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this post was submitted on 28 Feb 2024
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So let me get something straight. A warship, performing a security detail in a well known warzone, with their purported opposition known to use combat drones. And this warship detects a large drone, not registering as a friendly, with no known friendly missions running at the time.
And they start calling around to check whose drone is it?
Last time in Syria US soldiers did opposite, assumed enemy drone is friendly and got blasted because it.
Exactly my point
The big questions here are why the drone wasn't registered as a friendly, and why is the communication between US and Germany so poor that Germans didn't know that US was flying a drone on this route.
The way I read it, the drone was flying on some mission other than whatever the "allies" are doing. So it seems like the case of USA military just doing what it wants and not feeling like it should inform the vassals. Perhaps this is not the first such case, would explain why they didn't just started blasting immediately. "Oh, must be the yanks again"
That's most likely, you'd still think they'd have friendly transponders or something to signal each other.
Human error most likely, flight and radar controllers are humans too, but they will almost certainly be demoted or punished severely for this mistake. Reasonably so, could you imagine the international PR disaster it would be if this was a manned US plane?
Not that I would mind hehe
I agree, it does show how a lot of things aren't well ironed out in my opinion. I forget who exactly, but I recall one of US ex military people was talking about this a while back. He said that NATO stopped doing serious exercises in the 90s, and those are essential to having smooth operations. That's how you shake out supply chain issues, communication problems, etc.
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Such news is only leaked because it creates public sentiment for more public spending towards war. All of you are revelling in the "Haha, those krauts guns don't work" and miss the bigger picture as to why this is reported in a major publication.
yeah but hopefully they spend all that money on more expensive failures of wunderwaffes...
Now that's funny. It was all over the news: GERMANY SHOT DOWN HOUTHI DRONE. Did they? DID THEY?
These storm troopers are going to get themselves killed.
Imagine sucking so bad you prove how bad you suck by sucking even more.
If this is a modern version of a sedentary society going soft, then who are the modern steppe nomads that will sweep them?
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Deutschland should be called Lland for the amount of Ls they take
I feel Welsh lost great opportunity when instead of one of their names with many "L" they called Germany Almaen
French came close with allemagne
aLLeMAGNE, a big double loss
Westoid missiles proven inferior to Iranian missiles on the battlefield? Yemen has shot down multiple of these with no problem.
IMO the US should carpet bomb germany before the germans start getting ideas
Again?
Bomber Harris, do it again!
Depend on missile used, that 2 launches cost between 2 and 3,5 million $
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Apparently they have no ammo to replace it with either.
The German military has piss poor logistics and aren't able to supply basics like ammunition!? 
That got a chuckle out of me.