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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
@@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.
@@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
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.
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 ...
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.
@@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.
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.
Operative words are "has had" After the fall of the USSR, the funding to maintain this system dried up. Not to mention that such a system (basically launching a piece of tungsten at a satellite) would probably prove more of a danger to its own satellites nowadays.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
@@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 🙂
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.
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.
@@gautheuil6210 Sure, no argument there. I've said that myself for years now. Coincidentally shuts down entire argument about aliens not understanding war.
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.
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.
Sorry but that idea's you has put us I view how your streath deleted your logic thinking, humans members more succeful when you want to working with human like .
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.
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
@@SebastianRoscaThe military disagrees. You are absolutely right that 28nm chips can do most of the jobs, but it isn't ideal. Having smaller more powerful chips are amazing for the upcoming tech. Why? EW, sensors, and radar amongst AI, AI wingman, and especially drones. The amount of information being processed by even more powerful sensors will be astounding, and you'll need a more powerful chip for all the data while keeping total packaging small. Also they use less power too. Sams goes for EW suites. The USAF is pushing hard for AI Wingman to fly that are superior to human pilots. That will require an insane computer to run, and keep cool. The future is small drones that can fly autonomously together navigating the world in formation, all while taking information in for targetting. Working together as one to identify those targets, and the best way to destroy them. I don't have to type why miniaturization of chips is a good thing for that. You'll need smaller, but more importantly lighter chips for them to fly further with more space dedicated to payload. Then at home you have huge super computers for research and development. For information gathering. Also more precise navigation is possible with faster chips which is a good thing when GPS gete knocked out by brute forcing. Anyway I can keep going on. Remember miniaturizing helps ALL the advanced technologies like sensors and radar. It isnt just CPUs that benefit. So Russia is years behind, and just had an extraordinary amount of brain drain happen. Millions of educated people with the cash left the country at the start of the war, and during the draft. It is actually insane, because they already had a huge demographic issue. Speaking of that. Fun fact. During the 80s over 25 to as high as 40% of Soviets tax revenue came from VODKA depending on source. Their death rate is extremely high due to alcoholism during the Soviet era where the average citizen spent 20-40% of their paycheck in Vodka. When the Soviets tried to cut people off? They lost that portion of their budget, straining the economy even worse, and some say that was a good part to why the Soviet Union collapse! It got worse after the collapse. After that the Russua federation tried to do something again, but the citizens turned to worse drugs. So they stopped it in the 2010s. Look up Polymatters video on Russias population decline. Just watched it. It was interesting as I didn't realize how bad it was.
3:48 GLONASS has other wavelength for more reliable operation closer to the poles (more specifically upper Siberia) at cost of accuracy but similar precision.
if you had gone to school you would know majority vote does not matter, it's all electoral votes. America is not a direct democracy. You really need to google this.
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
@@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
@@kman2747that’s a lot of words to say nothing. Of course there are differences, but it’s 100% a logical conclusion to state that if you have a space program, and can launch rockets that intercept other bodies in orbit for docking, then your space program (therefore your defense industry) has the ability to intercept orbital bodies for destruction, also.
@@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.
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.
So, they have been doing as much maintenance on their satellites in space as they have on most of their equipment here Earth side... that is to say, no maintenance at all. At least private Conscriptiovitch can't wreck any satellites for copper wire to sell
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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@@alexrazmislevich7265 Just 1 of the billions around the world STILL supporting the eventual victors. Лише 1 з мільярдів людей у всьому світі ЩЕ підтримують майбутніх переможців.
"You see comrade. In order to achieve space, you simply tie political dissidents to rockets. Then you tell them Putin is coming. They run so fast from Traitor-In-Chief they leave orbit blyat!"
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?
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?
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
Russia isn’t interested in maintaining a global police plus there’s Chinese companies handling ISR. These civilian contractors provide high res coverage.
