in other defense news U.S. Army announced secretive ‘Darker Eagle’ Hyperersonic missile system.

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    14 hours ago

    “Accidentally”

    Keep in mind the US loves propaganda as much as the next regime. Doing an oopsy woopsy to show you got strong weapons is almost completely in your favor.

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      10 hours ago

      With this admin, I always feel chances are equal they A) did it on purposes or B) fucked up again. This sort of ambiguity might be on purpose for whoever decided to let social media influencers run a country.

    • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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      9 hours ago

      Well, yes and no.

      The current regime in particular is run by / has leadership largely composed of sycophantic rank idiots who demonstrably suck at their jobs. They can and have fucked up things simpler than this.

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      13 hours ago

      Just wait until Grok ingests some TS/SCI info. Its going to make War Thunder forums look like a bunch of 10 year olds arguing over comic books.

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          13 hours ago

          Currently I’d consider them closer to 14 year olds arguing over pro wrestling, or 20 year olds fresh out of bootcamp arguing over uncleared military hardware replicated in a video game.

          …wait

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            7 hours ago

            I’d argue it’s any age from 18 to 50ish. But they’re 10yo’s at heart [maturity level]

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    17 hours ago

    No pictures of the actual missile.

    The launcher looks like a standard box on the back of a large truck.

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      16 hours ago

      But it’s painted in tactical dark green!

      Edit to add, it looks like the truck is a marine corps MKR18 LVSR. Could be wrong….

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      16 hours ago

      The launcher looks like a standard box on the back of a large truck.

      Looks a bit longer/taller than typical? So I’m guessing these hypersonic missiles are some real looooooong bois. But otherwise, yeah.

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    10 hours ago

    Again? They just can’t help themselves, can they.

    PS: I don’t care if the “actual missile” is not in the pic, they shouldn’t do that, and the later retraction is an admission of guilt.

    PPS: could’ve been on purpose though. 50/50 🤷