EEVblog 1551 - DESTROYED Ukrainian Starlink PCB! - Mailbag

[@todesgeber]

so in the middle of a war somebody saw that and thought "holy crap, i should send this to Dave at EEVBlog!" noice! very cool.

[@nneeerrrd]

Greetings 👋 from Ukraine 🇺🇦🔱🇺🇦 Thank you to Australian people for standing with us. 🇦🇺Bushmaster military vehicles make a huge difference 👍 saving lives. Please send more!

[@olegslab]

Yep. I thought "why not? It's unique and it might be interesting". I have dozens of destroyed Starlinks.

[@galileo_rs]

He fixes them so he has plenty of those at hand.

[@volodymyrzakolodyazhny]

I'm sure there are a lot of EEVblog fans here in Ukraine. We don't send much interesting stuff because it's too far obviously and it'll cost a lot of money, but still I'm glad somebody did it.

[@a51mj12]

Yeah its a war like in your animes, swords and bullets everywhere and nonstop, not enough time to breathe, even less for the thoughts running trough the head of the protagonist, so yeah somebody did the impossible for the LULZ

[@ortzinator]

I love that it's literally blown up but he still wrapped it carefully in bubble wrap lol

[@SupremeRuleroftheWorld]

its to prevent the electrons from falling out.

[@olegslab]

@@SupremeRuleroftheWorld Exactly

[@fabiotrevisan8922]

But it makes perfect sense. After all, it's just been busted by artillery... Nothing that compares to the kind of damage that shippers can inflict on any good. Whatever damage it already had from the shrapnel, would become completely unrecognizable after a trip on the shipping companies' trucks! 😅

[@0br0wn0]

And not just any bubble wrap, looks like it's anti-static bubble wrap!

[@olegslab]

Thank you for the video. Round Dishy - older design. Rectangular - newer, simplified and cheaper in production.

[@bill392]

I've been using SnapTron domes for about 30 years, some stainless steel but most were gold plated. If you want to put a clear self-adhesive sheet over them to attach them to a PCB and to keep out dirt, on your PCB layout be sure to include a small vent hole under the dome. Otherwise, when someone attempts to press the button, the trapped air will compress and produce some backpressure. For some applications, this wouldn't matter but for others it would. For example, I once made a PCB with a tiny 4mm snap dome that was to be pressed by a pressure diaphragm and it was supposed to activate at a certain force, let's say 50 grams. Without the vent, and depending also on ambient temperature, the force required to activate the snap dome might climb to 100g. By adding the air vent under the dome, the activation force was much more consistent.

[@brandonwilliams5853]

Excellent point, the data sheet and recommend footprint includes this feature as well.

[@swp466]

9:48 -- I think the small holes are to allow for pressure balancing due to temperature fluctuations.

[@Kirillissimus]

And don't forget about the gases which slowly escape from some types of fresh plastic and glue. All of that has to somehow vent out as well. And there can even be more reasons why you can not have the plastic voids completely sealed.

[@Kirillissimus]

@eevblogg_2 Oh, really? That is just spectacular news! Can you tell us what it is? :)

[@MrKata55]

Probably makes it a little more explosion-resistant as well, makes it harder for a pressure wave to bust in the patch antenna prepreg since the pressure can get equalized thru these holes.

[@mikeissweet]

Amazing engineering in those Starlink antennas!

[@Bob-of-Zoid]

What's so amazing about it? The whole Starlink system is ridiculous and absolutely stupid in design! People have all kinds of problems with their equipment and installations, and since only Starlink people can fix it because they will not sell replacement parts to independent repair people, many have waited months for a tech to show up to repair systems they are already paying higher rates for than any other internet provider! Then any complaints about it are dealt with harshly and rudely! Add to that his packing so many satellites (Some have already failed) into low earth orbit, another few batches planned, all kinds of scientific telescopes have had trouble caused by them, it's made launching others rockets way more difficult, with both problems only to get worse, and with them Musk has cut the expected time to the Kessler effect in half! It was some decades ago the first internet satellites were sent into far earth orbit, and with only three of them, covered the entire globe, and they are still working! You cannot do that from low earth orbit, which is why he needs so many, and he lied about the coverage, lied about the price being the lowest, but it's the highest, lied about servicing third world countries first where there is the most need and did the opposite... Elon Musk Is a conman and a fraud, and can't even get newtons laws correct, yet millions of gullible fools think he's a genius! The fact that that stuff is a reality is not his doing, but his engineers, many who know it's a terrible Rube Goldberg way of doing it!

