• @Questy
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    That is actually a very meaningful order. I had to check, did they mean launchers or batteries. Looks like 17 batteries. That’s pretty big, IRIS-T is very modern kit.

    • @NotMyOldRedditName
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      You need AA? Here’s 17 launchers! NO MISSLES FOR YOU THOUGH!

            • @NotMyOldRedditName
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              OP wasn’t sure if they were sending the missles until they read the article.

              I made a what I thought was funny comment about how they were only going to send the launchers, and fuck the missles.

              Edit: also in format of NO SOUP FOR YOU, but I should have left the “though” off for that.

              • @Buffalox
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                No he wrote launchers or batteries. He meant if they were all complete systems with both launchers and radar/command module, which they are.
                It has nothing to do with missiles.

                https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRIS-T

                One IRIS-T SLM battery, as supplied by Germany to Ukraine, consists of three truck-mounted launchers, carrying eight missiles each (with a range of 40 kilometres or 25 miles), and a separate command vehicle

                So 3 launchers capable of firing 8 missiles each, and 1 command module per system.
                The command module can track all 24 missiles simultaneously.

                So this is a pretty big deal.

                • @NotMyOldRedditName
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                  I had to check, did they mean launchers or batteries.

                  Are you that daft?

                  It was a joke about how stupid it would be to only be launchers.

                  OP wasn’t sure and had to verify for us.

                  • @Buffalox
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                    I think it’s more your joke that was daft, nobody said anything about it ONLY being launchers, and nobody found you joke funny.
                    Also you make a post where you still don’t get it, even after I explained the setup to you above.

        • @NotMyOldRedditName
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          No its 17 launchers and each launcher has 8 launchers, so 136 launchers.

          Useless without missles though. So many launchers!

            • @NotMyOldRedditName
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              13 months ago

              Shit, you’re right.

              Now we just need some missle recursion and the war is a slam dunk win!

          • @Buffalox
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            It’s 17 Batteries, each having 3 launchers capable of shooting 8 missiles each, that’s a total capability of launching 408 missiles at once. I already explained this 2 you in another post, where you had the audacity to call me daft?!