don't play War Thunder, it is RUSSIAN game company hiding in Cyprus and Hungary offshores and part of its income goes to RUSSIA thus keeping afloat their sanctioned economy
The irony of a company with glaring z-fash connections sponsoring a video about US satellite capabilities isn't lost on me either. But any money they send to CC, is less money to the Kremlin coffers in corporate and income tax.
I would feel bad but I'm honestly never going to download warthunder no matter how good the ad is. So the intent is entirely lost on me and there's no reason to waste my time.
They should just announce that some of the satellites belong to just random departments. Like a brand new top-of-the-line spy satellite belongs to the department of education because they’re trying to learn what the enemy has.
@@cadennorris960 they do track individuals with satellites, along with an array of other tools but those individuals will be people worth watching such as high ranking officials of foreign governments. and of course though they might be tracking the person they really are just watching their cellphone move around or their fitbit watch or their car/private jet.
Probably just the Falcon 2nd stage. They do this after every launch. Typically far from land, but SpaceX could deorbit the stage anywhere it, or the customer, choose after a certain point.
I heard they cram as much hopes and dreams as possible into every little crevice available Then as the spy satellite floats off into the distance, the rest of America gets to watch our hopes and dreams twinkle as they turn todust on re-entry 🦅 🇺🇸 🎆
Dozens if not 100+ scopes with 2.4 (same as hubble) meter mirrors along with dozens from each of the next couple upgraded models all pointed at earth. Wouldn’t be surprised if they could count pores.
In the 1980's I was a electronics technician at TRW in Sunnyvale, CA. At the time TRW was building electronic components for TDRSS, LandSat, Shuttle and Cassandra satellite's. At the time they were state of the art satellites, however the military satellites of the 2020's are 10X more powerful.
Perhaps, but the story of the dedicated men & women working tirelessly in the shadows to protect us all, needs to be told, security clearance permitting. These agencies deserve more credit for the work they did and are still doing.
Back in the 1970s my crew flew KH-9s and KH-11s with the help of our buddy Cray 👍 It's amazing what details show when pix are blown up to the size of banquet tables.
Nowadays with my at-Home DIY gear I can get down to 10 cm per pixel (4 inches) using high-refractive index optical-grade acrylic lenses and software that stabilizes/auto-corrects the light-path through the lenses (i.e. real-time adaptive ray-tracing and light-path correction) and put that acrylic lens on a Canon R5 Mk2 for gyro-and-software-stabilized DCI-8K video imagery! I have more than a few buddies who have cheap home-built aircraft that can fly at 50,000 feet ceilings so I can image WIDE-AREA SWATHES using super-precise computer controlled 3D-XYZ camera orientation and radio-augmented GPS location data to make Gigapixel landmaps at the full 4 inches per pixel resolution. With extra DSP and A.I.-assisted pre-and-post-processing of the per-pixel light-path/ray-tracing/refraction/diffraction metadata, I can do 2 inches per pixel (5 cm) for my video and still photos from 50,000 feet! V
@@bloodyissue8296 Your social credit score has been deducted 10 points. Further deductions will result in reeducation, internment, or both. Have a patriotic day, citizen.
For anyone interested, the push to develope the first CORONA optical satelite, and the launch system to get into orbit, is a fascinating story of overcoming impossible engineering challanges, involving a meriad of expertese from Eastman Kodak to Coca Cola to Corning glassworks.
I don't know how sophisticated U.S. satellites are, but I was in a car lot buying a new car. I was having trouble reading the fine print in the contract. The DOD apparently realizing sent me a text picture of the contract. The fine print was now easily readable.😉
Current US spy sat resolution is likely far better than Trump's tweet. There is no reason spy sats can't use adaptive optics like modern ground based astronomical telescopes do. In fact the tech should work considerably better for spy sats as they are looking at well lit known objects. As in if you have a shape in view like a building you know absolutely for sure what that building looks like and so atmospheric distortion can be much more accurately corrected. Virtually any man made object in view of known size and shape can provide accurate correction data. Moreover on top of adaptive optics which physically change shape in real time to correct atmospheric distortion. With a spy sat it can be done in software, where you take dozens or hundreds of pictures. An AI then again using known objects in the images studies how the waves of distortion move through the images, it then constructs a new image with the distortion filtered out....I would guess in current sats atmospheric distortion in the best weather conditions can be almost totally eliminated. Current spy sats are probably rubbing up against diffraction-limited angular resolution.
