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German 🇩🇪 weapons manufacturer KNDS reported that Ukraine will receive 54 state-of-the-art RCH 155 self-propelled howitzers. 36 units will are being paid for by Germany, while the other 18 units have been purchased for Ukraine by an undisclosed country...

Which social contract between Putin and the Russians? The one in which he and the oligarchs rob the country blind and are some the world's richest people, while 22% of Russians don't have indoor plumbing in 2024? The average salary in Russia is approximately $15,000 usd per year, less than 1/4...

India 🇮🇳 and USA 🇺🇸 are now in the advanced stages of securing a multi-billion deal that will see India purchase and assemble 2000 Stryker AFVs. Why is this relevant to this thread? Because the Strykers will replace 2400'ish Russian origin BMP-2s. India has already canceled orders for the...

I suspect the $50 Billion usd loan for Ukraine (repaid by interest taken from frozen Russian will be dispersed in the following fashion: USA 🇺🇸: $20 Billion Germany 🇧🇪: $5 Billion Britain 🇬🇧: $5 Billion Japan 🇯🇵: $5 Billion France 🇫🇷: $5 Billion Canada 🇨🇦: $5 Billion Italy 🇮🇹: $5 Billion...

Norway 🇳🇴 had announced that it donate $103 million usd towards the repair of Ukrainian energy infrastructure. Meanwhile, Austria 🇦🇹 will donate $10 million to the same initiative. They join a host of other nations that have pledged (over the last two weeks) substantial funding to aid the...

Russia 🇷🇺 sending mentally ill, clinically diagnosed men to the front to feed their failing meat grinder of a war. In the last 6 months alone they've taken less than 1% of Ukraine, despite suffering more than 100,000 casualties, chewing through their armor and chewing through their combat...

NATO has agreed to headquarter its Ukraine mission in Germany 🇩🇪 moving forward. A 700 person team from across the alliance will spearhead military support for Ukraine moving forward. The pre-emptive plan has been agreed to in case Donald Trump is elected in America come the fall of 2024 and USA...

For anyone interested in the darker side of war, here is a 64 video compilation of Russian soldiers commiting suicide / putting themselves out of misery after being previously injured, or out of fear that they are about to face serious injury / death (usually at the hands of Ukrainian drone...

USA 🇺🇸 has announced a new $1.5 Billion usd package for Ukraine that will focus on Ukraine's energy grid and humanitarian needs. It includes the following: $824 million for the energy grid $379 million for humanitarian needs $297 million for "other" needs While they don't appear to be as sexy...

Germany 🇩🇪 announced the delivery of a sizeable new military aid package for Ukraine today. The contents of the package are as follows: 1x IRIS-T SLM air defense system 1x IRIS-T SLS air defense system 3x HIMARS MLRS 20x Marder IFVs 10x Leopard 1A5 MBTs 2x BEAVER bridge laying tanks 2x DACHs...

The Netherlands 🇳🇱 announced today that IFU funding is purchasing $375 million usd worth of 152mm artillery shells for Ukraine, from an undisclosed producer. Note, this is separate from the Czech 🇨🇿 led initiative to procure 800,000 122mm and 155mm artillery shells for Ukraine. The IFU...

I'll pull the exact quote out of the press conference you linked from Jan 4th, 2024. "There -- there's a Newsweek story out there that says that there is ATACMS up for destruction, the expired ATACMS, U.S. ATACMS, that would be a significant expense to American taxpayers, according to one...

Canada 🇨🇦 announced another military aid package today, albeit, a fairly small one. It includes the following: - 2000 CRV7 rocket motors - 130,000 rounds of small arms ammo - 29 Nanuk Remote Weapons Systems Note: the 2000 CRV7 rocket motors is an initial tranche. Ottawa will send tens of...

The M39A1 are being withdrawn from service because they are to no longer be used by the U.S. Army. An unknown number were stripped down and completely rebuilt into M57E1 missiles, that will remain in U.S. inventories. The shorter ranged M39 and M39A1 variants are being fully removed from the...

Norway 🇳🇴 announced that they are in the process of sending 50,000 81mm and 120mm mortar shells to Ukraine, valued at $45 million usd. https://www.nettavisen.no/nyheter/norge-gir-bombekastergranater-til-ukraina-for-nar-en-halv-milliard/s/5-95-1869878

Confirmed: The G7 leaders have formally agreed to a $50 Billion usd loan for Ukraine, that will be repaid using the profits / interest confiscated from Russians frozen assets in U.S, Canadian, British and European Banks. This is the major step in releasing the $50 Billion usd in funds to Ukraine...

"Modern military standard" is evident to anyone looking to see it. M39 and M39A1 is being given to Ukraine in large quantities because it is obsolete in the eyes of the donating nation. USA 🇺🇸 is instead stockpiling the longer range, unitary warhead M57 variant of the ATACMS, which continued...

The M39A1 variant began production in 1997, which realistically means it's mid 90's technology. That's a 30 year old ballistic missile. By modern military standards that's technology that you could classify anywhere from "old' to "ancient".

At the G7 summit in Italy 🇮🇹, Canada 🇨🇦 has announced that it will contribute $5 Billion usd to the U.S. led initiative to provide Ukraine a $50 Billion sum of cash to be used for national defense needs. Canada, and other participants will be reimbursed from the interest earned off of $300...

We'll see how S-500 does. S-400 in Crimea has struggled with Ukraine's ancient M39A1 variant of the ATACMS ballistic missile. We'll see if S-500 is as good as Russia says it is. Rarely is that ever the case when talking about Russian military equipment.