Comments by "MarcosElMalo2" (@MarcosElMalo2) on "Bad design can kill: Missile defense and user fatigue" video.

@SquillagusNiggle Regarding pinging of random things adding to operator inattention, I think we should return to the matter of the drones and/or drones. What if drones had been dogging the ship over the course of the previous seven weeks. Not necessarily weapon carrying drones, but surveillance drones, etc. If you were the on the Ukrainian side, you could also probe the Moskva to determine at what distance she would consider a drone a threat and fire on it. As time went on, you’d dial back the drone activity, but always make sure there were a few drones moving in and out of the Moskva’s radar. The operators would become accustomed to a few bogies on the screen, to far away to be a threat, and you wouldn’t want to waste valuable AA missiles on them unless they come too close.
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@horrido666 I agree with your assessment of how many Neptunes were fired. The vehicle used for launch has four tubes. Now consider this: what if the Neptune differs from its predecessors by having a much lower skim height. It would run the risk of hitting a larger swell, but in this case, two got through.
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@forfun5238 Based on and copy of are two different concepts. We don’t really know a lot about Neptune’s capabilities, but I think it’s a pretty good guess that it was skimming the surface a lot closer than expected—in the 2-3 m. range rather than at 5 m. This would explain why two missiles reached the ship even though the launch vehicle has 4 tubes. All four were launched, but two hit a swell. The Russian defenses offered a seam or crack that could be exploited by weapons with unanticipated capabilities. That’s what I think anyway.
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The ship was originally named the Slava (It’s the basis of the Slava class) then renamed The Moscva. When are we going to address that it’s bad luck to rename a ship? I think that’s the main reason the cruiser was sunk. I think Ukraine launched 4 missiles (the launch truck has four tubes), and that two missiles were lost because they are so closely sea skimming. The swell that night was about 1-2m, which helped conceal/obscure the radar signature, but it would also sink a missile that hit a swell too low.
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