{"id":61,"date":"2015-10-19T12:49:35","date_gmt":"2015-10-19T11:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/?p=61"},"modified":"2019-03-27T17:34:07","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T16:34:07","slug":"on-dumb-bombs-and-rusty-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/on-dumb-bombs-and-rusty-lies\/","title":{"rendered":"On dumb bombs and rusty lies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">These days we witnessed the death of yet another American myth: that Russian bombs are &#8220;dumb&#8221; or &#8220;inaccurate&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"separator\" data-blogger-escaped-style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/d\/d0\/Kh-29L_(1).jpg\/1920px-Kh-29L_(1).jpg\" data-blogger-escaped-style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/d\/d0\/Kh-29L_(1).jpg\/1920px-Kh-29L_(1).jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div data-blogger-escaped-style=\"font-size: 15.0015px; line-height: 21.0021px; margin-bottom: 0.6em; padding: 0px;\">\n<blockquote><p><span data-blogger-escaped-style=\"background-color: white;\"><span style=\"color: #666666; font-family: inherit;\" data-blogger-escaped-style=\"color: #666666; font-family: inherit;\">&#8220;The Russian Air Force uses high-precision laser-guided H-29L missiles to pierce reinforced terrorist infrastructure, Igor Klimov, Air Force spokesman, said on Sunday.<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div data-blogger-escaped-style=\"font-size: 15.0015px; line-height: 21.0021px; margin-bottom: 0.6em; padding: 0px;\">\n<p><span data-blogger-escaped-style=\"background-color: white;\"><span style=\"color: #666666; font-family: inherit;\" data-blogger-escaped-style=\"color: #666666; font-family: inherit;\">The H-29L air-to-surface missile armed with 500 kilograms of military-grade explosives is accurate to within two meters and has a combined high explosive and fragmentation effect.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-blogger-escaped-style=\"font-size: 15.0015px; line-height: 21.0021px; margin-bottom: 0.6em; padding: 0px;\">\n<p><span data-blogger-escaped-style=\"background-color: white;\"><span style=\"color: #666666; font-family: inherit;\" data-blogger-escaped-style=\"color: #666666; font-family: inherit;\"><span data-blogger-escaped-style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">\u201cAfter the missile is launched, pilot illuminates a target with a laser-controlled aimer while the fighter jet continues to maneuver,\u201d<\/span>\u00a0Klimov said.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span data-blogger-escaped-style=\"background-color: white;\"><span style=\"color: #666666; font-family: inherit;\" data-blogger-escaped-style=\"color: #666666; font-family: inherit;\">The H-29L air-to-surface missile is being used by Sukhoi Su-24 and Su-34 bombers.&#8221;(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/317068-russia-isis-islamic-syria\/\" data-blogger-escaped-target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">RT<\/a>)<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In fact, the evidence shows that their weapons are even more accurate than the American counterparts. Some have accuracy within 5 meters, some within 2, but they are all extremely modern, sophisticated and high-tech.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Russians also extensively use drones for battlefield surveillance, and the entire operation so far showed how you do things properly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So, essentially, the myth that America would have some great technological advantage in a conflict with Russia is a myth. The Russians are efficient, sophisticated, armed with the world&#8217;s most modern weaponry, and are essentially deadly. The effect is ever more pronounced since Russia, unlike America, didn&#8217;t use overwhelming numbers of airplanes, aircraft carriers and cruise missiles against their opponent. All it took was one airbase with some 30 planes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">America, meanwhile, spreads propaganda in order to propagate the lie which states that America and its allies have 21-st century weaponry, while Russia has rusted Soviet junk. That reminds me of the South Park &#8220;BLU&#8221; parody of Canadians having &#8220;their pogo sticks or whatever&#8221; against American tanks. In this parody, underestimating the opponent had the purpose of inciting a war. Is there really a good reason to assume that, in the real world, the goal would be different? &#8220;Oh, the Russians have the rusted Soviet junk for weapons, we can fuck with them all we want, and what can they do to us, nuke us?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Oh wait&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These days we witnessed the death of yet another American myth: that Russian bombs are &#8220;dumb&#8221; or &#8220;inaccurate&#8221;. &#8220;The Russian Air Force uses high-precision laser-guided H-29L missiles to pierce reinforced terrorist infrastructure, Igor Klimov, Air Force spokesman, said on Sunday. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/on-dumb-bombs-and-rusty-lies\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1351,"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions\/1351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}