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British-made Starstreak missiles are ready to be deployed in Ukraine to take down Putin's jets imminently
Daily Mail ^ | 3.26.2022 | Glen Owen

Posted on 03/26/2022 3:20:23 PM PDT by libh8er

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To: libh8er

Better hope the IRA doesn’t come out of hibernation.


21 posted on 03/26/2022 4:04:54 PM PDT by 2banana (Common ground with islamic terrorists-they want to die for allah and we want to arrange the meeting)
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To: Eleutheria5

Nope. SACLOS, laser beam riders. But interestingly it deploys three submunitions to maximize hit probability.


22 posted on 03/26/2022 4:10:50 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: libh8er
the Starstreak system – a shoulder-mounted missile that travels at more than three times the speed of sound to take down low-flying enemy jets – was ready to be used imminently.

These man portable weapon systems are to 80s style tank and armor centric armies what cell phones and microwave telecom were to Ma Bell. Decentralization kills. Even in civilian life you see the trend. This week 2 more states went to Constitutional Carry. A fifty year old woman is much less reliant on a centralized police force when she has a lightweight, relible, accurate $400 micro 9.

23 posted on 03/26/2022 4:11:29 PM PDT by Poison Pill
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To: BenLurkin

The Daily Mail is consistently one sided. It is better if the public knew the truth about the situation, lest we fall into a disastrous war for little advantage. Such is not the case, as it was with the Gulf of Tonkin, Iraqi WMD laboratories, the sinking of the Lusitania, the true story of the sinking of the USS Maine, etc.


24 posted on 03/26/2022 4:11:58 PM PDT by packagingguy
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To: packagingguy

Are you asserting starstreaks are ineffective?


25 posted on 03/26/2022 4:19:31 PM PDT by 1forest1
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To: Eleutheria5

Don’t hold your breath.
They told Ruskies had 3 days of food about a week ago.
They still eatin good in the neighborhood!


26 posted on 03/26/2022 4:24:08 PM PDT by CarolinaReaganFan
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To: libh8er

I didn’t know England was at war with Russia.

If you sell weapons to one side before the war, that is commerce.

When you give weapons to one side during the war, you become an ally.


27 posted on 03/26/2022 4:37:04 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: libh8er

The Democrats must have been doing some really dirty stuff in Ukraine.


28 posted on 03/26/2022 4:39:54 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: libh8er

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29 posted on 03/26/2022 4:42:38 PM PDT by sauropod (Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad.)
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To: CarolinaReaganFan
"They still eatin' good in the neighborhood!"

It ain't easy feedin' 170,000 people three squares a day. Especially when the neighbors are shooting at them. Uber Eats drivers don't like that either.

30 posted on 03/26/2022 4:43:55 PM PDT by norwaypinesavage (Capitalism is what happens when you leave people alone.)
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To: libh8er

Ask the whining Putin butt kissers here make me ill.
Frigging Russia is announcing they are going to concentrate operations in the East, and morons here are telling you Kiev is about to fall.
Then, every report of Russian losses is a lie.
Daily Mail favors Ukraine? Boo hoo. Britain is on the side of Ukraine.
And so is Donald J Trump. So eat that.


31 posted on 03/26/2022 5:24:24 PM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: Mariner

Thanks. I did a quick check on Wikipedia.

Appreciate the info.

L


32 posted on 03/26/2022 5:25:00 PM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: libh8er

Stop talking and start shipping them, now!


33 posted on 03/26/2022 5:27:49 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (Figures )
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To: libh8er
Speaking as someone who owns a British car.... let's just say I'm skeptical.


34 posted on 03/26/2022 5:34:49 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: blueunicorn6

That’s why we declared war on Russia and China during the Vietnam war, right?


35 posted on 03/26/2022 5:39:03 PM PDT by nascarnation (Let's Go Brandon!)
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To: Eleutheria5

We didn’t have great success hitting targets during Kosovo when flying at angels 15+. I doubt the Russkie pilots have the skills of our USAF pilots and naval aviators.


36 posted on 03/26/2022 5:42:36 PM PDT by xkaydet65 ( )
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To: xkaydet65

I have read the Russian jet jockeys get about 1/3 the seat time of our guys. Mostly due to cost and maintenance issues. If true, that’s a pretty big deficiency.


37 posted on 03/26/2022 5:44:03 PM PDT by nascarnation (Let's Go Brandon!)
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To: nascarnation

I saw a 60 Minutes show where they interviewed a North Vietnamese Soldier from the Vietnam war.

He said all the North Vietnamese men were fighting in South Vietnam.

He said the Chinese backfilled them in North Vietnam.

Yes, the Russians and Chinese were Allies of North Vietnam.

We didn’t attack them because we were afraid of having a nuclear war.


38 posted on 03/26/2022 5:48:38 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: libh8er

I’ve been out for a while, but the Soviets had a quite different view of atomic weapons than we did.

Our culture viewed nuclear weapons as some sort of world killing event.

The Soviets saw nuclear weapons as just big explosions. Something like artillery.

I don’t know if the Russians have changed from the Soviets ideas.

Maybe they have.

I wouldn’t bet on it.


39 posted on 03/26/2022 5:54:49 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: CarolinaReaganFan

CarolinaReaganFan wrote:

“Don’t hold your breath.
They told Ruskies had 3 days of food about a week ago.
They still eatin good in the neighborhood!”

...................

Next up, .... waiting for it, ...
“Starving Russian troops are eating babies!”
Never seen this level of gaslighting since the Nazis.
Goebbels would be proud of his neo-comrades.

SS1


40 posted on 03/26/2022 6:40:31 PM PDT by Spitzensparkin1 (Donate often, it is our FReeping ammo. Help keep the supply train rollin', be a monthly donor. )
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