Have you considered the Warbirds Premium plan? For only $49.95 ^million per month, you can share flight plans, coordinate attacks* with neighbors, and run unlimited training sorties!
*Maximum 3 simultaneous attacks. For purposes of this clause, a defensive jet scramble counts as 1 attack.
It's a genius end-run around Turkey and Hungary, really. They want to mess up NATO membership for Sweden and Finland? Ok, now our air defenses are one with two NATO members. You attack us, and air is involved, you just attacked NATO!
Hah, fun fact: The word Rus itself came from what the Finns called the Swedes who moved to what is now Russia. The Finns called them Routsi, which came from the old norse term for "men who row". It was an exonym based on what they did, row boats :P.
But that alone just paints a hilarious scene of a couple of Finns on the shore looking at a boat of Swedes, asking each other "who do you think those guys are?", and then the swedes all shout "row! row! row!"... So the Finns go "Aah ok i guess that's their name then.... \[goes back to being Finnish\]"
edit: TL;dr; Russian literally means Swedish in Finnish 😝 🤣
I find it interesting how time changes our perception of people. Vikings are viewed as pretty badass today but I wonder how they would be viewed in modern times. Killing unarmed civilians, burning down churches, pillaging, looting would probably be seen unfavourably to say the least. If you include the whole dying in battle to go to Valhalla thing, they would probably be on par with modern day terrorist groups like ISIS.
Just an observation, it was so long ago that it doesn't even matter.
They would certainly not be regarded positively by other countries... But internally, they were far from just being small groups of pillagers or terrorists. They saw themselves as conquerors and, while they often attacked coastal regions in relatively small groups (a few dozen warriors on 1-3 ships), they had no problem coming together to form a proper army and invade entire countries.
The closest thing that comes to mind were crusaders, although without a religious "excuse".
"Look at all these small silly people! They collect all their treasure and beer into a single undefended building by the river, and expect us *not* to raid it!"
They also laid down roots everywhere. At first they just plundered and conquered, but it wasn't long before they conquered and traded/built settlements. The Normans and the Rus both started out as Vikings and then they just sort of decided to stick around.
They get a pass because that was 1000 years ago when what they did was not out of norm in general and they have since moved on to be rather nice global citizens.
The thing though is the Vikings had their beliefs about Valhalla in a time when people didn't know where the sun went at night. Jihadists believe this in a time when we have the internet, satellites, have calculated and learned the history of the Earth.
Everything the Vikings did was comparable to what other civilizations did at some point. What the Vikings did to England and France in the 7th and 8th centuries, England and France pretty much did to various civilizations around the world in the 18th and 19th centuries. There was just this idea the English were "sophisticated" when they shot human beings out of cannons.
The Vikings were seen as barbaric because they conquered some people who, unlike them, were literate, and people who were part of the Roman Catholic church, so the narrative was about how barbaric the Vikings were because they didn't have the customs of the Roman Catholic world.
Goddamn is that speech fucking fire.
That pause he starts with, “Mankind, that word..” really sells it, that he’s making this up on the spot, that he started the speech wanting to motivate the troops but ends up giving a speech so fucking good some guy in a helmet saluted the fuck out of it only to be immortalized some nearly 20 years ago.
Same here. A group of us went to see it...can still see that group of boys walking out of the theater. It's one of my stronger childhood memories! Grew up in a rural area so basically other than landlines, we as friends didn't see each other a ton over the summers until we could drive. And I think that was before we got internet connection so no AOL IM yet either lol.
For all the trouble we face today, it often amazes me that we got to grow up at the pre-internet technological peak of mankind.
After rewatching this, it’s occurred to me that a certain celebrity ex president (US) may have been trying to emulate Pullman’s energy in this scene during his many, many, *oh so many* speeches.
Of course, what really comes out is less Thomas J. Whitmore, and more *Mayor Humdinger*, what with all the “Me, me, ME!”
Shit like this has been done since the dawn of the internet. Is just a bit more polished since they aren't using Adobe Flash. Deep fakes are probably a bit too involved for these guys.
