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Germany 🇩🇪 announced the delivery of a new military aid package to Ukraine. The contacts of the contents of the package delivered include the following... - 1x Skynex air defense system - Skynex Ammunition - IRIS-T SLM air defense missiles - 10x Marder IFVs - 2× TRML-4D air defense radars -...

This is how the entire world should treat Russia... Like they're a joke. They're not going to start launching nukes so nobody ought to be afraid of them. The world should just start treating them as the unwanted, redheaded stepchild of the world that they are.

One can only hope!! It would kick the West's ass into getting serious about providing support to Ukraine. Russia is operating on 75% of a war footing anyways, but the West is trying not to escalate the conflict. If Russia just declares war, the West can stop being afraid of being the party...

ASRAAM's as I mentioned earlier. Essentially, a domestically produced AIM-9 Sidewinder. They can be used in both NASAMs and FrankenSAM Buk systems. They can also be fired as air-to-air interceptors by the F-16s that Ukraine will soon get.

USA 🇺🇸 defense contractor Raytheon will continue producing AIM-9X and AIM-9M Sidewinder missiles at maximum capacity, for the foreseeable future. Raytheon will continue building 2500 AIM-9 missiles annually, as Ukraine uses a hight volume of them in their NASAMs and BUK air defense systems...

Britain 🇬🇧 announced today that they will send 200 air defense missiles to Ukraine in response to last night's attack by Russia. The type of missile was not specified, but it's believed to be ASRAAM, which are compatible for Ukraine's NASAMs systems. Each ASRAAM is valued at approximately...

Mass saturation? That's not a new tactic, it's a tried, tested and effective one. Russia launched 122 missiles and 36 drones last night. The attack cost them more than $1 Billion usd. They would do it more often, but they can't. Launching volleys of 100+ missiles on a consistent basis would see...

I suspect that Russia will keep their SU-57s far away from Ukrainian air space, out of sheer terror that they will be yet another Russian weapon that underperforms its Western "equivalent." Patriot systems will likely make quick work of them, and some more Russian aerospace engineers (just like...

New military aid package for Ukraine from USA 🇺🇸 was announced this afternoon. The package is valued at $250 million usd, leaving USA with roughly, $4.15 Billion usd worth of Presidential Drawdown Authority left to use. The contents of the package include the following. - Additional AIM-9...

I'll be really interested to see how capably it performs. Russia has a long history of making military hardware that looks the part, but underperforms compared to Western "equivalents". They've done a good job with some of their more modern weapons such as the latest Kornet and their Lancet...

Additional news out of Japan 🇯🇵. Not only will the Japanese send Patriot Missiles manufactured by Mitsubishi to USA to backfill their inventories, allowing dozens of additional interceptors to be sent to Ukraine... Britain 🇬🇧 and Japan 🇯🇵 are working on a deal similar to the one USA 🇺🇸 and...

Yes, by the sounds of it. The Germans traded traded Greece 40 Marder IFV in exchange for them sending 40 BMP-1s to Ukraine. After the fact, it appears that Germany was able to basically persuade Greece to accept cash instead of the Marders, in a deal that was likely worth much more than than...

Finland 🇫🇮 has announced a new $116 million usd defense package for Ukraine. As has been the case previously, Finland does not disclose the contents of their aid packages, for operational reasons...

Germany 🇩🇪 quietly purchased 40 additional Marder 1A3 IFVs from Greece and refurbished them for shipment to Ukraine, bringing the total number they've committed to 120 (up from 80 previously). As more Boxer IFVs are delivered to Germany in the coming months, expect additional Marders to be...

The "urgency" is fabricated for political reasons. USA 🇺🇸 still has $4.4 Billion usd worth of Presidential Drawdown Authority they can send Ukraine. They could literally do the following. December: Additional $400 Million usd weapons package for Ukraine (on top of the previous two packages...

Significant news out of Japan🇯🇵. The Japanese Government is set to change their military export laws to allow them to send items to their allies. Japan has agreed to send "dozens" of PAC 3 Patriot Missiles to USA🇺🇸 to backfill their own inventories, freeing the Americans up to aggressively...

There is no doubt that Ukraine is conserving artillery shells on some sections of the front. That's especially true in areas that have been defending with Soviet era 122mm and 152mm guns. There is an extreme shell shortage at the front, especially when it comes to those types of shells. The...

Let's take a deep dive into how many artillery shells Ukraine 🇺🇦 can reasonably expect to get procure / produce in 2024. I'm going to use extremely realistic, well sourced numbers for the sake accuracy in this exercise. USA 🇺🇸: The Americans are currently ramping up production of 155mm...

Germany 🇩🇪 signed a deal with an undisclosed French firm, to provide Ukraine tens of thousands of 155mm artillery shells in 2024. These shells will be in addition to the shells that Germany ordered from Rheinmetall / Expal for Ukraine. In total, Germany will send nearly 300,000 shells to Ukraine...

A couple things here need to be parsed through so that we have all the information required. 1. While there is an artillery shell shortage in all calibers and types, Ukraine is especially short 152mm and 122mm shells for their Soviet Artillery. The United States does not possess those shells...