The damage from Ukraine’s first-ever strike with American-supplied M39 missiles, targeting a pair of helicopter bases in Russian-occupied southern and eastern Ukraine, likely resulted in greater damage than even the Ukrainian defense ministry initially claimed.
Far greater.
The Ukrainians claimed the Oct. 17 attack, which reportedly saw three of the M39s strike airfields outside Berdyansk in southern Ukraine as well as in Luhansk Oblast in the east, destroyed nine Russian helicopters.
In fact, the M39 raid put out of action 21 helicopters, according to an analysis of commercial satellite imagery by GeoConfirmed, an open-source intelligence practitioner on the social-media site formerly known as Twitter.
If there is one thing we Americans excell at, it’s blowing shit up and killing a metric shit-ton of enemies in one go. Good hunting Ukraine!
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Did you know that there is oil in russia?
Well, one of the main reasons for the invasion ……
Shh don’t tell the military industrial complex or we’ll be boots on the ground by Halloween.
AHEM. DID YOU KNOW THAT THERE IS OIL IN RUSSIA?
I thought it was about tax
Blowing stuff up and tax cuts for rich people.
Shhhh he’s on a roll.
“Enemies”, but - yes otherwise
Hey the weapons work. What they’re used on is more based on who is using them.
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21 helis destroyed or damaged so much that you can see it from satellite, but it seems that the total of destroyed and damaged could be maybe up to 24, because some of these that weren’t visibly on fire had blades removed and prepared to moving out of airfield on trailer. perun talks about it in latest video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-z630Rt1mTs (from 26:30 on) another good source https://nitter.net/Tatarigami_UA/status/1715431586542260376#m geoconfirmed megathread: https://nitter.net/GeoConfirmed/status/1715362574588399758#m
damaged but possibly not so much that it’s visible from satellite: https://nitter.net/pic/orig/media%2FF85vH8HXQAAicSI.jpg
and add to that one Pantsir, one radar, the fact that Ka-52s were loaded with dangerous 9K121s with limited supply and burned down as a consequence, and presumably stockpile of these ATGMs on airfield
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Russian Artillery counters Ukrainian Troops. Western Tanks counters Russian Artillery. Russian Helicopters counters Western Tanks. M39s counters Russian Helicopters. I wonder if Russia has a counter to M39s?
