Comments by "ZIPZ" (@zipz8423) on "CRUX" channel.

  1. Now it`s Saint HIMARS.
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  2. Whats that? Some third world rocket?
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  3.  @georgekaradov1274  In rain or snow the laser is near useless.
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  4.  @hydra_ger  They are used to dazzle sensors they wont be making anything fall out of orbit.
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  5.  @cyberrunner6529  God bless you man, that made me laugh.
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  6. They have all moved out of range, those ships have Kaliber which has a range of over 1,000 km. The good thing is the Moskva no longer has any influence in the air battle over that part of Ukraine’s land mass. I think it is job done and we don’t need to supply them with anti ship missiles. None of the Russian Black Sea flotilla will go anywhere near the coast now because they know Neptune is operational. Personally I’d concentrate on manufacturing additional Neptune rounds for Ukraine or at least help them to do it. Right now it is more important for them to get field artillery for the battles along the line of contact in the Donbas and medium range SAMS to frag those high flying Russian bombers.
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  7.  @p_akistani1687  Bro, why would pakistan fire anything at Israel....
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  8.  @robertdebrus3732  No, there are plenty of T90As in Ukraine and T-90M. They have their turrets blown off the same as T-72, "It seems Dimitry, you are having trouble with your Shtora."
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  9. The 3rd Army Corps was never an elite formation, the video is misleading.
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  10.  @cnccarving  The latest thinking is to have multiple beams to get past attenuation, something like a barrel with 30 seperate beams.
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  11.  @cnccarving  there is usually a calibration beam used to fine tune the kill beams. That’s what the ABL used.
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  12.  @williamzk9083  well PAC-3 is tearing them up.
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  13. They pack a massive warhead. It is almost 500 lbs.
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  14.  @davids1inwestholl45  yep, 487.2 lbs to be precise. It’s easy to forget they are 15 feet long.
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  15.  @davids1inwestholl45  :P I hope some Russian FFGs can stop them with their hulls any time soon.
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  16. Either way that is a tank kill.
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  17.  @stephenhumphrey7935  I agree with you sir, the T-72 B3 is as good as the T90A in many ways and from what I have been seeing, the Shtora system does not seem to be making any difference.
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  18.  @michaelfaraday8391  It is the world we live in unfortunately.
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  19. It was always possible.
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  20. The video is misleading, the new 3rd Army Corps are far from elite it is made up largely of volunteers who have hardly any training.
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  21. They are overhyped.
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  22. I don’t think the U.K. ever planned on donating any Harpoons, whoever suggested that is naive. Probably a member of the unwashed media. More likely the U.K. is trying to buy something for Ukraine, a couple of Exocet coastal batteries from French stocks would make much more sense but the French might baulk at that. For me, a concerted effort to support Ukraine’s Neptune missile program is the right way to go.
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  23. A T-72 round will still kill an M1 or a Chally at the right range.
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  24.  @enriquelaroche5370 you wait for it to slow down to supersonic speeds so it can actually hit something it’s aimed at. The old Pershing had to do the same thing in order to use its terminal radar. The Zircons they used against Kyiv were the anti ship versions that have to shed velocity in the terminal phase. I guess right now they are developing versions that don’t do that and follow a ballistic trajectory end to end at Mach 8 with a kinetic payload. Guidance would still have to be world class.
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  25. A space based IR tracker / step starer and a fixed sensor - both in place today can be used to cue other sensors to properly resolve a missile track. People suggesting missiles such as these cannot be tracked don’t know what they are talking about. Multispectral sensors on the same platform are the future and it’s here now.
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  26.  @enriquelaroche5370  some versions of Iskander like the M already had radar decoy dispensers but they have been shot down successfully. Those decoys have already been collected after attacks - I doubt their effectiveness against modern AESA radars such as the type Patriot or SAMP/T comes equipped with. The Russians have also been forced to equip Kh-101s with chaff dispensers - again - probably effective against lower end radar laid guns but not against more sophisticated systems. As for the Kh-22 as you’ve said they are old weapons - Patriot for example should be able to intercept them the issue is ballistic missile defence no matter what AD you have is never easy no matter the threat. In the early days Ukraine was firing 120 Patriots a month, they probably can’t do that today so they are going to get many more leakers. They also only have 2 batteries protecting Kyiv and they have a relatively small footprint. I’m not surprised Russia is managing to hit Kyiv with a small number of missiles. The type that is the most problematic is the Oniks anti ship missile because it travels at high Mach at low level - an incredibly difficult target to intercept. The good news for Ukraine is Russia doesn’t manufacture Kh-22s any longer and they aren’t accurate - they are area weapons and a lot of them malfunction probably due to their age and condition. They are also using EW systems to mess up their terminal approach. I agree, from what I’ve seen Russia missiles are pretty accurate relatively speaking but I think their success rates are a reflection of the lack of density Ukraine has regards AD systems rather than some sort of perceived inferiority of western AD systems - Ukraine simply doesn’t have enough of them. By the way the Ukraine air force has said Patriot can intercept Kh-22s - that’s where I got that from.