@@Lykapodium You can get down to as little as One Inch per pixel (2.5 cm) using stacked adaptive-shape-changing lenses (i.e. Liquid Lenses) AND ray-tracing-based refraction, diffraction, scintillation metadata corrections that are calculated via per-pixel software corrections for 16-bits per pixel Greyscale AND 64-bits per pixel RGB+A/D RGB imagery! If one also does some FUSION of simultaneous optical data AND advanced MM-wave scanning, one can use common physics calculations of reflection/absorption characteristics of the reflected light and radar waves that are then re-estimated for getting down to sub-one-inch resolutions! V
@@StarGateSG7 how are you going to use scintillation metadata which needs to be a realtime value? Better off using a guide star laser and a Shack-Hartman wave front sensor in real time with adaptive optics for correction. But, you still can't get past 1.22 lambda/D. You need a huge telescope aperture.
Key takeways: 1) Top-priority information must be shared by personal meetings or paper info. 2) For quick info transfer utilization of em shielded wire network is needed. 3) False information, attack by volume and other methods are requred for operational control. 4) A potential weakness that can be exploited is an attack on enemy SIGNINT capabilities via EMP devices, potentially nuclear in principle, would lead to operational blindness that can be further exploited.
The greatest threat to Rome was? A) Carthage B) Gaul C) Greece D) Rome Pray that Alexander goes East, Hannibal is called home and Greece remains fat and happy, but most of all pray that Rome is not given over to decadent ethics. Legions are, but they cannot fight for nothing.
The NRO is about to launch the new constellation built by SpaceX. May 19. You missed this it’s called the proliferated architecture. It uses spacex laser links so you have real time coverage.
@@MrKhan-td9uxSpace capabilities have been one of the big reasons why there hasn't really been any moves to replaces AWACS... I guess that will only change once somebody causes the Kessler Syndrome.
@@rkan2Kessler syndrome won't affect things in geostationary orbit. In fact, it would increase their protection by further limiting asat capabilities.
@@russkepler Geostationary orbit? You are not seeing anything from GSO. The JWST looking at Earth from GSO would only have a resolution of 30 feet on Earth. Not much good for spying.
As someone who used to work in and around space birds, they not only have the abilities you've mentioned, also a couple more that have yet to be discovered.
since you know this topic, im interested to learn more about how the birds' location in orbit gets constantly corrected. can you suggest terms for me to search? or videos to watch?
How about I start to address your undiscovered abilities by saying: Do they have vertically-stacked and angled Atmospheric Lensing, Adaptive Liquid Lens Optics, Software-based 3D-XYZ raytracing-based Scintillation, Refraction, Diffraction-correction, SAR/MM-wave assisted light-path absorption/reflection FUSION-based optical and MM-band resolution enhancement, interferometry-based light-path correction, real-time or post-production DSP-based 2D-XY and 3D-XYZ SOBEL/CANNY edge detection and UNSHARP MASK edge enhancement, multi-spectral per-pixel RGB/MM/RF/UV/XRAY fusion, HFGW/MFGW imaging .... Have I finished yet? Coming soon as World-wide Fully Free and Open Source under GPL-3 licence terms from North Canadian Aerospace! All Yours! V
@wmk4454 I don’t think you understand how the US government keeps thing secret. Are they incompetent at times, yes, but within all of that they are very good at paperwork and use their faults as a way to distract and bury information. Never forget Hubble is an “extra” (they still actually have 2 more) spay sat turned in the other direct. What was just recently launched? The James Webb Telescope. If you think the spy’s didn’t help develop and are not using the new technology you’re crazy.
no mention of the "Bat Sats" as i like to call em that use echo location to take pictures, one rumor i heard is that if it flies over an airbase and a hanger door is open it can see what's in there!
Yeah, but he was talking about the abilities of different sats, but he completely ignored the ability of SAR to see through clouds and rain. 67% of Earth is covered by clouds, on average. Making SAR one of the most important satellites we use.
I think he meant to say that we (United States)know everything, and that we have penetrated Russian intelligence through and through because of the corruption in Russia😂
Perun's the classroom teacher, Covert Cabal is the cool kid that drops bangers every now and then, and War Thunder forums are the back row of the class that's always called out for being either too noisy or too based
There are literally space soldiers sitting in orbital observation stations. You will never find any information on them period. They go up for periods ranging from 90 days on. I don’t know how they get up there or how they get home.
