Sprengtporten

Lebeman & vivör! Flottist. Afghanistanveteran. Socialt arbete. Jagar & fiskar. Varannanveckasfarsa. Omvärldsfascinerad.

[Marinen @Swedish_Navy]

Det blir franskt! 🇫🇷

Idag kom äntligen beslutet om vilka fregatter som ska stärka Sveriges och Natos marina förmåga. Valet föll på den franska fregattklassen FDI (Frégate de Défense et d’Intervention) från Naval Group.

Fartygen kommer att levereras successivt från och med 2030.

[SupremeCommanderSWE @swe_chod]

Mina varmaste gratulationer till H.M. Konungen på 80-årsdagen. Tack för Ers Majestäts långvariga stöd till Försvarsmakten och Kungens engagemang för Sverige. Leve Konungen.

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

LMAO who made this 😭😂🤣

[Magyar Péter (Ne féljetek) @magyarpeterMP]

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has just called to congratulate us on our victory.

[Very Brexit Problems @VeryBrexitProbs]

MAGA thinks Europe can't defend itself without America. Here's what they don't know.

1. France and Britain have 515 nuclear warheads and 8 nuclear missile submarines.

2. European defence spending hit €481 billion this year. That's more than Russia and China spend combined. The EU's ReArm Europe plan is mobilising another €800 billion.

3. European countries have over 1.7 million active troops. Russia has 1.3 million.

4. EU and UK air forces fly over 1,400 combat aircraft. Their navies have five aircraft carriers, over 60 submarines, more than 120 frigates and destroyers.

5. Europe has over 6,000 artillery pieces and that's before the biggest rearmament wave since the Cold War. Poland alone is adding 212 new howitzers.

6. The British SAS invented modern special forces. The US copied them to build Delta Force. From France's Foreign Legion to Poland's GROM, Europe's elite units are among the deadliest on earth.

7. Europe already has joint military commands ready to fight. The UK leads a 10-nation rapid reaction force across Northern Europe and the Arctic. Finland alone can mobilise 900,000 trained reservists all prepared to fight in arctic conditions.

8. Europe has its own satellite navigation (Galileo), its own defence programme (75 active projects) and is building its own rapid deployment force.

The "helpless Europe" story was never about defence.
It was about keeping Europe dependent and buying American weapons, relying on American intelligence, following American foreign policy.

Thanks to Trump, that now ends.

[DG MEME 🇪🇺 @meme_ec]

Oblastzoned.

[Dr. Clown, PhD @DrClownPhD]

Chuck Norris is the GOAT in every movie.

[Defence Index @Defence_Index]

🇸🇪 BREAKING: Sweden has completed the first full system exercise of its new ARCHER 8x8 artillery platform.

Conducted by BAE Systems Bofors in coordination with the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration and the Swedish Armed Forces, the test marks a key milestone in bringing the next-generation artillery system into operational service.

The ARCHER 8x8 is designed for rapid deployment, high mobility, and precision fire support on modern battlefields.

[Observationsplatsen @oplatsen]

Satsning på luftvärn på 8,7mdr SEK. Del av den sedan tidigare aviserade beställningen på 15mdr offentliggjordes idag. Ett luftvärnssystem kallat GUTE II köps in och består av bl a av Saab TrackFire ARES med 30mm Bushmaster akan, BaeSystems Tridon Mk2, radar G1X, ->

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

If America Leaves NATO, the Bill Lands in Washington

“NATO wasn’t there for us. We send billions of dollars to them every year to protect them. We would have always been there for them. But based on their actions, I guess we don’t have to be, do we? Why would we be there for them if they’re not there for us?”

That argument sounds airtight. It also gets almost everything backwards.
The Industrial Logic No One Wants to Say Out Loud.

For decades, NATO membership has functioned as the world’s most effective arms sales platform. When a country joins the alliance, it buys American. F-35s, Patriot batteries, HIMARS, Javelins. It becomes structurally dependent on American spare parts, software updates, and maintenance contracts. It is the most sophisticated captive market in military history.

Poland alone devotes 4.7 percent of its GDP to defense. These are not abstract trade figures. They are jobs in Fort Worth, Orlando, and East Hartford. They are the economic foundation of entire congressional districts.
A US exit from NATO does not preserve this arrangement. It ends it.

Canada and Portugal have already signaled reservations about F-35 commitments worth up to $19 billion, citing political unpredictability in Washington. When two countries walk away from an American platform, others begin running the same calculation.

EU member states spent 343 billion euros on defense in 2024, a 19 percent rise from the year before. The political momentum behind “Buy European” is real and growing. The market will remain.

NATO gives the United States something no defense budget line can purchase: forward positioning, intelligence integration, and political legitimacy across 30 countries. These are the operating system of American global influence.Without them, the United States becomes alone.

The Indo-Pacific pivot is not wrong on its merits. But forward positioning in Europe is not a drain on Pacific readiness. It is the network that makes global power projection coherent. Cut one node and the whole system degrades.

