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I wonder if top tier destroyers such as the Arleigh Burke, Asahi, Daring, Hobart, Horizon (shown below) or Sejong classes could detect and counter such an attack.The experimental sea drone is able to operate in stormy conditions and hide behind high waves to avoid detection
Overhead detection by a drone carrying an IR camera is possible.I wonder if top tier destroyers such as the Arleigh Burke, Asahi, Daring, Hobart, Horizon (shown below) or Sejong classes could detect and counter such an attack.
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There's not a lot of auto cannons on these advanced air defence destroyers.
True. But that's got little to do with the target ship's own sensors or defences.Overhead detection by a drone carrying an IR camera is possible.
Overhead detection by a drone carrying an IR camera is possible.
With all the cold sea spray covering the vessel and matching the skin temperature to the sea temperature I doubt the IR camera would find anything
Ships can't deploy drones?True. But that's got little to do with the target ship's own sensors or defences.
Any ship can deploy drones. Had the Russians deployed and effectively used airborne drones their ship(s) may have evaded or destroyed the Ukrainian naval drones no matter the capabilities, condition or use of the ship's sensors.Ships can't deploy drones?
I agree completely .... it is literally mind-boggling to contemplate that even Putin's seemingly-boundless cynicism can countenance such public pronouncements as this. Life imitates art as Big Brother's Doublespeak becomes real (Yeah I know it's not the first time.....)Gobsmacking...simply gobsmacking (Source: BBC):
Vladimir Putin has held a phone call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss the situation in Israel and Gaza, according to the Kremlin in Moscow.
In a statement, the Kremlin said the Russian president expressed his condolences to the families of Israelis killed in the recent attacks by Hamas and "stressed strong opposition to, and condemnation of, any actions whose victims are civilians, including women and children".
As Magneto says, "the pawns go first". Those DPR/LNR guys must be questioning their anti-Ukrainian life choices. They're not religious fanatics willing to die for some perceived greater cause, or Messianic figure, of which Putin is not. Instead, like the Penal units, they're just local, stupid-minded thugs and drunks that are being fed into the grinder.1st Donetsk Army Corps (DPR militia)
2nd Guards Army Corps (LNR militia)
BARS (reservists)
Penal military units ("Storm Z" personnel)