• atlasraven31@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I wish we would just go ahead and give ATACMs. It would certainly speed things up.

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      1 year ago

      I’m following the combat activities (the actual combat, not high level strategic stuff). It’s all mines, mines, mines and then some trench warfare.

      No amount of ATACMS can do anything about that. You still have to advance slowly, figure out where the mines are, clean them up or move around them and then take the trenches.

      Drones can do a whole lot more good for a whole lot less.

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      1 year ago

      I think that once the F16 training is completed, it will really change the face of the battle field. I assume we are giving them jdams so they will be capable of striking hundreds of miles into occupied territory.

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        1 year ago

        Aren’t there only a handful of Uke pilots that knew english well enough to do the training? I’m all for sending Ukraine whatever they ask for, but I doubt F-16s will turn the tide

      • Krause [he/him]@lemmygrad.ml
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        1 year ago

        I think that once the HIMARS, BRADLEY, LEOPARD, STORM SHADOW, CLUSTER MUNITIONS, F16 training is completed, it will really change the face of the battle field

        fast-forward 6 months

        I think that once the F22 training is completed, it will really change the face of the battle field

        I think that once the F35 training is completed, it will really change the face of the battle field

        I think that once the LGM-30G MINUTEMAN III NUCLEAR ICBM training is completed, it will really change the face of the battle field