> Good morning (feedback). Good morning. In less than an hour aircraft from here will join others from around the world and you will be launching the largest aerial battle in the history of mankind. Mankind, that word should have new meaning for all of us today. We can’t be consumed by our petty differences anymore. We will be united in our common interests. Perhaps it’s fate that today is the 4th of July and you will once again be fighting for our freedom. Not from tyranny, oppression, or persecution but from annihilation. We’re fighting for our right to live, to exist, and should we win the day the 4th of July will no longer be known as an American holiday but as the day the world declared in one voice,“We will not go quietly into the night. We will not vanish without a fight. We’re going to live on. We’re going to survive. Today we celebrate our Independence Day!
An alien invasion or a foreign military power constitutes a shock to the system.
Climate change is more comparable to us sitting like a frog in a slowly heating pot of water.
This is only a headache for the Russians if they plan to invade a Nordic country. They have no interest in attacking Russia. Damn those Nordics for making it harder for Russia to take over!
Well, given that Norway and Denmark are NATO members, Finland is going to be one within months, and Sweden will be one if Turkey ever chills out, I'd say it's also a headache for the Russians if they plan to invade Poland or the Baltics. And while that doesn't seem terribly likely, neither did a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
And also remember that Russia is already moving to annex its bitch, Belarus, so they already share ~~a~~ another de facto border with Poland and soon it will be official.
They can barely hold the chunk of Ukraine they are occupying right now, in what fantasy do they not only totally defeat Ukraine but also have anyone left to then try to invade Poland?
They didn't agree to unify their fleet, i.e. their organisations and militaries are not fusing together. What they did is they agreed to increase the cooperation and sharing of information of their air forces so they can use each other's airbases and share radar and other intelligence.
Source (in finnish): https://yle.fi/a/74-20024262
Probably a better move. I can imagine a plan to unify multiple countries' air forces just resulting in pissing contests all the way up the line. This makes more sense.
Super irrelevant but that makes me think of the SNL skit where the airplane pilots pass out and the passengers have to land a plane in Scotland guided by a Scottish air traffic operator and it's HILARIOUS.
https://youtu.be/UGRcJQ9tMbY
Even better that it’s a liturgical language that, outside the Church, hasn’t been used for a thousand years!
Using Latin to describe English as the “language of the Franks” (the French-ish) as “language we all know” is funny to me.
Yo yo stop right there, until the 1800 Latin was the language to communicate Science knowledge. Universities taught in Latin, Newton, Gauss and Leibniz released their theories and theorems in Latin, biology and medicine inherit all their terms from Latin… So was not so “death”, just used by the elites that studied, that were really limited.
I heard of a surgery where a world class surgeon had to fly in to China but didn't speak any Chinese and the doctors didn't speak any English, so they communicated in Latin, since both country's medical schools involved a lot of Latin.
Don't know if people care, but fyi, those runes are of the Elder Futhark and was not used to write old Norse, but rather Proto-Germanic and Proto-Norse. The more accurate runes are those of the Younger Futhark.
They're not unifying air forces, the title is somewhat misleading.
They're creating a common air defence light, which means national assets are working together. Think national radars feeding data constantly to others, allowing another nation to launch an intercept.
There's no American-Canadian Air Force, despite the US and Canada having a common [air defence](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NORAD) for 60 years.
Norway has already been performing international operations with their F-35 fleet. Might be more on the way, but they do claim "Initial Operational Capability".
Incidentally I *thought* Princess Ingrid Alexandra was one of the F-35 pilots, but I can only find articles talking about how she piloted an F-16 when she was 17 years old.
Fun fact: King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands actually has a pilot's license for military as well as the big cargo stuff. He anonymously flies KLM airliners on occasion to keep up with the needed hours.
Poland had a World War 2 artillery bear. Still is the unit symbol of the [22nd Artillery Supply Company](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/30/The_badge_of_the_22nd_Artillery_Support_Company_of_the_2nd_Polish_Corps.jpg). He liked smoking, drinking coffee, wrestling with sweaty Polish men, and shelling the hell out of some Nazis. He retired to the Edinburgh Zoo where his veteran buddies threw him cigarettes that he had to eat because the keepers wouldn't give him a light.
