Geopolitical Risk

[Henry Filth]

Always nice to see yourself in the paper. Well done the commas team.


https://www.defensenews.com/global/asia-pacific/2023/05/04/new-zealand-military-plays-catchup-in-pandemic-aftermath/

[Onemootpoint]

Always nice to see yourself in the paper. Well done the commas team.


https://www.defensenews.com/global/asia-pacific/2023/05/04/new-zealand-military-plays-catchup-in-pandemic-aftermath/

From that article:
" However, in January this year, the vice chief of the Defence Force, Air Vice-Marshal Tony Davies, invited New Zealanders to take part in an online survey regarding the country's future defense policy and strategy."

Who makes the decisions around here?

[Basil]

well 2 DOGs say 3 months to train uke pilots of f16 if they are experienced but the trouble is they are running out of pilots...

should have given them the F16 last year then...

and apparently transport UKE land is not limiting the speed on their motor ways just yet...

Big trouble coming if they use F16's I reckon.  Takes the war to a new level and who knows how the psychopath will respond?  Aren't they better off supplying more small drones and the reaper drones as well?

[Waltzing]

Nah send the F16's ...

they are an old fighter but have a long range radar...

send them its a year late..

this is the pending stages of world war 2.5 already ... its the burning embers...

this is battle of the bulge.. reeimaged  in the 21 century.

F16's in hide sight will be required and then bigger better drones for sure.

The UKE's have a new small drone that is brillant and is small perfect for the modern batte field.

It is a one winged propeller recon drone with secure comms..

2 feet wide... fab product for securing the battle field views at day and night.

[BlackPeter]

Big trouble coming if they use F16's I reckon.  Takes the war to a new level and who knows how the psychopath will respond?  Aren't they better off supplying more small drones and the reaper drones as well?

Admittedly - I am wondering as well, whether F16's are the best value for money we can help them with - lots of money gone if they drop down for whatever reason (like maintenance issues, inexperienced pilots or even just a dumb Russian bullet).

However - I think we should stop doing our bidding to the psychopath. If he sees an advantage in escalating, he will, no matter what we do or don't do. If necessary he will make up a reason himself (like this ridiculous drone which certainly came from Russian sources). Putin's big idol Hitler did that as well. Remember - Germany was just shooting back on a Czech attack the Germans faked themselves. This was how WW2 started. 

Stop worrying about the psychopath and give UKE all the help we can ... as long as it makes sense. But yes, you are right - you can supply a lot of good quality drones and rockets to pay for one downed F16.

[Basil]

Nah send the F16's ...

they are an old fighter but have a long range radar...

send them its a year late..

this is the pending stages of world war 2.5 already ... its the burning embers...

this is battle of the bulge.. reeimaged  in the 21 century.

F16's in hide sight will be required and then bigger better drones for sure.

The UKE's have a new small drone that is brillant and is small perfect for the modern batte field.

It is a one winged propeller recon drone with secure comms..

2 feet wide... fab product for securing the battle field views at day and night.

Hope they can ramp up production really quickly and build heaps of them.

[Waltzing]

Thats the problem ... its private enterprise and it looks like the Tech hubs in LVIV and KH are ahead of the old corrrupt system in Keiv...

and of course then there is the problems of  the black market food precurement in the armed forces...

Hard for auditors to make an impact when your being bombed... war is a shambles its just who manages it best and the US and EU seem to be coming to terms with the mess.

Polish TV is helping with this from TVP world. Right wing polish news hub.

[Waltzing]

ugly scenes from india as they line up for photo shoot with russian military....

is there no stability in the future?

if the answer is no then a balance between trading and longer term holds is the "way of the future"

  Aviator...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_Pbx9mvWPY

[Henry Filth]

India.

Oh yeah, India. Maybe, or perhaps not until things get a bit grimmer up in the northern borders

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/india/americas-bad-bet-india-modi

[Waltzing]

Its just going to get ugly and Ulgla in

https://www.defensenews.com/global/asia-pacific/2023/05/04/russia-to-bolster-support-for-indias-defense-industry/

and a world more and more unstable...

mind you has it ever really been any different..

[Waltzing]

Sending the UKE pilots into battle with those old rockets ships will go down in history as a disgrace..

https://eurasiantimes.com/us-f-16-pilot-heaps-praises-on-mig-29-fighter-jets/

Western politicans have been heads in the sand and ass up since 2014.

[Waltzing]

Big scalp for the US missile defence industry...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/05/05/ukraine-shoots-down-russian-hypersonic-missile-patriot/

Buy US military stocks.. well they could be up next week if this keeps up..

[Waltzing]

Truely hope this stuff ant actually how it is .... sadly ...

https://www.spiegel.de/international/atomic-scientist-and-former-los-alamos-director-siegfried-hecker-my-fear-is-that-putin-has-destroyed-the-nuclear-order-a-833d93ef-5b55-46f9-bbda-dc6503b028b2

a criminal takes over a country with nuclear weapons; rides around in an armored train; has 20 offices all alike;  kills his enemies anywhere in the world; and unleases chaos in the security council and threatens the world with nuclear melt down.... invades countries on a whim...

sorry what MAD movie are you living in now?

https://edition.cnn.com/videos/world/2023/02/17/russia-vladimir-putin-armored-train-ebof-vpx.cnn

what  next ....

[Henry Filth]

Big scalp for the US missile defence industry...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/05/05/ukraine-shoots-down-russian-hypersonic-missile-patriot/

Buy US military stocks.. well they could be up next week if this keeps up..

You could also try Norwegian defense stocks - Kongsberg has been on a tear lately. . .

[Waltzing]

Interesting discussion on F14 A to D's...  one pilot also on US pod casts boasted he got 100 to 600 Knots in under 9 seconds... on D's clean no tanks... sooo may be Mav could have hit the afterburners and smoked that su 57 after all... right well never mind the junk in the films heres the real thing talking...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqGvInfXz3Q

also you get to see NZ's top gun fighter the ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rf3rA2xzPr4