Satellite imagery shows damage to the NIP-16 space communications centre in Crimea after it was hit by ATACMS. Including damage to newly constructed buildings. Support the Channel www.patreon.co... buymeacoffee.c...
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@suchomimus99213 ай бұрын
Whoops, meant to include Muffin the Rabbit in this video. She's found a new favorite place to sleep, under my fossil display case. I'll put a pic of her on the next video. Videos should be less echoey now, too. I hope, now that I have finally got round to decorating the new apartment a bit.
@bobouzala3 ай бұрын
Thanks so much Suchomimus, B💥💥M! Commander Muffin has a new HQ! 🇺🇦
@vegas1a3 ай бұрын
House decorating in Taiwan?? How many anti invasion sandbags are required?? Stay safe!
@agrobeson64713 ай бұрын
More Muffin, please.
@bardsamok92213 ай бұрын
Sounding good!
@mike44803 ай бұрын
Thanks for the update Suchomimus , always informative… 💙💛💙
@jimschiltz53433 ай бұрын
Ouch! That's 25% of their orbital communications. "Play stupid games, win stupid prizes"
@SeanBZA3 ай бұрын
Mostly antennas, though the new build likely was all communications links and crypto machinery, which is, unlike antennas which are basically steel and aluminium skin, much harder to replace.
@hamjudo3 ай бұрын
Losing the orbital communication assets will occasionally mean a delay in downloading images from their spy satellites. They will simply have to wait until the spy satellite of interest is over one of the remaining functional ground stations. I suspect the important targets were the new construction and radars that were in active use (if any).
@misterwirez77313 ай бұрын
Two more could realistically be hit. The fourth is way over by Alaska..
@patrickkelly66913 ай бұрын
Or just FAFO for short 😆
@bardsamok92213 ай бұрын
Russia said these radars help intercept missiles. They weren't wrong.
@sforza2093 ай бұрын
Sites like these have a new role. Missile magnets.
@DougguoD3 ай бұрын
😄👏🏽
@chipbug3 ай бұрын
They did intercept the missiles, on ground.
@anthonywatson77353 ай бұрын
1:11 Parabolics on a gimbal.......' Who i'm sure appeared at glastonbury last year' 😂😂😂
@Oligodendrocyte1393 ай бұрын
They were supporting Asymptotic Curved Air.
@bobouzala3 ай бұрын
that one’s a keeper! 🤣❤️ parabolics on a gimbal 😂
@mrkeogh3 ай бұрын
Great band name tbh
@vegas1a3 ай бұрын
And to think that decades ago we were all told that satellites could read the pages of a phone book from space. Me thinks these images must be from 1965.....
@anthonywatson77353 ай бұрын
@@mrkeogh I bet there's a band renaming themselves as we type!😉
@sjonnieplayfull58593 ай бұрын
So much damage from falling debris...
@cutedogsgettingcuddles98623 ай бұрын
I guess a fragmentation air burst is technically 'falling debris.'
@my4mainecoons3383 ай бұрын
Parabolics on a gimbal are for creating special effects videos such as SAM 400's taking out ATCAMS.
@mostevil10823 ай бұрын
Parabolics are directional satelite dishes for sending and or receiving radio transmissions in a specific direciton. (the old sky TV dish is a small one of these). The gimbal of course lets them aim it at the spaceship in question.
@AstroGremlinAmerican3 ай бұрын
Jack be gimble, Jack be . . . oh. Never mind.
@thechancellor37153 ай бұрын
The Parabolics on gimbals would be the huge antennas for send and receive to communications to satellite; Intel, electronic and visual as well as steering sats back to proper orbits, which degrade after awhile. Gimbles allow for tilt and rotational fine tuning for best signals. Look at the photo and ask yourself why is there a huge empty field in the center of a crowded facility? These things are huge, search for images of NIP-16.. The Crimean installation signal was touted as being able to send and receive deep space signals up to 300 million kilometers. Need a bit more power than a mobi.
@iconoclast20003 ай бұрын
A "radome" is just a plastic shell built to protect an antenna that allows the antenna underneath to operate with minimal interference. So if a couple of those were damaged then likely so were the antenna. "parabolic on a gimbal" is an antenna that can be aimed. Unfortunately, the antenna themselves are not a particularly expensive part of the system, although the system is broken so long as they're broken. If those buildings that were hit included the high-power exciters, then you're really talking some damage, especially if they were on at the time.