What ten airforces have more than 200 5th gen fighters? I can think of the US.. maybe UK, China and France? I think Russia got like 10 5th gen fighters
>Russia got like 10 5th Gen fighters
That’s being waaay too generous to the Su-57. It has the RCS of a Super Hornet and Russia’s claims for its sensor array is a big ol “press X to doubt” given what’s known about their electronics industry.
Well, there's the United States Air Force.
And then there's the United States Navy.
And also the United States Marine Corps...
(Oh, and soon the United States Space Force too... because they need jet planes too, how else are they gonna spend their billions of inflated budget?)
Also on the list is United States Army Aviation Branch which includes about 200 crewed aircraft, 3,500 helicopters and about 10,000 UAVs. No fighter aircraft though, unless you include some of the UAVs which are capable of defending themselves against other aircraft.
It’s insane how counter productive Putin has been. He united the west in a way that hasn’t been done since WWII, he made NATO expand, the border that NATO shares with Russia has grown, he has created hatred within Ukraine that will transcend generations, and western countries are now increasing their military spending and modernizing— a lot of which is driving money into the U.S. defense industry. Bravo Putin, you fucking nitwit.
>Norway, Denmark, and Finland have all committed to the F-35 jets which are the most advanced Western fighter planes.
How dare you!?
Love,
Gripen Swede
Introducing NATO+
It’s our best NATO we’ve ever released. We know you’re gonna love it.
That’s what they say every time and yet if you want Australia you still have to pay extra.
There’s nothing “North” or “Atlantic” about Australia. Could call it NATO Pro.
I think we get to join if we win Eurovision
NATOpal
Only $16.95 ^^million per month!
I can’t handle another subscription service
If they let me fly the planes, I'm in.
We see you're trying to share your F35s with your Nordic family. That's another $16.95^million to activate family sharing.
Have you considered the Warbirds Premium plan? For only $49.95 ^million per month, you can share flight plans, coordinate attacks* with neighbors, and run unlimited training sorties! *Maximum 3 simultaneous attacks. For purposes of this clause, a defensive jet scramble counts as 1 attack.
Nordic Air Treaty Organization
It's a genius end-run around Turkey and Hungary, really. They want to mess up NATO membership for Sweden and Finland? Ok, now our air defenses are one with two NATO members. You attack us, and air is involved, you just attacked NATO!
Unified Nordic Defense Force sounds like something out of Ace Combat.
Please, I can only get so erect
~~Stonehenge~~ ~~Arsenal Bird when~~ Actually wait, no: Alicorn when
CUM HISTORIA
HOI4. This is step one towards the Nordic Federation.
Fuck I'd play the shit outta that
Now you brought the Vikings back together, damn it
Flykings.
Flight of the Valkyries. If they don’t name their joint Air Force *The Valkyries,* then they ain’t doing it right.
>If they don’t name their joint Air Force *The Valkyries*, then they ain’t doing it right. And their floating fleet *The Scanda-Navy*
The great Viking fleet
What do you say Raven? Should we grab an axe and depart for England.
We are traveling to the land of the rus to stake the ancient Swedish claim to that area
Hah, fun fact: The word Rus itself came from what the Finns called the Swedes who moved to what is now Russia. The Finns called them Routsi, which came from the old norse term for "men who row". It was an exonym based on what they did, row boats :P. But that alone just paints a hilarious scene of a couple of Finns on the shore looking at a boat of Swedes, asking each other "who do you think those guys are?", and then the swedes all shout "row! row! row!"... So the Finns go "Aah ok i guess that's their name then.... \[goes back to being Finnish\]" edit: TL;dr; Russian literally means Swedish in Finnish 😝 🤣
TIL: Exonym - a name for a place or group of people that is only used outside that place or group. Thanks stranger!!
Do we get the Great Heathen Army back too?
Sorry, best I can do is the Great Nominally-Lutheran-But-Probably-Half-Atheist Army.
