Estonian PM says to ignore the spoofers every time they bring up nuclear weapons and nuclear war - she says they are talking b****cks basically. A bunch of playground school bullies spouting hot air.
One can only hope so C, though for obvious reasons they'd be looking to protect US soil. It is possible as the US have been pretty quiet about the whole nuclear thing for a while. The problems with interception are big ones indeed. Then again where there's a will and money, huge amounts of money there's usually a way and US "Black Projects" get squillions thrown at them. After all the Americans decided to go for the Moon to beat the Russians(though Kennedy tried to get the Russians and the US to do space jointly) when their only success at manned spaceflight at the time was Alan Shepherd's fifteen minutes in space, and they had a metric shít tonne of very public failures. One of their first attempts at an American Sputnik blew up on the pad and sent the satellite into the weeds where it beeped pathetically until someone went out and put it out of its misery. Barely seven years later, and after the Apollo 1 pad fire that killed three astronauts and held back the project for a year, they succeeded in sending three men around the Moon and less than a year after that landed two of them on the Moon. Ten years after Kennedy's speech and promise they were up their for days and driving around on the fecking thing. America was great for thinking big and backing that up with big results, hopefully in the case of reducing the atomic threat they still are.
Decades isn't in it Yurt. Back in the early 1990's when Pablo Escobar was the cocaine king, US surveillance tech was loaned to the Columbians which allowed them to track his mobile phone and his associates, pick them out of all the other radio chatter and give their positions on the ground away.
no... what I said is 26km from the sky sabre launcher (i.e. out of range of it)
then I gave examples of attack
If that was directly above the launcher you would have a vaporised hole about 2km wide on the ground below it...
if it was 500m above the ground it would pretty much be at the 26km "as the crow flies" along the ground mark... which would be catastrophic
With tailored destruction in between along the 26km arc.
Apologies, if this hit your inner nuclear weapon tactician the wrong way, if you still think it's goal post moving, just have a re-read of my posts.
edit: with 1Mt warhead or above
The Zaporizhzhia plant was captured by the Russians on March 4 and is still under their control.
The winter is going to be the stuff of nightmares with Putin controlling the electrity all over the south of the country
The state media of Crimea has not responded to my query. Perhaps you'd like to give it a go.
‘In fairness’ - 😂
In fairness the Republic is not even on the map
Does he think the British Isles are floating on the water? And the UK's nuclear submarines want to join the party
Looks like Azerbaijan has closed its airspace to Russian Aircraft ,the same Azerbaijan that Putin claims as allied to Russia and whos military have been modernising via the Turks.
You have invented a 26 km distant from target detonation, which isn't how nukes are used. Pure fantasy when the normal detonation altitude is 500-600m.
anything that travels over a public facing ASN is tapped... or has the capability to be...
but as you mentioned, even "dark" cables are tapped ...the story behind the Americans tapping the Russian mil cable for 20 years is great...
The unit is supposedly on display in a museum in Russia.... that was back in old school copper days, where they used passive monitoring and signal processing which basically didn't exist until that mission....
A lot of satellite enthusiasts have been doing a lot of traffic analysis on the Meridian constellation (Russia mil satellite network)... mobile ground stations have been ID'd in various OSINT pics.... but the network itself appears to be working as "sporadic" at best..... whether that is due to the satellites, ground stations, or both, is something we won't probably find out until after all this...
Looks like we’re going down with the Brits!!!!
https://twitter.com/francis_scarr/status/1520846423629213699?s=21&t=3YUqUB-zSpo3sZ-Okqfwng
Sure at one stage the Americans had tapped Russian undersea cables for something like 20 + years until someone eventually told the Russians the Americans had listening and recording devices on the cables they were accessible with submarines.
And that's before we get to rivet joints and Global Hawks and satellites ,and other goodies we don't know anything about
Throwing vast numbers of untrained troops into battle gave the Russians some success in WW2 but in a modern war they would be exterminated like cockroaches. Surely someone will put a bullet in Putin if he tries to go down that road.
