Correction:
This is 100% bull****..

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Very hot flames! Melted all the snow and forced the trees back into leaf early!

Who are these English-speaking soldiers?
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I wonder if Ukraine is behind this. Apparently, the US government(if you believe the media) is privately saying that it is likely Israel. Which makes me wonder if it is misinformation. I had been thinking that the Ukranians might position someone with a Stinger missile near an airport to take out a weapons delivery flight but that could open a can of worms.

Still, it would be nice to see some Stingers take out most of the Russian bomber fleet.

Trainees arrive in the U.K. to train on the Challengers.

Well, here's the thing... The US General may be right about materiel, in fact, that is certainly the case, and is being displayed in Ukraine; materiel matters.... Any yet, Ukraine as well shows that it isn't just materiel that matters, that intent is as important, or more so than materiel... and guess what, the UK, with all of the dysfunction of committing commercial sepukku with Brexit due to the spread of lunacy arising in recent years with the Tea Party, and Trumpism, that even then it was the British that in spite of having a fruit bat for a PM that week, (the guy with the cheap hair do... whatever his name is, I forget, a few back, it was last year... many PMs ago... ) That Boris (remembered!) the Buffoon found fortitude to support the needs of Ukraine.

So... yeah, more materiel and munitions in ready stocks, and more investment in security, (no more to Boeing please... anyone else than them) is desirable, but then the USA has a continued stench in the HoR and Senate that is a greater risk to global stability than anything that can be dreamt up in our heaven and earth, horatio. Seems to me that a rapid test for crack cocaine might be in order for the incumbents of the US government and the system that elects them, which seems to have developed more Benedicts and Arnolds in recent years than existed in 1776.

Didn't the US write us off at the beginning of WW2 as well? BTW being equipped doesn't mean able to win. Vietnam, Somalia, Afghanistan.....

Who said "motivation is to 5.45x39 as 3 is to 1... "?


Of course it's BS - you do realise it's a parody account ?

Ohh wait, the posters name might be a clue?

;)

As we reduce ours!

If Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine had succeeded in 2022, Ukraine's industries would have been seized and taken over by Russian oligarchs. A leaked document shows that oligarch Konstantin Malofeev intended to create a 'DMZ Concern' from Ukraine's largest plants. ⬇️

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1...508510208.html

Not all Russians are allegedly for the war.

The UK should be increasing but I don't think we can. Our Government is morally bankrupt and our country rapidly following suit.

As Ukraine is fighting on their own soil there are good chances for an ejected pilot to live to fly another day.
Unfortunately they do not always make it.

The declining number of ac is often mentioned, but they need pilots as well. As training opportunities within Ukraine may be weak, how about those F16's and training abroad... just a thought.

We have a government?

Could have fooled me. If we get an upgrade we might just make Third World Standard.

ATGM (Kornet?) - presumably the yellow smoke "spike" is the shaped charge component of the missile?

Twitter

I think it's the 2nd charge from a tandem charge warhead - the part that would penetrate the real armour after the 1st charge has penetrated the reactive armour (well, when used against armour).

My ship is loaded with... Bradleys for Ukraine!

Well, since there is no armour, what has triggered the second charge in free air ?