Way to go, Sweden. From being neutral to standing up for freedom and what is right as a NATO member - clearly they saw the writing on the walls when others couldn’t. I’m looking at you, Austria.
The most sustainable measure is to make Ukraine's arms supply independent.
So far, the following have donated to the ZBROYARI Manufacturing Freedom Project:
Denmark, Canada, the Netherlands, (in parallel a joint venture with Rheinmetall), the UK, the EU, ‘in planning’ the USA (sic) and now Sweden!
As has been stated previous 🇸🇪 has avoided restrictions on the use of our donated funds and weapons including the use on Russian territory. Ukraine is clearly exercising its right to self-defence in accordance with international law. Supporting Ukraine is not escalating. (4/4)
RF military TG stmt re ICBM: Americans planned to assemble short & medium-range ballistic missiles there, plans to increase production of missiles operational-tactical complex, and it was probably in Dnipro where all the necessary infrastructure is available, that they planned to assemble them.
Yellow n Blue together in a nice supportive img! 😍
I also think UA pilots r trained in Swe for JAS Gripen and even if UA media laughed at the old Swe APCs (over 300 made in the 60s gifted to UA!), the UA frontline seems to LOVE them since they handle all terrain brilliantly and r easy to repair! 👍
The US is currently in the process of replacing their ATACMS missiles with a newer model. I hope Biden gets all the remaining ATACMS shipped to Ukraine before he leaves office.
Neptune is a good basis. Maybe conformal drop tanks and, to deal with the mass growth, a much bigger booster (high-low-(high-low?) profile). Or only a slightly bigger booster, but also an afterburner for early flight (low-(high-low?) profile). Assuming they can't up the engine power.
Could also increase canister diameter, not just length, which would not only allow for a larger drop tank volume, but also larger, higher aspect ratio wings.
2) If you increase the mass (conformal tanks full of fuel = a lot of extra mass), you need more thrust during takeoff. Once it lightens up, the thrust requirements to maintain altitude drop, so it's only needed early on
The current small booster (which would have to be upgraded no matter what, due to the increased mass) is replaced with a large one. It reaches the maximum operating altitude for the engines and slowly loses altitude, until it's light enough to maintain altitude.
It continues to drop (deliberately) to a terrain-hugging height to avoid detection in the dense AD networks near the border. It optionally can rise back up when further from air defense networks (for greater range), before returning low for final target approach.
The tomahawk reaches up to 2,400km as it uses a small turbofan engine, lighweight construction and a big old fuel tank. It also carries a smaller 330lb warhead compared to the 1,000lb neptune warhead. Take that neptune warhead down to say 250 lbs and use the extra 80 lbs for fuel
One problem solved. Next: how to get continuing intel and satellite data from U.S. for targeting these drones and missiles when Trump is a president. Or can someone else provide it?
Great news! This is a good way to use the 75B SEK, around 6,8B US, in military aid that the Swedish parliament approved. It's pretty impossible for Sweden to reach that amount in other ways since the U.S denied us delivering Gripen.
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So far, the following have donated to the ZBROYARI Manufacturing Freedom Project:
Denmark, Canada, the Netherlands, (in parallel a joint venture with Rheinmetall), the UK, the EU, ‘in planning’ the USA (sic) and now Sweden!
https://mil.in.ua/en/news/allies-to-buy-675-million-worth-of-ukrainian-weapons-for-ukraine/
https://bsky.app/profile/antongerashchenko.bsky.social/post/3lbzgsnusoc2j
As has been stated previous 🇸🇪 has avoided restrictions on the use of our donated funds and weapons including the use on Russian territory. Ukraine is clearly exercising its right to self-defence in accordance with international law. Supporting Ukraine is not escalating. (4/4)
The rest of Europe must follow. France, Spain, Italy, Britain, all making a lot of fuss and not contributing a whole lot.
Thank you, Swedish people!
I also think UA pilots r trained in Swe for JAS Gripen and even if UA media laughed at the old Swe APCs (over 300 made in the 60s gifted to UA!), the UA frontline seems to LOVE them since they handle all terrain brilliantly and r easy to repair! 👍
If you decide to invade a sovereign country for ejeychy reasons, then you can pay for reparations upfront
2) If you increase the mass (conformal tanks full of fuel = a lot of extra mass), you need more thrust during takeoff. Once it lightens up, the thrust requirements to maintain altitude drop, so it's only needed early on
Two ways to deal with that would be as mentioned:
The current small booster (which would have to be upgraded no matter what, due to the increased mass) is replaced with a large one. It reaches the maximum operating altitude for the engines and slowly loses altitude, until it's light enough to maintain altitude.
Link those to Galileo ... job done!