https://www.businessinsider.com/russian-soldiers-rely-phones-to-fight-ukraine-risks-killing-them-2024-7

  • Ram_The_Manparts [he/him]
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    4 months ago

    Yeah, I believe it was about some Howitzers that were delivered without targeting systems because NATO were worried they'd get captured by the Russians, so the Ukrainian fire teams had to manually calculate trajectories on their phones.

    I'm also reminded of what might be the dumbest thing to ever happen in any modern conflict, when a Ukrainian training camp for foreign volunteers got blown the fuck up because one of said volunteers literally posted the camps position on reddit-logo