Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)
RT @deaidua: Norway is increasing its contribution to the German IAAD initiative and, in cooperation with Germany, will deliver an IRIS-T SLM fire unit to Ukraine this autumn! Additional funds totalling NOK 1 billion will be made available for this purpose.
Thank you, Norway! However, I would like to point out that this is not an additional commitment to Ukraine, as Germany would have supplied the IRIS-T SLM fire unit anyway.
The only positive effect for Germany is that it now has several dozens of million euros more for new procurements, since it doesn't have to finance the full fire unit on its own.
RT @deaidua: Norway is increasing its contribution to the German IAAD initiative and, in cooperation with Germany, will deliver an IRIS-T SLM fire unit to Ukraine this autumn! Additional funds totalling NOK 1 billion will be made available for this purpose.
Thank you, Norway! However, I would like to point out that this is not an additional commitment to Ukraine, as Germany would have supplied the IRIS-T SLM fire unit anyway.
The only positive effect for Germany is that it now has several dozens of million euros more for new procurements, since it doesn't have to finance the full fire unit on its own.
Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)
RT @FRHoffmann1: I saw a few takes today on why deploying INF-range missiles to Europe/Germany might strategically backfire, and that the timing of the decision was overhasty.
I want to present the counter-narrative: this move is strategically sound and the timing is appropriate. 1/8
RT @FRHoffmann1: I saw a few takes today on why deploying INF-range missiles to Europe/Germany might strategically backfire, and that the timing of the decision was overhasty.
I want to present the counter-narrative: this move is strategically sound and the timing is appropriate. 1/8
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Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)
@JamesRaxz @hartpunkt: There are trade offs with either option. It depends on what your priorities are. For the US Army it was strategic mobility. Trailers are easier to transport by air.
@JamesRaxz @hartpunkt: There are trade offs with either option. It depends on what your priorities are. For the US Army it was strategic mobility. Trailers are easier to transport by air.
Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)
@ThomasBuchhol20Replying to @ZizkaFella: I don't think the US Army has any operational PATRIOT units that have not been upgraded to a PAC-3 config.
@ThomasBuchhol20Replying to @ZizkaFella: I don't think the US Army has any operational PATRIOT units that have not been upgraded to a PAC-3 config.
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Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (@ColbyBadhwar)
@ZizkaFella A new PATRIOT Fire Unit is more expensive. A depreciated one from inventory is not. Also you can provide a lot more equipment when it's being valued correctly pursuant to the law & regulations, which most of the Drawdowns have not been.
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Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)
@MassimoRonzullo: 1. Who said the first battery that the US Army drewdown was worth $1 billion?
2. The services were all overvaluing their equipment. After 2 audits, they should now be valued correctly.
@MassimoRonzullo: 1. Who said the first battery that the US Army drewdown was worth $1 billion?
2. The services were all overvaluing their equipment. After 2 audits, they should now be valued correctly.
Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)
@iserozhko @vokinburt_avia: Battery is the organizational term the US Army uses for a Fire Unit. The price depends on the configuration you order. You can have a PATRIOT FU with just 1 or 2 launchers or 8 launchers; it could have just 1 radar or 3. The order might include no missiles or a lot of missiles.
@iserozhko @vokinburt_avia: Battery is the organizational term the US Army uses for a Fire Unit. The price depends on the configuration you order. You can have a PATRIOT FU with just 1 or 2 launchers or 8 launchers; it could have just 1 radar or 3. The order might include no missiles or a lot of missiles.
Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)
@lekha_lug @vokinburt_avia: A US Army PATRIOT battery is a Fire Unit. Same thing.
@lekha_lug @vokinburt_avia: A US Army PATRIOT battery is a Fire Unit. Same thing.
Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)
@StijnOerde @Dobo46436320 @JScoreForever @NOELreports: If the US paid Raytheon to max out production back in the spring of 2022 then they would probably be at or close to 12/year by now.
@StijnOerde @Dobo46436320 @JScoreForever @NOELreports: If the US paid Raytheon to max out production back in the spring of 2022 then they would probably be at or close to 12/year by now.
Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)
@bayraktar_1love: A new PATRIOT Fire Unit can be a little as $300 million, so a depreciated one will be a fraction of that.
@bayraktar_1love: A new PATRIOT Fire Unit can be a little as $300 million, so a depreciated one will be a fraction of that.
Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)
@John_A_Ridge @deaidua @S1epanS: And Kongsberg is putting out FDCs & launchers at a high rate.
@John_A_Ridge @deaidua @S1epanS: And Kongsberg is putting out FDCs & launchers at a high rate.
Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 (Twitter)
Biden Administration Announces Additional Security Assistance for Ukraine. (PDA) package of $225 million.
https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/3835746/biden-administration-announces-additional-security-assistance-for-ukraine/
P.S: This is an impressively low estimated cost for a package that includes an entire Patriot battery.
Biden Administration Announces Additional Security Assistance for Ukraine. (PDA) package of $225 million.
https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/3835746/biden-administration-announces-additional-security-assistance-for-ukraine/
P.S: This is an impressively low estimated cost for a package that includes an entire Patriot battery.
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NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg: We have seen a pattern, a Russian campaign organized by their security services to conduct hostile actions against NATO allies across the Alliance.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg: We have seen a pattern, a Russian campaign organized by their security services to conduct hostile actions against NATO allies across the Alliance.
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Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)
🇺🇲🇭🇷🇯🇴 The US Department of Defense has awarded Sikorsky, Lockheed Martin, a $251.5 million contract modification for UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters for the US Army and Foreign Military Sales customers: Croatia & Jordan. https://twitter.com/ColbyBadhwar/status/1750973958285873214#m
🇺🇲🇭🇷🇯🇴 The US Department of Defense has awarded Sikorsky, Lockheed Martin, a $251.5 million contract modification for UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters for the US Army and Foreign Military Sales customers: Croatia & Jordan. https://twitter.com/ColbyBadhwar/status/1750973958285873214#m
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Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)
Yikes!
Biden: "And now I want to hand it over to the President of Ukraine, [...] ladies and gentlemen, President Putin."
Yikes!
Biden: "And now I want to hand it over to the President of Ukraine, [...] ladies and gentlemen, President Putin."
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