If y’all are interested in space warfare and stealth satellites, the book White Sun War is a great read on the subject, set in a fictional future conflict wherein the USSF uses an upgraded X-37 to do a variety of missions against Chinese satellites. Really a good read.
If I were to suggest that between the Earth and Mars there is a china teapot revolving about the sun in an elliptical orbit, nobody would be able to disprove my assertion provided I were careful to add that the teapot is too small to be revealed even by our most powerful telescopes. - Bertrand Russell
13:02 not to mention distributed aperture math can increase resolution. Like the Very Large Array space telescope system. A "cheat code" in the "aperture vs resolution" equation.
The video missed the most interesting platforms in space. Those which don't only passively watch or listen, but actively interfere with enemy electronics and signals.
This is an armchair guess but I'm pretty sure they have all the keyhole satellites they need, the best exemple of this is the hubble telescope was more or less a spare they forgot in a warehouse and gave away to NASA so they could repurpose it. I also wouldn't underestimate the combined capabilities of china/russia+the other ork legions these days, quite a lot of what they send to space is described with a vague ' earth observation satellite ' as payload, pretty sure most of these are military intelligence payloads of some kind.
The VELA incident. The U.S. didn’t want to let the cat out of the bag by saying that they detected it and knew what it was. & that was I can’t remember 70’s 80’s? South Atlantic Ocean or South Indian Ocean. Off coast of south Africa. Either was a meteor that burnt up and air burst or something else Israel testing its nuclear weapons?
Ironically, I know one of the South African scientists who was assigned to that VELA incident project! Quite the character who helped South Africa design and test its first nuke! V
I had an uncle that worked on satellite cameras back in the 1970s he said they could take a photo from space of a pack of cigarettes , and be able to read the warning label
From low earth orbit (80-120 miles) the best resolution you can ever achieve on the ground is ~10cm or about 4". The air itself diffracts the light preventing any better resolution no matter how good your satellite is.
1:19 how can the most comprehensive military vehicle combat simulator pretend like no infantry has ever existed on the battlefield? This is why I can never take that game seriously.
Simplification exists because it's not worth the dev's time to add a feature that'd probably cause a lot of bugs and issues while at the same time have little impact on players' experience. Competitive multiplayer games are different from RPG games, in that if you play it what makes you feel immersed is the feeling of competing with other players, not feeling like you're in a real real combat. Same thing for games like CS2(bombing sites as terrorists) or COD(launching nukes), the narratives there are just packages, not the content itself Edit: the game never claims to be a combat sim, it's just a military based online game.
@@faiq026 Good points, I don't think it's a bad game, rather it's not a game for me. I'm all for devs have a concise vision and restricting features that are out of scope. It's just that for me I can never get around the fact that no infantry exists especially in a game that tries to be so realistic and historical and great at simulating damage models and so on. Another pet peeve (not sure if war thunder is an offender) if when these free to play online games put a random mish mash of vehicles from different nations on the same team. I can't get around the Battleship Yammato and HMS Hood fighting as allies. But I understand these are concessions to making a free to play MP battle arena game, which is why I can never take these games seriously.
@@ares106as you know country’s one another have been conquered time and time again…your bound to find fighters indigenous to one nation but will be flying for another…, or something similar.
Spacex are putting up several thousand satellites for a few billion to provide internet. Imagine that number of SAR satellites in the same sort of orbits as Starlink. Given that there’s been a couple of Starlink launches with modified satellites for the defence department maybe someone has thought about it.
Well it's been over 60 years and 1000s of high tech cameras are in 'space' . There is no real pictures of satellites in space because...... I think you know.
@@zacklewis342you guys all know so much more than I do about this topic. I’ve never felt so ignorant. Any recommendations as to what I could watch/listen to/read to learn more about this stuff?
And dont forget the X-37 B - actually a "pretty easy" upgradeable satellite that could do IMGINT, SIGINT, ELINT what not all together. I would love to see an OSINT cabality check for China 👍
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don't play War Thunder, it is RUSSIAN game company hiding in Cyprus and Hungary offshores and part of its income goes to RUSSIA thus keeping afloat their sanctioned economy
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Lol you think anyone in any of those militaries doesnt already know that stuff?
@@cameronspence4977The adversaries with means aren't the only ones...
