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> That suggests that the Ukrainians know about a weakness to the Russian missile defense systems... a blindspot where the RADAR wouldn't pickup enemy missiles p
by RajT88 5y ago
> That suggests that the Ukrainians know about a weakness to the Russian missile defense systems... a blindspot where the RADAR wouldn't pickup enemy missiles perhaps? In any case, maybe its not so surprising, Ukrainians built the ship after all.
One of the weaknesses of missile defense systems, is they can only engage a small number of targets at a time.
If you knew the Moskva could engage (say) 12 incoming missiles at a time, you fire 24 all at the same time.
There was some articles on it a few years back, which of course I can't find now. It was regarding virtual wargames, where one commander handily won by, basically, firing everything all at once at the start of the game.
- dragontamer 5y ago> If you knew the Moskva could engage (say) 12 incoming missiles at a time, you fire 24 all at the same time. That's the sort of thing that's a classified secret. None of us know how many missiles the Moskva could handle. But the Ukrainians knew, and fired (at least) +1 missile over its capacity. Ukrainians are savvy, but they don't have enough missiles to really be throwing "eeeh, maybe 20 at the same time is enough??". Whatever battle plan they did here and implemented was surely based on their intelligence... stuff even USA wouldn't be privy to.