‼️🇺🇸🇪🇺 The US is doing some serious downsizing on military involvement in NATO, — Bild
▪️The publication claims to have a leaked list of forces that Washington plans to pull out of the alliance.
▪️The States were providing NATO with 71 RC-135 refuelers. Now, they're cutting that down to 63, and the more modern KC-46s will be completely excluded from the alliance's forces.
▪️The Pentagon is reducing the presence of F-16 fighters (from 99 to 63) and F-15Es (from 54 to 36).
▪️All long-range reconnaissance drones will be removed from NATO, and the number of strike MQ-9s will be nearly halved.
▪️The US is pulling one of two aircraft carrier strike groups and almost halving the number of cruisers and destroyers, limiting cruise missile launch capabilities.
▪️One of the two bomber squadrons will also be withdrawn from the alliance.
▪️The US has already given a verbal heads-up to allies about these plans in a closed meeting.$BTC
▪️The publication claims to have a leaked list of forces that Washington plans to pull out of the alliance.
▪️The States were providing NATO with 71 RC-135 refuelers. Now, they're cutting that down to 63, and the more modern KC-46s will be completely excluded from the alliance's forces.
▪️The Pentagon is reducing the presence of F-16 fighters (from 99 to 63) and F-15Es (from 54 to 36).
▪️All long-range reconnaissance drones will be removed from NATO, and the number of strike MQ-9s will be nearly halved.
▪️The US is pulling one of two aircraft carrier strike groups and almost halving the number of cruisers and destroyers, limiting cruise missile launch capabilities.
▪️One of the two bomber squadrons will also be withdrawn from the alliance.
▪️The US has already given a verbal heads-up to allies about these plans in a closed meeting.$BTC