Don’t worry, I got the reference
The irony of a company with glaring z-fash connections sponsoring a video about US satellite capabilities isn't lost on me either. But any money they send to CC, is less money to the Kremlin coffers in corporate and income tax.
How do you figure?
2:18 to skip the ad
I would feel bad but I'm honestly never going to download warthunder no matter how good the ad is. So the intent is entirely lost on me and there's no reason to waste my time.
Have we got another Elon on our hands.
Not all heros wear capes
Thx
War thunder was an incredible realistic WWII flight simulator back in 2014-2015 when I played it.
They should just announce that some of the satellites belong to just random departments. Like a brand new top-of-the-line spy satellite belongs to the department of education because they’re trying to learn what the enemy has.
yeah i’m sure everyone will believe that
@@xerogue I’m glad you agree, I would believe it too.
@@omarrp14 maybe only americans 😂
@@xerogue maybe only Americans can afford to give the department of labor spy satellites to watch people on smoke breaks that are taking too long
@@omarrp14 guess you can save a lot of money leaving millions of homeless and spending money on gender programs instead 🤡😂
Talks about Pentagon leaks. Video sponsored by War Thunder. 😂
If only each nation had satellite overwatch, then we would get true intel on capabilities
The irony!!
😂
When you actually think war thunder has "leaks"😂😂😂😂
But its actually all public info
@@lonerider5315He’s referring to the dude who posted classified data on the WT message boards to flex for his buddies.
looking at the sky through NVG's made me realize just how many satellites there are above us. it's crazy.
The Sky unironically is full of eyes always watching, thankfully its rare they are interested in watching you specifically.
@@dominuslogik484 imagine them shuttind down sat downs cuz of the cringe they have to watch on daily basis if it was focussed on doofuses like us. 😂
@@dominuslogik484Rare? It’s non existent, they aren’t watching individuals with a satellite.
@@cadennorris960 they do track individuals with satellites, along with an array of other tools but those individuals will be people worth watching such as high ranking officials of foreign governments.
and of course though they might be tracking the person they really are just watching their cellphone move around or their fitbit watch or their car/private jet.
And unknown things. That blew my mind
11:07 - almost 100% the images of the "burn up" are a secondary payload designed to burn up in the atmosphere and act as deceptive imagery
Agreed. I would bet money on it.
Probably just the Falcon 2nd stage. They do this after every launch. Typically far from land, but SpaceX could deorbit the stage anywhere it, or the customer, choose after a certain point.
More like masking the final trajectory of the package by interference.
I heard they cram as much hopes and dreams as possible into every little crevice available
Then as the spy satellite floats off into the distance, the rest of America gets to watch our hopes and dreams twinkle as they turn todust on re-entry 🦅 🇺🇸 🎆
@@samhazzard3810 this.
I’m glad someone submitted a FOIA request and was able to review the SIGINT style guide describing when to use “a” versus “an.”
the eye in the sky.. but fr that wayback machine document might get removed soon
What?
link?
8:49
I'm working with satellite imagery and was very interested in history of satellite resolution and I still never realized that US had
and that is what you have been told
Dozens if not 100+ scopes with 2.4 (same as hubble) meter mirrors along with dozens from each of the next couple upgraded models all pointed at earth. Wouldn’t be surprised if they could count pores.
@@Madarius7 neuron synapses
Hey! look! what a coincidence, that black van that was parked outside my house last week is back! 😃
Sorry, it was supposed to be a blue Accord.
@@samhazzard3810 They use land rovers for me ....
In the 1980's I was a electronics technician at TRW in Sunnyvale, CA. At the time TRW was building electronic components for TDRSS, LandSat, Shuttle and Cassandra satellite's. At the time they were state of the art satellites, however the military satellites of the 2020's are 10X more powerful.
The number of various three-letter-agency watchlists this channel is on must be legendary.
Perhaps, but the story of the dedicated men & women working tirelessly in the shadows to protect us all, needs to be told, security clearance permitting. These agencies deserve more credit for the work they did and are still doing.
Yeahhhh maybe not as much credit as you seem to imply. Dragnet spying on the entire US population is something to be condemned, not celebrated.
all of them
NSA, NRO, CIA, and FBI at minimum.
KFC too😂@@cracklingvoice
Back in the 1970s my crew flew KH-9s and KH-11s with the help of our buddy Cray 👍 It's amazing what details show when pix are blown up to the size of banquet tables.
