If you have any useful resource links please tag me in a comment with the link:
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Add to this if you can, thank you.
Links
Time/Map: https://time.is/Ukraine
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Ukraine/@49.1162725,31.7993839,7z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x40d1d9c154700e8f:0x1068488f64010!8m2!3d48.379433!4d31.1655799?hl=en
https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1B1PLMhbHmG1aJ2-QNxHY1TksI6HlNhqF&ll=48.60777942568106%2C36.4496511633501&z=7
Leftist discussion threads:
https://hexbear.net/post/177324
https://old.reddit.com/r/GenZedong/comments/t03foy/genzedong_russiaukraine_master_discussion_thread/
https://lemmygrad.ml/
Twitter military updaters:
https://nitter.42l.fr/RWApodcast
https://nitter.net/ASBMilitary :kitty-cri:
https://nitter.net/Militarylandnet
https://nitter.net/MihajlovicMike
https://nitter.net/KofmanMichael
https://nitter.net/TadeuszGiczan/status/1498673348183744518
https://www.youtube.com/c/DefensePoliticsAsia/videos
obvious disclaimers about taking all of them with tonnes of salt etc
Global South Perspective: https://nitter.net/kiranopal_/status/1498723206496145413
Better war/propaganda analysis:
https://www.understandingwar.org
https://www.moonofalabama.org/
News updates:
https://www.cgtn.com/special/UkraineCrisis.html
Live: https://www.cgtn.com/special/Live-update-Ukraine-Russia-border-crisis.html
YT/Video in Ukraine:
https://www.youtube.com/c/PatrickLancasterNewsToday/videos
https://www.youtube.com/c/RussellBentleyTe
Previous megathreads
!news@hexbear.net RSS Feed https://hexbear.net/feeds/c/news.xml
So does this technology essentially make all missile defense systems the world over obsolete? (Edit: I mean like especially once the West has similar capability.) It sounds like anyone can nuke anyone else at any time so it hardly matters whether or not there are enemies directly on the boarder, at least in terms of missile attacks.
There's considerable question whether any missile defense systems actually worked in the first place.
You see videos of iron dome working every once in a while, but their munitions are pretty jerry rigged. Nothing as technologically sophisticated as a hypersonic missile.
Iron Dome has a significant failure rate against qassam rockets that are literally welded together from junk lying around in Palestine.
So Star Wars II
Yeah, if the missile itself can fly at twelve times the speed of sound while making evasive maneuvers, air defence is now obsolete. Unless you're planning to use lasers to take out the missiles, but that technology is still far away. But yeah, nothing anyone can do to stop this kind of missile attack, conventional or nuclear. And the west has no equivalent as of now.
It also gives the target much less time to react and retaliate, if they can even retaliate before the missile hits.
Holy shit this truly is game-changing. Seems like this could even tip the balance of MAD to only the West being assured destruction.
Nah nato has enough nuclear subs and international force projection to hit the Russians. Also they are the ones who are open to doing a first strike
In some ways maybe, but dead man's switches exist. And nuclear capable submarines.
Couldn’t you just coat the outside of the missile in a mirror and reflect most of the laser? Am I dumb?
That probably wouldn't work in the first place and the coating for a hypersonic missile needs to be able to resist the heat caused from moving at hypersonic speeds.
Seems like a solvable problem with modern material science, I’m just wondering if my base idea would work or not. Aren’t lasers completely countered by mirrors?
I mean reflective coatings only reflect some of the light not all. Also, that's literally the opposite of what you want to do for radar stealth.
Radar stealth doesn’t matter at Mach 12 does it? Even if they detect you it’s too late
Just FYI, missile defence systems were never good. Their capacity to shoot down incoming cruise missiles has always been a last ditch effort. They've always been most effective against infantry scale anti-tank weapons which have to balance payload, range, and missile speed.