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  27. Harpoon - L Block 1 is an old missile.
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  28. Yes - superior IMUs.
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  29.  @johnryland7625  it’s already happened. American nav systems are traditionally the best on the planet and always have been.
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  30. What about now Comrade? Lol
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  31. remember when Russia lost 50 vehicles trying to cross a river? This is small potatoes compared to that. https://i0.wp.com/cms.sofrep.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/FSj5hnNWUAALGMT.jpg?resize=1536%2C1152&ssl=1
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  32.  @novak7970  If you are going to throw shade at UKR for losing a few armoured vehicles and one Leo2 in one failed attack, then you cannot ignore Russia losing 50 vehicles in one failed attack right?
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  33.  @one_step_sideways  those look like a wish list of future fantasies. We all have them, enjoy yours.
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  34.  @one_step_sideways  You are just white noise in the information void.
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  35.  @one_step_sideways  You will continue to tell lies until honest information comes out, and none of that ever comes from Vatniks, this has been proven time and again. Your kind denied the Kherson and Kharkiv counteroffensives were even happening, until pictures emerged of 250 Russian vehicles that were abandoned and the Orcs scuttled back across the Dnieper. Why TF would anybody start listening to you now? lol
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  36. I am confident Kinzhal is within the engagement envelope of both Patriot and SAMP-T. The issue is UKR has none operational and will never have enough launchers to cover all possiblle targets and these weapons can only really cover small areas with any reasonable effectiveness. At this point Russia is simply testing them against the people of Ukraine.
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  37.  @GwynBleys  I am always surprised at the number of people who think Russia has a Mach 12 capable Iskander without any evidence.
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  38.  @WalkOverHotCoal  Yes I do. But I am speaking as myself here. If you think this missile reaches mach 12 sustained including in the terminal phase then intercept will be improbable.However, I do not believe it does based on the donor missile it came from.
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  39.  @WalkOverHotCoal  You are forgetting something, to sustain mach 12 you need something that is going to "sustain it."This is a single stage weapon with a 2,000 km range. After motor burn out - which will happen measured in a couple of minutes, then whatever post boost manouevering it does, thats going to reduce both range and velocity. And this is a missile not a reentry body so it will not be hitting the gorund at mach 12 either. The deceleration forces would be too great that is the limitation for these types of weapons if they are bunker busters. The Pentagon already know this too. Since everybody has had a chance to see these weapons on radar by now, somebody has all of the answers.
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  40.  @WalkOverHotCoal  A few things. A missile is not a nuclear warhead re entry body so that is a poor comparison. We are not talking about anything other than Kinzhal. It is not an air breather, a Scramjet or any other type of "jet."It has one rocket motor and less than half a ton of fuel. Of all of the various hypersonic missiles touted, Kinzhal is probably the most vulnerable to intercept, based on a few known details, it lacks a terminal guidance sensor and relies on strapdown INS - that`s a capability limitation in itself. The other hypersonic weapons are very problematic for BMD, and there are plenty of down sides for a defender - however, in our favour we are way ahead of both China and Russia regards a global sensor net -without which you have zero chance of intercepting a threat at range so you have to rely on point or local defence alone. Lastly, the USN has SM6 - people dont realise how good it is. However these hypersonics pose a serious threat.
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  41. Thats because Patriot is not operational yet.
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  42.  @inquizative44  No, they arent capable of mach 10 or 12 I think that is baloney based on what the missiles are based on.
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  43.  @williamzk9083  I think the biggest victory for Russia is getting the world to believe Kinzhal is capable of mach 10 or 12 when that is probably false. The issue for Ukraine is they only have medium altitude SAMs and they do not have enough launchers. This will change when they get Patriot and SAMP-T operational but that brings a different set of issues - they can only defend small areas with those. The Russians simply have to avoid those areas, Ukraine cannot defend all of its high value targets, in fact no country could against all threats. Personally I believe both Patriot and SAMP-T can engage thse Kinzhals because their likely performance is lower than the hype but the PK will not be stellar.
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  44.  @BeyondOurSolarSystem bullshit.
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  45.  @BeyondOurSolarSystem we heard yesterday Kinzhal only flies at 3.5 Mach or less - this is from those same UKR Patriot operators who shot 7 of them down, you can find the article in The Economist. How do you feel now Copelord?
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  46. Thats what the USA is for.
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  47. lol what about now son.
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  48. It is even worse, you got the Monkey models of all of those systems.
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  49.  @JRBendixen  S-400 like any other AD system works better in an integrated network, something the Russians never had in Ukraine except in small areas of the front.
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  50.  @ChucksSEADnDEAD  I think the world now knows why it cost America trillions to develop anti missile defence. You cant half ass ABM defence.
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