If you want to understand why Russian missiles are not always able to kill Ukrainian drones, this map is a very good start in understanding why.🧵
If your radio energy direction finding gear locates an enemy radar accurately. Good digital terrain maps can predict where
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If your radio energy direction finding gear locates an enemy radar accurately. Good digital terrain maps can predict where
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https://twitter.com/Flankerchan/status/1507732109506408452
...the radar can see and where it cannot.
Then a drone or missile can be "evasively routed" through radar coverage to strike a target.
I've talked about this before on Twitter.
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Then a drone or missile can be "evasively routed" through radar coverage to strike a target.
I've talked about this before on Twitter.
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https://twitter.com/TrentTelenko/status/1315751180627251200
The best people in the world at making evasive radar routing for drones and missiles in the world are the USAF officers and airmen at the Stand-off Munitions Activity Center (SMAC) at Barksdale AFB.
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Back in October 2018 the Dallas chapter of the Association of Old Crows had a Chapter awards meeting/boat ride social event recognizing "SMAC's" work. I attended.
SMAC does evasive radar routing for integrated cross-service stand off munition attack profiles for all the
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SMAC does evasive radar routing for integrated cross-service stand off munition attack profiles for all the
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...services when facing high end "Anti-Access Area Defense (A2AD) threats.
That would be the S-400 missile system in Crimea at the start of this tweet thread.
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That would be the S-400 missile system in Crimea at the start of this tweet thread.
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Pres. Trump's 2018 US/NATO military strikes on Syria for it's nerve gas use were planned by them.
Open source metrics presented by the USAF-
SMAC did 1700 JASSM targets worth of route planning in FY2017
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Open source metrics presented by the USAF-
SMAC did 1700 JASSM targets worth of route planning in FY2017
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A "Medium threat" environment like Syria prior to the latest generation Russian S-300 SAM deployment was a couple of days & two full simulation runs for a 90% effective to target strike
A "Kaliningrad class" threat takes longer and requires five simulation runs with the best
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A "Kaliningrad class" threat takes longer and requires five simulation runs with the best
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...threat data for a 70% effective target engagement.
We are in 2022. The men and women of SMAC are A LOT BETTER.
The problems for the Russians in Ukraine is that so is everyone else, especially Turkey.
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We are in 2022. The men and women of SMAC are A LOT BETTER.
The problems for the Russians in Ukraine is that so is everyone else, especially Turkey.
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While it is public knowledge that Israel passed on Drone tech to Turkey, most haven't realized the most important bit was digital mapping mission planning software to route drones through integrated air defenses.
Turkey has had five years of combat in Libya, Syria and Armenia
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Turkey has had five years of combat in Libya, Syria and Armenia
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against Russian air defense to hone that mission planning software transferred to Ukraine with the TB2's.
And any of Turkey's digital "lesson learned" can be copied perfectly, infinitely & cheaply.
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And any of Turkey's digital "lesson learned" can be copied perfectly, infinitely & cheaply.
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It is this infinite & near perfect digital replication of tactical lessons learned which is the real threat of high tech drone warfare.
Something the Ukrainian military is now demonstrating on the Russian Army.
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Something the Ukrainian military is now demonstrating on the Russian Army.
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