Wilshire to Ukraine · 10 months agoFrance gives Ukraine 12 more howitzers after flak for not pulling its weightwww.politico.euexternal-linkmessage-square4fedilinkarrow-up1103arrow-down11
arrow-up1102arrow-down1external-linkFrance gives Ukraine 12 more howitzers after flak for not pulling its weightwww.politico.euWilshire to Ukraine · 10 months agomessage-square4fedilink
minus-squareKerb@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up13·edit-210 months agoi was wondering how howitzers would suppliment anti air capabilities until i realized that the headline wasn’t about literal flack cannons
minus-squareDarkThoughts@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up6·edit-210 months agoFlak not Flack. It comes from the German word FLugAbwehrKanone.
minus-squareDroechai@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·10 months agoI also got confused, but I thought it was because they sent flak guns which didn’t work in the theatre so they switched to howitzers
i was wondering how howitzers would suppliment anti air capabilities until i realized that the headline wasn’t about literal fla
ck cannonsFlak not Flack. It comes from the German word FLugAbwehrKanone.
I also got confused, but I thought it was because they sent flak guns which didn’t work in the theatre so they switched to howitzers