When was Sweden granted membership into NATO?
I knew that Finland had been granted membership earlier this year but the last I heard Turkey was still withholding their Yes vote.
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My mistake, I am very embarrassed to admit that I got two wonderful Scandinavian countries mixed up. I have even visited one of them:
My statement about a message still stands 
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True. Hungary, a SAAB JAS-39 Gripen user, are also witholding their ratification.
So Sweden becomes a NATO member once these two member states has ratified the application.
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I will drink a toast in celebration when Sweden’s accession is completed at the July NATO summit. 
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A nice video from the same Growler driver as above - refuelling above Iraq. Nice honest footage (he had a second there where he got frustrated just like I do in the sim…although admittedly he didn’t brrrt the tanker) and good voiceover.
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I know this skirts the border like a Tu-38 snooper, but I’d happily trade both orban’s and erdogan’s paradises of freedom and values for Sweden.
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I have a couple hungarian colleagues and they agree with you…
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Sorry. Reddit again. This is a Ka-52 getting missed by a SAM by inches. Personally, I’d rather the missile had focused on the correct heat signature. But, grudgingly, I must admit some true talent there; either in the design of the CMS on in the pilot’s perfect timing.
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I think this thread is tabu for me today…
Rather interesting in subject matter. Also, the visuals are superb! Best watched in 4k.
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sorry - wrong thread 
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Get some! Wales map for DCS confirmed.
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Time to get excited…
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Wait, what… I would buy that.
I have been following this series for a while:
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Just stumbled across this video - not the best quality and best turn the volume down (unless you’re on a space trip!) and probably only of meaning to those of us on a nostalgia trip.
Seems to have been taken some years after we were there in the mid 70’s - there were no Pumas, Chinooks or GR.7s during our posting.
It also gave me the first opportunity since being there, to see the spot I used to go to watch the aircraft, between 18sqn hangar and the runway, right next to the feeder taxiway, on a big mound called “Hand Brake Hill” because that’s where the MT section used to take the vehicles to test their handbrakes.
I sometimes had to share it with a Rock Ape Rapier unit - seem to remember having told of this here before - and had a visit by the odd pilot and the station commander once. Best behaviour! Also had the RAFP (aka Snowdrops) come up once to check I wasn’t taking photo’s. Best spotting point on the base!
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I was watching this great story about this guy in Norway, who along with a good friend or two, restored this L4 back to original condition. We exchanged messages and he forwarded this beauty. I think that they have as many as six now flying.
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I saw those guys at the Airshow at Kjeller, in June.
A good friend of mine owns an L-4 in Sweden. It flew in the ETO in 1944-45 for the 9th Airforce.
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Nice Troll. I love what the guys in Norway are doing, complete down to the frame restorations as original, or near original. I think that I remember Kermit Weeks saying that he loved flying his L4 as much as his Mustangs.
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