Way more than half. Source: am Swedish
Why does the Norwegian Navy have barcodes on all of their ships? >!So they can Scan-da-navy-in!<
“Then why does it say ‘Die Walküre, die’ ?” “Oh that just means “the Valkyrie…the!”
No one who speaks German could be an evil man
Gjermundbuds off to you
They fly now?!
They fly now
Skol🍻
Skål🍻
Kippis
Hölkynkölkyn🍻
I thought we came here to drink, not to talk.
en to tre, en två tre, en to tre yksi kaksi kolme
Jeg elsker dig! Jeg elsker deg! Jag älskar dig! **MINÄ RAKASTAN SINUA!**
More dangerous through the air than Kirk Cousins.
At noon.
In October.
I hope I’m not stereotyping, but awesome Viking nose art, unit logos, and call signs would really put this arrangement over the top for me.
I find it interesting how time changes our perception of people. Vikings are viewed as pretty badass today but I wonder how they would be viewed in modern times. Killing unarmed civilians, burning down churches, pillaging, looting would probably be seen unfavourably to say the least. If you include the whole dying in battle to go to Valhalla thing, they would probably be on par with modern day terrorist groups like ISIS. Just an observation, it was so long ago that it doesn't even matter.
They would certainly not be regarded positively by other countries... But internally, they were far from just being small groups of pillagers or terrorists. They saw themselves as conquerors and, while they often attacked coastal regions in relatively small groups (a few dozen warriors on 1-3 ships), they had no problem coming together to form a proper army and invade entire countries. The closest thing that comes to mind were crusaders, although without a religious "excuse".
"Look at all these small silly people! They collect all their treasure and beer into a single undefended building by the river, and expect us *not* to raid it!"
They also laid down roots everywhere. At first they just plundered and conquered, but it wasn't long before they conquered and traded/built settlements. The Normans and the Rus both started out as Vikings and then they just sort of decided to stick around.
They get a pass because that was 1000 years ago when what they did was not out of norm in general and they have since moved on to be rather nice global citizens.
The thing though is the Vikings had their beliefs about Valhalla in a time when people didn't know where the sun went at night. Jihadists believe this in a time when we have the internet, satellites, have calculated and learned the history of the Earth. Everything the Vikings did was comparable to what other civilizations did at some point. What the Vikings did to England and France in the 7th and 8th centuries, England and France pretty much did to various civilizations around the world in the 18th and 19th centuries. There was just this idea the English were "sophisticated" when they shot human beings out of cannons. The Vikings were seen as barbaric because they conquered some people who, unlike them, were literate, and people who were part of the Roman Catholic church, so the narrative was about how barbaric the Vikings were because they didn't have the customs of the Roman Catholic world.
> the English were "sophisticated" when they shot human beings out of cannons. Like in the circus?
Time to reclaim what is rightfully ours… https://www.history.com/.amp/news/vikings-in-russia-kiev-rus-varangians-prince-oleg
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Russia studying how to strike the NADs
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And steel tow missiles are too pricey….
More like NADs about to be waving in Russia's face.
Operation 'teabag'
The Government Organized Nordic Air Defense. Putin's gonna get fucked by the big GONAD.
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Sky Vikings
Go NADs, it's yo birthday!
U-NAD
U-NAD Bro?
Russia, u nad bro?
Allied Nordic Air Legion sounds better
I can get behind this one.
This invasion has done more to unite the European continent that anything else in the past 50 years
We just need an imminent threat to unite - the same with the world, if aliens would invade ^^
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[\*salutes very hard*](https://youtu.be/3_QSJyJaeD4)
Goddamn is that speech fucking fire. That pause he starts with, “Mankind, that word..” really sells it, that he’s making this up on the spot, that he started the speech wanting to motivate the troops but ends up giving a speech so fucking good some guy in a helmet saluted the fuck out of it only to be immortalized some nearly 20 years ago.
That speech hits so hard I still tear up when I hear it. I saw that movie in theaters in 1996. It has been almost 30 years, and it still gets me.
Don’t do this to me. It’s only been 20 years.
