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I really do hope the Americans send Strykers, because it would open Canada up to do the same. The Stryker is actually built in Canada (in London, Ontario) and we call it the LAV. Canada is in the process of upgrading 600 of them to the LAV 6.0 standard that is currently in production. That said...

Canadian Minister of National Defence, Anita Anand, announced today that Canada will be purchasing a NASAMs air defense battery from the United States and donating it to Ukraine. This will mark the 7th NASAMs promised to Ukraine, with the United States already donating 2 of their own and...

I actually fundamentally agree with this statement. Canada has no geographic concerns about invasion. The only country that could successfully do it and logistically support their invasion to the point of success, is our neighbour's to the south, the U.S. With that in mind, there is nothing...

Nobody with any sense would believe that with the country highly vulnerable to Russian airstrikes (via missile attack) that Ukraine would just stupidly have 600 soldiers hanging out and sleeping in the same dorm. Any sensible person realizes that soldiers are spread out across regions, in...

With the likelihood of Leopard 2 tanks being sent to Ukraine in the near future increasing significantly, let's talk about what a commitment of 150 of them might look like who could reasonably provide them in numbers that are reasonable. Germany: 20 Poland: 20 Spain: 20 Finland: 15 Sweden: 15...

I've been pushing the idea of Turkey sending their upgraded M60s for a while now. They're logistically easy to maintain and still capable against a lot of Russian junk armor. Turkey has more than 700 of them in reserve. Obviously their Leopard 2s and Altays are there Frontline tanks these days.

Exactly. Some of these guys seem to be huffing the hopium/copium cocktail. The Americans not only have 6200 Bradleys, They're in the process of buying 700 more of the newest model. They'll happily give Ukraine several hundred M2 models. Less for them to store. The Brits are phasing out their...

This is a really uninformed take. The reason the USA is sending Sea Sparrow missiles to Ukraine is because they have thousands of them stockpiled and the Ukrainians have retrofitted (with U.S. help) their Soviet made, BUK launchers to fire them. Because they can't get Russian missiles for their...

Zelensky confirming that Scholz and the Germans are sending Ukraine "dozens" (you'd assume at least 3 dozen) Marder IFVs, as well as the previously mentioned Patriot Missiles Battery, to match the American contribution. Merry Christmas Ukraine! Can we get upgraded Slovakian and Polish...

New American $3 Billion defense package for Ukraine has been released and it's enormous. This is what it contains. 50x Bradley M2 IFVs with 500 TOW missiles and 250,000 rounds of 25mm ammunition. 100x M113 APCs 138x HMMWVs 55x MRAPs 18x M109A6 Paladin, 155mm Self Propelled Howitzers 18x...

They'll make due for now. That's largely what Russia is using on the other side and the defender (especially backed by Western intelligence) has a huge advantage.

We're escalating slowly, gauging the Kremlin's reaction, while clearing out the backlog of mostly obsolete Western weapons, which will allow for the purchase of a lot of new toys among the Western countries. In the process, we're bleeding the Russian army (and thus its threat) dry for a...

I don't think Ukraine is particularly short on tanks, especially as more T-72s flow in from the Czech Republic and Poland in 2023. I think you'll see about 150-200 more of them come into the country via the international community. Many of them are / will be in the process of being upgraded and...

The TOW capability of the Bradley is what really makes it a significant upgrade for the Ukrainians. While not a javelin, TOW is still a very capable anti-armor weapon, good out to about 3000 meters. Ukraine can wreck a lot of Russian armor if they can get their hands on a couple hundred Bradleys.

Nice! The Sea Sparrow is a reasonably cheap, but effective alternative to some of Ukraine's other air defense capabilities. Especially against drones and the like. Shorter ranged, but really precise. I'd be curious to know (not that they'll tell us) how many Ukrainian BUK launchers are basically...

The Russians want no part of any of the newer model / variant F-16s. Russia doesn't have enough advanced dog fighters and air superiority fighters to even risk them entering Patriot / Iris-T / SAMP/T protected air space, to try and challenge the F-16's. Even if they did get through Ukrainian air...

Russian systems are soooo far behind modern American tech, it's not even funny. Can you imagine what would happen if AWACS enabled / Data linked F-35s and F-22s were to come up against Russian military aircraft with Garmin GPS systems on board? I mean this as seriously as one could ever say it...

What Russia lacks is the industrial base to mass produce weapons, the ease of access for key weapons components that they were procuring from the West, and the general lack of skill in creating weapons systems that adequately compete with Western weapons. Virtually every weapon system they have...

Not only will the USA send Bradley's to Ukraine, it's going to be announced to tomorrow as part of $3 Billion dollar aid package for the Ukrainians. Bradley's aren't that expensive fella's. This is going to be a substantial, tasty package. Also, of important note, not only has Germany agreed to...

That video could be of Bradley's being pre-positioned in Poland for distribution to the Ukrainians, but it also very well could be the armored vehicles belonging to the airborne regiments / divisions currently rotating in and out of Poland. Namely the 101st and 82nd.