[@johnpublic6582]

@@Bob-of-Zoid All hail the white paper!

[@Bob-of-Zoid]

@@johnpublic6582 All hail the white paper!😵‍💫 Musk is a genius!🤤 Look at the CGI!🤯 Take all of my money!🤑

[@dimsumguy1]

H patch is for circular Polarization of the send/receive signal. H patch will determine either Horizontal or Vertical frequency

[@alexscarbro796]

The holes in the antenna director patch array are probably for pressure equalisation when being transported by air.

[@decibel_tastic2869]

Up and down are usually opposite polarities to maximise isolation by virtue of XPI (Cross Polar Isolation). Circular is a pre-requisite for LEO as Linear would require continual skewing as the satellite tracks overhead. Fascinating to see the v2 antenna design adopt the cheaper transparent PTFE (?) sheet material, as used 30 years ago in the original BSB Squarial (made in UK). I fancy the clover-leaf patch and circle patch act to both translate the Circular wavefront to linear and provide directive gain in the cell. Awesome kit. Well done Starlink for supporting freedom. Glory to Ukraine.

[@mdjey2]

Borsch fridge magnet got me. Nice one. Stay safe fellow Ukrainians. Greetings from Latvia! 🐞🐞🐞

[@L2.Lagrange]

8:50 Bro they are so worried about noise that they even use curved traces on their block diagram

[@olegslab]

This is my diagram based on reverse engineering

[@L2.Lagrange]

@@olegslab Much respect Sir, and thank you for sending this in for Dave to make a video about. Very thankful to you my Ukrainian brother

[@Smit7ua]

Hi Dave) I am from Ukraine and i love you video ❤❤❤ thig of beauty joy forever ❤❤❤

[@hebulba]

I would not consider the H-slots in at 13:30 to be the "antennas". They are slots (two polarizations) in the ground plane that couple to the RF from a strip below the ground plane to the next layer, circular patches, which then couple to the circular patches with notches. I would consider the whole stack of patches with the coupling slots to be the antenna. Search for "aperture coupled patch" for more information.

[@atmel9077]

AFAIK both uplink and downlink is RHCP (according to a diagram I found by googling starlink band plan). So in my opinion the slots in the PCB are for H and V polarization. By driving them 90° out of phase, it is of course possible to obtain a circular polarization. But the info I have may also be out of date. Given the price point, and the fact that each satellite beam serves many users, it would make sense for the UT to be half duplex anyways, so no need for 2 polarizations. If one UT is uplinking and not available for downlink, plenty of other UTs will be available, so the satellite can be full duplex. Starlink time slots are 1.333 ms long, so the UT has plenty of time to transmit a shortened uplink frame with timing advance between two downlink slots.

[@hebulba]

@@atmel9077 Sure, I haven't looked thoroughly into the details of starlink so this is coming from my general knowledge only looking at the PCBs and the stack. To achieve circular polarization, antenna elements are commonly fed with two feed points in this fashion. Having multiple feeds to achieve the circular polarization (such as here with two orthogonal 90 degree offset feeds) generally results in better polarization purity (circular) than in circularly polarized patch antenna with one feed point. Many inherently circular polarized antenna elements are also rather large, or otherwise difficult, and not necessarily suitable for this kind of arrays.

[@cogoid]

@@atmel9077 Although older documents said that Tx and Rx were polarized in the same sense, the FCC licence says that RX is RHCP and TX is LHCP.

[@atmel9077]

@@cogoid Thank you. So the info I had actually turned out to be out of date.

[@KeritechElectronics]

A literal teardown! Nice analysis, it's definitely interesting, although I don't know squat about RF systems. Quite an advanced example of microwave comms. "Maximum Madness!"

[@KeritechElectronics]

@eevblog_2. hey, ya spambot! You won this time - a ban on the channel. @EEVBlog if you need a mod, I'm in. Gotta take out the trash...

