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@Rick_G_Warrior @Microinteracti1 Stop getting your news from fox or X and you may actually discover what the worlds really like out there.. Im sorry but America has fallen, youve gone fuckin mad.!!.you are a laughing stock..we pity normal Americans if there are any

@Microinteracti1 Wait, Europeans can't even defend their own women on the streets, being harassed & raped by illegal immigrants. Now, they want to pretend they are strong enough to defend Europe? 😆 You can't make this stuff up...

I am not sure the American military establishment has fully grasped what Trump has actually done here. So let me spell it out in language even a Pentagon procurement officer can understand. Europe has been buying American weapons at a staggering rate. In 2024 alone, US foreign military sales notifications to European countries hit $76 billion. Four times the European average since 2008.  F-35s, missile systems, air defence, ammunition. All of it American. All of it coming with decades of service contracts, maintenance agreements, spare parts, software updates and training programmes worth hundreds of billions more over their operational lifetimes. Between 2020 and 2024, the United States supplied 64 percent of all European weapons imports.  That is now over. Europe has an $860 billion defence plan, and American contractors are being frozen out. The goal is 80 percent of all military purchases from European factories by 2030.  Airbus. Rheinmetall. KNDS. Saab. Leonardo. BAE Systems. They are about to receive the largest order book in the history of European defence industry. Because Trump made it politically impossible for any European government to keep writing cheques to Washington. Some European governments have discussed worries that the Pentagon could remotely disable American F-35 fighters or impose restrictions on how US weapons can be used.  When your supplier is also threatening to annex your allies, that is not paranoia. That is basic procurement logic. Trump set out to make America great again. He has succeeded magnificently. For Rheinmetall. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

@iamrrari Hold on man its beautiful!! Respect to you..

For the brokies… #I8.

@dim0kq Ffs..this is how they treat there own? Inhumane

Russian soldiers who shown misconduct are thrown into the pit, and treated as animals, slaves. Through torture and humiliation of their own, they build combat spirit it seems. Mysterious russian soul.

@mfa_russia @NATO Boo hoo get over it

“Not one inch eastward” — as interpreted by the “collective West.” 🌐 A telling illustration of how the “defensive” @NATO alliance “does not expand”: ten rounds of enlargement, seven of them after the collapse of the USSR. t.me/MFARussia/29045

@JEFFWH75 @JohnCleese No my homosexual friend, johns correct..America is now the laughing stock of the world..we all pity you

@JohnCleese This John is retarded. No need to refute him...

This Ari works for Fox news No need to refute him...

@KurtZindulka @2029GantiRezim @Valen10Francois Fella why they going to help a guy who openly insults them and threatens to invade greenland and canada..they dont much care anymore what republicans think

@2029GantiRezim @Valen10Francois It's not about blame. I don't see anything so far indicating failure. I do see cowardice from supposed allies, however.

We've reached the "let's find a scapegoat" part of this disastrous war. People on the right can't blame Trump so they blame the French. The old 2003 habits are all coming back.

@UAPJedi @BBCr4today Blowing up bridges is not a war crime you fool

@BBCr4today Yet the corrupt BBC never said a word about Ukraine hitting the Kursk Bridge in Crimea🤡

"You don't hit schools, you don't hit energy sources, you don't hit bridges: those are war crimes." UN humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher criticises actions in the Iran war and says leaders have chosen 'game show gambling' over humanity by hitting civilian infrastructure.

@ChungTzuW Love the badger

Tu-16K-10 and K-10SB test with 'special' warhead (СБЧ)

@ollieparrot @sharonjohnson17 @FUDdaily Absolute nonsense..you need high end kit but also low end too..cheap bofars isnt g9nna protect you from ballistic missiles or supersonic crusie missliles..as cheap f16 aircraft arent gonna get through air defences but expensive f35 will..both are needed..more money needed

@sharonjohnson17 @FUDdaily Shiny toys for boys syndrome ... plus, the more a scheme costs, the grander it is, and the more money there is in the kitty for post-retirement consultancies

