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[–] Jaysyn@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That would be the s-400 they destroyed the day before yesterday.

With a cruise missile. One of the things an s-400 is supposed to shoot down.

[–] Hyperreality@kbin.social 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

In the Russians' defense, it's harder to shoot down a cruise missile than a civilian airliner with almost 300 innocent passengers including 80 children.

[–] mihies@kbin.social -4 points 1 year ago

The same is true for the US.

[–] rbesfe@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

As always treat this with a grain of salt, but I heard their tactic was to overwhelm it with decoy drones before sending in the actual cruise missile. Kind of like what the US did during desert storm over Baghdad