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Stockholm Offers Fighter Jets for Ukraine if Sweden is Allowed to Join NATO (www.nytimes.com)
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Stockholm Offers Fighter Jets for Ukraine if Sweden is Allowed to Join NATO

The offer appeared to be the latest move in an ongoing diplomatic effort to persuade Turkey to drop its objection to Sweden joining the military alliance.

The Swedish defense ministry said on Friday it could contribute its Gripen warplanes to a Western coalition that is trying to speed fighter jets to Ukraine — but only after Sweden is allowed into NATO.

The offer, included in a $200 million package of weapons, 155-millimeter caliber ammunition and other defense support for Ukraine, was the latest move in an ongoing diplomatic effort to persuade Turkey to drop its objection to Sweden joining the military alliance.

“Support in the form of JAS-39 Gripen would be conditional on Sweden first becoming a member of NATO,” the Swedish Defense Ministry said in a statement.

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[-] TWeaK@lemm.ee -1 points 11 months ago

I feel like this is more trouble than it's worth. Ukraine doesn't need to be training pilots and ground crew on two completely new aircraft that no one in Ukraine's forces are familiar with.

[-] EvilMonkeySlayer@kbin.social 16 points 11 months ago

If Ukraine gets Gripen then they get access to an air platform that can fire the best air to air missile in the world.

Meteor is deadly.

They could use F-16's in the SEAD/DEAD/bomb truck role whilst using the Gripens to shoot down russian jets and helicopters from extreme range.

[-] hikaru755@feddit.de 3 points 11 months ago

Your link seems broken, here's the correct one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteor_%28missile%29

[-] EvilMonkeySlayer@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago

Works fine here, this might be a kbin/lemmy type formatting thing going on.

[-] hikaru755@feddit.de 2 points 11 months ago

Huh, you're right. But it's even just within different Lemmy apps, the link doesn't work in Sync, but it works in Boost.

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