By claiming Crimeans want Russian rule, you are echoing Russian propaganda and lies. They do not.
That should explain it,however this is intergrated with the Aegis navy based and land based systems and Thaad,and like you said future lasers and things we dont know about yet.
The Pentagon's response is that these people you speak so highly of, are not in possession of sufficient facts, whereas they are. In other words, there are interception capabilities way beyond what has been revealed publicly.
Threats ?
Jumping from a high horse can damage your cruciate ligaments.
Unfortunately little difference to how sh*t is being promoted by big business and then taken as gospel by the UN (the same who swallowed China's bs that Covid wasn't transmissible p2p)
Is this directed at me?
Nice goal post shifting. Now you just need to back up your made up nonsense with some evidence such deliberate offset detonation is current doctrine.
Have there been reports of a insurgency in crimea
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
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
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.
Apparently someone left the immersion on.
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.
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.
FFS! Intercepting a nuke does not result in a nuclear detonation, it's not the same as chemical explosives.
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...
Where do you get this 25 km range from?
The whole thing is a pretty good watch.
"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.
Those goal posts are now so far away I can no longer see them. Game over.
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....
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.
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.
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.
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
Looks like we’re going down with the Brits!!!!
https://twitter.com/francis_scarr/status/1520846423629213699?s=21&t=3YUqUB-zSpo3sZ-Okqfwng
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...
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.
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.
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