Russian “inspector” satellite continued to play “cat and mouse” with US satellite
Graphic of Russian test of anti-satellite weapon. (sun.co.uk)
A Russian satellite, named “Kosmos-2558,” has been monitoring American satellite, “USA-326,” for the past few months. Kosmos-2558’s pattern of movement appeared to be influenced by what USA-326 does. The US satellite has recently increased its altitude to avoid the Russian satellite. However, givin Russia’s track record involving these activities, it is expected that the the Russian satellite will eventually adjust its altitude.
From the Independent:
A strange Russian “inspector” spacecraft appears to be stalking a confidential US military satellite, experts have pointed out.
The Russian satellite Kosmos-2558, launched in August last year, has frequently come close to the American military satellite USA-326, which the Pentagon said is meant to gather intelligence via “overhead reconnaissance”.
Space observers have flagged Kosmos-2558 as an “inspector” satellite capable of moving close to other satellites and gathering data.
Orbiting Earth in the same plane but at different speeds, the Russian satellite has been able to pass beneath USA-326.
When Kosmos-2558 was launched in August 2022, it was placed in almost the same orbit as the classified US reconnaissance satellite, Space.com noted.
That Independent has additional information here.
Category: Russia
Space Command? You UP?!
Space cowboys?
But…but…Russia is a gas station country that arms conscripts with shovels…
There has been a lot of reports, on Telegram and on other Russian social media/internet sites, of conscripts being sent to the frontlines without some of the things that they need. The Russian Ministry of Defense claims that those who are conscripted will be properly supplied and fitted to serve in the front lines, but a recruiting center advised people to come in with the stuff needed to deploy to the front.
The Soviets/Russians stored plenty of equipment and supplies for events like this, or to respond to an invasion, in anticipation that they will need to clothe and equip an enlarged army. Unfortunately, there are many among the Russian military and military support organizations who managed to reroute or redirect some of these supplies/equipment somewhere else. Lots of side money and “drug deals” to be made.
From the Guardian:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/20/the-army-has-nothing-new-russian-conscripts-bemoan-lack-of-supplies
It’s like how North Korea could test nuclear warhead capable missiles but the population is largely starving and malnourished.
It’s sure a good thing nobody ever lies on the internet. I feel better already!
Not applicable here. A lot of what has been posted on social media is accompanied by video showing what the post is talking about. When posters on multiple platforms report a common trend, and this common trend is also reported among traditional media also accompanied by video, and both are consistent with reports, about the state of the Soviet and later the Russian military, that I remember receiving while in the Navy, this could hardly be dismissed as “lies.”
The attached image is reportedly a helmet used by a Russian captured by the Ukrainians. It was commercially available and not intended for combat. There is a video floating around of a Ukrainian soldier punching in a Russian “combat helmet.” These were not isolated instances.
The Russians have a track record of deep-seated corruption at all levels. This, and other factors, contribute to the mistakes that they make on the battlefield, usually the same mistakes that they make not just during the same war, but across multiple wars. For example, lack of radio discipline among the Russian military allowed the Germans to defeat them in a battle that the Russians should have won, and a similar lack of radio discipline has costed them in Ukraine.
In this YouTube video, “The Dumbest Russian Voyage Nobody Talks About”, YouTuber “BlueJay” provides one angle, one explanation, to why the Russian Navy did not perform too well against the Japanese during the Russo-Japanese War. The kind of incompetence that he talks about in the video has shown itself repeatedly in Ukraine.
So I could believe lack of radio discipline, if only it weren’t a 1 month long story from the same outfits. It also doesn’t help that the primary source has since been arrested, charged, released, and placed on the list of foreign assets., was going to say something about his age, then I realized I’m OAF. One last thing, that voyage started in 1903. Under Czar Nikolas. Look, lots of corruption in eastern Europe, and western Europe, Africa, Asia, the America’s. No one is immune. But it’s endemic in Ukraine, and Russia. Investing there is like treating a case of a gangrenous leg with an endless drip of anti-biotics. It’s wasteful and will not work. You have to cut it off and let the wound heal. Then you can treat it. Or give false hope, watch the suffering continue, lose resources better spent healing. Your choice.
Lack of radio discipline is just one of the many weaknesses that the Russians had shown in Ukraine so far. These are stories from multiple platforms, within both the social media and legacy media realms, effectively reporting the same thing. It does not matter if one of the sources was “arrested and charged,” when other sources are mentioning the same things that I mentioned above.
Not “primary” source. Dismissing the trend of multiple reports, based on the questionable background of one of those who provided the reports, is like dismissing the idea that 1 + 1 = 2, because many people who committed serious crimes would say that 1 + 1 = 2.
One main point that you missed about my mentioning the battle that took place in 1903, is that their level of corruption is continuous, and they appear to not have learned from their mistakes. Pointing out the corruption that exists in other parts of the world is nothing but a strawman argument.
Also, your analogy using gangrene treatment misses the mark. I recall following the Soviet Afghanistan War in the 1980s. Watching the Russians in Ukraine is like déjà vu from when I read and watched reporting of the Soviets in Afghanistan. The waste in manpower, resources, finance, etc., enhanced by incompetencies in the battlefield, and corruption within the Soviet Union, during the 1980s contributed to the disintegration of the Soviet Union. Ditto with World War I and the Communist Revolution. They also committed similar war crimes.
There is even talk, among Russian defectors, that the Russian military in particular, and the Russian Federation in general, risk collapsing.
Ukraine may not become a first world corruption-free country, but if we could increase the possibility that the Russian Federation disintegrates, that would be great. The Russians were never our friends, they were not “real” partners. They are adversaries/enemies consistently looking for ways to take us down.
Yeah, we have Firefox, and Red October. Suck it Russki.😁
And Red Scorpion,
Rocky 4?
This is the job for Space Guard, Space Force is for way, way, way out there.
Seared into the memory the time it was a remote door gunner on Sat 47-3.2…
Missile Command… trained for this when I was a kid.
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Maybe we can ask the Russians to use satellite Kosmos-2558 to find John Fetterman, which basement Brandon is hiding in, or Hunter’s secret stashes of coke and hookers.
Dominion’s flawless source code and the chronically criminal f-SoS Cankle’s emails?
Also, if they’d help find the Pentagone’s audit shortfalls that’d be superific.
(these are jokes, I have no knowledge about anything, might be an AI chatbot, or have brain damage from the ‘mostly safe and peaceful’ anthrax ‘vaxxine’)