[@eumenius]

What an amazing piece of engineering, and what a sad cause to get acquainted with its intricacies!

[@krzbrew]

As a Ukrainian viewer I am safe, thank you. Thanks to Australia for all the help.

[@hgbugalou]

Phased arrays are peak rf voodoo magic in my mind. It can do some amazing things, especially for radar. The NWS here in the states is doing some cool stuff with weather radar using phased array emitters.

[@maxa.8230]

Greetings from Kyiv, and thanks for the great video!

[@MoritzvonSchweinitz]

There must be tons of very interesting ex top secret electronic scrap sadly littering Ukraine right now! Might be super interesting to get some teardowns of military electronics!

[@cinobro6393]

Let's see Paul Allen's PCB...

[@johnslugger]

*THAT VEGAN CHOCOLATE TASTES LIKE DOG DUNG.*

[@Kirillissimus]

All vegan chocolate tastes like crap. Some brands are better than the others but each time I tried I could not force myself to eat more than a few small pieces of any of them.

[@evgeniy4775]

Hi Dave! You showed the antenna patch on the PCB. But in fact, these are slit antennas. And consequently, vibrators themselves are located on the inner layers of the printed circuit board. Make an addition by disassembling the pcb layer by layer.

[@giacomol02]

Exactly!

[@colormaker5070]

I looked as these a year ago and could not get samples. Both Mouser and Digikey were non-stock items. hopefully they have gained in popularity and will be available in smaller quantities. We request Snaptron for all our membrane switch purchase orders.

[@777anarchist]

Keep your dome in a vice!

[@watchitruning]

The chocolate is from Lviv. It's known for good chocolate. Not sure about this particular one but the other ones I tried was pretty good.

[@nneeerrrd]

As a Ukrainian I can confirm that Lviv is a chocolate 🍫 and coffee ☕ capital of Ukraine 🇺🇦🔱🇺🇦

[@alarjo5873]

And I didn’t try any chocolate when I was in Lviv a few years ago. What a shame 🙈

[@nneeerrrd]

@@alarjo5873 Please come over after our victory ✌️ But you need to look for not just any, but locally made Lvivskyy chocolate. Ask your local guide 😉

[@infi84]

I think getting hit by shrapnel might indeed be worse than flipping a dome.

[@PaulLoveless-Cincinnati]

Is flipping your dome some sort of penis humor that Americans won't get or something lol?

[@PaulLoveless-Cincinnati]

@eevblogg_2 Hey Scam me harder please

[@Spookieham]

Starlink unfortunately can't survive Australia. We have tried multiple ones for comms at an industrial site outside Perth and they keep failing. Very frustrating as 4g isn't up to snuff and other solutions are crap.

[@fletcherreder6091]

Salt? Looking at the construction of several of these I wouldn't be surprised.

[@mrahob275]

Get a maritime antenna .. approx 500mm by 750mm

[@LackofFaithify]

They literally have a maritime version that survives the Texas heat and salt just fine, and looking at Perth, well, you guys live in the arctic ;)

[@glennosmond4306]

@@LackofFaithify Ant

[@ThaVoodoo1]

Mine is in hot Queensland, no problems here.

[@rogueyun9613]

The Queen Flash at the end... you're my hero.

[@chrisheath2637]

So the Starlink terminal isn't bomb-proof ? Come on Elon, there's a war on ! Which reminds me - I worked for a UK MOD supplier. We made relays for the bomb-trolley. They tried using semi-conductors ( in the day) - but the relays could survive a bomb-blast -and the semis couldn't. But my manager went to meet MOD boffins, and they showed him a bullet-proof clip-board...(the relays were a British re-design of the Messchersmitt WW2 relays - they were more advanced than ours, at the time, used more advanced materials, and were self-cleaning)

[@thetechgenie7374]

Considering one of of the first usually targeted in war is communication related gear as easy to find and lock on to? Then again Elon is selling consumer grade equipment and not for military installations.

[@user2C47]

I'd think that you _wouldn't_ want to use relays for that application, because intense vibration could cause them to erroneously change states.

