Russian Satellites Get Very Little Chances To Watch Ukraine - Their Space Capabilities
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"Russia, by extension Soviet Union" umm... got that backwards, eh, Russia has b/c of USSR :) 0:27
I ordered goods in Moscow using a similar system, about 12 years ago. Are we copying from Moscow again?
Russia has made 6 million artillery rounds by 2024. North Korea has made 2.7 million artillery rounds in 2024. Iran has made 1 million artillery rounds in 2024. a total of 9.7 million rounds. And many more from storage
Meanwhile, the EU alone has difficulty meeting 1 million artillery ammunition by 2024
You forgot that China can successfully dock and undock spacecraft together many times before in space.
you forgot to count all the tank turrets in orbit
LOL!! Funny, but sad...
Lol! My dude too funny
Aw yes the T series satellites with their vaporized Russian tank crew payload.
@@johnrambo007best and safest place for em’…
😂😂😂 Gold!
No doubt this is one of the biggest advantages the US is able to give Ukraine.
@@dobbo7690No, no he isn’t. He’s already debunked this. And even if they did acquire any of the starlink systems, they wouldn’t work because there isn’t a single node that is active over the entirety of Russia. I’ll let you go read about the rest on your own.
Ukraine has already lost the war.
@@dreb222 did musk debunk it by giving proof or by just saying that they are not?
@@dreb222 I don't know if they broke their way in but there are videos of starlink routers set up on the battlefield on the Russian side. The Ukrainians were dropping grenades from drones onto them
@@dobbo7690no everything is being bought through second and third parties
I know the Soviet Union has had 'satellite killers' in space since at least the early 70's when I was in the USAF working on Minuteman ICBM's.
I was half expecting a field of salvage satellites to make an appearance in this video
Ahhhh - - another regular viewer!
It is pretty clear that the US does have an ASAT weapon in the SM-3. When they shot down that satellite it took them only 3 weeks to make the required modifications (which were likely all software because of such a short time frame) and that knowledge is either around for use at short notice or possibly already integrated into the production missiles.
Thanks - this is one of those areas thats so important but virtually no one talks about
I suspect that a big impediment to having direct energy weapons in space would be the difficulties in shedding heat in a vacuum.
No, in reality, the only impediment is money.
COnsider this - if you could focus 1 sq. km of sunlight on shall we say 1. sq. dm, you'd be putting energy equivalent of 1 GW / 200kg of HE on that spot.
@@FrantisekPicifuk I'm pretty sure physics might disagree with you.
Don't forget that that vacuum is absolute zero in temperature...
@@bobdadnaila7708 Yes, but a vacuum has no molecules in order to aid heat transfer. If you look at the three mechanisms of heat transfer (Convection, Conduction and Radiation), the first two require molecules to be possible meaning that in space you are left with radiation. This is why the ISS has massive radiators designed to help carry away the excess heat. If space was both filled with molecules AND at absolutely zero, the ISS would need massive heaters, not radiators. Hope that makes sense 🙂
Out in space two alien life forms are speaking with each other. The first alien says, "The dominant life forms on the earth planet have developed satellite-based nuclear weapons." The second alien, who looks exactly like the first, asks, "Are they an emerging intelligence?" The first alien says, "I don't think so, they have them aimed at themselves."
All nature, everywhere in the Universe is based on natural selection. Which is just another word for competition.
Aliens may not use war any longer, this is possible but the concept of war is definitely not alien to anyone in this Universe. This old trope about aliens not understanding war in principle is getting just as tiresome as it is dumb.
@@vmasing1965 The only place were we observed natural selection is earth, were not even sure there is life elsewhere in the universe.
@@gautheuil6210 Sure, no argument there. I've said that myself for years now.
Coincidentally shuts down entire argument about aliens not understanding war.
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you assumed the alien are united
This is what happens when you turn your national space program into a superyacht financing program for selected oligarchs.
but the recent ruZZian moon landing was almost as successful as India’s one ?
Хрю хрю хрю, почему не на фронте? Come get some.
You realize the Russian economy collapsed in 90s and was stagnant in that decade due to real oligarches.
Do you realize the Russian space program is still able to launch rockets, whereas the US is not, it was actually paying Russia to launch rockets until space X came up, just saying
@@rdrtmd Okay but now that SpaceX has matured, the US has better capability than anything Russia has, and it costs less per launch too.
Russia also has private manufacturers it relies on for every launch, so Roscozmos is no more capable of doing launches by itself than NASA is.
I never get tired of that old SDI footage 😄
What about Goldeneye?
