My thoughts exactly. No way does Poland 🇵🇱 have 20 functional Mig-29s left. 12 seems about correct, with spare parts in aggregate that might get you close to a couple more.
That said, Poland shouldn't be expected to send their last 12'ish Mig-29s without being backfilled by superior aircraft...
Juicy new defense package from USA 🇺🇸 for Ukraine, in the amount of $1.3 Billion USD. Note that this package comes from USAI, which procures direct from industry, rather than from drawdown authority, which takes items out of exisiting U.S. military stockpiles. As a result, USAI packages take...
No inconvenience at all!
1. The United States has more than 5500 M1A1 and M1A2 MBTs. They just retired more than 400 of them from the Marine Corps and plan to put them into storage, likely never to be used again. Thus far the United States has committed 31 M1A1s to Ukraine. Ukrainians are being...
The idea, of course, is for the West to buy the Ukrainian T-80Us back at a premium. Cash strapped Pakistan would then have additional funds to buy more VT-4s (or something similar) from the Chinese. They're desperately trying to upgrade their military, but they don't have the cash to do it with...
They've already floated the idea that they would, at the right price. They're in deep financial despair. They'd gladly sell a couple batallions worth if a Western country was willing to pay a nice premium on their intrinsic value. They need foreign currency (especially usd) in the worst way...
There are thousands of much better tanks (in terms of both survivability and capability) in Western inventories, that could and should be sent long before these old 1960's relics... Furthermore, there are hundreds more T-80s and T-72s in Cyprus, Morroco and Pakistan, that the West could buy /...
Netherlands 🇳🇱, Belgium 🇧🇪 and Luxembourg 🇱🇺 will send Ukraine additional M113 APCs from their stockpiles. The exact number has not been made known.
https://english.nv.ua/nation/belgium-luxembourg-and-the-netherlands-to-provide-ukraine-with-apcs-50339992.html
Chieftains are definitely not ideal. It would be similar to the U.S. sending M-60 Pattons. Any Chieftains sent will likely take on the same role as the Russins T-62 and T-55 mbts. Essentially, stationary turretsfor the defensive, and units that can be used by reserve forces to occupy an area...
I've long said the following (or something similar) could change an entire front of the war.
100 Storm Shadow (Britain)
100 SCALP (France)
100 Taurus (Germany)
200 JASSM (USA)
200 ATACMS (USA)
500 JDAM-ER (USA)
The amount of damage that Ukraine could do to supply depots, command posts...
It was sarcastic. Russia will never accept that offer, but Ukraine should not negotiate for anything less. They've twice had Russia annex (through force) their territory over the last 9 years. In what world should they simply give up a huge swathe of their most economically viable land...
Peace is easy... Putin can pull his army out of Ukraine and pay about $250-$300 billion USD in reparations. Ukraine can get it's post 2014 territory back and the Crimea situation can be dealt with later. No demands about Ukraine not joining the EU or NATO will be tolerated.
It's an easy...
Even worse is that they have lagged behind their peers in per capita military aid to Ukraine. In terms of notable equipment, they've sent...
1x SAMP/T air defense y system with Aster air defense missiles (half supplied by Italy)
2x Crotale air defense batteries
40x AMX10-RC IFVs
60x VAB APCs...
What this individual is getting woefully wrong is that the you can't send MBTs, IFVs and APCs to Ukraine by the hundreds, without properly training troops on how to best use them. You can't just send Ukraine 1000 armored vehicles and say "train on them as you go". Stationary, huge stockpiles of...
South Korea 🇰🇷 will offer Ukraine $52 Billion usd in post-war reconstruction projects. This is an extremely generous offer by the South Koreans (that also benefits them)...
Unfortunately, what Ukraine really needs from them is military aid, which is made complicated by their laws that do not...
They probably have a contract with Garmin and have to buy "x" number of hand held GPS' to get a deal... So they might as well build fighter aircraft to put them in.
Germany 🇩🇪 will provide Ukraine $19 billion usd worth of military aid between between 2022 and 2027, per German chancellor Olaf Scholz.
I estimate that it will take upwards of 350-400 billion (over 5 years) in collective spending from Ukraine and their Western allies, to the neutralize the...
Bulgaria 🇧🇬 will send 100 armored personnel carriers to Ukraine. These units, used by Bulgarian federal police, will likely be used by Ukrainian Territorial defense units to supplement the Roshel Senator APCs that Ukraine has also received...
Running water, working toilets and proper meals? These guys are better off in a Ukrainian prison camp than a lot of Russians are back at home! Good for Ukraine in showing some humanity!