@bobouzala3 ай бұрын
woaw 🤯 Tell us about the activated high-power exciters!
@iconoclast20003 ай бұрын
@@bobouzala, the amount of power necessary differs depending on a handful of parameters (frequency, dwell time, antenna size, etc.), but this is likely 10s of Megawatts, and it's at the highest point for a given system at the exciter (for reference think of all the power you use in your house over a couple of years but packed into a few millionths of a second). Usually there is some tuned "crystal" creating the main frequency that is divided as necessary and then driven through long, tuned tubes to basically build on itself. This is a critical (read expensive) point because it must be precise for frequency while robust to handle all the system power, and usually has to be liquid cooled. A couple of tungsten balls bouncing around in there probably puts an end to the radar part of the radar (as opposed to the digital processing part). What doesn't become unusably punctured likely gets melted by arcs or other short circuits. It's like why dams make great targets: most of the work is already being done for you.
@kilianortmann99793 ай бұрын
Cost is one part, the other is how long it takes to remake and replace them, I am carefully optimistic that it is going to take a while. At that size, those do not sound like off the shelf parts.
@SeanBZA3 ай бұрын
@@kilianortmann9979 If there were spares for the TWT's and power Klystrons, it is very likely they were stored on site, as it takes a good few hours to change out and align a new tube, so there normally is a standby transmitter there already connected and ready to operate in a few minutes, and then the spare tubes are normally stored there, so that the repair does not need to wait on parts arriving from a central warehouse. If there is a warehouse of spares on site as well, then that would also be targeted, as no spares means no repairs.
@agrobeson64713 ай бұрын
@@iconoclast2000 Thank you for clarity!
@SueMyChin3 ай бұрын
It was friendly fire! They mistook it for Ukraine's radar system.
@joejones30423 ай бұрын
Peter Zeihan provides an excellent assessment of the implications. Things look less than great for Russia.
@xisotopex3 ай бұрын
one of the things he said, was that glide bombs would no longer function, and so far, the last 36 hours that has not been the case. the ruskies are still flying precision glide bomb attacks. the solution is simple.... since glide bombs are difficult to shoot down, it would make sense to target the aircraft that are launching them, before they launch... that will require biden to unfuk himself, and allow the ukrainians to target inside of russia. of course trump just came out and said that he would give ukraine whatever they wanted and that he would allow them to use it as they see fit, militarily, so you you can bet that once that gets out, within 48 hours biden will come out and say the ukrainians no lnger have any target restrictions.
@sunflowerhealth16163 ай бұрын
Tx... yes it is good and on YT... mentions glide bombing potential implications.
@AstroGremlinAmerican3 ай бұрын
Russia is wearing out its welcome and wearing out in general.
@mmedved55673 ай бұрын
Parabolics likely refer to parabolic antennas. Cassegrain is a type of telescope. These are all devices used for monitoring space assets.
@guywest21813 ай бұрын
Cassegrain antenna, folded path helps with size en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassegrain_antenna
@christopherrobinson75413 ай бұрын
@@guywest2181 This approach is not often used on smaller systems. The Ferranti Blue Parrot airborne radar used in the Buccaneer aircraft used a Cassegrain antenna. It was constructed from a fine wire mesh embedded in a fibreglass matrix. It resulted in a very narrow beamwidth for the size of the dish.
@cdl03 ай бұрын
"Case-grain" in the video made me smile. 🙂 The primary is a paraboloid, and the secondary is a hyperboloid.
@jtf2dan3 ай бұрын
..........mmmmmmmmmmmmm...EXTRA crispy Space communications satellite radars.......my FAVOURITE!
@blitzroehre18073 ай бұрын
I used to install Sat up/downlinks, but with those pics it is really hard to put a finger on it. Lets wait for more photo material. Two guesses though: Taking into consideration Ukraine just targeted a sat ground station in the south of Crimea one possibility is that Ukraine is planning something and they are pre-emptively destroying data/voice sat comms from mainland Russia to Crimea. On the other hand somebody suggested that this station was also used to track missiles, Russias "eye" to the south, and destroying this installation would take yet another card out of Russias deck in their Nuclear threatening poker game they play upon the west. But, without detailed photos its speculation right now...
