Czech soldier firing with a Strela-2M SA-7B MANPADS Man-portable air defense missile system
Posted on 03/27/2022 7:50:19 AM PDT by tlozo
Czech soldier firing with a Strela-2M SA-7B MANPADS Man-portable air defense missile system
Those aren’t going to be very helpful. The SA-7B is equivalent to the US Redeye missile, which had a lot of problems. Both are pretty myopic and aren’t terribly effective against fast movers. The warhead is also small and is known to be able to be shrugged off by Russian armored choppers.
The MG3s would be more useful, but there’s no note that they’re coming with ammo. Ukraine doesn’t have stocks of 7.62x51 NATO ammo - their logistics for GPMGs are centered on the 7.62x54R cartridge, which is not compatible at all.
MANPADS..... đź‘€I thought that was for sanitary use for trans sexuals
MG3 machine gun - a copy of the WW2 MG42 that did much service in the Ukraine already!
We didn’t even send our weapons yet the 800 million dollars that Biden was talking about he is so full of it.
Who will end up with these advanced military weapons when this is all over?
Plenty of slow moving targets. Wouldn’t want to be Russia right now.
Islamic radicals throughout Europe and then to the rest of the world?
Are those for confused soldiers?
“advanced”
Advanced? Vietnam Era weapons.
No airport in Europe will be safe. Just one random airliner being shot down with these every month could effectively end commercial aviation. This decision has not been adequately thought though.
Kein Ă–l fĂĽr dich, du Nazi-Bastarde!
You would think they would come up with a better acronym than “MANPAD.”
I agree. They’ll use the manpads on trucks, etc.
I saw a video of four helicopters being shot down. I lost count of the manpads fired.
Love it. Sending back stuff for the Russians to capture that originally came from Russia. Have to hand it to the Germans. They don’t have to dispose of this old junk themselves.
Unfortunately that is my guess also. I wish for Ukrainians to have all the luck in the world but we have no idea who is getting control of these weapons.
So which is it??
Delivered, or “approved”???
The clickbait contradicts itself in the first sentence.
According to a Tweet published by "The Dead District" on March 26, 2022, citing a German press agency, a shipment of 1,500 Strela MANPADS (Man-portable air-defense systems) and 100 MG3 machine guns from Germany arrived in Ukraine.
Are those for confused soldiers?
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Or for that swimmer from U. Penn?
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