What about Starfish Prime?
5:50 - "several commercial providers have more high resolution satellites than Russia" - i think this is the key metric - when a new company can afford to design, build, (obtain launch licence for, ) and launch more and better stuff than russia it is clear what the tech level of the "superpower" is ...
Well said.
It's not easy to be in the space business. The level of yeti technology is really advanced
Simplistic view. Usually, commercial providers - like ICEYE - compromise on longevity, using consumer electronics to lower the price. Rad-hardened electronics IS by necessity sophisitacted on one hand but years behind commercial in other areas.
Russia has many developments that were simply lying in the safe, waiting for their time. You'll be surprised.
@@piotrd.4850 Sure but they could just spend more money and have them by the end of the week if needed.There are a lot of providers its just not economic for them.
Love the Red Storm Rising reference. I know the RORSATs are no longer in service but surely they have a newer satellite capable of oceanic radar reconnaissance to find our carrier and amphibious fleets.
Thanks for the exceptional work.. As always.. Keep up the good work team
its a statement for example like they cant do gearbox casings because they dont do it like we do, from cast iron...but gearbox casings can be welded , drop forged, screwed together.
Thanks for your efforts. Only wish mainstream media would do the same effort.
You didn’t mention golden eye
Sush, we're supposed not to mention Goldeneye. Points for at least spelling it wrong, that's a good misdirection.
And Russia wants to put nuclear powered anti-satellite weapons in orbit? (Not nukes in spaaassee😅)
I'm more worried about them keeping their satellites with nuclear power sources on them in orbit. They accidentally de-orbited s nuclear powered spy satellite one time. The radioactive debris fell across Northern Canada. Fortunately in an unpopulated region. That was when the Soviet Union had some money now broke as they are I think the Russians would have a hard time financing the deployment of such a weapon little alone maintaining it safely.
Agreed. They are getting their asses so badly kicked in the Black Sea and in the air that they NEEDED something to deflect the news - to change the channel.
Except Russia is currently nowhere near as broke, as SU was or Ukrainian Security Service and associated media outlets and world would wish them to be.
I've some bad news for you - there are already a lot of defunct Soviet nuclear reactors still in orbit from the cold war days. So i wouldn't worry about it.
@@piotrd.4850 Doesn't matter much if 50% of all funds gets stolen by default. The biggest ally of Ukraine are the totally insane levels of Russian corruption. Go ahead try to deny that.
Nah i would would worry about the Six Nukes that US "lost" somewhere and cant find them.
Frankly i'm not even sure it matters because they setup shell companies in the UAE and elsewhere and buy commercial satellite imagery from there.
Russia as a space power is collapsing right now. But they can still cause problems those leading in space like SpaceX by basically trashing up orbits. They are more likely to act this way since they are falling so far behind.
Tbh, all the nations are collapsing and falling behind. If your not SpaceX you suck. ESA, NASA, ULA, Roscosmos, JAXA even China. They are all running old disposable launch vehicles at low or none existent launch rates. I think ESA doesn't even have any vehicles fit to fly right now. Love him or hate him, Elon has turned this industry on its head.
Delusional. They're putting more satellites into service than ever before.
Source? Russia would never give up their space capabilities.
I mean they are not sending western things up anymore, but that is it? So I am sure that was a blow to them, and hurt some programs here in the West.
Yet outside of that they seem to be investing more into their space capabilities. From nukes to rockets which trickles to other space endeavors.
They have one of the best rockets you know? Think the Soyuz. Tons of western space programs, or such were canceled due to the war. Yet their skill, and know how is still there.
Yeah, if you can’t get along with the other kids then break their toys. Playground rules.
Right, keep sipping the ukronazi propaganda. The country that has been delivering EVERYTHING to the iss for years is "behind" in the space race
We come to the main Russian drawback which is its electronics industry. It is mindboggling how a a country considering itself a superpower, did not paid any significant attention to the development of its own semiconductor industry, and now they are boasting how they will achieve 28 nm by 2027. And everyone in the west from the semiconductor industry laughed. It would still be an achievement and I guess better late than never applies here as well. But they should have done this a decade ago. Lack of its own semiconductor industry is the main bottleneck of Russians lagging in several sectors. And lets not beat around the bush. Sanctions are having an effect. Not a critical one like Washigton neocons wanted, but Russian industry is feeling it - because they can't import top notch GPUs and CPUs and can't use TSMC to produce Russian cpus. I would like to see Intel and AMD stop delivering to Russia at all. For now they are still delivering cpus for home market. Covert if you are reading this I think a video on this topic would go miles explaining to the common folk where we stand. Even more so if we count in the Chinese which are making huge strides. For a moment if we leave out the politics and look at the issue purely from a consumer perspective, it would be nice to have more companies like ASML and TSMC able to produce equipment, processes, methods, technologies, expertise and last but not least products for the consumer market. That would drive prices down and things should start to be more affordable provided that China and Russia will achieve technological parity or atleast come close top leading edge. Because lets not fool ourselves. Semiconductor military application today is not the main driving force funding the industry. It is the consumer market and then military is using common off the shelve parts, cpus, gpus, microcontrollers to build the equipment for itself. Rarely are they using custom developed microchips.
