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Kyiv Independent reports:

Hungary signs deal to buy Swedish fighter jets amid preparations to approve Sweden's NATO bid

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban met his Swedish counterpart Ulf Kristersson in Budapest on Feb. 23 and agreed to purchase four Swedish JAS Gripen fighter jets.

After almost two years of delays, Hungary's parliament is set to bring Sweden's NATO accession to a vote on Feb. 26. The ruling Fidesz party has pledged its support for the ratification, making its passage all but ensured...

..."We not only keep our air defense capability but will increase it ... which means our commitment to NATO will strengthen, and so will our participation in NATO's joint operations," Orban said at a joint press conference with Kristersson.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban met his Swedish counterpart Ulf Kristersson in Budapest on Feb. 23 and agreed to purchase four Swedish JAS Gripen fighter jets.

Essentially, after all his delays, Orban needed a fig leaf to make it seem like he was getting something for Hungary's vote. After Kristersson refused to meet with him a couple weeks ago to discuss (grovel for) Sweden's NATO membership, Orban had to come up with something else. This purchase is that something. Of course Sweden had a card that they kept up their sleeve - at least publicly. Hungary's only combat jet is the Gripen. They are completely dependent on Sweden, and without Swedish support, their fighter fleet would quickly degrade and become useless.

Meanwhile, Sweden built 14 unsold Gripen C/D aircraft to keep the Gripen assembly line open during development of the Gripen E/F. These aircraft have been sitting unsold for years. So Sweden gets to sell 4 of these jets, and Hungary gets 4 new Gripens. Even without Sweden's accession to NATO, it's a win-win deal for Hungary and Sweden.

Ukrainian Bradley only had a two-person crew when it wrecked a T-90

“A little over a week (month) ago combat footage out of Ukraine went viral, showing a U.S.-donated Bradley Fighting Vehicle with Ukraine’s armed forces taking on a Russian T-90M tank and quickly making short work of it. The decades-old Bradley, essentially an armored personnel carrier and not a tank itself, drove circles around the modern Russian tank. It fired its 25mm gun nonstop until the Russian armor was disabled and crashed into a tree. It turns out the Bradley did that with only a crew of two.”
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