[@chrisheath2637]

@@user2C47 They worked - got blasted - and survived. They didn't really need to work at the time of blast.

[@adamrak7560]

@@thetechgenie7374 Starlink terminals are not too easy to lock on because of the highly directional communication. There are side lobes though, but you can mitigate them somewhat with strategically placed metal shielding. They do not have camo painting by default, which is a bit of a shame.

[@TheLEDscientist]

As this is broken anyway, you might be able to delaminate with a heatgun. Not the soldering one, but the paint removal one. But you might want to do that outside. I got some pcb's to make bubbles using the heatgun

[@cedricb2344]

for what use ? Can you entirely remove and isolate entire layers that way ?

[@NathanaelNewton]

Daaaaaamn those are some awesome fridge magnets, I love the tractor one 😂😂😂

[@axizepp]

Dave, please note that Kiev (as you pronounced) is russian transliteration of Ukrainian capital Kyiv. russians did their best to spread Kiev transliteration widely, but it would be nice if you use Ukrainian Kyiv instead.

[@eumenius]

Киев - мать городов русских.

[@olegbashtenko]

​@@eumeniusThere's no vodka here, go home.

[@petergamache5368]

Pretty sure I understand the HF/VHF/UHF world, but this 10GHz+ phased array stuff is still out of this world to me! This isn't even "RF guys" domain ... this is very specialist gear.

[@Bob-of-Zoid]

"You call that a knife mate? Now this is a KNIFE"!🤯🤠😂

[@catalinalb1722]

Great video! Thanks Dave & Oleg!

[@FunkyDisco79]

2:19 Dave Jones: War in Ukraine is a laughing matter.

[@PlayerSalt]

i know its sort of garbage now but actually interesting to see what's in the dish, i always assumed it was slightly more basic construction

[@absurdengineering]

It is a splendid piece of engineering. Looks deceptively simple.

[@nneeerrrd]

Greetings 👋 from Ukraine 🇺🇦🔱🇺🇦 Thank you to Australian people for standing with us. 🇦🇺Bushmaster military vehicles doing great here 👍

[@nneeerrrd]

Please send more! They are saving lives.

[@MrASDewka]

@@nneeerrrd nice try Hitler 👍

[@micropower8]

@@nneeerrrd - Ukraine would save life if they would talk with the Russians. If not, this will not end very well for Ukraine. You know, Germany, the Americans and all the other European countries do not send what they can to help Ukraine and you should ask: Why? The Americans do get right now 50 billion USD more per year as they got last year, so they have 900 billion USD what they could use. The American military industrial complex need war to exist and they want that a war is running, if it is possible infinite long. Then they get from the American tax payer every year 900 billion USD to fill their pockets. But this is bad for Ukraine, because then they send you so much so that you think you can go forward, but they do not send you enough that you could win this in a limited amount of time. And the reason is not because they are afraid of a nuclear war. If a politician tells you that there is only one possibility what you could do, then think twice and find this what they do not tells you.

[@Throckmorton.Scribblemonger]

@@nneeerrrd e-begging at its finest.

[@TC-zt1sp]

Yes they're! They really do great stoves for barbecue after catching those wild Kornets the rooskies ran out of years ago! looool!

[@snekkel]

i like how he calls it The YouCrane!

[@Mr.Unacceptable]

I'm just trying to get my FM transmitter to cover my neighborhood.

[@Mr.Unacceptable]

@eevblogg_2 Lying scammer.

[@willthecat3861]

Like Dave and a some comments said... about the hole in the "leg" of one patch antenna... mechanically... the hole is used? to equalize thermally generated pressure... however... in patch antenna design... cutouts/holes alter/affect the antenna matching. Do you have to drill a hole in the patches, to implement a pressure equalization mechanism? ... my guess... no.

[@vladimirsvirid7705]

Glory to Ukraine

[@ZolotarevAleksandr]

Yes, in America it’s not the same as in Europe, but in Europe Ukraine has already resisted and fed up with its insolent people. Magnets and other nonsense. Until recently, did you know what Ukraine is? Свирид блять нахуй ты несешь это сюда?

[@Stinktierchen]

Nope!

[@vladimirsvirid7705]

@@RoderikvanReekum BE FORE .... take out military from Ukrainian LAND'S and dto invade forigion country's ..... dount you think so?