28nm is more than enough for specific military purposes and I highly doubt that any nation puts 5nm chips in their rockets and such. Probably the F35 and B2 have the most advanced military grade chips, but I reckon these are around 14nm level.
Military hardware rarely uses "SOC" style chips like smartphones. Instead it's more like the auto industry, based on modules. A module for thrust, another one for speed, another one for gps and so on. If we sent people to the moon with a pocket calculator, we can definitely do a lot with "older" generation chips
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Well this explains why Russia has so many suits with eyes on the ground. They need actual humans on the ground around the world to see what they want to see because their satellites currently suck.
Don’t worry starlink is providing them the info
Every military would prefer to have boots on the ground over a satellite. Satellites have maximum resolution due to the atmosphere regardless of the weather.
It sucks to get ass kicked by shovels...
And thankfully, it is not happening
I bet you've never even seen/read the comment on "shovels" that you keep repeating all over the place... shame.
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Red storm rising was a fun book
1. very few chances, not very little chances
2. Could you make a follow-up about US capabilities?
The number of US satellites in space is highly classified. But the US is the frontrunner in the area of satellite capabilities
what a weird comment?
China would be most interesting.
Elon Musk alone pushes more sats to orbit in 1 day than russia in an entire year
Yeah but they're comms mini sats. No good if you wanna see where the artillery are at ground level precisely to the meter @@shouryabose5943
It's been a while since you made this type of video i hope you go back to your old style of topics thanks big fan
Great video, its been long since you did one on Russian GBADS.
No worries, Covert Cabal.. China can provide them with all the high resolution pictures and telemetry needed. Plus the ultra high resolution Beidu system can provide highly accurate positioning Telemetry.
Always good shit
I feel that Russia gets most of its battle field intelligence from drones and AWAC or Wedge Tail type aircraft. Any videos on these types of Russian intelligence gathering devices. After all, I have viewed a video were Turkey is starting to make a Patriot type missile system that uses targeting information from drones.
There’s private sector Chinese companies offering ISR for RussianMOD in Ukraine. ISR is over saturated in Ukraine for both sides it’s hard to hide anything. At the end of the day if you can’t project firepower supremacy there’s nothing ISR can do for you, sure you know what’s happening but what can you do about it?
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There's a branch of amateur astrophotography that involved taking pictures of satellites, it'd be pretty easy for government agencies to do the same.
It is my understanding Russia is investing in over the horizon radar. This is the technology we used before satellites. What are they trying to tell us?
If you are in America, and support Ukraine, please get at least one non-voting friend registered and make an event of casting ballots.
7:35 Always nice to see ESA's ATV. It is concerning that Russia is launching so many satellites this year.
It's not😂
what is the name of the satellite that has a football-sized radar dish?
0:55 not exactly. While there are definitely some similarities, there are different challenges where they can't exactly compare
I mean the US figured out in the 80s already how to shoot down satellites from Fighter Jets, its well known tech. Hell, these days with the Aegis combat system we've shot down satellites in tests from all the way down at sea level
in the end its all just basic trajectory calculations
@@REDACTED_shenanigans yeah, I wasn't saying it can't be done. I am well aware it's been done multiple times. I'm just saying it's different than rendezvous, RPO, and docking and the comparison isn't entirely accurate.
Also, "basic" is a very very strong word
I wrote an article about Russian ISR issues have been at a critical problem due to the fact they’ve had soooo many satellite launch failures.
Normal system testing
@@Redfvvgyou are ODing on the copium dude! Fact is Russia is shite at building stuff since the collapse of the Soviet Union and it lost the countries that made their stuff. Cope and seethe vatnik!
@@Redfvvgyou test BEFORE the failed launches. You'd think with all the "successful tests" Russia has all the time that they wouldn't have this problem. But they do. Which makes me think their "testing" is the problem.
@@Cyrribrae
a lot of unsuccessful ones, how much is that? for 2023 there was not a single failure, as far as I know.
