Et tu India?
Almost got his ticket punched on Road of Death.
"NEVER SURRENDER!"
"NEVER SURRENDER!"
https://www.thedefensepost.com/2024/...pand_article=1NATO to Buy 1,000 Patriot Missiles in Face of Russia Threat
NATO members in Europe have signed a contract for up to 1,000 Patriot missiles to bolster air defenses in the face of the threat from Russia, the alliance said Wednesday.
The announcement of the contract, estimated to be worth $5.5 billion, comes as Moscow has unleashed repeated barrages of deadly missile and drone strikes against Ukraine in recent days.
NATO’s procurement agency said the deal agreed upon by an initial group of countries including Germany, the Netherlands, Romania, and Spain would see Patriot missile production stepped up in Europe.
Alliance chief Jens Stoltenberg welcomed the “timely announcement to invest in up to 1,000 new Patriot air defense missiles to bolster the alliance’s security.”
“Russian missile and drone attacks on Ukrainian civilians, cities and towns show how important modern air defences are. Scaling-up ammunition production is key for Ukraine’s security and for ours,” Stoltenberg said in a statement.
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https://www.defenseone.com/business/...esults/392288/In race to make artillery s s, US, EU see different results
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On the U.S. side, production doubled within a year of launching a crash production program, largely because the Army owns the facilities that make the s s.
“The U.S. Army has a pretty direct lever to increase the production of staple munitions like 155mm artillery s s,” said Rafael Loss, a European defense expert on the European Council on Foreign Relations.
Before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the Army produced around 14,000 155mm rounds a month in government-owned, contractor-operated munitions plants. In December 2022, Army Secretary Christine Wormuth said the Army was looking to increase production to 20,000 rounds per month by the spring and 40,000 rounds per month by 2025.
Last March, Army Undersecretary Gabe Camarillo upped the target slightly, announcing plans to produce 24,000 rounds a month by year’s end.
The Army hit the target early, then exceeded it, producing 28,000 s s in October. At least some of those s s went right out the door to Ukraine, Army acquisition secretary Doug Bush told reporters in a media roundtable in November. He declined to say just how many.
Bush said the service now aims to boost its monthly production to 36,000 by March, 60,000 by September, 70,000 to 80,000 in early 2025, and 100,000 by the end of calendar 2025 — two and half times more than Wormuth’s year-old goal.
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Russia has de facto annexed 20% of Ukraine. We’ll go on living with maps that bravely defy Russian aggression by showing Ukraine with 1991 borders, and Russia will go on administering the territory with an eye to further par ion of Ukraine at the next opportunity.
And apparently you will go on thinking nothing will ever change.
...72 hours too late.
tee, hee.
Putin ain't got a hair on his ass...he also ain't got a blooded dog/child in the fight, ever. It's his religion.
But he had that 20%, [give or take] almost 2 St. Valentine's Days ago. If Mexico took Texas 2 of those ago then we'd be able to contrast, eh, Lumps? tee, hee.
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Live by the FA, die by the FO
A twofer
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"NEVER SURRENDER!"
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For those that do not know russian, he is saying, putler ed around and found out.
Russian mine clearing,
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