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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Get in line for the "odd bedfellows" list:

https://bulgarianmilitary.com/amp/2024/04/26/su-27-flanker-uses-ipad-tablet-to-launch-american-agm-88-harm/

Su-27 Flanker uses iPad tablet to launch American AGM-88 HARM

https://news.yahoo.com/news/ukrainian-su-25-frogfoots-now-194758629.html

Ukrainian Su-25 Frogfoots Now Using French Hammer Guided Bombs After Exhausting Rocket Stocks

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2024/01/17/ukraines-frankensams-are-soviet-launchers-firing-american-missiles-they-just-scored-their-first-kill/

Ukraine’s FrankenSAMs Are Soviet Launchers Firing American Missiles. They Just Scored Their First Kill.

Kind of reminds me of the Worldwar series, where there's an invasion by lizardlike space aliens right in the middle of World War II, and various human factions are forced to put aside their differences to fight back against the aliens, and you get some crazy fusion weapons, using various technologies of various factions. At one point, the Soviets extract uranium, the Americans build an atomic warhead with it, and the Germans use their huge rail-transported gun to fire it directly into a landed starship; because it's just a dumb, heavy projectile, the counters that the aliens have that were intended to defeat missiles don't work.