Satellite images published on Nov. 5 show that Ukraine's attacks on Crimea on Nov. 4 damaged the Russian Askold cruise missile carrier, Navy Captain Andrii Ryzhenko told Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty's investigative program Schemes.
  • Mopswasser@feddit.deEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Satellite images seem to me like rather low-quality evidence to assess damages to a ship but you take what you get, I guess.

    • jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      8 months ago

      I think there’s more analysis to this than just a picture. I’m sure the intelligence community knows what weapons were used and what their destructive profile looks like. Comparing the picture to other attacks with that weapon would also help analysis.

    • AnAngryAlpaca@feddit.deEnglish
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      8 months ago

      The resolution from satellite images you see on public information is always worse than the true resolution the intelligence agencies get from their satellites.

      I had read an article in the 90s that they can read the newspaper headlines from Low earth orbit, the can probably do more by now with modern technology and some image upscaling…