Recent content by Spitfire9

While a 100% supporter of Ukraine , the maker of this video presents an intelligent analysis of the material he chooses to cover.

Update on Gripen... SAAB has completed Gripen C deliveries to Hungary, delivering its last 4 aircraft . https://www.vozpopuli.com/indux/en/hungary-just-took-delivery-of-its-final-four-gripen-fighters-growing-the-fleet-to-18-and-its-already-planning-what-comes-next/7582/ With current...

I hope they keep going. Ukraine may have spent 1 million USD on attack drones to do 1,000 million USD damage. That would be an extremely asymmetric cost ratio. I note that British newspaper The Sun has posted a video showing that many items of military use are offered for sale by Wildberries...

Russian gold reserves exceed 2,300 tonnes. https://tradingeconomics.com/russia/gold-reserves The price of gold on the free market is currently around 130 million USD per tonne. While Russian gold is sanctioned so that sales are difficult to make except within Russia, its gold reserves, if sold...

https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-war-latest-kyiv-launches-more-attacks-on-12-russian-ships-in-black-sea-12541713 I wonder if Rubio told him it was unacceptable to invade neighbouring Ukraine. On a different tack, Russia is having big problems trying to sell government bonds. Cancelled 3 of...

Government-engineered internet shutdowns paralysing internet-dependent trade and payments in Russia have encouraged citizens to withdraw and hold more cash. https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/central-bank-sees-no-need-extra-measures-worried-russians-withdraw-cash-2026-06-26/...

Originally Mk1A was to have Indian radar and EWS. Because the Indian UTTAM radar was going to be late, ELTA 2052 was chosen to be fitted to the first 20 production aircraft. That became the first 40 production aircraft then the entirety of the first order batch of 83. As far as I can make out -...

They are a problem but HAL concealed the problems it was having integrating radar and EWS, hiding those behind the engine delivery delay. The avionics integration problems came to light after GE delivered some engines but still no aircraft were delivered to IAF. IAF refuses to accept delivery of...

HAL can build as many frames as they like but if they cannot be delivered because the avionics do not work the build rate is not too relevant. But it is reassuring that HAL are managing to build frames at roughly the rate planned.

New British prime minister Andy Burnham gives a public assurance that UK support for Ukraine will continue with his new government.

https://defencesecurityasia.com/en/kf-21-total-missile-package-lig-da-south-korea-lraam-meteor-independence/

Putin proposed that Ukraine should be disarmed as part of a peace agreement. That is not going to work for European fighter OEM's. SAAB and Dassault will possibly have contracts with Ukraine to supply 250+ fighters before peace is agreed. Does Putin need to start becoming realistic? There is no...

Roll on the entry of a fighter armed with Meteor into the equation next year. I understand that Russia will need to recalculate its use of glide bomb attacks, being forced to move launch platforms further back from the battle space to avoid them being downed

Do I remember correctly that Meteor needed to be altered to fit the F-35 IWB for the same reason?

https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/07/06/kremlin-spokesman-says-special-military-operation-has-become-a-real-war-blames-western-countries Might this be the Russian regime signalling that the conflict has reached such a scale that mobilisation may be needed?