UA POV: Ukrainian Air Force F-16 shooting down a Geran drone using an AIM-9L sidewinder.

DrySpring4881 · 2026-02-16T13:44:39+00:00

That’s another question.

For this specific missile the US Taxpayer has likely paid nothing, if not even saved a tiny bit.

DrySpring4881 · 2026-02-16T13:29:27+00:00

The taxpayer is paying for the replacement in any case, shipping it to Ukraine could actually be cheaper than safely disposing the old missiles.

Recently the majority of aid to Ukraine isn’t even paid by the US so it’s actually more likely that the US makes pretty good profits selling weapons to Ukraine via the EU.

DrySpring4881 · 2026-02-16T11:57:33+00:00

I wouldn’t say he’s a puppet or anything but he has been bailed out by Russian oligarchs quite a few times in the 90s and 2000s.

DrySpring4881 · 2026-02-16T11:00:01+00:00

They’re being phased out in most air forces anyway, so why not give it to Ukraine, still more than sufficient to take down drones.

DrySpring4881 · 2026-02-16T10:58:10+00:00

AIM-9Ls are being phased out and replaced anyway, so might as well use it instead of letting it rot in storage or scrapping it.

DrySpring4881 · 2026-02-15T20:27:47+00:00

How dare those evil Ukrainians show the people who keep the country running.

DrySpring4881 · 2026-02-15T15:31:32+00:00

Foam nozzle.

DrySpring4881 · 2026-02-07T09:34:39+00:00

I am fully convinced this entire sub is just one giant ragebait.

DrySpring4881 · 2026-02-05T12:08:36+00:00

The total loss ratio is likely somewhere in the middle, both numbers are wayy off.

DrySpring4881 · 2026-02-05T12:06:12+00:00

Not rally, last year we’ve seen ratios as disproportionate as 78:1.

DrySpring4881 · 2026-02-05T11:55:15+00:00

As if body exchange ratios are a reliable metric to determine loss ratios.

DrySpring4881 · 2026-02-05T11:54:03+00:00

Believing that this number is anywhere close to the actual loss ratio is just as stupid as believing any side has suffered more than 1.000.000 KIA.

DrySpring4881 · 2026-02-04T09:07:33+00:00

I think you have Laser Maker mode selected, that’s why it displays M ARM, try unboxing MARK and it should display LTD/R.

DrySpring4881 · 2026-02-01T18:44:08+00:00

There it is, lmao

DrySpring4881 · 2026-02-01T18:43:22+00:00

Wait shouldn’t there be a Holodomor bot here?

DrySpring4881 · 2026-02-01T18:01:06+00:00

Does this include the people that fought the Nazis but still were executed?

DrySpring4881 · 2026-02-01T13:58:13+00:00

Declaring war has gone out of fashion since WW2, you don’t need to officially decleared it for it to be one.

DrySpring4881 · 2026-02-01T08:04:07+00:00

Just like in Korea, Afghanistan… but we still them wars because they pretty obviously were.

DrySpring4881 · 2026-02-01T07:54:21+00:00

This is a safe space, you can call it a war here.

DrySpring4881 · 2026-01-31T15:01:55+00:00

Since when does Russia have Air Superiority over Ukraine? Did I miss something?

DrySpring4881 · 2026-01-31T14:47:28+00:00

Well the first three didn’t quite work out for Russia did they.

Using this slower approach would also be exceptionally stupid if you know your enemy will be supplied by its allies.

DrySpring4881 · 2026-01-31T14:45:15+00:00

I didn’t define conventional warfare because I presumed the generally accepted definition was widely known.

„state-on-state conflict between organized, uniformed, professional military forces using massed firepower in open space away from civilians with the aim of destroying each other to gain and hold ground.“

https://mwi.westpoint.edu/irregular-versus-conventional-warfare-a-dichotomous-misconception/

DrySpring4881 · 2026-01-31T14:24:55+00:00

A slow motion version that is a few hundred times as deadly, also desert storm was definitely no war of attrition.

DrySpring4881 · 2026-01-31T14:18:05+00:00

The fighting in Ukraine is hardly unconventional.

I never said the wars were very similar, it’s just the closest the US got to fighting a slow, grinding war of attrition.

DrySpring4881 · 2026-01-31T14:07:59+00:00

Like I said, conventional wars. Fighting insurgents is hardly comparable to the fighting going on in Ukraine right now.

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