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BJ Zamora's avatar

Thank you for your analytical and researched examination of the sinking. Slava Ukraini!

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Travis Hightower's avatar

Heroyam Slava!

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Travis Hightower's avatar

Thanks so much for having me. Its an honor to collaborate with someone who has met the heroes of Ukraine in person.

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Luky's avatar

Hi, how would you judge this recap of sinking of Moskva? Thanks

https://x.com/chriso_wiki/status/1919659060137255265?s=46

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Travis Hightower's avatar

can you create a transcript? I left twitter / x in protest. It is difficult not to do the same for all meta social media, but at least they were not meddling in the government against the constitution so overtly. And we have to communicate with all people somehow. I did not trust twitter's algorithm to express what needs to be said about Ukraine.

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Balint's avatar

Apart from Moskva there were no other cruisers with area defence capabilites - not even destroyers with a navalized BUK System - that was the whole point - the only area defence ship was in full passive mode - basically it was an old Soviet level ship with CIWS from the eighties - if I know from US ISR the location, course, speed - I can launch the missiles and voilá can activate active seeker 5 sec prior to impact so the missiles turn ön impact course - proxy war shadow ops...we have plenty of examples - see AWACS shoot down with SA5 or the Birjansk incident for reference.

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Mike Casey's avatar

Sharp take. Neptune worked because Ukraine fused truck‑launcher mobility, TB‑2 deception, and outside ISR into one short kill chain, turning a modest missile into a fleet killer. I examine that same sensor–shooter integration from the Chinese side on my Substack. https://ordersandobservations.substack.com/

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