Posted on 07/03/2024 8:46:57 AM PDT by hardspunned
July 1 (Reuters) - Russian forces have captured an intact guidance system from a long-range U.S.-made ATACMS missile and are studying the American military technology, Russia's RIA state news agency said on Monday. Video footage released by RIA showed an unidentified weapons expert, with his face concealed by a balaclava, examining what he said was a guidance system from an Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS) weapon apparently shot down by Russian forces. Reuters could not verify the equipment shown in the video.
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Good job Joe. He fs up everything he touches.
Well, to be fair, I’m sure anything we give Ukraine is 20 years out-of-date.
The more likely story is that this was given to them intentionally, like how Clinton gave the Chinese missile technology.
So much for keeping our secrets, secret. Thanks Joe, our enemies are certainly getting their moneyās worth. Too bad the same cannot be said for the American people!
Reminds me of when Obama GAVE Iran one of our classified drones. Obama could've blown it up or even recovered it but he decided to LET IRAN KEEP IT.
They never export cutting-edge stuff. Once it’s sold/given away, you can’t control what happens to it.
And Moscow doesn't have the technology base to copy even that. They're dependent on smuggling chips from the West to make washing machines.
ā20 years out of dateā
How right you are. The ATACMS were designed in the 80s. The Russians shoot a large majority of them down already. 20 years out of date but the absolute best weāve got.
Remember the advanced drone Obama allowed Iran to capture intact and didn’t order blown up? Accelerated enemy drone technology by a decade (which is probably what Obama wanted anyway.)
I’m sure we haven’t forgotten the British game of building boxes full of fantastically complicated electronics that did nothing, damaging them as if from a plane crash, and leaving them where the Germans could find them.
1st used in the Gulf War. It’s 40 years old.
That particular item is not old. It’s in current inventory and currently in manufacture. However, the only thing they might get from this are clues on how to jam to guidance.
The problem for them would be manufacture. Some components are likely specific for the weapon and are made either in house or by a specialty firm.
Let’s face it. When you’re in a war the enemy will get working samples of your technology. It’s unavoidable. Assuming they could reverse engineer it, they wouldn’t have a working production model in the next ten years.
I worked with Honeywell’s LRG’s and MEMS guidance systems. JDAMS, Stingers, KEAPS, David’s Sling, etc....
NONE of it was classified.
“Weapon’s Expert”.... Just a guy walking by wondering what that ‘thing’ is...
Here is the video of the ATACM guidance module.
https://x.com/GrandpaRoy2/status/1807649774830485555
Point to point wiring and 1990’s laser ring gyros.
My question, since it is so “primitive” why can’t the USA produce more than a few hundred per year?
“The missile supplies will increase up to dozens delivered every few months until at least the end of 2024.”
You are soft peddling the significance of this, if true, to a large degree.
DEI workers only, allowed for US production.
LOL....
Type in LASER RING GYRO into google and you can obtain a plethora of information on it. Even very pretty pictures and the theory of operation. Old tech. LOL.
If you think they don’t already have intel on it over the span of 25 years since I worked on it, in a unclassified facility where we actually developed, modified, and manufactured them....then I don’t have nothing more for ya.
(shrug)
The MEMS inertial guidance section is much more modern than old LRG tech. All the MEMS stuff, hardware wise, is a bunch of micro strain gauges on a bunch of very tiny chemically etched beams. Firmware to monitor gauge data vs. noise filtering is not that challenging or novel.
Sorry to pop the secret black box bubble. NONE of it was classified.
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