@xisotopex3 ай бұрын
yes, if they effectively are able to blind russia to a degree, that would hopefully get the russikes to shut up with their nuclear threats, as they would no longer be able to detect launches like before, so it would behoove them to tone it down. lest someone throw a few nukes at them that they would not be prepared for..... imagine if they were blind from some directions now, the US as well as others, could probably get a VERY large strike underway without russia detecting it AT ALL. enough to probably severely limit their ability to launch a counter salvo.
@BlackEpyon3 ай бұрын
Ukraine is basically doing everything they can to blind Russia before the arrival of F-16s. Early warning radars can be used to spot F-16s, even if they're not accurate enough for a targeting solution.
@therealebolaboy3 ай бұрын
Parabolic antennas. Many call them radar dishes. The gimbal would mean it can be moved i believe.
@lifevest13 ай бұрын
Lightning rarely strikes twice. Fortunately ATACMS are not lightning.
@NotFound-sm9rg3 ай бұрын
but... but... it was just burning grass(((
@acephantom9033 ай бұрын
That is one thing we need to keep in mind. The cluster warheads don't create a lot of visible damage to civilian satellites as the impact points are smaller than the resolution. What we see is where fires were set and not put out until later. The fire in the field is likely an area they deemed not important to put out until the fire in the complex was extinguished. Depending on the altitude of release, this whole area might look like swiss cheese. I'm curious to see on the ground photos if they come out.
@JerzyMichaPawlak3 ай бұрын
Yeah, the big black patch in the middle is probably not an ATCAMS strike location, but a grass fire started either by one of the cluster charges, or some other burning debris that fell there. In the higher resolution image it is visible, that the strike location was among the buildings in the upper left part of the picture.
@OlivierGabin3 ай бұрын
Roger's Crimean Tour 2024 : ATACAMS goes wild !
@NWRefund3 ай бұрын
Cassegrain is a type of lens for an optical telescope. A Radome is a protective cover over an antenna.
@danielmiller37813 ай бұрын
Looks like this facility is properly buggered, don't want your precious installation to go up in smoke? Stop using them in occupied territories. Slava Ukraine.
@TangBengYong3 ай бұрын
The black patches are areas of grass fires and do not show much about what was damaged or where the missiles hit, if at all.
@martinedwards20043 ай бұрын
Could the dark burned area in the middle be what’s left of a S-300/400 battery that was supposed to be protecting the facility? Russia would prioritize removing the wreckage before the next satellite photo.
@shawnr7713 ай бұрын
Thank you for the update.
@tonyyarbray3 ай бұрын
the russians said they were planning on building themselves a new one of these in southern russia around 2012 but then they captured this one when they took Crimea which may have ended the plan but it had a Ukrainian staff of 200+ that kept up the facility didn't let it rot since 1991 and the russians said/lied that most of them agreed to stay on but the new stuff might be new facilities they would need to make a thingee just sitting there from 1991 be useful again but have a dual use space/military.... a lot of stuff has been developed since 1991... like indoor plumbing and such
@ivangohome3 ай бұрын
😅
@kevins.35733 ай бұрын
I read a comment saying that it was privatized for a time before becoming fully militarized in 2022. That's likely how it was funded. Private money + gov't grants. Then, seized at the start of the full-scale invasion. Now, what you described sounds like the russian nuclear arsenal from what I've heard from Ukrainian rumors. Rumor is most of rus nukes were maintained by Ukrainan's under contract and since 2014 they've only lost those personnel. So, there's been a brain drain and loss of human resources in the maintenance and upkeep of the ru arsenal. Those things need monthly upkeep and the russians lost a majority of that starting back in 2014.
@Kromaatikse3 ай бұрын
"Parabolic" and "Cassegrain" refer to types of high-gain antenna, which would be entirely expected at a facility dedicated to deep-space communications. A "gimbal" is a device for pointing a large antenna in different directions - an extreme example being Jodrel Bank. So most of the marked locations are antennas.
@Fubar20243 ай бұрын
Thank you! 💪💪🇺🇦💪💪💙💛
@PeanutsDadForever3 ай бұрын
Thank you for another excellent video!
