Putin reportedly complained that Kinzhal was "too round on the top" and "needs to be more pointy". Hence, the removal of the scientist.

@oc4964

11 ай бұрын

Loool...I seen u watching a movie 😂

@zagreus5773

11 ай бұрын

@@oc4964 *documentary

@Connormctague29

11 ай бұрын

It might bounce back into Russia

@jamesmaddison4546

11 ай бұрын

So he knows nothing about aerodynamics then. Blunt noses are better sometimes, if its a long/wide or both body, blunt is better because it takes the heat and redirects it out and away from the rest of the body Take the space shuttle nose for example, if it was pointy, the rest of the airframe would experience significantly more drag, at speed drag equals heat, ending with the body being compromised or destroyed completely

@militantcapitalist4606

11 ай бұрын

@@jamesmaddison4546 it's a refference to a comedy movie

Russian scientists are smart enough to stay away from open windows lol.

@Will-W

11 ай бұрын

they still drink tea usually... 10 micrograms of 210Po would do the trick, they've done it before.

@edwardgiovannelli5191

11 ай бұрын

@@Will-W ...allegedly...

@Brandon_Tyr

11 ай бұрын

@@edwardgiovannelli5191 UK gov't officially recognized Russia as being responsible for Po 210 poisoning and assassination a few years back.

@Will-W

11 ай бұрын

@@edwardgiovannelli5191 of course, all conjecture...

@mustang5132

11 ай бұрын

They can’t open windows? How do they get any work done on their computer then?

Killin it!!! This guy hits with facts and well crafted opinion. If the main stream media reported like this, the world would be such a better place

@B.D.E.

11 ай бұрын

This video is misinformation. They were critical of Putin and arrested for those reasons. Nothing to do with hypersonic missiles.

@EnderViBrittania

11 ай бұрын

Mainstream media has an agenda to push, so why would they.

@PSEBULA

11 ай бұрын

He is about 80% correct. The 20% he doesn't state is concerning.

@krenarparllaku563

11 ай бұрын

​@@PSEBULA Please, elaborate further.

@PSEBULA

11 ай бұрын

@krenarparllaku563 this report is made up textbook information which has some scientific and engineering facts but not all of them. The other 20+% has no access to the public and never will. Within that 20% all of the claims of this video can be proven to be false.

This unscripted presentation style works very well when used by someone who really knows what he's talking about! Great job!

There were similar arrests since 2019 or even earlier. And all of these scientists worked on hypersonic research projects. So I think it could be revival of 1930s practice called “prison design bureau” or “sharashka”, where some famous aircraft and rocket designers had to work those times.

@davidcole333

11 ай бұрын

I completely agree.

@MrandMrsSmiths

11 ай бұрын

I was trying to recall where this sounded familiar. Thanks.

@jeffc1753

11 ай бұрын

That’s what these scientists get for creating weapons of mass death for a tyrant.

@pastrie42

11 ай бұрын

Not a very effective strategy imo.

@rajeshkanungo6627

11 ай бұрын

@@pastrie42that is apparently how Stalin got his nuclear bomb.

Can't think of a better way for them to acknowledge that you were right all along.

@jameshisself9324

11 ай бұрын

@Ian Haha can I have some of your drugs bro?

@christianlong-lo3jm

11 ай бұрын

​​@Ian are you talking about yourself a lot of people like to project which means you might be a projector 📽️ lmao

@B.D.E.

11 ай бұрын

This video is misinformation. They were critical of Putin and arrested for those reasons. Nothing to do with hypersonic missiles.

@mmurage

11 ай бұрын

​@@christianlong-lo3jm 🤣🤣

@christianlong-lo3jm

11 ай бұрын

@@mmurage 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Alex you are doing the Lord’s Work! We need to be able to Keep up with what is happening in worlds of defense and offense! You do that for us, Thank You, Sir! ⭐️❤️‼️

Nice one. Slava Ukraine!

Wow this is embarrassing for Russia. PAPER TIGER

@Hebdomad7

11 ай бұрын

Not just any paper tiger. A paper tiger that's been in storage since the late 70s.

