Not sus at all that US made missiles happened to be defective when fired at US drone
There are so many layers to this, I’m not even sure where to start.
You know, we could have all just fell under one command, like US and UK did at the beginning, in which all of the missions have gone without problem.. But nooo, that would be too easy /s.
No but seriously it’s probably good for Germany to get some independent real world practice, especially with Trump comeback a real possibility. No one knows what the future holds.
Would be interesting to know what the technical defect actually was though.
While everyone is laughing about German ineptness, there are two major issues here:
a) The German frigate had two missiles malfunction, which is embarrassing at best, and dangerous at worst. It ended up shooting down some actual Houthi drones with a naval gun and RAM launchers (CIWS).
b) What everyone seems to ignore is that the US operated a drone in a warzone that is currently full of enemy drones and allies trying to shoot down said drones, while having its IFF (Identification Friend or Foe, used to tell friendly from enemy targets) switched off and without having communicated in alternative ways to its allies that the drone was present.
That’s a major fuck-up from both Germany **and** the US.
Old habits die hard, I guess
Maybe leaving the Germans home was a good idea. Lol
Would the US blow up another german infraestructure project if the drone had been shot down?
Old habits I guess🤷♂️
Once Germany gets its shit together and becomes Europes strongest military powerhouse , people will start whining the same like they do now.
It’s kind of impossible for Germany to please everyone. Nobody wants weak Germany, but people also won’t like super strong Germany.
This & UK failing nuke tests *twice*… For Christ’s sake, maybe the talks about Russia attacking Europe aren’t just gaslighting after all.
Almost only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades.
Habitual line crosser will have a field day with this
We told the Germans they need to start arming and here we go again! 🙃
If this isn’t an example that Europe has to step up their game military-wise, I don’t know what is.
First it was not producing enough ammunition to match even North Korea and now we’re failing to show any quality to make up for that lack of quantity.
Unless we really start taking our military seriously and fast dealing with a reinforced and resupply Russia a few years from now would be impossible (even without Iran, etc. being in the picture), hell even dealing with current Russia seems like it wouldn’t be the walk in the park we like to claim it would.
So what? Weapons manufacturers are happy either way.
There’s no such thing as “almost” in this, either it was shot down, or it bloody wasn’t..
Ok everyone. Let’s first get the joke out of our system so that we can move on.
1. haha third time’s the charm amirite, haha old habits something, haha Germany has a navy? Haha, 2/2 technical defect (ok that one is actually funny)
And now, let’s take this clusterfuck as a wake up call to fix things. If a horde of brainless goat farmers in Yemen can take out a Reaper drone but a German frigate cannot, it’s time to fully arm Germany. My Great grandfather would die if he heard me say that sentence but that just goes to show times have changed, Germany has done a miraculous job fixing it’s irredentism and imperial ambitions and in my eyes is a vital component of European security. It doesn’t deserve all the shit that they get in this particular area. Save that for Hungary or for Germany in energy policy where it’s fair. But not in military spending.
Conspiracy theory: the drone was shot down but to avoid embarrassment, the official story is that the missiles failed to hit.
The two missile fail for “technical reasons”. The fact that two of them failed to hit the drone for technical reasons where as the houthis shot down the other day says to me the previously unused electronic warfare countermeasures are now in play
The US Air Force just happens to be doing that with the and this is the real name, google it, “Angry Kitten® ALQ-167”
Because who else then a kitten could seemingly wack any and everything out of the air
In the report they say that two SM2’s were fired, but they “didn’t work.” It seems likely that the MQ-9 possessed countermeasures which they hope to keep secret. Whether these countermeasures are related to some secret internal MQ-9 system, or a backdoor on the SM2’s there is very little chance that both missiles would’ve failed, given that they have been used constantly and successfully in the Red Sea defense efforts thus far.
Someone, somewhere, in some room was very angry in German today.
“almost” weird title. It should be “failed to” as their intention was to hit it.
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> Fortunately, two missiles fired at the drone missed their target and crashed into the sea due to “a technical defect,”
lmfaoooo
TIL Germany has something called Navy.
But target practice is target practice even if it’s friendly fire.
