Less than a second to change course, I'd say. I don't know the exact details of it, but I imagine that a Kinzhal will be VERY hard to shoot down, even if one had a computer guided AD. And like I said before, the Patriot had an inherent flaw, in that it would loose the entire battery, as is visible in the video.
Apparently the remedy for this sperging was to not engage the automatic function, but this required a LOT of training - to use a type of human-controlled manual setting. There was no time to give the Ukrainians this type of training. So it was a matter of 'use the Automatic function and let her go'.
I think this whole 'brave soldier shooting down a Kinzhal' falls in the "grandma in high-rise, with a can of pickles takes down loitering munitions" category of story. i.e. BS propaganda.
Less than a second to change course, I'd say. I don't know the exact details of it, but I imagine that a Kinzhal will be VERY hard to shoot down, even if one had a computer guided AD. And like I said before, the Patriot had an inherent flaw, in that it would loose the entire battery, as is visible in the video.
Apparently the remedy for this sperging was to not engage the automatic function, but this required a LOT of training - to use a type of human-controlled manual setting. There was no time to give the Ukrainians this type of training. So it was a matter of 'use the Automatic function and let her go'.
I think this whole 'brave soldier shooting down a Kinzhal' falls in the "grandma in high-rise, with a can of pickles takes down loitering munitions" category of story. i.e. BS propaganda.
agreed. I'm just trying to be fair and consider all possibilities, lol.
Like I said, I'm nowhere near an expert. =)
me neither. just reading open source materials. LOL at our arm-chairs.