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After Germany, France also reiterates it will not be sending western arms to Ukraine


French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian

French Minister of Defence Jean-Yves Le Drian told journalists at a press conference on Wednesday.

“France does not intend to provide lethal weapons to Ukraine now. We believe it is necessary to find a political solution to the crisis, " the minister said at a joint press conference with his Canadian counterpart Rob Nicholson.

According to him, the position of Russia who is providing military support to separatists in eastern Ukraine is unacceptable to us.

"We firmly declare it and prolong sanctions because of that fact", Le Drian said, adding that "at the same time, it is necessary to put a stop to the conflict that continues to escalate."

As a reminder, the official position of Germany remains steadfast: military means will not resolve the conflict in eastern Ukraine. This was said by Chancellor Angela Merkel in Budapest, Hungary on Monday and repeated the following day in Berlin: Germany will not back Ukraine with weapon supplies. German defence minister Ursula van der Leyen has branded this kind of aid as 'irresponsible' and likens it as 'pouring petrol over a fire'.

Probably we might get block 3 with less features like the stealth weapons pod and so on.
I think we might opt for cft though.
Anyway the questions is do we have the $$$.

rafale 10% more expensive, Firefighter at lease 20% more espensive than F18.

but also cost for maintanance/parts/traning,  also missile/bomb cost need to add.

U.S. Army to establish permanent armoured force in Eastern Europe by end of year



The head of the U.S. Army in Europe has elaborated on plans to keep armoured equipment on NATO's eastern border as a warning to Russia that forces will be ready to respond to further military aggression.

Lieutenant General Ben Hodges told Defence IQ that “It’s irrefutable right now that Russia is providing a significant amount of aid to its proxies. In fact the amount of armoured vehicles, heavy artillery and rocket launchers that the rebels are using has doubled since the Minsk agreement back in September.”

Hodges cited incursions towards Mariupol as particularly problematic given the likelihood of Russia attempting to create a “land bridge” into Crimea.

U.S. Army Europe says it is benefiting from the foresight of establishing U.S. Army rotations into Europe years before the initiation of Operation Atlantic Resolve. Under a revised strategy, commanders have decided to retain a significant volume of US equipment within the area while tensions remain high.

“What the Army has decided to do,” said Hodges, “is to leave the equipment of an entire armoured brigade combat team – about 220 M1 tanks, M2 Bradleys, a battalion of artillery, armoured engineer vehicles, and so on - [which] will all be on the ground by the end of calendar year 2015.”

While there have been plans to keep the equipment stationed in Germany, Hodges stated that they are now looking at sites in “the Baltic, in Poland, Romania and Bulgaria”. The aim is to ensure a long-term deterrent and assurance land capability alongside a (current) response force of 4,000-5,000 troops.

“If that fits EUCOM’s strategic design, if those nations want it, and if the US ambassadors in each country want it, then I think you’ll see those things being established in 2016, so that you’ve got a forward-stationed armoured brigade combat team of equipment that rotational forces can fall in on.”

Hodges was speaking at the International Armoured Vehicles conference in London, UK. He is presently spearheading the ‘Strong Europe’ framework, which looks to support NATO and US EUCOM capabilities and exercises in the region.

For more information on Defence IQ’s Armoured Vehicles events and to find a forum in your region, visit www.armouredvehiclesevents.com. The next meeting will be Armoured Vehicles Asia, taking place in Jakarta, Indonesia, from April 28.

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Please clarify of this source code thing, cuz the general knowledge of this thing "cannot shoot without uncle sam's approval" is pure bs

hopefully 8 unit F18EF only....

8 unit F18EF that is for pay "US protection" ....    addition to 8 unit F18D squadron
than get other 18-24 unit  EF/Rafale/Su30 for Mig29 replace 

Why not we buy their pt-91m design and ask deftech to build it?? Pt-91m may not be that badass of a tank but its still quite useful in the jungles and could be our stepping stone for an armour industry
Could be cheap since the poles dont want it anyway

We are Soviet!!

why does the missile dip down abit prior to hitting the target?

Their warship is to defend their waters. Their submarine force is the main attacking.. no wonder they have more sub than their own surface vessels.

But the last mistral ship was intended to expend their blue water capability. Western report was saying the mistral was actually intended to be used on ukraine amphibious  landing to the capital and covering the crimea region. But some how the conflict goes faster than expected and the ship was not ready. Now another issues is that the mistral is on hold from russia by france

Well it just western report.. always the grand idea but logically what better place to test your newly ldp than the ukraine coast line, right?

It will be our flagship of our navy..The face of our navy in future, the pride of our navy

surely it will be escorted by our frigate and covertte

but the size should be smaller than the full size mistral to fit our requirements.