Comments by "C S ~ \x5bDuke of Ramble\x5d" (@DUKE_of_RAMBLE) on "Did Russia Intentionally Attack Moldova With A Drone? | Breaking News With The Enforcer" video.

  1. People drive Cruise Missiles? 🤔 My understanding is that both are programed, and are fire-and-forget. Now, I'm sure a cruise missile is able to be reprogrammed it terminated on the fly, but I have no clue of Shahed's capabilities. I'd like to imagine they'd also be able to be, but can appreciate that getting a comms signal TO them is probably extremely tough one they get over the horizon!
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  2. Well I see YT deleted my followup. 🙄 (a common issue; I highly doubt Matt did it) For everyone else, I did some digging and: Cruise Missiles CAN be remote controlled and also reprogrammed in-flight. Shahed CANNOT be remote controlled, but CAN be reprogrammed in-flight.
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  3.  @GWNorth-db8vn  Indeed, but it's important to know it CAN have it's target changed! Because that removes room for someone to say nothing could be done after the fact. If it was determined incorrect coordinates were entered, it could be re-tasked to the correct ones!
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  4.  @GWNorth-db8vn  Well, I decided to do dog into this a bit, and it seems that some cruise missiles are able to be retasked after launch, and, even be remotely controlled. Google using as easy to search as it was decades ago, so finding what I want is harder, as it wants to hold my hand and return what if THINKS I want. (eg, I searched "cruise missile" and it returns results about Patriot air defense... 🙄) That being said: Here's one example... The US AGM-84 SLAM-ER [Wiki] "The SLAM-ER can be remotely controlled while in flight, and it can be redirected to another target after launch if the original target has already been destroyed, or is no longer considered to be dangerous." And the Shahed-136... [Forbes, via Defense Express] Apparently it's also capable of being reprogrammed in-flight; however, cannot be remotely controlled. But it is very much a pre-programmed flight path and therefore can only target static targets. ("pre-programmed" in that it cannot make dynamic changes to its own flight path; not that programming is only possible prior-to the launch) (but yes, I'm familiar with drones previously being in reference to remote targeting drones, which are usually just inexpensive purpose made aircraft, but then eventually also included re-purposed jets; the F-4 Phantom II were turned into targeting drones, for example)
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  5. I said it the last couple times, I'll say it again... I feel those "accidental drone strikes" are _intentional! At least internally, as they obviously wouldn't admit that publicly... Moldova/Romania are arguably a very small participant in NATO, and that's usually where you "probe". You don't test the waters by jumping off the dock, you dip your toes in on the beach! My admittedly-unqualified 2¢...
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