@OviWanKeno9i

11 ай бұрын

@@Hebdomad7 yeah, it's all yellowed and frayed and missing it's teeth and tail.

@B.D.E.

11 ай бұрын

This video is misinformation. They were critical of Putin and arrested for those reasons. Nothing to do with hypersonic missiles.

Russia has a long and illustrious history of exaggeration when it comes to unveiling new defense technologies.

@kathrynck

11 ай бұрын

Which could be an effective approach to misinformation, as a military goal. But it works much better if you mix it up some "overstate this, but then understate that".

@USViper

11 ай бұрын

@kathrynck Oh ok lol... russia is proving on the battlefield how inept and ineffective their weapons and strategy is. They are facing a small country next door, and still are being wiped out! The U.S. would stomp them into oblivion.

@MikeOxlong-

11 ай бұрын

⁠they even have a word dedicated to this course of action, called maskirovka.

@USViper

11 ай бұрын

@@MikeOxlong- They have another few words for who they are... "Chelovek cheloveky volk” - “We are wolves to each other” russia is weak, broke, and becoming more irrelevant as the days pass.

@kathrynck

11 ай бұрын

@@USViper I'm just saying, that it's a valid tactic to overstate the capabilities of a weapons system. Just as it's a valid tactic to understate it. But I think _always_ overstating it though, kinda removes most of the potential benefit of using misinformation tactically. Also, I kinda get the impression that both Russia and China have a bad habit of drinking their own koolaid.

very clear .keep up the good work ..thank you

I am impressed with the analysis.

The 1991 version of Patriot was a SAM designed to shoot down aircraft. It was not even designed or programmed to shoot down missiles yet it worked about 25% of the time. On the first day of the second Gulf War, Patriot engaged 9 missiles and intercepted all 9.

@pkt1213

11 ай бұрын

It got a bad rap because it was being used in a manner in which it was not designed...and did pretty well, just not as well as people desired.

@noir2559

11 ай бұрын

@@pkt1213 that's why PAC-3 was developed it is designed for anti-ballistic defenses, PAC-2 is more like the Anti-AIrcraft.

@SevPlays

11 ай бұрын

Didn’t know it wasn’t even designed for the role. My understanding was that there was a problem with different parts of the system going slightly out of synch because someone had tied a clock to the cpu speed and given enough time without rebooting, say 50 hours, there would be enough lag to have a complete miss. Makes the software bug much more understandable. Crazy that they even intercepted some. The 25 percent were probably fresh after boot. Wonder if there are numbers somewhere for the success rate in the first day of use vs the second.

@williamzk9083

11 ай бұрын

@@SevPlays The PAC-1 was semi-active radar homing in the terminal phase. It's initial flight to target was under command control. During this time the missile also received time stamped packets of data containing target position. This was used to aim the missile seeker antenna in the nose untill it aquired the target. However because of a bug the missile clock and radar clock drifted out of synch and the seeker looked for the target in the wrong position. If the clock was 1 second out the error could be 1000m at the speed a SCUD traveled. The missile itself relied too much on its proximtiy fuse rather than hit to kill so a shrapnel hit just damaged the warhead or missile which crashed anyway near the target or in the city.

@michaelstora70

11 ай бұрын

@Severn the bug impacted the "gate" time during which the missile looked for it's own radar return from the target. It resulted in failed detections making the patriot blind. Due to time being measured as a 24 bit integer, the gate started shifting after the search radar was on for 8 hours and by 20 hours the Patriot was completely blind. One particular Patriot at Dhahran, Saudi Arabia had been on for 200 hours and did did not even see a scud that hit a barracks. The problem was identified on Feb 11 1991 and a software patch created. The new software was installed on the Dhahran Patriot on Feb 26. Unfortunately the failed detection was on Feb 25, the day before.

Russia has a long history of jailing generals, aviation design bureau chiefs, and others when it suits them. Andrei Tupolev was jailed for years and later awarded the country's most prestigious medals and honors. Russia is a very complex country.

@pliat

11 ай бұрын

*corrupt

@mcsmith732

11 ай бұрын

@@pliat And big on scapegoating.