A US congressman has already claimed it's an EMP weapon which is nothing new nor is such a thing directional enough to target specific satellites of an enemy country. Other "US officials" have said "The capability is a nuclear-armed - not a nuclear-powered - weapon." However, to paraphrase other official statements, this has been know about "for perhaps years" but has only been recently clarified by "new intelligence" and has not been deployed. To actually make, test and deploy it would violate two major treaties: the comprehensive test ban treaty and the nukes in space one. So, I think this is BS hype made for these days when US funds to defend Ukraine's borders (instead of our own) are difficult to come by.
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.
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.
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.
@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
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?
5:04 Why only 30km? The Trump leaked photo from KH-11 shows a much higher Off-Nadir-Angle capability. The apparent aspect ratio of the circular launch pad indicates an obliquity of approximately 45 degrees, which would allow for a swath of 2x the orbital altitude, or 500km.
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?
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.
There were computer programs in the 1990s that would tell you who's satellites had you in view ! Pretty sure that there are now hidden apps that will warn of this.😅
Everyone and their mother has anti-satellite weapons. The interesting thing about Russia is that they have them while having a tiny economy, poor infrastructure and the army is still trying to discover forklift technology.
"Trying to discover forklift technology" Ouch lol. Well, it tells us Russia has lot of extremely talented scientists and engineers. It's just a function of population size, even if all other factors are against you. That's the one thing we should never underestimate about China and Russia.
I do not think that you understand the concept of how very big space actually is. Hint: Satellites tend not to crash into one another or into all the trash left orbiting around. Geostationary orbits are at about 36000 kilometers. GPS satellites are at about 20000 kilometers. Diameter of the planet we're currently on, on the equator, one side to other, through the center of the planet - is a bit less than 13000 kilometers. That's SOME payload of ball bearings you'd need to cover such distances. Along with a LOT of rubber bands to slingshot them into proper orbits. Hoping to hit SOMETHING.
@@d3nza482 Easiest way is to launch it into the same plane as your target, but in opposition. Any small launcher can launch small payloads to the relevant planes, most easily the lower ones obviously. There is also no need to reach full stable orbit with with a payload/weapon of this type, if your precision is good enough you can do a suborbital insertion which intersects a higher orbit momentarily. The payload can be very small, since no matter which type of interception you do, the kinetic energy of the interceptor will be enormous and satellites are not armored. I'm not sure what scenario you were imagining, but you seem to have misunderstood what I meant.
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 think whoever disables satellites will win the next high tech war. Imagine going back to map and compass (GPS/GLONASS etc). Not having satellite imaging would be a huge deal too.
GEO & high orbit sats would probably survive. Yes you could devastate the LEO satellites but everyone with nukes is priority targeting you so bend yourself around and kiss before you get Glassed 😅
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
How? There's thousands up there, from shoebox sized microsats, to truck sized military sats. How would you get a camera on all of them??? Putting cameras on new satellites may be possible, if you can convince the companies/countries that are launching them of the need, but the added weight of a camera system would definitely be an issue - every kilo of payload costs thousands of $$$ to launch, and SOMEBODY needs to pay for that. It's why most satellites don't come with cameras - if a camera isn't needed for the satellites main purpose, then a camera isn't installed - it's just too expensive...
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?
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.
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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
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.
I was half expecting a field of salvage satellites to make an appearance in this video
Ahhhh - - another regular viewer!
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.
Thanks - this is one of those areas thats so important but virtually no one talks about
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.
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.
wow, I didn't know. I thought there was a treaty that covered these.
@@0MoTheGit’s not a “weapon”, just a hunk of metal you could fly accidentally into another sat.
Operative words are "has had"
After the fall of the USSR, the funding to maintain this system dried up.
Not to mention that such a system (basically launching a piece of tungsten at a satellite) would probably prove more of a danger to its own satellites nowadays.
@@Wolffur true, russia is not as near as powerful as the soviet union was, especially in the technological side of things.
