It feels like in some way, the military domain skipped until 2022 a lot of the advances in the manufacturing automation, and now it catches up. This is bad in the sense that it leads to more proliferation of potent weapons, but in another sense, it gives more options to small states like the Baltic ones.
> For example, a mini cruise missile carrying a 50 kilogram warhead impacting at medium to high subsonic velocity, should be able to penetrate at least one to one-and-a-half meters of reinforced concrete.
How large a warhead would it take to drop a bridge? As there are lots of big rivers in Russia, there are also lots of bridges, and the same is of course true of many other countries.
Thank you giving a birds eye view of the developments in this new missile category.
Are you at all surprized that Europe seems to lag behind investing in this field?
No, not at all, unfortunately.
It feels like in some way, the military domain skipped until 2022 a lot of the advances in the manufacturing automation, and now it catches up. This is bad in the sense that it leads to more proliferation of potent weapons, but in another sense, it gives more options to small states like the Baltic ones.
Interesting, and scary.
The latest Shahed versions used and now built by Russia are using 90kg warheads and causing much more destruction than the original sub-20kg models.
I call it "good enough" weapons. The opposite of Exquisite weapons.
> For example, a mini cruise missile carrying a 50 kilogram warhead impacting at medium to high subsonic velocity, should be able to penetrate at least one to one-and-a-half meters of reinforced concrete.
How large a warhead would it take to drop a bridge? As there are lots of big rivers in Russia, there are also lots of bridges, and the same is of course true of many other countries.