Ukraine had been clamoring for advanced battle tanks since last year, but the U.S. and other NATO countries delayed for months while debating whether providing them would provoke a Russian escalation.
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The Army Increasingly Allows Soldiers Charged with Violent Crimes to Leave the Military Rather Than Face Trial
Stealth Fighters Against China: Why F-22s and F-35s Are Replacing F-15s at America’s Top Airbase Near Taiwan
The United States is continuing to deploy new F-35 fifth generation fighters to Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, where they are replacing ageing F-15C/D Eagle aircraft from the previous generation which were kept on permeant deployment there for over four decades. The F-35As are being deployed from the 355th Fighter […]
How Russia Will Respond to NATO’s Expansion Into Finland: A Focus on Asymmetric Assets
Since months before Finland’s formal accession to the NATO alliance on April 4, which effectively overnight doubled the alliance’s borders with Russia at a time of peak tensions due to war in Ukraine, possible Russian responses to the major expansion of NATO forces adjacent to its territory have been widely […]
Finland is Getting Israel’s David’s Sling Air Defence System – But Russian Intel. Likely Compromised it Years Ago
The formalisation of Finland’s accession to the NATO alliance on April 4 was within 72 hours followed by the announcement that the country had made a request to the Israeli Defence Ministry to provide the David’s Sling missile system, under a contract estimated at 316 million Euros. The David’s Sling […]
David’s Sling Missile Systems and F-35 Stealth Fighters: An Ideal Pairing to Guard Finland’s Long Russian Border
On April 7 the Israeli Defence Ministry confirmed that it had received a request to acquire the David’s Sling missile system, which is widely considered the world’s most capable long range multirole air defence platform that is NATO compatible and is expected to revolutionise the country’s aerial warfare capabilities on […]

