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2022-06-27 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
US plans to announce as soon as this week that it has a purchased a NASAMS—an advanced surface-to-air missile defense system— for Ukraine
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Posted by Fred 2022-06-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ]  Top
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#1 Brought to you by Raytheon!

I tell you, those arms manufacturers were having a tough year until all this started. Now they're doing great! It's good news all around, like Christmas in June.
Posted by Albemarle Snerert7268 2022-06-27 01:03||   2022-06-27 01:03|| Front Page Top

#2 ...It ain't that advanced, but it's still pretty impressive: 6 AIM-120 Slammers on a truck, something we should have been turning out like nickel hamburgers.

Mike
Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2022-06-27 04:49||   2022-06-27 04:49|| Front Page Top

#3 The US is to send an advanced long-range missile defense system to Ukraine as President Zelensky urges G7 to help end Russian war by winter
Posted by Skidmark 2022-06-27 08:25||   2022-06-27 08:25|| Front Page Top

#4 When are they going to announce what train and time it will be arriving in the Ukraine so the Russians can immediately blow it up?
Posted by Chris 2022-06-27 10:24||   2022-06-27 10:24|| Front Page Top

#5 At the Pentagone, they are negotiating whether a ghey or a trans will breathlessly spill the beans.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-06-27 10:27||   2022-06-27 10:27|| Front Page Top

#6 Too little. Too late. Ukrainian elite units have lost EIGHTY PERCENT of their troops. From SkyNews yesterday - watch the whole thing... it's appalling:

Ukraine war: 80% of troops killed or injured in elite military unit, says commander
Posted by Grosing tse Tung1861 2022-06-27 11:11||   2022-06-27 11:11|| Front Page Top

#7 ...and our wunderwaffe needs chips from where? PRC? Taiwan?
Posted by magpie 2022-06-27 12:14||   2022-06-27 12:14|| Front Page Top

#8 Ukraine already used a similar weapon (HIMARS) earlier today.
Posted by Lord Garth 2022-06-27 17:16||   2022-06-27 17:16|| Front Page Top

#9 Similar, no, not hardly. HIMARS is a GPS guided artillery rocket.
Posted by magpie 2022-06-27 20:36||   2022-06-27 20:36|| Front Page Top

#10 magpie

you are correct -
Posted by Lord Garth 2022-06-27 21:25||   2022-06-27 21:25|| Front Page Top

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