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Mohingan t1_ixw3zca wrote

Reply to comment by exomeme in Britain says Russia likely removing nuclear warheads from missiles and firing at Ukraine by Koeny1

Which is exactly why the warheads would be removed and switched with conventional warheads weeks before ever being given to the front. No one is going to be like “hey here’s a nuke” plops it down off truck “mind taking the nuke off and switching it for me?” To anyone near the front

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LevHB t1_ixwk7sp wrote

I would have agreed with you in the past. But now? It wouldn't surprise me if they secretly gutted all that in order to make some money, and the people in charge of the nuclear stockpile are way overworked, aren't supervised, and have forgot half of the information.

Regardless this is bad news no matter which way you look at it. People are saying it was a test of the response, well it doesn't matter what the reason they launched it was, they still got the data for the test, even if they didn't mean to do this.

The idea that they're using these as kinetic + fuel weapons doesn't make much sense to me.

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