It's not though... my original point was there is not western hypersonic intercept capability, which makes Russia's rhetoric of having nukes in Kallinigrad and along NATO boards in response to the land based Aegis system null and void with Satan2....
Which led to the digression of Sky Sabre being sufficient, which it isn't, when the area it's protecting can be fairly obliterated with a warhead over 1Mt without it being intercepted.... but that 150km radar range will track it nicely to point of detonation, so it's got that going for it.
If you're interested in the problems of intercepting nuclear missiles then check out the nuclear historian Professor Alex Wellerstein. He wrote a long response outlining the problems of anti ballistic missile technology on Reddit the other day under his username u/restricteddata, you can see it here as the top response He makes great points about the paradox of developing effective ABM systems becasue all it results in is adversaries developing even more nuclear weapons to try to bypass the ABM systems. He is also the creator of the website Nuke Map which simulates nuclear strikes in any city in the world. https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/
Anyway the London Times had an article yesterday saying British intelligence thinks that Putin is going to declare war on Ukraine on May the 9th. While that might seem almost comedic given whats happened in the last seven wees what it shows is that Putin is getting pretty desperate now. The whole purpose of him declaring war is so he can officially introduce martial law and mandatory conscription with no time limits. If he has to do that it strongly suggests that the Russian military is so weakened with wounded and casualties at this point that he is getting into the territory of throwing the kitchen sink at Ukraine by mobilising the whole country. On the face of it this would seem like it is going to be another massive blunder by Putin, he cant expect to get any results from untrained conscripts regardless of how many of them he throws into the war.
Sky Sabre Air Defence System, United Kingdom (army-technology.com)
That's taking it at face value....MBDA who make the projectile have been quoted of saying "in excess of 25km"...
Either way, it was a short range replacement for the Rapier (which was something like 10km), with medium range tracking.... it is nowhere near something like Aegis....
which brings me back to my original point, there is no current long range hypersonic intercept capability, which marries up with Russia rhetoric of Satan 2 being an intercept beater (currently) ... which sort of make any argument they had for having missiles along NATO boarders, or in Kallinigrad, null and void currently....
Those goal posts are now so far away I can no longer see them. Game over.
"Again not justifying anything I merely made an observation based entirely on reality."
Why?
Why in this thread?
Maybe one day Elgin will get his marbles back.
The whole thing is a pretty good watch.
Where do you get this 25 km range from?
the nuke doesn't get intercepted, as it's out of range of the Sky Sabre launcher.... the nuke detonates
range 25km
detonation 26km
1km out of range of Sky Sabre...
Still lots of destruction in area being protected by Sky Sabre...
FFS! Intercepting a nuke does not result in a nuclear detonation, it's not the same as chemical explosives.
The US have to be decades ahead in operational intelligence gathering technology. Two decades of conducting signals intelligence and tracking Charlie in Afghan villages makes a Russian general and rustbucket entourage stick out like a sore thumb and easy pickings for eyes in the sky and signals operators.
Some interesting items from twitter
Footage of women and children being evacuated from the Azowstal iron and steel works
Former British transporters being converted to Ambulances for use in Ukraine
Russian kidnapping Brave Ukrainian tractors. Bastards.
Apparently someone left the immersion on.
Something that hasn't been discussed much recently is that Russian separatists in these regions are said to be very unsettled by the behaviour of the Putin regime and extremely unhappy about what has happened to Ukraine - their vision for being united with Mother Russia never included Ukraine being destroyed in the process, tens of thousands of Ukrainian civilians being butchered, war crimes, atrocities, rapes, looting etc.
Where have they said that ? The logic is that a missile will contain some dummy warheads & only one needs to get through.
One Russian "expert" even spoke of sending a massive nuke into the Yellowstone Volcano & using Tsunami weapons & nuclear torpedos to destroy harbours
it's not goalpost shifting though? The Sky Sabre's radar is medium range... the actual projectile used to hit the missile has a 25km range from launcher...
hit at 26km range at any angle with anything 1Mt and above and you can tailor your destruction inside the area being protected by Sky Sabre
Have there been reports of a insurgency in crimea
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