Nowadays with my at-Home DIY gear I can get down to 10 cm per pixel (4 inches) using high-refractive index optical-grade acrylic lenses and software that stabilizes/auto-corrects the light-path through the lenses (i.e. real-time adaptive ray-tracing and light-path correction) and put that acrylic lens on a Canon R5 Mk2 for gyro-and-software-stabilized DCI-8K video imagery!
I have more than a few buddies who have cheap home-built aircraft that can fly at 50,000 feet ceilings so I can image WIDE-AREA SWATHES using super-precise computer controlled 3D-XYZ camera orientation and radio-augmented GPS location data to make Gigapixel landmaps at the full 4 inches per pixel resolution. With extra DSP and A.I.-assisted pre-and-post-processing of the per-pixel light-path/ray-tracing/refraction/diffraction metadata, I can do 2 inches per pixel (5 cm) for my video and still photos from 50,000 feet!
V
I like the Military Industrial Complex very much
....it does make for some good content fodder.
hell yeah bröther
Your social credit score has been increased by 5. Thank you citizen, have a patriotic day.
@@Majilikin thanks but since when is the chinese comie Credit score on homeland freedom
@@bloodyissue8296 Your social credit score has been deducted 10 points. Further deductions will result in reeducation, internment, or both. Have a patriotic day, citizen.
For anyone interested, the push to develope the first CORONA optical satelite, and the launch system to get into orbit, is a fascinating story of overcoming impossible engineering challanges, involving a meriad of expertese from Eastman Kodak to Coca Cola to Corning glassworks.
Any good resource to peruse?
Any vids you reccomend???
Yes. Also see Hexagon. The Shuttle was the size it was to carry it.
XB37? What does it do? Great show.
I don't know how sophisticated U.S. satellites are, but I was in a car lot buying a new car. I was having trouble reading the fine print in the contract.
The DOD apparently realizing sent me a text picture of the contract. The fine print was now easily readable.😉
Current US spy sat resolution is likely far better than Trump's tweet. There is no reason spy sats can't use adaptive optics like modern ground based astronomical telescopes do. In fact the tech should work considerably better for spy sats as they are looking at well lit known objects. As in if you have a shape in view like a building you know absolutely for sure what that building looks like and so atmospheric distortion can be much more accurately corrected. Virtually any man made object in view of known size and shape can provide accurate correction data. Moreover on top of adaptive optics which physically change shape in real time to correct atmospheric distortion. With a spy sat it can be done in software, where you take dozens or hundreds of pictures. An AI then again using known objects in the images studies how the waves of distortion move through the images, it then constructs a new image with the distortion filtered out....I would guess in current sats atmospheric distortion in the best weather conditions can be almost totally eliminated. Current spy sats are probably rubbing up against diffraction-limited angular resolution.
1.22 lambda/D
☝️ This guy defracts. 😎
Yuuup...
@@Lykapodium You can get down to as little as One Inch per pixel (2.5 cm) using stacked adaptive-shape-changing lenses (i.e. Liquid Lenses) AND ray-tracing-based refraction, diffraction, scintillation metadata corrections that are calculated via per-pixel software corrections for 16-bits per pixel Greyscale AND 64-bits per pixel RGB+A/D RGB imagery!
If one also does some FUSION of simultaneous optical data AND advanced MM-wave scanning, one can use common physics calculations of reflection/absorption characteristics of the reflected light and radar waves that are then re-estimated for getting down to sub-one-inch resolutions!
V
@@StarGateSG7 how are you going to use scintillation metadata which needs to be a realtime value? Better off using a guide star laser and a Shack-Hartman wave front sensor in real time with adaptive optics for correction. But, you still can't get past 1.22 lambda/D. You need a huge telescope aperture.
I worked on SBIRS (Space Based Infrared Satellite) at Northrop Grumman 😎
Vlad will contact you. You like bagel, yes? Creamed cheeses?
Awesome! Thank you for your work and service (i know not the typical kind of service but just as if not more important)!
Key takeways: 1) Top-priority information must be shared by personal meetings or paper info. 2) For quick info transfer utilization of em shielded wire network is needed. 3) False information, attack by volume and other methods are requred for operational control. 4) A potential weakness that can be exploited is an attack on enemy SIGNINT capabilities via EMP devices, potentially nuclear in principle, would lead to operational blindness that can be further exploited.
