The Netherlands 🇳🇱 announced the delivery of the last batch 24 F-16s for Ukraine. The final batch was delivered to Belgium 🇧🇪 today where they will be ferried to Ukraine by their own combat pilots.
The Netherlands also announced that they have started to train a new batch of Ukrainian F-16...
Sweden 🇸🇪 announced a new military aid package for Ukraine today. The package is valued at $447 million usd and consists of the following:
- $105 million for domestic production of weapons in Ukraine through the Danish model
- $38.9 million usd for the purchase of undisclosed armored vehicles...
Bloomberg is reporting that the military aid that Joe Biden "surged" to Ukraine at the end of his Presidency will run out in the summer months and that as expected, Donald Trump will not announce further aid to Ukraine through donation. The same sources are reporting that the U.S. will keep...
Finland 🇫🇮 announced a new military aid package for Ukraine, valued at $100 million usd. The package will consist entirely of domestically produced artillery shells and will be funded using the proceeds from frozen Russian assets.
Finland is currently in the process of doubling it's annual...
Multiple reports indicate that Italy 🇮🇹 will send an additional SAMP/T air defense battery to Ukraine as part of it's 11th military aid package. This marks the 3rd SAMP/T battery that Ukraine will receive and the 2nd from Italy (France 🇫🇷 sent the other).
SAMP/T is one of the the two tier 1...
It's really important that the Americans lift any and all restrictions, ensuring that all 49 units are transferred ASAP. Hell, they should sell an additional 100 units out of storage to the Ukrainians, in order to increase the fleet size substantially.
Ukraine's two biggest needs right now are...
Italy 🇮🇹 has announced a new military aid package for Ukraine, the 11th such package the Italians have sent since the outset of the war. The package includes the following:
- 400 M113s APCs
- Aster 30 Air Defense Missiles (SAMP/T)
- Satellite reconnaissance...
Ukraine is actually slowly reaching a point where they don't need all of Europe's self-propelled howitzers to be sent to them in a given year. The limitation is not howitzers, it's availability of artillery shells and barrels.
Ukraine is now receiving CAESAR, Panzerhaubitze 2000, Krab, Zuzana...
French 🇫🇷 President Macron announced today that France will send all CAESAR howitzers produced by Nexter in 2025 to Ukraine. Nexter is producing 12 CAESAR howitzers per month (144 units per year). Funding for the purchase is coming from France's own 2025 commitment and interest from Russian...
Ukraine 🇺🇦 continues to hammer Russia's overrated air defense systems across the front. Russia has plentiful quantities of BUK, TOR, Strela and Pantsir systems, but anytime the Russians move them close to the front in support of their forces, Ukraine hunts them down and destroys them. Below are...
Britain 🇬🇧 has announced the imminent delivery of 5 additional Raven Air Defense systems to Ukraine to supplement the previous 8 systems that they sent earlier in the war. The Raven is a "FrankenSam" of sorts. It features a Supercat HMT-600 vehicle, mounted with British made ASRAAM missiles...
Poland 🇵🇱 will send 100+ Oncilla infantry mobility vehicles to Ukraine in 2025. The vehicle is being produced by Polish company MISTA and features a 14.5mm machine gun and upgraded armor. Similar in nature to the Canadian made Roshel Senator, these mobility vehicles are key to Ukrainians...
After OPEC decided to add more production into a market featuring slowing global economies, oil prices have crashed further. Oil opened down another 4.0%. Russian Urals are trading sub $50 per barrel now, in a further hit to their already stressed economy. With oil prices on the steady decline...
$100 million usd worth of modern Russian aircraft shot down in a period of 3 days, using cheap sea drones. It's a shame that only 2 of the pilots died and that it was reported that the other 4 were rescued. Ideally, all 4 would have met their fate. The more experienced Russian pilots that can be...
Britain 🇬🇧 has now transferred all 68 of their retired AS-90 self propelled artillery systems to Ukraine. The units were sent in 4 batches, over multiple years. The Brits are replacing them with Archer and RCH-155 howitzers, which are arriving in batches.
9 of the donated AS90s have been...
