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Russia has made 6 million artillery rounds by 2024. North Korea has made 2.7 million artillery rounds in 2024. Iran has made 1 million artillery rounds in 2024. a total of 9.7 million rounds. And many more from storage Meanwhile, the EU alone has difficulty meeting 1 million artillery ammunition by 2024
@@dobbo7690No, no he isn’t. He’s already debunked this. And even if they did acquire any of the starlink systems, they wouldn’t work because there isn’t a single node that is active over the entirety of Russia. I’ll let you go read about the rest on your own.
@@dreb222 I don't know if they broke their way in but there are videos of starlink routers set up on the battlefield on the Russian side. The Ukrainians were dropping grenades from drones onto them
It is pretty clear that the US does have an ASAT weapon in the SM-3. When they shot down that satellite it took them only 3 weeks to make the required modifications (which were likely all software because of such a short time frame) and that knowledge is either around for use at short notice or possibly already integrated into the production missiles.
Do you realize the Russian space program is still able to launch rockets, whereas the US is not, it was actually paying Russia to launch rockets until space X came up, just saying
@@rdrtmd Okay but now that SpaceX has matured, the US has better capability than anything Russia has, and it costs less per launch too. Russia also has private manufacturers it relies on for every launch, so Roscozmos is no more capable of doing launches by itself than NASA is.
Out in space two alien life forms are speaking with each other. The first alien says, "The dominant life forms on the earth planet have developed satellite-based nuclear weapons." The second alien, who looks exactly like the first, asks, "Are they an emerging intelligence?" The first alien says, "I don't think so, they have them aimed at themselves."
All nature, everywhere in the Universe is based on natural selection. Which is just another word for competition. Aliens may not use war any longer, this is possible but the concept of war is definitely not alien to anyone in this Universe. This old trope about aliens not understanding war in principle is getting just as tiresome as it is dumb.
@@gautheuil6210 Sure, no argument there. I've said that myself for years now. Coincidentally shuts down entire argument about aliens not understanding war.
COnsider this - if you could focus 1 sq. km of sunlight on shall we say 1. sq. dm, you'd be putting energy equivalent of 1 GW / 200kg of HE on that spot.
@@bobdadnaila7708 Yes, but a vacuum has no molecules in order to aid heat transfer. If you look at the three mechanisms of heat transfer (Convection, Conduction and Radiation), the first two require molecules to be possible meaning that in space you are left with radiation. This is why the ISS has massive radiators designed to help carry away the excess heat. If space was both filled with molecules AND at absolutely zero, the ISS would need massive heaters, not radiators. Hope that makes sense 🙂
5:50 - "several commercial providers have more high resolution satellites than Russia" - i think this is the key metric - when a new company can afford to design, build, (obtain launch licence for, ) and launch more and better stuff than russia it is clear what the tech level of the "superpower" is ...
Simplistic view. Usually, commercial providers - like ICEYE - compromise on longevity, using consumer electronics to lower the price. Rad-hardened electronics IS by necessity sophisitacted on one hand but years behind commercial in other areas.
@@piotrd.4850 Sure but they could just spend more money and have them by the end of the week if needed.There are a lot of providers its just not economic for them.
its a statement for example like they cant do gearbox casings because they dont do it like we do, from cast iron...but gearbox casings can be welded , drop forged, screwed together.
Love the Red Storm Rising reference. I know the RORSATs are no longer in service but surely they have a newer satellite capable of oceanic radar reconnaissance to find our carrier and amphibious fleets.
Well this explains why Russia has so many suits with eyes on the ground. They need actual humans on the ground around the world to see what they want to see because their satellites currently suck.
Every military would prefer to have boots on the ground over a satellite. Satellites have maximum resolution due to the atmosphere regardless of the weather.
Russia as a space power is collapsing right now. But they can still cause problems those leading in space like SpaceX by basically trashing up orbits. They are more likely to act this way since they are falling so far behind.
Tbh, all the nations are collapsing and falling behind. If your not SpaceX you suck. ESA, NASA, ULA, Roscosmos, JAXA even China. They are all running old disposable launch vehicles at low or none existent launch rates. I think ESA doesn't even have any vehicles fit to fly right now. Love him or hate him, Elon has turned this industry on its head.
Source? Russia would never give up their space capabilities. I mean they are not sending western things up anymore, but that is it? So I am sure that was a blow to them, and hurt some programs here in the West. Yet outside of that they seem to be investing more into their space capabilities. From nukes to rockets which trickles to other space endeavors. They have one of the best rockets you know? Think the Soyuz. Tons of western space programs, or such were canceled due to the war. Yet their skill, and know how is still there.