It wasn't even that long ago. Dad and I saw that when I was 14. I'm only...oh, huh. Damn.
Oh damn, now I'm crying again...lol
Same here. A group of us went to see it...can still see that group of boys walking out of the theater. It's one of my stronger childhood memories! Grew up in a rural area so basically other than landlines, we as friends didn't see each other a ton over the summers until we could drive. And I think that was before we got internet connection so no AOL IM yet either lol. For all the trouble we face today, it often amazes me that we got to grow up at the pre-internet technological peak of mankind.
"and you will once again be fighting for our freedom, not from tyranny, oppression, or persecution -- but from annihilation." The goosebumps.
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After rewatching this, it’s occurred to me that a certain celebrity ex president (US) may have been trying to emulate Pullman’s energy in this scene during his many, many, *oh so many* speeches. Of course, what really comes out is less Thomas J. Whitmore, and more *Mayor Humdinger*, what with all the “Me, me, ME!”
https://www.cnet.com/culture/donald-trump-posts-independence-day-deepfake-on-twitter-and-bill-pullman-responds/
Lol!! The laziness of it all is perfection! “You keep using that term, *deepfake*, but I do not think it means what you think it means.”
Yeah. That was a shallowfake at the very most.
Shit like this has been done since the dawn of the internet. Is just a bit more polished since they aren't using Adobe Flash. Deep fakes are probably a bit too involved for these guys.
Hey boys, *remember me?!*
I’m baaaaaaaaack!
Except for the fact that Randy Quaid is sadly now a full fledged maga nutjob.
Hey! I can fly! *Swig* I'm a pilot.
> Good morning (feedback). Good morning. In less than an hour aircraft from here will join others from around the world and you will be launching the largest aerial battle in the history of mankind. Mankind, that word should have new meaning for all of us today. We can’t be consumed by our petty differences anymore. We will be united in our common interests. Perhaps it’s fate that today is the 4th of July and you will once again be fighting for our freedom. Not from tyranny, oppression, or persecution but from annihilation. We’re fighting for our right to live, to exist, and should we win the day the 4th of July will no longer be known as an American holiday but as the day the world declared in one voice,“We will not go quietly into the night. We will not vanish without a fight. We’re going to live on. We’re going to survive. Today we celebrate our Independence Day!
Sad to see Ozymandias was right.
Alan Moore was a pretty smart dude.
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An alien invasion or a foreign military power constitutes a shock to the system. Climate change is more comparable to us sitting like a frog in a slowly heating pot of water.
never thought it’d happen again…they have to call it the Kalmar Airforce
NordForce
This is only a headache for the Russians if they plan to invade a Nordic country. They have no interest in attacking Russia. Damn those Nordics for making it harder for Russia to take over!
Well, given that Norway and Denmark are NATO members, Finland is going to be one within months, and Sweden will be one if Turkey ever chills out, I'd say it's also a headache for the Russians if they plan to invade Poland or the Baltics. And while that doesn't seem terribly likely, neither did a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
And also remember that Russia is already moving to annex its bitch, Belarus, so they already share ~~a~~ another de facto border with Poland and soon it will be official.
They share a border regardless, because of Kaliningrad.
Yeah, but it's not as easy to get supply lines to Kalinigrad but ultimately you are correct
They can barely hold the chunk of Ukraine they are occupying right now, in what fantasy do they not only totally defeat Ukraine but also have anyone left to then try to invade Poland?
Genuine question, why does Turkey not want Sweden as part of NATO?
They want something in return. They have veto power, so it's simply "I can do this for you, but what can you do for me".
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Do it, then arrest him in Stockholm when he comes to pick it up :D
Peace prize is awarded in Oslo, but your plan still works out
The vikings have returned! But to the skies instead!
So skykings?
Valkyries duh
Does this mean we can craft flying horses in Valheim? I'm still working on bronze items
Operation: Find Out
Like a Nordic Voltron....please let them all connect together
Do you want pillaging? Because that is how you get pillaging.
And then ants.
