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Starting from frame 41 would be good. Is this heading to be like Tejas Mk1 - acceptance by IAF of the first 40 Tejas that did not meet requirements on condition that the rest (Mk1A) did meet requirements? I guess the 40 with Israeli kit could be retrofitted with Indian kit later, could they?

Given the outbreak of hostilities in the Gulf, do Gulf countries still want to sell Typhoons to Turkiye? If that is in doubt, should Turkiye perhaps order more new Typhoons? I think that soon after the order by Turkiye for new Typhoons BAe Systems announced that its assembly line had enough work...

Ground air defence responsible or an A2A missile?

https://defencesecurityasia.com/en/kf-21-total-missile-package-lig-da-south-korea-lraam-meteor-independence/

Putin proposed that Ukraine should be disarmed as part of a peace agreement. That is not going to work for European fighter OEM's. SAAB and Dassault will possibly have contracts with Ukraine to supply 250+ fighters before peace is agreed. Does Putin need to start becoming realistic? There is no...

Roll on the entry of a fighter armed with Meteor into the equation next year. I understand that Russia will need to recalculate its use of glide bomb attacks, being forced to move launch platforms further back from the battle space to avoid them being downed

Do I remember correctly that Meteor needed to be altered to fit the F-35 IWB for the same reason?

https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/07/06/kremlin-spokesman-says-special-military-operation-has-become-a-real-war-blames-western-countries Might this be the Russian regime signalling that the conflict has reached such a scale that mobilisation may be needed?

Sales of gasoline to the public in Crimea are banned. With the use of cars soon to be impossible for residents of Crimea without buying fuel sold on the black market or driving to mainland Russia to search for fuel, alternative forms of private transport may be needed. It is reported that public...

A look at what is going on in the Russian economy... https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026/7/8/why-have-half-a-million-russians-gone-bankrupt-amid-ukraine-war Vladislav Inozemtsev, an associate fellow at the Russia and Eurasia Programme of the London-based think tank Chatham House: “It is...

Videos of Russian cars queueing for fuel at fuel stations abound, as do interviews with car owners reporting driving around to try to find fuel stations with fuel. There is clearly a fuel crisis yet there are no reports of government directives to use cars more efficiently to mitigate the effect...

As it was planned to be.

A British military analyst's view of what is happening in the ground war. Russia continues to make progress in Donetsk but much more slowly than a year ago with much higher troop losses per square kilometre of ground gained.

Yes, Ukraine can make Crimea uninhabitable. Problem is that, due to its geography, Russia could do the same if Crimea were in Ukrainian hands. I guess it's going to become a wasteland until the war finishes. How is Russian tourism, perhaps the mainstay of Crimea's economy, going? Not too well...

Perhaps I'm a bit slow mentally and have failed to grasp that you are joking. But if not, what is the argument you are making? As I understand it Russia was very concerned that Ukraine might join NATO and saw that as a threat. The irony is that Russia's aggression pushed Finland and Sweden into...

If Ukraine loses it is goodbye to whatever a Ukrainian state offered - democratic freedom, Ukrainian culture, history, tradition... most of the things that make Ukrainians Ukrainian. For Ukrainians, it's goodbye to your identity. If Russia loses, it is goodbye to adding another country to its...

Mmmm... The plan for the war was to get to Kiev, overthrow the Ukrainian government and take over the country. It was not to occupy 4 oblasts in Ukraine. Russia failed to take over the country. Russia has failed to occupy the 4 oblasts in Ukraine, Putin's reduced war aims. He says he will keep...

Agreed. Authoritarian dictators are not known for welcoming realistic news if it is bad. I imagine that the generals do not tell Putin the truth, the colonels do not tell the generals the truth, the majors do not tell the colonels the truth, the captains... and so forth. Perhaps the country is...

I think that Trump lost interest in the war in Ukraine. Just as Putin was going to conquer Ukraine in a few days in 2022 but did not, Trump was going to end the Ukraine war in a day in 2025 but did not. After a time his attention turned to Iran. Next is possibly Cuba. Occupying land inhabited...

On paper Russia is doomed to lose the war. In reality Russia is already losing the war. Why does Putin continue waging war against Ukraine? Perhaps (a) he cannot personally accept the failure of his special military operation to absorb Ukraine (b) he cannot personally acknowledge that his...