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Workable?
Plenty of opinions flying around so over to the Resident experts on this one.
OPSEC rules apply.
Plenty of opinions flying around so over to the Resident experts on this one.
OPSEC rules apply.
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Jets to Ukraine?
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Wobbly_Jon
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Seriously????
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Nice bit of jingoistic tub thumping. My twopence worth the training lead in times for both aircrew and ground crew are going to be far longer than the popular press would have you believe. Even if it was decided to send jets it surely be many months if not years before it made operational sense.
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With the current state of affairs under the current leadership , Just Jane and that replica Mossie build will be ready to fly before UKR receive any jets from this country.
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Flybe have got a few frames spare just now.
Deltaitem
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I'd be of the opinion the the West, much like they're already doing/done with infantry,artillery and tank crews, train the Ukranian aircews to use the kit, and once they know how to use it, give them whatever they've been trained to fly.
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Even if we just offer to give Ukrainians some flying training (and no jets), at what cost to our own aircrew already in the system? Add another year onto the already unacceptable amount of time it’s taking to get through?
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Could it be viable to let them have, say, a dozen Typhoons? Do they have the rest of the systems, such as EW & ISTAR, to integrate with? I really have my doubts.
Deltaitem
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Regarding our own capabilites, the birds of austerity and a hollowed out military are coming home to roost. Seems that the illusion of fortress Singapore is haunting us.
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Not jets but cars from Latvia. What a novel idea the state confiscates drink drivers motors and then ships them to Ukraine. We could probably fill a few car transporters per week from the UK
Ukraine war: Latvia sends cars seized from drunk drivers to help Kyiv
The confiscated vehicles are being delivered under a Latvian scheme to help the Ukrainian military.
www.bbc.co.uk
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But knowing our government and do-gooders, we would convert them to left-hand drive, recondition the running gear and fully re-upholster them before shipping them, and all that would cost more than buying brand-new cheap cars in Poland and sending them over the border.Not jets but cars from Latvia. What a novel idea the state confiscates drink drivers motors and then ships them to Ukraine. We could probably fill a few car transporters per week from the UK
Ukraine war: Latvia sends cars seized from drunk drivers to help Kyiv
The confiscated vehicles are being delivered under a Latvian scheme to help the Ukrainian military.www.bbc.co.uk
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Telegraph today: Poland to send in all their Migs and the RAFs Triphoons to backfill with detachments to Poland….