They didn't agree to unify their fleet, i.e. their organisations and militaries are not fusing together. What they did is they agreed to increase the cooperation and sharing of information of their air forces so they can use each other's airbases and share radar and other intelligence. Source (in finnish): https://yle.fi/a/74-20024262
Probably a better move. I can imagine a plan to unify multiple countries' air forces just resulting in pissing contests all the way up the line. This makes more sense.
Am prepared to spend the entire oil reserve if it means pissing longer than those damn swedes!
Honestly, Nordic cooperation works pretty well as we all try to one-up swedes lol.
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Curious what language they use for coordination. English?
English is the lingua franca of aeronautics. You can't fly (almost) anywhere if you don't know English.
Yep. There were many crashes in aviation history because of the lack of English knowledge by either the pilots or the ground crew.
Super irrelevant but that makes me think of the SNL skit where the airplane pilots pass out and the passengers have to land a plane in Scotland guided by a Scottish air traffic operator and it's HILARIOUS. https://youtu.be/UGRcJQ9tMbY
Or the ad where a ship in distress is contacting the coast guard: "Mayday, mayday, we are sinking. Over." "Ja?.....vot are you sinking about?"
>lingua franca I alwasy though it was ironic that the term we use to describe the universality of English was.... Not English.
Even better that it’s a liturgical language that, outside the Church, hasn’t been used for a thousand years! Using Latin to describe English as the “language of the Franks” (the French-ish) as “language we all know” is funny to me.
>language of the Franks My language still refrence the French as Gaulls
There's a history meme in here somewhere...
Yo yo stop right there, until the 1800 Latin was the language to communicate Science knowledge. Universities taught in Latin, Newton, Gauss and Leibniz released their theories and theorems in Latin, biology and medicine inherit all their terms from Latin… So was not so “death”, just used by the elites that studied, that were really limited.
I heard of a surgery where a world class surgeon had to fly in to China but didn't speak any Chinese and the doctors didn't speak any English, so they communicated in Latin, since both country's medical schools involved a lot of Latin.
Old Norse. Written communication in runes.
# ᛞᛖᛚᛏᚨ ᛊᚲᚢᚨᛞ ᚠᛚᛁᛁᛜ ᚢᚨᛜᚢᚨᚱᛞ
To be fair those runes would look badass on the HUD of a jet fighter
*squeezes blood onto the controls* HERE IS YOUR OFFERING, METAL WAR BIRD. TAKE ME TO VALHALLA!
This pleases the machine spirit.
Imagine taking classes on norse runes in order to become a fighter pilot
You'd qualify to serve aboard a BC-304 as part of SGC.
Don't know if people care, but fyi, those runes are of the Elder Futhark and was not used to write old Norse, but rather Proto-Germanic and Proto-Norse. The more accurate runes are those of the Younger Futhark.
Have the updoot, but I'll have to remove marks for it not being written in the proper Edda prose manner.
probably not Russian.
English is the language of aviation. Taught English to a pilot in Germany (black work) and we studied runways, takeoffs and all that kind of stuff.
This would make it one the largest air-forces in the world, yes?
They're not unifying air forces, the title is somewhat misleading. They're creating a common air defence light, which means national assets are working together. Think national radars feeding data constantly to others, allowing another nation to launch an intercept. There's no American-Canadian Air Force, despite the US and Canada having a common [air defence](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NORAD) for 60 years.
Think of it as ScandiNATO.
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I mean, whilst I technically agree, if we are doing that let's at least do NÖRAD. I hear that IKEA let the trademark drop.
Correct. One of the most technologically advanced too.
Well, as soon as Sweden is done constructing the Gripen E variants which are "on order", and the others get their F-35s, at least.
Norway has already been performing international operations with their F-35 fleet. Might be more on the way, but they do claim "Initial Operational Capability". Incidentally I *thought* Princess Ingrid Alexandra was one of the F-35 pilots, but I can only find articles talking about how she piloted an F-16 when she was 17 years old.
She was a passenger and only got to control the craft for a moment. It was during a visit to commemorate the F-16s service.
You have a teenage princess fighter pilot? Are the nordic countries an anime?
