• 9point6@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    Funny they need such an advanced piece of war defense equipment deployed against their own citizens

    • carpelbridgesyndrome@sh.itjust.works
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      5 hours ago

      Ehh. I’m not seeing evidence that was in any way pointed at people. In the aftermath of the Ukrainian strikes on Russia’s strategic bombers it became quite apparent that leaving your air force out unprotected in your own country is a shortcut to losing a lot of it at once. The US Air Force has the same problem the Russian VKS had: lots of expensive planes out in the open scattered over a massive country that anyone can get drones or explosives into. This was near an airbase. While the drone identification bit needs work I don’t find the presence unreasonable

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Spiderweb