Javelins are not air defense weapons, they are medium range anti tank missiles and bunker busters.
Originally Posted by CaptainTruth
You needed one after all:
If you will read carefully quotes from Trump's administration you will discover a word like "directly" with respect to the transfer of "things" (like Stingers), because by doing things indirectly some of the negative vibes toward the U.S. are avoided, but the desires get done. When the first shot was fired or the first aircraft entered Ukrainian airspace by the Russians the Ukrainian military had Stingers. Like so many other countries the U.S. doesn't have to deliver directly, but can use 3rd parties to assure the "things" get there. The 3rd parties can either be paid directly or receive substituted items or replacements.
He sent them "Stingers"... did they come off a U.S. shelf. They don't have to come from the U.S.
The Stinger missile is something that appears in the news every time there is an armed conflict involving United States forces. It also appears after certain airline accidents -- the one involving TWA flight 800 is a recent example. The reason we hear so much about the Stinger in these contexts is because the Stinger missile is an extremely effective weapon for shooting down aircraft. The missile uses an infrared seeker to lock on to the heat in the engine's exhaust, and will hit nearly anything flying below 11,000 feet.
https://science.howstuffworks.com/stinger.htm
A good title for you: "How Stuff Works"!
FYI: There are weapons formally designated "air defense" or "ground defense" that may be used, depending on the circumstances, for one or the other even though not formally designated as such. Some call it "improvising" and I recognize that such a term may be foreign to you, but "necessity is the mother of invention" .. as the saying goes and need and urgency is often the creators of alternative uses.
It's reported that 2 Russian paratroop aircraft were shot down not to mention helicopter gunships.
I can imagine your enthusiasm to avoid accepting how dumb it was to vote for Bitten/Kumola when a more experienced person with more experienced support in his administration was already anticipating Putin's interest in invading Ukraine and perhaps that was in talking to him and listening to what he said and what he didn't say. Your choice when voting doesn't even know what he's saying, much less what someone else has to say or doesn't say.
If you revisit the fine print ... Bitten didn't want to send them Stingers. Then changed? Go figure. May be he didn't know what they were when he said "No'....they sound like they might hurt!
That's why the idiot for whom you voted says one day the vaccine will prevent the spread of Covid and keep you from getting it ... and then saying the Feds don't have a solution it's up to the States ... and then the vaccine won't protect you from getting it or giving it!
Then the demented fool for whom you voted said the "sanctions" will prevent an invasion by the Russians and recently said the "sanctions" won't prevent an invasion AFTER THE INVASION BEGAN!
Thank you so much for voting for the most unqualified people who have ever occupied the White House as a "President" and/or VP. Please use the Big Chief tablet. If you need the dotted line version, please advise.