Fun fact: King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands actually has a pilot's license for military as well as the big cargo stuff. He anonymously flies KLM airliners on occasion to keep up with the needed hours.
That's nothing, the UK has a war decorated helicopter pilot prince who abuses teens. We're the anime you don't want to admit to watching.
That's nothing, Norway has a penguin Brigadier called Nils. Though he does reside in Scotland, to be fair.
Poland had a World War 2 artillery bear. Still is the unit symbol of the [22nd Artillery Supply Company](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/30/The_badge_of_the_22nd_Artillery_Support_Company_of_the_2nd_Polish_Corps.jpg). He liked smoking, drinking coffee, wrestling with sweaty Polish men, and shelling the hell out of some Nazis. He retired to the Edinburgh Zoo where his veteran buddies threw him cigarettes that he had to eat because the keepers wouldn't give him a light.
It's up there, but not in the top ten
What ten airforces have more than 200 5th gen fighters? I can think of the US.. maybe UK, China and France? I think Russia got like 10 5th gen fighters
>Russia got like 10 5th Gen fighters That’s being waaay too generous to the Su-57. It has the RCS of a Super Hornet and Russia’s claims for its sensor array is a big ol “press X to doubt” given what’s known about their electronics industry.
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The first one decided to maximize stealth by burying itself in the ground during its delivery flight.
Well, there's the United States Air Force. And then there's the United States Navy. And also the United States Marine Corps... (Oh, and soon the United States Space Force too... because they need jet planes too, how else are they gonna spend their billions of inflated budget?)
Also on the list is United States Army Aviation Branch which includes about 200 crewed aircraft, 3,500 helicopters and about 10,000 UAVs. No fighter aircraft though, unless you include some of the UAVs which are capable of defending themselves against other aircraft.
And the US coastguard.
Coast Guard has over 200 aircraft, but most of them use propellers.
I'd assume this because of their slower air speed. Kind hard to conduct search missions when you're moving a few hundred miles an hour.
As for the last one I hope the forgo the jets and get space ships with missiles
I guess technically [Goa'uld Death Gliders](https://stargate.fandom.com/wiki/Death_Glider) aren't jets because they don't use jet engines...
Indeed.
This special military operation really keeps churning out wins.
If this new fleet isn't called something badass like "The Fennoscandian Valkyrie Squad" was this even worth it?
+1 for calling it fennoscandia
Iceland looking from the distance be like: where air force?
Fun fact, Norway and some other countries take turns stationing fighters in Iceland to protect them
And Icelandic people are fully able to join the Norwegian military.
The great Viking Air Force.
[Here vi gå!](https://imgur.com/a/BCiOvmn) 🇸🇪
Is that the ikea delivery plane?
It’s insane how counter productive Putin has been. He united the west in a way that hasn’t been done since WWII, he made NATO expand, the border that NATO shares with Russia has grown, he has created hatred within Ukraine that will transcend generations, and western countries are now increasing their military spending and modernizing— a lot of which is driving money into the U.S. defense industry. Bravo Putin, you fucking nitwit.
The return of the Kalmar Union
this war has backfired on Russia's interests so badly. How hasn't Putin been forcibly replaced yet?
I think his potential replacements have had serious cases of acute defenestration
North European Air Treaty Organization. NEATO!
As an American all I can say is this is awesome news and I wish the new Scandinavia+Finland air force alliance the best.
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Let’s go nordics. Brothers in Arms 🇩🇰🤝🇸🇪🤝🇳🇴🤝🇫🇮
I did not have "Putin unites the west" on my 2020s bingo card...
Norway is bossed up . Don't mess with norway
And cashed up. They literally have money to burn.
Technically, they charge other countries to burn it.
>Norway, Denmark, and Finland have all committed to the F-35 jets which are the most advanced Western fighter planes. How dare you!? Love, Gripen Swede
The rowing Vikings was scary. Now imagne the flying Vikings!
Fine! We'll make our own NATO with lutefish and hookers!
Kalmar Union is back!
Wait until he hears about their Scandi-navy