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⏺ The Transcarpathian 650th Separate Anti-aircraft Machine Gun Battalion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine shoots down a cruise missile on the border of our and Lviv regions. She was heading to our region.

Thank you, brothers, for your professionalism and saved lives!

We are proud!

Transcarpathia is proud!

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[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 66 points 3 weeks ago

We practiced air defence with machine guns when I was in the army. It's not impossible, just really hard. Guess our homie here had plenty of practice. Oh, and kudos for no-scoping it.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 60 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

AFAIK that is considered near impossible!! Well done and congratulations. 👍😀

[–] xploit@lemmy.world 51 points 3 weeks ago

Well then it seems like great propaganda to fuck with Russians..."oh you sending your pricey cruise missiles to kill our kids? Well you see our guys here will just shoot it down from the back of a pickup, at the cost of few bullets and call it target practice, no biggie"

[–] ladicius@lemmy.world 24 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Probably helped that he waited until the flight path was trajectoring away from his position (and that it passed really nearby) so he had one axis of movement less to cover.

However that madlad managed to hit: Congrats to this stunt!

[–] Don_alForno 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

If actually true. We conveniently don't see the target before it's hit.

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 29 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

We do a large amount of black smoke, and I'm reliably informed that expensive machines stop working once you let the magic smoke out

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

The smoke is the ghost in the machine.

[–] Don_alForno 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Of course. But we don't know what actually hit it. He fires outside the picture, then the camera moves to show the smoke.

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 weeks ago

Fair, all we can see is that someone hit it

This is a cropped video. A few hours ago there was a post in some community with the full video.

[–] Dadifer@lemmy.world 28 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] noxy@yiffit.net 6 points 3 weeks ago

That's fucking wild. What a badass.

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 2 points 3 weeks ago

Heroiam slava