“Lyra describes Javelin missiles bouncing off Russian tanks, NATO replacing good weapons with fragile junk (follow the money) and other things that nazi soldiers are not allowed to complain about”
Considering that Secretary Austin called Putin to ask for a cease fire, maybe sending these weapons makes sense, as they will lead to an earlier end to the war.
Good news. I hadn't heard this.
We had a couple of dozen TOW missiles bounce off Iraqi armor at Khafji because the Saudis engaged at too close range
See, I knew there was something to my earlier analysis. I hadn’t heard this, but the sheer number (17,000 US+NATO Javelins sent, probably half delivered) of these missiles vs. the relatively low number of Russkie tanks killed (according to one estimate 660, a higher estimate, 1,000) is horrifying.
Assume only half the Russkie tanks and all other vehicles (2000 others high end, 1000 low) were killed by these weapons, that would leave a high end of 1,500 destroyed by Javelines, low end of 800. That’s 8,500 Javelins to take out 800-1,500 tanks. Exept wait! Easily half of those tanks/other kiled were NOT killed by Javelins but by artillery, air, mines, other antitank weapons. Which means we have sent 17,000 Javelins that killed 400-750 tanks.
Now put what he said here into this equation. It would make sense. Whether Javs don’t work, or whether Ukes don’t know how to work them is another story. But it’s pretty clear that they absolutely do not give you one shot, one kill. More like 21 shots to one kill (high) or 10:1 low.