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Like klashnikov system. But I am sure designers will take into account all this, from theory or experience. You have good points.
I am a fan of Russian weapons and Russian weapons generally try not to be gold plated... it is not good enough to be effective... it has to be affordable too... there is no point in having the best weapon system if you can only afford to have a tiny number in service and prefer not to use them because they are too expensive for most targets.
In the video posted above showing rebels laying out rockets for launch... when the bombers finally come they scare away the enemy so they do thwart the attack and do take out the rockets before they were used, but it would have been so much better if the drone that spotted them laying out the launchers could have dropped a couple of cluster bombs... the Russians have some beauties... a 500kg cluster bomb equipped with OAB-2.5PT fragmentation submunitions... each bomb has 126 submunitions that explode in the air around the target sending fragments all over the place... if that drone had dropped two bombs to land 20 metres apart near this target area the munitions released 100m up in the air would have spread HE fragments over an enormous area... most of the people there would have been killed... the vehicle destroyed and the rockets taken out before they were used too... especially the ones still in the truck.
That is why armed drones are so useful... time.
You don't need to organise a flight of bombers, don't need to load them up with suitable weapons, or take the time to fly from their airbase to where the targets are.
With a decent sized UAV you could have 6-8 cluster bomb combinations so you could have two with anti personel munitions, two with penetrating munitions for cratering runways (though in this case to take out enemies in tunnels), anti armour munitions, and two with heavier munitions... they have one munition for targets called the OFAB-50UD, which has ten munitions in each 500kg bomb and each munition is a 50kg HE frag bomb that is effective over a much wider area than a 500kg bomb would be...
They do not hate Russia.
Have you listened to them? The ones supported by the US and Saudi Arabia hate Russia... that is why they support them.
I have to agree with Seig on this one.
In addition the Su-24 was targeting terrorist that did not care too much about sirian or turkish border, and to which Turkey offered often safe haven.
X2.
Plus I would suggest that over the years a few Turkish military aircraft have violated Syrian airspace chasing after Kurdish terrorists... do they really want to start playing the game where they can shoot down anything in their airspace even just for the briefest moment... that could be costly in planes...
If it was to send a message to Putin, then it's hilarious to note the guy who shot it down fled Turkey because he was part of the Gulan attempted coup in Turkey. I remember how he apparently fled via helicopter to Cyprus (Greek part).
It is a wee bit ironic... even more so when as it happened Erdo claimed he ordered the attack himself.
Of course it must be remembered that the people killed in the incident were killed by the people on the ground...
Ero himself conducted the coup to seize power and I'll give it to the guy he did a great job at it.
Perhaps he did... but clearly he used it to not only seize more power, but also to expose his enemies because he would quickly learn who was supporting the coup against him and who was not... and clearly the US supported that coup... hell only a matter of time before the US blames Russian hackers for the coup as an attempt to incriminate them because as usual they are totally innocent.