[@raxxla1949]

Otsossia 😂😂😂

[@Noneofyourbusiness2000]

@@RoderikvanReekum We, the US, won't let that happen.

[@CyrusBrinkworthRAS]

some day we wont be able to build any circuit boards as the components are getting so small!

[@snakezdewiggle6084]

Yep, straight to the Pool Room ! ;)

[@volodymyrzakolodyazhny]

Lviv region is famous for making hand-made chocolate in Ukraine. It's theirs feature. And they roast good coffee too, it is soft but still rich taste. They have even 'Coffee Mine' in Lviv :-), where they 'mine' coffee and roast it right here for tourists.

[@magnuswootton6181]

DAVE IS EXCELLENT!!!

[@a3b36a04]

Any scrap thermal imaging stuff? Send in everything you've got.

[@topduk]

SEM imaging of it would be nice to have.

[@imark7777777]

I feel obligated to leave something in the comments down below. And I don't know why?

[@electronpath]

It's obvious. You felt that this video needs more views. That's how KZbin algorithms works - more user engagement means more views.

[@oskimac]

It looks like starlink antennas are constructed like ogres....

[@KnightspaceORG]

The layers mac, what do they mean...

[@mdjey2]

Ogre is city in Latvia, btw. My friend lives there.

[@volodymyrzakolodyazhny]

I want to thank all Australians who help Ukraine. Your help is literally life-changing, life-saving. I'm alive and can live and teach students because of all people and all countries who help Ukraine. Thank you all!

[@flexairz]

How about you Ukranians killing Russians in the Dombas region since 2014 and before that the Jews in WWII?

[@churblefurbles]

Only thing they are helping to is lead that country to ruin.

[@volodymyrzakolodyazhny]

@eevblogg_2 seems it's a broken bot here.

[@cp1cupcake]

Vegan chocolate sounds like a scam.....

[@mdjey2]

I guess they didn't use milk. Does that count? I don't know what makes vegan.

[@djlorenz11]

Ukrainians spending money providing us good entertainment material, I guess it’s time do donate to organizations supporting Ukraine. Let’s all spend 1$ as a thank you! Dave why not you donate some of the video revenue?

[@artur8403]

Hi Dave. Could you do empshield teardown? It seems little strange what numbers they advertise. Huge amp but thin wires, closed box traps heat, box glued and it says patent pending. What's inside is ordinary lightning arrestor? MOV and maybe vacuum tube like in antenna coax lightning protectors?

[@KrissyD-px9gj]

Patch antenna was invented in 1953

[@WolfmanDude]

Very cool system, I would prefer a traditional dish however. This construction makes the thing impossible to repair and I am really sceptical about long term weather resistance. Also a dish looks way cooler that this plastic slab imo

[@Kirillissimus]

The disposable piece of plastic is extremely expensive as it is. Making it serviceable would bump up the cost even more, it would approach modern military radar manufacturing costs. And with a reflector dish construction beamforming is much more limited since you can not put nearly as many elements into the small tranceiver head and that would bump up the price of the satellite side of things. We already have such systems in service but they occupy the geostational orbit and the monthly payments required from their users are substantial. We are basically talking about a marginally practical technology with unclear financial returns here. Even with all the cost reduction measures it is not nearly guaranteed that it will have a bright future and without them the whole idea is doomed for sure. So I would not be so picky about the minor issues and drawbacks.

[@user2C47]

Honestly, there's not anything _to_ repair except the motors, which are accessible. Everything else is completely solid state.

[@userPrehistoricman]

Starlink would not be possible with the same kind of dish that does your satellite TV. The LEO satellites are travelling across the sky all the time, so a conventional dish would have to scan the sky constantly. What would you do when the satellite goes off the horizon? Beam forming via a phased array is the practical solution.

[@cogoid]

@@userPrehistoricman Until SpaceX started to produce inexpensive phased arrays, the vast majority of satcom user terminals used conventional dishes on motorized mounts. Many were used for connecting to geostationary satellites from ships and airplanes and even from UAVs, but some could also track LEO satellites. OneWeb, for example, uses a terminal which consists of two dishes side by side -- while one is communicating, the other one is acquiring the next satellite. The terminal is very bulky and much more expensive than Starlink user terminal though.

