The Gripen has already had one engine replacement as well, the Gripen E has a different one from prior versions. That’s actually part of the problem - the old one was an American design built on licence in Sweden, but the new one is just American

Edit: I’m stupid, didn’t realise that the video actually mentions this specifically. Although I think that comparing the afterburning thrust is a bit off without also mentioning that the non-afterburning thrust, the one used most of the time, is actually higher for the Eurojet

While I do not mean to imply that military fighter jet engines can just be trivially hotswapped, I wonder if the Eurofighter’s engine could be adapted as a replacement? The Eurofighter itself has two because it’s a much larger aircraft, but the individual engines are actually pretty close in dimensions, weight, and performance

It has a active protection system which can handle incoming missiles, that will be a solid defence against drones too. Russia has developed an APS which they’ve used successfully in the invasion, but they only had it ready a few months before their full-scale invasion started, so it’s only on newly-built or fully-refurbished tanks. It also has the drawback that it was initially designed to deal with missiles; Ukraine figured out that it could eventually be overwhelmed by just sending enough drones at it to drain its relatively limited ammo, something that would be impractical with expensive missiles, but until then it apparently handles incoming drones pretty effectively. The Challenger’s one has the benefits of being designed with the knowledge of what drone warfare looks like

It’s also worth noting that nobody publishes videos of drone attacks failing. A cheap little quadcopter with a grenade strapped to it is, ultimately, jut a way to throw a grenade unusually far. A tank like this can shrug off a grenade. Attacking them requires bigger, heavier, more expensive drones carrying bigger, heavier, more expensive munitions. Or you use the drone to sight artillery. But the point remains that even in the age of drone warfare, tanks are still harder to kill. There’s a reason both sides are still using them

That’s such incredibly deep black fur. She’s the platonic ideal of a black cat

Could I resist? No

Would I resist? Also no

That’s a handsome little guy right there. He clearly got the upgraded deluxe whiskers pack too

It is indeed, you’re right. Felis silvestris grampia specifically

https://fivesisterszoo.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Scottish-Wildcat-1-scaled.jpg

Tell my family I died happy

Miamha in Scottish Gaelic! Although I think the Irish míáú is much more fun with the repeated fadas

He looks like he’s already settling into his new home! You must have made a good impression on him

Also this specific instance with the Teufelsrad sounds like something where, even in some hypothetical utopia where nobody ever attempted to upskirt anyone, there is still a) a reason to be filming and b) a solid chance of someone’s skirt lifting up accidentally. So in that regard, the shorts seem like a solid idea

I think the person you’re replying to actuallt just isn’t familiar with the acronym for “internal combuston engine”, since their mentions of America suggests that they think it’s about the American Immigration & Customs Enforcement

It looks like the article itself is being a bit misleading; the actual statement doesn’t mention submods at all, but re-uploads of the original mod. Digging a bit further, it seems like the author is updating the mod to work on the game’s most recent patch, and while he is doing that a bunch of people have used AI to update the mod to that patch and uploaded it wholesale as if it were their own work

Yes, but they don’t actually want Europe to be able to defend itself, they want European money to buy American weapons

It took me longer than it should have to realise that that measuring tape is in inches and your hand is not actually tiny

Hmm, looks the vicious sort to be hunting for bargains at the supermarket

Never doubt cats on the matter of being comfy

While I’m by no means an expert on the matter, as I understand it there is some solid reasoning here: whatever the best solution to fighting drones turns out to be, it’s probably going to require you to bring some heavy equipment and power generation to the frontline. We’ve got various directed-energy systems, guns similar to the CIWS on ships but scaled down, interceptor drones, jammers… But at the end of the day, all of them require you to be able to carry a bunch of heavy shit to the frontline and for it to be durable enough to survive there. At that point you’ve got something a lot like a tank again

This actually seems like a step closer to that future, doesn’t it? Most of the EU operates some variant of the Leopard, especially as the old Soviet and other Eastern Bloc ones age out and get replaced. This project with Italy is to be a variant of the successor to the Leopard, rather than a totally independent design like Italy’s current tanks. Hungary is doing a variant of this too, and France has signed up to collaborate on a tank with Rheinmetall (although the fighter program that collapsed makes this specific case less promising in my eyes). It seems like a general coalescence around the German designs

Even if it made literally no practical difference at all, we should do it to reaffirm our actual reliable alliances