Maduro boasts of ‘thousands’ of Russian anti-aircraft missiles as Trump threatens military action inside Venezuela | CNN
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Venezuela has 5,000 Russian-made anti-aircraft missiles in “key air defense positions,” its President Nicolás Maduro claimed on Wednesday, amid growing tension over the United States’ military deployment in the Caribbean.
  • logi@piefed.worldEnglish
    72·
    22 days ago

    Hey, if anything good comes of this insanity, it might be reducing Russian stocks of missiles.

        • Madison420@lemmy.world
          3·
          22 days ago

          Against US planes? No. Even networked aa has a hard time seeing stealth planes. Our typical operation is to preprogram hard sites and destroy them with stealth bombers at extreme range. Then we come back with f15s and hammer mobile sites, then you have air superiority and there wouldn’t be much for them to do about it.

        • Buelldozer@lemmy.today
          41·
          22 days ago

          Likely more effective than youd expect.

          Yeah, that’s what Saddam thought too. He also had thousands upon thousands of Russian Air Defense missiles. Turns out their best use is as targets for US forces.

          I ain’t cheering this horseshit either. I’m deeply against what Trump is doing against Venezuela but the reality is those Russian Air Defense missiles may as well be hot air balloons.