[@userPrehistoricman]

@@cogoid ha, I never thought of using two dishes! Thanks for the info

[@rasimbot]

Thunderf00t keeps talking that Starlink is scam

[@abuzarr86]

17:26 (American Psycho)

[@waffleurr]

People die there, lol. People who don’t want to fight. Another piece of that shrapnel might have killed someone. Cringe.

[@_BangDroid_]

"People die there, lol" so funny

[@mrnmrn1]

@@_BangDroid_ I think he reffered to the mood of the video, as Dave lol-ed about the shrapnel damage. At least the "cringe" at the end of the line suggests that to me.

[@Razor2048]

Any chance they can make a shrapnel resistant antenna?

[@Kris_M]

It hasn't been *the* Ukraine for decades, just Ukraine...

[@KostyanichW]

You are the next Oleg, get ready for mobilization))

[@megkalapnemadom]

19:01 flippidy Domeah

[@ukrainehamradio]

The world's best military technologies are now being tested in Ukraine.

[@TC-zt1sp]

Yes they are! Leos have already been tested and they (those damn rooskies) proved they burn really well! Let's wait for the Challengers and Abrams! loool!

[@olegbashtenko]

​@@TC-zt1spDo you really think it's so funny that people get killed while defending their Homeland? Your LOL is completely inappropriate.

[@TC-zt1sp]

@@olegbashtenko Oh really? So... how appropriate was start killing your own since 2014? 14000+- if I'm not mistaken about the numbers, right? Even today you bunch of freak sore losers that can't reply to the rooskies in kind keep shelling civilians just for the fun of it! How appropriate is that you uneducated idiot? What homeland? There's no more homeland, better start getting used it. Look at Iraq. Look at Afghanistan. Look at Syria. Look at Libya. Look at Yemen, and so on and so on... But hey... I bet my ass that this time you were sure the gringos doing what they're doing is just to protect those poor Ukrainians from being oppressed by those damn rooskies, right? Well... enjoy it!

[@VictorLarsen-fy9ls]

The explosion occurred accurately enough and not by chance, if this antenna was so damaged. I wonder what Musk thinks about this review.

[@RichardKuivila1947]

Lucky it wasn't destroyed by a missile. You would have received a box full of dust.

[@fredfred2363]

Anyone remember the BSB squarial?

[@vladsol2009]

Greetings from Ukraine!

[@lostcosmos]

Slava Ukraini!

[@88njtrigg88]

Freestyl'er, straight from the dome.

[@MaximumPower1]

What happens ?

[@kippie80]

Wouldn’t eat the chocolate. Get it tested.

[@cell_creator]

Are the chocolates HEU or Plain?...

[@strange67x]

great !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🙂

[@erikburman530]

It's not "The" Ukraine. That's the Ruscist way of saying it. Ukraine is a sovereign independent country. "The Ukraine" is a territory that Putin is trying to occupy.

[@topduk]

I assume you also nitpick being ethnically replaced after being purposefully depopulated.

[@toitoitoy]

Language police is here and of course there is such race as ukranian. Lol

[@erikburman530]

@@toitoitoy They are all NAZI's right? Go fuck yourself Ruscist!

[@SupremeRuleroftheWorld]

TL;DR: starlink dishes are made by black magic.

[@siedliko]

Extrodinery

[@paveltube80]

Thank you, very mysteriously🤪 🙈

[@PaulLoveless-Cincinnati]

Thank you to all involved especially the hero in Kiev. Slava Ukraini!

[@TC-zt1sp]

You'll address that one better using his always preferred "Slava Cocaína!" Eheheheh...

[@TC-zt1sp]

@eevblogg_2 Oh really? So... what did I won?

[@erikburman530]

Slava Ukraini!!!!

[@erikburman530]

@eevblogg_2 scam.

