

The AIM-9L/M is significantly smaller and cheaper.


I saw it once when I spent a winter in Alaska and it blew my mind.
This was the best photo I could take on my 2008 phone.



The IOC said it’s too “political”.


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Perhaps a swig of vodka to help the lead go down.
There’s no terrain or foliage to block the signal and the Russian doesn’t appear to be equipped with an electronic warfare (jamming) system.


A similar thing happened earlier last year.


Yes, and unfortunately too late.


Usually it’s a rear-seat gunner with a rifle.


Previously, the continued immobilization of the assets had to be agreed upon by all 27 member states every six months - leaving them vulnerable to a veto by Hungary or Slovakia, who had repeatedly threatened to vote against renewing the sanctions.


Institutional inertia.


They were empty and headed to Novorossiysk to be loaded.


It illuminates targets for mobile air defense units.


Oh, that might be PieFed automatically tagging nsfw as nsfl. I don’t see the nsfl tag from a regular Lemmy instance.


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Combat videos containing any footage of a visible human involved must be flagged NSFW
The top article at the time was the Ukraine story, but I’ve updated the link to a mirror of the original.
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/ukraine-makes-fastest-battlefield-gain-210322285.html