ukrainian crisis

I recently read that France is considering deploying some nuclear capable Rafales to Germany, to strengthen deterrence further east. I thought this was interesting enough and it might be useful if the British did it as well, but of course they retired their aircraft nukes in 1998 and now only...

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-germany-trinity-house-agreement-on-defence https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-germany-trinity-house-agreement-on-defence-joint-communique

Some interesting news regarding systems similar to JLENS (and other options) https://breakingdefense.com/2024/07/army-taking-wide-open-approach-to-high-altitude-platforms-smdc-chief/ https://www.twz.com/air/polands-plan-to-deploy-early-warning-radar-blimps-moves-forward 7 years after the...

Commercial drones can be easily weaponized. A Russian company makes portable drone detectors called Bulat. These units apparently scan the known frequencies in UHF and analyze the waveforms used by commercial drones, including the FPV ones, and warn the user about their transmissions in...

In the August 2024 battle in the Kursk region, Ukrainian forces apparently started to universally use anti-drone electronic warfare (EW) to counter Russian radio controlled (RC) kamikaze drones. A photo below from sm shows a Ukrainian BMP-1 with three EW antennas rendering such drones useless...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/ap-ukraine-russia-bloomberg-b2589071.html

Planting or removing? https://www.spacewar.com/reports/N_Korea_plants_tens_of_thousands_of_mines_on_border_Seoul_999.html

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/07/17/world/mh17-ukraine-australia-anniversary-intl/index.html

Thought would be of interest to have a topic on this subject, rather than keep spreading such stuff in various threads. Among the big ticket items are Leopard, possibly Abrams tanks, Bradley IFV, and a variety of other stuff. Feel free to add anything else of interest that was/is/will be shown...

largest order to date https://www.airbus.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2023-12-airbus-helicopters-and-german-armed-forces-sign-largest-h145m cheers

This article divided into two chapters. On the Russian Ukrainian battlefield, the Lancet suicide drone is a star weapon. It destroys several expensive Western weapons, including the Panther 2 tank, Bradley armoured transport vehicle, M777 howitzer, French Caesar artillery, Polish Crab...

https://www.bbc.com/news/explainers-63872209

Oil tanker jam forms off Turkey after start of Russian oil cap (ft.com, subscription or registration may be required) https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/oil-tanker-jam-forms-off-turkey-after-start-russian-oil-price-cap-ft-2022-12-05/...

https://apnews.com/article/putin-health-covid-prices-european-union-65de1c4934227208bfa68bb7d4c47716?utm_source=homepage&utm_medium=TopNews&utm_campaign=position_01

News coming out of PM Rishi Sunak’s visit to Ukraine suggests about 120 British AD guns being sent to counter Russian aerial threats. Big question in my mind: Does the UK have AD guns in any significant number? I thought we ditched the Bofors in the 70’s and went with Rapier and Blowpipe.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/10/20/ukraine-news-russia-war-putin-martial-law-strikes-drones/ Apparently a genuine malfunction, but the incident hasn't helped present tensions any.

Defence Updates has a new video out about the first IRIS-T unit delivered to Ukraine:

If things get more interesting, what targets in the UK might Putin nuke? An interesting video, and some backup data: UK Limited Nuclear War Target List View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYWcgF4Wwog

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