• magnetosphere @beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    I really like the wording here. My initial thought was “how the fuck did Putin get his greasy hands on Storm Shadows - oh. Heh heh heh.”

    • ansik@kbin.social
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      They’re pretty easy to get a hold of nowadays, just send the adress of any known officer HQ and we’ll send them over, express arial delivery :)

      • fluxion@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        But now he fights for Ukraine because Putin is giving evil military groups a bad name

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      British/French made an air-launched cruise missile with a 550km stand off range. They are fairly low profile so hard to detect and the high stand off range makes it safer for the pilots flying the launch platform.

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        Notably the missile also has antibunker capability. Which is why Russian command centers are blowing up regularly.

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      It’s a British cruise missile. IIRC it was co developed with the French but the French call it SCALP. It’s been fucking up targets deep in Russian controlled territories.

    • sorebuttfromsitting@sopuli.xyz
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      it’s a death missile. [edit] it is a boring bomb. if russia left ukraine today, that stupid missile would be nothing more than a boring bomb.