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Except SpaceX does need it for margins "One of our lander providers came back and said, I'd rather meet you in a different lunar orbit. And the other said, I'd rather meet you in a high-Earth orbit. " - NASA director youtube.com/watch?v=S2OvZFiV…

Interesting is the mention of 10 c-UAS laser guided rocket systems. The US has no such weapon in active use however BAE recently demonstrated an c-UAS fuse for the ground launch APKWS (laser guided rockets) system to turn it into a low cost light weight c-UAS weapon.

If they regret joining NATO they can leave by invoking Article 13 of the charter. Surprisingly no nation that has joined NATO has invoked Article 13 (note France never left NATO it just left NATO unified command for a few years)

Yeah Russia is in no position to mess with Finland. That is before Finland joined NATO. Today? Forget about it. Just Russian delusions.

Almost like some Russian saw this and unironically said "good plan".

Ukraine using these ones though. Freedom Gliders for longer range freedom delivery.

What a dumb design. What if instead all the rockets came in a sealed pod and the weapon system had a built in crane so it could self load? Could reload 12 rockets in about 10 minutes. Crazy something like that would be science fiction.

Freedom Gliders

On Chally and Leo 2A6 probably doesn't add much but NATO supplemental armor kits exist. The Leo 2A4 though has pretty weak lower frontal hull armor and stores ammo next to the driver there unprotected (no shield door & blowout panel). Turkey lost some in Syria that way.

Western designs tend to incorporate NERA into the vehicle armor directly. That is why they are significantly heavier. Adding ERA on top of that would make it even heavier and less agile. That being said most western tanks do have ERA kits.