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[–] [email protected] 62 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Okay, yeah, respect where it's due, the field expedient cruise missile does work.

How much does a tomahawk missile cost? I think cessnas run like 200k or 400k

[–] [email protected] 44 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Tomahawks tend to fly a bit faster and have a more focused payload.

Doing a Flying Timothy McVeigh certainly creates a large explosion. I have to question whether this strike had a meaningful impact on drone production, any more than McVeigh's strike had a meaningful impact on the FBI's ability to operate in the US Southwest. A ballistic missile would have had the same penetration and done far more damage.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 7 months ago (1 children)

TIL that it was an FBI building.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 7 months ago

Federal building generally. It had a bunch of offices, including the DEA and the ATF. The latter is what he was (mostly) targeting, since it was (mostly) in response to Ruby Ridge and Waco.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

it hit a residential annex, so production is not slowed whatsoever