Comments by "peabase" (@peabase) on "Russian military rolls out anti-aircraft missile systems" video.

  1. That's overkill. It can be taken out with a toy drone carrying a 3D-printed grenade.
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  2. They usually don't get that far. Usually these systems self-destruct when a rocket motor fails to ignite and the missile drops back onto the launcher. A nice bonfire ensues.
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  3. Israel already provided empirical evidence that the S-300 can't see the F-35 when the IAF took theirs on a sight-seeing tour over Damascus.
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  4.  @ChillingCharlie  Actually, Western intelligence has already had a good look at the innards, courtesy of the UAE, whose armed forces have the Pantsir.
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  5. Syria and Libya are full of wrecked ones. The Bayraktar has been at it there as well.
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  6. True dat. We get to see real combat footage from Ukraine. Meanwhile, Russia regurgitates footage from past military exercises.
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  7. I'm sure the Ukrainian farmers will find use for them as sprinklers or some such.
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  8. Russian AA systems have a ginormous failure rate. Best double... no, triple up.
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  9.  Antun Comb  Cope harder, Vlad.
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  10.  @user-Dim-V  Grenade launchers -- Western or Russian -- are useless against tanks. You need to brush up on military technology.
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  11. It's not even resistant to a 3D-printed grenade dropped from a hobbyist's drone.
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  12. I don't see many Dutchmen turn ultra-nationalistic, but I suppose you're the exception that proves the rule.
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  13.  @jarednovel  Ukraine is doing very well with its made-in-Ukraine Stugna-P ATGM. The type is giving the Javelin a run for its money. The Ukrainian Neptune cruise missile can't be half bad either if it can sink the Moskva, a cruiser that's supposed to be out its league. BTW, the Taliban were very quick to re-equip with Western personal weapons when the ANA kindly made them available. The Afghans, poor as they may be, have an eye for quality.
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  14.  @raichiovasily2156  I hear there was a S-400 involved, too, and a Russian-operated one at that, so the 2019 incident can't be blamed on Syrian ineptitude alone. I suppose it's a Baldrick-style cunning plan of Russia's to tolerate Israeli incursions over Damascus, but to allow the Syrians to shoot down Russian planes, like the unfortunate maritime patrol plane in 2018. You had better explain the cunningness of that plan, because I can't see how the oh-so-apparent flaws in Russian weapon systems won't have a ruinous effect on Russia's arms exports. I mean, Ukraine has ruined all prospects of T-90 sales after the whole world has witnessed the popped-off turrets. The Russian economy will plunge even deeper.
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