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with increasing missile speeds /ranges battle shifted to Space-Air-Sea battle.
high powered radars in bombers, high altitude and high power UAVs, space based radar satellites all will contribute to much longer range shots. land based UAV will have advantage over carrier based UAV. just like no carrier based aircraft can reach the altitude and sustain speeds of MIG-31.

Seeing that some of the same snarky political comments from the Ukraine War thread have been transfere to this thread, I believe that this thread will soon get nuked.

Weaasel said:

I believe that this thread will soon get nuked.

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No.Please No !!!!!

Thus why i like doing physics based discussion. It clearly a nice herbicide to prevent snarky political stuff from even growing in the first place.

Stealthflanker said:

Thus why i like doing physics based discussion. It clearly a nice herbicide to prevent snarky political stuff from even growing in the first place.

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Yes you are right but war is the continuing of politics with ather means it has always been like this and always will be. It's up to as to have a critical opinion and not to be blinded by the fog of war.

redion said:

Yes you are right but war is the continuing of politics with ather means it has always been like this and always will be. It's up to as to have a critical opinion and not to be blinded by the fog of war.

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and understanding physics helps in Fog of War TBH and helps in critical thinking too.

Like understanding Earth is not flat helps explain how SAM's may not always get their target. That's the simplest thing people apparently still forgetting.

Janiz said:

I think that you don't understand why ships always win compared to rail. It consists of three simple words: volume, time and money. Those factors makes your predictions useless unless you can make another revolution in trade on this planet.

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Ships are slower than rail. It is just that using ships is cheaper for bulk transport. Just think about it you do not need to pay to build or maintain railways if you use ships. And then there are the physics involved in it. And contrary to what you said the Northern Sea route is more for exports of LNG to Asia. And possibly even oil and other materials in the future. Rather than imports. Currently what Russia does import from abroad including China is mostly high value products and they export raw or slightly processed materials. So there will be huge trainloads of coal and iron ore going towards China and empty rail carriages on the way back. Large bulk transport of cargo will be limited. The Soviets built the first dedicated nuclear powered merchant ship and it is basically unused and never was used for much more than propaganda. Every so often you might see some rail carriages with finished goods from China. Small volumes which will likely not need ships to carry.

Roscosmos plans to start shipping Sarmat missiles to armed forces in fall - company CEO​

The Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile was first launched from the Plesetsk space site in the Arkhangelsk Region on Wednesday

MOSCOW, April 20. /TASS/. Shipments of volume-produced Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missiles to the Strategic Missile Forces will start this fall, Roscosmos Director General Dmitry Rogozin said.
"Following flight tests of the Sarmat, we plan to start shipments of volume produced heavy intercontinental ballistic missiles of this super weapon to the Strategic Missile Forces this fall," he said on Telegram.
The Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile was first launched from the Plesetsk space site in the Arkhangelsk Region on Wednesday.
The objectives of launch were fully accomplished, and the design specifications were confirmed at all stages of the missile’s flight. Test warheads arrived at a designated area at the Kura test ground in Kamchatka. The Uzhur missile unit in the Krasnoyarsk Region is working to prepare one missile regiment to be rearmed with the new missile system.

The range of the Sarmat warheads has been expanded in terms of the number of warheads and their types, including gliding hypersonic warheads. The missile was developed by the Makeyev State Missile Center and is produced at the Krasmash plant. Both are Roscosmos units. Analysts say the missile can deliver a warhead weighing up to 10 tons to any location across the world over the South and North poles.

Congratulations, finally after a while.

I sometimes curious tho whether it is possible to make a MIRV'ed FOBS.

Drive article on the first of today's fires: