NATO Atlas

US Navy F/A-18C Hornet of Strike Fighter Squadron 192 (VFA-192) "Golden Dragons" launches from aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63), 17 August 2005.

SRC: /r/Warplaneporn

It's 3:00 AM and i haven't watched Sicario, ever. Thoughts?

Greek Marder 1A3, 2025.

Greece received 4 Marder IFV's from Germany in exchange for 40 BMP 1's donated to Ukraine as part of a Ringtausch program.

Absolute idiotic trade if you ask me, and only happened because the German government was too much of a chicken to send the Marders directly.

Oh look, a penny!

Dann lass ma lieber die Finger vom Weizen für n paar Tage.

Ist das eigentlich Satire von Dir?

Not counting on it.

Soldiers of 2nd/1st Battalion, Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment deploying to a crisis intervention exercise.

Tactical group cuddle!

US Navy F-14B Tomcat with an Hungarian Air Force MiG-29.

SRC: /r/WarPlanePorn

Footage reportedly shows a US M134 Minigun engaging Russian drones from a Ukrainian helicopter at night.

Turkish Altay MBT officially delivered, oct. 2025.

SRC: Defenceturk.net

I'm talking about French officials (Dassault), not about French people.

comes to shared workload. Airbus, Typhoon, Panavia ... And somehow, nobody seems to get something done with France. Those are the facts. Until we know more, anything else is speculation. And no, I don't hold a grudge against France. I don't know how you come to think that.

Germany and Spain have good reasons to not go ahead. At least the German side has always made clear that a cooperation with France is what they want. And i really can't imagine that German officials are blowing this up because they are greedy. Lots of good examples are already there when it 3/4

Also if it's in French, i expect a certain bias. AFAIK it's not fully public why exactly the parties won't agree. But if Germany and Spain say they are aiming for a fair and balanced agreement, and all Dassault is saying is basically "just sign the contract, bro", I'm gonna assume 2/3

The sources you shared .. 3/4 sources are at least 2 years old and provide nothing but "Dassault CEO says we're waiting for the signage of the contract" without making clear what the details are. The fourth source is in French, and i don't trust translators to properly translate in this case. 1/2

Ukrainian SU-27 of the 831st Tactical Aviation Brigade.

All i see is a country with it's nose above it's forehead, pretending they did everything right and others are to blame, while not offering anything of concrete value. France is playing captain hindsight, while sporting a fancy monocle on it's eye. 2/2

Also gotta reply to this. You act like France hasn't been doing strategic mistakes. France has been in bed with Russia just as much as the rest of Europe.

Let me know when France can offer a F-35 equivalent and/or actually offers the "nuclear umbrella". 1/2

This wouldn't be the first time France pulls this crap. I'm not inclined to believe them anymore, tbh. If they can't deal on equal terms, they can deal with themselves. There are plenty good, reliable partners in Europe.

Germany moves to reframe FCAS with National Plans Germany is reframing FCAS as a framework for interoperability and building its own foundation around a new project.

(...) recently reasserted majority control over specific design domains, contradicting earlier workshare agreements. Germany, he said, “wants to continue in the established setup. But if that no longer works, we must consider alternatives.”

defensearchives.com/news/germany...

Soldier of Swedish Norrbotten Regiment I-19, 2024.

A stormy sky over the Flight Deck of HMS Prince of Wales.

SRC: /r/WarShipPorn / Amber Mayall, RAF

Additional sources: www.euractiv.com/news/airbus-...

www.politico.eu/article/germ...

FCAS: Europe's 6th Generation Stealth Fighter Is On the Brink of Collapse The €100 billion Future Combat Air System (FCAS) program is on the verge of collapse, echoing the Franco-German Eurofighter split of the 1980s.

"Just like in the 1980s, France’s Dassault is demanding it lead the project, refusing to be an equal partner with Germany’s Airbus."

nationalsecurityjournal.org/fcas-europes...

What's your source?

So if Germany and Spain want to stick to the agreements everybody agreed to earlier with a fair share, but France breaks out and comes up with ridiculous demands, how is "Germany's ego too big"?

Bin nicht so der MGCS-Fan, ich mag lieber Splinter Cell.

Belgian F-16AM.