Recent content by GR66

Meanwhile back in the school yard... From CNN: Trump says the "fight is militarily won" and calls allies "cowards" over Strait of Hormuz

I have to roll my eyes when Qatar, SA, Kuwait and the rest of the Gulf States are presented as some kind of innocent bystanders in this war. The US forces that are bombing Iran are literally based in those countries. If hypothetically Chinese forces based in North Korea were to attack South...

Wow....you guys need to get a sense of humour! LOL

Or CNN? US F-35 damaged by suspected Iranian fire makes emergency landing, sources say

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c33ln4mp1p2o This is where we've come to...NATO members deploying troops in preparation to defend against a possible American attack.

We don't want them anyway...even the Iranians with 0% of their military capacity left can shoot one down!

I wonder if the hydrogen fuel tank could be designed to increase the effect of the explosive charge carried on a fuel-cell powered one-way attack drone?

Does the modern iteration of the Flower Class necessarily need to be a single ship...or could it be a combination of cheap UAV/USV/UUV detection nodes backed by air and surface-launched long range munitions?

That is the new model put in place by Trump. There was one authorized release of $300 million in material early in 2025 and there are still long lead-time items that were committed prior to Trump that are still being delivered. However, while the US is no longer directly providing weapons to...

Yes, according to your chart the EU is currently supplying MORE aid than the US (35.1B Euros vs 30.7B Euros) but I'm not sure I'd call 53% "the bulk"...and losing the 47% that the US supplies definitely would be a MAJOR loss for Ukraine. Keep in mind as well that many of the key systems that...

I'd suggest the wartime expedient would me large numbers of cheap sensor nodes (UUV's, USV's and UAV's) to detect targets and aircraft (P-8's or F-35's depending on the threat type) to take them out.

A couple of articles that highlight the critical use of drones (both large and small) in the Ukraine War. https://defence-blog.com/russian-analysis-compares-tank-cost-to-fpv-drone-swarms/ https://defence-blog.com/ukraine-strikes-two-major-russian-aviation-facilities/...

The US wouldn't have to officially exit NATO...Trump could just pack up all his toys in Europe and go home.

I'm beginning to think that the best thing that could happen is the US just tear off the band-aid and pull out of NATO. Force the Europeans to make the tough decisions and investments required to fully take control of European defence and at the same time the US can stop complaining if NATO...