@UncleJoeLITE3 ай бұрын
NIP-16 is a deep space tracking station, started in 1959, 5years before Australia/NASA'a very similar Tidbinbilla DSS. I'm at Tidbinbilla a lot & it seems like a dangerous strategy to hit these tracking stations, the 25m dishes can't even cover UA afaik. I think UA were instructed on this target. 💛⚓💙
@issigonis9753 ай бұрын
"Tis but a scratch"
@morgansmit85643 ай бұрын
Thank you!
@JBM4253 ай бұрын
The USSR built some really large parabolic antenna arrays for their orbital/deep space network at this Yevpatoria area complex. There was one massive unit with 8 large parabolic dish antennae in a 4 x 2 arrangement. The entire unit could rotate 360° and pitch up and down, although I don’t know if the individual dishes were fixed or had some limited range of motion of their own. I also don’t know its specific nomenclature, so I can’t say if that was among the damaged or destroyed facilities.
@kevinp25933 ай бұрын
Hello Sucho 👍👍👍 more good news everything is going as planned 😅😊
@TimvanderLeeuw3 ай бұрын
"Parabolics on a gimbal" means parabolic-shaped satellite antennas that are placed on gimbals for moving them around.
@waldoputty35553 ай бұрын
cassegrain can refer to an optical telescope or a radar antenna. most likely a radar antenna. a gimbal is a mechanical mechanism that aims a satellite dish. a satellite dish/parabolic is a high-gain antenna that magnifies the level of weak satellite signals. while large antennas are not that difficult to replace, russia may lack the ability to manufacture these. perhaps the most important that sensitive electronic amplifiers are generally needed right next to the antenna to magnify weak signals before electronic contaminates them. russia may lack the ability to produce/buy these low-noise high-gain amplifier modules.
@sequoiasemperviren31633 ай бұрын
There must have been more important targets of interest than just the radio telescopes by the recent construction.
@chrisb71983 ай бұрын
Millions of dollars worth of stuff turned to scrap metal. So that's billions of rubles turned to rubble.
@striker25883 ай бұрын
1:10 Parabolic refers Parabolic Antennas (giant satellite dish) and gimbal refers to an antenna with the ability to traversing or move it's angle. The units in meters is the antennas size.
@cjtoombs74733 ай бұрын
That big burned spot in the middle may have just been a grass fire that was started by the hit in the upper left corner, or debris from air defense systems, not a miss by ATACMS.
@7screamingdizzbusters3 ай бұрын
Hey , im here!😅
@thePronto3 ай бұрын
The big burn area was a near-miss on the boffins' houses at the bottom. Close, but no cigar.
@alexhajnal1073 ай бұрын
The predominantly-red images are near-infrared. The bright red areas are probably trees. Grasses tend to have more subdued color such as the browner areas in the images.
@TerryGaskett3 ай бұрын
Awake again🌅
@thatoneguy88alpha3 ай бұрын
Is this part of the strike that got interrupted and landed on the beach?
@tudogeo70613 ай бұрын
They nipped it
@user-oi4tj4pp8q3 ай бұрын
The dark areas are mostly vegetation fire burning, I'd say there was at least 3 hits. one to the north west of the central burn were a building seems to be missing, other slightly east of north, third North east over high vegetation.... most of the vegetation burnt of so maybe incendiary so they can hit it later
@MrMasterSpam3 ай бұрын
I think of Cassagrains as being optical telescopes but I suppose it could also be associated with radio telescopes.
@panan77773 ай бұрын
Şame principle, different wavelengths.
@3characterhandlerequired3 ай бұрын
Google maps image and that new image are different in that there are quite a lot more structures and roads in the new one. Which makes me think that there was something in the middle there that just isn't there anymore. A big scorch mark in that place. Something burned there quite nicely.
@FreeAvalon3 ай бұрын
Crazy to think Ukrainian ATACMS can reach targets as far away as Caelid
@Timstone1013 ай бұрын
A rather dissapointing result to be honest. 😞
@armchairwanderer12873 ай бұрын
👍🇺🇦🇺🇦👍
@bmoretinker3 ай бұрын
Thank you, we couldn't come up with a new band name, Parabolics on a Gimbal ( we are an alternatively physically able band.) Rock on.