@zahimiibrahim3602

11 ай бұрын

Scientists and engineers are at the bottom of the power ladder and easy targets to scapegoat.

@OviWanKeno9i

11 ай бұрын

By "complex", you mean corrupt, ridiculous and stupid, where war crimes fly, no problems. I'm just guessing autocorrect mistake...

@B.D.E.

11 ай бұрын

This video is misinformation. They were critical of Putin and arrested for those reasons. Nothing to do with hypersonic missiles.

This approach is, as expected, BRILLIANT‼️

Absolutely bang on Alex , I think the Russians have been playing a bluff game ,!!!

As a control systems engineer, I am blessed to live and work in the United States 🇺🇸

@KINTULAWRENCE

11 ай бұрын

I have enthusiasm for control practice but am leaving in a country with limited resources

@geoh7777

11 ай бұрын

@@KINTULAWRENCE I don't understand your post.

@Spaceboi318

11 ай бұрын

@@geoh7777 he’s passionate about control systems but lives in a country that probably doesn’t have the industry or resources America does to develop a wide array of products.

@RC-fp1tl

11 ай бұрын

@@KINTULAWRENCE hope you can find a safe place to settle. We’d love to have you 🇺🇸

@gdok6088

11 ай бұрын

All of us who are citizens of the USA, UK, EU or other democratic Western countries are blessed to live in our countries. We have to stop Putin in his tracks NOW before he imposes his authoritarian regime on Ukraine, then Estonia, then Poland and then other states in the former USSRand beyond. He will not stop unless we stop him. The freedoms, rule of law and democracies we live in are all at stake - nothing less.

For the last 60+ years, we in the West have dedicated massive amounts of cash, and, our best engineers & scientists to finding ways, and, building weapons SPECIFICALLY to defeat Russian systems. Who'd have thought it would've paid off?

@aaroncabatingan5238

11 ай бұрын

For the past 20 years, most of those effort is going into systems specifically built to crush insurgents. The fact that it still works against a so-called near peer adversary is just hilarious.

@EnderViBrittania

11 ай бұрын

@@aaroncabatingan5238 The near peer is China, not Russia. And China is the real threat, not Russia. Would be nice not to pretend China doesn’t exist.

Superb presentation

Great video and I very much liked the unscripted manner in which you speak. Very emotional and at the end of the video I was cheering !!!

Well they hyped it up and the US countered it with an old Patriot missile

@christianlong-lo3jm

11 ай бұрын

Soon US will do it with large kilowatt lasers which are already in production

@OviWanKeno9i

11 ай бұрын

@@christianlong-lo3jm they're already deployed on Navy ships. There's just a much bigger version on the way.

@christianlong-lo3jm

11 ай бұрын

@@OviWanKeno9i I know

@marcopalazzo9349

11 ай бұрын

​​@@OviWanKeno9i I hope these lasers make a pew pew Starwars sound or it will just be odd. Maybe they need attach a speaker to make the sound.

@ch2onic

11 ай бұрын

They countered some, got hit and let some hit there targets past kiev.....Nothing to write home about on either side.

GAM-87 Skybolt, 1962, about the same specs of Kindjal, 55 years before it; yeah, unbeatable technology, maybe for rusnya?

@Racn_TheAnimeFREAK

11 ай бұрын

Oh that f*cking USAF GAM-87 SkyBolt was able to reach HYPERSONIC SPEED, but wasn't HYPERSONIC actually.There're lots of differences between a missile that can reach hypersonic & a actual hypersonic missile.Wash your s*it mind properly & then get knowledged..!"3

@madarius76

11 ай бұрын

And its older brothers ws199b/c program developed and tested designs the bold orion/high virgo

Thank you for your clarity on this subject superb work

The Kinzhal probably can maneuver at Hypersonic speeds since it probably has some form of terminal guidance. The same was true of the old Persing II . What it lacks is an effective lift to drag ratio. It can maneuver but not a lot. Plus I am guessing that the Patriot work much better than anyone without a clearance knew.

