• Diplomjodler@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    The Russian army doesn’t have to be good as long as they have plenty of traitors supporting them in the West.

  • ladicius@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Navy sank, air defence not in the air… So the only thing ruzzkis are good at is running their hordes aground?

    We Europeans really need to step up our artillery game. Really, really need to do that, including much more deliveries to Ukraine.

    • prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works
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      8 months ago

      I’ve seen rumors of that, there are apparently videos of Russian air defenses firing at it too.

      Nothing official as far as I’ve seen (but I haven’t seen it all), and the videos of Russian defenses firing might have been firing at the missiles inbound to the A-50 vs at the A-50.

      What matters is that it was disassembled rapidly at altitude.

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        8 months ago

        Ukrainian air defenses say it was their work and it was (perhaps some new variant of) S-200. There are, of course, other explanations of varying credibility, such as:

        • it was Patriot (it was outside of maximum range)
        • it was Meteor or HARM integrated on F-16 or Gripen that already are out there
        • it was SOF MANPADS team
        • it was friendly fire (official russian copium)
        • it was meteorite strike (it just happens in russia)
        • it was ukrainian SAM, they just hid it in krasnodar region
        • it was F22 sneakily firing whatever
        • it was friendly fire, but caused by bribing russian S300 crew
        • it was Girkin after breaking out of jail
        • it was Prigozhin maneouver
        • it just did that

        what really happened? we may never know. the truth is out there

        • Rentlar@lemmy.ca
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          8 months ago

          New intel from NCD: The A50 had too much spicy food last night and had a fatal case of diarrhea. This is supported by video evidence of bright red projectiles from the rear of the aircraft.