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    poesel reacted to Jammason in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    I don't think lasers will ever be the right solution to the drone problem; too easy to harden a drone against them. A simple aluminum nitride or similar ceramic skin & propellers (even super powerful industrial lasers have a hard time with certain ceramics, and that's with a stationary target from a range of less than 1cm) plus sensors and an on-board algorithm that says "if things are getting hot, rotate and randomly dart around". Plus, a laser powerful enough to do damage from a distance is going to be huge, expensive, and difficult to produce and maintain, and thus a high value, difficult-to-replace target that will be prioritized by the enemy. Effectiveness will also vary with weather (temperature & atmospherics like fog, smoke, rain, and snow).
    Nope, I think the answer is cheap kinetics fired by systems like Gephard or C-RAM. Barring those (also rare and expensive) systems, you could equip front-line forces with hundreds of anti-drone drones, which are already a thing that companies like Anduril are making as part of a more complete counter UAS system:  https://www.anduril.com/hardware/anvil/ 
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    poesel reacted to Haiduk in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    After I've seen aerial attack on Brovary Feb 26th from my balcony and heard the terrible howl of jet, passed on low-altitude in the night, I twitch to this time from any loud howling sounds, which similar to jet %) And hate bikers on their damned Sudzukies and Hondas, which fly along the street before curfew or even during it. 
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    poesel got a reaction from Mattias in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    I think this infographic (not mine) shows the effect a tactical nuke would have:

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    poesel got a reaction from LuckyDog in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
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    poesel reacted to Haiduk in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    DNA-modified pigeon from secret US biolab in Ukraine. Their poo after contact with air turn out to HE substance with around-nuclear TNT equivalent. Several grams of this HE **** can reliase so much energy, like Excalibur warhead ) 
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    poesel reacted to The_MonkeyKing in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    best fast summary of types of 155mm ammo.
    AT mines:

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    I think this infographic (not mine) shows the effect a tactical nuke would have:

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    poesel got a reaction from Raptor341 in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    I think this infographic (not mine) shows the effect a tactical nuke would have:

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    poesel got a reaction from Kinophile in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    I think this infographic (not mine) shows the effect a tactical nuke would have:

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    poesel got a reaction from Elmar Bijlsma in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    I think this infographic (not mine) shows the effect a tactical nuke would have:

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    poesel got a reaction from Beleg85 in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    I think this infographic (not mine) shows the effect a tactical nuke would have:

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    poesel reacted to NamEndedAllen in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    Recidivism in Norway is very low. Especially when compared to rates in certain other Western nations. 
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    poesel reacted to Haiduk in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    Main reason of my reduced activity is a work and some tiring from this 8-month information marathone Concerning to strike consequenses in our district of Kyiv - cell phones and internet still working. Main discomfort - there wasn't hot water for three days. Two days electricity was turning off at the morning for two hours and two days ago all our district has plunged into the darkness from 20:00 to 1:00 of next day. As I know Irpin' town was turning off completely on two days.  
    Just a look from my balcony after the strike at the district thermal plant. There was two very loud booms. Most dense smoke is from missed missile. I don't know what could burn with such dark smoke. 
        

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    poesel got a reaction from G.I. Joe in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    Maybe there is an "off plank"?
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    poesel reacted to dan/california in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    Allow me to repeat my little broken record speech. A revolution in Belarus that rips it out of Russian orbit, is the biggest possible victory in this war. If they attack Ukraine and the AFU can simply take Minsk and install the opposition that is currently in jail, or the Baltic States it is lights out, game over, drop the mike and walk away. Hopefully an entire alphabet of three letter agencies are trying to make it happen. As much as I would like to see him on a lamp post it would be worth giving Lukashenko some ironclad guarantees, and a flight to the UAE or wherever.
     
    From the Belarusan border Moscow would be in ATACMS range. 
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    poesel got a reaction from A Canadian Cat in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
    Maybe there is an "off plank"?
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    poesel got a reaction from Raptor341 in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
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    poesel got a reaction from Kinophile in How Hot is Ukraine Gonna Get?   
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