 built by Lockheed Martin (LMT.N) to replace its ageing Tornado in the role of nuclear ...

Pilot did well to bring that down - interesting to know what the root cause was.

Typically European, never failing to be useless when thinks get going ,glad we not hooked up to their program , don't even know why Germany would want a 6 th gen fighters anyway ,they wouldn't want to fight or defend anybody not even themselves ,crap Europeans lol Germans as always want to harvest ...