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EXPLODED TIM! (Help me!!!)
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Ukraine and the Russian invasion, 2022-24
- Thread starter kebabking
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Dystopiary
putting up a hook to hang my hopes upon
The name, ffs. Just "Wash and Go."
Storm Shadow - Wikipedia
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The missile is fire and forget, programmed before launch. Once launched, it cannot be controlled or commanded to self-destroy and its target information cannot be changed. Mission planners program the weapon with details of the target and its air defences. The missile follows a path semi-autonomously, on a low flight path guided by GPS and terrain mapping to the target area.[
ska invita
back on the other side
Storm Shadow though .... soooo cooool !! Peow peow peow BOOOM!
Chz
Stark Raving Sane
A bit disappointed they don't randomly pick them out of a book like they used to. Who wasn't terrified of Orange Herald?
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The missile relies on classified American-owned cartographic data, using Terrain Contour Matching or TERCON, to guide the missile to the target. This gives the American government veto of any sales to foreign countries under ITAR. In 2018 the French government tried to bypass this by creating a “ITAR-free” version of the missile for sale to Egypt that didn’t use TERCON. The missiles would have relied solely on GPS and inertial navigation systems to get to the target. Making the missile more vulnerable to Electronic Warfare. An issue in Ukraine where Russian jams GPS signals, so American approval is necessary for the missiles to operate to peak performance
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
Proper macho missiles nowadays. Gone are the days of the poncy Sea Sparrows. It's all Storm Shadows, and Hellfires now, and the Russians have got a Spanker.
Kevbad the Bad
Amiable Bowel Syndrome
They're led by one.
maomao
普費斯
Spanker's a NATO calling name so the Russians didn't come up with that themselves.
Chz
Stark Raving Sane
They probably quite liked "Satan" though.
2hats
Dust.
GNSS, INS and terrain mapping en route, with multi-spectral imaging for target acquisition and final corrections in the terminal bunt. The US input will most likely include, to varying degrees, part GNSS, the terrain mapping and target signature.
nogojones
spelling is overrated
As shitty as this is, it's following the aproach the US used in Iraq. Hitting power infrastructure to reduce the enemies ability to co-ordnate a response. I don't think this will be the clincher for locking him up you know.
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
Yep. It rhymes with the NATO name for the Russian president.
teqniq
DisMembered
Much as I too would like to see this I really can't see it happening I'm afraid. More likely he will croak from one of the rumoured health issues.
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hiraethified
I've already stated several times why he should be locked up, so I wasn't presenting the last post as any kind of 'clincher.'
maomao
普費斯
They didn't have a president at the time of the MR-UR-100 Sotka.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
If he's still alive in a decade he'll be touring the studios promoting his new book, on the one show and so on - by 2034 vp will like richard milhous nixon before him have transitioned to the role of elder statesman
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
The excited ejaculations of eg 'storm shadow oo yeh baby' were heard across london
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hiraethified
The only thing that would get me excited is the immediate withdrawal of Russia from the land it has illegally invaded, huge repararations made to Ukraine for the destruction of homes, hospitals and schools and the tens of thousands of innocent people slaughtered, and Putin and his cohorts seeing their last, bloodthirsty days locked up in jail for their multiple crimes against humanity.
I won't be holding my breath for such days though, sadly.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Yesterdays TImes has a quite an astonishing cartoon
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
Prescience on NATO's part. There was a Flanker aircraft too.
TopCat
Putin fanboy
Serbia too. All the power plants destroyed in the first phase.
TopCat
Putin fanboy
They have nothing left to top up the nuclear supply. It’s just swathes of blackout at no notice. Access to generator power is very patchy.
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