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Thomas C. Theiner

@noclador

Mar 15 • 9 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X

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Those of us, who have been at Euromaidan, know that Ukrainians are fearless, fight for freedom, and never surrender.

Even if the US betrays them, they will fight on.

If you ever met a Ukrainian, you would know that.

Trump etc. have no clue, about these people.
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Ukrainians stood their ground and defend their capital against these russian stormtroopers for months... in the deepest winter.

Ukrainians, like the English, Scottish, Welsh and North Irish during the Blitz 1940, never surrender. They will continue the fight even if alone.
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I lived in Ukraine from 2009 to 2015... the Ukrainian people want to be European and free.

They already fought two revolutions in this century for freedom and Europe.
Now Ukrainians fight bloodiest war in 80 years to keep Europe safe from tyranny and destruction.
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putin doesn't understand this.
musk doesn't understand this.
vance doesn't understand this.
trump doesn't understand this.

Many in Europe, do not understand this, but those of us, who have lived in Ukraine understand.
Ukrainians fought, fight and will fight for their nation.
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The moment I fully grasped the Ukrainians determination to fight, was the day after the Yanukovych regime ordered to arrest drivers carrying old tires in their car.

Tires burn. Burning tires produce a thick and biting smoke, that drives the regime's stormtroopers back and
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covers Euromaidan from the regime's snipers... so transporting tires in your car became a crime and regime forces searched every car for tires.

And then I took the subway to work... and every Ukrainian on the incoming trains to the center carried an old tire. Maidan never
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ran out of tires.

Ukrainians will not surrender... no matter how much the White House harangues their president.

If you don't believe me, visit Zaporizhzhia and met the locals - they spoke russian all their life, but when the russians invaded, none of them fled.
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Zaporizhzhians went to fight... and their wives and girlfriends with them - as medics, ammo carriers, snipers.

As Katya put it: "My husband will shoot russians and I will reload."

Ukrainians have aspired to liberty for three centuries. They are not gonna give up, because
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a bunch of heavily makeuped, lily-livered DC douchebags want them to.

If you do not support them in their fight for their freedom, you're a yellow-bellied coward, who would easily surrender your own freedom for your comfort.

Ukrainians are not like that.
Ukrainians fight!
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One of the big issues for European navies is General Electric's LM2500 gas turbine... which powers an obscene number of European warships.

Only the 🇬🇧 Royal Navy continued to buy Rolls-Royce gas turbines for its carriers, destroyers and frigates, which is why now Europe
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produces the most advanced gas turbine for warships, namely the Rolls-Royce MT30, which so far has been installed in these classes:

🇬🇧 Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers (2× MT30)
🇬🇧 Type 26 frigates (1× MT30)
🇮🇹 Landing Helicopter Dock "Trieste" (2× MT30)

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The MT30 is a Rolls-Royce Trent 800 turbine (mounted usually on the wings of Boeing 777 aircraft), which has been encased and adapted to propel warships at blistering speed through the water.

A MT30 (pic) produces up to 40 Megawatt of power and is usually mounted in a mix
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Thomas C. Theiner

@noclador

Mar 8

Please stop saying Europe should cancel weapons deals with the US.

Yes, we should not sign new weapon deals with the US; but canceling existing deals will hurt Ukraine and also Europe.

And there are 3 reasons for that. Let me explain.

1) Europe's armed forces have nearly
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0 spare equipment, as almost everything taken out of service over the last 35 years was either sold off or scrapped. Europe must continue to support Ukraine and therefore Europe needs to buy whatever weapons it can get it hands on to free up equipment to donate to Ukraine.
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I.e. you can't demand that Belgium cancel its F-35A deal and demand that Belgium must donate its F-16 to Ukraine...
Norway, Denmark and the Netherlands could donate their F-16 to Ukraine, because they already received enough F-35A as replacement.
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Thomas C. Theiner

@noclador

Mar 5

I have to tell you when putin will attack next:

🇬🇧 @Keir_Starmer is NOT increasing defence spending this year.

🇬🇧 @Keir_Starmer is NOT increasing defence spending next year.

🇬🇧 @Keir_Starmer is increasing defence spending FROM (!) April 2027 by 0.2%.

This means that for
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the next two years the British Armed Forces get nothing. They will remain as broken as they are.

The British Army has 78,000 troops of which just 18,000 are combat capable (the remaining 60,000 (= 77%) lack the materiel, training, equipment, etc. to be useful).
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The situation is even worse for the Royal Navy.

Next year the British Armed Forces actually get even LESS money than this year (inflation is 10 times higher than GDP growth and so inflation cuts into the defence budget).

Then from April 2027 the situation will begin to
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Thomas C. Theiner

@noclador

Mar 2

Yesterday I posted a thread about American weapons and components in fighter aircraft and how Europe has to wean itself off them.

Today let's look at transport, tanker, maritime patrol, and airborne early warning aircraft.
(Tomorrow then trainer aircraft and drones)
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Transport aircraft come in two sizes: for strategic airlift or tactical airlift.
Simplified: strategic airlift transports materiel between continents and tactical airlift within a theater of operations.
For strategic airlift the choice for Europe is easy: A400M Atlas, because
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it is the only strategic airlifter in production (C-17 Globemaster production ceased in 2015) and because the French were involved in its design the A400M Atlas comes with all key parts "Made in Europe".
Yes, it carries only half the payload of the C-17 Globemaster, but for
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Thomas C. Theiner

@noclador

Mar 1

Let's talk about American weapons and how Europe has to wean itself off them.
Part 1 of a long thread; this one looking at fighter jets.

First and foremost: Europe has to get all American made components out of all weapon systems produced in Europe. If Trump can shut down a
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European production line by withholding a component, then that component has to replaced... and if that is impossible, then that weapon system has no future and production has to end.
As for the F-35... Europe has nothing even close in combat capability. Best course will be
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to see the existing deals through and then focus on acquiring Eurofighters and Rafales, both of which are way more capable than whatever junk russia sends up in the air.

The main issue will be that the Rafale's production line is running already at full capacity, while the
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Thomas C. Theiner

@noclador

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The Gripen was designed by Sweden for Sweden's Bas 90 air base system and - truly - Sweden built the perfect fighter for Sweden's Bas 90 system... which resulted in a fighter no one but Sweden needs.

Bear with me as I explain a few things @Saab doesn't want you to know.
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Bas 90 was developed in the 1970s, when the Swedish Air Force was flying the Viggen (and some upgraded Draken). Bas 90 consisted of some 30+ reserve air bases with a 2,000+ metres (6,600+ ft) long main runway and 2-3 short runways of 800 metres (2,600 ft).
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Here are the airbases of Kubbe (63°37'59.81"N 17°56'10.79"E) and Jokkmokk (66°29'48.43"N 20° 8'45.17") with the short runways highlighted in red.

Some of the short runways used public roads, but most were built specifically for the Bas 90 system in the 1980s.
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