Yes, and likely to better standards. Effectively there Tiger was the Pershing 2 years later

🇩🇪 Germany is considering equipping corps-level artillery units with loitering munitions capable of 200- 300km range

Additionally a loitering munitions battery under brigade & division artillery bns

1st will be under the 45th Brigade in Lithuania, next the 21st Brigade

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Seen conversations talking about exactly that

However they stay almost underground and drive out, fire before slipping back into their hole (or choice of).
Towed has no mobility for this and is stationary

Still - would have preferred to be in 1 rather than a Sherman or Cromwell

Plenty of armour and fight at a distance - assuming it made it to the battlefield

And there's perks!

We expect some positive decisions tomorrow on the €90 billion loan to Ukraine.

This would show that our support for Ukraine remains strong and that Russia cannot outlast Ukraine.

My doorstep ahead of today’s Foreign Affairs Council ↓

Interesting & telling by UK 1st Sea Lord General Sir Gwyn Jenkins

2 priorities stand out

1️⃣Advancing Hybrid Navy
4️⃣Deepening partnership with JEF allies

Working with trusted allies

Also

No measuring the Royal Navy by purely ship numbers on the same way you cannot measure Ukraines naval strength

🇪🇺🇮🇹 Big rift with Washington; Italy's Defence Minister Crosetto says Meloni wants to move forward with the European Defence Union and wrote a letter to counterparts in Europe. "Macron is right, to be free you have to be feared"

🇫🇷🇺🇦A former French Dassault Mirage 2000-5F fighter jet now flying in service with the Ukrainian Air Force.

UK Just Flooded the Middle East With a Secret Weapon Almost Nobody Knows About YouTube video by The Strategic Horizon

Kier Starmer and UK Government gives Cambridge Aerospace Starhammer anti drone missile the support it needs.

Being provided to Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states to enable them to defend their infrastructure

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Not sure I would ever want to try that

Yes - key.

Your going to get hit in a tank, its prinicpal function as interesting WW1 and WW2 was as a breakthrough weapon - so its about keeping its crew alive and helping the forces advance

to breakthrough German lines at Caen in July 1944

Still nobody screamed tanks were redundant then. Still more survivable in a tank than as an infantry

I think both

The Sherman was very under armoured and very vulnerable to damage.

The US were behind in experience and were not aware how lethal the anti tank guns and weapons had got.

Bit like today

Operation Goodwood is a great example when Brits lost 300+ tanks over a couple of days trying🧵

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Love it - Gun, Armour, mobility but picking on the steering wheel - in fairness though I have heard this, I had not understould the difference it made or that was an innovation on the Tiger

Despite there predominance in Parliment they need to understand they are effectively a minority Government.

They need to work with each other, support each other and keep pushing there narrative about their progress.

They cannot afford to turn on any colleague, it would be thee undoing

Its always been a hatchet job to discredit Starmer and the Labour party

Partly media, partly Tories, Reform and their backers, but also foreign interference trying to weaken the UK

And with only 33% voting Labour - and 66% not, this media harassment will continue to be a constant issue for Labour

I may be wrong, but a lot of media shows that over the last 6 months that nothing can mover unseen within 50km of the front line

Anything on a road is found and taken out by multiple drones

So everything is digging in deep, ammo stored separately in differant trenches and staying static

Ukraine rejects any ultimatums and will not give up a single millimeter of its land, — Ukraine's Permanent Representative to the UN Melnyk

The EU is close to adopting a decision to provide Ukraine with financial aid of 90 billion euros, having started the final stage of legal approval of the loan, – Deutsche Welle.

Ukraine has unveiled the Skif tracked APC prototype, a 15 ton vehicle designed for 11 personnel. It features STANAG 3 all round protection with level 4 frontal armor. The platform uses imported components at early stage and is now entering testing as localization efforts continue. #Ukraine

Yes - Ukrainian reviews on PZH 2000 and to a lesser degree the Leopard 2

They do not seem to have changed there design ethos

However the UK seems to be leaning into this way of thinking away from some of our practical experience and history

Very true

Manpower is expensive - so doing more with less is essential

Definitely

Also found that the Portuguese order for 36 Caesar is worth €60m - €15m/gun

That aside though most artillery seems to be digging in deep for protection and mobility seems to of limited protection - anybody moving is at risk

Sure some is also about it being manufactured in the UK

🤣🤣🤣. Needs more space than can be provided on Bluesky

Still - Has the Ajax been superseded by Drones.

Athena and Ares etc could still have a role though

Need to learn its strategic roles and develop tactics

Given Baltic and Med are now NATO/European lakes, what's there focus

Blockading the Russian Northern fleet in its bases, protecting sea lanes, or exerting political power in the Indian Ocean and Pacific in support of Australia and Japan?

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Shermans like T72s are more mobile and great for exploitation- like cavalry

There ability to crack German front lines was found to be wanting in Normandy etc

Once the front line had cracked though through shear quantity- they came into their own

Certainly true

Also reflected a range of development and operational experiences

Guns evolved in reaction to armour, and so the 88mm was found to be critical. US was 2 years behind in this with the Pershing arriving in 1945

Also tactics - Allies never developed that breakthrough weapon🧵

Another example is the Astute class vs French Suffren

Does its size and a couple of cruise missiles warrant fewer platforms vs its key role in sea denial