@[email protected] to [email protected] • 1 year agoUS likely to send long-range ATACMS missiles to Ukraine for the first time: Officialsabcnews.go.comexternal-linkmessage-square20fedilinkarrow-up1144arrow-down11cross-posted to: world
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minus-squarePrimarily0617linkfedilink22•1 year agoyeah it is us weapon system names always seem to be jokes e.g., the AT-4 launcher is called AT-4 because the projectile it fires is an 84mm rocket, and AT-4 sounds like 84
minus-squarepartial_accumenlink8•1 year ago us weapon system names always seem to be jokes e.g., the AT-4 launcher AT-4 isn’t a US weapon. Its Swedish.
minus-square@DontTreadOnBigfootlink13•edit-21 year agoIt 100% is. I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if it was actually a backronym
minus-squareBigFiglinkEnglish1•1 year agoAttac’ums, discontinued for their questionable ties to the military industrial complex. Same fate will come for Captain Crunch due to his numerous war crimes while he was in the US Navy
Please tell me that’s pronounced “Attack-ems”
yeah it is
us weapon system names always seem to be jokes
e.g., the AT-4 launcher is called AT-4 because the projectile it fires is an 84mm rocket, and AT-4 sounds like 84
AT-4 isn’t a US weapon. Its Swedish.
It 100% is.
I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if it was actually a backronym
It is now.
It always was
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Attac’ums, discontinued for their questionable ties to the military industrial complex. Same fate will come for Captain Crunch due to his numerous war crimes while he was in the US Navy