Russian special military operation in Ukraine #14

LMFS wrote:

Hole wrote:They´re using "dumb" weapons. But why fly all the way to Lviv to drop some FAB-500´s if you can use a Kaliber missile? It all depends on the target and where it is.

There is no need to risk ambush by AD, NATO has constant airspace monitoring over Western Ukraine and even if the bulk of Ukrainian SAMs are destroyed, a few Buks scattered around and properly cued are still perfectly capable of steadily shooting Russian planes down, which will lead to non acceptable losses in a war that can continue for months and years. Low flying, small CMs are indeed more expensive than dumb bombs, but very difficult to counter for everything but a very dense AD network and still cheap enough for Russia to keep producing them indefinitely. In any case, Russians are not in a rush and proceeding slower allows them to get good intelligence and concentrate on priority targets for a better economy of resources. Basically they have no problem with this approach, but indeed countering NATO surveillance by DEW (what about really powerful land based microwave sources used vs AWACS), EW or stealthier aircraft would be a good improvement and allow a faster degradation of the enemy capabilities. Some of Russia's projects (like Kh-50, Kh-69, Su-57, LTS or PAK-DA for instance) make more and more sense considering this kind of proxy wars vs. NATO that form the context in which Russia will likely need to fight from now onwards.

Hole wrote:


Melitopol

VARGR198 wrote:

https://twitter.com/5thSu/status/1519686902630486018

par far wrote:In Canada, there are reports that property and accounts of Russians that live in Canada are going to be seized, this will likely happen all over the collective west.

External Debt in Russia decreased to 453.50 USD Billion in the first quarter of 2022

The Ministry of Defense announced the destruction of the Ukrainian launcher "Tochki-U"

MOSCOW, April 28 - RIA Novosti. The Russian military destroyed the launcher of the Ukrainian Tochka-U missile system, Defense Ministry spokesman Major General Igor Konashenkov said.
"During the day, the missile forces destroyed the Ukrainian launcher of the Tochka-U tactical missile system, and defeated two areas where manpower and military equipment were concentrated," he said. The air defense forces shot down three Tochka-Us over the villages of Petropole and Malaya Kamyshevakha during the day, the general added. In addition, they destroyed seven drones - in the area of ​​​​Bukin, Topolsky, Russian Tishki in the Kharkiv region , Redkodub and Maryevka in the DPR , Naugolny in the LPR and Chernobaevka in the Kherson region .

Dr.Snufflebug wrote:Bay-REKT-ar, amirite?

Bad jokes aside, like any medium-sized, medium-ranged UCAV they certainly have their use, but it's not the almighty wunderwaffe some of its fanboys claim, and it is a waste of money vs an opponent with proper AD.

I think a lot of people were fooled by Nagorno-Karabakh and the blown-up Pantsirs in Libya (which were all inactive), and thought that this particular UCAV was a total gamechanger.

They of course decided not to dwell on the ones immediately shot down when even basic company-level AD was active.

ludovicense wrote:Aldin
@tinso_ww
Downed TB2 in Kherson Oblast.

..................


The reputation of Turkish drones was thrown in the garbage can.... they are dropped like rotten apples on the tree....

Dr.Snufflebug wrote:Kiev is being cruise missiled hard right now.