• ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    By all accounts, the RF's air defense network is really fucking good, because they've had like 60 years to adapt to the NATO strategy of sending a million bombers to level a place and counting on the enemy being too poor the intercept them.

    Although even then, the Viet Minh sometimes managed to shoot down US planes just with massed rifle fire

    • SpaceDogs@lemmygrad.ml
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      1 year ago

      Well it’s nice to know that its the exact opposite of what is being stated. You’d think if it was that easy they’d send planes over by now but clearly that wouldn’t bode well for NATO…

      • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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        1 year ago

        I personally think that's why Ukraine hasn't been given F35s, because the US knows it would be a pr disaster for it's highly publicized, peer combat-untested 80 million dollar wunderwaffe to eat an S-3000 missile that 'only' cost a million to make.

        • olgas_husband@lemmygrad.ml
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          1 year ago

          also, if russian federation could salvage it and study more efficient ways to combat then, so us would be forced to retrofit lots of units