@brentdallyn84593 ай бұрын
I wonder if this facility was attacked at the behest of the US military, it seems they would have more to gain from its destruction than Ukraine considering its purpose
@PROPHETS-BANE3 ай бұрын
Zelenski following in Churchill's footsteps 👣👣👣 Putin following in the failed Austrian painters footsteps 👣👣👣 Russia walks the path of humiliation 👣👣👣
@andreyef.20673 ай бұрын
Скорее Зе аналог Ади, а Путин - Сталина. Только вот Хиросимой теперь может стать любой город США и Европы.
@Hoaxer513 ай бұрын
@@andreyef.2067,As can Saint Petersburg and Moscow, there are only about 10 cities in Russia that are over 1 million in population so it won’t take to many.
@andreyef.20673 ай бұрын
@@Hoaxer51, всего один залп с АПЛ , вроде той, что заходила недавно на Кубу , и этого хватит на половину США или ЕС. А у нас таких подлодок десятки. Не считая мобильных наземных комплексов и шахтных баллистических ракет. Так что, шансов выжить и отстидеться у вас нет никаких. А у нас при этом ещё есть огромные пространства за Уралом. Вы готовы сдохнуть за Украину и нацистов?
@andreyef.20673 ай бұрын
@@Hoaxer51 в России 15 городов миллионников, и как только будет зафиксирован пуск ракет НАТО, похожий на атаку, сразу будет отдана команда на ответный удар. Странно, что у вас наивно думают, что можно "победить Россию" на поле боя, и самим не пострадать.
@bigotbiden3 ай бұрын
@@andreyef.2067 The problem for the 0rcnazzies is that we have nukes too, in fact we invented them . . and ours actually work.
@trickyd4993 ай бұрын
Ok Karl Pilkongton
@rjs11383 ай бұрын
Unfortunate....😅🇬🇧🇬🇪🇺🇦
@tcbevolver3 ай бұрын
A 6m Cassegrain would be an optical telescope, a BIG one. A cassegrain telescope uses a parabolic mirror as the main element, in this case one about 20 feet wide. Earth-based telescopes really don't get bigger than that.
@lesbrunswick51373 ай бұрын
Commenters who seem to know what they are talking about say this is a Cassegrain radar antenna.
@jarkkovanska66813 ай бұрын
💪🇫🇮🇺🇦🫡
@YouTubeGlobalAdminstrator3 ай бұрын
🎉🎉🎉
@rhodium10963 ай бұрын
Why a blurred photo?
@InquisitiveBaldMan3 ай бұрын
Parabolics might just be a bad translation from something curved.... Like a large dish. Because a parabola is a curve.
@christopherrobinson75413 ай бұрын
Parabolic reflectors are dishes that focus the beam to the same degree in azimuth and elevation. They are often used for satellite communications (SATCOM). The dimensions of the dish are an indication of the wavelength employed. 5m & 6m suggests a relatively low frequency and are most likely used for SATCOM.
@bernardwarr41873 ай бұрын
I no boffin, but think it’s fair to say you are talking millions
@janwitts26883 ай бұрын
This is to support army level communication and real time satellite imagery.. its part of the central nervous system for the invasion forces.
@shaneconnor863 ай бұрын
Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦 from 🇦🇺
@Grahamgusbull3 ай бұрын
👍🇺🇦🇬🇧
@joelturley48473 ай бұрын
Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
@sleekpenguin3 ай бұрын
🇺🇦 Ukraine #SlavaUkraini слава Україні! 💙💛 Героям слава 🇺🇦 Ой, у лузі червона калина. Ukrainian patriotic folk song: kzbin.info/www/bejne/kKvXnoSpiKaknNE
@elultimobuho3 ай бұрын
🇪🇸🧐🙂 👍🇺🇦 ✌️🎗️
@timmommens9013 ай бұрын
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@captianmorgan76273 ай бұрын
Weird, my comment on the last video about this got deleted? We'll here it is again in a more serious, less snarky way: I wonder if this hit was purely a Ukrainian idea or if the US nudged them toward this target that affects our interests in space. Perhaps with a carrot of another Patriot or a few extra HIMARS? The US did just approve another Patriot system (coming out of Poland) for Ukraine earlier this month...
