I don't doubt that Ukraine cyber hacked in Russian digital terrain elevation maps that the Russians compiled for themselves. Up to date digital terrain elevation maps are a good thing to have.
Plus NASA also had a huge archive of digital terrain elevation data.
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But the art of planning munition trajectories to use them is a separate and uniquely military skills set.
Ukraine has had four years of combat experience doing the task of planning munition trajectories.
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Which is why I called them out as replicating SMAC's capabilities.
Combat experience is 10 times the best simulations.
The Flamingo flies lower and much faster than most of the other deep strike assets the Ukrainians use, but it is also larger.
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This puts a premium on clever flightpath routing to get the best possible terrain masking to evade the IADS during penetration.
The Ukrainians have been honing these skills since they started using deep penetrating OWA drones.
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How much of what they are doing involves automated software tools and terrain elevation databases like SMAC uses, and how much is done by humans, has yet to be disclosed.
We know from the @DrnBmbr map Ukraine is doing it.
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