The main weapon that is causing Ukraine grief at the moment is the glide bombs, it’s actually Russia’s brand new stealth subsonic cruise missile, the kh-69, or x-69 in English. It’s a stealth version of the kh-59. It’s stealthy construction and shape along with ability to follow the terrain at altitudes as low as 20m allows it to evade radar detection by air defence systems, along with a 400km range and ability to be launched by most Russian aircraft, makes it formidable. It puts almost all of Ukraine within firing range without Russian jets having to leave the airspace of Russia or Belarus. It’s the weapon that his hit most of power stations in Ukraine. A brand new weapon that was in testing as recently as September 2023. It is absolutely not a crude or cheap weapon, the Ukrainians say that it is harder to defend against than the Kinzhal.
According to Ukrainian sources, that power station mentioned in this article was not destroyed by a glide bomb, but in part by a kh-69 missile. So I don’t know why this article is talking about cheap and crude glide bombs when a state of the art weapon was in fact used. It seems they want to distract from the latest Russian weapons that have finished testing and hit the battlefield, such as the hypersonic zircon cruise missile, and the stealthy subsonic kh-69 cruise missile.
stealth subsonic cruise missile
Heeey, I suggested this like two years ago, Russia owes me money
The United States has had them for over a decade, see the AGM-158 family of weapons.
Noooo let me have my putinbux
x-69
ass namefollow the terrain at altitudes as low as 20m
Imagine you’re a civilian and one of those things zips over you.
our thrifty and ingenious JDAMs vs. their crude and cheap FABs
God this is embarrassing to ask but does anyone have that “skrrt skrrt jdam go brr” yerba mate girl vs crying shidding vatnik comic from 2022 twitter (insanely humiliating sentence i need death)
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It’s a poor description of a rage comic sorry I think Drew Pavlou posted it 💀
that’s right primitive Russians making their cheap weapons in large volumes while sophisticated westerners produce them artisanally.
In another year Zelenskkky can have this katana I’ve been forging.
Crude, cheap
If it’s stupid but it works, it’s not stupid.
Russia uses simple glide bombs
Cheap, crude
Ukraine straps grenades to Aliexpress drones
Resourceful, clever
adding that in was such a cope
And western libs will still say with a straight face that we have impartial and unbiased media lmao
I love it when they trot out the mediabiasfactcheck.com to smugly explain why your sources suck
you can’t “cyber your way across a river”.
Skill issue
Didn’t the Ukr forces just get glide bombs from NATO or something too?
Fifty French glide bombs a month isn’t a lot of glide bombs when the Russians are dropping thousands of KABs in the same span of time. But if and when Republicans relent and allow a vote on fresh U.S. aid, more JDAM-ERs could arrive. Potentially a lot more.
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