Russia-Ukraine War - News and Developments PART 2

[kingQamaR]

Sweden has around 100 Gripen C/D. It is aquiring 60 Gripen E.
I believe the plan is to keep 40-60 Gripen C/D so there will be surplus aircrafts available anyway. Any Gripen will be shipped from the Swedish Air Force inventory.
The Swedish Air Force has received the first production Gripen E but the first unit is only to be formed in 2025.
Even best case, there will not be any Gripens flying for Ukraine until the end of 2024. Then Sweden would be reducing its readiness and that is why NATO membership is important. If they receive them in 2025, then it is less of a problem.


Some people speculate that it was Shoigu behind the assassination.

Sweden only has 96 gripen C/D vs the over 1000 American f16s (not including the many other countries with spare f16s), spending the valuable time training on a jet with only 1/10th the availability for a relatively small performance difference just isn't worth it at this point in the war.

 

[Mohsin A]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1694400596319621627

 

[Mohsin A]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1694388943834251762

 

[F-22Raptor]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1694744553499058645

Brutal

 

[F-22Raptor]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1694831031897960799

Ukraines pace is picking up

 

[kingQamaR]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1694400596319621627

That’s an interesting take, but I think he’s gone for real because of his actions.

 

[FourMikeEcho]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1694388943834251762

Yes certainly, we still have female prisoners to send to the front. It will Vaginer that goes in this time

 

[F-22Raptor]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1694836010167812529

https://twitter.com/x/status/1694836390939234708

 

[FourMikeEcho]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1694572319685988743

China paying lip service, President Xi didn’t deliver the speach at the event and had his FM do it. Because China and India will not get along to cement this.

The rest of the gang: loser of the losers. Brazil, Egypt, Argentina all with over-leveraged economies with huge debts. India is not in that situation but its entire model is built on FDI , mostly from western investors. Argentina has twice defaulted on foreign debt.

 

[FourMikeEcho]

Sweden only has 96 gripen C/D vs the over 1000 American f16s (not including the many other countries with spare f16s), spending the valuable time training on a jet with only 1/10th the availability for a relatively small performance difference just isn't worth it at this point in the war.

This is more of a symbolic gesture to tell the world (NATO included) that despite our size and smaller AF, they are behind the ally.

From a tactics standpoint, if the Russians cannot get air superiority over Ukraine battlefield because of strong air defences, why will Ukraine with F-16s get superiority over the battle feed since Russia has SAMs.

RuAF’s superior size of Air Force has not resulted in air supremacy. So that negates their use over battlefield. Then it would make sense that may be they are used for attacking beyond the immediate battlefield , deeper behind the front lines. F-16s don’t carry the Storm Shadow so the US must need to supply JASSM , but with a 500 mile range, it doesn’t add up that it would supply a platform that can attack Moscow.

 

[Vergennes]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1694829531167596964

 

[kingQamaR]

This is more of a symbolic gesture to tell the world (NATO included) that despite our size and smaller AF, they are behind the ally.

From a tactics standpoint, if the Russians cannot get air superiority over Ukraine battlefield because of strong air defences, why will Ukraine with F-16s get superiority over the battle feed since Russia has SAMs.

RuAF’s superior size of Air Force has not resulted in air supremacy. So that negates their use over battlefield. Then it would make sense that may be they are used for attacking beyond the immediate battlefield , deeper behind the front lines. F-16s don’t carry the Storm Shadow so the US must need to supply JASSM , but with a 500 mile range, it doesn’t add up that it would supply a platform that can attack Moscow.

A lot of Internet generals have been assuming that the Viper would be sent without compatible weapons, which is just insane. I'm pretty sure that the AMRAAM and the HARM would be included in the package at a minimum to ensure Ukraine, not Russia, has control of the airspace., it's less about being able to regain air superiority and more about forcing the Russian air force back even further to avoid the range of the AMRAAMs. Same with HIMARS (and now Storm Shadow), the change is about making operations even harder for the Russian military.

 

[sammuel]

Sweden has around 100 Gripen C/D. It is aquiring 60 Gripen E.
I believe the plan is to keep 40-60 Gripen C/D so there will be surplus aircrafts available anyway. Any Gripen will be shipped from the Swedish Air Force inventory.

Compared to about 5,000 F-16 made.

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[The SC]

Summer Operations | The Time Has Come. Armageddon And Wagner Are Back. Military Summary 2023.8.24​

 

[Han Patriot]

The libertard hawks are getting primed for an eventual settlement in Russia's favor. A few press releases at a time to wake them up from fantasy. Condolences to those poor bastard (otaku volunteers) who died foor nothing. They seriously thought they were defending freedom. Lol