Tusk: ‘Everything indicates’ Russian cruise missile hit Poland

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Can we actually assume they are competent enough to send the missiles where they want them to go?

I wouldn’t put it past them, but I also can see them just being bad at what they are doing

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They’re sending missiles into civilian apartment buildings with full intent. That they don’t always hit is the achievement of our anti-air.

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Back in the Cold War, Soviet munitions were less accurate, so they made them more destructive so even a miss could damage the target. They’ve been forced to use a lot of old stockpiles since their “weekend excursion” has been going terribly most of its length.

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Stray missile? Or a deliberate Russian probing action?

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There’s no way it was getting jammed 90km into Poland, so either a malfunction or a deliberate action, hopefully they can extract flight plans.

edit: nvm, it doesn’t even use gps, just INS

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90km is about 30mins off course. So a malfunction is possible. The guidance programming may be recoverable though.

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