Swedish Armed Forces Staff raise preparedness

[Gerald]

And it's all about the unrest in Ukraine and vicinity.

Headquarters
In view of the serious developments in Ukraine acting Armed Forces by including height staff preparedness in the headquarters and enhanced intelligence gathering. Staff work is intended to review the need to adapt preparedness, upcoming exercises and other activities. - We follow the development closely, says the head of management staff Lieutenant General Jan. Salestrand. (Translated from Swedish)



Given the increased activity exercises in the Baltic Sea is incident root currently stationed on the island.

http://www.forsvarsmakten.se/sv/aktu...bsberedskapen/

Note: 29 augusti 2014 kl: 17.03.

[mapuc]

I read and heard about it in the Swedish news. What I think is funny in this story is that Sweden have moved "2" of our JAS39 to Gotland.

Only Two against how many Russian MIG or Su !!??

I do know that our JAS39 is a very good fighter jet and our pilots are well trained, that is just ain't enough.

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I don't think Putin is interested in escalating the crisis in Ukraine. (I hope he isn't)

Markus

[Gerald]

Originally Posted by mapuc

I read and heard about it in the Swedish news. What I think is funny in this story is that Sweden have moved "2" of our JAS39 to Gotland.

Only Two against how many Russian MIG or Su !!??

I do know that our JAS39 is a very good fighter jet and our pilots are well trained, that is just ain't enough.

Back to story

I don't think Putin is interested in escalating the crisis in Ukraine. (I hope he isn't)

Markus

I do not think that to Markus, to launch a large-scale war.

[Skybird]

Its more bureaucratic excercising. When some months ago NATO announced that it would increase the alarm level of its interceptor patrol in the Baltic, it only meant that they would continue with already scheduled training flights that already were running at that time.

And when German airforce announced that they would contribute to that "increased" NATO presence by sending aircraft, that only meant that they sent I think 4 or 6 airplanes that served as training targets for the NATO fighters exercising there, and after being "shot" down as planned, returned to German bases.

The Baltic Sea I would expect to already be under tight NATO surveillance by submarines, mainly German ones. The Baltic is Germany's primary naval focus within the framework of NATO doctrine and scenarios focussing on the USSR/Russia.

[mapuc]

Originally Posted by Vendor

I do not think that to Markus, to launch a large-scale war.

During my time in the Swedish Navy I said to one of our Officer. Soviet is not in anyway interested in occupying the entire country.

What Soviet is intested in is two areas

South Sweden and part of middle Sweden- Clear access to Denmark and North sea and so on.

Northern part of Sweden.

It's about 50 % of Our country they are interested in.

I remember he asked me how I knew this

I don't know for sure, but if I was the leader of Soviet, why should I use soldiers equipment a.s.o to invade a whole country, when I only need access to some part of our county.

Markus

[nikimcbee]

Is Putin going to annex IKEA?

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by nikimcbee

Is Putin going to annex IKEA?

ROFLMAO....Putin is well and truly worried now