And Russia wants to put nuclear powered anti-satellite weapons in orbit? (Not nukes in spaaassee😅) I'm more worried about them keeping their satellites with nuclear power sources on them in orbit. They accidentally de-orbited s nuclear powered spy satellite one time. The radioactive debris fell across Northern Canada. Fortunately in an unpopulated region. That was when the Soviet Union had some money now broke as they are I think the Russians would have a hard time financing the deployment of such a weapon little alone maintaining it safely.
Agreed. They are getting their asses so badly kicked in the Black Sea and in the air that they NEEDED something to deflect the news - to change the channel.
Except Russia is currently nowhere near as broke, as SU was or Ukrainian Security Service and associated media outlets and world would wish them to be.
I've some bad news for you - there are already a lot of defunct Soviet nuclear reactors still in orbit from the cold war days. So i wouldn't worry about it.
@@piotrd.4850 Doesn't matter much if 50% of all funds gets stolen by default. The biggest ally of Ukraine are the totally insane levels of Russian corruption. Go ahead try to deny that.
We come to the main Russian drawback which is its electronics industry. It is mindboggling how a a country considering itself a superpower, did not paid any significant attention to the development of its own semiconductor industry, and now they are boasting how they will achieve 28 nm by 2027. And everyone in the west from the semiconductor industry laughed. It would still be an achievement and I guess better late than never applies here as well. But they should have done this a decade ago. Lack of its own semiconductor industry is the main bottleneck of Russians lagging in several sectors. And lets not beat around the bush. Sanctions are having an effect. Not a critical one like Washigton neocons wanted, but Russian industry is feeling it - because they can't import top notch GPUs and CPUs and can't use TSMC to produce Russian cpus. I would like to see Intel and AMD stop delivering to Russia at all. For now they are still delivering cpus for home market. Covert if you are reading this I think a video on this topic would go miles explaining to the common folk where we stand. Even more so if we count in the Chinese which are making huge strides. For a moment if we leave out the politics and look at the issue purely from a consumer perspective, it would be nice to have more companies like ASML and TSMC able to produce equipment, processes, methods, technologies, expertise and last but not least products for the consumer market. That would drive prices down and things should start to be more affordable provided that China and Russia will achieve technological parity or atleast come close top leading edge. Because lets not fool ourselves. Semiconductor military application today is not the main driving force funding the industry. It is the consumer market and then military is using common off the shelve parts, cpus, gpus, microcontrollers to build the equipment for itself. Rarely are they using custom developed microchips.
28nm is more than enough for specific military purposes and I highly doubt that any nation puts 5nm chips in their rockets and such. Probably the F35 and B2 have the most advanced military grade chips, but I reckon these are around 14nm level. Military hardware rarely uses "SOC" style chips like smartphones. Instead it's more like the auto industry, based on modules. A module for thrust, another one for speed, another one for gps and so on. If we sent people to the moon with a pocket calculator, we can definitely do a lot with "older" generation chips
No worries, Covert Cabal.. China can provide them with all the high resolution pictures and telemetry needed. Plus the ultra high resolution Beidu system can provide highly accurate positioning Telemetry.
I feel that Russia gets most of its battle field intelligence from drones and AWAC or Wedge Tail type aircraft. Any videos on these types of Russian intelligence gathering devices. After all, I have viewed a video were Turkey is starting to make a Patriot type missile system that uses targeting information from drones.
There’s private sector Chinese companies offering ISR for RussianMOD in Ukraine. ISR is over saturated in Ukraine for both sides it’s hard to hide anything. At the end of the day if you can’t project firepower supremacy there’s nothing ISR can do for you, sure you know what’s happening but what can you do about it?
It is my understanding Russia is investing in over the horizon radar. This is the technology we used before satellites. What are they trying to tell us?
@@Redfvvgyou are ODing on the copium dude! Fact is Russia is shite at building stuff since the collapse of the Soviet Union and it lost the countries that made their stuff. Cope and seethe vatnik!
@@Redfvvgyou test BEFORE the failed launches. You'd think with all the "successful tests" Russia has all the time that they wouldn't have this problem. But they do. Which makes me think their "testing" is the problem.
They have a better launch success rate than anyone, including the US, about 100 successful launches in a row - no accidents for the last several years.
I mean the US figured out in the 80s already how to shoot down satellites from Fighter Jets, its well known tech. Hell, these days with the Aegis combat system we've shot down satellites in tests from all the way down at sea level
@@REDACTED_shenanigans yeah, I wasn't saying it can't be done. I am well aware it's been done multiple times. I'm just saying it's different than rendezvous, RPO, and docking and the comparison isn't entirely accurate. Also, "basic" is a very very strong word
Would you comment please on the anti-space capabilities of the S-400 and S-500 series missiles? They are billed as being able to attack "near space targets" which is typically described as ICBMs, although it's not clear what phase of the ICBM flight path that they supposedly target is. Also, what do you think of a nuclear pumped-laser anti-satellite weapon? Any chance they would be pursuing that?