The greatest threat to Rome was? A) Carthage B) Gaul C) Greece D) Rome
Pray that Alexander goes East, Hannibal is called home and Greece remains fat and happy, but most of all pray that Rome is not given over to decadent ethics. Legions are, but they cannot fight for nothing.
Mr.Cabal, welcome back!
We have missed you!
Agent Smith?
@@MacTac141 I have borrowed that quote from him. Although that is true, I like this channel.)
Your videos are some of my favorite. It’s pretty amazing how you get the information you do; it’s all so interesting. Please keep making these!
The NRO is about to launch the new constellation built by SpaceX. May 19. You missed this it’s called the proliferated architecture. It uses spacex laser links so you have real time coverage.
Starshield... And suddendly we don't need replacement for the ancient AWACS!
@@MrKhan-td9uxSpace capabilities have been one of the big reasons why there hasn't really been any moves to replaces AWACS... I guess that will only change once somebody causes the Kessler Syndrome.
@@rkan2Kessler syndrome won't affect things in geostationary orbit. In fact, it would increase their protection by further limiting asat capabilities.
@@russkepler Geostationary orbit? You are not seeing anything from GSO. The JWST looking at Earth from GSO would only have a resolution of 30 feet on Earth. Not much good for spying.
As someone who used to work in and around space birds, they not only have the abilities you've mentioned, also a couple more that have yet to be discovered.
since you know this topic, im interested to learn more about how the birds' location in orbit gets constantly corrected. can you suggest terms for me to search? or videos to watch?
@@gregaiken1725opsec
How about I start to address your undiscovered abilities by saying: Do they have vertically-stacked and angled Atmospheric Lensing, Adaptive Liquid Lens Optics, Software-based 3D-XYZ raytracing-based Scintillation, Refraction, Diffraction-correction, SAR/MM-wave assisted light-path absorption/reflection FUSION-based optical and MM-band resolution enhancement, interferometry-based light-path correction, real-time or post-production DSP-based 2D-XY and 3D-XYZ SOBEL/CANNY edge detection and UNSHARP MASK edge enhancement, multi-spectral per-pixel RGB/MM/RF/UV/XRAY fusion, HFGW/MFGW imaging .... Have I finished yet?
Coming soon as World-wide Fully Free and Open Source under GPL-3 licence terms from North Canadian Aerospace! All Yours!
V
@@StarGateSG7 yikes
The sky has electronic ears.
Bro! Under no circumstances are they not making new imaging sats. Production, “overruns”, then cancellation is known OPSEC technique
@wmk4454 I don’t think you understand how the US government keeps thing secret. Are they incompetent at times, yes, but within all of that they are very good at paperwork and use their faults as a way to distract and bury information.
Never forget Hubble is an “extra” (they still actually have 2 more) spay sat turned in the other direct. What was just recently launched? The James Webb Telescope. If you think the spy’s didn’t help develop and are not using the new technology you’re crazy.
they can use the camera you got in your hand right now. tf they need a satellite for?
@wmk4454 the fact you think they are incompetent is a result of a known opsec technique. Look around you the US government is pretty effective
no mention of the "Bat Sats" as i like to call em that use echo location to take pictures, one rumor i heard is that if it flies over an airbase and a hanger door is open it can see what's in there!
Sar - Synthetic aperture radar. Radar is mentioned.
Super old tech at this point
Yeah, but he was talking about the abilities of different sats, but he completely ignored the ability of SAR to see through clouds and rain.
67% of Earth is covered by clouds, on average.
Making SAR one of the most important satellites we use.
@@AvocadoAfficionado 🤣
Echolocation? No
I'm amazed how much info people can dig up on government activities. Keep up the great work.
Vlad!! Write that down!! Write that DOWN!!!
Don't worry. They know everything.
@@Hasan-jf7by doesn't seem like it.
@@Hasan-jf7by be realistic little Russian bot. People on this channel aren't always ignorant tankies
I think he meant to say that we (United States)know everything, and that we have penetrated Russian intelligence through and through because of the corruption in Russia😂
@@Hasan-jf7by No, they just think they do.
8:00 Oh, I found my house in this picture.
thanks tank counting guy, keep up the good work!
Finally! You've Uploaded Again 👌
Hey, you were at the Space Symposium!
I recognized the Redwire booth with Dean and Spence doing one of their talks.
Read the book, "Blank Spots On The Map." Has about 2.5 chapters dedicated to stealth satellites & how they are hidden
VERY interesting.