[@jemalas]

I don't really like how Dave approached this topic, calling it "situation", no mentioning of ruzzia anywhere, fun and giggles talking about how it was destroyed. This is the biggest full scale war since WWII, there's a big chance the same explosion destroying this star link killed someone just sleeping at their home, there's a big chance the same rocket killed a child or little baby. This starlink is destroyed because ruzzia is attacking civilians and trying to kill each and every Ukrainian they can, in other words doing holocaust. And Dave saying "I hope all Ukrainians viewers are safe" - he should know exactly that it is not possible, not a single person in Ukraine is safe, this is not a snow storm or heatwave where you could say that. Avoiding calling it war follows kremlin instructions and helps kremling to push this narrative to the clueless people in ruzzia

[@dan_]

I get where you are coming from, but I'm sure the vast majority of viewers already know what's going on and are in complete support of Ukraine against Putin's idiotic war. I doubt Dave was avoiding the topic purely to keep the pro-Putin Russian viewers happy as he doesn't seem the type of person to care what people think of him. That said, I certainly wouldn't have minded him telling Putin to get F'ed either.

[@doogsm6013]

This is an electronics channel! If you want to spread propaganda there is dozens if not hundreds of channels to debate geopolitics.

[@TomStorey96]

You can't even wish someone well these days without someone being offended... 🙄

[@KnightspaceORG]

You can't expect everyone to only talk about war. It's a channel about all things electronic and it should remain this way.

[@jcc4tube]

Nobody here is "avoiding" calling it a war.

[@Clancydaenlightened]

One thin you wont turn on and tear apart are the Russian ballistic missiles captured by ukranians Even if they did the Australian government would come raid in mid video and take it from you, be like "oi david, sorry mate, we need dis for national security, we got our own engineers and scientists"

[@topduk]

Mail inspection isn't that thorough.

[@TC-zt1sp]

Well... they won't be of great use anyway. I guess the only thing managing to capture those rooskies' missiles are their targets!

[@olegbashtenko]

​@@TC-zt1sp Hope your house captures one some day, idiot.

[@user-folk1987]

НАТО будет воевать до последнего украинца

[@olegbashtenko]

There's no vodka here, go home russian vanya.

[@mattmoreira210]

And the Starlink fanboys get wet...

[@a51mj12]

HEY-CHE pattern (HACHE?)

[@Boogie_the_cat]

Your thumbnail strikes me as insensitive. Not a fan. People are dying, and you treat it as a joke.

[@Kirillissimus]

If you can not even laugh at war then how are you gonna fight.

[@tamtgirl]

one magnet had the mighty antinov. RIP to the largest plane! and of course to the people who died defending their country.

[@YYYZ-z6s]

Hasta yo entendí la basura de placa que le hicieron al dueño, literal de su diseño de antena no pusieron las terminales de recepción como debían y colocaron puntos del diagrama indicador como conectores los cuales no sirvieron y mando todo a la borda...

[@negatiff54]

already sick of videos related to Ukraine on KZbin

[@jimmihenry]

0:20 Mhhhhh chocolate with depleted uranium dust.... Yummy!

[@rafflesmaos]

Don't forget that it's also coated with the remains of 10 Patriot SAMs and ashes of 5 Zaluzhnys and 2 Budanovs.

[@TC-zt1sp]

@@rafflesmaos lmao!!!

[@olegbashtenko]

Wat? 😂

[@Noneofyourbusiness2000]

Dear Ukraine, As an American I apologize for my government installing a puppet leader who will have your country fight Russia until the last Ukrainian, to try to keep a BRICS nation in line and protect the USDs world reserve currency status.

[@ortzinator]

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[@volodymyrzakolodyazhny]

That's a bot who is talking some shit. Russia wants to make USSR 2.0 and squelch any Ukrainian who understands it's origin. Russians are just pure Orks.

[@Noneofyourbusiness2000]

@@ortzinator Good argument. I expected nothing less.

[@Noneofyourbusiness2000]

@@bljdeep Biden is to blame, but hopefully you realize the Republicans are guilty in their own right for drumming up fear of China, another BRICS nation btw. We are dealing with a uniparty government that likes to squabble over social issues. They're aligned when it comes to the serious issues.

[@KnightspaceORG]

@@Noneofyourbusiness2000 Well, he doesn't need to add anything, we all know about bots and literal paid trolls.

