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What a sensational video! Extremely explicative and well done; even a child can see from your video the great work that RheinMetal has done. I'd like to see Skynex blanketing Ukraine - and Taiwan as well. You've come a long way, Wes, in clearly communicating what's going on in Ukraine and in those great countries that are supporting Ukraine freedom and fighting back against Monster Putin's murderous rages. More power to you.

The only thing missing is a link at the bottom to raise money to support your efforts and to make it easy to send money digitally to United 24's program to support the development of Skynex. Also hope you've put this on YouTube, a great educational venue and also a strong way to make money to support your work.

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SomeNYDude (he/him)'s avatar

Great video, Wes. Glad those 7 Shahed’s got blown up.

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Mark Aulman's avatar

Good to see this. Can you compare and contrast Skynex vs Sky Sentinal?

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Wes O'Donnell's avatar

Hi Mark, for sure. Both the German Skynex and the Ukrainian-made Sky Sentinel are "guns" as opposed to missiles. The Skynex has a greater range and better (or more expensive) ammunition. The AHEAD ammo is pretty revolutionary, only exploding when the laser rangefinder tells it to. But the Ukrainian Sky Sentinel has a home-grown narrow AI brain for optical target tracking. The Sky Sentinel is extremely cheap at only $100K per turret, so Ukraine could scatter these all over Kyiv if they built enough. The Skynex is a much larger "system" that has multiple gun modules controlled by a single radar, and they are much more expensive (which is expected from Rheinmetall) because defense contractors always mark up the goods.

In other words, both swat Shaheds with precision. But the Sky Sentinel is the scrappy turret you can place anywhere and the Skynex is the fabrige egg (Ukraine now only has 2).

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Tankster's avatar

Watched in silent mode, while wifey listens to Bloomberg. Proximity fuses programmed on the fly? Times of Israel reported that the Mullah Express fired about 1,000 at Israel during the 12 day war. Shaheed is appropriately translated to "martyr"--when shot down do they get 75 virgin targets in Drone Heaven? One found a meaningful target. !עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי

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Roger Corbett's avatar

Awesome!

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RDM's avatar

It’s all fun and games until skull drones starting step-crunching on human skulls.

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Perseus's avatar

Ours is the smartest, most advanced, most technologically capable society ever – and clearly heading for self-destruction, as it destroys the planet. How is that possible?Simply: Its Madness a priori . Because the war is lost since months and now Europe is ging full blast into war with Russia and CIS. Europe will look like Gaza today.

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Robert Honeyman's avatar

Silliness and nonsense. Russia is nearly bankrupt. They can no longer fill their meat grinder with Russians and have to import foreign cannon fodder.

Russia leaves, war over. If not, Ukraine will continue to defend itself with more and better equipment from the EU. Ukraine targets military sites with their long-range munitions. Russia targets civilians.

Ukraine will win because they are fighting for their lives against an enemy whose sole objective is the elimination of Ukraine as a nation and as a culture.

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Perseus's avatar

Nonsense and victim of the silly propaganda: The Ukraine War is the globalists desperate final project, its last stand. By saying which, let’s assume that the Globalists are “a thing,” a combo of the UK’s remaining potent assets (MI6 and the City of London financial octopus), the megalomaniacal EU bureaucratic leadership and their desperate suicidal dead wishes.

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Robert Honeyman's avatar

So, Russia is the victim?

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Perseus's avatar

Facts, not emotions. Please.

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Ralph Winslow's avatar

So a (i.e. 1) Skynex shell costs much less that 50K - good news. How many such shells fired by the gatling gun are needed to destroy each Shahed? Those things go through a bunch of shells each second, seems expensive nonetheless.

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Robert Honeyman's avatar

Simple solution: Russia leaves and war is over. Until then, Ukraine must defend itself. Why is that so hard to see?

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Tankster's avatar

If they insist on being an irredentist force in Donbas and Luhansk, they can move to the Rodina. 14 million Germans were resettled after colonizing various countries post WWII. Kaliningrad Königsberg was annexed into Russia.

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Tankster's avatar

Hamas could release all 50 hostages and the war against them would be over. Just get them to the table. Trouble is, they love dead Gazan "civilians" only a little less than they love dead Jews. Christians. Hindus, et.al., are next. Israel lays down it's guns and they will attack as many times as it takes to kill all of Israel, Druze and Christians too.

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