Minister of National Defense Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz referred to information about the United States’ desire to obtain a Patriot battery, which is equipped with the Polish army. He declared that the government did not intend to move Polish weapons.
“Lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on ours”
Trump: I AM emergency! It is my second and fifth names! I will remember that. I have stopped 8 beautiful oceans and I will easily stop Obama! Covfefe to the USA!
Call the bondulance!
Guess we will know if these weapons have hidden backdoors to disable them soon enough. If anyone would trigger them for such a trivial disagreement, it’s Trump.
It would be such a Trump move to use his option to disable polist Patriot battery and then be angry at Europe because they ban all US tech from military use in Europe
“Say, you have a nice piece of kit there. It would be a shame if something were to break and it neded repair”
All this backdoor fantasies. Why make it harder than needed? USA can easily deny spare parts, new rockets or software updates… or weight in other weapon systems like the Abrams tanks and Apache helicopters Poland has. They could be grounded easily.
Because waiting years or decades for something to break, and for spare parts to run out, is not the same as instantly hitting the button to brick it.
You mean like my PC suddenly stops working when it doesn’t receive updates, or how it suddenly falls apart when the warranty goes out? Funny thing, the people tried to use the same argument when purchasing US planes to try to claim the opposite, that they would still be useful regardless of US attempts at intervention. Decide which is which, maybe?
Anyway, points aside, doesn’t stop from these theories actually existing, as your “All these backdoor fantasies” allude to, so I’m not sure whom you are trying to argue against since in this comment I’m not even pushing them. It’s just making a light-hearted jest that went “whoooosh” past you.
Well, military equipment has a much higher rate of wear and maintenance, than you would expect. Things can become obsolete and unusable in a time span of month rather than years. But sure. Let’s simply compare them to personal computers.
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It’s also rumoured, for a long time, decades, that the US has kill switches in most of the world’s computers. A fusible link they can send a message to that bricks it.
I would propose a deal. USA can pay for SAMP/T, NASAMs, IRIS-T (and get the Patriot battery when it gets freed from duty, maybe 2030ish).
Maybe the old fat orange molester will just go in and take them, Venezuela style.
I’d like to see him try