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Not to mention their orbits would have decayed and their propellants would be exhausted,
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
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.
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.
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 🙂
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.
Thanks for the exceptional work.. As always.. Keep up the good work team
Thanks for your efforts. Only wish mainstream media would do the same effort.
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.
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
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
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.
Sorry but that idea's you has put us I view how your streath deleted your logic thinking, humans members more succeful when you want to working with human like .
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.
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.
@@JohnDorian-j7x buy yourself better user name...
@@davout5775it is, it is
@@pork_eater_Z666 No, it is not happening. Russia is stuck for 2 years
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
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.
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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@@SebastianRoscaThe military disagrees.
You are absolutely right that 28nm chips can do most of the jobs, but it isn't ideal.
Having smaller more powerful chips are amazing for the upcoming tech.
Why? EW, sensors, and radar amongst AI, AI wingman, and especially drones.
The amount of information being processed by even more powerful sensors will be astounding, and you'll need a more powerful chip for all the data while keeping total packaging small. Also they use less power too.
Sams goes for EW suites.
The USAF is pushing hard for AI Wingman to fly that are superior to human pilots. That will require an insane computer to run, and keep cool.
The future is small drones that can fly autonomously together navigating the world in formation, all while taking information in for targetting. Working together as one to identify those targets, and the best way to destroy them.
I don't have to type why miniaturization of chips is a good thing for that. You'll need smaller, but more importantly lighter chips for them to fly further with more space dedicated to payload.
Then at home you have huge super computers for research and development. For information gathering.
Also more precise navigation is possible with faster chips which is a good thing when GPS gete knocked out by brute forcing.
Anyway I can keep going on. Remember miniaturizing helps ALL the advanced technologies like sensors and radar. It isnt just CPUs that benefit.
So Russia is years behind, and just had an extraordinary amount of brain drain happen. Millions of educated people with the cash left the country at the start of the war, and during the draft. It is actually insane, because they already had a huge demographic issue.
Speaking of that. Fun fact. During the 80s over 25 to as high as 40% of Soviets tax revenue came from VODKA depending on source.
Their death rate is extremely high due to alcoholism during the Soviet era where the average citizen spent 20-40% of their paycheck in Vodka.
When the Soviets tried to cut people off? They lost that portion of their budget, straining the economy even worse, and some say that was a good part to why the Soviet Union collapse!
It got worse after the collapse. After that the Russua federation tried to do something again, but the citizens turned to worse drugs. So they stopped it in the 2010s.
Look up Polymatters video on Russias population decline. Just watched it. It was interesting as I didn't realize how bad it was.
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Great video, its been long since you did one on Russian GBADS.
What about Goldeneye?
What about Starfish Prime?
wasn`t it destroyed in the movie? :D
3:48 GLONASS has other wavelength for more reliable operation closer to the poles (more specifically upper Siberia) at cost of accuracy but similar precision.
We always knew their space program has atrophied big time. 👌
Red storm rising was a fun book
If you are in America, and support Ukraine, please get at least one non-voting friend registered and make an event of casting ballots.
Trump 2024
@@Kyle-sr6jm The pedophile? Weird stance to take.
if you had gone to school you would know majority vote does not matter, it's all electoral votes. America is not a direct democracy. You really need to google this.
@@Kyle-sr6jmtrump surrender to Putin 2025
American's brains dont work
Always good shit
How’s it going for Ukraine?
The title feels off. It should be 'few' rather than 'little'.
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
@@kman2747that’s a lot of words to say nothing. Of course there are differences, but it’s 100% a logical conclusion to state that if you have a space program, and can launch rockets that intercept other bodies in orbit for docking, then your space program (therefore your defense industry) has the ability to intercept orbital bodies for destruction, also.
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.
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.
@@greggemerer8251 This is an absolute lie. They have the highest rate of satellite launch failures in the world.
7:35 Always nice to see ESA's ATV. It is concerning that Russia is launching so many satellites this year.
