Comments by "LRRPFco52" (@LRRPFco52) on "Anders Puck Nielsen"
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@PeterA650 Yup. Almost none of “European” air combat systems are European. Even among France and Sweden, their “independent” air combat systems have so many US components and technologies in them, as to shock the amateur fanboi of Rafales and Gripens.
We shared a lot of Radar and fire control technology with the French. US/NATO Aerospace engineering program materials are authored by US, German, British, and Italian senior aerospace engineers. The US provides most of the RDT&E money for advanced combat systems, and even allows NATO partners to come to the US to test their fighters and missiles.
SAAB relied on either Rolls Royce (England) , Pratt & Whitney (US/Canada), and GE (US) to power ALL of its jet fighters since the J-35 Draken. Viggen was P&W JT8D. Gripen A-D are GE F404. Gripen E/F is GE F414.
Back during Gripen A days, they had major problems with gaps in the flight control laws, and had to bring them to General Dynamics at Fort Worth to get help in fixing its glitches.
Rafale uses an F404 derivative engine. The Rafale A demonstrator was even powered by 2 F404s. It made its maiden flight on the 4th of July in 1986, when Reagan was still US President. That’s how far back the Rafale goes. With all that development and production time, Dassault has only produced a little over 260 Rafales. It has been almost 39 years since its first flight.
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@BlueMoonday19 Yup, and I think it’s even more subservient than that. European defense contractors have effectively become subcontractors for major US prime contractors. Look at airframes, engines, Radars, missiles of all types, FLIR systems, pods, precision-guided weapons, and even small arms.
The UK has ordered small arms from the US for its last few contracts, since it failed to produce a reliable assault rifle in its own small arms industry the last time it tried with the SA80 saga. In order to make the SA80 reliable, they had to bring in Hk to fix and upgrade it twice now. UK SOF just ordered US Knight’s Armament weapons recently, and conventional forces ordered US LMT 7.62 DMR weapons during GWOT.
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@57thorns The US is the one who sold the majority of weapons to Europe that Europe has sent to Ukraine. Germany, Italy, Poland, Finland, UK, Denmark, Belgium, Netherlands, Norway, and Switzerland just increased their orders for the most advanced weapon systems ever engineered in the US arsenal, and can't get deliveries soon enough.
PAC-3 Patriots and F-35s don't grow on trees in Europe. They are made in the US, with some subcontracting for F-35 in UK, Norway, an assembly line in Italy, and new contracts for sub work in Switzerland and Finland.
NATO has made itself extremely vulnerable by drawing down war stocks since 1991 and not fulfilling obligations to itself in terms of defense spending.
Now everyone is crying that the US is responsible for European security and blaming the US no matter how many weapons contracts the US has maintained with NATO.
People don't have a remotely-accurate view of the ground truth because they watch mass media lies designed to deceive them.
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@SnorriTheLlama Foreign Military Sales contracts to Europe from the US have only been increasing for several European countries even before 2014, and ramped-up dramatically for more since then.
From 1990s-2014, UK, Poland, Norway, Italy, Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, and Finland increased orders of US high technology weapon systems, namely F-35As and F-35Bs.
Ukraine tried to order weapons from the US, but the Obama/Biden WH refused them, then sided with Putin by blocking investigations into Russian corruption and infiltration of the government in Kiev. That's why Hunter Biden was placed on the board of Burisma in May 2014, after one of Putin's oligarchs wired $3.5 million to Hunter's shell company.
Biden was supposed to extract Zelensky from Kiev, so Putin could seize Ukraine and begin staging forces along the Polish border.
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@vaataja The more Russian tanks, fighters, missiles, artillery, trucks, APCs, drones, and resources spent in Ukraine, the less options they have to invade Poland, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia, Hungary, and Romania.
If Zelensky had taken Biden's offer in Feb, 2022, Kiev would have fallen, Moldova would be annexed, Russian forces would be staged along the Western borders in Belorussia, Ukraine, Moldova prepping the false flags to invade Poland and/or Finland.
All the troops and equipment destroyed over the past 23 months would be relocated to Saint Petersburg and Western front military districts.
Europe owes Zelensky and the Ukrainians a huge thanks for delaying this new adventurous dictator's expansion. Putin has had this planned since the early 2000s.
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