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Re:Russians hit the office and R&D center of Samsung in Kyiv by tomatotomato37 on Monday October 10, 2022 @09:44AM (#33151317)
It's most certainly a miss. People have this weird perception due to all the modern propoganda with the tomahawk missile and such that military equipment is now 100% accurate and reliable. In reality these are still physical objects that are subject to mechanical failure/enemy action/entropy/whatever and the average failure rate is still such that you have to send a volley of 3 or 4 guided missiles downrange to absolutely guarantee a kill.
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Re:Russians hit the office and R&D center of Samsung in Kyiv by JumpCrisscross on Monday October 10, 2022 @10:05AM (#33151565)
> this weird perception due to all the modern propoganda with the tomahawk missile and such that military equipment is now 100% accurate and reliable

The accuracy of Russian munitions has been demonstrably lower than NATO standard [1]. They’re also running low on good munitions, leading e.g. to land strikes by surface-to-air S-300s [2].

[1] https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/exclusive...

[2] https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/britain-says-russia-has...

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Re:Russians hit the office and R&D center of Samsung in Kyiv by dragontamer on Monday October 10, 2022 @11:20AM (#33152503)
These attacks in Ukraine _were_ the good Russian missiles.

They're from a precious small stockpile of Russian precision weapons. And they wasted it on civilian targets.

S300 cannot strike Kyiv, not from where the the frontline has moved.

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Re:Russians hit the office and R&D center of Samsung in Kyiv by dekhn on Monday October 10, 2022 @10:18AM (#33151725)
There was a whole article in the NY Times explaining how this is true for the Russians, but not the HIMARS being used by Ukraine.
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