Posted on 11/16/2022 3:57:35 PM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com
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I have questions and observations (for anybody):
Was there or was there not a 2nd missile?
A S-300 landing in Poland would not have been fired from Russia. The range is too great. BUT, SW Belarus looks good for hitting targets around Lviv and Lutsk, and we know Belarus has been used quite a bit as a launching pad for Russian missile attacks. The impact is right in line w/ Lviv...
Can our AWACS track S-300 launches? That “corner” of Poland / Belarus / Ukraine is heavily monitored.
Based on current information(!), a deliberate attack on Poland by either Russia or Ukraine appear off in Lu-Lu land. (I “prolly” should privately note & list the posters who persist in a notepad file, to be ignored forthwith.) :-)
S-300’s are equipped with a proximity fuse and a contact fuse. Proximity fuses (assuming they work!) are usually much better for downing aircraft and missiles, as the shrapnel takes care of the job if the S-300 just gets close, instead of needing a direct hit. Surely the warhead is designed with this in mind as opposed to being a ground penetrating weapon, and surely the warhead would not be switched out for anti-missile usage.
That crater was NOT made by a fragmentation proximity explosion. Possibly it could be made by a fragmentation contact explosion in soft ground. Definitely it could be made by a HE warhead contact explosion in ordinary ground. (We’re not talking about the drought-hard-baked-several feet-deep clay in most of my back yard.)
If Ukraine fired the missile, it had 3 failures:
Failure to intercept.
Failure to self-destruct / disarm after missing.
Failure of proximity fuse.
Cumulative odds?
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