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โบ 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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[โ€“] Buffalox@lemmy.world 60 points 1 month ago (3 children)

AFAIK that is considered near impossible!! Well done and congratulations. ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ˜€

[โ€“] xploit@lemmy.world 50 points 1 month 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"

[โ€“] ladicius@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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!

[โ€“] Don_alForno@feddit.org 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[โ€“] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 30 points 1 month 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

The smoke is the ghost in the machine.

[โ€“] Don_alForno@feddit.org 0 points 1 month 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.

[โ€“] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month 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.