True to Starmer’s word that his government would “stand by our allies in the Gulf region”, defence secretary John Healey has announced extra British troops and more UK air defence systems will be deployed to the Middle East, as well as four more Eurofighters, to join the RAF’s joint UK-Qatari squadron. The number of troops have not been specified, but we are led to believe that the additions will bring the total number of UK personnel involved in the defence of the Gulf and Cyprus to around 1,000. As to the “air defence systems, these are said to include a Sky Sabre battery, otherwise known as the Common Anti-air Modular Missile or CAMM. This is going to Saudi Arabia, which amounts to a hansom gift to one of the richest nations on Earth. At current prices, each battery (comprising launchers, the radar module and the control centre) costs in the order of £368 million, with individual “Land Ceptor” missiles coming out north of £400,000 each – possibly up to £800,000 a pop depending on the basis of the calculation (whether system capital costs are included). The system has no anti-ballistic missile capability, being designed primarily as an anti-aircraft weapon but, in the absence of any likely threat from Iranian fixed wing aircraft, will be deployed to counter expected drone attacks. Critics are rightly pointing out that, since the primary drone being deployed by Iran against the Gulf states is the Shahed-136, with a unit cost in the order of £20,000, the financial exchange rate is not exactly favourable. Since the assets being protected are often valued at hundreds of million of pounds, though, the use of such expensive defence systems is regarded as justified: a successful hit far exceeds the value of the price of the missile. The trouble with that equation, though, is that Iran often sends their drones over in waves, as many as 1,000 launched in a single attack, so the cumulative costs begin to stack up. Nevertheless, for Saudi, the Land Ceptor represents a bargain. Up to press, the Kingdom has been relying on US-made Patriot PAC-3 MSE missiles, at a unit cost of $3.7-4 million (or more if system costs are included). Total interceptor expenditure over the first 25 days of current conflict is estimated at between 250-350 missiles, potentially an expenditure well in excess of a $1 billion. Burn rates for the Gulf coalition as a whole are that much higher, with Saudi and other Gulf Patriot batteries having fired 943 missiles, consuming roughly 18 months of global factory output in just four days. At the current rate of usage, missile stock could be depleted in a matter of weeks. To that extent, the UK’s contribution must be welcome, but it does point to the fact that little has been done in the four years of war between Russia and Ukraine, where the use of Iranian Shahed-136 drones (renamed as Geran-2) has been a feature of the conflict. For all those years, therefore, the UK and other powers (including the Gulf States) have been sitting on their hands, more or less as passive observers, apparently never imagining that they too might at some time have to face the same threat. Instead, the UK, European powers and even the United States are still producing complex and hugely expensive defence systems which are not only unaffordable but unsustainable in the long-term as the rate of manufacture cannot replace the rapidly depleting stocks during times of intensive use. Caught in what has come to be called the “drone trap”, where for every $1 Iran spends on attack drones, Saudi is having to spend between $80 and $600 on defence, an aggressor can wage asymmetric war at an economic level. Almost too late the Saudis have woken up and, in the last two weeks have signed a “huge deal” with a Ukrainian manufacturer to buy large numbers of interceptors. Doubtless, the way of the future is to use drones to kill drones, but there is still room for the “old school” approach of using anti-aircraft guns to down these drones. Here, the old Soviet ZSU-23-4 “Shilka”, quad, radar-guided 23mm cannon comes to mind. Although first produced in the 1960s and long-superceeded by the more modern 2K22 Tunguska hybrid gun/missile system, it is still being used with effect by the Ukrainians to supplement their drone defences. Also in use by the Ukrainians is the German mobile anti-aircraft system, the Gepard, based on the Leopard I tank chassis, mounting two radar-guided 35mm Oerlikon cannon. The system is preferred due to the much lower cost per engagement and higher availability of ammunition. As I recall, the British Army once used a radar-guided version of the Bofors 40mm gun, specifically the L/70 (Light Anti-Aircraft Gun No. 12), which served as the primary light anti-aircraft weapon from 1953 until 1979 when it was replaced by the Rapier missile system. Given the propensity of the (now) MoD to sell off obsolete weapons, I doubt any L/70s exist in British reserve stocks, although the Indian Army uses a heavily modernised version, which is now redesignated as its Drone Guard System (DGS), tasked specifically to counter UAVs. However, Lithuania and the Netherlands used the system and, in 2023, donated their L/70 units to Ukraine. These are said to be highly effective at shooting down Shahed-type drones and protecting critical infrastructure. The weapon’s 40mm proximity-fused rounds are ideally suited for such slow-moving aerial targets. Currently, the ultra-sophisticated British Army has moved on from the Rapier and is now fielding the Lightweight Multirole Missile (LMM), better known as the Martlet – a version of which also equips the Royal Navy’s Wildcat helicopters. The land-based system is integrated with Saab’s Giraffe 1X 3D radar to provide a mobile air defence system known as the Rapid Sentry. This has recently done good service in Iraq in the hands of the RAF Regiment when gunners at the Erbil airbase intercepted 14 one-way attack drones during a single swarm attack It has been deployed to Bahrain along with UK experts who will work to integrate the system into Bahraini defence and, as part of the package announced yesterday by Healey, a system in on its way to Kuwait to strengthen air defences there. In the economy stakes, it doesn’t do too badly by modern comparisons, with a cost per missile estimated at £50,000, but this still makes shooting down drones more expensive than flying them. Interestingly, though, we haven’t seen the last of the Bofors. In 2024, the Swedish subsidiary of BAE Systems launched a “next generation” version of the gun using advanced 3P (Pre-fragmented, Programmable, Proximity-fuzed) ammunition, which can be programmed into six different modes (e.g., airburst, impact, or proximity) to shred drones or disable missile sensors. Called the Tridon Mk 2 (pictured), it can be mounted on any suitable truck or other platform, and – financed by Sweden and Denmark – it is now being supplied to Ukraine. There, it is coupled with Saab’s Giraffe 1X radar, which provides detection out to roughly 75-100 km. It is significantly cheaper to operate against mass drone attacks, preserving expensive missiles for high-priority targets. The package financed by Denmark and Sweden for Ukraine was valued at roughly $290 million (approx. £228 million) for an estimated 15–20 units, including the guns, the radars, spare parts, and ammunition. It is roughly comparable with the cost of the Rapid Sentry system, although vastly cheaper to operate – and massively cheaper than Sky Sabre. Despite it having been developed by a British-owned company, though, the MoD has shown no formal interest in acquiring the Tridon system for our own armed forces, even though the gun – at the heart of the system – is specified for use on the Royal Navy’s new Type 31 Frigates. It does seem to be the case, therefore, that the British government, through the MoD, is committed to acquiring ever more complex, expensive systems, even where cheaper weapons would do the job better, thus determined to overwhelm us to impotency. This is why I am unlikely to join in with the throng of pundits calling for an increase in defence spending. The only result I can see from greater taxpayer-funded generosity is that the MoD will waste even more money on still more complex systems – of which Ajax is a prime example – creating a money pit that can never be filled.

