Can someone explain to me what is the actual tactical or strategic advantage of letting Russia continue to engage in kinetic and electronic warfare attacks with zero consequences?
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/russia-fired-a-missile-at-a-u-s-mq-9-reaper-over-syria-last-year
>muh nukes
The Russians don't seem to care, why should we?
Means we can continue to bleed them using someone else's bodies and without having to deal with the government bureaucracy an official declaration of war entails.
>Can someone explain to me what is the actual tactical or strategic advantage of letting Russia continue to engage in kinetic and electronic warfare attacks with zero consequences?
>letting
lol the US isnt "letting" anything happen, they are powerless to stop Russia
with any luck, you will get terribly hurt in a car accident, aand have to rethink the rest of your altered life, and all the nafo decisions you made before that led to your current paralyzed condition
>Russia fired a missile at a US MQ-9
>A US MQ-9 avoided being shot down
To let it be known how ineffective Russian equipment and ineffectual Russian action is.
I know you don't know what you're talking about, but Anti-Air missiles have a certain target profile, aircraft that they are meant to shoot down.
We don't know what missile was fired, so the small and slow moving drone could very well fall outside of the intended use case for the AA missile.
Same way that you could say the Phoenix was a bad Air-to-Air missile because it repeatedly shit the bed when fired at fighter aircraft, but it was never meant to engage fighters.
It doesn't do it justice.
>using the wrong missile for the job
this isn't helping Vlads case
You use what you have. Even if the soldiers knew that the missile they were going to fire wasn't the ideal one, they maybe got the order from someone who doesn't know that much about the missiles, so they fired anyway.
>Given equipment poorly suited for theatre and purpiose
Seems to be a running theme given that s400s were used as pgms.
so let me get this straight:
A US AIM-9 can engage a fricking balloon that both optically and radar wise looks nothing like a plane, has no heat signature like a jet engine and flies at double digit ground speeds at best.
Meanwhile a turboprop pusher plane with a huge ass aspect ratio and low maneuverability is supposed to be impossible to hit by russian missiles?
That sounds like a missile problem.
The AIM-9 locked onto the balloon using the heat signature from where the sun was heating up the balloon's surface.
The first one fired actually missed, probably because the missile lost lock en route (that signature is very weak compared to a jet or even prop engine).
Anon is full of shit, a radar missile doesn't care if the signature is that of a plane, an airship or a fricking flying castle, it just cares how large said signature is. Similarly, a target moving slowly isn't gonna "confuse" a missile, it just makes it a lot easier to hit.
AIM-9X uses an infrared contrast seeker. It only requires the target be radiating differently than the background.
>shoot at an unstealthy, slow moving drone
>miss
unironically embarrassing. i feel nothing. this is like being antagonized by a FAS toddler
They continue to waste resources while the rest of the world laughs at them.
Nobody will go to war for a fricking drone. The Russians attack some small American asset, the Americans attack some small Russian asset; it has been happening for years
>>muh nukes
>The Russians don't seem to care, why should we?
because we have something to lose, moron. the russians may prefer death to living in their vodka and aids ridden shithole, but we do not. why risk anything over a goddamn drone that is even more worthless than a russian?
Because you have literally zero reasons to be in Syria. Go home homosexual.
Whats Russia's reason to be there?
>OH NO! The bad man smashed his inanimate object into my inanimate object and now it's non functional! HE MUST PAY!!
That's what you over paid children in grown up bodies sound like to be, moronic children flinging poop at each other as you wail incoherently.
Russian AA systems truly can only shoot at passenger planes, meanwhile every western AA system has proven it's worth in Ukraine, amazing
>with zero consequences?
You might have forgotten already about how many Russians have become casualties in Ukraine so far.
>The US providing tens of billions of dollars in weaponry to Ukraine to use in a war that has already seen two hundred thousand Russians killed or wounded is "zero consequences".
Does US support for Ukraine *look* like zero consequences to you?
three MQ-9s with fancy new PGMs strapped on should be donated to Ukraine for every one that is interrupted or damaged by uppity ruskis, including failed attempts
I think you'll find they have done better than that.
at some point it becomes a flex
>oh, you're approaching me?
>you think your silly little provocations mean anything to me?
>I could crush you like a gnat, my restraint is the only thing keeping you alive
We're very sleepy and we don't feel like doing more interventions. We're easing the world back into taking care of itself, and Mom says we have interventions at home
bump
>zero consequences?
Arming, funding, and sharing intelligence with your enemy is not a consequence?
Cult of non-escalation.
Demonstrated as moronic as far back as the Obama years, it nevertheless remains in power to this day.
If there is one lesson we should have take from 2022, it should have been:
>our politicians are spineless
>our public is cowardly
>our diplomatic corps is useless
>our media is moronic beyond all measure