• Rob Bos@lemmy.ca
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    5 hours ago

    They tag some of their military assets with ‘Z’ for battlefield identification

    • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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      4 hours ago

      Because the Russians liked the movie world war z or what? Also I’m still confused why people on Lemmy would adopt that spelling regardless

      • Rob Bos@lemmy.ca
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        3 hours ago

        They needed a symbol to spray paint on their tanks to easily differentiate them. Z is simple and it’s not a a Cyrillic letter.