Denmark has just finalized a $4.26B deal to buy 16 more F-35A and another $4.26B to set up a new military base in Greenland along with 2 Arctic Naval vessels.>The decision to invest in more F-35 stealth jets takes the Danish Air Force’s fleet to 43 units and “enables the solution of new combat aircraft tasks,” the Danish MoD said in a translated statement.Another round of great news for the F-35 and happy for Denmark choosing the best jet to continue to bolster their defenses.https://breakingdefense.com/2025/10/denmark-commits-4-5-billion-for-additional-f-35-jets-invests-in-arctic-defense-spending-plan/
>>64381933Saaaaaaaaaaaar do not redeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeem the F35 saaaaaaaaaaar. Redeem the currency for the SU57 instead saaaaaar
>270 million each>faggots here still mention the "80 mIllIOn bRo"80 million my ass.
>>64381957Those are flyaway costs only the US gets to enjoy because sustainment and infrastructure are not taken into account in procurement filing. You're paying $270m for the plane, dozens of munitions, training, sims, specialized base infrastructure, spare parts, software and support. Probably 2 extra engines with that 16 order too.
>>64381933BUT BUT THE KILL SWITCH OR THE TRUMPLER MAKING COUNTRIES CHANGE THEIR MINDS WHAT HAPPENED BRICS BROS
>>64381933March 2025>The chairman of Denmark's parliamentary defense committee said he regrets choosing the F-35 for his country, citing fears that the US may threaten to cease support for the fighter.>"As one of the decision-makers behind Denmark's purchase of F-35s, I regret it," Rasmus Jarlov, a member of parliament for the center-right Conservative People's Party, wrote on social media on Wednesday.>"Therefore, buying American weapons is a security risk that we cannot run. We will make enormous investments in air defense, fighter jets, artillery, and other weapons in the coming years, and we must avoid American weapons if at all possible," he said.Huh, funny that.
>>64382017The only reason the USA wants Greenland is so the Chinese can't put a naval base there when the mentally retarded natives are manipulated by the Chinese to declare independence from Denmark and sell their country's resources to the Chinese.
>>64382060And that's why the US wants Canada too...
>>64382078America wants Canada to actually contribute. Canada wants to be contrarian and spit America no matter the topic, even if it shoots them in the foot. See: Canada's procurement of F-35 trainwreck
>>64382078Yeah and it's a valid concern. The CCP already owns half of Vancouver
>>64382078>>64382092Canadians have literally browned their entire country and smothered out the economy to own the rightoidsGenuinely impressive
>>64382056They realized that everything else was a meme compared to their first hand experience with the F-35 and the GCAP is still a decade away. Many such cases.
>>64382108The rest of the EVROPA REAWAKENED crowd will realize that, too, eventually. Except France.
>>64382078Technically its because Canada is considered a security risk due to expected northern passages opening up in 25 years. Right now our population density is so unbelievably ass that 70% of the population lives within 100km of the US border due to lack of infrastructure.In theory a valid pathway is present to unfuck the country and tag team with the US but it relies on a lot of things.>incentives for northern migration from Toronto and Montreal.Straight up basically impossible for most people due to lack of jobs unless you can find one for a town itself. A BSc ain't gonna do dick in Iroquois Falls.>youth unemployment is basically kneecapping the next generation elephant in the room is 9 gorillian indians came in from a single province in India and have effectively become LMIA slaves. The good news is that Canada's population growth actually slowed and immigration is lowest on record recently due to gun grabber Carney doing something smart for once. >lack of naval focusCanada should have the strongest navy on the planet due its sheer coastal size but doesn't because of shit budgeting, dogshit government planning and lack of people. This creates a massive security risk for the US.The path forward is basically say fuck the natives, let American money flow in to build energy harvesting infrastructure and allow them to place military bases nearby to protect them with joint Canadian support..In turn, you could incentive Canadian immigrants to work up north by offering citizenship if you spend X amount of years working in the mines in the north and offer citizens financial incentives to work there such as paid housing and fly in/fly out like Fort Mac.. This would free up some of the youth market in the south and focus on something Canada is actually good at (Energy).It would stem the flow of Tim Horton's workers, offer people a viable alternative to college and allow the US economy to shift out of Mag 7
>>64382166>I must expand to DEFEND MYSELF!>needs to expand even more to defend the new territoryMore like the US is a security risk for the rest of the world...
>>64382176Well yes. In theory they could do whatever they want. They have the largest expeditionary force on the planet and I'm sure joint cooperation with Canadian is much more palatable than 51st state shit or sending contractors back to the sandbox for definitely real WMDs and not oil
>>64381933Another win for Lockmart. Fort Worth eating good tonight.
>>64382166They don't need to have large population centers on their north coast to actually protect their air/coasts. They just need to actually put money and effort into it and not just expect America to foot the bill while spitting in their faces.