@suchomimus99213 ай бұрын
it happens a lot, the algorithm auto deleting comments. I think this is pure Ukraine, I dont think US says "destroy this" as if russia found out, it'd cause a lot of aggro
@captianmorgan76273 ай бұрын
@@suchomimus9921 good point
@xisotopex3 ай бұрын
well they did just recently damage, or destroyed another early warning over the horizon radar that is part of russias ability to detect ballistic missile launches, and I think this complex is related to that system, or at least part of it. if russia is blind to detecting launches in a certain direction now, it will hopefully get them to shut up with their nuclear threats, as they are now blind in a certain direction. as far as the US/nato goes, oh I am quite positive they are getting target intelligence, probably more than they can use.
@brittbarlow61113 ай бұрын
😂😂😂😂😂
@Shazza20243 ай бұрын
❤
@alesmv3 ай бұрын
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@lukegray28353 ай бұрын
First!
@DN19873 ай бұрын
Nope. 2nd. 39m the other was 32
@7screamingdizzbusters3 ай бұрын
😂🎉
@Asymmetrical-Saggin3 ай бұрын
Imagine actually giving a shit about being the 'first' comment.
@lukegray28353 ай бұрын
@@DN1987Wait, if I was 39 seconds ago, and he was 32 seconds ago..?
@lukegray28353 ай бұрын
@@Asymmetrical-SagginNo one gives a shit, people do occasionally do things because it's fun or silly.
@discostuchannel3 ай бұрын
first
@7screamingdizzbusters3 ай бұрын
🎉😂
@future_me_60673 ай бұрын
Strange that when the image is of a major strike that we get very poor resolution images.
@cmtwgrdk27483 ай бұрын
you get what you pay for,, pay the high price and show us ;o) also not all areas are covered by the same type of satellite, and the time that the satellite is over the target also matters ,,its common knowledge
@bigotbiden3 ай бұрын
cope and seethe, loserbot.
@ukrainevictory-j4u3 ай бұрын
the ADU-1000 Antennas look undamaged but i could be wrong the image is not very clear
@jerryadams67993 ай бұрын
Nope. anything named "ADieU" is gone. obviously.
@GalootWrangler3 ай бұрын
There’s nothing quite like the bond between boffins and their thingamajigs.
@briannewton35353 ай бұрын
I struggle to determine the main differences between an oojimaflip and a thingamajig.
@billsmith-hl8rk3 ай бұрын
@@briannewton3535 At a molecular level they have one less carbon atom than a thingymibob.
@briannewton35353 ай бұрын
@@billsmith-hl8rk Ooooh, does this mean that it will be a different colour?
@cutedogsgettingcuddles98623 ай бұрын
@@briannewton3535 Yes, but only when it's very humid out.
@briannewton35353 ай бұрын
@@cutedogsgettingcuddles9862 I do think I'm getting a handle on this now, it certainly ain't rocket science that's fer sure 😂
@andarara-c1p3 ай бұрын
Wonder if that guy who told me a previous video of an attack by Neptune missiles in Russia will come out again saying this is "fake" without giving any proof
@Minerals3333 ай бұрын
Bots love to talk shit. Just got to keep reporting for misinformation on their comments.
@Itsjustme-Justme3 ай бұрын
The huge burn mark in the empty field doesn't neccessarily need to be ground zero of the missile. It's burned grass or hay, possibly set ablaze by a missile impact next to the field.
@davidfell90833 ай бұрын
More good work to report. Thanks. You will be kept busy for sometime now I reckon
@blazunlimited3 ай бұрын
Glastonbury. Lol. 😅
@Germa49453 ай бұрын
A high-rise building with a military research facility caught fire in Moscow yesterday. Eight dead, one man seen jumping from a window high up. What was it about? Another smoking accident?
@virtual21523 ай бұрын
Of course. Ivan ignoring the signs again.
@donwyoming19363 ай бұрын
The burnt field is probably from debris from hits and not a miss.
@RAMelloh-ij5sl3 ай бұрын
A Cassegrains can be telescopes or an antennae. In this case, they were antennae, based on pictures previously viewed. Picture a range of antennae like those in the movie, "Contact". The meter dimension describes their outside diameter. In both cases, the signal or image is projected in reverse to the sensors mounted on a station positioned at the appropriate distance from the convex dish so that all reflections of signal or image focus on the sensor or the final lens of the apparatus. Good that they are gone. Russia held no fair lease for use of this Ukrainian ground.
