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Today´s power is economic power, look at what is happening in Russia and ask, if Russia's aggression in Ukraine was justified. EU is a peaceful power, no plans on attacking anybody.

If it is about power, you should form an official pact with Russia, Russia alone vs. Europa and US is pretty uneven, if you compare GDP it is about 35 : 2. I would not call it a power struggle, I would call it "former superpower nostalgy" from Russian side.

Here is another thread "civil war in Ukraine", it is better to discuss there. NATO is not expanding: all former SU states are BEGGING to join it and get away from the Molok´s jaws of Russia. Regarding Helsinki Accor, it is signed by all European states and Russia is the follower of SU with all...

Well, Vicktor was sacked by his own parliament and party, that is surprisingly often forgotten here. I will not go further OT here. Just checked the ruble against EURO: 51.13 going down like rock...

Germany is perhaps the most active in favor for a strong EU and EURO. They have learned form two wars and know what is the way of the future. If any I try to point out to young readers, that you do not have to believe is somebody builds threat scenarios that somebody is trying to hurt your...

wow, rarely I have seen this kind of mail in this forum, @pmaitra, @happy & co, Dhairya could teach you a thing or two about "need for protective zone around Russia" and how that policy shows that Russia lags 100 years behind western Europe regarding security policies and strategic thinking...

Maybe they learned from the past and now just focus gaining wealth and prosperity with peaceful means. One could argue that Merkel has achieved all that Hitler wanted to achieve without firing a single shot. Germany is the powerhouse of Europe, Russia and UK are weaker than Germany. They rule...

I'm 44, went to military 1991 and watched from CNN how superior USAF bombed the hll out of Iraq. Thought that they are good.

The results of the 2004 exercise in which the IAF won 90% of the mock combat with 9:1 kill ratio, have gone largely unexplained and been misunderstood, according to those based with the 3rd Wing who participated. Two major factors stand out: None of the six 3rd Wing F-15Cs was equipped with the...

Looks interesting, If there is a Bollywood movie made, I would love to see it if there is not too much music and dance scenes. It looks like Finnish and Indian air forces has lot in common. Previously we also had planes from east and west. Now only Hornets. Damn, it stuck to my mind Indian...

Yeah, these current Germans are like a tamed version of those from the past....

Of course peace time training is one thing, situation in real conflict is another. Last war fin-rus, FiAF had a confirmed kill ratio 27:1. Even then the Russkies had better planes, for example Finnish Brewsters and Me-109's dropped Russian P-51´s and Hurricanes. Also their own planes were not...

Still they were dropping those NATO Eurofighters like flies... pretty good from the old ladies. Seriously, we have always had to manage without the newest equipment and try to use better training and tactics to compensate, qualitas potentia nostra

Lets start to lobby for a finno-indo military alliance, two non-aligned democracies could be showing the way forward in cross-continent military co-operation. I bet that could be a nice surprise for our Russian friends, who last year had military exercises which involved defending against...

Finnish Hornets had kill ratio of 16:1 in exercieses with NATO countries who were with their best equipment. Makes one wonder, what that kill ratio could be against Indian air force...LOL

This shows how important training and having the right stuff in the first place is. Who needs war if you have this kind of casualty rate at peacetime. FAF also used Mig-21 back in the eighties, maybe those simulators are still mothballed somewhere, they could be donated to India.

Why buy for many types of plane? Buy instead one good one which can do all, and do it for almost 40 years. FAF is already master of the nordic skies. With new JASSM system, they can do all roles needed. Lockheed Martin Receives JASSM® Contract For Additional Finnish Air Force F-18 Integration...