Comments by "Titanium Rain" (@ChucksSEADnDEAD) on "Satellite Pics Show Massive Strike on Russian Airbase in Crimea" video.

  1. Su-24s. Saki is a naval air base and they operate Su-30SMs and S-24Ms with the 43rd.
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  2. Missiles only leave trails when fired. Rocket motors burn in seconds. When the motor burns out, they enter an unpowered ballistic trajectory and dive down on the target. Since the motor isn't burning, no trail is left. HIMARS strikes with GMLRS rockets also don't show trails.
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  3. It's always preferable to get a direct hit on aircraft, and air to air missiles usually have pre-fragmented warheads or continuous rod warheads to cause damage. Blast isn't good enough, so they use fragments to rip aircraft apart.
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  4.  @AstroGremlinAmerican  Ukraine already had a huge problem with UXO after 2014. They don't want to cause further issues for civilians.
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  5. The large craters are where the munitions used to be. The photos before the strike show the boxes in huge piles.
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  6. Not really. The Ukrainian SOF already has experience conducting operations in Crimea. They successfully "stole" the aircraft that belonged to Ukraine after Russia took over Crimea. Their sabotage unit also infiltrated Crimea once, but were discovered and had to fight their way out of the island, killing a Vympel operator.
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  7. They're perfectly legal, neither the US or Russia signed any treaty.
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  8. Those fly close to the sea and pop up for final attack. People would have seen them at the beach.
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  9. Ballistic missiles dive on the target at something like Mach 3. Nobody will take a photo, it won't show up on security camera. The US gave Ukraine anti-radar missiles. The way to protect yourself from those missiles is shutting radars down.
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  10. The impact sites had munitions stacked up in piles. Whatever set them off didn't need to create the crater.
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  11. No, bashing them for using them near civilians. The US loves cluster bombs, but they're dropped on military targets. Like air bases.
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  12. It would take a missile per plane to destroy them. The point of revetments is that if you hit one, you don't hit all. But the fuel and munitions scattered by the explosions made the revetments useless.
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  13. The places hit were munitions dumps and a fuel depot. When the explosions happened, the base became an inferno with fuel spraying everywhere and bombs undergoing sympathetic detonation. Both planted charges and cluster munitions would have had the same outcome, hell on earth. I think it was a unitary warhead, though.
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