The War in the Ukraine
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This will be a great chance to test the effectiveness of S400 and S500 ABM capabilities vs western threats, and to see how good or bad this ATACMS is under real war conditions.
Very exciting! Although I have feeling all this is going to do is result in a more heavy handed Russia, but that's ok I've felt they've been far too soft so far. Hopefully this will energize Russian people to demand Russia treat this as a real war.
I refuse to believe that the Russians have such mediocre cameras in all their drones... It is not possible that they have cameras with less resolution than the cameras of the 80's.... The only reason why they prefer to show these types of low-resolution images resolution, it is to misrepresent, there is no other logical reason
As the images are so mediocre, everyone speculates, and there is nothing concrete, no HIMARS is seen anywhere
Remains of the supposed Su-34 shot down by friendly fire
Or COTS cameras can only get you so far when you have to fly high enough to avoid giving the drone away for sensitive targets like the HIMARS. Orlan-10's aren´t particularly big to begin with, so the size of the lenses you can fit in isn't large and digital zoom can only do so much.
If you want misrepresentation, we could talk about trying pass images from DCS as real combat footage.
I wasn't even talking about the zoom, but about the resolution, even without zoom, very low resolution cameras and very limited zoom... The worst thing is that artillery corrections are entrusted to these types of unprofessional cameras
For the rest, thanks for assuming that the two sides misrepresent...
I highly doubt HIMARs can be sold so easily. The rumors suggest Russian patrols/scouts will accidentally stumble upon HIMARs in a shed in the "grayzone" in the frontlines. However, HIMARs has range of 70km, and Donestk has a max width of 90km, and Ukraine taking extra precaution to not accidentally hit Russian home territory across the border, there is no reason why HIMARs needs to operate so close to any "grayzone" or frontlines. Plus, to monitor it's positioning to avoid hitting Russian home territory, I'm betting the HIMARs will be accompanied by American unarmed "advisors" or "trainers" to provide support and track it's sensitive materials location. The US "advisors/trainers" would not allow them to operate anywhere near the frontlines or would just alert the State Department. There is only 4 units of HIMARs so far, so 25% of HIMAR stock disappearing without Americans noticing is also farcical.
Becuase the resolution of the video feed from a drone not depending on the resolution of the camera, but rather than on the power of the transmitter, size of antenna on the drone, size of receiver antenna on the ground.
As the drone distance increase from the base the available bandwidth decrease by the square root of the distance, means double the distance quoter of the data.
Most likelly the drone has several data streams, even several camera , and we just see the feed from one. All camera and sensor share the same bandwidth.
Just check the data rate of your gadgets, and the effect of the data rate on battery life, just compare the 3/4Gbattery life with an antenna few hundred meters away with the usable life of the same gadget and a wifi router few meters away.