Madison420

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[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago

https://www.thinkdefence.co.uk/2023/05/fibre-optic-guided-missiles-efog-m-polyphem-and-others/

Depends on the missile but in this case we know they've said they got the idea from old tow missile reels because the folks who built them made mention of it.

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Both are less than 50% currently even by right wing outlet polling like Rasmussen.

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

Yep, still used in combat too and chances are you've seen a video and just didn't know.

Anytime you see a video filmed from behind a missile and it keeps making smingly random swirling jinking movements it's likely to be a tow missile.

https://youtu.be/IsOHo0oAc0c

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago (6 children)

It's neither, they're spare wire reels for older tow missiles which were wired for the same reason.

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

There's call it penis station but yeah.

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world -2 points 1 week ago (4 children)

You just admitted they were.

We just discussed how they were ineffective militarily.

That did succeed though.

What is this podcast supposed to do exactly?

Lastly "Nuh uh" is a bad argument.

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world -1 points 1 week ago (6 children)

You can take offense at history but it's a fact constant air raids were a major demoralizing factor. That's not a shameful thing, its a natural reaction and no amount of "stuff upper lip"-ing really changes that.

It was a scary weapon, sure.

What's another word for scary? Terror. It's a terror weapon not a practical weapon.

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Correct that still means it's trump refusing not bukele.

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (8 children)

No one said it was to win the war itself it was too demoralize England and it worked in large part until Germany started getting carpet bombed and the dichotomy exampled the British isles relative safety.

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (10 children)

No that was one of the few successes, v2 were ineffective weapons they were however incredibly effective acts of terror.

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