good. 1000km cruise missile sounds like it would be very useful for Ukraine. Hope they can suppress Russian air defense and EW enough so that the missiles actually reach their targets.
I wonder if there’s a way to build a secure factory for these things (and missiles in general) because relying on NATO for mass manufacturing and gifting of the output isn’t going to work out. I think based on public statements they realize that they can’t really depend on anyone else. The challenge though is figuring out how to protect factories from attack. Underground? Strong AD? Distributed small sites? They can make things in small secret assembly shops but those can’t scale to the numbers they need probably.
They have mountains in the west, they could do it NORAD style, but in a grittier, slav-punk way. Probably just easier to lease a warehouse in Poland though.
Neptune has a land-attack mode
my understanding is that the guidance system is good for sea targets, not so much land ones. But then again I understand very little.
>guidance system is good for sea targets, not so much land ones
True, there is much more cluter for the radar on land that there is on sea, but if was good enough to hit a S-500 battery, then it would probably be good enough to take out a refinery or a nat gas pumping station
Ukraine has lots of out of the way places no one's really going to look for and if you're worried about sat-surveillance you could build it underground as quite a lot of former industrial areas to the west side of the country had some kind of bunker complexes for the workers.
I mean provided you don't try to disguise it as a church, museum or school its probably not getting hit
Seems like regular cruise missiles for land targets would be more urgently needed
Neptune has a land-attack mode
what about satellites?
What about them? Last I heard, Russia didn't really have any any more.
good. 1000km cruise missile sounds like it would be very useful for Ukraine. Hope they can suppress Russian air defense and EW enough so that the missiles actually reach their targets.
>missiles for land
Skimming sea surfaces is probably easier than following terrain.
I wonder if there’s a way to build a secure factory for these things (and missiles in general) because relying on NATO for mass manufacturing and gifting of the output isn’t going to work out. I think based on public statements they realize that they can’t really depend on anyone else. The challenge though is figuring out how to protect factories from attack. Underground? Strong AD? Distributed small sites? They can make things in small secret assembly shops but those can’t scale to the numbers they need probably.
they should build them in Kyiv, Kyiv is relatively well protected by AA
They have mountains in the west, they could do it NORAD style, but in a grittier, slav-punk way. Probably just easier to lease a warehouse in Poland though.
my understanding is that the guidance system is good for sea targets, not so much land ones. But then again I understand very little.
>guidance system is good for sea targets, not so much land ones
True, there is much more cluter for the radar on land that there is on sea, but if was good enough to hit a S-500 battery, then it would probably be good enough to take out a refinery or a nat gas pumping station
Ukraine has lots of out of the way places no one's really going to look for and if you're worried about sat-surveillance you could build it underground as quite a lot of former industrial areas to the west side of the country had some kind of bunker complexes for the workers.
I mean provided you don't try to disguise it as a church, museum or school its probably not getting hit
long longgg maaaaaaaaannnnnn