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It reads like Soviet-era gear has some magic properties, like some legendary sword in an RPG
That’s badass but also very telling of how the media will spin everything to not admit thah NATO/Ukraine are just bad at this and get steamrolled by 40 years old tech
American weapons since the change of the American weapon mentality that emerged in the mid 20th century have been overengineered that always assume you’re in the ideal circumstance… weapons companies intentionally design their weapons and war machines to break down easily to make more money including making systems obtuse requiring a first party engineer to repair it (something impossible in an ACTUAL war). That’s why the Vietnamese would only ever pick up M16s if they ran out of AK47s.
The American weapons of war are great initially but are unreliable in the long term.
“Forged in the anvils of Stalingrad by the man himself, it glows red when counter-revolutionaries are present and can vanquish an M1 Abrams or HIMARS with just a single swipe, sending them into the eternal gulag”
Powerful Soviet-era weapons
Russia’s newest weapon
There are four lines of text and photo separating these two statements at the very beginning of the article. And they’re both talking about the same thing.
reads the comments to my comment, laughs
Let’s be fair here, it said:
Powerful Soviet-era weapons modified with fins and sat-navs
i.e., taking old Soviet-era dumb bombs and installing new flight control kits on them and converting them into glide bombs, which is now a new type of weapon. Kinda like JDAM but much cheaper.
I’m no ordinance nerd so feel free to correct me.
I was under the impression that JDAMS were just dumb bombs that were dropped above their target (more vertical than horizontal from target) with some ability to adjust their fall to stay on a target.
Glide bombs seem like cheaper versions of the Cruise Missile idea, no? (Explosive payload delivered at lower altitude and high rate of speed from a platform that is farther away on the horizontal than the vertical axis from a target.)
They are talking about KAB series bomb, which is modification of WW2 era FAB bomb. It’s been in service since 1975, though it’s more effective now since guidance systems were improved but it’s essentially still a 50 year old modification of a over 80 year weapon.
If Ukraine thinks it’s a wunderwaffe it only means they don’t have any anti air capablity since plane using those would be pretty vulnerable to modern systems.I mean, most modern Russian weapon systems are based on the soviet design. There are some cutting edge doohickeys that probably aren’t - such as Su-57, Kinzhal missile - but the stuff normally getting used - Su-25s, Grads, T-72 of whichever modifications there are - are at their core soviet systems
