France 🇫🇷 will receive $330 million usd this fall from European proceeds of frozen Russian assets. Those proceeds will immediately finance the purchase of the following priority weapons from French air defense contractors...
- CAESAR 155 self-propelled howitizers
- Mistral 3 air defense...
JASSM is coming. The Americans have already leaked / telegraphed it through the media, just like they did with HIMARS, F-16s, ATACMS and a variety of other weapon systems and platforms. Expect to see them announced in a package fairly soon (fall timeline)... I expect the initial quantity sent to...
Spain 🇪🇸 has announced military aid package for Ukraine consisting of the following.
- 1 Hawk air defense battery (6 launchers).
- Air defense missiles
The Netherlands 🇳🇱 also announced a new military aid package for Ukraine today, consisting of the following.
- AIM-120 missiles for F-16s...
Significant new military aid packages for Ukraine 🇺🇦 are being announced today at the latest Ramstein summit.
USA 🇺🇸 announced a new military aid package for Ukraine valued at $250 million usd. The package consists of the following...
- Bradley IFVs
- 200 M113 APCs
- MaxxPro / Cougar MRAPS
-...
Germany 🇩🇪 has upped its commitment of IRIS-T air defense systems for Ukraine. They will now send the Ukrainians 24 systems between 2024 and 2026. 12 Medium range IRIS-T SLM and 12 short range IRIS-T SLS systems have been ordered.
4 more systems will arrive in Ukraine by the conclusion of 2024...
USA 🇺🇸 will provide JASSM cruise missiles to Ukraine as previously suspected. They are expected to be announced in a military aid package for Ukraine this coming fall.
Ukraine badly needs these stealthy cruise missiles to supplement the Stormshadow cruise missiles sent by Britain 🇬🇧, France 🇫🇷...
The UK 🇬🇧 announced that they have purchase 120,000 152mm artillery shells for Ukraine. The price was nearly $400 million usd. Deliveries will take place throughout the remainder of 2024 and 2025.
While 155mm shells are most important because they are the NATO standard shell and superior to...
Not true at all. It continues to be useful in a variety of sectors. I can post many recent videos of GMLRS being used to smash high valued Russian equipment. If you would like the evidence I'm happy to oblige?
The complete contents of the new military aid package from the Netherlands 🇳🇱 has been announced. It will consist of the following...
- 51 drone detection radars
- 30 Viking armored logistics vehicles
- $275 million usd in cash to support energy infrastructure...
USA 🇺🇸 has placed an order with Lockheed Martin to purchase approximately 20,000 GMLRS rockets, including the new GMLRS-ER version which is expected to double the range out close to 150 km. The purchase is valued at $3.43 Billion usd and deliveries will begin immediately and will be completed...
Nope. Many of the nations and empires in the Eastern world were colonizing and practicing empire / dynasty building before the modern West existed as nations.
The modern Western world took its turn to step up after smashing the Ottomans in WWI, defeating the German / Japanese threat in WW2 and...
We are are as selfishly motivated as anyone else. No better and no worse.
The victim mentality that exists across the Eastern world and especially among the Muslim nations right now is mind boggling lol.
The Lebanese very well may be done with their attack on Israel. They hit a couple things, damaged a warship and a couple soldiers died... Most importantly, they did something that looks like retaliation, without achieving anything of value.
Looks like the 2.0 version of Iran's recent "attack"...
You should always wish for the swift death of your enemies in combat. It's deeply inhuman of you to hope that they would suffer, as you would hope that they wouldn't allow you to suffer... If you're pro suffering, I don't know how to help you.
I assure you that you would not want to suffer...
Numerous sources reporting that Hezbollah fired approximately 320 rockets into Israel in their initial barrage. Israel then responded by attacking Lebabon with approximately 100 strike aircraft the in early hours of the morning, destroying substantial numbers of Lebanese rocket launch sites that...
Israel's 🇮🇱 response against the Lebanese has begun. Good luck to everyone on the other end of it. May their lives be snuffed out quickly, without significant suffering.
Very interested to see what Israel 🇮🇱 can do in response to Hezbollah and I'm equally interested to see if the Americans will get involved in the bombing campaign in Lebanon after relocating so many strike assets to the region. They may just use them as defensive detterent, however, I wouldn't...
Lithuania 🇱🇹 has announced a new military aid package for Ukraine consisting of the following:
- 5000 kamikaze drones
- Air defense missiles
- Anti-drone systems
- Assault rifles
- Small arms ammunition
- $40 million usd to purchase radars and de-mining equipment...
I hope JASSM is approved for Ukraine's usage soon. Russia has proven barely capable of intercepting Stormshadow and SCALP-EG. Ukraine has done substantial damage in Crimea and the remainder of occupied Ukraine using the weapons, both it's obvious that their inventories of both are low. In order...
