Comments by "Titanium Rain" (@ChucksSEADnDEAD) on "What happens when/if Ukraine runs out of air defense missiles?" video.
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@Finite Automata Because a missile knocked off the air can have the guidance or steering damaged, causing it to crash and the warhead detonate from impact fuze or some kind of self-destruct.
I ask you the same question: why would an anti-air missile that is made to strike targets painted by radar hit a tractor?
The missile can't just lock onto a piece of metal. First of all, S-300 missiles first use command guidance from the ground controller, then switch to semi-active radar homing. This means the ground radar must paint the aerial target. Because the Earth is curved, and there's hills and trees in the way, a radar can't paint a tractor. Please. Think for a second. Aircraft use low altitude flying to evade radar, and you think a semi-active radar homing missile can lock onto a ground target? I'll give you the benefit of the doubt, you thought that it was an active radar homing missile. Those emit their own radar energy to see the target. That's fair. Russia has those. Ukraine doesn't. Russia kept developing the S-300 upgrades and the S-400. Ukraine's missile stocks are Soviet era. The active radar homing missiles are the 9M96 series which are compatible with S-300PMU-2 and the 40N6 from the S-400. S-300PMU-2 were never exported to Ukraine. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt once again, and let you off the hook because you assumed all S-300 launchers are the same and Ukraine could have imported some missiles from Russia in the 90s and 2000s. That's fair. The problem is that you don't understand how radar works. Radar isn't a metal detector, it will bounce off the ground too. If you point a radar in the air at the ground, you get clutter. Just noise, because all your radar energy is being scattered by buildings, trees, the ground features, etc. Even if Ukraine had bought the right missiles before 2014 and then modified them to work with their older gen S-300s, the active radar seeker would still not home onto a tractor. It would just see radar bouncing from everything, effectively blinding itself.
Do you understand now? Your "reasonable conclusion" is completely detached from reality. I get you. I understand. You have a rough idea how the missiles work, and then created a logical chain of events that made sense in your mind. The problem is, without any actual knowledge about surface to air missiles, or even how radar works, you created an hypothesis and declared it to be "reasonable". It's actually quite an unreasonable hypothesis. Do you understand what I'm saying? I'm not pissed at you because I expect you to have in-depth knowledge of missiles, because almost nobody cares enough about the topic to learn. I'm pissed at you because you come here and declare yourself to have the right opinions, and they're the ONLY conclusion that's reasonable.
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