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/
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Quite a lot of the people have noticed that they were wrong. (View Post)2 -
Re: A little bit of history repeating? – politicalbetting.com
I think it does highlight the increasingly transactional nature of our current relationship with the EU. When we were members we notably failed to use the relationship to our best advantage - I would… (View Post)2 -
Re: A little bit of history repeating? – politicalbetting.com
We need a comparator on that. The requested contribution for 2021 that the UK Govt walked away from was £600 million per annum: * Under Erasmus+, the UK already contributed significantly more than we… (View Post)2 -
Re: A little bit of history repeating? – politicalbetting.com
According to the wiki summary, it uses NLP processing - which I guess qualifies as a version of AI in these times. They are Canada-based. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_News (View Post)1