They have a better launch success rate than anyone, including the US, about 100 successful launches in a row - no accidents for the last several years.
12:21 is the best part🦔🦚⛽🦽🛶
You should do a video on China and the US Satellites next.
11:26 modern day SIGINT lol
How’s it going for Ukraine?
Would you comment please on the anti-space capabilities of the S-400 and S-500 series missiles? They are billed as being able to attack "near space targets" which is typically described as ICBMs, although it's not clear what phase of the ICBM flight path that they supposedly target is.
Also, what do you think of a nuclear pumped-laser anti-satellite weapon? Any chance they would be pursuing that?
The title feels off. It should be 'few' rather than 'little'.
But they still have alot of tank turrets up there in the orbit.
russia's reliance on french and other western optics for thermals etc should have led to more cooperation with china with their decently advanced manufacturing though the semiconductors to control them are way behind. and though asml does not sell to china, they do sell to intel as well as tsmc and tsmc was far better equipped in fabbing for quite a while. its not just the tool, it is the expertise in using it. and china doesnt have that. though they have made progress in sub "7nm" non euv fabbing, but it requires more masks and is not really scalable for commercial use, though for a military edge the time and money are less important
You got to figure Iran and North Korea are supplying intelligence from their satellites too. How much would that augment Russia's capabilities?
Iran currently has three satellites in orbit. NK has one.
Their specifications/performance characteristics are unclear, but they're almost certainly several decades behind US/NATO capabilities.
Does that answer your question?
Which military would function best if all the satellites went out?
I think you missed some European/EADS/Airbus capabilities there. Especially TerraSAR-X and TanDEM-X. But also in general: There seems to be, on the top end technological level, a genuine rivalry regarding some (military- grade) sensors between Europe and the USA. It also was a sidenote both in the EuroHawk developement (where the SIGINT suite was only installed after the aircraft was completely handed over) and regarding the delopment of a Franco-German fighter-jet because the US insisted on full disclosure of everything if it was to be licensed to carry US nuclear bombs. Which would have meant handing over complete and detailed information about the sensor technology itself, not just the capacity.
Yup. If there's secrets and rivalry between agencies in the same government it would be naive to expect total transparency between different governments. Totally makes sense too -- the more people know the secret the higher the probability for a leak, if not for any other reason...
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Ruzzia has an Antique Army. Filled with museum pieces!
8:30 How couod you have nuclear propulsion?
1:58 not the sauce spelling a Z on the meat 😭😭😭
Now I could be wrong, however I believe that anything being nuclear powered in orbit would be destabilizing, anything nuclear powered for the most part relies on coolant to not meltdown. The concept that Space is cold is not completely true. While it is "Cold" heat transfer requires there to be a place to say transfer the heat. Space is exactly as it sounds, spacious. With no atmosphere it's incredibly insolating making cooling something insanely difficult. However, I could be wrong maybe my knowledge of physics is incorrect. Take what I said with a grain of salt.
6:10 CLEVELAND DETECTED!!!
Cleveland Rocks!! Nice you noticed the city!!
One thing I know for sure is happening is collaboration with CCP on satellite launches, I follow both the news about Ukraine war and space launches and there was definitely an uptick in launches of generic ' earth observation satellites ' around the time it started. I'm pretty sure China is launching payloads for russians and/or doing builds + launches and handing them the keys later. Along with shared surveillance data.
hmmm, I wonder if Chinese satellites are getting a good view?
Near future satellites will be able to be refueled by small tanker satellites operating from fuel tank satellites. This will provide more maneuverability over the satellite's life. See Air Force Association magazine recent issue.
yea but what if they getting China satellite intelligence to fill the gaps
ARGUS is the real game changer
May I ask you to consider producing similar videos for China, please?
I do believe Roscosmos is not kaunching anything. They are wanting to bring down the international space station lol.
Very "few" chances.
they can't even keep their navy afloat, I have zero worry about these high end projects.
His obsession with Russia though.
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@@jankwartel1860 your feeling got hurt sweety ?
@@juzores1 Not at all dear but it's pretty obvious to non trump supporters. 😊
on one side : Small satellites are not good
on the other side : Planet has more satellites than Russia. Guess what, planet uses small 200-250kgsatellites to collect their imagery.
I don't know how you do your reasearch but resolution is not only dependent on the weight of the satellite. and Razdan is NOT a small satellite.
An interesting question I find is how good does Ukraine know, when a Russian Satellite is passing by. So can the Ukraine military look at some plan and try to hide or align troop movements?