@DomingoDeSantaClara3 ай бұрын
Apparently this will affect the Russian GPS system which relies on their military satellites, that in turn will affect Russian glide bomb navigational systems. They have 4 of these sites in Russian territory, so in other words they've lost a quarter of their capability.
@SeanBZA3 ай бұрын
Not really, the ground stations are there to provide correction, the satellites are mostly autonomous, and the loss of a single ground station is a thing designed around, as they will go down for maintenance on a regular basis. Now if they lose another 2 stations then the whole constellation will be less accurate, as the errors will only be uploaded when the satellite travels over that single ground station every few days. Lose all 4 and the system will slowly drift in position over a few weeks to months, as the station keeping does not get updates on the difference between calculated ephemeris (orbit and the parameters to say where it will be in the next few orbits that are calculated using simpler maths, and do not use the entire solar system model, as that is computationally expensive, read takes a day or so to determine per satellite, while the simpler ones are good for a few days, and can easily be done in near real time) and the true position, used to update those tables.
@christopherrobinson75413 ай бұрын
@@SeanBZA Thanks for very good description, you obvious know how these systems work. The US systems (and the EU system) use a pseudo binary random sequence (PBRS), so I presume that the Russian system uses the same approach. As you may gather I also know how GPS works.
@SeanBZA3 ай бұрын
@@christopherrobinson7541 The GPS system specs are public documents, so pretty much all of them use similar methods, simply because doing it in a similar way makes the design of the receivers cheaper, as you already have a lot of manufacturers doing the expensive to design RF parts, so if you use common frequencies and similar encoding it makes developing cheaper, and you can also get receivers that use all 3 systems together, getting a much better overall accuracy and faster lock in as well, along with also averaging out errors as well.
@xisotopex3 ай бұрын
it hasnt worked yet. since this station was hit, they are still launching precision glide bomb attacks. either they didnt damage the station enough, or they have other ways.
@SeanBZA3 ай бұрын
@@xisotopex The satellites will still be updated from other ground stations, and even if they are all off line they will still work, just that slowly the precision will degrade, though things like airspeed and direction will still work for a long time, it is only the datum references, that all use to calculate position, will slowly drift randomly.
@DarkestAlice3 ай бұрын
Thank you, Suchomimus, for this very interesting analysis. You had me at thingamajigs, then killed me with the Glastonbury reference. Looking forward to a new Muffin pic! Hope, she likes your new place as well. Greetings and a 🥕to🐰 🇺🇦 Перемоги і миру всім українцям! 🇺🇦
@vodyuu3 ай бұрын
Will be there video of another captured T-90m in Donetsk oblast?. And also some video about 2 destroyed pantsirs in belgorod oblast? Maybe on of these two
@MONTY-YTNOM3 ай бұрын
Thats the shadow of the USS Enterprise
@virtual21523 ай бұрын
Zeihan figures this to be a significant loss for Ruzzia: kzbin.info/www/bejne/h4vZqoqfjtqUqqc
@AstroGremlinAmerican3 ай бұрын
The construction times of these facilities proves premeditation of war crimes.
@SuezWSuezW3 ай бұрын
Well, it's not illegal by the rules of war to build a base or have ammunition on one's own territory but I get your point. Invading another country is illegal, plus all the other terrible stuff. But the Russians have been doing this to their own people and other countries since *checks watch* 1500... AD. Wasn't that what Vlad said?
@klaus_niemand3 ай бұрын
If we assume for a moment that russia has killer sats that trail their target, it makes perfect sense to have a control station at this most southwest spot.
@amandadonaghey75403 ай бұрын
👍🇺🇦🇮🇪🇺🇦
@anadin06123 ай бұрын
Thank you good sir
@barbaramassey37873 ай бұрын
Thanks. 💙🇺🇦💙
@stonefish13183 ай бұрын
💛🔱💙 Slava Ukraini! Heroyam Slava! ❤️☠️🖤
@danthevanman2943 ай бұрын
"parabolics on a gimbal" basically just means "it moves"
@MapSyncSync3 ай бұрын
Thank you Suchomimus and Anderson!
@paulfribbins3 ай бұрын
The burnt out grass space on the left could have been an ideal space for an AA system!!! ;p
@randyearles16343 ай бұрын
the sight cleverly detected and intercepted the missles. putins plan is flawless!
@colincampbell7673 ай бұрын
A Casegrain is a type of optical telescope use by amateur astronomers.