You failed to talk about John Lenard Walson's discovery of HIGE weapons satellites with his modified infrared telescope.
Machine learning combined with hyper-spectral imaging could be incredibly powerful.
Wtf? I thought I was subscribed to this channel. I have missed so much! Input input!!
U probably unsubscribed at some point because most of their videos are click bait bs
Perun's the classroom teacher, Covert Cabal is the cool kid that drops bangers every now and then, and War Thunder forums are the back row of the class that's always called out for being either too noisy or too based
Where does Suchomimius fit in?
@@teresabenson3385 I never heard of him. Well, thanks for giving me another RUclipsr to check out lmao
There are literally space soldiers sitting in orbital observation stations. You will never find any information on them period. They go up for periods ranging from 90 days on. I don’t know how they get up there or how they get home.
Great video! always love when you drop a new video!
If y’all are interested in space warfare and stealth satellites, the book White Sun War is a great read on the subject, set in a fictional future conflict wherein the USSF uses an upgraded X-37 to do a variety of missions against Chinese satellites. Really a good read.
I'd be interested to find out more about, or even the existence of, Ground-Penetrating Radar satellites or Magnetic Anomaly Detector satellites.
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If I were to suggest that between the Earth and Mars there is a china teapot revolving about the sun in an elliptical orbit, nobody would be able to disprove my assertion provided I were careful to add that the teapot is too small to be revealed even by our most powerful telescopes. - Bertrand Russell
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13:02 not to mention distributed aperture math can increase resolution. Like the Very Large Array space telescope system. A "cheat code" in the "aperture vs resolution" equation.
The video missed the most interesting platforms in space. Those which don't only passively watch or listen, but actively interfere with enemy electronics and signals.
This is an armchair guess but I'm pretty sure they have all the keyhole satellites they need, the best exemple of this is the hubble telescope was more or less a spare they forgot in a warehouse and gave away to NASA so they could repurpose it.
I also wouldn't underestimate the combined capabilities of china/russia+the other ork legions these days, quite a lot of what they send to space is described with a vague ' earth observation satellite ' as payload, pretty sure most of these are military intelligence payloads of some kind.
10:17 Yeaaa... that's not a satellite
U should see the weapons package🫠
I would love to know what we have now, seeing that we had shit 20+ years ago that is still classified and still thought of as science fiction.
The VELA incident. The U.S. didn’t want to let the cat out of the bag by saying that they detected it and knew what it was. & that was I can’t remember 70’s 80’s? South Atlantic Ocean or South Indian Ocean. Off coast of south Africa. Either was a meteor that burnt up and air burst or something else Israel testing its nuclear weapons?
Ironically, I know one of the South African scientists who was assigned to that VELA incident project! Quite the character who helped South Africa design and test its first nuke!
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I had an uncle that worked on satellite cameras back in the 1970s he said they could take a photo from space of a pack of cigarettes , and be able to read the warning label
Now they can just plug right in to you 😎
not true, if you mean from space.
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From low earth orbit (80-120 miles) the best resolution you can ever achieve on the ground is ~10cm or about 4". The air itself diffracts the light preventing any better resolution no matter how good your satellite is.
14:14 They might be in an highly elliptical orbit to keep out of the atmosphere but there are obvious orbital mechanics considerations.
One of your finest videos.
1:19 how can the most comprehensive military vehicle combat simulator pretend like no infantry has ever existed on the battlefield? This is why I can never take that game seriously.
Simplification exists because it's not worth the dev's time to add a feature that'd probably cause a lot of bugs and issues while at the same time have little impact on players' experience.
Competitive multiplayer games are different from RPG games, in that if you play it what makes you feel immersed is the feeling of competing with other players, not feeling like you're in a real real combat. Same thing for games like CS2(bombing sites as terrorists) or COD(launching nukes), the narratives there are just packages, not the content itself
Edit: the game never claims to be a combat sim, it's just a military based online game.
@@faiq026 Good points, I don't think it's a bad game, rather it's not a game for me.
I'm all for devs have a concise vision and restricting features that are out of scope. It's just that for me I can never get around the fact that no infantry exists especially in a game that tries to be so realistic and historical and great at simulating damage models and so on.
Another pet peeve (not sure if war thunder is an offender) if when these free to play online games put a random mish mash of vehicles from different nations on the same team. I can't get around the Battleship Yammato and HMS Hood fighting as allies. But I understand these are concessions to making a free to play MP battle arena game, which is why I can never take these games seriously.
