• The Ukrainian airforce says it shot down four Russian fighter jets this weekend.
  • On Saturday, the Ukraine airforce chief said two Su-34 and one Su-35 fighter jets were downed.
  • Another Russian Su-34 fighter-bomber was destroyed, on Sunday.
  • KevonLooney@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    Last month, Business Insider’s Sinéad Baker wrote that Russia was strategically trying to bait Ukraine into using up its Patriot stocks to leave itself vulnerable.

    This is like the most idiotic strategy. It will take Ukraine a short amount of time to get more missiles. They are probably sending back every single MB of data from these Patriots to the US Army.

    The US hasn’t fought a country with actual jets in decades. This is priceless information for them and missiles are basically free.

    • quinkin@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      “You see, killbots Patriots have a preset kill limit. Knowing their weakness, I sent wave after wave of my own men planes at them until they reached their limit and shut down.” - Captain Zap Putin