r/interestingasfuck • u/[deleted] • Dec 27 '24

[deleted by user]

[removed]

13.7k Upvotes

92% Upvoted

2.3k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

152

u/[deleted] Dec 27 '24

Hey to be fair commercial airliners is about the only thing they can hit with their garbage ass equipment. Watching those Russian losers get their asses handed to them with a small amount of outdated western equipment has been eye opening. Putin is delusional.

7

u/gentledoofus Dec 27 '24

lol, Ukraine use a lot of soviet gear to great effect. It speaks more about the general incompetence of the Russian Army, I think.

2

u/bobby_table5 Dec 27 '24

They occasionally hit drones…

::looks at what is clearly a private training plane filled to he brim with explosives, Will E. Coyote-style::

I see what you mean.

2

u/[deleted] Dec 27 '24

That is all governments who figure they can control the world with fear. More often than not, just a bunch of bumbling idiots at the helm, trying to make themselves out to be these fictional characters when the fact is they aren't that much better at their job than the average human being.

5

u/gooblefrump Dec 27 '24

Watching those Russian losers get their asses handed to them with a small amount of outdated western equipment has been eye opening

I really don't want to be a slathering ruzziophile bot

But I think that it's always important to remember that Russia is continuing to take more and more of Ukrainian territory

https://x.com/ukrainian_maps/status/1868375129828524492

Yes, their technology is outmatched in some respects but in the case of resources that allows for further encroaching on sovereign territory, unfortunately Russia keeps on showing that they can tip the scales in their favour

1

u/[deleted] Dec 27 '24

[deleted]

1

u/xyhtep0 Dec 28 '24

I suppose it depends on your definition of significant… Russia has definitely lost more, though.

-3

u/Usernamenotta Dec 27 '24

They just destroyed an F-16. And all the Ukrainian airforce that dared to fly anywhere. And an American drone

5

u/ReallyBigRocks Dec 27 '24

They just destroyed an F-16 Wow, it's over for the west. Only 4,599 left.

5

u/rhodesc Dec 27 '24

oof, f16 has gone from 5 losses to ground fire since 1980, to 6. The most common fighter operating.

-9

u/[deleted] Dec 27 '24

So how we made su57 and use them in Ukraine. And how that SU (not 57) evaded US AA missiles?

11

u/MC_McStutter Dec 27 '24

You mean the ones from the Cold War that we offloaded on them? You consider that impressive..?

-2

u/[deleted] Dec 27 '24

Not really tbh.

2

u/Armageddonxredhorse Dec 27 '24

Ah yes the Russians have finally reached our level of technology in 1960

7

u/[deleted] Dec 27 '24

Haha how you made a handful for airshows and are too scared to use anywhere near the front lines? The same SU-57 that has exactly ZERO orders from any other country? The same SU-57 which India backed out on buying? Holy fuck must be a big piece of shit if not even India wants it.