>steadfast defender 24 to be the biggest NATO exercise since the cold war
looks like manouver kino is back on the menu boys!
>steadfast defender 24 to be the biggest NATO exercise since the cold war
>steadfast defender 24 to be the biggest NATO exercise since the cold war
looks like manouver kino is back on the menu boys!
Nice. I’m sure Bradleys will steal the show
There's no actual combat warriortard. This is just an exercise.
>warriortard
What’s this psyop? Everyone that likes the Bradley is this scapegoat?
At this point I'm not sure it is warriortard who does this in every thread, could just as well be a really uninspired shitpost routine from some turboautist. Just ignore him
>We begin bombing in five minutes.
I was in Germany from 95-98 and we seriously fricked up some public roads with our M60's and M113's. We also had a 5 ton truck blow up on the autobahn and pepper the local commuters with shrapnel. Good times!!
>pepper the local commuters with shrapnel
That was a civil defense exercise. A very realistic one.
>Blowing up German civs
Based
Do it again Bomber Harris.
Yes, it happened. I think it was something that started in the transmission or rear end, the entire transfer case, driveshaft, etc. exploded. There was a chunk of the rear end embedded in the windshield pillar of a guys Audi, that was the closest anyone came to getting hurt. It was on the way to to Graf summer of '97 driving from Giessen deopt.
> An M939 actually exploding
Are you sure about that?
This picture represents the pinnacle of our time as a species. Buildings made with love, homegrown plants in the window... Its all downhill from here, boys.
Drive through rural Germany and you see plenty of villages like that.
t.Sauerländer
Germany is a backwater hicktown right after you leave berlin.
And that's a good thing.
t. rural US
>Germany is a backwater hicktown right after you leave Hamburg.
FTFY
>Buildings made with love, homegrown plants in the window
>landlines, payphones, having to buy consumer appliances on layaway
>flying overseas on holiday once ever in your entire life
The frick are you on about? It still looks like this, sometimes even better cause the boomers now had enough money to actually redo their facades and their windows?
I swear filthy urbanites are disgusting
"Over 50 ships
Over 80 Fighter Jets, Helicopters and Drones
Approx 1100 combat vehicles"
Time to be a cool dude.
What is it with these moronic welfare queens fricking everything up in the worst way possible every time there is some kind of big maneuver ? Especially when there is big media coverage like "look mom I made it ont tv !
Let's see your tank driving skills
Abrahams in olive green make me rock hard.
>the wild abrams at the watering hole was alerted to our presence
I wonder what kind of spectacular accidents we will get to see this year.
There's an episode of Cold War Conversations where the guest was a US Army tanker officer in Germany and he was telling how his unit when they did round out exercises to battle positions would be trailed by a major driven around in a jeep with a solider guarding him, and a bag full of cash to make damages right on the spot - one time a tank took out the corner of a German pub and out jumped the major handing out thousands on the spot kek.
Doesn't seem that outrageous seeing how fricking massive armored vehicles are and how little actual driving gets done on those machines. Beginning truck drivers in cities frick up all the time, imagine it being a 60 ton tank and just plowing through most things instead of getting just moderately stuck.
>What is it with these moronic welfare queens fricking everything up in the worst way possible every time there is some kind of big maneuver?
Kind of answered your own question, most are welfare queens who don't have sufficient driving time on said vehicles or all of a sudden find themselves behind the weel way londer than usual, they start getting complacent, somebody swerves and then accidents happen.
>NATO is largely a machine for US defense to keep a tight control on European defense (industry)
>YOU GUYS AREN'T PAYING ENOUGH LIKE WE ARE
It would honestly be for the best if NATO was dissolved and they went their seperate ways. Europe would need to unfrick its defense industry and the US could stop interfering everywhere to keep the stockholders happy.
>Doesn't seem that outrageous
Oh I didn't think it sounded outrageous so much as it sounded fricking hilarious
Europeans are useless cheap parasitic scum. The Europeans defense industries reflect that. Europeans always demanding US technology, while also steal US technology and proliferating it.
Trump is a bullshit artist and also sucks-up to Europeans. The entire American political system is controlled by the same people working against America and Americans' interests. They are treasonous globalists working for some sort of leftist global government agenda.
