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Thomas C. Theiner

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Feb 17

I spent my evening creating this graphic to show how much the 🇬🇧 British Army's armoured forces have atrophied since 1989:

• overall from 19 cavalry regiments to 9
• and from 14 armoured (tank) regiments to 2

This is no longer a credible force for peer-to-peer conflict.
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The picture is equally bad for other NATO armies, which however did not amalgamate their cavalry/armoured forces, but simply disbanded tank units.
These numbers of disbanded tank battalions for the main NATO nations are (1989 -> 2025):

🇺🇸 123 -> 31
🇩🇪 81 -> 5
🇫🇷 21 -> 4
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🇮🇹 19 -> 3
🇳🇱 12 -> 0
🇪🇸 11 -> 4
🇩🇰 8 -> 1
🇧🇪 8 -> 0

On the other hand 🇵🇱 Poland has 18 tanks battalions (1 more than the 7 European nations listed above combined).
The war in Ukraine has shown that armies need massive numbers of tanks WITH an active protection system (APS)
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Thomas C. Theiner

@noclador

Feb 17

To give you an idea how irresponsible German politicians gutted the German Army, here is a list of its brigades in 1990 and when they were disbanded:

• Panzergrenadierbrigade 1 ❌ 2007
• Panzerbrigade 2 ❌ 1993
• Panzerbrigade 3 ❌ 1994
• Panzergrenadierbrigade 4 ❌ 1993
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• Panzergrenadierbrigade 5 ❌ 1996
• Panzerbrigade 6 ❌ 1993
• Panzergrenadierbrigade 7 ❌ 2004
• Panzerbrigade 8 ❌ 1993
• 🇩🇪 Panzerlehrbrigade 9
• Panzergrenadierbrigade 10 ❌ 1993
• Panzergrenadierbrigade 11 ❌ 1993
• 🇩🇪 Panzerbrigade 12
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• Panzergrenadierbrigade 13 ❌ 1994
• Panzerbrigade 14 ❌ 2008
• Panzerbrigade 15 ❌ 1993
• Panzergrenadierbrigade 16 ❌ 1994
• Panzergrenadierbrigade 17 ❌ 1993
• Panzerbrigade 18 ❌ 2008
• Panzergrenadierbrigade 19 ❌ 2002
• Panzerbrigade 20 ❌ 1992
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Thomas C. Theiner

@noclador

Feb 15

🇮🇹 Italy will become the highest defence spender in Europe if 🇪🇺 President Ursula von der Leyen manages to activate the EU's escape clause for defence investment.

You see, Italy produces almost everything (!) what its military wants in Italy - even all of the Italian F-35.
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Italian Prime Minister @GiorgiaMeloni has said for years that only countries with a robust AND a ready military will sit at the table, while everyone else will be on the menu.
So she chose defence industry manager @GuidoCrosetto as her defence minister. But the European rule
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that Eurozone member must keep their budget deficit below 3% blocked Meloni's desire to put Europe's biggest navy into the water and the biggest air force in the air... so far.
If the 3% rule falls Meloni can finally spend billions on the military, which will also be a
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Thomas C. Theiner

@noclador

Feb 12

This is a map of Canada... and if you read this thread the circles will make sense.

Canada is lies on 3 oceans:
• Atlantic Ocean to the East
• Pacific Ocean to the West
• Arctic Ocean to the North

Canada should be able to patrol and defend all of them... but it can't.
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Canada's fighters are based at CFB Cold Lake and CFB Bagotville. The two circles show the combat range of Canada's current and future fighter with an air-to-air weapons load:

• red: CF-18 Hornet with three external drop tanks.
• orange: F-35A with internal fuel only.
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As fighters based at CFB Cold Lake and CFB Bagotville can not defend Canada's Arctic Archipelago, Canada built four Forward Operating Locations (FOL) in the late 1980s:
• FOL Inuvik
• FOL Yellowknife
• FOL Rankin Inlet
• FOL Iqaluit

Each FOL can support up to 6 fighters,
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Thomas C. Theiner

@noclador

Feb 12

Immediately after becoming Prime Minister of Italy Benito Mussolini made his close ally Emilio De Bono the Chief of Police.
De Bono then turned police in a tool of fascist oppression and ordered the murder of dissidents.
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Immediately after becoming Chancellor of Germany Adolf Hitler made his close ally Hermann Göring the Chief of Prussia's Police.
Göring then turned police in a tool of fascist oppression, created the Gestapo and ordered the murder of dissidents.
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Immediately after becoming Prime Minister of russia Vladimir Putin made his close ally Nikolai Patrushev the head of the Federal Security Service.
Patrushev then turned police in a tool of regime oppression and ordered the murder of dissidents.
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Thomas C. Theiner

@noclador

Feb 10

Let's bust some more Gripen E myths:

Of course Gripen has a fast turnaround time - due to having the fewest hardpoints of all Western fighters and the smallest fuel tank of all Western fighters.

The Gripen also has the shortest combat range at full weapons load. If you want
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to extend the range, either you can't use the full weapons load or you have to mount external fuel tanks, which of course use weapon hardpoints.

The Gripen E also has less thrust than all other Western fighters and it doesn't "supercruise". That's a load of bollocks.
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In 2009 Saab's Gripen NG demonstrator (without weapons or weapon pylons) climbed to 28,000 ft, then used the afterburner to accelerate to Mach 1.2, then cut the afterburner and THEN the plane continued at Mach 1.2 for a bit. That is not "supercruise".
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