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[–] sunzu@kbin.run 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

How big is the black sea... can't we just give them missiles to cover it?

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's an area of 168,500 sq mi.

A patriot battery can cover 300 sq mi.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

The operative measurement is flight distance. Which, with a dogleg to avoid Crimean Anti-Air sites would max out around 680Mi. Neptune flies 621 miles at max range.

They already have the Black Sea covered.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

They have missiles that cover the Black Sea. We could give them the tomahawk but we're only just now getting AShM versions back out to our own fleet. The best we could probably do is support their production of Neptune missiles. Which are really actually pretty good. It puts them in a pretty small club as far anti-ship missiles go. Which is probably at least part of why the Russians can't keep anything afloat in the Black Sea.

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