Thursday, October 17, 2024

Deadly Hand Me Downs

Australia is engaged in modernizing their military in the face of regional Chinese saber rattling, which includes upgrading their military's armor with M1A2 Abrams tanks. As a result, they're shipping 49 of their older M1A1 Abrams to Ukraine to bolster the latter's armored forces.

Also, it looks like an F-16 might have splashed an Su-34 Fullback with a long-range AMRAAM shot. If true, that's probably an ex-Danish F-16A, a Disco Era cold warrior still out there doing work. The Su-34 had only been in real serious series production for half a decade or so and some OSINT types are claiming that Russia has less than a hundred left.

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