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How F-16s Will Change the Battlefield in Ukraine
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this post was submitted on 23 Jul 2023
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War in Ukraine
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War is organized murder and nothing else.
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Unpopular opinion: we shouldn't be sending more murder machines to a war. All it will do is kill more people in name of some power struggle that should not concern them.
Ukraine has also received and used cluster munitions, which is really bad. I remember that there was a lot of outrage when Assad used them in Syria. Now that it's the West, media just glances over the fact that these munitions cause so much civilian death or even support the usage, regardless of how awful they are.
Mostly agree with you but some context is required
Cluster bombs historically have a 30% failure rate. The modern American ones have ~1%.
Historically they were used indiscriminately against unknown targets in a large area (they’re really good at that), in Ukraine the Ukrainians are using them against known targets and are logging their use so after the war the area can be cleaned of any duds.
This also isn’t introducing a new weapon to the war; the Ukrainians and Russians have been using their own stocks of cluster bombs from the start, the Ukrainians are just asking for a resupply of the better American ones.