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Scholz: Germany orders 17 IRIS-T air defense systems for Ukraine (euromaidanpress.com)
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[–] NotMyOldRedditName 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Buffalox -1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] NotMyOldRedditName 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Buffalox 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 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.