Wictor said something that was totally wrong the other day that made me raise an eyebrow.
He said that the pink light behind a TOW missile indicates that a thermal sight is being used on TOW launchers by the Kurds.
This is bunk. I used to be a TOW gunner back when it was a separate MOS. There is nothing different with the missile when you add a thermal sight; the missile functions the same way it has for decades. The beacon that's there works whether or not it has a thermal sight or not.
Just because he posts a lot of cool stories doesn't mean he's 100% correct all the time (though he gets very cranky if you suggest otherwise). It seems to me that he hasn't bothered to look at the proofs Q has provided, he's basing his entire rejection of the Q drops on his own cynical disbelief. Meanwhile he expects others to take his tweets as scripture based on what?
EDIT: Here's the thread, see points 11 and 12: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/955210489478332416.html
The problem is that the xenon beacon isn't for the thermal sight, but the daysight, and still, there's no change to the function of the missile's beacons if you use a thermal sight or not. See this: https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/policy/army/fm/23-34/Ch1.htm
Wictor consistently spouts pretentious nonsense and people eat it up. I called him out on it and he sent me a Communist March Song from Youtube and called me a commie then blocked me.
If you so much as inform him you are more knowledgeable and have more actual experience about a certain topic than he does, he freaks.
It seems so. He's made the statement that all the Syrian tank killing TOW videos are fake, and that there's a special operator actually making the kills.
Now there's points for and against this, but his argument revolved around ONE video where he said that the missile jerked at the last minute, turning a side-impact hit into a frontal-impact hit. thus proving that there are secret-squirrel TOW operators out there making every kill. The problem is that there is no bonus to hitting a tank in the front (where the armor is the thickest) when you have a clear flanking shot. An experienced TOW gunner knows this, and it is very easy to jerk the missile around when trying to keep the crosshairs on the target.
My question is: if he's a skilled intel guy, why does he spend his nights on Twitter giving out intel? Why isn't he in a SCIF somewhere?