Your students are privileged to have you as their teacher - I hope they realize it.
Recent failures on RU’s part to protect their early warning radars (near Armavir and Voronezh are are perplexing and very worrying. I think it’s a major escalation by NATO.
If your time allows, please try to offer your thoughts on it in your next article. Thanks Aleks.
I am very happy to hear your life is coming together! Happy to hear the family is doing well. Furthermore, I wouldn't worry much about missing your posts: everything you've written since Sept. '23 is a blessing. For those not in the know: BMA was supposed to have wound down by that time. Mike's input on missile defense will be anticipated.
You're right. Initally, I wanted to write only the first 3 Ukrainian War Analysis and Economics and Empires 1 and close down BMA :)))) But it became some kind of addiction :))))
Mike just confirmed he is already working on the article.
I am glad that you have multiple income streams. If this writing venue becomes too much for you, please convert this blog to inform us about your business'.
First of all, congratulations about your kids and business. I have two teenage daughters and know about all challenges involved.
About air defenses, I guess there is much more to it than the specs published by the producers. Those are optimal specs, made to potential customers and for deterrence. It is something similar about the radar cross section of US stealth aircraft. They were tested against radars 20 or 30 years ago, in american territory, under optimal conditions and somehow, their radar cross sections are the same against modern foreign sensors? The S-400 was not tested against the ATACMS or Storm Shadow before. Probably, a target that supposedly mimics the flight caracteristics of Western missiles. The same happened with the Patriot. The PAC-3s have been created to kill ballistic missiles, but they were never tested against the Iskander and Kinzhal. The operators and sensors have to be trained to know what they are looking at and how fast to act. There are also probably gaps that can be exploited. The Patriot has incomplete coverage and its launchers can only cover part of the sky. The S-400 has a relatively limited number of interceptors per battery. It also seems that the destroyed S-300s and S-400s were not at full strength in some cases and, by unknown reasons, were clustered together. The NATO recon aircraft and satellites have been uncovering ingress routes and vulnerable targets; they probably located gaps in the air defenses of Crimea and how to saturate the russian systems. The same happens with the combo Geran, decoys, cruise missiles, Iskander and Kinzhal. Russia also found ways to exploit gaps in the ukrainian air defenses and how to overwhelm the Patriot, Iris-T, Nasams. Russian and Western systems appear to be fairly competent when engaging 4th generation aircraft and large drones. However, the engagement range against small drones, newer cruise missiles and ballistic missiles appear to be quite short.
I peruse this space to suggest You to read Mark Wauck's last days articles... He seems honest enough (he's former Fbi) to understand the situation and worth my time to read...
Suggest You read at least from may 25th pieces on... :)
BTW, if I may ask Your professional opinion... I'm quite scared about general machinery spare parts avalaibility (as they are mostly made in China...)...
My fear is that "our" working machines will be easily and soon useless without the parts needed for maintenance, but I'm easily scared... :)
How do You assess the risk of a decoupling from Brics on general working machine base worthiness? Worth Your time to think about it Sir???
If this can help, check on kickstarter Miraco 3d and Creator Cnc... I believe it's the only way we could have to sort out of the possible mess they put us inside...
Your students are privileged to have you as their teacher - I hope they realize it.
Recent failures on RU’s part to protect their early warning radars (near Armavir and Voronezh are are perplexing and very worrying. I think it’s a major escalation by NATO.
If your time allows, please try to offer your thoughts on it in your next article. Thanks Aleks.
Thanks Peti.
I respect your words a lot!
Mike just confirmed that he is already working on this article.
It will be released by tomorrow most likely.
I am very happy to hear your life is coming together! Happy to hear the family is doing well. Furthermore, I wouldn't worry much about missing your posts: everything you've written since Sept. '23 is a blessing. For those not in the know: BMA was supposed to have wound down by that time. Mike's input on missile defense will be anticipated.
Cheers from Lincoln!
Thanks Kontanraju.
You're right. Initally, I wanted to write only the first 3 Ukrainian War Analysis and Economics and Empires 1 and close down BMA :)))) But it became some kind of addiction :))))
Mike just confirmed he is already working on the article.
I am glad that you have multiple income streams. If this writing venue becomes too much for you, please convert this blog to inform us about your business'.
Thank you, Adam.
I think this is also a good idea. But only as a last resort.
First of all, congratulations about your kids and business. I have two teenage daughters and know about all challenges involved.
About air defenses, I guess there is much more to it than the specs published by the producers. Those are optimal specs, made to potential customers and for deterrence. It is something similar about the radar cross section of US stealth aircraft. They were tested against radars 20 or 30 years ago, in american territory, under optimal conditions and somehow, their radar cross sections are the same against modern foreign sensors? The S-400 was not tested against the ATACMS or Storm Shadow before. Probably, a target that supposedly mimics the flight caracteristics of Western missiles. The same happened with the Patriot. The PAC-3s have been created to kill ballistic missiles, but they were never tested against the Iskander and Kinzhal. The operators and sensors have to be trained to know what they are looking at and how fast to act. There are also probably gaps that can be exploited. The Patriot has incomplete coverage and its launchers can only cover part of the sky. The S-400 has a relatively limited number of interceptors per battery. It also seems that the destroyed S-300s and S-400s were not at full strength in some cases and, by unknown reasons, were clustered together. The NATO recon aircraft and satellites have been uncovering ingress routes and vulnerable targets; they probably located gaps in the air defenses of Crimea and how to saturate the russian systems. The same happens with the combo Geran, decoys, cruise missiles, Iskander and Kinzhal. Russia also found ways to exploit gaps in the ukrainian air defenses and how to overwhelm the Patriot, Iris-T, Nasams. Russian and Western systems appear to be fairly competent when engaging 4th generation aircraft and large drones. However, the engagement range against small drones, newer cruise missiles and ballistic missiles appear to be quite short.
Thanks for your congratulations, Felipe.
And thank you for your great comment!
I absolutely agree with your entire assessment!
I especially enjoyed the part, "in some cases, and for unknown reasons, were clustered together." 😁👌
I'm also looking forward to reading Mike Mihajlovic's take on this matter, which should be released by tomorrow most likely.
Sir... welcome back.
I peruse this space to suggest You to read Mark Wauck's last days articles... He seems honest enough (he's former Fbi) to understand the situation and worth my time to read...
Thanks for all!!!!
Hello Marco,
Thanks for that hint.
I didn't know about him.
I will check his blog!
A pleasure Sir.
Suggest You read at least from may 25th pieces on... :)
BTW, if I may ask Your professional opinion... I'm quite scared about general machinery spare parts avalaibility (as they are mostly made in China...)...
My fear is that "our" working machines will be easily and soon useless without the parts needed for maintenance, but I'm easily scared... :)
How do You assess the risk of a decoupling from Brics on general working machine base worthiness? Worth Your time to think about it Sir???
Marco,
yes, it is definitley worth my time :-)
I'm currently writing a huge article about this topic.
I hope I finish it today so Piquet can release it maybe by Saturday.
There you will find my opinion.
Generally --> We should not be dependent on critical parts from abroad. This is a symptom of deindustrialization. We should rather reindustrialize.
But our governments make it very hard for enterpreneurs and startups to compete... 🤢
If this can help, check on kickstarter Miraco 3d and Creator Cnc... I believe it's the only way we could have to sort out of the possible mess they put us inside...
We will not become Kuat or Incom but...