Wilshire to Ukraine@sopuli.xyz • 10 months agoFrance gives Ukraine 12 more howitzers after flak for not pulling its weightwww.politico.euexternal-linkmessage-square4fedilinkarrow-up1101arrow-down11
arrow-up1100arrow-down1external-linkFrance gives Ukraine 12 more howitzers after flak for not pulling its weightwww.politico.euWilshire to Ukraine@sopuli.xyz • 10 months agomessage-square4fedilink
minus-squareKerblinkfedilink13•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-squareDarkThoughtslinkfedilink6•edit-210 months agoFlak not Flack. It comes from the German word FLugAbwehrKanone.
minus-square@Droechai@lemm.eelinkfedilink2•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