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Regarding supply of F-16 kit, Turkiye's agreement to Sweden joining NATO (after passing through Turkish parliamentary bureaucracy) may persuade the US Congress to approve. Or it may not. I read that Erdogan does not see Hamas as a terrorist body and I hear (in translation) that he sees Israel as...

When F-16 turns up I suspect that its presence alone may limit use of Russian aircraft by way of caution. It may be that it will not need to engage Russian fighters and ground attack aircraft to limit their sphere of action. More important to me will be its ability to strike at Russian radars...

They say that wars are won through logistics. Russia may be able to degrade a lot of infrastructure in Ukraine but its efforts do not seem to target infrastructure of military importance. I surmise that Russia has been amassing drones in the last few months, to be unleashed soon in mass...

'Lockheed Martin has had to delay again the delivery of Technology Refresh 3 (TR-3)-standard F-35 Lightning II combat aircraft to international customers as it looks to finalise software developments. The manufacturer announced the move on 6 September, saying that TR-2 configuration aircraft...

Sorry. My mistake - I did not look at the poster's description of himself/herself.

You should think about how ridiculous that statement is.

Agreed. I do not think that Ukraine's backers (some of whom said they would back Ukraine for as long as ii takes) should stop backing Ukraine. If they do stop: - some Ukrainians who lived under democracy until Russia invaded will be forced to live under totalitarianism - it will be a...

When are high speed taxi trials due to start? Can it be expected that video will be released from official sources? PS I have seen no pictures of prototype no 2

Got you - you include Ukraine's projected spending. I am not optimistic that Ukraine will find itself equipped to win this conflict except in the long term, and that with a major turnaround in US thinking. With its main backer wavering over ongoing support, prospects for retrieving much of the...

Why do you think that Ukraine will have such a large war chest in 2024? I think the EU has committed around $60 billion but that is over a number of years. What the US will provide in 2024 is not clear. Having said that the GDP of the US, Canada, EU and UK combined is much larger than the GDP of...

Interesting to hear that the speed of sound is much higher in Lebanon/Israel than in my part of the world where it is around 350m/s. Here if you see an explosion then hear it 5s later the explosion was not 5km away. More like 1.75km. PS Sorry to nitpick but I worked as a journalist for a...

Thank you for your generous comments.

I do not fully understand what you write. As to who owes who what, you owe me nothing. Neither do your compatriots. I volunteered to teach Bosnian refugees English at the time of the disintegration of Yugoslavia. I was teaching them the day Srebrenica was surrendered to the Serbs. I recall it...

Any right thinking person condemns atrocities.

I quote from the above: 'Under the First Additional Protocol to the Geneva Conventions of 1977 at both Article 51(5)(b) and Article 52(2), we know that when #Hamas uses its own population (or Israeli #hostages) as #humanshields - either by using them to shield themselves or to shield their...

Anti-Jewish sentiment received loud and clear. I live in England. In 1252 a law was made demanding that males practice archery (practise using a bow and arrow) every week. Like at least 99.99% of the population I do not. Never been fined or imprisoned for breaking the law. When laws cease to...

You seem to advocate a world system of savage oppressors and downtrodden oppressed. That is hardly a state for human beings to aim for. Sounds like a nightmare dystopian society of Ubermenschen and Untermenschen.

You think people will accept such oppression?

The world wants Iran to have a nuclear bomb? I don't think so. Iran needs it to prevent US, for example, attacking it to overthrow the regime? I don't think so - US has had 40 years to do that but has not. Israel having nukes is more of a problem. Iran wants to wipe Israel out, doesn't it? Take...

What the Israelis are doing to the people of Gaza is inhuman. It astonishes me that my government and the leader of the opposition party in the UK will not demand that Israel stops. I don't understand what your religious quote means.