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During the Iraq War America was firing missiles from ships. Why would the Russians not fire such missiles?
by sschueller 5y ago
During the Iraq War America was firing missiles from ships. Why would the Russians not fire such missiles?
- dragonwriter 5y ago> During the Iraq War America was firing missiles from ships. Sure; those aren't smart bombs. > Why would the Russians not fire such missiles? They would and are (using cruise missiles; not sure the mix of land/air/sea launched.) They are also doing aerial bombing. Stopping the latter doesn't increase the capacity of the former to compensate.
- lesuorac 5y agoBecause cruise missiles are multi-million dollar weapons [1] and Russian is hemorrhaging money at the moment. It also appears that the Russian ships don't have sea to ground missiles either. [2] [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruise_missile#Deployment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruise_missile#Deployment [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_missile_boat_classes#Russia/USSR https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_missile_boat_classes#R...