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Russia announced it had deployed, to Ukraine, its best new artillery-detecting radar. Hours later, the Ukrainians blew it up—with artillery. (www.forbes.com)

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Ukraine plinking a Russian GPS-jammer with a GPS-guided bomb. Ukrainian drones blowing up Russian drone-jammers. Ukraine’s cruise missiles striking Russian air-defense sites whose missions include, you guessed it, shooting down cruise missiles.

Russia’s 23-month wider war on Ukraine has seen a lot of ironic, darkly-hilarious clashes. The latest was also one of the quickest between setup and punchline.

On Tuesday morning, Russian media announced the deployment, to Ukraine, of Russian forces’ latest high-tech counterbattery radar. A few hours later in southern Ukraine, the Ukrainians blew it up ... with artillery rockets.

The irony deepens. In theory, a Russian Yastreb-AV radar would help to protect Russian troops from Ukraine’s American-made High-Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems launchers—its HIMARS. Now guess what the Ukrainians used to destroy that first Yastreb-AV.

That’s right: HIMARS.

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[-] yannic@lemmy.ca 9 points 10 months ago

Anyone else, here read, the title in Christopher Walken's voice?

[-] quinkin@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Well I have now.

[-] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Ooo, that's good. Also try William Shatner.

[-] citizen@normalcity.life 8 points 10 months ago

You can deduct two things from this:

-Russia is not as big of a threat as propaganda depicts it

-Spending trillions in "defense" is useless

[-] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 months ago

Let's spend trillions on offense for Ukraine instead! Help them take back Crimea and make Russia afraid to go on conquest again.

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[-] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

-Spending trillions in “defense” is useless

Who knew that skimming money off the top at every level will leave you with nothing but a shell of a military?

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[-] simple@lemm.ee 7 points 10 months ago

"Hmm, that's weird... It's coming right for us."

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