It's not😂
But they still have alot of tank turrets up there in the orbit.
You should do a video on China and the US Satellites next.
U didnt mention russian gps sucks. Their pilots were using western civilian ones.
hmmm, I wonder if Chinese satellites are getting a good view?
12:21 is the best part🦔🦚⛽🦽🛶
So, they have been doing as much maintenance on their satellites in space as they have on most of their equipment here Earth side... that is to say, no maintenance at all.
At least private Conscriptiovitch can't wreck any satellites for copper wire to sell
what is the name of the satellite that has a football-sized radar dish?
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...
I love all your videos.
🟦🟦🟦 СЛАВА УКРАЇНІ! - ГЕРОЯМ СЛАВА! - Glory to Ukraine! - Glory to the Heroes!
🟨🟨🟨 СЛАВА НАЦІЇ! - СМЕРТЬ НАШИМ ВОРОГАМ! - Glory to the Nation! - Death to our Enemies!
Ти це з окопа пишеш, боєць?
@@alexrazmislevich7265 Just 1 of the billions around the world STILL supporting the eventual victors.
Лише 1 з мільярдів людей у всьому світі ЩЕ підтримують майбутніх переможців.
"You see comrade. In order to achieve space, you simply tie political dissidents to rockets. Then you tell them Putin is coming. They run so fast from Traitor-In-Chief they leave orbit blyat!"
Best wishes to Ukraine her Armed Forces and People 🇺🇦🇬🇧
You are funny.
@@Redfvvg you are not 😉
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?
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?
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
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?
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 isn’t interested in maintaining a global police plus there’s Chinese companies handling ISR. These civilian contractors provide high res coverage.
Ruzzia has an Antique Army. Filled with museum pieces!
can you do this video for both China & India
11:26 modern day SIGINT lol
A US congressman has already claimed it's an EMP weapon which is nothing new nor is such a thing directional enough to target specific satellites of an enemy country. Other "US officials" have said "The capability is a nuclear-armed - not a nuclear-powered - weapon." However, to paraphrase other official statements, this has been know about "for perhaps years" but has only been recently clarified by "new intelligence" and has not been deployed. To actually make, test and deploy it would violate two major treaties: the comprehensive test ban treaty and the nukes in space one. So, I think this is BS hype made for these days when US funds to defend Ukraine's borders (instead of our own) are difficult to come by.
Do a video counting the OLD Russian hardware(T-34s. T-44s. T-10/IS-8s, IS-3s, BTs, T-26s, Tank Destroyers, that sort)
Thanks for another great video!🇦🇺👴🏻
they can't even keep their navy afloat, I have zero worry about these high end projects.
their Submarine Fleet keeps growing though..
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.
May I ask you to consider producing similar videos for China, please?
just eat half whenever you eat out, that way its like two meals
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.
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.
@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
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?
Russia has had to withdraw its AWAC aircraft from anywhere near Ukraine after 2 of its 4 operation A50s were shot down 😮 at a range of 200miles 😅
5:04 Why only 30km? The Trump leaked photo from KH-11 shows a much higher Off-Nadir-Angle capability.
The apparent aspect ratio of the circular launch pad indicates an obliquity of approximately 45 degrees, which would allow for a swath of 2x the orbital altitude, or 500km.
Does Russia have any radar or thermal satellites that can see through clouds like we do? Probably not?
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do a video on Chinese satellites I really want to know what their capable of
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
I mean, technically, every satellite launched is Sputnik! It doesn’t matter which country launches it!
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.
There were computer programs in the 1990s that would tell you who's satellites had you in view ! Pretty sure that there are now hidden apps that will warn of this.😅
Film cameras until 2015? Explains GoPro’s sales that year.
7:00 this is nuts... just spot two small cars casually gliding past, one turning to look at the other. They leave without explaining.
