My brother in christ, what is this reactionary leftism. NATO bad, so every single thing they report is a lie and propaganda actually, even when it comes from “your side”? Without so much as to bother to look at the pictures, because they are actually photoshop and ai?
You’re looking at a piece of an engine 50cm wide and confidently go “actually this is clearly from a rocket that’s 15cm in diameter”. Like fuck, man, why is it the same shit on both sides.
Kh-101
Dimensions
Sidewinder AIM-9
Dimensions
It was not a Kh-101. The dimensions, the blast power and the damage do not check out, not to mention the angle of attack before the impact and the typical whistling sound they make in flight. Also, you should be comparing to NASAMS AMRAAM (AIM-120 and its modifications), not this.
This is not the first time this sort of thing happened, by the way.. This time it’s upcoming NATO summit, that was before Blinken’s visit afaik. And it’s no coincidence that Radio Liberty and all Western propaganda outlets decried in unison right after the attack in a coordinated manner, taking Ukraine’s word as gospel. Palestine does not have the same privilege, mind you.
Also, thank you for sharing photos provided by Ukraine, who is definitely not known for staging photo-ops to excuse torpedoing the Istanbul peace treaty and condemning its people to a meat grinder… Ahem Bucha ahem…
You are comparing it to an AIM-9, NASAM uses AIM-120. But the diameter compared to those pictures still is an issue.
More importantly: There’s still the problem with blast power. This incident destroyed (not even completely) a relatively small side building of the hospital. If it was a regular Kh-101 the damage would be significantly larger. The updated one even more so (double the warhead, reducing range).
