Comments by "M gronich" (@mgronich948) on "‘It’s not going to work’: Retired general on Putin’s ‘kamikaze’ drone attacks" video.

  1.  @Steve.Zeinoddin  IRIS-T rocket is $500K. A full battery with 24 missiles, radar and fire control computer all on mobile vehicles is $200M. One IRIS-T costing 200M can take out 1% of the 2400 drones Russia has ordered from Iran.
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  2.  @jmdds  They have 1000 km range. That's why this is a game changer.
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  3.  @easternsun167  2400 is in the news,
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  4. Good question. Also the switch blade drones only have <100km range. It's not because you can't put a fuel tank large enough to fly further, but the curvature of the Earth prevents a ground controller from communicating with the drone at long distance. So how do Russian drone pilots communicate with a drone 1000km away? Russia just launched a big military satellite. If it sits a geosync their drone operators now have 24/7 access. And about 4 months ago Russia launched a satellite for Iran. And 3 weeks ago the US launched another big military satellite. So likely Ukraine has drone capability similar to Russia's.
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  5. But 10 S136's can take out a bridge. And Russia has order 2400.
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  6. I saw one video of Ukrainians trying to shoot down a drone and not succeeding. And the drone was flying in a straight line. Ground AA fire needs to shoot in front of the drone so that the bullet and drone arrive at the same spot in time. Ground AA guns need radar to get the range and velocity o fthe drone and a computer to point ahead the right amount. But if the drone flies in a zig-zag random way, and it take the bullet 2 seconds to go from gun to the drone, the computer can no longer predict where the drone will be 2 seconds in the future. The only weapon that can take out the drone is a guided missile. The IRIS-T just sent by Germany can do this but one IRIS-T system costs 200~300 Million with a launcher that can launch 6~8 at a time and a full complement of 24 missiles. So one $200 million IRIS-T can take out 1% of the 2400 drones Russia is buying from Iran. US/NATO sending air defense systems to Ukraine is a sad and perverse joke. It's to encourage Ukrainians to keep fighting a lost war. Maybe the US will come up with a new weapon system that can defeat these long range drones. But the claim that Ukraine is shooting down 80% or 50% of these is a lie. (especially when the software in the drone has it zig-zagging randomly instead of flying in a straight line it does now.)
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  7. The whole war was unnecessary. Ukraine could have stayed neutral. But then NordStream 2 would be operating. We needed to provoke Russia into attacking to conduct the economic war. The sanctions were supposed to destroy Russia economically. Instead they are destroying Europe.
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