Per the New York Times, pressure is mounting on U.S. President Joe Biden to join the coalition of countries willing to provide F-16s to Ukraine. Congress members are now writing him letters to ask him to move in that direction.
USA has more than 1100 F-16s, a number of which are in storage, and...
USA 🇺🇸 is planning $60 Billion in military aid for Ukraine in 2024, in anticipation of the war continuing beyond this year. The package will go to Congress for approval in the fall. It will be distributed to Ukraine throughout the year in tranches similar to what we've seen to this point. Expect...
Just waiting for confirmation from an official source, but it appears that Norway 🇳🇴 is sending Ukraine 3 of their ARTHUR counter battery radars. They are also transferring 8 additional M270 MLRS to Britain for modernization. In turn, Britain 🇬🇧 will, apparently, send 8 of their modernized M270s...
Well, it's official. Britain and the Netherlands will build / lead a coalition of countries to provide F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine. The news was announced after British and French statements that they will begin training Ukrainian fighter pilots this summer...
Macron and France 🇫🇷 have announced that they are sending SCALP, long long range cruise missiles to Ukraine. SCALP is the French version of Storm Shadow. They are being sent to supplement the British donated version.
In the last year of non-stop fighting in Ukraine (May 16th, 2022-May 16th, 2023) this map shows the territorial gains of each nation. Russia, despite losing more than 100,000 soldiers in the timeframe alone, as well as a significant quantity of their modern army equipment, has lost substantially...
Per Oryx, the jointly supplied Italian / French SAMP-T air defense system has now arrived in Ukraine for their use against Russian missile bombardment.
I don't think this was previously shared on the board, despite being announced a couple weeks back. The U.S. Army signed a $2.4 billion usd contract with Lockheed Martin, to produce PAC-3 missiles for Patriot missile systems. The contract starts immediately and the production line is scheduled...
Bisbis, my guy, your takes just keep getting worse.
Mussolini bet on a German victory and joined the aggressor in an attempt to conquer Europe (and much of the world). He was completely cucked by Hitler. He didn't fight back against the aggressor, he joined them in their conquest of their...
I think this is a good take. I do believe that there have been an initial cadre of Ukrainians pilots that have been training around the world. I do think there are at least SOME that are in the advanced phase of training on one or more western airframes. I don't think for a second that they...
Another donation happened quietly as well. It wasn't publicly announced beforehand, but Romania has donated at least 4 (pictured) 122-mm MLRS APR-40 systems to Ukraine. There might be more, but I can't make that claim given that they are not pictured and Romania hasn't noted the donation...
Additional news coming out of France today. Macron said France will train Ukrainian pilots moving forward. No promise was made to provide Ukraine with fighter jets and it was not disclosed on which aircraft Ukrainians will be trained to fly in France. Macron specified that the training can start...
New news coming out of Europe over the weekend. While Zelensky visited France 🇫🇷 Macron promised a new military aid package for Ukraine. In typical French style, not all details of the package were made public, but one component of the package was. France promised to send more AMX-10RC tank...
Russian artillery around Bakhmut has been getting devastated this week. The question now is whether or not those experienced crews have been getting killed as well. Russia has TONS of artillery, but they're slowly burning through their best stuff and, presumably their best crews...
Meanwhile...
This is not true. The West is committing tons of military equipment to Ukraine that won't arrive until late 2023 and throughout 2024. Ukraine had millions of men in terms of manpower and tens of thousands that are currently training Britain, Germany, Poland etc. While it would not be good if...
I posted about this earlier today, with a link. I appreciate you following up with another post to emphasize just how big of a commitment this is from a country not named America.
If it is Ukraine 🇺🇦 I think a more realistic explanation is that they realized that Russian aircraft were flying carelessly through the Bryansk region, feeling safe. They then set up an air defense system close to the border, but kept it offline until they were ready to execute the operation...
News is starting to spread that during his visit to Italy 🇮🇹 yesterday, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni made a substantial military commitment to Zelensky. Details have not yet been released, but among the possible commitments include...
- SAMP/T air defense systems
- Aspide air defense...
Huge news out of Switzerland 🇨🇭. It appears they their Parliament has voted in favour of backfilling Western Allies who donate their Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine. The Swiss have nearly 100 Leopard 2A4 MBTs in storage. They are willing to sell an undisclosed number back to Rheinmetall, who can then...
Enormous new military aid package from Germany 🇩🇪 has been announced. It's the largest single non-American military aid package of the war, totaling $2.7 Billion euros. Contents of the package include:
30 Leopard 1A5 MBTs
20 Marder 1A3 IFVs
18 Panzerhaubitze 2000, 155mm self-propelled howitzers...