The Quiet Withdrawal Already Underway. A formal exit has not happened. But the functional retreat is well advanced. The Trump administration has told European allies the US will no longer serve as NATO’s primary conventional defense provider after 2027. Joint force commands are being transferred to European generals. Intelligence-sharing arrangements built over decades are being quietly renegotiated.
Each move is individually defensible. Collectively, they produce the same outcome as a formal withdrawal, without the legal fight or the Senate vote.

The irony is considerable. The administration that views NATO as a bad deal for America is dismantling the mechanism that made American arms exports dominant in global defense markets. The alliance was never just a security arrangement. It was the most durable commercial advantage in the history of the defense industry.

So back to the question. Why would America be there for allies who aren’t there for America?

Because “there for us” included $343 billion in European defense spending flowing toward American suppliers. It included 30 countries hosting American bases and intelligence networks. It included the political architecture that let Washington call itself the leader of the free world and have other governments agree.

Not a subsidy to Europe. A return on investment that took 75 years to build.
The bill for dismantling it will not arrive in Brussels. It will arrive in Fort Worth.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Stay connected,
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[Sprengtporten @AAndolini2]

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[Mattias Rådström @mattiasr70]

För första gången i svensk historia tillverkas ett svenskt stridsflygplan utomlands. Idag rullade Gripen E ut från fabriken i Brasilien.
@Saab @fab_oficial #Säkpol #JAS #JASGripen

https://t.co/OgS4V2M4hA

[Defence Index @Defence_Index]

🇨🇦🇸🇪 BREAKING: Canada in Talks to Build Gripen Fighter Jets.

Saab is negotiating with Canada and Bombardier to locally produce JAS 39 Gripen fighter jets under license, a move that could create up to 10,000 jobs and significantly boost Canada’s aerospace sector.

Source: Reuters

[Nordic Defence Sector @FSN_SE]

Sverige får en ledande roll i Natos nya styrka FLF Finland, där den svenskledda stridsgruppen baseras i Boden och ett multinationellt stabselement placeras i Rovaniemi.

Finns tillgänglig på 🇸🇪🇫🇮🇳🇴🇩🇰 och 🇬🇧:
https://t.co/gwAoBSXyCL

[Time Capsule Tales @timecaptales]

Chuck Norris held a 183-10-2 record and was a 6x world champion in full contact bare knuckle karate.

On top of that, he beat heavyweight kickboxing world champion Joe Lewis 3 consecutive times and also had a brutal sparring match with undefeated kickboxing world champion, Bill Superfoot Wallace, that lasted an hour and a half. According to Wallace, they practically stalemated and "beat the crap out of each other".

Chuck was trained in kickboxing/boxing by Benny The Jet Urquidez and was also trained in BJJ by the Gracies and Machados for 20 years. Even being able to submit Carlos Machado himself on occasion.

Chuck had a 315 Ibs bench press at 180 lbs bodyweight and was said to have a grip back in the day that nobody could escape from because he was so strong. Even Jean Claude Van Damme said he'd never fight Chuck Norris, despite being a kickboxing world champion himself.

Chuck held a 10th degree black belt in Chun Kuk Do, a 9th degree black belt in Tang Soo Do, an 8th degree black belt in Taekwondo, a 5th degree black belt in Karate, a 3rd degree black belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and a black belt in Judo.

Rest in peace, Chuck!

[Sprengtporten @AAndolini2]

@atensnut Haha vilken sköning. Hått kåtyr är ju inte så lätt att hänga med i.😂

[Colby Badhwar @ColbyBadhwar]

Reminder:

Raytheon has production capacity for 600 Tomahawks per year.

This is being increased to +1000 per year.

They have only been making ~100 per year for the US & Foreign Military Sales customers.

It's not a production problem, it's an order problem.

[Tomi 🇺🇦🇫🇮🇪🇺 @TallbarFIN]

Today marks 86 years since the end of Winter War between Finland and the Soviet Union.

Peace treaty came into effect on March 13, 1940, 11AM.

Our very existence was saved by the Finnish warriors of Winter War, today we shall remember them.

Glory to the heroes 🇫🇮🕯️

[Pernicious Propaganda @natsecboogie]

This is the German Die Drohne Antiradar/DAR. In spite of the fact that many disagree, we feel that the wide variety of OWA UAVs that we see utilized in conflicts across the globe today have a direct lineage to the DAR.

Below are a few of those drones we feel stem from it 🧵.

[Colby Badhwar @ColbyBadhwar]

🇮🇱 I keep seeing a lot of incorrect information about Iron Beam, so here's a short explanation. It isn't just one system, it's a family of systems, some of which are operational, and some not, including:

▶️ Iron Beam
▶️ Iron Beam-Mobile
▶️ Lite Beam
▶️ Naval Iron Beam

1/7 🧵