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Critical support for America's efforts to reduce the number of functional THAAD batteries by feeding all the radars to Shahed drones.
My government told me that drones keep blowing up his THAADs so I asked how many THAADs he has and he said he just goes to other bases and gets a new THAAD afterwards so I said it sounds like he's just feeding THAADs to drones and then his voters started crying.
Seems a bit late for that now.
Yeah, and if the original ones got destroyed, what makes them think these ones won't?
I can only imagine they are thinking they can find an offramp to the war and then turn around to their allies to say "okay you need to buy all new everything from us because all your stuff got destroyed"
Who'd want to spend trillions to restock on equipment that was just proven to be a total battlefield failure?
Loyal vassals who are in on the money laundering scheme
Who'd want to spend trillions to restock on equipment that was just proven to be a total battlefield failure?
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I imagine that's the thinking, their problem is that they don't control escalation in this war. It's even worse than Ukraine because there the US could just bail and dump the whole thing on Europe. In this war, the US is directly involved and Iran has no reason to end it on American terms.
Yes they seem to be half baked on every front of this war
yesterday: 4 THAAD batteries have been disabled in the middle east. there are 4 remaining THAAD batteries in the world
today: US moving parts of THAAD system from south korea to middle east
tomorrow: 5 THAAD batteries have been disabled in the middle east. there are 3 remaining THAAD batteries in the world
Also, I thought 5 were already disabled?
Lmao, come on North Korea, do something funny. The time for reunification is upon us
Imma be real with you Kim, fire when ready 
me when the war is definitely going amazing
Our ATTACK will be SO BIG the world has NEVER SEEN SOMETHING LIKE IT!!!! *moves defense system across 3 oceans cuz all existing defense systems got destroyed in less than a week
Lol, but seriously, can this just go into a plane? Cuz if not how will it even arrive where its needed? (Kuwait I guess?)
they airlift THAAD systems. it takes a heap of large planes tho
IIRC @MarmiteLover123@hexbear.net said it takes about 40-60 flights of those beeeg cargo planes for one full system
Only if they move the whole battery. Here, it looks like they're just moving the ammunition, none of the launchers, command and control, or the radar are being moved. That requires a lot less flights, just to move ammunition.
russo japanese war baltic fleet moment incoming
Come on, Kim. I know you want to
Offer the South Korean reunification and walk into Seoul.
Something this war made me think about was the common liberal statement that "North Korea has thousands of artillery pointing at Seoul and can obliterate it at any time".
Like, yeah they have thousands of artillery but it's not pointing at Seoul is it? It's gonna be pointing at the US base and strategic military positions.
They aren't just gonna kill civilians for the sake of it. But this is always how it's posed. It actually took this Iran war for me to notice this little bit of propaganda. I only realised it when the media presented the current missile strikes as attacks against regional countries when it's clearly obvious they're only attacking the US military positions in those countries and not the countries themselves.
Also, it's a case of projection because as we see in Iran, attacking civilians is precisely what the empire is doing.
Yeah, like, even if they ultimately wanted to kill a bunch of S Koreans, they STILL wouldn't have their weapons pointed at Seoul because Seoul isn't a threat...
One word: projection.
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