IMO, the USA should be out of NATO, Europe, UN, Rio Treaty, Japan, South Korea, etc. And when all of you lowlifes attack each other, then good luck with your own problems.
The USA also needs to increase our tariffs on everyone, especially China, EU, UK, Japan, South Korea, etc to have balanced trade or cut off trade completely with some, like China. The USA also needs very very large punitive taxes on foreign investments, in order to correct the wrongs these countries have done to us in the past.
who talks like this...
Ai
That's great, but there'd be no need for readiness exercises if they would just send more ammunition and weapons to Ukraine. Why would you miss out on the ability to kill your potential enemy right on the battlefield with the people who have delivered consistent TZD since day 1? Are we planning for Ukraine to fail?
Fricking morons. Imagine how much better the results would be if we just flooded Ukraine with long range PGMs and set up actual production lines, and if they weren't so faithless after a minor setback.
I agree but maybe after the exercises some of that stuff will find it's way over the border...
poles do it all the time - they lost hinds fulcrums krabs t72s and countless other piec3ees of equipment neat the Ukie border - and all of it mysteriously wanishes during the night..
spooky
Zoinks
>Zoinks Daphne! I think you, me, and scoob better investigate that noise upstairs
>fred, you and Velma team up this time
That's what happened in literally every episode.
No, Fred and Daphne always teamed up. They let the nerds handle the mystery while they went off and fricked in the van
Have you considered what happens in Russia if Ukraine wins
People still haven't caught onto the fact that we don't want Russia to win and we also don't want Ukraine to win.
Yes, and I like the idea of it happening there.
I mean the last winner of the iron spear IFV competition was the Bradley so it makes sense. Plus all that good PR out of Ukraine
>SD24
>idea.cfg
>rename it to TZD24
>only live ammunition is allowed
>starting point is poland
>OPFOR is highly realistic mobiks
>Wichever allied nation manages to bang a prostitute in Rostov first gets to be in charge of NATO for the next few years
It would be a great exercize wouldnt it?
>Able Archer 2024
>90,000 men
>50+ naval vessels
>80+ aircraft
>1100+ combat vehicles
That's a whole lot of stuff
>That's a whole lot of stuff
it's quarterly losses of the vatnig federation
4U
>steadfast defender 24
It ought to be called REFORBAL
90,000 total from 24 countries. Large alliances are useless as a barroom full of talkers. The only thing the 30 morons will agree on is the USA needs to pay more for the deadbeats in NATO. Let the Yuros have NATO. Too bad Trump could not buy Greenland. If he bought it, then the USA would have dumped NATO like some bipolar b***h in a bad relationship.
We need to get out of NATO, Europe, and the UN!
>NATO is... le bad!
>having allies is... le bad!
>having allies is... le bad!
Yes.
favorable trade deals? bad! leverage for controlling markets? bad! markets to export to? bad! greater leverage in negotiations with third parties? bad! imposing your language? bad! buffer zones to prevent war on your soil? bad!
what you should do is leave all the world for your competitors to control
Honestly I don't really agree other than the yuros need to up their game and we really should have manifest destiny on Greenland and Svalbard. It's not like the Danes fricking need it
>Large alliances are useless as a barroom full of talkers
Just because BRICS is a complete joke doesn't mean the rest of the world is like that, Sasha.
Only one NATO member state has ever been attacked in the entirety of the alliances existence - and it was the USA
>and it was the USA
When?
>he forgot
sensible chuckle
You have to be 18 to post here
I'm 24 and I don't remember 9/11. You have to accept the passage of time anon.
>I don't need to know about things that happened before I was born
>before I was born
You're being moronic on purpose aren't you?
>I'm 24 and I don't remember 9/11
You sound like you love the Star Wars prequels.
>You have to accept the passage of time anon.
In which the zoomer unironically defends his being historically illiterate with
>"Dude, that was so long ago."