@colbunkmust

11 ай бұрын

that's basically what HLC has said. The publicly stated effective ranges and intercept capabilities are understated by a big margin, almost certainly on purpose.

@hertzwave8001

11 ай бұрын

@@colbunkmust so you are saying the patriot should be capable shooting down the moon

@Matt-yg8ub

11 ай бұрын

@@hertzwave8001 well, if you listen to the American propagandists ensure :-) if you listen to the Russians, they can shoot down Mars, I’m sure the truth is somewhere in between

@kathrynck

11 ай бұрын

If Patriot is as improved as claimed, that kind of implies that THAAD is even better.

@kameronjones7139

11 ай бұрын

Yeah Saudi Arabian crews really hurt their reputation when they have good crews they are a very good systems

Turns out that advanced Russian technology was never more than a myth.

@nerdyali4154

11 ай бұрын

Unfortunately they are world leaders, or at least that's the commonly accepted story, when it comes to electronic jamming. They are disrupting GPS guidance and the US-supplied JDAMS are failing. The failure of backup inertial guidance is possibly a result of low altitude release and the lack of compatible electronic systems in the launch aircraft. Knowing the yanks they probably have a solution or means of targeting the jammers but don't want to release the kitty from the bag.

Excellent. Thank you.

Incredible content. Such great information thank you so much.

I've watched pretty much everything you've made by now & can honestly say please make more content! I came for the aviation, stayed for the analysis, and would wholeheartedly support you covering a wider array of military-centric subjects. Maybe its the writing, maybe the presentation, but I can't get enough. Things like this are why it didn't surprise me for a second when you announced your nomination. Thank you for what you've given us so far & I look forward to the future.

@robej21

11 ай бұрын

Agreed

@jonathanbillingslea1262

11 ай бұрын

Not gonna write much cuz u said it! Love this channel

@wedgeantilles8575

11 ай бұрын

"a wider array of military-centric subjects" - that is a double edged sword. If the other subjects are as well covered - sure, go for it. However, it is dangerous to go into territory where the knowledge is maybe way more limited. And that could be a disappointment. I can't remember the guy, but I watched a few videos about food from a guy. It was quite interesting. But then he made videos about food in the middle ages - and these were just a mess. Because he had waaay too little knowledge about this time period. And it showed, these videos were just bad with a lot of heavy flaws and errors. It is better to put out less content and stick to areas you DO know a lot about, than to broaden the subjects to the point where stuff in the video becomes inaccurate, superficial or plain wrong.

Really appreciate your amazing breakdowns!

Brilliant.Very informative.So much info.Amazing.Excellent delivery.Learnt so much.

Thanks Alex......I like you talking to us directly, send us more! thx

Russia: Lies about their military capabilities. America: Over-engineers a solution to a non-existent problem. Russia: Copes and seethes

@Booz2020

11 ай бұрын

🇨🇳 : Steal Military Weapons and Trade Secrets to do Reverse Engineering

@NuclearFalcon146

11 ай бұрын

That is how the F-15 came to be when we overestimated the capabilities of the MiG-25. Now after over five decades the F-15EX is still a massively capable system still in production while the MiG-25 rots and even its successor the MiG-31 is borderline obsolete. Oh and to any Russian trolls or fanboys, remember that being a propagandist makes you a combatant (information warfare is still warfare) and thus a valid military target. Ponder that before replying.

@deviousN

11 ай бұрын

Plus their SU-57s have wooden screws, exposed rivets, and visible engine compressors. "5tH gEn sTeALtH"

@TOMAS-lh4er

11 ай бұрын

I try to picture what the PLA army is really like given the MASSIVE, corruption in China.

@MarcosElMalo2

11 ай бұрын

@@deviousN The wooden screws appear as tiny gaps in the radar signature, which will confuse the target radar operators. Probably.

I think your analysis was spot-on, Alex! Great work.

I think you're doing great, buddy! Keep doing what you're doing!

Great report Alex👍👍👍

Man, i could listen to you all day Slava 🇺🇦

Your observations at 11:13 are even more spot on given the current news. The fact that Russia cannot stop a sustained cross border invasion from a militarily insigificant Russian Volunteer Corps from Ukraine drives this home. Finland now knows they are safe and China knows they could take any village they want from Russia. Putin has destroyed any prestige his country might have had. Along with that prestige is any new military contracts.

