It’s early morning, still dark, and I’m off to London 🇬🇧 for � @RANDEurope ⁩ meetings and discussions during the day. Much research of interest has been done since our last meeting.

Here Bradley fighting vehicles are on their way through to . Soon there will follow the even more powerful CV90 fighting vehicles from . These will give entire units radically new capabilities.

There were and are solid reasons for increasing cooperation between and in fighting terrorism as agreed, but now instead prefers to blow up despicable actions by fringe extremists in a way that is to the benefit of no one except these fringe extremists.

It’s very difficult to see why the government is putting itself in a corner so dramatically the way it’s doing on the issue of Leopard tanks to .

In the 1994 tragedy no less than 854 people lost their life’s when the ferry Estonia sunk during a stormy night on the Baltic Sea. A new authoritative official report out today dismissed all conspiracy theories of the years since then, but says that the ferry wasn’t seaworthy.

Nothing on tanks has been announced yet, but if you add up what’s rumored on Leopard’s and Abraham’s’ with the CV90’s and Bradley’s it looks like 2-4 armored brigades. That’s something, although a lot of training is needed to make them effective fighting units.

Leaving London for a day in Copenhagen - but hope to be home in Stockholm again before tomorrow morning.

An interception rate of 85% of the incoming missiles isn’t perfect, but it’s still fairly good. And now it’s old Soviet missies that are being used by - not the more modern ones we saw earlier in the war.

With desperation in the voice, this most aggressive of media propaganda megaphones is now calling for the use of nuclear weapons in order to avoid a defeat that he seems to fear. This war will get more dangerous before it comes to an end.