Ah well. I'm sure all those millions of school children will be happy to go without lunch for a few months to pay for a new one.
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We’ll just send a Tomahawk their way if they complain too loudly. We still have plenty of those, right?
I think we're so-so on tomahawks.
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You just have to get them all to gather in one place. Say it's a peace festival, or something.
... and spread the excuse that it was an AI mistake.
Well, it's not like they weren't going to go without lunch anyway.
We can jack up the interest payments on their lunch debts to pay for this war.
Charging them interest on the costs of the lunch that they weren't going to receive is definitely going above and beyond!
They can just keep the front end pointed toward the emperor at his next birthday parade.
Ow,,my tax dollars
ouch oof my inability to afford bones
Wh- ... Whose bones?
You guys were getting bones?
I got a bone. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Did you bring enough for the rest of the class?
If you can't afford bones for everyone, then you can't bring bones to class
ouch right in the wallet
This looks like another angle of the one we knew about - before going into this we had 16 of these, with one destroyed, we're down to 15.
Is this being asserted as being a second AWACS aircraft hit putting us down to 14 now?
It looks to me like just the other side of the one we already knew about.
How about other ones? They said they took out 5
AFAIK, 5 aircraft total got wrecked, but just the one was the AWACS.
Others could have been any kind of aircraft.
And the thing is most people do not understand how valuable that asset is to the military. They are just as important as the fuel takers. Information and logistics more important than most think.
I have also heard that yeah, we're down to 14 now, Saagar was freaking out about it on Breaking Points.
They also had a US Mil, guy who opposed Iraq 03, used to do a lot of war gaming, tail end of the show.
Larry Wilkerson, former chief of staff for Colin Powell.
Yeah remember those two tankers that apparently had a midair collison not too long ago, one went down with all souls aboard?
He said it was due to a shoulder fired missile.
Way I read that is some militia in Iraq brushed off their emergency Stinger, for a special occasion.
Fairly sure an Iraqi militia group claimed credit for it not long after it happened.
The Green Zone in Iraq has also been... people are just flying bomb drones into it, blowing shit up inside the fortress/embassy.
They sure love their noble liberators.
The cope-radar failed to stop the drone this time.
Whoopsie doopsie.
Pfft, just interceptor shrapnel.
Just a scratch
Nothing some duct tape can't fix. The wings are still whole!
It'll buff right out
Could this delay the invasion or does it only affect air operations?
Well, I know that one thing is linked to the other, but I mean, is it going to be serious enough to delay a ground operation?
Potentially, if they don't have enough other AWACS aircraft, and don't have the coverage they would like.
At best, it's half a billion dollars down the tube.
It depends, if the US wants to air drop paratroopers in. If so, they probably move them further away to Jordan or maybe even some base in Europe. But I doubt this would delay operations. It might be better to just drop them and then move the planes out of harms way.
But the AWACS is not closely related to ground operations. So the loss of the Sentry is not going to hurt that much.
they have dozen of these
AWACS are spread over the world though and they need to keep some of these for maintenance. The readiness rate, meaning the ones that can fly missions is 56% which is actually rather high. Still what that means is they might have dozens, but that means only one dozen that are mission capable.
It's not a crisis but it hurts