@HepCatJack

11 ай бұрын

If China made the attempt and ended up capturing a willage instead.

@jdw-616

11 ай бұрын

You have seen the US border recently correct? Lol there are already millions of Chinese and Russians waiting for the strike. They can't even stop unarmed civilians, other than the ones they have been throwing in cages.

@Testwest78

11 ай бұрын

ROFL! US 🤡 fanboys! 😂

@zsoltszabo6482

11 ай бұрын

@@Testwest78 your late to the game with a low quality response. no rubles until you improve your work.

@bobshelton37

11 ай бұрын

China could start backing a PRM ( Peoples Republic of Manchuria) movement in the Vladivostok region so the ethnic Chinese ( majority of the population) can form an independent country and eventually join China so China regains tbe former Outer Manchuria province. Exactly the same playbook Putin used in Donbas and Luhansk. Retaking Manchuria would probably be easier and bring China more benefits than trying to retake Taiwan. Putin wouldn't get much sympathy from the rest of the world.

This is my first time to view Sandbox News, and I really like your well-thought, well-presented analysis. Congratulations for a great clip!

❤Good 👉 points sandbox Man..

Not bad for unscripted! :) Great job and now I'm going to share it on other places! After all the HyperBS, rumours say they're about to release the Shitsall upgrade.

In the short term the shooting down of the missile has even more significance. It effectively kills the export market for Russia. After all, who’s going to pay for a missile that can’t hit its target or is easily shot down with 1980’s era missile defense systems?

@black10872

11 ай бұрын

I'm pretty sure this news got the PLA a little nervous.

@jeffhedrich3551

11 ай бұрын

You really think they were going to export a weapon they believed to be unstoppable? How many F22s were exported?

@MotoroidARFC

11 ай бұрын

Upgraded and improved. It's not the same system anymore than today's F16s and M1s and Standards are the same thing when they were first introduced. You expect them to be improved if they're still being acquired and fielded.

@aaroncabatingan5238

11 ай бұрын

That's long term, not short term.

@aaroncabatingan5238

11 ай бұрын

​@@jeffhedrich3551 Not a lot but that's because they didn't build a lot of those. If you look at the F35 though...

This is great news

Amazing reporting thank you!,,

Great job, Alex. You did not miss a beat. Same quality as your prepared presentations. Greatly appreciate the material you share with us. Did you get the award or is the selection committee still reviewing the nominees?

Love it Alex…this is what you do best, assessment and analysis all in one together. This episode was particularly interesting regarding how the Russians are self assessing. They’re bad and they know it. Cheers from Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺

One of the channels I'm happy to put put a face to a voice.

Well said

A powerful fact based presentation, confirmation in my opinion that you are the best presenter of this topic on KZread.

I appreciate the unscripted analysis that's very timely. You should do both types of videos: Unscripted short-form reactions to the latest developments, and continue to do scripted, research-based videos that we all love! Keep up the great work!

@LukeBunyip

11 ай бұрын

Seconded.

@Kozlo922

11 ай бұрын

Agreed

@TheHarmonicOscillator

11 ай бұрын

Yes both!

@B.D.E.

11 ай бұрын

This video is misinformation. They were critical of Putin and arrested for those reasons. Nothing to do with hypersonic missiles.

@mikedrop4421

11 ай бұрын

Absolutely

One of your best videos! More, please...

Perfectly spoken😊

Anything Sandboxx is good Sandboxx.

I almost feel bad for those arrested Russians.

@angelosasso1653

11 ай бұрын

almost...

@randomuser5443

11 ай бұрын

Hopefully they will end up in a much nicer American program

@angelosasso1653

11 ай бұрын

@@randomuser5443 Operation paperclip episode 2

@jameson1239

11 ай бұрын

I do the Russians are currently under a totalitarian regime where they can’t do much about the current government

@dianapennepacker6854

11 ай бұрын

Yeah this is stupid. Hope the scientists are fine for doing what they were asked.

