>> So, by your logic, if a US soldier shoots an enemy with his M9 Beretta pistol, that was an Italian action.
That’s trite.
Major weapons systems like Storm Shadow are significantly different than commodities like handguns. So, absolutely, it was a “kill” by Britain in what everyone with a shred of honesty recognizes is a proxy war. Without NATO help Ukraine couldn’t find its own ass with both hands and a flashlight.
But I suspect you already know that. However, like the typical zeeper, you’re comfortable with dissembling and false logic.
Does that apply to India and all the other nations that use American or any foreign weapons?
Major U.S. Arms Orders from and
Deliveries to India by Use, 2000-2022
(Deliveries completed unless otherwise noted.)
Air
• 28 AH-64 Apache combat helicopters (22 delivered)
• 1,354+ AGM-114 Hellfire anti-tank missiles
• 245 Stinger portable surface-to-air missiles
• 12 APG-78 Longbow combat helicopter radars
• 6 spare helicopter turboshafts
• 15 CH-47 Chinook transport helicopters
• 13 C-130 Hercules transport aircraft (12 delivered)
• 11 C-17 Globemaster III heavy transport aircraft
• 2 MQ-9A Reaper UAVs (two-year lease in 2020)
• 512 CBU-97 guided bombs
• 234 aircraft turboprops (228 delivered)
• 147 aircraft turbofans (48 delivered)
Sea
• 1 Austin-class amphibious transport dock
• 24 MH-60R Seahawk naval helicopters (6 delivered)
• 12 P-8I Poseidon patrol and ASW aircraft
• 48 Mk-54 ASW torpedoes (32 delivered)
• 6 S-61 Sea King ASW helicopters
• 53 Harpoon anti-ship missiles
• 1 Harpoon Joint Common Test Set (accepted)
• 24 naval gas turbines (6 delivered)
Land
• 12 Firefinder counterbattery radars
• 145 M-777 towed 155mm howitzers
• 1,200+ M-982 Excalibur guided artillery shells
• 72,400+ SIG Sauer SIG716 assault rifles
There’s also the fact that the M9s for the US contract were built at a facility in Maryland. Which is not Italy, the last I looked.