[@MrUnlimitedTorque]

I'd never eat something sent to me by some random stranger on the other side of the globe. And I bet Dave doesn't either.

[@martinda7446]

Well, I was thinking something similar. I just wouldn't want to eat anything like that made in Ukraine. A shame, but sensible.

[@markuskivisto1425]

Slava Ukraini! Glory to Ukraine! ❤🇺🇦

[@Stinktierchen]

Can such people just f off from channels and topics like that? God damn annoying people you are.

[@unity9314]

One question. Why is your favorite "glory to Ukraine! Glory to the heroes!" is a direct copy of the Nazi phrase "Heil Hitler! Sieg Heil!"? Even the sequence of words is similar in your language: "Слава украине! Героям слава!" "Heil Hitler! Sieg Heil! The only difference is that "Hitler" is replaced by "Ukraine", and "Sieg"(victory) is replaced by "heroes")

[@user.A9]

Quick, send them more money!

[@Noneofyourbusiness2000]

We've sent them more than enough money. We should mind our own business, stop trying to have a Russian neighbor join NATO, and stop trying to start WWIII.

[@rafflesmaos]

@@Noneofyourbusiness2000 But Finland can freely join NATO with nary a peep from Russia despite sharing a similar sized border directly with Russia, right? Hmm, almost like the whole "NATO" business is a false pretext meant to distract those not paying any attention to Russia's past and present imperialist ambitions.

[@Noneofyourbusiness2000]

@@rafflesmaos you think Russia hasn't made a peep? You sound very knowledgeable on the subject.

[@rafflesmaos]

@@Noneofyourbusiness2000 Given that Finland is now in NATO, and wasn't last year, and Russia hasn't invaded Finland preemptively to prevent them from being in NATO, sounds like they haven't made a peep.

[@MrASDewka]

@@rafflesmaos Finland does not have a Nazi government

[@christossymA3A2]

Putin's war is going so great that Ukrainians have time to mail PCBs to Dave

[@Noneofyourbusiness2000]

As many of those Ukrainians consider themselves Russian, do you really think he's going to target civilians?

[@volodymyrzakolodyazhny]

Military staff is rotated, not very often unfortunately but still rotated. And there is a lot of support-military teams, and a lot of volunteers who help.

[@galileo_rs]

You mean Russia does not wage war the same way USA does?

[@Stinktierchen]

Russia is not there to destroy the whole country. And since when does everything stop working in a whole country if there is a warzone just in some specific areas? Nobody nuked Ukraine so far for it to completely stop functioning.

[@Jawst]

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[@HA05GER]

Hello everyone

[@engineer323]

I am more than sure that it was damaged by an air defense missile system (Patriot or others) located among the residential buildings of the city.

[@rafflesmaos]

Impossible. According to Russia, Ukraine has lost all of its air defenses including 10 Patriots. By the way, the Pantsir-S1 on top of the Russian Ministry of Attacking building in the center of Moscow sends its regards.

[@engineer323]

@@rafflesmaos ok, I'm talking about the fact that air defense missiles hit civilian homes, there is no need to interfere with Russian Geraniums and missiles flying at military targets.

[@KnightspaceORG]

@@engineer323 Am i taking crazy pills or did everyone forget about direct strikes to civilian targets by the Russian missiles?

[@olegslab]

You more than wrong. Both terminals were damaged at the front line.

[@olegslab]

@@engineer323 you should stop watching russian propagandists.

[@sysghost]

Frame the bits of the Starlink dish PCB and name it "Russia did this"

[@banalestorchid5814]

@EEVblog - Dave it is highly offensive to many Ukrainians to use the Russian pronunciation of Kyiv (Kiev): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KyivNotKiev kzbin.info/www/bejne/ena0lHefiMerfsU

[@rasimbot]

Всем пох

[@АлексейАлександровский-о2ж]

I live in the south of Ukraine, this is not something offensive here. One pronunciation is in Ukrainian, the second in Russian.

[@totocaca7035]

Is that a fucking satellite?

[@RichardKuivila1947]

Even if it's from Ukraine, DON'T OPEN IT ! The are still some Pro-Putin Russhunz in Kiev. Your a LUCKY Dude, your very shortened video could have ended in a BOOOOM !