Dude with a 2000 dollar thermal sight is gonna clap the guy with a javelin. Also any tank made by a competent nation (i.e.: not russia) will have thermal sights on their tank specifically to find some fuckboi on the bushes with a vibecheck tube.
From my own experience with hardware and real life in general, I imagine they probably had some equipment who they already knew was not working 100% and it was the only one to detect such missiles. I can’t imagine any other reason why they wouldn’t report it without risk of being labeled a traitor afterwards.
This is pretty close to Petrov's account of his reasoning, plus that the early warning system only showed four or five missiles inbound and he expected a hypothetical American first strike to be way bigger
Context: In 1983, the Soviet Union detected incoming missiles. Rather than relaying the information, the officer on duty decided not to take action, thereby preventing a nuclear war.
It’s more like sometimes credible, it’s mostly just a meme community. I don’t think the actual r/credibledefense ever got moved over to lemmy, that was almost like r/askhistorians but for military stuff iirc.
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