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A Strategic Betrayal: How Venezuela Exposed Russian & Chinese Air Defenses to the US
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Very interesting observations.
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The article provides the following statement but does not justify this position, prove its truth, offer supporting evidence for this conclusion.
How did we do this? How does the author know this to be true?
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He doesn't. It's a load of masturbatory BS from a nobody with no credentials.
Being an "Infantry combat veteran" (which presumably means the guy was a grunt in the Army at some point) does not make you an AA/AD expert.
Also, he specifically focuses on S-300, which is borderline obsolete and no longer in active production (the base technology is more than 50 years old; production ceased in the early 2000s, and modernization efforts ended around 2014). This system has long been replaced by S-400 in the Russian arsenal. It's been public knowledge for decades that USAF can deal with S-300 - so there's nothing about the Venezuelan raid that contributes to this picture.
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It’s an interesting lead, given that Russian and presumably Chinese air defense batteries were disabled it safe to assume the likely did have some engagement with the systems mentioned.
I’m curious if the blackhawks had to defeat Russian Smersh AA.
That would be more interesting than the S-300. Possibly f-18 Growlers jammed the electronic spectrum for the blackbawks
I’m curious if the blackhawks had to defeat Russian Smersh AA.
That would be more interesting than the S-300. Possibly f-18 Growlers jammed the electronic spectrum for the blackbawks
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What the hell is a "Russian Smersh AA"?
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The United States likely knew Venezuelan radar network better than the Venezuelans themselves did. With their knowledge of the radar system, the US probably could have flown the Goodyear blimp into Caracas if the fancy struck.
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Well, he was a major, and claims to be a Green Beret veteran. https://www.instagram.com/samartoorr/He doesn't. It's a load of masturbatory BS from a nobody with no credentials.
Being an "Infantry combat veteran" (which presumably means the guy was a grunt in the Army at some point) does not make you an AA/AD expert.
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I'd still would have liked to have seen some discussion or evidence to support the quote he made in the article, reposted below. From what I see, the conclusions he draws in the article rest on this quote. It's an interesting article but I think it carries little weight without additional support.
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I agree.
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I think how they did it is a state secret, and I wouldn't post it if I knew. As to how the author knows it to be true, I would refer to the facts that no aircraft has been shoot down in the recent airstrikes. US and Israeli. I don't think it was just luck.
I accept his opinion as a qualified expert opinion. There are many officers in many militaries that have multiple degrees and in western services, a PHD before 0-7
A typical major probably has a four year degree in a hard science, a two year degree picked up whilst working on his masters. 12-18 years Officer Service.
Furthers Special Forces / Operations qualification is no small thing.
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Yeah. In the Indian army.
Now, I'm not saying Indian army officers are uneducated - but I would not automatically treat a random Indian OF-4 as an expert in matters related to the USAF capability to defeat Russian/Chinese AA systems (sorry, @Sentry
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I think it was aliens. How do I know? I would refer to the fact that no aircraft has been shot down in the recent airstrikes - and we all know aliens have superior military technology. I don't think it was just luck. And of course it's a state secret - after all, it's aliens we're talking about.
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It could be a state secret. The author can elaborate on that through any number of ways to lend some credibility to his argument. For example, he could have qualified his statement with "based on my X years of experience as a military officer in the relevant field of Y" or "while the exact details behind 'why' are classified..."
And in the absence of any other details, the fact that no aircraft have been reported to have been shot down could be due to any number of reasons including ineptitude of the adversary, lack of sufficient training, lack of control over the equipment/infrastructure, lack of orders to engage, even lack of situational awareness (confusion). By itself, it is not proof that Russian and Chinese air defense systems have been cracked by the US. (That does not mean I do not suspect that we haven't cracked adversarial weapons systems. We may very well have cracked those systems. All I am saying is that this article speculates on it without supporting the argument.)
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CIA pay offs as usual would be my guess. Not much else. Here is a reasonable sum to claim you and your men were suffering food poisoning at the time of attack .