>>64382271Go ahead and tell me how a navy of 9000 can defend a northern coast and the atlantic and pacific coast in a capacity that would appease american leadership.The italian navy alone has nearly as many sailors as the entire canadian military. You could make it to 80k, add two carriers and it still wouldn't be enough unless you cede pacific security to the americans entirely.
>>64382297What does any of that have to do with population centers and their location?
>>64382316You need infrastructure to support a force big enough to secure up north that cannot be filled solely with military. And its not like you can dump a bunch of people in commie blocks in yellowknife and expect them to stay. You can leave the military without consequence at any given time unless you are an officer who owes years of service for school.
>>64382394Ships only have a range of 15 miles, got it. Very insightful analysis.
>>64381933The Danish government are such pathetic cucks, giving money to the same country that's threatened to invade them.
>>64382511lemme just plop a boat off the Halifax harbor and have it take a quick jaunt up to the north pole. No worries. No infastructure needed.
>>64382056of course, it's dangerous if the weaponry leans more towards the west, especially America, the strangest policy is, the fighter jets have been purchased but their use requires permission from them. For F-18 Malaysia, the Malaysian technician was not given the source code for the settings when there was a mission, they had to report to America first. And again, Turkiye, just because they bought defense equipment from Russia was kicked out of the F-35 program, remember that before Indonesia was embargoed, the Air Force was paralyzed.Eventhough the US bribing Malaysia not to join BRICS with sale of F-35, it wont be easy for them if the US Congress keep trying to meddle in and trying to approve it only with terms. Although both countries are friends, Malaysia is not that close with US, unlike Singapore, which the US gave much favour too. Also, Putrajaya (Malaysia) did not recognized Israel and dont have any Diplomatic relationship with Tel Aviv. Unlike Singapore which is the strongest supporters of Israel's war against the Palestinian people. So, you can do the math why for the new MRCA procurement plan, Malaysia may get SU-57 fighter jets from Russia and KF-21 from South Korea or even KAAN from Turkey because they have already offered it to Malaysia.Russia has already offered the SU57 package along with the S400 to Malaysia. The US gives too many conditions and no freedom to repair or upgrade the aircraft made in the United States. Most recently, Malaysia has held discussions with the Russian authorities to obtain the Mig-35 as well as the 5th generation Sukhoi Su-57 aircraft because Russia guarantees technology exchange and aircraft upgrades in the future.
>>64382056This is pure grandstanding. I've heard many variations of this speech and almost nothing came out of it.
>>64382612OK SEA monkey, but consider that american equipment works and exists.
>>64382570>Published: Sptember 01, 2007
>>64382612>if you don't give me the source code it means you are my enemyJesus fucking christ I hate thirdies
>>64382617I know. Plenty of people said as much at the time. But every foreign bot and domestic political partisan claimed it was the end of us hegemony and that blumpf had ruined everything.
>>64382648If you would read more than 90% of the screenshot you could see that there're articles from 2021.
>>64382612>malaysia may get SU-57'si'm not even sure russia's going to get SU-57's.
>>64382060We gave them the right to develop their own mining industry. So far the only thing they managed is to sign a piece of paper for a uranium mine which they then regretted and now Denmark is stuck with an 11.5 billion dollar lawsuit.>>64382617Europe doesn´t offer a stealth aircraft. We did buy the French Samp/t over the Patriot.While I agree with Trump on many things, the message was heard loud and clear, when Trump decided to pull intelligence sharing with Ukraine for no other reason then not getting his way. Most of our equipment is bought with the single focus on fighting Russia. I´d rather not get into a debate about a Nobel peace prize, when the Baltics are being invaded and therefore I must understand that Lithuania has to surrender. It is what it is, honestly I think it´s for the better in the long run for Europe as a whole and maybe there was no other way for Europeans to understand that we have to do things ourselves.
>>64382149With regards to European arms manufacturing, European-native ground platforms are on par with US made equipment (because US made equipment is made up of European and US made parts). Airframes however are an entirely different story. Hell, Brazil absolutely mogs Euro aircraft companies.
>>64382570based danes actually doing something rather than be like their eurocuck brethren
>>64382748Betraying their fellow Europeans for Yanks isn't "doing something"
>>64382758Buying vastly inferior aircraft with limited funds with be a larger betrayal
>>64382758>this "betrayal" being getting weapons to defend yourself in a reasonable amount of time rather than wait for half a century for shittier versionThere is no european equivalent to the f35 now or in the next two decades
>>64382758Just tell them the F-35 is British.
>>64382773>>64382768I was talking about the spying for America
>>64382785Oh sorry, I mixed up the chain of replies.
