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How US Patriot defences are reducing ‘unstoppable’ Russian missiles to shrapnel (www.thetimes.co.uk)
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[–] Cleverdawny@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago

Shrapnel kills things when a fragmentation warhead explodes at a proper distance from the target. If a missile gets blown up thousands of feet in the air the only way it's hurting anyone is if a large piece falls on their head and brains them.