Writings about astronomy and technology.

Why have Russian Ka-52 "Alligator" helicopters failed in Ukraine? Many Russian Ka-52 "Alligator" helicopters are shot down over Ukraine. That helicopter should be the competition for the AH-64 Apache and other Western military helicopters. But big losses in Ukraine caused a re-estimation of the use of that helicopter. One reason for those losses is that the Ka-52 is a very common combat helicopter in Russian forces. One of the reasons why Ka-52 turned into a flop can be that their crews were not trained as they should. And a lack of training causes those losses. But one of the biggest reasons for Alligator failure can be attributed to a lack of trusted "fire and forget" weapons. If Ka-52 uses rockets aiming at those weapons takes longer time and forces the helicopter to fly straight ahead. The reason why Ka-52 was successful in Syria was there was no heavy AA or lightweight smart missiles. The Ka-52 could hover outside the enemy fire and use its firepower.

The secret space programs and one strange detail of the "Skyfall" missile When we are thinking about secret space programs, we must notice one thing, and that is that the reason, why the Western nations are so quiet about the "Skyfall"-missiles (1), what are nuclear powered is remarkable, and as I have written earlier the similar technology, what has been used in "Skyfall" missiles can be used also in the small size shuttles, what could fly in our solar system. So why the Western nations are silent about the Russian superweapons, are they hiding something?  When we are thinking about the diagrams of the "Skyfall"-missile, it can be launched by using the strategic bomber or even balloon, and that means this kind of system is invisible. There is a possibility that this kind of system would also be used for scientific purposes, and that covers the real purpose of those systems, what is sending the lots of data, and that date would n

Picture I Russian new superweapon ("Skyfall-missile") The background of the nuclear-powered cruise missiles Intelligence service has predicted that the Russian new superweapon is a nuclear-powered cruise missile, called "Skyfall" (9M730 Burevestnik, NATO SSC-X-9 "Skyfall" ) (1), which uses the nuclear reactor-based ramjet engine. In this case, the gas would be expanded in the combustion chamber by using the nuclear reactor, which gives this system very long endurance, and the nuclear reactor causes terrifying pollution. When we are thinking about this kind of technology, we must realize those modern nuclear reactors are not very big.  The idea might be that the reactor uses very high enriched plutonium as the fissile fuel and the enrichment to the weapon level makes it possible to create a small-size nuclear engine, which would use the ram-air as the cooler. The wings of that cruise missile would also contain the tubes of the cooling s