Ukraine Invasion - Please do not post videos showing attacks/similar
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I've played battleships and I concur
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I've watched Hunt for Red October, can confirm that was a submarine.
That looks like One Ding* and One Ding Only #scottishaccent
Blown out - I would hope they don’t leave it armed whilst it’s in dry dock..
* that damage doesn’t look like a ping.. more a ding.
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Yes exactly. At least that's what Poland is saying is the reason. Along with Hungary and I think Slovenia (might be wrong).
Farmers have apparently complained the cost of the imported Ukraine grain is significantly lower than theirs and when it comes in, there is a LOT of it at once so the market laps it up, thus reducing their sales price.
Very difficult situation if that is indeed the case.
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I once had a faulty fridge that turned liquid to ice and it detonated a multipack of Pepsi cans. The resulting explosion damage was consistent with what we're seeing here.
That's a freezer mate.
There's quite a bit of "blown out of proportion" within that tweet in respect to the Taurus being far superior to SCALP/Stormshadow, mainly due to it having an IIR sensor which can be used all flight rather than one only used for the last 10km+ of the flight as per SCALP/Stormshadow. With the time span that these missiles fly after launch, the Laser Ring Gyro in all 3 types of missile retains enough accuracy enough that even without GPS, all 3 missiles are sufficiently accurate enough to hit something like a Submarine in the terminal phase. The only obvious advantage of Taurus is the additional range from the Turbofan engine vs the turbojet in the SCALP/Stormshadow, other performance and terminal effects are extremely similar despite that tweet.
Regarding the various Taurus types she mentions at the end and more specifically the HPM version with an EMP warhead, all of these are still only in the design/proposal phase and none are actually operational yet according to MBDA themselves (they make the missile).
I think the tweeter has believed something she's read online whilst doing a Taurus search and, being a military buff as she mentions in her bio, tweeted something based on that info which to the layman would seem very plausible with lots of military & technological terms thrown in. However, sadly in this case the info given is either incorrect at worst or just over-hyped at best.
Just for context, because I could be saying any old rubbish to be fair, after I left the RAF I worked for a defence company and one task I had was covering the engineering training around a few types of MBDA missiles (A/A and A/S) for a few different nations alongside MDBA staff so I have a little knowledge on this subject.
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Vatnik says what?
And Elon thinking defending your territory from a murdering invader is "so little".
And Elon thinking defending your territory from a murdering invader is "so little".
Probing the lines for Russian weakness by the sounds of it.
This seems like the same mistake Putin made:
The West won't care when I destroy Grozny.
The West won't care when I fight for Ossetia.
The West won't care when I annex Crimea.
The West won't care when I invade Ukraine.... oh.... ****
Not saying we should take the flapping of Moscow seriously every time, but we shouldn't assume there isn't any line anywhere either.
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The Honeywell GG1320AN Digital RLG is one of the best around but it still has a wander rate of about a mile an hour (Honeywell's own figures https://aerospace.honeywell.com/us/...-still-amazing-honeywell-ring-laser-gyroscope). No way will that hit a submarine after even 20 minutes of flight.
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