Corporal Frisk

Robin Häggblom, senior advisor & project manager @Riskstaff, personal account. 'Friendliest military blogger in the Nordics' according to @PeterOlsson 😎

[Corporal Frisk @CorporalFrisk]

Because Ukraine was never beyond possibility.
Because a trained reserve and a high will to defend the country remain foundations of Finland’s defence.
Because, as Hillel said, "If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am only for myself, what am I? If not now, when?"

[ICEYE @iceye_global]

On a night in October, a truck-mounted jammer sits at a site in Kaliningrad, its antenna boom raised toward the Baltic.

ICEYE’s SAR satellites saw it anyway: radar needs no daylight.

Kaliningrad has become one of Europe’s most active sources of electronic interference. Jamming from the exclave degrades GPS and communications across the Baltic Sea.

A single image shows a jammer in place. Persistent monitoring shows when it is ready to transmit: a raised antenna is a strong indicator of activity, and tracking that over time reveals when systems go operational and how that lines up with reported interference.

To find out more, download the Baltic Sea Overwatch report: https://t.co/D8Dkc273Cq

[Corporal Frisk @CorporalFrisk]

There's by the way an interesting tangent in here regarding why France in effect has abandoned AIP development in favour of traditional batteries and diesels for any non-nuclear submarines being built by them.

[Corporal Frisk @CorporalFrisk]

#Nuclear #submarines are expensive, so why do France invest in them? I continue my reports from visiting the Duguay-Trouin to take a look at the costs, capabilities, and missions of the French #Suffren-class #SSN. https://t.co/OucjSTnHCN

[Corporal Frisk @CorporalFrisk]

@pansarfem Har alltid själv tyckt att en viktig del i allt resande är att vara öppen och nyfiken på att testa lokala gastronomiska upplevelser 😁

[Corporal Frisk @CorporalFrisk]

I also spend some time discussing the conventionally powered version - the #BlackswordBarracuda - being bought by the Netherlands and on offer for Greece and Egypt (as a #RomeoClass replacement!), the design philosophy behind it and how it differs from the SSN-version.

[Corporal Frisk @CorporalFrisk]

My visit aboard the #Suffren-class boat Duguay-Trouin continues, discussing life aboard a modern nuclear submarine, why the French are at sea (and the #RoyalNavy isn't), and could #AUKUS make another U-turn? https://t.co/wBfyV56GtW

[Corporal Frisk @CorporalFrisk]

@SMerloev ...och 56 % röstade på partier som inte vill se vänsterpolitik, men jag ser inte att S och V fogat sig till folkviljan i det demokratiska valet och kommit ur sin bubbla ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Corporal Frisk @CorporalFrisk]

My visit aboard the #Suffren-class boat Duguay-Trouin continues, discussing life aboard a modern nuclear submarine, why the French are at sea (and the #RoyalNavy isn't), and could #AUKUS make another U-turn? https://t.co/wBfyV56GtW

[Corporal Frisk @CorporalFrisk]

@artyrizz Thanks!

The reason I got that impression was that when discussing the weapons load capacity Navy officers said twenty, while NG’s people said 24.

It might be it’s a case of things getting lost in translation, and capacity referred to by the Navy was strictly the torpedo room.

[Corporal Frisk @CorporalFrisk]

#Nuclear #submarines are expensive, so why do France invest in them? I continue my reports from visiting the Duguay-Trouin to take a look at the costs, capabilities, and missions of the French #Suffren-class #SSN. https://t.co/OucjSTnHCN

[Michael Kofman @KofmanMichael]

I think 620k is the likelier number.

[Corporal Frisk @CorporalFrisk]

@delalurx Duguay-Trouin is an SSN, not an SSBN…

[Corporal Frisk @CorporalFrisk]

@pmakela1 Our economy might be trash, but I am sure we will be faster than the Swedes in getting a government place 😁

[Corporal Frisk @CorporalFrisk]

Som finländare är det väl här vi lyfter Sveaborg?

[Viktor Barth-Kron @viktorbk]

Magdalena Andersson höjer insatserna. Igår vore ett sidbyte från C det största sveket i *modern* politisk historia, idag säger hon det största sveket *någonsin*.

[Corporal Frisk @CorporalFrisk]

@PeterOlsson Jag har bara goda minnen från mina ~24 timmar i Motala, men det känns ju nog som att Fransmännen vann just den jämförelsen 😎

[Corporal Frisk @CorporalFrisk]

Fourth: We get into the fun stuff, asking what the submarine actually does. https://t.co/bgcttfKIJn

[Corporal Frisk @CorporalFrisk]

#Nuclear #submarines are expensive, so why do France invest in them? I continue my reports from visiting the Duguay-Trouin to take a look at the costs, capabilities, and missions of the French #Suffren-class #SSN. https://t.co/OucjSTnHCN

[Corporal Frisk @CorporalFrisk]

As Euronaval has kicked off for real, it might be time to set up a thread where my posts from the Euronaval media trip will show up when they are published. Two out now, a three-part on nuclear submarines next week, and then a few more topics coming further down the line.

[Corporal Frisk @CorporalFrisk]

Third: Kicking off my reports from getting to visit an SSN. https://t.co/ZmAfoPW2p9

[Corporal Frisk @CorporalFrisk]

I was offered the unexpected opportunity to tour the French nuclear attack #submarine Duguay-Trouin, part of the new #Suffren-class. Here comes part 1 of 3, looking at the most modern #SSN in service today. https://t.co/KZh4IhySfS

[Corporal Frisk @CorporalFrisk]

I was offered the unexpected opportunity to tour the French nuclear attack #submarine Duguay-Trouin, part of the new #Suffren-class. Here comes part 1 of 3, looking at the most modern #SSN in service today. https://t.co/KZh4IhySfS

[Christoph Schlegel @FoxTwo2022]

Reposting this as we now have confirmation from @Saab - there will be ~4x as much 🇸🇪 (Saab) content by value on a German F128 than on a Swedish FDI frigate: SEK 8.7b for 4 🇩🇪 F128 vs. SEK 2b for 4 🇸🇪 FDI.

Saab press releases:

https://t.co/q6y7k9A5mA

https://t.co/tJed7S2jMm

[Armée de l'Air et de l'Espace @Armee_de_lair]

Ravitaillement en vol, soutien aux opérations aériennes, convoyage de chasseurs… En octobre, l’A330 MRTT Phénix a enchaîné les missions auprès de plusieurs partenaires européens.

Pour en savoir plus ! 👇

https://t.co/AqIYCOOrNh

[Corporal Frisk @CorporalFrisk]

As we today celebrate the Swedish language in Finland and associated minority culture, my local hospital decided to post how two colleagues discuss trading shift in the local Swedish dialect Grundsprååtji.

Yes, people really do talk like that here 😎 https://t.co/cVrT11SKEo

[Hush-Kit Aviation News, History & Satire @Hush_Kit]

The F/A-18A to F/A-18F Super Hornet progression is similar, percentage-wise, to the Spitfire Mk Vb to Mk XIV.

Hornet: +27% MTOW, +38% engine thrust.
Spitfire: +24% full weight, +41% engine power.