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Putin dismisses importance of U.S.-supplied weapons to Ukraine (www.nbcnews.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A Russian missile attack killed two civilians in an apartment building in southern Ukraine on Wednesday, local authorities said, as President Vladimir Putin dismissed the importance of a new U.S.-supplied weapon that Kyiv used to execute one of the most damaging attacks on the Kremlin’s air assets since the start of the war.

Putin told reporters that Russia “will be able to repel” further attacks by the U.S.-made Army Tactical Missile System, known as ATACMS.

Ukraine claimed it used those missiles to destroy nine Russian helicopters, as well as ammunition, an air defense system and other assets at two airfields in Russia-occupied regions on Tuesday.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm just going to point out that we made this thing in the 90s to fight an enemy we didn't expect this thing to do more than mildly wound.

This wasn't a great wunderwaffen, this was just our version or advanced artillery, and here it is shattering parts of the Russian army at a stroke.

The greatest generation would be so confused.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The US has spent decades preparing to fight an enemy on equal technological footing, and now that it turns out that enemy never made it past the 1970s technologically or organizationally, the US is basically fighting with lasers against muskets.

China might be able to bring more to the table but that's looking questionable.

Disregarding the nuclear option, I suspect a direct conflict with Russia would, while costly, end up much like the middle east, where the enemy only succeeds with guerilla tactics and throwing bodies at the problem, but can never hope to actually win.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

What's sad is that after the Soviet Union fell... we decided to go ahead and finish the F-22.

That's not even overkill, that's just insulting their mother.