MattW
MattW
This is quite concerning. NATOs Wedgetail (= AWACS replacement) programme has been afaics essentially killed by US withdrawal.
I'm not sure where this laves the UK.
NATO’s effort to replace its ageing E-3A Sentry fleet has been upended after the United States pulled out of the alliance’s planned purchase of up to six Boeing E-7 Wedgetails, leaving the programme without a strategic or financial anchor, the UK Defence Journal understands.
The Dutch Ministry of Defence confirmed that Washington withdrew from the AWACS replacement effort in July, prompting the Netherlands and several European partners to abandon the joint plan.
https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/nato-scraps-e-7-wedgetail-plan-as-allies-hunt-new-awacs/
Reactions
-
Re: Compare and contrast – politicalbetting.com
One proposal: (View Post)4 -
Re: The budget: winners and losers – politicalbetting.com
It's a very good piece that highlights many issues (and misses some out). The stark points are that the service needs to be high quality, and we need to get away from a 1950s "them and us&q… (View Post)1 -
Re: The budget: winners and losers – politicalbetting.com
One suggestion I've seen is that unemployment support should be unbundled from Universal Credit, since there is a repeated fake narrative pretending that growth in UC recipients is somehow due t… (View Post)1 -
Re: The budget: winners and losers – politicalbetting.com
Crap at comms. Again. There's plenty of things that can be positive messages if there was a dedication to writing the agenda rather than letting others do so. But they don't tell them again… (View Post)2 -
Re: The budget: winners and losers – politicalbetting.com
I think a not acknowledged but important group benefiting from this will be lone mums with three or more children, whose husbands / partners have walked out. Amongst people known to me are two women … (View Post)3
