Comments by "Titanium Rain" (@ChucksSEADnDEAD) on "How Ukraine Hit Russian Forces Deep Inside Crimea" video.

  1. The radar range is "on paper" because the Earth is curved. Past a certain distance the ground itself creates a "shadow" that hides airplanes.
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  2. Early warning radar beams at the ionosphere and it bounces back at the ground. It's no good to target an aircraft but it can be used to see attack formations or missile launches.
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  3. Attacking Ukraine isn't defense.
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  4.  @Slava_Ukraini1991  As said above, flying low does two things: terrain masking (using valleys to physically block radar) and using ground clutter because radar beams aren't perfectly narrow and thus will hit the ground and cause returns that make the aircraft hard to pick up. These allow you to fly past radar much closer than the earth's curvature would allow. There's ways to mitigate this: putting radars on a tall mast and using computing power to filter out clutter. However, past a certain distance the curvature of the earth will take over as the main reason why radar can't see.
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  5. They always had it. The current SBU leader himself used to perform raids into Crimea before the 2022 war.
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  6. He was charging the DoD for the "free" systems lmao
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  7. All weapons are military weapons. Knives, spears, swords, muskets, revolvers, shotguns, bolt actions, etc. The military has used them all.
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  8. It's important to remember that the USSR had important industry in Ukraine. Mykolaiv shipyards built the Moskva, a factory in Kharkiv built T-64s, T-80s and T-84s, they built the engines for the Mi-26 heavy lift helicopter and they even refurbished rockets for Russian nuclear missiles.
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  9.  @dianapennepacker6854  The S-400 can on paper track and engage a target at roughly 400 km away without over-the-horizon. It just has to be a big target flying at high altitude. They have a BIG missile for those long range shots.
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  10.  @WinstonSmith22  Are they?
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  11.  @WinstonSmith22  Protecting diplomats is a thing. You do realize that the US has Marines in Moscow, right? They're the force protecting the embassy.
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  12.  @WinstonSmith22  For training.
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  13. Elon has DoD contracts, come on...
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  14. They aren't using lightspeed motorbikes and Boston Whalers with 1 ton anti-ship missiles. Van Riper cheated.
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  15. Sounds like strategic value to me. Now two pieces of scrap are blocked inside those dry docks.
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  16. Still coping about a 1.5 year old meme while Russia gets pelted.
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  17. Yeah. One less ship, one dry dock blocked with a scrapped ship. Try to run a navy without spare ships and repair facilities.
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  18. The IMF has no means to analyze the Russian economy, they just use the numbers provided by Rosstat. The Russian statistics agency
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  19. Russia lost a S-400 a few weeks ago, then lost like 5 Buks, now another S-400, and more recently another 2 Buks.
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  20.  @polnoeceloe  It does affect the situation because Russia is having its attention divided. They need to protect Russia proper from drones, the frontline and Crimea. Ukraine is making Russia choose what it wants to protect the most, then attack what is protected the least. Embarrassing losses could lead to Russia defending Crimea and Russia proper, thus giving up the frontline to Ukrainians because news don't travel as fast there.
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  21.  @polnoeceloe  But the offensive goes on despite those attacks. The offensive force is not distracted by the defensive efforts.
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  22. How?
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  23. That's not occam's razor. Without the raid, targeting coordinates are meaningless. You can get the coordinates from civilian satellite pictures. The "precise targeting" would be detected and intercepted. But since the raid happened, the radar didn't give enough time to react.
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