• Jimmyeatsausage@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Yeah, this definitely feels like a doctrine and training problem. I can’t even imagine a scenario where the US or NATO lost half of any platform like that. Pearl Harbor, maybe? I remember how huge a deal it was when we found out our body armor and APCs sucked in 2001, and that was nothing like losing every missile ship.

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      4 months ago

      To be fair we knew they sucked. Which is why we were working to get them replaced for the iraq war on an emergency basis.