ARGUS is the real game changer
yea but what if they getting China satellite intelligence to fill the gaps
Everyone and their mother has anti-satellite weapons. The interesting thing about Russia is that they have them while having a tiny economy, poor infrastructure and the army is still trying to discover forklift technology.
Poor infrastructure compared to US? Lol
@@h9hkk6155 that is also poor. But many Russians don’t even have toilets.
westoid moment
"Trying to discover forklift technology" Ouch lol.
Well, it tells us Russia has lot of extremely talented scientists and engineers. It's just a function of population size, even if all other factors are against you. That's the one thing we should never underestimate about China and Russia.
The "big" US and EU economy can't even supply enough shells and military equipment for ukrane 🤣🤣🤣
The problem with anti satelite weapons is that they risk creating a Kessler Syndrome thus eliminating everyones space capabilities
You could just launch a payload of ball bearings on any small launch vehicle, for example Rocket lab Electron, and that is a complete ASAT weapon.
They could just launch an improved BUK from a plane.
Look what they did to MH17.
Experiments like that have been performed.
I do not think that you understand the concept of how very big space actually is. Hint: Satellites tend not to crash into one another or into all the trash left orbiting around.
Geostationary orbits are at about 36000 kilometers. GPS satellites are at about 20000 kilometers. Diameter of the planet we're currently on, on the equator, one side to other, through the center of the planet - is a bit less than 13000 kilometers.
That's SOME payload of ball bearings you'd need to cover such distances. Along with a LOT of rubber bands to slingshot them into proper orbits. Hoping to hit SOMETHING.
@@d3nza482 Easiest way is to launch it into the same plane as your target, but in opposition. Any small launcher can launch small payloads to the relevant planes, most easily the lower ones obviously. There is also no need to reach full stable orbit with with a payload/weapon of this type, if your precision is good enough you can do a suborbital insertion which intersects a higher orbit momentarily. The payload can be very small, since no matter which type of interception you do, the kinetic energy of the interceptor will be enormous and satellites are not armored. I'm not sure what scenario you were imagining, but you seem to have misunderstood what I meant.
1:58 not the sauce spelling a Z on the meat 😭😭😭
6:10 CLEVELAND DETECTED!!!
Cleveland Rocks!! Nice you noticed the city!!
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.
Because most of them were watching the US, not the USSR
I think whoever disables satellites will win the next high tech war. Imagine going back to map and compass (GPS/GLONASS etc). Not having satellite imaging would be a huge deal too.
It would have an effect for sure but not decisive. Militaries have long since developed alternative technologies.
No they don't @@vmasing1965
GEO & high orbit sats would probably survive. Yes you could devastate the LEO satellites but everyone with nukes is priority targeting you so bend yourself around and kiss before you get Glassed 😅
I do believe Roscosmos is not kaunching anything. They are wanting to bring down the international space station lol.
if u really gotta pay for your hello fresh.. then they sound like a bad sponsor?
what about chinese satellites?
Tank video?
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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
I feel like it would be pretty easy to put cameras on all these satellites to determine whether they were rammed or not
How? There's thousands up there, from shoebox sized microsats, to truck sized military sats. How would you get a camera on all of them??? Putting cameras on new satellites may be possible, if you can convince the companies/countries that are launching them of the need, but the added weight of a camera system would definitely be an issue - every kilo of payload costs thousands of $$$ to launch, and SOMEBODY needs to pay for that. It's why most satellites don't come with cameras - if a camera isn't needed for the satellites main purpose, then a camera isn't installed - it's just too expensive...
😅 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.
His obsession with Russia though.
Let me guess where YOU'RE coming from. 🤔🤡
@@jankwartel1860 your feeling got hurt sweety ?
@@juzores1 Not at all dear but it's pretty obvious to non trump supporters. 😊
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?
Ukraine has hit a ground station in Crimea it was one of Russia's satellite control centres. 😅
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.
American space assets are indeed unmatched, to some extent that makes them the ones who stand to loose the most if WW3 conflagration begins