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[-] [email protected] 79 points 11 months ago
[-] [email protected] 56 points 11 months ago

nerd

Um, Shooting down an unmanned drone doesnt count as a "kill"

Like when they shot down that weather balloon does that count as a kill too lol?

[-] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago

The F22 that shot down the weather balloon now has a balloon painted in the cockpit, so I guess??

[-] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

You know what let them cope, Russia also awarded the pilot after downing that reaper drone too lol.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

Yeah but that Russian pilot did some sick ass maneuver without shooting it, that guy is cool as hell

[-] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Oh my god I never looked at the specifics. The footage is so cool

[-] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Imagining some US drone pilot nerd throwing their PS2 controller across the room adds a cherry on top

[-] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

They pissed over it and it crashed and the same day few banks also crashed, then they made a hispanic laugh meme about it, that's advanced techniques.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago

I think they were trying to get it counted as a kill, yeah. Dunno what decision was made in the end.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

The F22's only A2A kills are in fact, balloons

[-] [email protected] 42 points 11 months ago

Hopefully soon the first US female aviator to rain down over the red sea in beautiful tiny pieces

[-] [email protected] 30 points 11 months ago

News then be like "Look at these evil Houthis evilly butchering our smol bean aviator who was just minding her own business"

[-] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago

Actually it was an unrelated malfunction. American planes are never shot down ๐Ÿ™‚

[-] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Cue a million thinkpieces about Arab/Muslim misogyny and whether they can ever truly move into the 21st century and make space for women and girls and maybe we should go over there and ~~civilize them~~ introduce democracy

[-] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

they will pretend she ejected and lived so they can tell lurid stories about what might be happening to her while detained by the Yemenis

[-] [email protected] 42 points 11 months ago

So she shot down a drone? Participation trophy, lul.

[-] [email protected] 40 points 11 months ago

Congrats you shot a drone! you-have-been-promoted

[-] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

This comment has me ๐Ÿ˜ญ

[-] [email protected] 40 points 11 months ago

Hopefully they get the first woman to get blown up by a SAM too

[-] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago

Watching herstory in the making

[-] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

What air-to-air kill? They shot down passenger plane? Oh, a drone. How much that flight cost compared to a drone?

It also led two self-defense strikes on targets in Houthi-controlled Yemen

I wish happy getting self defenced to all imperialist pigs.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

Nothing screams self defence like dropping bombs imperviously from above on a country halfway around the world.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago

Read this in a muffled transatlantic radio voice for the proper vibe

[-] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago

"First female Nazi to defeat a force of partisan fighters, Nazis say (their town to be decimated soon in further response)"

[-] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago

Something something missives of empire etc etc when something called "business insider" is like "CHECK OUT THIS COOL MILITARY PILOT."

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