Turns out it’s not just NATO filled with freeloaders, but also ASEAN nations are not properly supporting America’s non-hegemonic hegemony…
Some rather tone deaf hypocrisy from Hegseth…
…except for the U.S. of course.
theaviationist.com
Looks like the UK was shamed into developing longer ranges by UKR’s FP-5…UK to Lead $50 Billion European Effort for Deep Precision Strike Missile
The new Deep Precision Strike Missile is meant to touch distances between 300 km and 2,000 km, inspired by Ukraine’s extremely long-range strikes far
Probably 30-50 people per tank. Take out on tank, move to the next tank.
www.defenseone.com
militarnyi.com
I mean, North Korea is testing out their tech fighting Ukraine.I don't know about shaming so much as taking advantage.
The UK seems to have been using Ukraine to do an end run around its own lethargic establishment
How the UK is helping Ukraine hit Russian targets
Allied donations to Ukraine have gone from missiles to designs, as Ukrainian manufacturing outpaces its donors.
"The United Kingdom spent six years developing and deploying Storm Shadow. Manufacturing relied on specialized European supply chains. French and Italian partners were involved, which made a tech transfer bureaucratically difficult. And the missiles were expensive gifts, averaging $2 million apiece.
"These and other factors compelled the U.K. and Ukraine to enter into a joint agreement to develop a new long-range strike drone with streamlined and simplified requirements—a 2024 effort called Breakstop that British officials say will deliver missiles for frontline use later this year. That timeline—less than 24 months from concept to full deployment—is far faster than Storm Shadow and much less expensive. Meanwhile, Ukraine also announced its own long-range strike missile, the Flamingo, or FP-5, which is also capable of striking Russia but costs much less than the Storm Shadow.
"Fischer said that the contrast in innovation speeds helps explain how such intellectual-sharing partnerships help the United Kingdom as much as they do Ukraine. “One critical but often overlooked lesson from the Ukraine war is the extremely rapid adaptation cycle Ukraine is able to implement. In some cases, battlefield lessons are implemented in less than 10 days to new systems. In my seven combat deployments, NOTHING has ever come close to that.”"
Britain started early donating target drones to Ukraine which Ukraine converted into weapons.
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And it is not just in the air domain
UK Develops Naval Drones for Ukraine
The United Kingdom is developing Wasp and Snapper maritime drones to support Ukrainian capabilities in the Black Sea
www.businessinsider.com
I don't know about shaming so much as taking advantage.
The UK seems to have been using Ukraine to do an end run around its own lethargic establishment
How the UK is helping Ukraine hit Russian targets
Allied donations to Ukraine have gone from missiles to designs, as Ukrainian manufacturing outpaces its donors.
"The United Kingdom spent six years developing and deploying Storm Shadow. Manufacturing relied on specialized European supply chains. French and Italian partners were involved, which made a tech transfer bureaucratically difficult. And the missiles were expensive gifts, averaging $2 million apiece.
"These and other factors compelled the U.K. and Ukraine to enter into a joint agreement to develop a new long-range strike drone with streamlined and simplified requirements—a 2024 effort called Breakstop that British officials say will deliver missiles for frontline use later this year. That timeline—less than 24 months from concept to full deployment—is far faster than Storm Shadow and much less expensive. Meanwhile, Ukraine also announced its own long-range strike missile, the Flamingo, or FP-5, which is also capable of striking Russia but costs much less than the Storm Shadow.
"Fischer said that the contrast in innovation speeds helps explain how such intellectual-sharing partnerships help the United Kingdom as much as they do Ukraine. “One critical but often overlooked lesson from the Ukraine war is the extremely rapid adaptation cycle Ukraine is able to implement. In some cases, battlefield lessons are implemented in less than 10 days to new systems. In my seven combat deployments, NOTHING has ever come close to that.”"
Britain started early donating target drones to Ukraine which Ukraine converted into weapons.
....
And it is not just in the air domain
UK Develops Naval Drones for Ukraine
The United Kingdom is developing Wasp and Snapper maritime drones to support Ukrainian capabilities in the Black Sea
united24media.com
Where do you think weapons like Switchblade 600 first got used? The Ukraine.
There’s a song in there somewhere … Halls of Momtezuma … shores of Tripoli … worth workshopping.
www.euronews.com
As war fears grow, Sweden plans burials for part of its population
Real body bags, a priest reciting last rites to fictional soldiers, and cold-storage stress tests reveal just how far Sweden is willing to go to prepare its defence. #EuropeNews
As war fears grow in Europe, Sweden plans mass burials for part of its people
Real body bags, a priest reciting last rites to fictional soldiers, and cold-storage stress tests reveal just how far Sweden is willing to go to prepare its defence.
A peer-reviewed account published in the journal Frontiers in Psychiatry describes a mortuary affairs component using more than 500 mannequins and body bags representing fallen service members - a scale of drill not attempted in Sweden since the early 1950s.
More than 300 military personnel took part, alongside the Church of Sweden, the Swedish Tax Agency and the country's conscription agency.
I was in that Ex in Estonia.... that article is not what happened by any stretch.No.
Are Canadian tankers much more prepared than British tankers?
Ukraine’s Drone Warfare Shows Two Battalions Could Be Wiped Out in a Day in NATO Drills
NATO's recent exercises in Estonia showed Western forces unprepared for drone warfare, exposing critical weaknesses in operational tactics.
or American tankers?
Ukrainian Drones ‘Wiped Out’ US Armored Brigade in Germany’s War Games
The American brigade was tasked with assaulting positions reinforced by Ukrainian troops. But its heavily armored personnel carriers quickly became easy targets.www.kyivpost.com
So the Brits and Yanks are being eviscerated by Ukrainian drone teams, and you're here trying to tell me that Canadians will somehow do much better?
Get out of here with that.
No, I'm applying British and American tactics onto our maneouvre forces. And unless you mean to come here and tell me that Canadian tankers are leagues ahead of the Brits and the Yanks, hell, even the Ukrainians who have stopped using western supplied armour, then I think you may be the one out to lunch here.
Somewhere a senior Canadian civil servant is going glassy eyed with shock reading this. But is able to reassure himself that, that sort of thing could never happen here.
Curious that the Swedes are the outlier in being the ones (or only ones that allowed a story like this to become public), preparing for these kinds of events.
Yes, possible.
