Comments by "" (@tomk3732) on "Ed Nash's Military Matters" channel.

They should sell the old stuff to collectors. Or even wait a decade or so when it would be ultra valuable.
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Well, what is not mentioned is enormous amounts of equipment that Russia captured in Ukraine - its far more then they lost.
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And Abrams tanks will arrive in 4 years. What will Poland use in the meantime? Poland also upgraded to NATO standard all but about 200 tanks and out of these 200 180 are scheduled for update. Maybe send 20?
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Sure, but how will they get that stuff to Donbass? They cannot drive it there ;) Ukraine has biggest artillery in Europe - or had. Ukraine had more artillery systems in 152mm then all of old stock of these weapons in NATO x3.
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So you think US will junk these F-15EX anytime soon? Nope. Once airspace is mostly clear there comes in missile truck.
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@jaknayree2000 Saab obviously has no clue about Canadian politics. They should advertise Quebec all the time. JT would have zero choice.
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Canada has zero capability to do so. Only chance would be to rebuild it with Gripen.
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@Marcus_Sylvester First of all no one yet build a quantum computer as having real one would render most cryptography dead. We certainly would know about it. 2nd a lot of places are doing that research. Third, there is rather big difference between the two. Fourth, our build ability died with the arrow project. Fifth, Canada never was strong in manufacturing especially one that was not in heavy cooperation with the US.
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@Marcus_Sylvester I wish Canadian industry actually ever made some good tools but even 100 year old anvils are crap. So bad they make China today look good. Hence for many people have been making their own stuff in Canada for a while.
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@Marcus_Sylvester OK, I now understand who you are so I explain in more basic terms. English is also not my native language but I grew up in Canada. Usually people in Canada say things such as "we now do not make anything in this country, everything is made in China". Implication is that we did something in this country in the past. This is indeed true, we did make a lot of things in Canada. But my anvil example from Berlin, Ontario (renamed to Kitchener - WWI issue) is (among other things) of that when we did things in Canada we did not exactly do them well. Usually old stuff was super expensive at the time so it was made to last. But not Canadian things - they were usually made cheap and of poor quality. This was a bit of a shock, but many old timers (i.e. old people) confirmed that this has been the case in their youth. The point is we do not have manufacturing tradition in Canada to lean on - we always were a colonial style economy of resources and only closeness to US made us "make things" of decent quality in cooperation with the US. Our small growing fighter jet industry got killed off with the "Arrow" that was a good jet, but not "great" or "wonderful". This is not uncommon for satellite country to be treated like this. My home country of Poland had great aircraft (fighter) industry before WWII - they even won awards and records in early 1930s. After WWII our "owner" Soviet Union did not want "competition" so Poland was tasked with... agricultural planes. Even after fall of communism in 1990s there were plans for good jets, mockups were made & even non flying prototypes - but it was crashed again - this time not by Soviets but the west that did not want competition. The point is that sometimes your "friends" may "hinder" your plans to have certain industries. Even today US is pushing the 12000 USD rebate for only US made in union plant electric cars - such thing would ruin Canadian auto industry which is more or less the "top" of Canadian industry. Canadian aerospace is ... in Quebec and thus subject to dirty internal politics. Bombardier survives only b/c it is in Quebec. So to even have fighter industry with a chance it would have to be in Quebec & given that we "forgot" anything from the arrow program and would have to start from scratch a better financial idea would be to buy plans for something to get us going - like Gripen - even that would be a huge challenge given that we "forgot" how to build such aircraft. On the plus side we are better off by far then say Australia - they have no US close buy and our industry, as small as it is, dwarfs theirs - they have almost none.
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@Rose.Of.Hizaki I do not think collector items would help vs. China. They will be replaced by slightly younger T-55s. There are plenty of potential buyers. Even T-34/85 is no longer "cheap" it costs more then T-55 (!) Su-100 / Su-76 or even M-48 are all more then a T-55. The tanks in storage are worth more then the tanks that are newer and about to replace them. Part of the high resale value of this historical collection is excellent condition. Where else would you find a battle ready Su-100? You can try North Korea but I doubt they are selling or even capable with sanctions of a sale. Also US stuff - cannot get that from NK (they do not have enough themselves). Where can you get for example early M48? Granted M48 is equivalent to T-55 but there are far more T-55 so value of M48 is higher then that of T-55. Too bad Vietnam did not fight the Germans, Panzer IV in mint condition is up to 3 million USD. Famous Tiger - if one was for sale (British will not budge) would easily go over 10m - more then a brand new Abrams. T-34/85 should sell for about 25% more than a nice T-55 - or at least 150,000 USD.
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@Rose.Of.Hizaki But they did find replacements. That is why they are decommissioned. The replacements are T-55s.
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@jerryle379 i said sell the US stuff, not T55, these are replacing US stuff in storage. To fight Chinese T55 should all get better sensor packages. Even cheap ones will greatly increase their chances.
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Do you know why??? Canada and Russia have almost identical geography. All Russian weapon systems fit Canada like a glove. They are like custom made for Canada.
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@Maple_Cadian LOL, I watched that video and commented some time ago that Russians don't just have their own targeting pods... they got imported ones as well ;) This is rather easy to google. Don't trust everything you watch online! Go to 7:03 LOL! The French reported the sale ... guess French are lying.
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@L30n4rdo6 But what would these eastern EU members use in the meantime? They would be defenseless. Besides all these weapons combined are like 1/3 of what Ukraine started the war with.
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@L30n4rdo6 LOL, US is supplying super over priced tanks to Poland in 4 years. I.e. Poland is going to wait for 4 years to get 250 tanks for a price of an arm and two legs. So no, there is not a lot US can supply central Europe with and certainly not at a reasonable price.