@iptasiek @M4RDUK_701 Krab is an amazing piece of kit..Ukrainians love them

@M4RDUK_701 W Indiach podczas testów rozerwała się lufa od działa i tyle z tego wyszło... Jako ciekawostkę podam że, na początku Polska też wyrażała zainteresowanie tym badziewiem...i tal powstał KRAB :)

Slovak export sph ShKH Zuzana A 40 Himalaya designed in the 90s for Indian Army. Hence the need for T-72M1 chassis Unique to say at least You may be familiar with this contract since it gave life to other monstrosities like that

@M4RDUK_701 Sexy as fxck

I think BTR-4MV1 is my favorite variant

@oLibanori @M4RDUK_701 @secretsqrl123 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@M4RDUK_701 @secretsqrl123 What a piece of shit

Soviet coastal artillery system A222 Bereg (ang. shore). It's equipped with 130mm gun mounted on the MAZ-543 chassis (the same one as Scud or S-300)

@ValerieRooney1 @GraemeFrew5 @HendryMackenzie @NickyZog You are fucking joking arent you? The English taxpayer including me as i work in the uk atm supports all of uk..ur either stupid or just an anti English racist who is blinded by hate. Vile

@GraemeFrew5 @HendryMackenzie @NickyZog So you can't see the word "taxpayers" in that headline? Oh right, Scots don't pay tax. Scotgov have a fixed block grant in the year, so can't just yank money from the committed budget, so have to ask London to release more of our taxes back to us. You don't know this stuff?