Iran currently has three satellites in orbit. NK has one. Their specifications/performance characteristics are unclear, but they're almost certainly several decades behind US/NATO capabilities. Does that answer your question?
I think you missed some European/EADS/Airbus capabilities there. Especially TerraSAR-X and TanDEM-X. But also in general: There seems to be, on the top end technological level, a genuine rivalry regarding some (military- grade) sensors between Europe and the USA. It also was a sidenote both in the EuroHawk developement (where the SIGINT suite was only installed after the aircraft was completely handed over) and regarding the delopment of a Franco-German fighter-jet because the US insisted on full disclosure of everything if it was to be licensed to carry US nuclear bombs. Which would have meant handing over complete and detailed information about the sensor technology itself, not just the capacity.
Yup. If there's secrets and rivalry between agencies in the same government it would be naive to expect total transparency between different governments. Totally makes sense too -- the more people know the secret the higher the probability for a leak, if not for any other reason...
russia's reliance on french and other western optics for thermals etc should have led to more cooperation with china with their decently advanced manufacturing though the semiconductors to control them are way behind. and though asml does not sell to china, they do sell to intel as well as tsmc and tsmc was far better equipped in fabbing for quite a while. its not just the tool, it is the expertise in using it. and china doesnt have that. though they have made progress in sub "7nm" non euv fabbing, but it requires more masks and is not really scalable for commercial use, though for a military edge the time and money are less important
"You see comrade. In order to achieve space, you simply tie political dissidents to rockets. Then you tell them Putin is coming. They run so fast from Traitor-In-Chief they leave orbit blyat!"
Near future satellites will be able to be refueled by small tanker satellites operating from fuel tank satellites. This will provide more maneuverability over the satellite's life. See Air Force Association magazine recent issue.
One thing I know for sure is happening is collaboration with CCP on satellite launches, I follow both the news about Ukraine war and space launches and there was definitely an uptick in launches of generic ' earth observation satellites ' around the time it started. I'm pretty sure China is launching payloads for russians and/or doing builds + launches and handing them the keys later. Along with shared surveillance data.
Now I could be wrong, however I believe that anything being nuclear powered in orbit would be destabilizing, anything nuclear powered for the most part relies on coolant to not meltdown. The concept that Space is cold is not completely true. While it is "Cold" heat transfer requires there to be a place to say transfer the heat. Space is exactly as it sounds, spacious. With no atmosphere it's incredibly insolating making cooling something insanely difficult. However, I could be wrong maybe my knowledge of physics is incorrect. Take what I said with a grain of salt.
@3:39 glonass, you didn't explain why russian pilots, helo and fixed wing, use GPS and not glonass. you didn't mention the iridium satellite russia destroyed: On February 10, 2009, the Iridium 33 satellite collided with a defunct Russian satellite, named Kosmos 2251, 800 kilometres (500 mi) over Siberia.[19] Two large debris clouds were created.[20] perhaps you're just not familiar with the term "defunct". all that space and one satellite, the defunct one, collides with an active communication satellite. whatakwinkydink
An interesting question I find is how good does Ukraine know, when a Russian Satellite is passing by. So can the Ukraine military look at some plan and try to hide or align troop movements?
I'm pretty sure US has real time application for estimated Russian sat coverage. It doesn't cost US anything to give it to Ukraine. To a degree Ukrainian intel can calculate it on their own as well, it's not exactly a rocket science.
on one side : Small satellites are not good on the other side : Planet has more satellites than Russia. Guess what, planet uses small 200-250kgsatellites to collect their imagery. I don't know how you do your reasearch but resolution is not only dependent on the weight of the satellite. and Razdan is NOT a small satellite.
Russia isn’t interested in maintaining a global police plus there’s Chinese companies handling ISR. These civilian contractors provide high res coverage.
Maybe Ukraine could make a 'contract hit' or even 'do a favor' by taking out the Russian launch facility or satellite assembly shop. They would have a benefit, in the future, but the big beneficiaries this week would be the west and the USA. I wonder what old stuff we have in inventory that they could use for that?
I think whoever disables satellites will win the next high tech war. Imagine going back to map and compass (GPS/GLONASS etc). Not having satellite imaging would be a huge deal too.
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How? There's thousands up there, from shoebox sized microsats, to truck sized military sats. How would you get a camera on all of them??? Putting cameras on new satellites may be possible, if you can convince the companies/countries that are launching them of the need, but the added weight of a camera system would definitely be an issue - every kilo of payload costs thousands of $$$ to launch, and SOMEBODY needs to pay for that. It's why most satellites don't come with cameras - if a camera isn't needed for the satellites main purpose, then a camera isn't installed - it's just too expensive...
Musk out development strategy is likely the USA and west winning space defense strategy that it can easily win with already superior launch capabilities and far bigger economy. The key is to not fall behind on asymmetric capabilities, and push systems diversity and scale to limit vulnerability.
