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Patriot Defense Leaves Skeptics Wordless, Russians Embarassed, and Kiev Littered With Pieces of Putin's Wonder Weapons
Red State ^ | 05/16/2023 | streiff

Posted on 05/16/2023 9:09:04 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

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By the time hohos ever get around to launching this grand "CounterOffensive(TM)" of theirs, they're gonna have to do it with clubs and spears.
21 posted on 05/17/2023 2:32:18 AM PDT by ganeemead (Ukraine/Zelensky: Adding an element of chutzpah to ordinary Nazism...)
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To: SeekAndFind

“Wonder Weapons” also were part of Hitler’s downfall. Tanks too big to be transported by rail and too heavy to cross any bridge in Europe. So many different supply trucks were built for Wehrmacht use that they needed to stock most of a million repair parts to keep them all running.

Allied research after the war concluded that if Germany had committed all the financial and industrial resources they’d expended on the V1 & V2 rocket programs (which did little to promote German chances of victory) toward conventional aircraft, they could have built an additional 25,000 fighter airplanes.

Which doesn’t paint to rosy a picture for Putin’s hypersonic missiles either.


22 posted on 05/17/2023 6:03:32 AM PDT by threefinger
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That many aircraft wouldn’t of made any difference. Germany didn’t have the fuel or the pilots to operate them.


23 posted on 05/17/2023 6:16:12 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: House Atreides

The best way to save money on military hardware is to not use it. Better still and even more money saved by not making it at all.

Yes let all those other guys waste perfectly good money that could go to feed the homeless, supply needles, free drugs, and massive amounts of free stuff for illegal aliens.

We, here in the US, renounce all military type thingies and pledge all available tax payer money to fighting climate change and handing out free stuff to the disadvantaged citizen or non-citizen alike; we do not discriminate; we practice DIE for your benefit. Come one come all, you want it, we got it FREE!!!.

No military, no police our pledge to you! Any store: take up to $1,000 worth of merchandise per store on us!


24 posted on 05/17/2023 6:42:06 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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Lighten up Mister Other-People’s-Money.


25 posted on 05/17/2023 6:43:23 AM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA. -PRO-MAX’)
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To: threefinger

Putin’s hypersonic missiles either.


Are just the standard 9K720 Iskander ballistic missile with a different motor. Even China has a better prototype. They cannot glide nor maneuver. Their tail fins are mostly useless.


26 posted on 05/17/2023 6:46:01 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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It is fun to think of Putin/Russia as a 98 lb. Joe Blow weakling. It appears Russia/Putin is incapable of learning new fighting skills or teaching them.


27 posted on 05/17/2023 7:22:50 AM PDT by gleeaikin (Question authority!)
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OOU Hit were it hurts, eh? Humor causes you all fits. 🤣


28 posted on 05/17/2023 7:42:29 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: gleeaikin

Not only is Putin a 98lb weakling, but he is also a shrimp!


29 posted on 05/17/2023 7:43:24 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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“ OOU Hit were it hurts, eh? Humor causes you all fits. 🤣”
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No, doofus, it’s not humor to imply that if billions aren’t given to Ukraine it will go to a bunch of leftist causes. Mister Other-People’s-Money, how about if we simply don’t spend that money that we don’t have?


30 posted on 05/17/2023 8:07:21 AM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA. -PRO-MAX’)
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You get more ridiculous by the year with all your conflation.


31 posted on 05/17/2023 8:40:22 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: threefinger

Putin did a little better. He never built any wonder weapons. He just lied and said that he has them and there were plenty of people eagerly repeating his lies and urging deference to Russia based on these lies.

“America is toast because Russia has Hype Sonic Missiles!”

Can’t keep the lie up if you actually have to use the weapon though.


32 posted on 05/17/2023 9:02:20 AM PDT by Krosan
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They do learn slowly: they are using drones a lot more and seem to be better at coordinating artillery and infantry, although they sometimes follow the Soviet habit of still shelling their own troops as they advance.

The main problem is the Soviet-style rigid command structure, which works when you have multiple waves of large numbers of troops and vehicles, which Putin doesn't have given the areas being fought over. If the Ukrainians break through with a large enough mobile force, they can't react fast enough. The other problem of course is massive corruption: much of Russia's military supplies exist only on paper.

33 posted on 05/17/2023 9:25:17 AM PDT by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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34 posted on 05/17/2023 10:54:29 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (NeverTrumpin' -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Lies

https://www.infowars.com/posts/u-s-admits-russia-bombed-americas-patriot-missile-system-in-ukraine/


35 posted on 05/18/2023 5:46:27 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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