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Let's talk about Ukraine and Zapp Brannigan taking command....

Belle of the Ranch

Belle of the Ranch

Society & Culture

4.91K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2023

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Let's talk about Ukraine and Zapp Brannigan taking command....

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0:00.0

Well, howdy there internet people? Let's bow again. So today we are going to talk about Ukraine and well some events in Ukraine, some surprises.

0:11.0

We're going to talk about learning from places that you might not think are places

0:17.9

where you could really learn something from. We are going to talk about

0:22.1

Russia definitely being surprised by this chain of events

0:26.7

and we're going to talk about one of Russia's Premier Systems, a system that is widely seen as the best thing Russia has produced in quite some time.

0:40.6

It's called the S400.

0:42.8

It's an air defense system.

0:45.5

Russia has been heavily relying on this thing to protect its resources, to protect, well, basically everything from anything that Ukraine could put

0:56.8

up in the air.

1:00.1

Russian Command felt pretty confident with this, but unbeknownst to Russian Military

1:04.8

Command, Ukrainian military planners, while they read Zapp Brannigan's Big Book of War. And from there it was They threw wave after wave after wave of of their own drones in the air.

1:14.2

And from there it was simply a matter of outsmarting them.

1:18.1

They threw wave after wave of their own drones in the air and when the S400 Air Defense System

1:26.0

started firing at it. They waited until it reached its preset kill limit

1:31.0

and ran out of ammunition and then they hit it with cruise missiles.

1:38.6

This system runs, I don't know, half a billion dollars, and it is widely seen as the best thing Russia has.

1:51.5

And at this point, Ukraine has figured out how to beat it.

2:00.0

The results that were achieved by this, they can be duplicated because they just

2:07.7

launched the drones at actual targets. The system has two options. Either let the targets get hit or

2:17.0

fire off its ammo. If it fires off its ammo, it is then vulnerable to being hit with cruise missiles.

2:25.0

If you didn't get all those Zapp-Branigan references just understand they're

2:32.3

really funny. I would expect to see this play out again

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