The European Commission president says increasing defense spending is necessary in "an era of rearmament." A European summit on defense and Ukraine is planned this week amid tense transatlantic relations.
To my understanding, EU countries aren’t in a shortage of aircraft - their air power is enough to match Russia. However, they are in a shortage of bombs to drop and missiles to fire.
They’re also in a shortage of artillery and rocket artillery and air defense.
As for the industry that can be scaled up fastest (drones), everyone is in a shortage of them. Fortunately there is one country in Europe that’s been doing absolutely everything to scale up their production. So much that it currently out-produces the US, and maybe out-produces both the US and the EU. I’m fairly certain that this country is willing to help on the matter. It’s called Ukraine.
Are we still enough equipped, when we throw out all the American jets, the USA can just disable remotely (or at least don’t give us the codes to start - actually I’m not entirely sure, what the reality here is, but it seems the USA has some say in the usage of our fighter jets, when they are bought from the USA)?
I’d really like to find some comfort in your words, but all the shit I read doesn’t look pretty for us in Europe
I have not yet heard of a single case report of US-sourced military jet becoming remotely disabled.
When a country buys military aircraft, they demand extensive knowledge of the system they are buying, and demand ability to independently perform maintenance.
The will review all its wireless reception and transmission capabilities, possibly on their own. There may still be a possibility for a logic bomb somewhere, but a logic bomb in flight softtware would ordinarily mean two things:
the industrial company involved pays obscene compensations
nobody will purchase aircraft from the country involved
To my understanding, EU countries aren’t in a shortage of aircraft - their air power is enough to match Russia. However, they are in a shortage of bombs to drop and missiles to fire.
They’re also in a shortage of artillery and rocket artillery and air defense.
As for the industry that can be scaled up fastest (drones), everyone is in a shortage of them. Fortunately there is one country in Europe that’s been doing absolutely everything to scale up their production. So much that it currently out-produces the US, and maybe out-produces both the US and the EU. I’m fairly certain that this country is willing to help on the matter. It’s called Ukraine.
Are we still enough equipped, when we throw out all the American jets, the USA can just disable remotely (or at least don’t give us the codes to start - actually I’m not entirely sure, what the reality here is, but it seems the USA has some say in the usage of our fighter jets, when they are bought from the USA)?
I’d really like to find some comfort in your words, but all the shit I read doesn’t look pretty for us in Europe
I have not yet heard of a single case report of US-sourced military jet becoming remotely disabled.
When a country buys military aircraft, they demand extensive knowledge of the system they are buying, and demand ability to independently perform maintenance.
The will review all its wireless reception and transmission capabilities, possibly on their own. There may still be a possibility for a logic bomb somewhere, but a logic bomb in flight softtware would ordinarily mean two things:
These are pretty big disincentives.