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“Diplomacy without arms is like music without instruments” - Frederick the Great
Hans Tino Hansen
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Hans Tino Hansen
@HthHans
Realistic optimist, Founder & CEO Risk Intelligence @Riskstaff, Geopolitics, IR & economics, defence, security, military history, Cold War.
- Denmark decides to donate all 19 CAESAR howitzers to Ukraine and will replace with a new capacity. Well, guess who has been pledging for this for a very long time…. Well done Danish government! fmn.dk/da/nyheder/202…
- Please stop this nonsense about “offensive” weapons in relation to Ukraine. Ukraine should have all the weapon systems, training, spare parts, financial support, ammunition and intelligence necessary to kick out Russia from Ukraine and to ensure they never return.
- 🇩🇰Danish shipping giant Maersk apparently has offered Danish defence shipbuilding capacity in South Korea for the new air defence frigates. The hulls could be built in 🇰🇷South Korea and then fully assembled and equipped in Denmark to speed up the proces.
- Proud of my youngest son who is going to make a presentation for “speakers corner” for English lessons and has chosen Simo Häyhä as the topic. His other candidate was Ronaldo, but as my son said “everyone in my class knows about Ronaldo and they need to know about Simo”.
- Denmark will deliver the 19 CAESAR 155mm howitzers to Ukraine within the next couple of weeks as the Ukrainian soldiers today have finalised their training in Denmark. The donation was announced 19 January 2023. fmn.dk/da/nyheder/202…
- 🇩🇰Denmark surprises nearly everyone and selects three interim short range ground-based air defence systems at one time in order to have everything in operation by 2026: NASAMS (Kongsberg) IRIS-T SLM (Diehl) MICA (MBDA) Here we go….
- Denmark selects Rheinmetall's 30mm Skyranger turret for army short range air defence. It will be fitted on the Danish army standard APC Piranha V fmi.dk/da/nyheder/202…
- The plot thickens… ;-) The “Ukrainian” commando behind the yacht Andromeda reported by misguided media as used for blowing up #Nordstream is “surprisingly” not Ukrainian and leads to… Russia. Who could have guessed that…
- 19 ex-Danish Piranha IIIH APCs are being delivered to Moldova by Germany as part of a military support package from Germany. Thread 1/4 army.md/?lng=2&action=…
- According to NATO 🇩🇰Denmark, 🇸🇪Sweden, 🇳🇴Norway, 🇫🇮Finland, 🇳🇱The Netherlands, 🇩🇪Germany, 🇬🇧UK and 🇨🇦Canada have declared willigness to fund 10 Patriot systems to 🇺🇦Ukraine. For Denmark this is in line with the commitment to fund Patriot missiles made back in April.
- Denmark today announced it is acquiring “several hundred sea mines” to protect and block 🇩🇰Danish waters and straits. It is about partly rebuilding the Cold War capacity, where the navy had thousands of sea mines. No name has been revealed but a likely candidate is 🇫🇮 Forceit.
- Denmark 🇩🇰 will deliver the first Leopard 1A5DK tanks for 🇺🇦 training within the next two weeks as part of a batch about 80 tanks (for two battalions) within the next couple of months. A total of 100 tanks will be donated with 🇩🇪 and 🇳🇱 support. fmn.dk/da/nyheder/202…
- Denmark reportedly sends upgraded M113 APCs, anti-armour mines and mortar grenades to Ukraine as part of a 600m DKK (85m USD) assistance package.