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@FallenPhoenix86 F-15EX is to F-15 what Su-35 is to Su-27. Sure they are upgrades but still they cannot go > 4.5 gen. Also F-15EX is very expensive, it is almost as expensive as F-35 - difference in total project cost is minimal. So cost should be taken out of consideration here.
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@Drew Peacock Just use drones - way cheaper for surveillance. Canada has hard time putting few platoons up north so forget about any radar sites or missile sites. Besides we cannot buy S-400/500 in Canada due to politics and range on western made stuff is pathetic. Also cost of what you ask is way more - look at what Poland got & they spend billions. Even US does not have anything close. Heck, the leader of missile defense is not even close to covering whole country. But lets be realistic. We cannot put more then a company for patrol duty. There never be any air defense assets. There never be any radar stations. We may have few drones. Besides - why would anyone care - what they going to do up north? Bomb our bears? There is no one to defend! If say Russia flies 1000km deep into Canadian north there will be nothing to attack. No targets. Nothing. Just tundra if they are lucky.
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Nah, big push is happening in days. The goal is to encircle 1/2 of Ukrainian army in Donbass. Once these are liquidated then we see what Putin does next. Once troops in Donbass are surrounded Ukraine should surrender - heck they should at start of such offensive as war is over.
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I doubt Israel is stupid enough to give tanks to UA - they know Russia would retaliate rather harshly. MK2 is very old. MK3 is more usable maybe similar to Leopard 2 A4.
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This thing was good enough for a trainer. Nothing much more. Remember that MiG-21 also was designed in 1955 and also introduced in 1959 - same years - contemporary to it construction. Granted MiG was an interceptor but light years ahead of Gnat. This is why 25x more MiGs were made. Telling is when India retired Gnat and the fact they are still working on retiring upgraded MiG-21s.
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And do pray what Poland will use to defend itself? Sticks? M1s will be delivered in 4 years. And even with all M1 delivered almost all T-72s are to be kept - they are being upgraded to NATO standard. There is no replacement for BMP-1 and Poland has 800 working. I.e. if Poland gives up these 800 they have no IFV, none even *purchased*. No money to even buy any replacements that would take years.
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And despite Poland also providing modern Krab 155mm armored howitzers Kiev is loosing the war. Guess Moscow was right, giving weapons to Ukraine will not change the outcome but prolong the war.
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@nian60 Sure, but orc land is occupied so have to kick goblins out first.
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Gripen is about 5x to 4x program cost cheaper then F-35. So we could get 280 Gripens (!!!)
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Hey, durable, Po-2 are the most produced biplane and used in both WW. Backbone of women's combat aviation! Diversity!
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Once Russia is near Lviv I think that crews for these artillery systems will be long gone in Poland.
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Well Canada certainly does not have technology or educated workforce as it would get it from Saab. What Canada has is a huge tender for aircraft that will be biggest sale Saab made outside of home or maybe even bigger then at home.
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@billwhitis9997 Not only I live in Canada but I even was briefly in uniform.
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LOL! and how on earth will a) crews know how to use these and b) how will they get them to Donbass? This idiocracy is only severely weakening the west. Once Donbass forces are encircled the war is lost unless NATO does invade Russia.
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Without knowing details there is no way to tell. Some equipment can be heavily subsidized. So if you end up with F-35s for the cost under a Gripen its a good deal. Total program cost would still be higher but more capability.
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Its planned de-militarization of NATO, part of Putin objective. He not only is de-militarizing Ukraine, but all of eastern flank of NATO plus idiots like UK. This way asking for all NATO crap to be removed from central Europe will be rather easy.
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This guy may be counting on getting paid by the west. Either he turns out dead in few days or he runs to the west... we see. It is interesting that he is moving on Rostov just after Ukraine fires on the bridges in Crimea... interesting... could he be Ukrainian asset?
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But no one will ever pay later. With what?
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@SayakMajumder ukraine cannot move anything to Donbass. They have lots of their own stuff. Do what. They cannot move it.
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@shooter7a Excellent! Russia could use to know the inner workings of the Excalibur system. Getting to Kiev is Russian plan - yes send all to Kiev - make sure max number of troops stay there while Russians conduct "special operation". Once SO is done, I wonder whatever Russians will continue or just as UA to hand over these slightly used AS90 for Red Square parade.
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F-35 will win b/c otherwise ... sanctions! Gripen is 1/2 cost and around 1/4 running cost (or less). Total cost of the same number Gripen full project cost is maybe 15% - 20% of F-35. Not to mention tech transfer. Not to mention making them in Canada - probably closer to 15% using economic bonus. Imagine what could be done with all that extra $$$! Drones. Radars. Cash for alcohol for officer's mess! As for F15EX it is quite expensive project - it is only a bit cheaper program cost vs. F-35. Say 80% maybe more.
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Sure, Russia would prefer latest greatest US tanks through not some old junk to study ;) If Russian faint works as designed and Russian troops start encircling Ukraine in Donbass the war is over. No 1000 M1 tanks will help - they simply will be captured by Russians.
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@vinct7023 They started the war with the most artillery systems in Europe. They dwarf UK or Poland etc.
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This is terrible news for Ukraine. Lend-Lease means no free stuff. US weapons are very expensive. If Putin takes over Donbass and areas and Ukraine is left with agricultural part only, give their pre war economy, any chance of paying back even small loans (few billion) are zippo for the next 100 years. I fear Ukraine can be in debt for the next few hundred years - what is left of it. I.e. Ukraine should be afraid more of this aid then of Russia.
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