Forsvarsaftalen med USA.

Thomas skrev:155 mia. kr. over 10 år.

Der skal jo nogle investeringer til - og jeg forstår så udmærket, at amerikanerne selv vil stå for bevogtningen - erfaringsmæssigt, så er bevogtningen af flyvestationerne under enhver form for kritik.

Hvis journalisterne anede, hvad de talte om, så ville de ikke være så nervøse. Procedurerne for atomvåben har altså ændret sig siden 1968. Hvis der skal oplagres atomvåben i Europa, så bliver det på Kleine Brogel i Holland - og det tror jeg heller ikke bliver aktuelt.

Det USA har brug for er de logistiske faciliteter som Danmark kan bidrage med. Det er Danmark som kan være på den direkte rute fra Andrews AFB. Så kan C-5 og C-17 flyve direkte. Ikke nok med den direkte rute - også til havne; men man kan også få tropper og forsyninger videre østpå.

You haven´t followed what is going on: 3 weeks ago the Danish government announced an increase of 155 billion DKK increase in defence budget over ten years or 2 billion Euro annually or an increase of 90 %. Now we can't spend all that money immediately, but there is at once a huge contribution to the financial support to Ukraine.

The point is that we can now give orders. so the manufacturers can invest and recalculate their prices. Which is perhaps the best way to finance - simply because the Danish Government borrows money on the market at a substantial lower interest - simply because there is no inflation in Denmark. Secondly The public debt is just about the lowest in the EU on a pr. capita basis. That is great news for Sweden and Norway.
Experience in Ukraine shows that the CV90 is a lot better than the russian tanks - as tanks. And they are better than the big tanks as infantry support vehicles.
What I do hope is that we can buy second hand Hercules from Great Britain to boost the transport capacity both for deployment and supply. The aim is to give GB some money to get more Atlas transport aircraft.
I also hope that Eurofighter will come up with a better offer on Typhoon - as the introduction of F-35 is picking up and the scarce training ressources are freed - which is why Denmark is training the Ukrainian pilots on F-16.
There is also a whole new class of corvettes for the Baltic Sea coming along. I think that they will be training the navies of the Baltic countries - an when those ships are in series production they will be quite affordable. About half the cost is the weapons systems.