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To: Widget Jr
Paper maps, and probably old Soviet-era maps at that.

Ukrainians are now using digital displays updated in real-time.

2 posted on 10/06/2022 6:39:16 PM PDT by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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To: pierrem15
Paper maps, and probably old Soviet-era maps at that.

Likely true. There were several tall condo buildings in Kyiv struck by cruise missiles during the first couple months of the war. They were all built in the past 10 years, one of them had just opened. Just a couple blocks away was a defense related manufacturer that never was struck. One assumption is that the maps used to plan the strikes were old. The alternative is that they hit new residential buildings intentionally. Having observed mission planing for TLAM strikes, I can tell you the flight path was very carefully planned. For an urban target, to a ridiculous degree. I used to assume Russia did the same. It seems I was wrong.

5 posted on 10/06/2022 7:08:22 PM PDT by ETCM (“There is no security, no safety, in the appeasement of evil.” — Ronald Reagan)
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