>>64382720>only half of my post was dogshitBravo anon
>>64382821the 2007 article wasn't dogshit because it was old, retard, its documenting a decades long trend of perfidy from the Danish government. When you get arrested for a crime you know the police are going to pull up your past criminal record
>>64382605I don't see it as really practical for the leafs to be able to defend their entire territory. Would probably be better to focus on some key capabilities burgers are not good at it don't focus on and max those out. The USA isn't going to sit on ass if someone actually takes a swing at Canada. That's a big Monroe Doctrine no no
>>64382612Thank you for your put Mr Malay Schizo
>>64382056Well duh. The best route is to have everything domestically manufactured and be as independent of supply chain and resources as possible. Unfortunately you’d have to be a superpower for that, and even superpowers have trouble due to globalism linking everyone up to everyone else for resources and production.
>>64381933If they were already using it then buying a different jet entirely if they need more fighter jets and then needing a whole other set of spares, pilots etc wouldn't make sense. So they were a pretty much guaranteed buyer so long as the jet works well enough.
Should have bought gripen.
>>64382017"If I suck big american (daddy's) cock hard enough as yuropoor maybe he will let me keep occupying and oppressing greenland."the strategy makes sense for yurocucks who rely on daddy's mercy to live. the danes can pillage trillions from greenland so the money is there. the most important thing is to appease and sooth daddy. yuropoors already have their military completely owned and commanded by usa via nato so giving full control over their airforce to daddy while funding daddy's mic may help build trust and prove their earnest subservience and loyalty. I don't think it will work tho, greenland is too big and too rich to leave it in the hands of a cuckold and without it he will be poorer and even more desperate to suck cock.
>>64383387hello vanja
>>64383014That was my entire point. Canada simply has too much area to defend without the population to support it. Their maxed out skill tree was radar tech in the 80s before FRP took over. If Canada kept up their radar advancements they would be doing very well from an MIC support standpoint
>>64382653Buddy, do you know that Malaysia at some point bought war planes from the US to find out they're missing steering controls? Why would anybody trust the US? The US just wants our money, good military equipment and hardware are only for the zionist entity to murder Palestinians. America has few to offer nor their promises carry any weight with how Trump threw trade out the window which pissed off a lot of people.Unless there is need to buy F-35 I don't see much benefit of being their exclusive puppet when it will only end up with local business being assimilated by their megacorp. They build up west Germany, South Korea and Japan to be their cannon fodder, they don't have much use for most the likes of Malaysia when Vietnam exists.
>>64382653Nothing stopping USA from having good relation with Malaysia. Just stop support for Zionist occupation regime in Palestine and illegal invasion against Iraq, and trying to sanction neutral countries that have relations with Russia. Despite the fact that Malaysia is a larger and more strategically important country when it comes to countering the PRC in the South China Sea, the US ... has chosen to favor Singapore diplomatically and arm it with latest equipment like F-35 and HIMARS and give them basing rights in Guam. While Malaysia's armed forces facing budgetary constraints. Yet US only provides token assistance to Malaysia such as donating maritime surveillance radar, coast guard ship and MPAs. Just because Malaysia in the past adopted a principled neutral stance and refuse to support illegal US war in Iraq, Israeli genocide in Gaza and condemn Russian war in Ukraine.Ironically, Singapore are nothing but a Chinese bitch. Just another Chinese province. Don't agree? Just look at who in charge of Singapore Armed Forces.
>>64383518>do you know that Malaysia at some point bought war planes from the US to find out they're missing steering controls?Got a source for that?Everything I can find doesn't support this. They bought 80 A-4C/4L from the US at ~$1m per airframe in 1982, 28 years after the A-4 first flew.So they bought 3 decade old planes at bargain bin pricing, knowing they needed to be upgraded for modern use. They then left half the A-4s in the US to be used as spares, and the 40 they upgraded went on to serve in the RMAF for about a decade. They only lasted a decade in service because they couldn't afford to properly maintain/upgrade them.
>>64383678It's the Malay Schizo. He's rambled about this for years.
But they already had the F-35.
Good for Denmark :thumbs up emoji:But hopefully nothing keeps happening.
>>64383718kek
Only Muslims care about Palenstine.
>>64383822Are you lost?
ONE THOUSAND AND TWO HUNDRED
>>64381933One of the subcontractors for the F-35 is a danish firm called TERMA, if Denmark backed out of the F-35 program, it would hurt their own domestic arms industry
basically paying tribute to the US to not invade. smart choice.
>>64383903That's actually pretty cool. Thanks for sharing.
>>64381957>doesn't know about the lifetime maintenance, upgrades, repair, training, joint exercises, and replacement deals which come with the airframes
>>64382653>>64383518Check out the F-35I Adirhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k55T5EUVh9cFavortism much?
>>64381957US expected to spend about 240 million per airframe as full lifecycle costs more than a decade ago, average on all three variants. 270 million sounds pretty reasonable life cycle cost for the cheapest A-variant adjusted for inflation.