Grangemouth made jet fuel.

@FTusa284 @edwardstrngr65 @RAeSTimR But they want you brits to protect them with your more expensive nukes..how nice of them

@RAeSTimR Yup! Have spoken with several European NATO air defenders and asked, if a ballistic missile was flying over their country towards UK, would they engage: answer was "no - go and bloody buy your own SAMs!"

A wee comment: UK MoD says air defence of UK partly covered by NATO allies shooting stuff down that is heading twds UK. Now, this post talks about not moving Poland's Patriots away from Poland - but it is also highly suggestive that Polish Patriots are for the defence of Poland

@w_pineiro @atrupar Its Americas war..you sort it

@atrupar Calling out the Royal Navy (and by extension other European fleets) signals Washington’s desire to shift burden-sharing onto allies whose economies depend far more heavily on Gulf oil flows than America’s does.

Hegseth: "The president was clear this morning in his Truth that there are countries around the world who ought to be prepared to step up on this critical waterway as well. Last time I checked there was supposed to be a big bad Royal Navy that could be prepared to do things like that."

@MAJicJ64 @FT Mr gay rider

@FT You lying libelous scumbags I hope he sues you into non-existence. Pete Hegseth owning you, and Trump owning the BBC. Simply because you don't know how to Tell truth from fiction because of your Trump derangement syndrome

Pete Hegseth’s broker looked to buy defence fund before Iran attack ft.trib.al/DKXRnPP

@Absinth_op @LeanneSpurs @PolitlcsGlobal Well said

@LeanneSpurs @PolitlcsGlobal The only pathetic ones are those who voted for Brexit and are still behaving like cuckolds 10 years later.

🚨🇪🇺 NEW: The EU has approved the UK’s participation in Erasmus and will begin negotiations on two new key agreements -Electricity Agreement: The UK could join the EU’s energy internal electricity market (buying and selling power) if it follows the respective EU rules -Financial Contribution Agreement: The UK would make regular payments to help poorer EU regions The amount would depend on the size of the UK economy and the proportion of the internal market in which the UK aims to participate in -Erasmus+: The UK will rejoin the Erasmus+ student exchange programme from 2027 A review after 10 months will decide if it continues long term

@VeteransFdn @FennellJW These guys were built different

🕯️🌺 A final farewell is being held today for Richard Wood, a remarkable 101-year-old Royal Navy veteran whose life was defined by courage, service, and quiet resilience. From joining the Navy at just 18, to sailing with King George VI, surviving devastating loss aboard HMS Aurora, and supporting the D-Day landings at Juno Beach — his story is one of extraordinary sacrifice and duty. Even in later life, Richard remained deeply proud of his service, while carrying the memories of those who never returned. He never called himself a hero — but to his family, and to many others, he truly was. Today, as his coffin is draped in a naval ensign and his medals laid beside him, a community comes together to honour not just a man, but a generation whose actions shaped the world we live in. Rest in peace, Richard Wood. Your legacy will not be forgotten. ⚓🇬🇧 bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

@MizzyBlundStraw @ThreshedThought Are u being serious?

@ThreshedThought who do you think is going to invade us and why would they bother?

The US-Israeli attack on Iran A few thoughts in a 🧵

@GIUK2026 @thinkdefence Does it still have the full runway? I know some of the out buildings,stores and munition bunkers/shelters have gone

@thinkdefence Even the Agile Pirate/ACE exercise people avoid suggesting it as an ex location. It's easier to get to Stornoway than Kintyre from Lossie, etc. It's a great base bags of promise good beaches/golf etc. The place was hit hard in 95 when the US pulled out with very hard times.

Selling off RAF Macrahanish was really rather misguided wasn't it