This worked fine and I am posting it on Reddit every time a I see a "Patriot was destroyed" or "Patriot misses" or "Nobody can knock down a Kinzhal" troll. You do great, you depth of knowledge and your organization shows through! DO MORE!

Well done

Alex Hollering - well done my man

“It would have been tested, and the Russian military knew how it would perform.” Judging from past testing of guided missiles, where multiple parts of the test were manipulated to make the test go well (including painting targets and a guideline to them yellow),some may know, but they certainly lie and exaggerate their capabilities to their higher-ups.

@playlisttarmac

11 ай бұрын

I bet there were little lies all the way up the management chain.

@zipz8423

11 ай бұрын

It’s very rare that the Russian military rejects equipment that is not for purpose - at least publicly. I do remember an article that talked about a Guards tank division rejecting the first T-90 tanks because they were not fit purpose. However, you always have to take this level of oversight with a pinch of salt. On the other hand, testing opportunities for this type of weapon are probably extremely limited - regarding its performance against an air defence system. The ideal would be for non destructive testing, it’s possible. You model tests to get near misses.

@zipz8423

11 ай бұрын

The Russians aren’t the only ones who do that,the MDA do it quite often for GBI testing. As for Kinzhal, it emerged yesterday the Ukraine Patriot battery that took them down engaged them at

Solid vid as usual. Thanks Alex

Very informative. Thank you very much.

Like the approach

Alex your work obviously speaks for itself. I would have never known this was " unscripted" had you not mentioned it as it was engaging, knowledgeable and informative as usual. I come back because you're trustworthy and entertaining. I know the Patriot Missile Batteries have been upgraded through the years so it would be interesting to know how they stack up to today's threats overall in your words. 😉 Thanks for being you brother!

All Russia has is hype, so protecting that hype is existential. Losing the people making actual threat is a secondary concern.

@AnthonyOMulligan-yv9cg

11 ай бұрын

You'd know that if you ever "punched on" with a Russian. The last one it was a case of "left, right, goodnight". The left was probably the only one needed. ✌️

@oldmusickillsnew

11 ай бұрын

​@@AnthonyOMulligan-yv9cg last Russian to make that mistake tripped in his vodka induced stupor, hit his head, shit himself and laid out in the mud until he regained consciousness and crawled back into his hole. The prior ruskie tough guys didn't fare any better though.

@AnthonyOMulligan-yv9cg

11 ай бұрын

@@oldmusickillsnew Have you heard of Simeon Boikov?......He's labelled himself the "Aussie Cossack"......He was already an obnoxious POS when He was filmed assaulting an Elderly Aussie Ukrainian at a Pro Ukrainian Protest. When an arrest warrant for assault was issued for Him He bolted to the Russian Consulate in Sydney. He has been begging Putin and even Prigozin to "exchange" Him for Ukrainian POW's!. That was last December. He's still there claiming asylum.

Well done...

Alex your presentation worked well. Good to see you in the flesh. All the best from a old vet in Cyprus.

Loving the format! Thanks for the info, really interesting stuff. Can't wait to see the Hypersonic Drone episode!

Great to see you, Alex. Whatever format that is less works for you. I like good info above all else.

Always appreciate your efforts

That was very well presented. Top job Alex.

You have a unique talent for excelling in both scripted and unscripted videos. Your ability to mix things up keeps us coming back for more. Keep the variety coming, it's what sets you apart.

@mirekslechta7161

11 ай бұрын

Patriot downed Kinzal ? You can believe it if you wish 🤣 Russians invaded Russia near Belgorod? You can believe it if you wish 🤣 Russia blew up it´s own pipelines ? You can believe it if you wish 🤣 Russia needs Ukrainiens washing machines to build missilles ? You can believe it if you wish 🤣 Russia is weak ? You can believe it if you wish 🤣

Excellent reporting.

Good analysis.

Really liked the content! You have a great delivery. Keep it up!

your videos are great, no matter how ya present them. just keep-um coming. thank ya, Alex.

Thank you. That was most entertaining and usefully informative. It was also most effectively presented....