The movements of satellites are perfectly known.
Question is, does hiding / aligning troop movements is viable due to operational constraitns on the ground.
calculus
I'm pretty sure US has real time application for estimated Russian sat coverage. It doesn't cost US anything to give it to Ukraine. To a degree Ukrainian intel can calculate it on their own as well, it's not exactly a rocket science.
Film cameras until 2015? Explains GoPro’s sales that year.
@3:39 glonass, you didn't explain why russian pilots, helo and fixed wing, use GPS and not glonass.
you didn't mention the iridium satellite russia destroyed:
On February 10, 2009, the Iridium 33 satellite collided with a defunct Russian satellite, named Kosmos 2251, 800 kilometres (500 mi) over Siberia.[19] Two large debris clouds were created.[20]
perhaps you're just not familiar with the term "defunct". all that space and one satellite, the defunct one, collides with an active communication satellite. whatakwinkydink
The s400 and s500 where made to not only be devastating on land but they are capable of destroying objects in space,,
A mass destruction of satellites is like a queen-queen exchange in chess. Do you believe you can fight better without your queen than your opponent?
What if it turns out comrade musk has been launching starlink all this time for the russians 😂😂😂
American space assets are indeed unmatched, to some extent that makes them the ones who stand to loose the most if WW3 conflagration begins
Who pushed the panic button here in the US?
Russia isn’t interested in maintaining a global police plus there’s Chinese companies handling ISR. These civilian contractors provide high res coverage.
3:50 Yessir; And, it could thus be argued that Russia has more redundancy built directly into their GPS satellite network, than do the West (more accurately, the USA).
That could be a big advantage, especially when Russia chooses to launch a first strike, be it maliciously and pre-planned, or mistakenly, due to bad information, or computational errors, or any number of mis-happenings.
Or, maybe it would only amount to a hill of beans, and the USA would simply have to launch a few more specially armed F-16s (this of course, would only be possible after...what? Probably following a two-day R&D blitz to rig a modern missile to reach a satellite...lol). And then Russia would have no GPS capabilities; They might even have lost a lot of their SIGINT satellites, their weather satellites, and any other satellites which the USA might choose to disable.
Great video!
And they shredding them af?
Musk out development strategy is likely the USA and west winning space defense strategy that it can easily win with already superior launch capabilities and far bigger economy. The key is to not fall behind on asymmetric capabilities, and push systems diversity and scale to limit vulnerability.
I can say, according to my humble military culture, that what gives the American military the advantage over the Russian military is information "Sensors, exchange and flow of information, accuracy" , the destructive power is equal between the two militaries, both Russia and America can destroy the same area in the same period of time, but the US can know the enemy’s location with much greater accuracy and effectiveness than Russia. Which multiplies the effectiveness of the American destructive power several times compared to the Russian one
7:00 this is nuts... just spot two small cars casually gliding past, one turning to look at the other. They leave without explaining.
Maybe Ukraine could make a 'contract hit' or even 'do a favor' by taking out the Russian launch facility or satellite assembly shop. They would have a benefit, in the future, but the big beneficiaries this week would be the west and the USA. I wonder what old stuff we have in inventory that they could use for that?
9:53 X-37?
Not officially an offensively equipped vehicle, though with how classified its payloads are space intercept missiles aren’t out of the question
Ok why dont they destroy satellites then if their are not that effective
Moscow would be black glass
Tank video?
Aww if they didnt subsidised yacht sector and force that money into R & D
The problem with anti satelite weapons is that they risk creating a Kessler Syndrome thus eliminating everyones space capabilities
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I mean, technically, every satellite launched is Sputnik! It doesn’t matter which country launches it!
what about chinese satellites?
Misleading title, you can't say that they have very little capabilities in the title but in the video say that they are in top 5.
Go listen that part again and pay attention this time.
Yeah but in an all-out war destroying all satellites is net beneficial to Russia rn.
So it may still be a first strike thing...
Yeah the fall of the soviet union was really a big wound to the nation otherwise we would be seeing something else. But we appreciate the fact that they are not giving up.
Glonass is rather shitty, russian army troopers and VKS pilots use civilian GPS navigators
"Russian image satelites cant produce HR" shii from what ive seen the can read your newspaper
Do one on India
😅 I'm just a dreamer who pictures russia unpacking their satellite hunting satellite weapon only for it to not work and go "rrrrttt poof...badaboom?"
Yes. No badaboom, the Uranium was stolen and never made it to the space. The general who sold it decided two good Russian bricks will do.
I love all your videos.
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