Huh? It does no such thing
@@ares106as you know country’s one another have been conquered time and time again…your bound to find fighters indigenous to one nation but will be flying for another…, or something similar.
War thunder is by no means a simulator.
Best one stop bit of info on the overall satellite capabilities! Thanks Cabal!!
No mention of Synthetic Aperture Radar?
Spacex are putting up several thousand satellites for a few billion to provide internet. Imagine that number of SAR satellites in the same sort of orbits as Starlink. Given that there’s been a couple of Starlink launches with modified satellites for the defence department maybe someone has thought about it.
Scott Manley covered it recently
You can just tell the seriousness of any US military project by how spooky its name sounds.
Please do a video on China satellites
This is some serious stuff
12:30 Just for fun, don't release the Retropak before entering the atmosphere.
Just for fun, move the ISS that way 1,000 feet. LoL
25000 collision avoidance maneuvers in 6 months is wild
This video brought to you by the greatest intelligence agency, War thunder.
Why can’t we get a reliable public answer to the water locations and quantity on the Moon and Mars?
It’s always inconsistent currently.
Show me an actual picture of a satellite in space that's not CGI. Don't worry, I'll wait.
Well it's been over 60 years and 1000s of high tech cameras are in 'space' . There is no real pictures of satellites in space because...... I think you know.
You do not look up at the sky. The sky looks down on you.
Next are the Stealth Origami Matryoshkas ... you never know what's inside .
Covert caball sponsoring war thunder. Now I know where he gets this really cool information from
Great video as all ways
Is that 3 concordes at 8:07? Must be an airshow maybe...
Tu-144, the Soviet equivalent. Bigger, faster, crashier.
@@zacklewis342 I appreciate the reply but the wings are too curved, the Tu-144 had very angular wings
16x the detail...damnit todd you did it again!
From a certain perspective, recon sats have had the most impact on keeping the world safe
“Satellites coordinated from - Novato” Novato, California? That’s where Scott Manley flies out of!
...and who knows what the X-37b is up to...
Piloted my chipmunks in airforce jumpsuits !!
Just testing new technologies, it's too small to do anything significant.
@@zacklewis342you guys all know so much more than I do about this topic. I’ve never felt so ignorant. Any recommendations as to what I could watch/listen to/read to learn more about this stuff?
@@collinbarnard207 nice try China
I know that the X37b was docked onto the I.S.S.. not too long ago, my question is what version/model it is what I'm trying to figure out🤔
New spy sats getting canceled due to cost overruns sounds exactly like the kind of excuse the gov would give.
For real, when has budget ever really stopped them getting their paws on tech that would definitely be useful.
You’re my fav RUclipsr
steath satalites seam pointlss because they will stil oclude stars as they pass in front of them and then its easy to calculate ther orbit
Thanks!
they don’t need imaging satellites anymore. theres cameras everywhere, not to mention the one in our pockets and our living rooms. In the office, ect.
great vid mate!
Interesting stuff mate. Thanks
Good to know someone is keeping the bad guys in check.
Yes warthunder is very good game. Its just one day snail decides if HSTVL rounds will do damage or not:)
One of the greatest collabs as of late: Covert Cabal...and War Thunder. Heh.
And dont forget the X-37 B - actually a "pretty easy" upgradeable satellite that could do IMGINT, SIGINT, ELINT what not all together.
I would love to see an OSINT cabality check for China 👍
I think it recently did a 2year mission right? Like you said too, no public information is available for what it has on board.
Nope, its payload is way too small to much besides research. Two of those could fit in Shuttle's payload bay.
great stuff
The cost of these satellites rather shocks me. Where are the 'economies of scale'?
I’m on a list now just for watching this
starshield program might prove to be pretty capable.
where are the clementine images?
Great video yet again 👍🏼🇬🇧
Good video brother
Excellent video! Please make similar videos on China and India satellite capabilities too! They are the upcoming space powers
Is odd WHY they cannot detect killers using high technology, from same department...
Cue Todd Howard: “16x the detail!”
Please do China next. Great video. Thanks!
Thanks
This was one of my favorite CC videos.
lol, is that E Howard Hunt in the video making a brief cameo? Mr CIA himself?
I thought it was former CIA Director Richard Helms.
Cool video!