This is precisely why the U.S. didn't want them to have long range missiles
So they're going to force an escalation with a small fleet of 9/11'ers instead
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civilian planes are now military targets
great job!
Cessna planes were already being extensively used as military reconnaissance planes so this hasn't really changed anything in that regard.
Okay, yeah, respect where it's due, the field expedient cruise missile does work.
How much does a tomahawk missile cost? I think cessnas run like 200k or 400k
Tomahawks tend to fly a bit faster and have a more focused payload.
Doing a Flying Timothy McVeigh certainly creates a large explosion. I have to question whether this strike had a meaningful impact on drone production, any more than McVeigh's strike had a meaningful impact on the FBI's ability to operate in the US Southwest. A ballistic missile would have had the same penetration and done far more damage.
TIL that it was an FBI building.
Federal building generally. It had a bunch of offices, including the DEA and the ATF. The latter is what he was (mostly) targeting, since it was (mostly) in response to Ruby Ridge and Waco.
it hit a residential annex, so production is not slowed whatsoever
I'm sure this won't prompt another massive wave of missile strikes all over Ukraine in retaliation 
This feels like reading about a boxing match, in which every hit by Thomas Hearns is covered breathlessly, while a blizzard of blows by Sugar Ray Leonard go utterly unremarked upon.
Can I just go on record as to say that your username is 10/10 in my book?
Literally the plot of multiple PKD books. Usually with humanity staying below ground; safe from a non-existant war.
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Plan A: The Americans sell us and subsidize a fleet of F-16s, fully equipped with state of the art target-lock AMRAAMS.
Plan B: Charlie’s dad works a lot and probably won’t notice his weekender is missing for quite a while. Load her up, boys!
Is a Cessna full of dynamite a technical?
It depends on which alignment chart you're following. Some of the more unhinged technical enthusiasts consider any weaponized vehicle a technical, which I guess would make 9/11 a technical inside job. For the purists 
, a technical is limited solely to light pickup trucks fitted with a heavy gun in the flatbed. If you want to get technical about technicals, I think limiting it solely to ground vehicles is technically the correct technical definition. Technical.
Technical. 
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Shit, we should tell them there's Russians working at Raytheon.
Is there evidence of the Cessna being remote controlled? I skimmed the article but I was tilted from the use of "kamakazi'd" in the headline.
~More~ ~like~ ~kamakazIED~ ~imirite~
cool terrorists take notes, it's kind of amazing that worked & wasn't intercepted
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Bit idea: modern day equivalent of Japan's Kamikaze unity staffed entirely by dentists and lawyers.
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There's something poetic about a drone factory getting drone struck.
I wonder if that will factor into the logistics of their production.
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Putin harden your heart and increase your attacks
Or don't. Cessnas are reasonably easy to target and shoot down, from a missile defense perspective. If this is all the Ukrainians have left, just buy some Iron Dome tech from Israel and maybe take a unilateral step towards ending this nightmare.
I thought Israel was now actively favoring and aiding Ukraine
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Honestly kind of impressed slash glad that they picked a military target and didn't just 9/11 a random office building.
in 1987, a West German teenager flew a Cessna 172 all the way to Moscow and landed in in Red Square
huh, TIL.
Maybe this will turn the tide of the war.
they didn't even hit production, just a residential annex of the facility.
Maybe it will be the residual annex that turns the tide of the war?
yes the one office assistant who got his legs destroyed from the attack was what was holding Putler's war machine together
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Funny, but I see Ukraine is at the "what about wolfpacks!? We can collapse their economy and logistics chains!" Stage of denial about military prospects.
The fact of the matter is that it is relatively easy to alter production for resiliency and push your construction sector to rapidly rebuild factories. The one exception to this is ships, and even that doesn't work, as we saw with the Nazi blockade of the UK in 1940.
Honestly more embarrassing that the Mathias Rust fiasco.
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