Alex, your “talking” format is fine. Your research is top notch.

Thanks Alex, love your work! Keep us updated!

What's the chance that this is something like the old Soviet routine of charging your top scientists etc with crimes against the state, then locking them up in a gulag where they continued their work under armed guard? Putting does seem to love the old soviet model so just throwing it out there.

Great writing. love y'all's channel

Great info... And Love this formatt Alex :)

If this video was unscripted, you more than deserve that award. Great video!

Excellent coverage. How about covering the reusable hypersonic drones. Semper Fi

Format is fine. Putin is clearly insane. WTF? Keep up the good work. 🇺🇦🇺🇸

Keep up the great reporting……B.

This is what gives me hope that good can actually triumph. Truely horrible regimes can and do turn on themselves

When you can't deny the truth about your fake "hypersonic" weapon, find a scapegoat to blame...

Well presented and the real fact. Poor Ruasies.

A straight conversation with you is much better than a screen full of irrelevant videos with voice over. I really enjoyed the content and your presentation. Thanks.

As usual, impressive insights and informative discussion.

2:20 "the missile knows where it is because it knows where it isn't." Sorry couldn't help myself 😂 but seriously I really dig the channel and great commentary and insights you give on current tech and events

Exactly

I love this format of talking to the camera. Great video, keep up the good work!

Unscripted? If that’s true you did an excellent job. It shows your really know your subject. I always enjoy your videos and learn a lot. Thanks.

If that was unscripted my man, you do better with no script than many youtubers do with a script and a teleprompter.

@JoeOvercoat

11 ай бұрын

That “…for good. Or, at least a good long time” was a great riff.

Great podcast.

Excellent explanation.

Always love your analysis!

Lol he probably scared that the scientists are going to use the cia dark web and trying to stop them saying anything 😂😂😂😂😂 to late we already know how to kill the kill dill pickles

Yes on the approach for the show.

Great idea.

Wasn’t the Nike Hercules a hypersonic missile? It flew a Mach five, was maneuverable enough to intercept an incoming maneuvering target, shot down an incoming Corporal missile, was removed from service in the US (by the start treaty, I believe) because of its anti ICBM capability? What year was it fielded? (edit 1958)

@trolleriffic

8 ай бұрын

In 1959 the US conducted a number of tests of an experimental hypersonic boost glide vehicle called Alpha Draco or McDonnell Model 122B Test Vehicle. It was a Mach 5.5 vehicle which would glide at around 90,000ft for a couple of hundred miles then go into a terminal dive. This was followed by the McDonnell Model 122E BGRV which flew in 1966 and was a 21'6" long narrow biconic made out of specially coated columbium with a water-cooled nose tip to stop the whole thing melting during flight at Mach 20. After two failures, the third and final test flight launched from Vandenberg on top of an Atlas F missile, travelling 5,000 miles downrange to Wake Island after performing a right-left pair of 90 degree turns. The 45 minute flight ended when the vehicle had slowed to Mach 5 at 100,000ft whereupon the self-destruct was initiated. None of this stuff is new and the Soviets also had experimented with manoeuvrable RVs (MaRVs) as well as a number of incredibly innovative missile concepts that never made it into service such as the hybrid air-breathing road-mobile GNOM that would have matched the capability of the 51 ton silo-deployed RT-2 ICBM in a missile weighing just 29 tons. Steerable RVs for ICBMs weren't abandoned because they were too difficult to do, the problem was they weren't worth the cost and effort. Conventional ballistic RVs were cheaper, smaller, lighter, faster and more accurate and although MaRVs were better at getting through ABM defences you could get the same result using more missiles/warheads/decoys/jammers. The current Russian aerospace and defence industry is a sad joke compared to not the US, but also to what Soviet engineers achieved during the Cold War. Pioneers like Valentin Glushko created rocket engines that still haven't been surpassed to this day and would be extremely challenging to replicate even with modern design and manufacturing technology. If he was alive now I suspect he'd be working for one of the big US defence companies like L3Harris or Raytheon instead of staying in Russia with no R&D money because it had all been stolen.