• NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world
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          2 months ago

          OP wasn’t sure if they were sending the missles until they read the article.

          I made a what I thought was funny comment about how they were only going to send the launchers, and fuck the missles.

          Edit: also in format of NO SOUP FOR YOU, but I should have left the “though” off for that.

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            2 months ago

            No he wrote launchers or batteries. He meant if they were all complete systems with both launchers and radar/command module, which they are.
            It has nothing to do with missiles.

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRIS-T

            One IRIS-T SLM battery, as supplied by Germany to Ukraine, consists of three truck-mounted launchers, carrying eight missiles each (with a range of 40 kilometres or 25 miles), and a separate command vehicle

            So 3 launchers capable of firing 8 missiles each, and 1 command module per system.
            The command module can track all 24 missiles simultaneously.

            So this is a pretty big deal.

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              2 months ago

              I had to check, did they mean launchers or batteries.

              Are you that daft?

              It was a joke about how stupid it would be to only be launchers.

              OP wasn’t sure and had to verify for us.

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                2 months ago

                I think it’s more your joke that was daft, nobody said anything about it ONLY being launchers, and nobody found you joke funny.
                Also you make a post where you still don’t get it, even after I explained the setup to you above.