Seriously the more time goes by, the more deeply convinced you frickers are legitimately the first time a whole generation might be functionally moronic. And I was born 8 years before you.
zoom zoom
Jesus man have your balls even dropped yet?
yet when the US tells them to jump they ask how high
funniest shit I've seen so far is the regular populace going "What the hell? this exists", despite it happening every 3 years so far, besides 2021 because of covid.
the other thing I've been seeing popping up is more and more Russian MTL bots claiming that this is a clear NATO provocation against Russia and Russia never hase done any sorts of these maneuvers near the borders ever
>more and more Russian MTL bots claiming that this is a clear NATO provocation against Russia
eh, they've been doing that forever
If a white man sneezes anywhere west of the Dniepr Russia calls it a provocation
cool. hopefully they drive through poland too. i want to see some abrams homies on the roads.
>we only send 300 guys
feelsbadman
but we also had an exercise of our own with like 6000 in december, specifically on how to induce TZD, so feelsgoodman
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>Cold Response 2012
>Be Squad Leader in Norwegian signals battalion driving a BV206 full of comms stuff
>Be attached to 5-6 different battalions/units over 2 weeks
>Trade MRE's with Swedes, Canadians and Dutch
>20 of us goes to a burger shop on the Saturday
>End of exercise
>Manage to reverse my BV-206 into a Audi A4 driving in from the highway at a gas station
>Don't notice shit and drive off
>MP captain who just happened to be there notices, finds me and brings me back to the gas station
>Northern Norwegian guy standing in front of his car, minor damage on the side
>Fill out damage report with him and MP captain
>Apologize, we start sharing stories
>He starts joking he's just happy that I wasn't Asian or else I would have crushed him and his entire car
>MP captain struggles not to laugh and has to turn away
Kek. Good times.
>Europe is in a cold war against the US
Oh so that's why they've been engaging in constant bilateral trade and many American corporations are merged with European ones. Wait.
Is this MAGA communism?
This poster is derailing the thread. I'm pretty sure it's just AI slop too. What a shame.
Derailing what thread? A tread of nothing?
None of the pointless photo ops from this NATO exercise have been made public. None of the standard Europeans' lies and slander have been told, yet.
Truth be told, this thread should be on /misc/, because it is about a current even and NATO is very very political.
>stop discussing the WEAPONS used at a MILITARY event on my blue bant board
you will never be brahmin
I mean, not wrong but also unnecessary. Europe is turbofricked almost as hard as China is by demographics, resource scarcity, and collapsing markets. The whole red sea houthi thing basically only affects them also. So we don't even need to make a big fuss about it, they are all going to vanish in 30 years anyway.
>entire post of self-contradicting cope and fictionalized events
Bro...
fifth-column xister... You did not claim the US needs to be an isolationist country I hope
Are you moronic or just a homosexual? We don't need you for shit. It's not about isolationism (which isn't necessarily bad either) it's just that you're totally irrelevant.
>we don't need you for shit
1. You're not an American.
2. Oh you need us, you need us for
Materials engineering
Silicon tech
Food production
Machinery
Heavy machinery
The car market
Weapons manufacturing
Pharmaceutical production
Chemical production
Agricultural machine production
Europe exports to the US around 300 billion dollars more than it imports, creates countless jobs and the US unilaterally pulling out would lead to a recession that would make the great depression look like a fresh summer breeze. You don't understand economy, my moron friend.
>Europe exports to the US around 300 billion dollars more than it imports
Not the moron you're responding to, and you're largely correct, but this particular part is less to do with Europe being vital to America and more to do with America just having a frickload of money to spend, and Europe benefitting from America favoring their markets because they exist, and produce quality goods.
Net imports/exports is only ever a piece of the broader tale of economic dependency between blocks.
Hello comrade, how's the weather in ching bong chang?
>300 billion
The net balance of payments is actually 150 billion dollars
The US capital market is 50 trillion dollars, three times the size of all of Europe's put together; capital inflows more than balances out the 150 billion and swings it well the other way
Should just stack tens of thousands of men and armor on the Russian border and has hundreds of aircraft up, just an exercise...
>The USA ends-up bailing out the euro, in order to save it from crashing.
What the frick?
>Europeans do not honor their NATO agreements in peace time, so no way in hell will they ever do so in a war.
The only time NATO article was triggered was by the US over Afghanistan and pretty much everyone sent troops to that shithole. Thanks for that.
What was the largest NATO exercise ever done anyway?
Exercise Lionheart probably
1984 iirc
Hopefully Able Archer 24 is gonna have cool pictures and video like 83 and Lion Heart did.