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  1. You invaded another country and you keep turning it into a pile of rubble. You are fully responsible for all what is happening. Don't even try to portay Russia as a victim. Noone was attacking Russia and noone is attacking it even now even though it fully deserves that and the only things which prevents that is nukes.
  2. I didn't claim none were destroyed. I just refused the "majority of 110 was destroyed" showing three as a proof.
  3. No, they don't. I'm pretty sure if most of 110 is destroyed, i.e. at least 56, more than 3 would be confirmed also from Russian side. That's one of the three known. It's pretty clear that Russia don't miss a chance to show every single western piece of equipment they manage to get their hand on, yet there is nearly none. Sir, you need glasses. That's not Dana. That thing doesn't even resemble Dana proportions (which is way longer, has turret placed in the middle, has small split windows etc.). Most likely it's an excavator on Kamaz chassis or another truck. Yes, there is a lot of propaganda, especially that bullshit about nazi everywhere, especially in the flattened blocks of flats, malls and theaters destroyed by Russians or people who somehow murdered or raped themselves. It's just sick. Period.
  4. An interesting thing is the lack of evidence of any distinctive western-supplied weapons being destroyed by the Russians. AFAIK there are only about 3 confirmed destroyed M777 howitzers out of 110 or so, one M109A3 damaged/destroyed and one Bushmaster MRAP destroyed. No Krab, no Caesar, no PzH 2000, no Dana, no RM-70 (plus Vampire), no FH-77, no M113 and no HIMARS, , nothing destroyed or captured on any photos/videos. Some of these are confirmed to be used in combat, others are most likely kept in newly created brigades, i.e. not yet used in combat. From heavy weapons supplied by us we know only about one or two confirmed losses of "our" T-72M1 (the second one is ex-Bulgarian but it was possibly supplied from Czechia) and one Pbv-501 destroyed in Kherson area. These were delivered already in April and have been there for three months (just like Dana and RM-70). Also our Mi-24V have been in Ukraine for two months but even a first photo of them appeared only last week. It's quite likely that something more was destroyed but definitely not in any large numbers because those would result in some footage.
  5. Czech IFV acquisition update. As I wrote last time the MOD sent a letter to all bidders asking them whether they are willing to accept new conditions of the tender. Now we know the result. One answered yes, two answered no. As a result the tender is canceled and the IFVs will be bought in direct government-government deal. Now a bit of details. Rheinmetall refused the new conditions but also refused to comment. GDELS refused the new conditions saying that the issue for them is a requierement to produce the vehicles in VOP company (state controlled service company). They are afraid that the company is not able to run such complex project (and they are likely correct). They want to work with CSG instead (CSG is for sure capable enough). However GDELS agreed to keep the original program price tag. BAE agreed (including the price) and added an offer to create a so called battle laboratory in Czechia which would work on development of future combat vehicles based on the actual combat experience of all CV90 users. Now a bit of other things which meanwhile surfaced. According to the audit of the new MOD one bidder's offer exceeded the price tag and didn't include all required documentation. Most likely it's the case of Rheinmetall (considering GDELS and BAE keep publicly claiming to keep the original price). The previous MOD instead of kicking this bidder out called all the offers inadequate and basically threw the hot potato on the new government. If we go back in history (you can find it in my posts) some two years ago or so the vice-prime minister (and minister of industry and trade) tried to change the tender conditions. Few weeks later a letter from Rheinmetall to the prime minister was leaked to the media and it included the very same changes proposed by the vice-minister before. It seems to me (now it's just my personal understanding) that the prime minister (and possibly also the president) pushed the MOD to somehow keep Rheinmetall in the competition but we also know that the military unofficially selected CV90 as the one they want. The result is the mess we are in now.
  6. Rapid fire from inside PzH 2000 in Ukraine. That's around 8 rounds per minute in basically one-man action.
  7. Tom Cruise and James Corden having fun flying some planes (P-51, L-39)
  8. The Swedes try hard to change the course. Today they offered to hand over all the CzAF Gripens for free when the leasing contract ends under a condition that we modernize them and buy a second squadron of the new E/F. I think that it's sort of clutching at straws from them but on the other hand in the current difficult economic situation it may be hard for the military and MOD to push the much more expensive F-35 variant through the parlament. We'll see soon.
  9. Details of the Slovak IFV acquisition. 152 CV90 Mk.IV ordered in first phase, 71 to follow in the second phase. First phase consists of 131 IFV (with 35 mm cannon), 15 command IFV, 4 training vehicles, 3 ARV and 3 service vehicles. Second phase consists of 6 IFV, 10 ARV, 9 service vehicles, 9 mine clearing vehicles, 9 mine layer vehicles, 9 AEV, 20 self-propelled mortars. https://www.armadninoviny.cz/bojova-vozidla-cv90-mkiv-pro-slovenskou-armadu.html
  10. Yes, the first batch which is going to be donated by the German government is from Rheinmetall stocks. They are in fact ex-Swiss Pz 87 (possibly with those curious silencers still installed). Also the ammo and spare parts shall come from Rheinmetall. For the rest of the tanks it was first said these wpuld be 2A7+ and that even the initial batch would be rebuilt into A7+ (which means only turret skelet would be kept of the original Pz 87). Now the MOD released some ambiguous words which seem to make an impression that the decision was not yet made but I think that's just a smoke screen.
  11. Ukrainean heavy MLRS Bureviy (modification of Uragan on armoured Tatra chassis) in combat.
  12. To replace them before the lease contract ends. They were leased from Sweden in 2005 (the airframes were newly built and have in average around 2500 hours now I think)) as a temporary solution due to the lack of money after countrywide devastating floods but as usually the temporary solution became permanent. The planes themselves are good and everybody is happy with their service record but the current leasing contract ends in 2025 (or 2027 as a 2 years long prolongation is possible per the contract) hence why it's necessary to order the replacement as soon as possible to get the new planes in time (everybody is ordering now).
  13. Not yet official but it seems to be almost sure now that Czechia is going to buy 24 F-35A as a replacement for our 12+2 JAS-39C/D. The contract is expected to be signed this summer.
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