Jesper Melchior

Part 2 of the 🇩🇰Arctic defence agreement was announced today with a budget of 27.4bn DKK (3.7bn EUR). The maritime part constitutes 22.3bn DKK or 81%, but also includes P-8 maritime patrol aircraft in cooperation with a NATO ally. 🇳🇴Norway is a good and logic candidate.

Today’s 🇩🇰decision to acquire 16 F-35 at a cost of 29bn DKK (3.9bn EUR) is the Low option and will not reach the originally planned 48. However, the High option discussed would take RDAF back to similar to the total F-16 fleet but at an almost prohibitive cost.

María Corina Machado modtager Nobels Fredspris. Læs vores interview med hende I anledning af at Maria Corina Machado netop har modtaget Nobels Fredpris, genudgiver vi dette interview med den venezuelanske oppositionsleder fra juli i år. Genlæs, hvordan Machado, som siden præsid...

Informeren interviewede María Corina Machado i juli måned:

#Gavelink:
🎁 www.information.dk/udland/2025/...

Læsetid: 8 min. (kan osse aflyttes)

📣 #fred, #fredspris, #Machado, #MaríaCorinaMachado, #Nobel, #NobelsFredspris, #Venezuela, #notTrump

'Et stormagtsvåben i småstatsformat': Her er et bud på Danmarks nye angrebsvåben Det norske forsvar har købt missilet. Chefen for kampflyafdelingen i Norge mener, Danmark burde gøre det samme.

Exclusive access inside Kongsberg’s high-security factory.
Here, robots work around the clock producing parts for the Joint Strike Missile - frontrunner to become Denmark’s long-range precision weapon.
“A great-power weapon in a small-state solution.”

www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...

Sidst lå de i køleskabet.. 🤓

The Polish Territorial Defense Forces report that they are training mounted infantry.

It seems there will now be Polish cavalry as well.
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"President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that Ukraine and the European Union are on track to match Russia’s annual artillery-round production by 2026, as reported in an interview on October 9."

President Stubb:
Ukraine is in a better place than they were a yr ago.Their military capacity has strengthened

In the past roughly1,000 days,Russia has advanced by only1% of Ukrainian territory.We’ve seen developments in the Sumy region over the past few weeks that have shown 🇺🇦capability to advance

Quick guide to Tomahawk cruise missile variants

TLAM - land attack

TSAM - anti-ship

GLCM - ground launched

TACTOM - improved “tactical” version

TACO - version talked about but never delivered to Ukraine

🧵Jeg interesserer mig en del for politik, har jeg en solid viden om politiske forhold og historie. Kunne dog ikke drømme om tale om disse ting på SoMe eller gør det sjældent, da jeg ikke har styrken til at stå imod den ophedede hidsighed der præger tiden. Jeg har meldt mig ind i "det tavse flertal".

Virkeligt gode betragtninger, tak for dem. Jeg holder mig i de allerfleste tilfælde også fra at debattere, der er undtagelser, men de bliver færre.

Cykler forbi et par gange om dagen. Sjovt at følge med i renoveringen af den gl pumpestation :-)

Når man starter som mortérmand når man langt! Tillykke til vores gamle DF/TMT med stillingen som chef for Forsvarsstaben og Viceforsvarschef.
Fremad Paa Nye!

I subscribe to too many emails, but one of the few I actually read is Missile Matters. It’s suitably geeky, and provides a deeper understanding of missile warfare which is a topic you see discussed surprisingly often in news and social media these days 😅

This week’s conclusions are spot on.

Nye og gamle kapaciteter til bekæmpelse af objekter i luftrummet Forsvaret har indsat en række forskellige kapaciteter til håndtering af eventuelle trusler.

Evnen til at detektere og nedkæmpe fjendtlige mål i luften på kortere afstande, er noget som Forsvaret har haft i mange år. En evne som der i de senere år er truffet beslutninger om at styrke markant.
#dkforsvar
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Royal Navy cruiser HMS Curacoa. Image: Imperial War Museum A 5807. A two-funnelled warship at anchor with the shore visible behind and a barrage balloon overhead in the distance.

2 Oct 1942 // Cruiser HMS Curacoa, escorting RMS Queen Mary north of Ireland, crossed in front of her while zigzagging and the liner, carrying US troops and at full speed, rammed her and cut her in half. She sank with 337 men killed. (Imperial War Museum image: A 5807) #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory

Denmark’s drone humiliation weakens us all Paltry deterrence is an invitation to Putin to wreak havoc, making a mockery of Nato’s defences

Denmark’s drone humiliation weakens us all - important comment by @edwardlucas.bsky.social

“But it has been “sleepwalking” when it comes to its domestic security, says Hans Tino Hansen, a hawkish Dane who runs Risk Intelligence, a consultancy.”

www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

Finland to contribute to safeguarding Denmark’s airspace On the proposal of the Government, the President of the Republic has decided that the Finnish Defence Forces will contribute to safeguarding Denmark’s airspace.

Finland to contribute to safeguarding Denmark’s airspace

Finland to participate in safeguarding the integrity of the Danish airspace and in countering drones during the international meetings taking place in Copenhagen.

www.defmin.fi/en/topical/p...

Også som filminstruktør var Jørgen Leth et legende menneske Jørgen Leth efterlader sig et filmværk uden sidestykke. Han inspirerede Lars von Trier og frygtede ikke hans benspænd. Filmene var for ham en måde at skabe orden i verden på, omskabe den og finde meni...

Jeg har skrevet om Jørgen Leth som filminstruktør. (Gavelink.) www.information.dk/kultur/2025/...

❗️Our military has begun deploying a mission in 🇩🇰Denmark to spread Ukrainian experience in drone defense, - Zelensky

The 🇺🇦Ukrainian military arrived to participate in joint exercises with partners, which could become the basis for a new system to counter Russian and any other drones.

Så er alle stemmerne talt op efter Moldovas parlamentsvalg i går. Maia Sandus pro-europæiske parti PAS har fået lige over halvdelen af stemmerne.

Hvis du vil dykke ned i stemmeafgivelserne og de store regionale forskelle, der er, kan du gøre det her: pv.cec.md

Død over VAR og al dets væsen. Brug pengene på bedre dommeruddannelse. Dixi.

So what’s in the box?

Echodyne radar.
You can add Bosch (primary close range optical sensor) and Teledyne FLIR (primary mid range optical sensor), and Epirus (directed-energy defeat). New partner is Sentrycs (= 🇮🇱) The Israeli system adds cyber takeover, controlled landing & forensic capabilities

Pyramid-like shapes made from brick weed. #DrugBust

View of buildings on Papirøen, Copenhagen

Brazilian drug busts as icons of *flawed* architecture

Today: Papirøen, Copenhagen

Jeg har simpelthen lavet et meme til lejligheden..

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Dialogue Man: "Many top scientists are on the autism spectrum" Girl: "So technically autism causes vaccines" *surprised face*

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You forgot Albania and Aberbaijan. 😉😏

Jeg gør som regel, vi er tre søskende.

Talstærkt er mere end to, massivt er når de har spist meget rugbrød :-)

Very annoyed with this ”but Turkey shot down a Russian jet”.

Turkey doesn’t have a border with Russia. If Finland did the same (when it’s ”only” an incursion), what would stop Russia from starting to shoot down Finnish (or other NATO) jets when they’re flying close to the Russian border ?