Please… get your shit together…
So they manage to kill two birds with one stone in the category :
– Fire 2 missiles : “mission successfully failed”.
– Target enemy drone : ” mission successfully failed”
Damn! German are good.
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Not sus at all that US made missiles happened to be defective when fired at US drone
There are so many layers to this, I’m not even sure where to start.
You know, we could have all just fell under one command, like US and UK did at the beginning, in which all of the missions have gone without problem.. But nooo, that would be too easy /s.
No but seriously it’s probably good for Germany to get some independent real world practice, especially with Trump comeback a real possibility. No one knows what the future holds.
Would be interesting to know what the technical defect actually was though.
While everyone is laughing about German ineptness, there are two major issues here:
a) The German frigate had two missiles malfunction, which is embarrassing at best, and dangerous at worst. It ended up shooting down some actual Houthi drones with a naval gun and RAM launchers (CIWS).
b) What everyone seems to ignore is that the US operated a drone in a warzone that is currently full of enemy drones and allies trying to shoot down said drones, while having its IFF (Identification Friend or Foe, used to tell friendly from enemy targets) switched off and without having communicated in alternative ways to its allies that the drone was present.
That’s a major fuck-up from both Germany **and** the US.
Old habits die hard, I guess
Maybe leaving the Germans home was a good idea. Lol
Would the US blow up another german infraestructure project if the drone had been shot down?
Old habits I guess🤷♂️
Once Germany gets its shit together and becomes Europes strongest military powerhouse , people will start whining the same like they do now.
It’s kind of impossible for Germany to please everyone. Nobody wants weak Germany, but people also won’t like super strong Germany.
This & UK failing nuke tests *twice*… For Christ’s sake, maybe the talks about Russia attacking Europe aren’t just gaslighting after all.
Almost only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades.
Habitual line crosser will have a field day with this
We told the Germans they need to start arming and here we go again! 🙃
If this isn’t an example that Europe has to step up their game military-wise, I don’t know what is.
First it was not producing enough ammunition to match even North Korea and now we’re failing to show any quality to make up for that lack of quantity.
Unless we really start taking our military seriously and fast dealing with a reinforced and resupply Russia a few years from now would be impossible (even without Iran, etc. being in the picture), hell even dealing with current Russia seems like it wouldn’t be the walk in the park we like to claim it would.
So what? Weapons manufacturers are happy either way.
There’s no such thing as “almost” in this, either it was shot down, or it bloody wasn’t..
Ok everyone. Let’s first get the joke out of our system so that we can move on.
1. haha third time’s the charm amirite, haha old habits something, haha Germany has a navy? Haha, 2/2 technical defect (ok that one is actually funny)
And now, let’s take this clusterfuck as a wake up call to fix things. If a horde of brainless goat farmers in Yemen can take out a Reaper drone but a German frigate cannot, it’s time to fully arm Germany. My Great grandfather would die if he heard me say that sentence but that just goes to show times have changed, Germany has done a miraculous job fixing it’s irredentism and imperial ambitions and in my eyes is a vital component of European security. It doesn’t deserve all the shit that they get in this particular area. Save that for Hungary or for Germany in energy policy where it’s fair. But not in military spending.
Conspiracy theory: the drone was shot down but to avoid embarrassment, the official story is that the missiles failed to hit.
The two missile fail for “technical reasons”. The fact that two of them failed to hit the drone for technical reasons where as the houthis shot down the other day says to me the previously unused electronic warfare countermeasures are now in play
The US Air Force just happens to be doing that with the and this is the real name, google it, “Angry Kitten® ALQ-167”
Because who else then a kitten could seemingly wack any and everything out of the air
In the report they say that two SM2’s were fired, but they “didn’t work.” It seems likely that the MQ-9 possessed countermeasures which they hope to keep secret. Whether these countermeasures are related to some secret internal MQ-9 system, or a backdoor on the SM2’s there is very little chance that both missiles would’ve failed, given that they have been used constantly and successfully in the Red Sea defense efforts thus far.
Someone, somewhere, in some room was very angry in German today.
“almost” weird title. It should be “failed to” as their intention was to hit it.